ALTA Uranium Conference (7th : 2011 : Perth, W.A)

ALTA Nickel/Cobalt/Copper Conference (2nd : 2011 : Perth, W.A)

ALTA Gold Conference (3rd : 2012 : Perth, W.A)

ALTA Uranium Conference (8th : 2012 : Perth, W.A)

ALTA Nickel/Cobalt/Copper Conference (3rd : 2012 : Perth, W.A)

Louis, Catherine Dr

Biswas, A. K. (Anil Kumar), 1922-

Chappell, Marianne Diane, author

Cocks, Robert J., author

Nesse, William D., author

Garrett, Donald E., author

Qi, Dezhi, author

$20.58 bn achieved is best ever, but well short of $22 bn target as COVID-19 impacts Q4

Goldman Sachs says rate cut in offing

The country’s foreign exchange reserves cover for imports increased to 11.4 months as of end December 2019 from the 10.4 months in September 2019, the

Total number of cases goes up to 126

‘Styrene vapour emissions have dropped considerably; may take up to 48 hours to declare it a safe zone’

The panelists discuss V8 and Dart with Lars Bak and Kasper Lund.

The panelists talk to Bart Wood about large single page JavaScript applications.

The panelists speak with Brian Woodward and Job Schlinkert about Assemble.io.

The panelists talk to Henrik Joreteg and Philip Roberts of &yet.

The panelists talk to Jenn Schiffer about using art to get and keep people interested in programming.

02:21 - Tyler McGinnis Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• DevMountain Programming Bootcamp
  • @DevMtn
• Firebase Experts Program

03:23 - Getting Started at DevMountain

• Hack Reactor
• Needle

04:38 - DevMountain Conception

• Cahlan Sharp

05:37 - How Do I Learn How to Code?

• Struggle. Fail. Tears.
• [Confreaks] Tyler McGinnis: What I’ve Learned about Learning from Teaching People to Code

08:03 - Resources => Consume ALL THE Information

• Katya Eames
  • [YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids
• A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half by Mark Myers

11:16 - Two Camps: Art (Creators) and Technicians <= Does DevMountain Cater to One or the Other?

13:08 - Repetition as a Way to Learn

• The Hard Way Series (Zed Shaw)
  • Follow @lzsthw for book related news, advice, and politeness

15:23 - Letting People Struggle vs Helping Them    

17:14 - Training/Finding Instructors / Teaching Teachers to be Better Teachers

21:08 - Why Is JavaScript a Good Language to Learn?

• JSX

24:11 - DevMountain Mentors

26:30 - Student Success Stories

28:56 - Bootcamp Learning Environments

• React Week
  • @reactweek
  • Ryan Florence

34:11 - Oldest and Youngest Students (Success Stories Cont’d)

37:18 - Bootcamp Alumni (Employment Rates and Statistics)

Picks

Costco Kirkland Brand Peanut Butter Cups (Dave)
[Confreaks] Tyler McGinnis: What I’ve Learned about Learning from Teaching People to Code (Dave)
[YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids (Dave)
[YouTube] Misko Hevery and Rado Kirov: ng-conf 2015 Keynote 2 (Dave)
Mandy’s Fiancé (AJ)
[YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids (Joe)
ng-conf Kids (Joe)
Salt (Joe)
[YouTube] Dave Smith: Angular + React = Speed (Tyler)
[YouTube] Igor Minor: (Super)Power Management (Tyler)
React.js Newsletter (Tyler)
Dave Smith’s addendum to his talk (Joe)

02:35 - John-Daniel Trask Introduction and Background

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Mindscape
  • @MindscapeHQ

04:57 - Raygun.io

• @raygunio

06:23 - Crash Reporting The Right Way

• Error Grouping
• Suppress Notifications

10:06 - Most Common Errors

12:05 - Source Maps

19:16 - Managing Error Reporting in Gross Environments

22:17 - Determining Where The Issue Is

24:45 - Do People Write Their Own Errors?

26:23 - Frameworks Support

28:28 - Collecting Data: Privacy and Security

30:01 - Does working in error reporting make you judgemental of others’ code?

• “DDOSing Yourself”

32:42 - Planning for Rare Exceptions

33:36 - Tactics to Cut Down on Messages

35:53 - Gathering Basic Debugging Information

37:58 - Getting the BEST Information

• Promises
• Stockholm Syndrome

42:24 - The Backend: Node.js

• The raygun4node provider

43:24 - “Creating an Application”

Picks

LDS Connect (AJ)
LDS I/O (AJ)
TED Talk About Nothing (Dave)
OlliOlli 2 Soundtrack (Jamison)
Jurassic Park (Joe)
 ng-vegas (Joe)
WASD CODE 87-Key Illuminated Mechanical Keyboard with White LED Backlighting - Cherry MX Clear (Chuck)
Grifiti Fat Wrist Pad (Chuck)
Thank You Rails Clips Kickstarter Backers! (Chuck)
Mastery by Robert Greene (Chuck)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Chuck)
The Pirates of Silicon Valley (John-Daniel)
littleBits (John-Daniel)

02:24 - Robert Damphousse Introduction

02:40 - OAuth

• OpenID
• JWT

07:15 - Stormpath

• @gostormpath
• [GitHub] Stormpath
• Blog

08:38 - Authorization Information Storage

11:29 - Stormpath Authentication vs OAuth Authentication

• Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant

14:43 - Caching

15:41 - Building Backends as a Service?

