1 MJS 061: Kyle Simpson By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 16 May 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kyle Simpson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kyle Simpson. Kyle is most well-known for being the writer of You Don’t Know JS. He first got into programming because his friend’s dad was a programmer and he was hooked by the software side of computers. He grew up writing games with QBasic and Turbo Pascal and then in his teens did some client projects. He was very much a self-taught programmer and ended up sticking with it into his career today. They talk about what led him to JavaScript and what he is doing currently. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Kyle intro You Don’t Know JS How did you first get into programming? Dad’s friend was a programmer Dad built computers Wrote games with QBasic and Turbo Pascal Some client projects in teen years Very much self-taught programmer CS degree in college First professional job at a biotech company Do you feel people need to get a CS degree these days? Grateful for his degree What engineering taught him Striving to understand why and how things work Don’t need a CS degree but you do need a certain mindset Valuable but not necessary What led you to JavaScript? Web Portal at his college What made you want to deepen your knowledge of JS? What are you working on now? And much, much more! Links: You Don’t Know JS JavaScript Kyle’s GitHub Functional-Light JavaScript @getify Kyle on Front-end masters Picks Charles Template Weeks Working Out Kyle Fluent Conf Node RSA Full Article
1 JSJ 314: Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver LIVE at Microsoft Build By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 22 May 2018 08:32:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber/Adventures In Angular, panelists discuss Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver at Microsoft Build. Amanda is the director of program management at Microsoft working on Visual Studio and VS Code. Matt works on a mix between the Azure and the VS Code team, where he leads the effort to build the Azure extensions in VS code, trying to bring JavaScript developers to Azure through great experiences in VS Code. They talk about what’s new in VS Code, how the Azure extension works, what log points are, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Amanda intro Matt intro What’s new in VS Code? VS Code core VS Live Share Shared Terminal Now have Linux support Live Share is now public to the world for free What would you use Shared Terminal for? Are there other things coming up in VS Code? Constantly responding to requests from the community Live Share works for any language How does the Azure extension work? Azure App Service Storage extension Azure Cosmos DB What are log points? All a part of a larger plan to create a better experience for JS developers Visual debuggers Is it the same plugin to support everything on Azure? Want to target specific services that node developers will take advantage of And much, much more! Links: Visual Studio VS Code Azure Live Share Azure Cosmos DB Microsoft Build Azure App Service Amanda’s GitHub @amandaksilver Matt’s GitHub @fiveisprime Picks: Charles Orphan Black Shout out to VS Code team Battle of the Books Matt The Customer-Driven Playbook by Travis Lowdermilk The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey Yes, And by Kelly Leonard Digital Marketing For Dummies by Ryan Deiss Ed Gets His Power Back Kickstarter Amanda Microsoft Quantum Development Kit for Visual Studio Code Iggy Peck, Architect Tek by Patrick McDonnell Full Article
1 JSJ 315: The effects of JS on CSS with Greg Whitworth By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 30 May 2018 06:00:00 -0400 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 Full Article
1 JSJ 316: Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner LIVE at Microsoft Build By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner, who are both developers on Visual Studio Code. They talk about what the workflow at Visual Studio Code looks like, what people can look forward to coming out soon, and how people can follow along the VS Code improvements on GitHub and Twitter. They also touch on their favorite extensions, like the Docker extension and the Azure extension and their favorite VS Code features. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Rachel and Matt intro Month to month workflow of Visual Studio Code VS Code JavaScript, TypeScript, and Mark Down support Working on GitHub and within the community Check out new features incrementally with insiders Community driven work What is coming out in Visual Studio Code? GitHub helps to determine what they work on Working on Grid View Improved settings UI Highlighting unused variables in your code Improvements with JS Docs Dart Visual Studio Extension API How do people follow along with the VS Code improvements? Follow along on GitHub and Twitter Download VS Code Insiders Have a general road map of what the plan is for the year Technical debt week What do you wish people knew about VS Code? Favorite extensions Docker extension and Azure extension And much, much more! Links: Visual Studio Code JavaScript TypeScript Dart VS Code GitHub @Code VS Code Insiders Docker extension Azure extension Rachel’s GitHub Matt’s GitHub MattBierner.com @mattbierner Sponsors Kendo UI Linode FreshBooks Picks: Charles Orphan Black Avengers: Infinity War Fishing Rachel GitLens Matt The Bronx Warriors Full Article
1 JSJ 317: Prisma with Johannes Schickling By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood AJ O’Neal Special Guests: Johannes Schickling In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss Prisma with Johannes Schickling. Johannes is the CEO and co-founder of GraphCool and works with Prisma. They talk about the upcoming changes within GraphCool, what Prisma is, and GraphQL back-end operations. They also touch on the biggest miscommunication about Prisma, how Prisma works, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: JSJ Episode 257 MJS Episode 055 Raised a seed round Rebranding of GraphCool What are you wanting to do with the seed money you raised? Focused on growing his team currently Making GraphQL easier to do The change in the way people build software What is Prisma? Two things you need to do as you want to adopt GraphQL Apollo Client and Relay GraphQL on the back-end Resolvers Resolving data in one query Prisma supports MySQL and PostgreSQL How do you control access to the GraphQL endpoint that Prisma gives you? Biggest miscommunication about Prisma Prisma makes it easier for you to make your own GraphQL server Application schemas How do you blend your own resolvers with Prisma? And much, much more! Links: JSJ Episode 257 MJS Episode 055 GraphCool Prisma GraphQL Apollo Client Relay MySQL PostgreSQL @schickling Johannes’ GitHub Schickling.me Prisma Slack Sponsors Kendo UI Linode FreshBooks Picks: Charles Audible The 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman Facebook Backyard Homesteader Groups CharlesMaxWood.com Sling TV Roku Express AJ The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Johannes Figma Netlify Functions GraphQL Europe Full Article
