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Francois Lanthier Nadeau on decoupling in the JAMstack (and life), ecommerce and more
Quick show notes Our Guest: Francois Lanthier Nadeau What he'd like for you to see: Snipcart V3 | His blog where he talks about destigmatizing mental health His JAMstack Jams: The Decoupling Philosophy of the JAMstack | Stackbit | Netlify | Sanity.io His Musical Jam: His "Is that Soul I feel in my guts" playlist Other Technology Mentioned Jekyll Middleman Nuxt Gridsome Our sponsor this week: TakeShape Transcript Bryan Robinson 0:02 Hello everyone and welcome to yet another fun packed episode of That's My JAMstack the podcast where we asked the age old question, what is your jam and the JAMstack. Bryan Robinson 0:11 I'm your host, Bryan Robinson and this week I'm joined by the former marketing lead now CEO of the e commerce startup Snipcart. I'm talking of course about François Lanthier Nadeau. Bryan Robinson 0:22 Also back this week is our amazing sponsor TakeShape. Stick around after the episode to hear more about their content platform or head over to takeshape.io/thatsmyjamstack for more information. François, thanks for thanks for coming on the show today. Francois Lanthier Nadeau 0:37 Yeah, you got it. It's my pleasure. Bryan Robinson 0:39 So I've been following following you on Twitter for a little while, but I go ahead and give us an introduction. who you are what you do for work what you do for fun. Francois Lanthier Nadeau 0:45 Yeah, good. Same thing actually been following you on Twitter for a while to listen to some episodes recently. So yeah, I'm CEO at Snipcart, it's an ecommerce solution for developers and then also the organizer of the JAMstack Quebec meetup that we host here at the Snipcart offices in Canada, in Quebec, Canada. For fun I play video games I read, I listen to audiobooks and podcasts I write, and I try to spend as much time with meaningful people like my girlfriend, family and friends. And that's pretty much it. Bryan Robinson 1:24 And what kind of things do you write? Like, is it is it tech stuff? Or is it not tech stuff? Francois Lanthier Nadeau 1:28 It's actually both. I come from a marketing background. So sometimes, all right, I don't know tactical stuff on content marketing or SEO. But sometimes I'll write more personal stuff. I kind of have this semi official mission of talking more openly about mental health. And I've had some personal issues with this in the past and I try to share stories and tips and lessons regarding this. So yeah, sometimes it's more in that order. Bryan Robinson 1:59 Okay, great and That's definitely a an important mission in tech. There's a lot of people not talking enough about it. Francois Lanthier Nadeau 2:05 Yeah, I think men especially sometimes, sometimes we have a harder time. So I don't know. It's Yeah, I find some some value in Redemption of my own and trying to do that. Bryan Robinson 2:17 Excellent. All right, so So let's talk about the JAMstack a little bit, It's a JAMstack podcast. So what was your What was your entry point into the JAMstack or into the idea of static sites or whatever you like to call it? Francois Lanthier Nadeau 2:30 Yeah, we used to call it something like modern static site. It was Middleman and Jekyll. Mostly that got us into this space. So when we were just starting out as a SaaS, ecommerce, Saas for devs, we were just, you know, trying to get some traction to our site and some signups and stuff. So we were experimenting with different content marketing, strategic And at one point, I was asking our developers about tools they love and our co founder and lead developer, Charles mentioned Middleman. And he was saying that it was gaining a little traction and popularity through the dev community. So we we tried to build a site with it and integrate Snipcart with it. And it went just fine. Francois Lanthier Nadeau 3:23 Yeah, Snipcart is a front end centric, e commerce shopping cart that lives basically just in your front end. And we do all of the back back end logic.
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