18:21 - Security

19:12 - Using Cassandra

• Stormpath in Planet Cassandra: 50k Accounts Imported in Under 200ms

20:27 - Use Cases

22:27 - Authentication as a Service

23:40 - 2FA (Two Factor Authentication)?

24:07 - REST APIs

• Launch a SaaS – and Battle Your Robot – With Stormpath

25:39 - Making Complete Apps

• FullContact
• Firebase

26:33 - Security (Cont’d)

27:34 - In-Between Layer (Authentication API)

28:40 - Browser-Based vs Mobile Application Use

29:44 - Angular, React, Flux,

32:02 - React Native?

33:05 - Stormpath Life Expectancy

35:09 - Customers

36:12 - Active Directory, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)

37:05 - Support and Pricing

Picks

Putting the "fun" back in "funeral"! Celebrating the death of old IE browsers on January 12! (Dave)
Giant Star Wars LEGO Super Star Destroyer Shattered at 1000 fps | Battle Damage (Dave)
GitLab (Dave)
Allen Pike: JavaScript Framework Fatigue (Aimee)
The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join (Aimee)
Serial (AJ)
HotPlate (AJ)
Design Patterns in C (AJ)
OAuth3 (AJ)
JS Remote Conf Videos (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (Chuck)
Startups For the Rest of Us (Chuck)
The Guest House: A Poem (Robert)
The Hiring Post (Robert)
Front-end Job Interview Questions (Robert)

02:43 - Dave Rupert Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Paravel

03:42 - Chris Coyier Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• CSS-Tricks
• CodePen

06:24 - The ShopTalk Show and Podcasting

• @shoptalkshow
• “What do I learn next?” => “Just Build Websites!”
• Question & Answers Aspect

23:19 - Tech Is A Niche

• Paul Ford: What is Code?

29:51 - Balancing Technical Content for All Levels of Listeners

• Community Opinion

38:42 - Learning New CSS Tricks (Writing Blog Posts)

• Code Golf

41:54 - The Accessibility Project

• Adventures in Angular Episode #027: Accessibility with Marcy Sutton
• Anne Gibson: An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues

56:02 - Favorite & Cool Episodes

• ShowTalk Show Episode #091: with Jamison Dance and Merrick Christensen
• ShopTalk Show Episode #101: with John Resig
• ShopTalk Show Episode #157: with Alex Russell  
• ShopTalk Show Episode #147: with Tom Dale
• ShopTalk Show Episode #123: Special Archive Episode from 2004
• ShopTalk Show Episode #166: with Lisa Irish
• ShopTalk Show Episode #161: with Eric Meyer

Picks

FIFA Women's World Cup (Joe)
Winnipeg (Joe)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Joe)
Zapier (Aimee)
SparkPost (Aimee)
dev.modern.ie/tools/vms (AJ)
remote.modern.ie (AJ)
Microsoft Edge (AJ)
StarFox Zero for Wii U (AJ)
Hot Plate (AJ)
untrusted (AJ)
Skiplagged (Dave)
Judge John Hodgman (Dave)
Wayward Pines (Chris)
Sturgill Simpson (Chris)
The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time (Dave)
The Adventure Zone (Dave)
React Rally (Jamison)
Matsuoka Shuzo: NEVER GIVE UP (Jamison)
DESTROY WITH SCIENCE - Quantum Loop (Jamison)
Serial Podcast (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)

02:20 - Zach Kessin Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Zach's Books
• Parrot
• JavaScript Jabber: Episode #057: Functional Programming with Zach Kessin
• Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book

04:00 - Mostly Erlang Podcast

05:27 - Property-based Testing (QuickCheck)

07:22 - Property-based Testing and Functional Programming

• jsverify

09:48 - Pure Functions

• Shrinking

18:09 - Boundary Cases

20:00 - Generating the Data

23:23 - Trending Concepts in JavaScript

32:33 - How Property-based Testing Fits in with Other Kind of Testing

35:57 - Test Failures

Panel

Nolan Lawson: Taming the asynchronous beast with ES7 (Aimee)
Nodevember (Aimee)
Hipster Sound (Jamison)
Om Next by David Nolen  (Jamison)
Gallant - Weight In Gold (Jamison)
React Rally (Jamison)
Better Off Ted (Joe)
Armada: A Novel by Ernest Cline (Joe)
Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book (Zach)
Parrot Universal Notification Interface (Zach)
The Famine of Men by Richard H. Kessin (Zach)

There’s still time! Check out and get your JS Remote Conf tickets!

JavaScript Jabber Episode #184: Web Performance with Nik Molnar (Part 1)

02:04 - Nik Molnar Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Glimpse
• [Pluralsight] WebPageTest Deep Dive

02:58 - RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load)

06:03 - How do you know what is being kicked off? How do you avoid it?

