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Date: "2025-02-27"
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# Podcast recording — 2025-02-27
Recorded episode with Tom Richardson. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: the evolution of backend frameworks and why the pendulum is swinging back toward server-rendered architectures after a decade of SPA dominance
- Tom shared his experience migrating a large consumer application from a React SPA to a server-rendered approach with partial hydration, including the performance improvements and developer experience trade-offs they discovered
- His deep expertise in web performance optimization gave the conversation a quantitative rigor — he cited specific Core Web Vitals improvements and showed how architectural decisions directly impacted business metrics like conversion rates
- Technically dense but accessible episode; Tom is skilled at explaining complex rendering strategies with clear mental models and diagrams he described verbally
- Memorable quote: "We spent five years building increasingly complex client-side JavaScript to solve problems that servers solved in 2005. Sometimes progress is admitting you went in a circle"
- Good audio quality; Tom recorded from a home office with adequate sound treatment

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Tom and request the performance comparison data for show notes
- [ ] Draft show notes with before/after performance metrics
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
