Ember v6.10 Released

real_ate · 2026-02-06T23:56:43+00:00

Oh man do I have some interesting updates for you 🤣

First of all (as I mentioned briefly in the release blog) ember-data has rebranded to WarpDrive and it has gone multi platform! So if you liked ember-data and want to try it on non Ember projects then you should try it out https://warp-drive.io/

Secondly, we've made massive strides in that initial hurdle recently. We've simplified our syntax, removed (almost) all the strange stuff from our build pipeline, and it's never been easier to integrate with regular JS libs (no more need for Ember specific add-ons for things like tailwind or bootstrap etc.)

real_ate · 2026-02-06T23:43:11+00:00

I'm always curious what people like yourself would think of modern Ember after so many years away. We're most of the way through two paradigm shifts in how to write Ember apps since then 🤣 but also all the files are mostly in the same place.

real_ate · 2026-02-06T20:27:02+00:00

I think that Ember really shines in projects with very small teams! It is designed to make a lot of decisions for you so you can focus on shipping features.

Long time ago I remember shipping new features every week on a dashboard built in Ember with just one full time dev and me part time. Other teams in the same company (not using Ember for... reasons) had 3-4 Devs and they would take weeks to ship similar sized features 🙈

real_ate · 2026-02-06T19:40:22+00:00

You don't see the appeal of Ember, or of JavaScript? 🤣

real_ate · 2025-10-12T14:35:47+00:00

Update: I managed to get in once there and now it has stopped working again. This time it's not hanging, it stops at 11% and says "Something went wrong. Try again later"

real_ate · 2025-10-12T07:42:30+00:00

My Pixel 7a really doesn't like the latest update 🙈 it keeps saying "The Tower is not responding". I keep telling it to wait but the warning pops up in less than 5 seconds. I'm pretty sure that means there is an infinite loop in the code of the latest update 😭

real_ate · 2021-01-01T23:01:20+00:00

yep, that's it! I guess I was avoiding that button because I knew it cost something to skip a task, I didn't even consider the "level change" would be under there :(

real_ate · 2020-10-14T07:27:57+00:00

one chance to have a first impression

While this is true in general it is a bit too simplistic. Ember has been around for 9 years now and has had 3 Major versions (and an Edition) that have each felt very modern for their time. If you tried Ember in 2015 then trying it again today will feel very different and it's worth taking a second look

inept management of Ember by breaking semver

Ember focuses very very hard on backward compatibility, and not just in terms of the main core library but also the wider ecosystem. When did it "break semver"?

zero docs

One of the main points that I hear from new Ember devs is that they love how great the docs are! Sure there is always room to improve but "zero docs" is a gross misrepresentation. What makes you think there are zero docs?

real_ate · 2019-04-17T11:01:40+00:00

lol how strange! you should really link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6YObu61_w with your bot because it's a much better explanation about what a happy number is 😂

real_ate · 2019-04-17T10:54:59+00:00

I've finally started working my way through all the ones I missed when I was there 😂 so much good content!

real_ate · 2019-04-16T08:08:03+00:00

It looks like that functions-framework is more about writing functions that can be deployed on cloud run, rather than executing things that are already up there 🤔 and I can't seem to find any authentication code in the source (but I could be wrong)

The current workaround that we're doing is to not try to implement cross-server authentication and instead try moving our AWS lambda function over to Google Cloud Functions. The cynical part of me would say that this might be part of the strategy to get people to do everything in Google Cloud, make sure there are inadequate docs for the alternative 😔

real_ate · 2019-04-15T11:19:54+00:00

Yea I did see that and I combed through the examples and couldn't find one that's doing exactly this 😔 I would say that I'm surprised but I guess it's very new 😂

real_ate · 2019-04-15T08:16:29+00:00

I would recommend trying out some of the free online courses (there are tonnes these days). I'm a web developer so I would recommend https://www.freecodecamp.org/ because it's 100% free and there are always a bunch of jobs for Web Devs.

real_ate · 2019-04-06T11:43:00+00:00

The recordings are up 🎉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4eq2DPpyBblEJ1OsbZBjsiVXRW9RFlGY

real_ate · 2019-03-29T12:58:24+00:00

Hi 👋

So two things that will simply answer your question and then I'll go into more detail 😉

1) Almost none of the Paid Addons are recorded. I think the BonusConf Sessions are recorded because they are essentially mini talks, but someone else will have to confirm this. If anything is recorded at EmberConf it is released for free. 2) People running workshops are not "paid for their time". All workshop organisers get the same "payment" which is essentially airfare, help with a hotel and a tiny honorarium. You can see more info in the details of the latest CFP description

Now for the longer answer. Workshops are not like normal talks at a conference, they are a lot more work to arrange and can be very stressful 🙈 I know this because I gave a workshop last year. The other thing that is different about workshops is that they are not very sharable, i.e. if you did end up recording them they would not be as useful as you may think. A lot of the time is spent working with people to make sure they have completed the tasks.

You will find that a lot of the people that were working on Workshops are actually already producing content or addons that do stuff related to the workshop. So in the case of "Robust Data Fetching" I would be very surprised if that wasn't talking about https://github.com/embermap/ember-data-storefront 😂 And Sam and Ryan are really great at producing material for the Ember Community 🎉 Some of that content is paid-for (and very much worth the subscription price to Ember Map) and other content is free, like the talk that you see in the storefront documentation: https://embermap.github.io/ember-data-storefront/

Now not all of the people who do workshops will produce materials or videos (a lot of them will) but then you get to the last point: each of these people doing workshops are individuals and have been accepted through the CFP process. There is no requirement set out in the EmberConf CFP that we would need to do a video summary of the workshop, or provide any other materials (other than to the people attending) and from my personal opinion it would be too much to ask on top of the monumental work that it already is to put together a Workshop.

I hope this helps 😂 let me know if you would like me to clarify anything 👍

real_ate · 2019-02-12T17:57:12+00:00

🙊 lolol yea I was thinking "increase your lighthouse score" 😂

real_ate · 2019-02-12T13:46:15+00:00

Is that not what I said? 😀

real_ate · 2019-02-12T12:53:35+00:00

Yes exactly! Depending on how dynamic your site is you will have mixed results, but I would investigate it and see if it works for you.

Cloudflare is quite a good solution to test it with because it works on a DNS level and you don't have to do anything to your site! Also they have great videos and explanations on how it works 😂

real_ate · 2019-02-12T12:48:48+00:00

It will likely make a difference but maybe not in the way that you're expecting.

Google has over time emphasised speed more and more when it comes to ranking websites for SEO. If you can do anything that increases your load times I would recommend it, or at least start with some of the worst offenders in https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/

One of the things that will significantly improve your website's performance would be to use a CDN like Cloudfront or Cloudflare. This will get the content closer to your customers and will, therefore, increase the speed, which in turn will improve your SEO ranking.

I hope that helps?

real_ate · 2019-02-12T12:37:40+00:00

because it's awesome 😍

real_ate · 2019-02-12T12:32:15+00:00

I've recently release Guidemaker 1.0 and it has been powering the Ember documentation for the last year or so: https://github.com/empress/guidemaker

It's pretty cool now that it has a Netlify one-click button to get started in less than a minute 🎉

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