08:15 - Frame Rates

• frames-per-second.appspot.com
• CSS Triggers

16:05 - Scrolling

• requestAnimationFrame

19:09 - The Web Animation API

21:40 - Animation Accessibility, Usability, and Speed

• haveibeenpwned.com
• Ilya Grigorik: Speed, Performance, and Human Perception @ Fluent 2014

27:14 - HTTP and Optimization

• Yesterday's perf best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns by Ilya Grigorik
• Ruby Rogues Episode #135: HTTP 2.0 with Ilya Grigorik
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)
• Can I use...
• Server Push

35:25 - ES6 and Performance

• ES6 Feature Performance
• six-speed

40:46 - Understanding the Scale

• Grace Hopper: Nanoseconds
• Grace Hopper on Letterman

43:30 RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) Cont’d

46:15 - Navigator.sendBeacon()

47:51 - Memory Management and Garbage Collection

• Memory Management Masterclass with Addy Osmani
• Addy Osmani: JavaScript Memory Management Masterclass
• Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management by Chris Farrell and Nick Harrison (Nik)
• Memory vs Performance Problems
• Rick Hudson: Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem @ GopherCon 2015

Picks

Hardcore History Podcast (Jamison)
Static vs. Dynamic Languages: A Literature Review (Jamison)
TJ Fuller Tumblr (Jamison)
Pickle Cat (Jamison)
WatchMeCode (Aimee)
Don’t jump around while learning in JavaScript (Aimee)
P!nk - Bohemian Rhapsody (Joe)
Rich Hickey: Design, Composition and Performance (Joe)
Undisclosed Podcast (AJ)
History of Gaming Historian - 100K Subscriber Special (AJ)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
All Remote Confs (Chuck)
Clash of Clans (Chuck)
Star Wars Commander (Chuck)
Coin (Chuck)
The Airhook (Chuck)
GoldieBlox (Chuck)

02:22 - Michael North Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Levanto Financial

04:10 - Ember vs React or Angular

• JavaScript Jabber Episode #203: Aurelia with Rob Eisenberg

07:13 - Convention Over Configuration

09:39 - Changes in Ember

• SproutCore  
• iCloud
• Ember CLI
• Performance
• glimmer

16:04 - Ember FastBoot

• Building a performant real-time web app with Ember Fastboot and Phoenix

18:53 - EmberConf

• Opening Keynote by Yehuda Katz & Tom Dale

22:47 - Mobile/Native Experience & Optimization

• Service Worker
• Hybrid Apps

29:52 - Electron

30:46 - Open Source Empowerment; The Ember Learning Team

33:54 - Michael North's Frontend Masters Ember 2 Series

37:11 - The Ember Community

Picks

React Rally (Jamison)
Embedded (Jamison)
Remy Sharp: A debugging thought process (Jamison)
NashDev Podcast (Aimee)
JS developers who don’t know what closure is are fine. (Aimee)
Sublime Text (Chuck)
DesktopServer (Chuck)
MemberPress (Chuck)
Frontend Masters (Mike)
Wicked Good Ember Conf (Mike)
Debugging Node.js with Visual Studio Code (Mike)

03:08 - Benjamin Dunphy Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

04:07 - Berkeley Martinez Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Free Code Camp

04:19 - Ian Sinnott Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• TruSTAR Technology

05:19 - The React Codebase

12:38 - Other Important Parts of the React Ecosystem

14:22 - The Angular vs the React Ecosystem and Community

• The Learning Curve
• create-react-app

22:07 - Community

Developer Experience

• Functional Programming

26:56 - Getting Connected to the React Community

• Meetup: Real World React
  • @rwreact
• ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area Meetup
• Meetup
• Eventbrite
• Calagator
• Twitter
• Dan Abramov: My React List

29:34 - Conferences

• React.js Conf
• React Rally
• ReactNext
• ReactiveConf
• ReactEurope

33:28 - Technology From the Community

• redux
• ThunderCats.js
  38:23 - Choices Are Expanding; Not Shrinking
• Linting

40:19 - The Future of React

42:39 - Starting More Communities

Picks

• This Developing Story (Aimee)
• Nashville (Aimee)
• Nodevember (Aimee)
• egghead.io: React in 7 Minutes (Ben)
• Lee Byron: Immutable User Interfaces @ Render 2016 (Ben)
• Nick Schrock: React.js Conf 2016 Keynote (Ben)
• create-react-app (Ian)
• Functional Programming Jargon (Ian)
• The Serverless Framework (Ian)
• Ben's Blog (Berkeley)
• Isaac Asimov’s Robot Series (Berkeley)
• Vsauce: The Zipf Mystery (Berkeley)
• Kinesis Advantage for PC & Mac (Dave)

TOPICS:

03:08 The level of difficulty in determining code creators on the Internet

04:28 How to determine if code has been copied

10:00 What defines a trade secret

12:11 The pending Oracle v Google lawsuit

25:29 Nintendo v Atari

27:38 The pros and cons of a patent

29:59 Terrible patents

33:48 Fighting patent infringement and dealing with “patent trolls”

39:00 How a company tried to steal Bob Zeidman’s software

44:13 How to know if you can use open source codes

49:15 Using detective work to determine who copied whom

52:55 Extreme examples of unethical behavior

56:03 The state of patent laws

PICKS:

Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet Blog Post

Bagels by P28 Foods

Let’s Encrypt Indigogo Generosity Campaign

Super Cartography Bros Album

MicroConf 2017

MindMup Mind Mapping Tool

Words with Friends Game

Upcoming Conferences via Devchat.tv

Good Intentions Book by Bob Zeidman

Horror Flick Book by Bob Zeidman

Silicon Valley Napkins

On today's episode, Charles Max Wood and Aimee Knight discuss InfoSec for Web Developers with Kim Carter. Kim is a senior software engineer/architect, an information security professional, and the founder of binarymist.io. He is currently working on his book called Holistic InfoSec for Web Developers. Tune in to learn more on what his book is all about.

