SponsorVercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration. Founded by the creators of Next.js, Vercel has zero configuration support for 35+ frontend frameworks, including SvelteKit. We enable the world’s largest brands like Under Armour, eBay, and Nintendo, to iterate faster and create quality software. Try out Vercel today to experience the easiest way to use Svelte. NOTE: RECORDED April 13th. Description This week we sit down with Wasita and Eshin at the Cosanlab at Darthmouth to talk about how they use Svelte in their research as well as the intersection between research and web development and the possibilities that it opens up. MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal ([email protected]) Discussion topics Guests: Wasita: Twitter Website Eshin: Twitter Website Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory https://github.com/wasita/svelte-vid-sync-chat-app -> The "Netflix party" experiment we mentioned, written with Svelte, socket.io, firebase  https://github.com/cosanlab/trust-game -> Interactive 2-player trust game experiment written in Svelte and client-synchronization powered by Firebase https://github.com/ejolly/create-svelte-experiment -> A starter Svelte SPA template for experiments powered by Firebase https://maxfarrens.github.io/continuous-rater-book/Intro.html -> An interface for collecting continuous time-series emotion ratings from people watching videos https://github.com/ejolly/thought_tagger -> An interface for segmenting audio-files of people's memories. Built on top of the BBC's peaks.js. https://eshinjolly.com/svelteturk/#/ -> The "missing GUI" for Amazon's Mechanical Turk labor market. An electron desktop app that helps manage data collection and administration. Unpopular Opinions Brittney: Click bait twitter Antony: Helium Picks Kev: Cold Plunges Antony: Same Eshin: Raised by Wolves Wasita: Beef Brittney: Shadow and Bone (TV Show)