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Jon Schlinkert. Jon was on JavaScript Jabber episode 98 where he talked about Assemble.io. Tune in to My JS Story Jon Schlinkert to learn how his journey began in programming and what's keeping him busy these days.

On today's episode, Aimee Knight, AJ O'Neal, Cory House, Joe Eames, and Charles Max Wood discuss Azure with Jonathan Carter. Jonathan has been working at Microsoft for 10 years. He currently focuses on Node.js and Azure. Tune in to learn how you can use Azure in building applications and services.

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Kim Carter. Kim is a software engineer, architect, web developer, entrepreneur, and the founder of BinaryMist Ltd. He recently appeared as a guest in episode 251, and talked about InfoSec for Web Developers. Also, he is currently writing a powerbook series and runs InfoSec conferences based in New Zealand. Stay tuned to know more about his journey in programming!

MJS 030: Mike North

This episode is a My JavaScript Story featuring Mike North. Tune in to learn more about how Mike started his journey as a developer in JavaScript!

[00:01:15] Introduction to Mike

Mike has a Frontend Masters Series for Ember 2 and has two other courses that help developers stand out from the software perspective.

[00:02:45] How did you get into programming?

Mike describes that he has taken a non-linear path to get to where he is now. He started programming as a teenager. He was laying dry wall with a construction company when he was 15 or 16. At the end of the job, he built a training app for the company in order to decrease their paperwork. Mike states that the programming work he does day-to-day he only learned two or three years ago.

[00:04:13] Is that due to things changing so quickly?

Mike’s role and passion keeps evolving. People pick what is important to them. A goal of his is to always stay learning; he enjoys having a deep understanding of topics. He enjoys using brand new skills and calls himself a “perpetual beginner.” Mike is always talking about something that he has just figured out how to do.

[00:05:20] How do you approach keeping current?

Mike thinks that it is impossible to keep up with everything. It is a full time job to keep track of everything. Developers don’t need to spend so much time going through information. He goes to teams once every quarter and helps them absorb the information in a distilled way so they do not have to filter through stuff such as what frameworks are worth paying attention to. This condenses the information and frees them from having to learn everything. Instead, they are able to focus on their product.

[00:08:27] How did you get into JavaScript and web development?

When Mike entered college, he was going into mechanical engineering and did not want to write code. He thought it was boring. When he began getting into code, it was because he could use it to solve real world problems. When he first started, he wrote engineering simulation code for Formula One racecars. When the iPhone came out, it gave him clarity that he wanted to work with that. He began to work with jQuery Mobile. He liked doing this enough that he ran a consultancy at night. He ran projects that he had no previous experience with in order to learn skills that would help him make JavaScript his full-time job.

[00:13:29] Where does Ember fit in with all of this?

When Mike started working at Yahoo, he became very familiar with Ember. Ember allowed employees to treat engineers as resources towards the larger goal of building and merging all apps together instead of having separate pockets of different technology everywhere. There were only a few Ember experts at the time, so Mike took advantage and spent a lot of time to gain expertise with the framework.

[00:16:50] What kinds of contributions do you feel like you’ve made to the JavaScript community?

Mike believes the way he has contributed to the community has evolved over time. In the past, he wrote libraries and worked with issues in the framework itself. The impact he has now is representing newcomers to a technology. He does workshops at conferences. He loves teaching and enabling people.

[00:19:07] How do you structure the learning to make it that it is approachable for people? How do you address both audiences?

As far as newcomers to programming, there is an alarming statistic of companies hiring computer programmers at 400% of the rate at which CS majors can graduate. The demand for software engineers exceeds the ability to educate conventionality. This means companies have to take people seriously that were educated via boot camps. There is a lot of material for new beginners. For people who are established programmers but new to specific technologies, there is a huge gap of material. Video courses, tutorials, and books should be made more accessible for these people. Mike also believes it is the job of a senior engineer to spend time teaching people.

Books, tutorials, and trainings that scrape the surface disappoint Mike. This has informed the techniques he uses to teach during his workshops. Students spend 50% of their time solving problems. His students are given code tests and spend time working how to solve problems. It takes a long time to build his curriculum but it is his main focus right now.

Picks

Mike:

• TypeScript Deep Dive by Basarat Ali Syed
• Proposal for Async Iteration

Charles

• Visual Studio Code
• Frontend Masters 

Links

• Twitter
• www.mike.works

Panel:

Joe 

Amy 

Charles 

Special Guests: 

Eric Simmons 

Albert Pai

In this episode, JavaScript Jabbers talk to Eric Simmons and Albert Pai, the co-founder of thinkster.io, where their team teaches the bleeding edge of javascript technology’s various frameworks and backend. Also, with the recent creation of Stalkblitz, which is the center topic of today discussion. 

Stackblitz it an online VS Code IDE for Angular, React, and a few more others are supported. This is designed to run web pack and vs code inside your browser at blazing fast speeds. Eric and Albert dive into the many different advantages and services available by StackBlitz and thinker.io. 

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Similarities  and differences to Heroku 
• System JS 
• Stacklets  
• Testing and creating an in-browser system file system
• Creating a type of VS Code experience, Working Off Line 
• Updating of the Stacklets
• Deployment tools or exporting 
• Hot Reloading
• Integrated terminals
• Monaco
• Language Services 
• How do you architect this implementation 
• The innovation of browsers
• Guy Bedford 
• Financing vs. Chipotle Burritos 
• Will this product in the future cost money

Links

• thinkster.io
• https://medium.com/@ericsimons/stackblitz-online-vs-code-ide-for-angular-react-7d09348497f4
• @stackblitz 
• stackblitz.com

Picks

Amy

• Promises Series by Andrew Del Prete
• Crossfit 

Joe

• Wholesome Meme
• Sara Cooper

Charles

• Pivotal Tracker 
• MatterMost 
• asana.com
• Zapier

Eric 

• realworld.io 
• David East 

Albert 

• thinkster.io
• Thing Explainer

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Aimee Knight
• Joe Eames
• AJ O'Neal
• Special Guests: Orta Therox

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk about the tool Danger with Orta Therox. Danger allows you to create cultural rules about your pole request workflow. They discuss what Danger is, how it works, and how it can help you to catch errors and speed up code review. Danger lets you erase discussions so that you can focus on the things that you should really be focusing on, like the code. They also compare Danger to other ways of doing test converge.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is DangerJS?
• Think of it as being on the PR level
• Provides an eval context
• Used on larger projects
• React, React Native, Apollo, and RxJS
• Experimenting with moving Danger onto a server
• Danger can run as a linting step
• Pre-commit hooks
• Prettier
• How do you use Danger on your own machine?
• Danger Ruby vs Danger JS
• NPM install
• How is using Danger better that other ways of test coverage?
• What kinds of rules can you write for this system?
• Can use with Ruby or JavaScript
• React Storybooks
• Retrospectives
• And much, much more!

Links:

• React Dev Summit
• JS Dev Summit
• Danger JS
• React
• React Native
• Apollo
• RxJS
• Prettier
• Danger Ruby
• Ruby
• JavaScript
• Orta’s GitHub
• Artsy Blog

Picks:

Charles

• Hogwarts Battle Board Game
• Sushi Go Party! Game
• NYC tips

Aimee

• Max Stoiber Blog
• The Ultimate Guide to Kicking Ass on Take-home Coding Challenges

Joe

• SaltCON
• Stuffed Fables Board Game

AJ

• UniFi AC Lite
• Fullmetal Alchemist

Orta

• The Wire
• Worm Web Serial

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Jonathan Carter

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jonathan Carter. Jonathan is a PM at Microsoft and has been a web developer for over 15 years. At Microsoft, he’s had the opportunity to work on tooling, platform pieces for JavaScript applications, and many other things. He first got into programming when his uncle let him shadow him and the IT department he had working for him, and this is where he was first introduced to software and the idea of working with computers as a career. They talk about his proudest accomplishments within the JavaScript community as well as what he is working on now.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Jonathan intro
• Asure
• How did you first get into programming?
• Interest in creating a website
• Dual enrollment in high school at local community college
• Started off with VB6
• Uncle was very active in his programming start
• .net
• Scrappy boredom mixed with curiosity led to him actually getting into software
• Everyone comes into programming differently
• Your past is important in explaining where you have ended up
• Node.js on Asure
• How did you get into JavaScript?
• Worked at a newspaper in the software division
• Ajax
• jQuery
• Wanted to write better apps
• CodePush
• Stayed in JavaScript community because it brings him inspiration and excitement
• Likes to be able and look back on his past projects
• App development for fun
• Is there anything that you are particularly proud of?
• Profiling tools
• Liked building tools that meet people where they are at and simplify their jobs
• Qordoba
• React Native
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript
• Microsoft
• Asure
• Node.js
• jQuery
• CodePush
• Qordoba
• React Native
• @LostinTangent
• Jonathan’s GitHub

Picks

Charles

• Anti-Pick: Intellibed
• Tuft and Needle

Jonathan

• Notion
• Doomsday by Architects

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Cory House
• AJ O’Neal
• Aimee Knight

Special Guests: Greg Kushto

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss thwarting insider threats with Greg Kushto. Greg is the vice president of sales engineering for Force 3 and has been focused on computer security for the last 25 years. They discuss what insider threats are, what the term includes, and give examples of what insider threats look like. They also touch on some overarching principles that companies can use to help prevent insider threats from occurring.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Greg intro
• Insider threats are a passion of his
• Most computer attacks come from the inside of the company
• Insider threats have changed over time
• What does the term “insider threats” include?
• Using data in an irresponsible manner
• Who’s fault is it?
• Blame the company or blame the employee?
• Need to understand that insider threats don’t always happen on purpose
• How to prevent insider threats
• Very broad term
• Are there some general principles to implement?
• Figure out what exactly you are doing and documenting it
• Documentations doesn’t have to be a punishment
• Know what data you have and what you need to do to protect it
• How easy it is to get hacked
• Practical things to keep people from clicking on curious links
• The need to change the game
• Fighting insider threats isn’t fun, but it is necessary
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Force 3
• Greg’s LinkedIn
• @Greg_Kushto
• Greg’s BLog

Picks:

Charles

• HaveIBeenPwned.com
• Plural Sight
• Elixir podcast coming soon
• NG conf
• MicroConf
• RubyHack
• Microsoft Build

Cory

• Plop
• VS code sync plugin

Aimee

• Awesome Proposals GitHub

AJ O’Neal

• Fluffy Pancakes
• The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Greg

• StormCast

Panel:

• AJ O’Neal
• Aimee Knight

Special Guests: Greg Whitworth

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss the effects of JavaScript on CSS with Greg Whitworth. Greg works on Microsoft EdgeHTML, specifically working on the Microsoft Layout team, is on the CSS working group, and is involved with the Houdini task force. They talk about JS engines and rendering engines, what the CSSOM is, why it is important to understand the rendering engine, and much more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Greg intro
• What is the Houdini task force?
• Extensible web manifesto
• DOM (Document Object Model)
• Layout API
• Parser API
• Babel
• jQuery
• Back to basics
• JavaScript engine and rendering engine
• What is the CSSOM?
• Every browser has its separate JS engine
• Browsers perspective
• Aimee ShopTalk Podcast Episode
• Why is it important to understand how the rendering engine is working?
• Making wise decisions
• Give control back to browser if possible
• When you would want to use JavaScript or CSS
• Hard to make a hard or fast rule
• CSS is more performant
• Overview of steps
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Parser API
• Babel
• jQuery
• Aimee ShopTalk Podcast Episode
• JavaScript
• @gregwhitworth
• GWhitworth.com
• Greg’s GitHub
•  

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Linode
• FreshBooks

Picks:

AJ

• Microsoft Surface
• Microsoft Cursor

Aimee

• Greg’s Talk
• What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing by Sarah Mei

Greg

• Aimee ShopTalk Podcast Episode
• Jake Archibald Tasks Talk

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• AJ ONeal

Special Guests: Kurt Mackey

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Kurt Mackey about Fly.io. At Fly.io, they are "building a JavaScript platform that gives you the power to build your own CDN." They talk about how Fly.io came to fruition, how CDN caching works, and what happens when you deploy a Fly app. They also touch on resizing images with Fly, how you actually build JavaScript platforms using Fly, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Fly.io
• Building a programmable CDN
• High level overview of Fly.io
• How did this project come together?
• CDNs didn’t work with dynamic applications
• Has been working on this since 2008
• Extend application logic to the “edge”
• Putting burden of JavaScript “nastiest” onto the web server
• Fly is the proxy layer
• Getting things closer to visitors and users
• CDN caching
• Cache APIs
• Writing logic to improve your lighthouse score
• Have you built in resizing images into Fly?
• Managing assets closer to the user
• Can you modify your own JavaScript files?
• What happens when you deploy a Fly app
• Having more application logic
• DOM within the proxy
• Ghost
• React and Gatsby
• Intelligently loading client JavaScript
• How do you build the JavaScript platform?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Fly.io
• JavaScript
• Ghost
• Gatsby
• React
• @flydotio
• @mrkurt
• Kurt at ARS Technica
• Kurt’s GitHub

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Sentry
• Digital Ocean

Picks:

Charles

• GitLab

AJ

• Gitea
• Black Panther

Kurt

• Packet.net
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Orta Therox

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Orta Therox. Orta is a native engineer that believes that the right way to build systems is to understand as many systems as possible. He works predominately on iOS programming at a company called Artsy, where they make it easy to buy and sell art on the internet. He first got into programming because he loved playing video games as a child, loved creating his own video games, and worked his way up from there. They talk about his work at Artsy, how he used open source to learn himself how program, how he got into Ruby and then React and React Native, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 305
• Orta intro
• Artsy
• iOS programming
• Hates lack of documentation
• CocoaPods
• Trouble with building native apps
• His move to React and React Native
• Used to run iOS team at Artsy
• How did you get into programming?
• Played video games as a kid
• Taught himself with books
• Using open source to learn
• Open source by default idea
• Loves giving back through blogging and open source
• How did you get into Ruby?
• MacRuby
• Boundaries are very obvious in React Native
• How did you get into React and React Native?
• Native developers building stuff in JavaScript
• Culture conflicts
• How they dealt with dependencies in their apps
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 305
• Artsy
• CocoaPods
• React
• React Native
• MacRuby
• JavaScript
• @orta
• orta.io
• Orta’s GitHub
• Artsy Engineering

Sponsors:

• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks

Charles

• South Pacific
• Get a Coder Job course
• Framework Summit

Orta

• Prettier

Panel:

• Aimee Knight
• AJ O’Neal
• Aaron Frost
• Christopher Ferdinandi

Special Guests: Christopher Buecheler

In this episode, the panel talks with Christopher Buecheler who is an author, blogger, web developer, and founder of CloseBrace. The panel and Christopher talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone. With a technological world that is ever changing, it is important to always be learning within your field. Check out today’s episode to learn more!

Show Topics:

0:00 – Advertisement: KENDO UI

1:08 – Aimee: Our guest is Christopher Buecheler – tell us about yourself and what you do.

1:22 – Guest: I run a site and help mid-career developers. I put out a weekly newsletter, too.

2:01 – Aimee: It says that you are a fan of “getting comfortable being uncomfortable”?

2:15 – Guest: I am a self-taught developer, so that means I am scrambling to learn new things all the time. You are often faced with learning new things. When I learned React I was dumped into it. The pain and the difficulty are necessary in order to improve. If you aren’t having that experience then you aren’t learning as much as you could be.

3:26 – Aimee: I borrow lessons that I learned from ice-skating to programming.

3:49 – Guest: I started running a few years ago for better health. It was exhausting and miserable at the start and wondered why I was doing it. Now I run 5 times a week, and there is always a level of being uncomfortable, but now it’s apart of the run. It’s an interesting comparison to coding. It’s this idea of pushing through.

5:01 – Aimee: If you are comfortable you probably aren’t growing that much. In our industry you always have to be learning because things change so much!

5:25 – Guest: Yes, exactly. If you are not careful you can miss opportunities.

6:33 – Panel: You have some ideas about frameworks and libraries – one thing that I am always anxious about is being able to make sense of “what are some new trends that I should pay attention to?” I remember interviewing with someone saying: this mobile thing is just a fad. I remember thinking that she is going to miss this opportunity. I am worried that I am going to be THAT guy. How do you figure out what sort of things you should / shouldn’t pay attention to?

7:47 – Guest: It is a super exhausting thing to keep up with – I agree. For me, a lot of what I pay attention to is the technology that has the backing of a multi-million dollar company then that shows that technology isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. The other thing I would look at is how ACTIVE is the community around it?

9:15 – Panel: Is there a strategic way to approach this? There is so many different directions that you can grow and push yourself within your career? Do you have any kinds of thoughts/tips on how you want your career to evolve?

10:00 – Guest: I am trying to always communicate better to my newsletter audience. Also, a good approach, too, is what are people hiring for? 

11:06 – Aimee: Again, I would say: focus on learning.

11:30 – Panel: And I agree with Aimee – “learn it and learn it well!”

12:01 – Panel: I want to ask Chris – what is CloseBrace?

12:17 – Guest: I founded it in November 2016, and started work on it back in 2013.

14:20 – Panel: It was filled with a bunch of buzz worthy words/title.

14:32 – Guest continues his thoughts/comments on CloseBrace.

16:54 – Panel: How is the growth going?

17:00 – Guest: It is growing very well. I put out a massive, massive tutorial course – I wouldn’t necessarily advice that people do this b/c it can be overwhelming. However, growth this year I have focused on marketing. I haven’t shared numbers or anything but it’s increased 500%, and I am happy about it.

18:05 – Panel: Are you keeping in-house?

18:13 – Guest: I think it would be cool to expand, but now it is in-house. I don’t want to borrow Egg Head’s setup. I would love to cover MORE topics, though.

19:05 – Panel: You are only one person.

19:08 – Guest: If I can get the site creating more revenue than I can hire someone to do video editing, etc.

19:35 – Panel: I think you are overthinking it.

19:45 – Guest.

19:47 – Advertisement – Sentry.io

20:47 – Guest.

21:30 – Aimee: There are SO many resources out there right now. Where do you think you fit into this landscape?

21:44 – The landscape is cluttered, but I feel that I am different b/c of my thoroughness. I don’t always explain line by line, but I do say how and why things work. I think also is my VOICE. Not my radio voice, but the tone and the approach you take with it.

23:25 – Panel: I was trying to copy folks in the beginning of my career. And at some point I realized that I needed to find my own style. It always came down to the reasons WHY I am different rather than the similarities. Like, Chris, you have these quick hits on CloseBrace, but some people might feel like they don’t have the time to get through ALL of your content, because it’s a lot. For me, that’s what I love about your content.

24:46 – Christopher: Yeah, it was intentional.

25:36 – Panel: Good for you.

25:49 – Guest: I am super device agnostic: Android, Mac, PC, etc. I have a lot of people from India that are more Microsoft-base.

26:28 – Aimee: I think Egghead is pretty good about this...do you cover testing at all with these things that you are doing? It’s good to do a “Hello World” but most of these sites don’t get into MORE complex pieces. I think that’s where you can get into trouble. It’s nice to have some boiler point testing, too.

27:18 – Guest answers Aimee’s question.

28:43 – Aimee: We work with a consultancy and I asked them to write tests for the things that we work with. That’s the value of the testing. It’s the code that comes out.

29:10 – Panel: Can you explain this to me. Why do I need to write tests? It’s always working (my code) so why do I have to write a test?

29:39 – Guest: When working with AWS I was writing...

31:01 – Aimee: My biggest thing is that I have seen enough that the people don’t value testing are in a very bad place, and the people that value testing are in a good place. It even comes back to the customers, because the code gets so hard that you end up repeatedly releasing bugs. Customers will stop paying their bills if this happens too often for them.

33:00 – Panel: Aimee / Chris do you have a preferred tool? I have done testing before, but not as much as I should be doing.

33:25 – Aimee: I like JEST and PUPPETEER.

33:58 – Guest: I like JEST, too.

34:20 – Aimee: Let’s go to PICKS!

34:35 – Advertisement – eBook: Get a coder job!

Links:

• JavaScript
• jQuery
• React
• Elixir
• Elm
• Vue
• JEST
• Puppeteer
• Podflix
• Autojump
• Brutalist Web Design
• YouTube: Mac Miller
• Balloon Fiesta
• DocZ
• CloseBrace
• Christopher Buecheler’s Website
• Christopher Buecheler’s LinkedIn
• Christopher Buecheler’s GitHub
• Go Learn Things – Chris Ferdinandi

Sponsors:

• Kendo UI
• Sentry
• Cache Fly
• Get a Coder Job

Picks:

Aimee

• Podflix

Chris F.

• AutoJump 
• Brutalist Web Design
• Mac Miller Tiny Desk Concert

AJ

• Canada Dry with Lemonade

Aaron

• ABQ Ballon Festival
• Joe Eames DND Recording Channel

Christopher

• Docz
• South Reach Trilogy
• Jeff Vandermeer

Sponsors

• KendoUI

• Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit

• Clubhouse

Panel

• AJ O’Neal

• Chris Ferdinandi

• Charles Max Wood

Joined by special guest: Phil Hawksworth and Divya Sasidharan

Episode Summary

This episode features special guests Philip Hawksworth and Divya Sasidharan. Phil lives just outside of London and Divya lives in Chicago, and both of them work for Netlify. Divya is also a regular on the Devchat show Views on Vue. The panelists begin by discussing what JAMstack is. JAM stands for JavaScript, API, and Markup. It used to be known as the new name for static sites, but it’s much more than that. Phil talks about how dynamic ‘static’ sites really are. JAMstack sites range from very simple to very complex, Static is actually a misnomer. JAMstack makes making, deploying, and publishing as simple as possible.

The panelists discuss the differences between building your own API and JAMstack and how JavaScript fits into the JAMstack ecosystem. They talk about keys and secrets in APIs and the best way to handle credentials in a static site. There are multiple ways to handle it, but Netlify has some built in solutions. All you have to do is write your logic for what you want your function to do and what packages you want included in it, they do all the rest. Every deployment you make stays there, so you can always roll back to a previous version.

Charles asks about how to convert a website that’s built on a CMS to a static site and some of the tools available on Netlify. They finish by discussing different hangups on migrating platforms for things like Devchat (which is built on WordPress) and the benefits of switching servers.

Links

• API

• React

• JAMstack

• CMS (content management system)

• CDM (Customer Data Management)

• Markup

• UI (User Interface)

• Jekyll

• Progressive Enhancement

• 11ty

• Hugo

• React Static

• Gatsby

• Vue

• AWS

• AWS Lambda

• Azure

• Markdown

• WordPress

• Zapier

• Stefan Baumgartner article

• RSS feed

Picks

AJ O’Neal:

• Prince Ali Ababwa (Aladdin)

• Node v.10.12

Chris Ferdinandi:

• Bouncer

• Philip Morgan Consulting

• Jonathan Stark Consulting

Charles Max Wood:

• Mastadon Social

• Thanksgiving turkey

Phil Hawksworth:

• Dripping (solidified meat drippings spread on toast)

• They Shall Not Grow Old

Divya Sasidharan:

• Fear, Trust, and JavaScript

• Women’s Pockets Are Inferior

• Debt: A Love Story

Sponsors

• Sentry- use the code “devchat” for $100 credit
• Netlify
• Clubhouse
• CacheFly

Episode Summary  

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, the panelists talk with Tommy Hodgins who specializes in responsive web design. He starts with explaining to listeners what it means by a responsive web layout and goes on to discuss the techniques in using JavaScript in CSS in depth.

He elaborates on dynamic styling of components, event-driven stylesheet templating, performance and timing characteristics of these techniques and describes different kinds of observers – interception, resize and mutation, and their support for various browsers. He also talks about how to go about enabling certain features by extending CSS, comparison to tools such as the CSS preprocessor and Media Queries, pros and cons of having this approach while citing relevant examples, exciting new features coming up in CSS, ways of testing the methods, caffeinated stylesheets, along with Qaffeine and Deqaf tools.

Links

• JS in CSS – Event driven virtual stylesheet manager
• Qaffiene
• Deqaf
• Tommy’s Twitter
• Fizzbuzz

Picks

Joe

• The Captain Is Dead

Aimee

• Developer on Call
• Tip – Try to follow a low-sugar diet

Chris

• Tommy’s snippets on Twitter – JS in CSS
• All things frontend blog
• Gulp project

Charles

• Coaching by Charles in exchange of writing Show Notes or Tags

Tommy

• JS in CSS