1 JSJ 318: Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari LIVE at Microsoft Build By devchat.tv Published On :: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss Cloud-Hosted DevOps with Ori Zohar and Gopinath Chigakkagari at Microsoft Build. Ori is on the product team at VSTS focusing on DevOps specifically on Azure. Gopinath is the group program manager in VSTS primarily working on continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps, Azure deployment, etc. They talk about the first steps people should take when getting into DevOps, define DevOps the way Microsoft views it, the advantages to automation, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ori and Gopi intro VSTS – Visual Studio Team Services VSTS gives developers the ability to be productive Developer productivity What’s the first big step people should be taking if they’re getting into DevOps? The definition of DevOps The people and the processes as the most important piece DevOps as the best practices Automating processes What people do when things go wrong is what really counts Letting the system take care of the problems Have the developers work on what they are actually getting paid for Trend of embracing DevOps Shifting the production responsibility more onto the developer’s Incentivizing developers People don’t account for integration Continuous integration Trends on what customers are asking for Safety Docker containers And much, much more! Links: Azure Microsoft Build VSTS @orizhr Ori’s GitHub Gopi’s GitHub @gopinach Sponsors Kendo UI Linode FreshBooks Picks: Charles .NET Rocks! Shure SM58 Microphone Zoom H6 Ori Fitbit Pacific Northwest Hiking Gopinath Seattle, WA Full Article
1 JSJ 319: Winamp2-js with Jordan Eldredge By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood AJ ONeal Aimee Knight Joe Eames Special Guests: Jordan Eldredge In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss Winamp2-js with Jordan Eldredge. Jordan is the creator of Winamp2-js and was inspired to create this media player from the old Winamp media player that he used back in the day. They talk about the importance of limitations, the value of having fun side projects, and pushing the boundaries. They also touch on skin parsing, making Webamp an electron app, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What is Winamp2-js? The history and future of Winamp WACUP Winamp was the first big mp3 player that you could style Webamp’s features and the technical challenges associated with them Why JavaScript? Creative solutions Limitations of browser and creating something that previously existed The importance of limitations Hadn’t done very much JavaScript prior to this project Originally created with jQuery Led him into a career in JavaScript Pushing the boundaries Skin parsing “Bitrot” and making Winamp skins accessible again The value of side projects, even stupid ones Architecture docs What made you choose React and Redux? Spotiamp (Soptify’s canceled Winamp client) Making Webamp an Electron app Winamp visualizers being ported to the web The domain name webamp.org And much, much more! Links: Winamp2-js Webamp JavaScript jQuery Architecture docs React Redux jordaneldredge.com Jordan’s GitHub @captbaritone Sponsors Kendo UI FreshBooks Loot Crate Picks: Charles JAM XT Speaker Trello AJ Samson GoMic Greenlock for Web Servers Greenlock for Node.js Aimee KA Engineering Principles Joe 2ality.com What if JavaScript wins? Medium post Jordan JavaScript Garden Rust @winampskins Full Article
1 JSJ 321: Babel and Open Source Software with Henry Zhu By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight AJ ONeal Joe Eames Special Guests: Henry Zhu In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Henry Zhu about Babel and open source software. Henry is one of the maintainers on Babel, which is a JavaScript compiler, and recently left this job to work on doing open source full time as well as working on Babel. They talk about where Babel is today, what it actually is, and his focus on his open source career. They also touch on how he got started in open source, his first PR, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Henry intro Babel update Sebastian McKenzie was the original creator of Babel Has learned a lot about being a maintainer What is Babel? JavaScript compiler You never know who your user is Has much changed with Babel since Sebastian left? Working on open source How did you get started in pen source? The ability to learn a lot from open source Atrocities of globalization More decentralization from GitHub Gitea and GitLab Gitea installer Open source is more closed now His first PR JSCS Auto-fixing Prettier Learning more about linting You don’t have to have formal training to be successful Codefund.io Sustainability of open source And much, much more! Links: Babel JavaScript Gitea GitLab Gitea installer Prettier Codefund.io @left_pad Henry’s GitHub henryzoo.com Henry’s Patreon Sponsors Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Picks: Charles Orphan Black Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson Aimee Desk with cubby holes for cats The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind blog post AJ Gitea Gitea installer Greenlock Joe Solo Justified Henry Celeste Zeit Day talks Full Article
1 MJS 071: Kye Hohenberger By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:28:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kye Hohenberger This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kye Hohenberger. Kye is a senior front-end engineer at Gremlin, where they do chaos as a service and break your stuff on purpose so that you can fix it and it hopefully won’t happen again. He also created the Emotion library, which is a CSS-in-JS library. He first got into programming because his Grandpa was always working on computers and Kye was curious about how they worked. They talk about how he got into JavaScript, what he's built in JavaScript that he’s proud of, what he’s working on now, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: JavaScript Jabber Episode 286 Kye intro Works at Gremlin as a front-end engineer How did you first get into programming? Always had a burning curiosity for computers Worked on HTML first Worked with flash in High School Tried to major in Computer Science and dropped out of it Job in IT Wordpress maintenance Hooked on wanting to learn more Python with Django What was it that caught your attention? How did you get into JavaScript? Job at cPanel What led you to build something like Emotion? Didn’t like having to use the Sass compiler What problem were you trying to solve? Have you worked on anything else in JavaScript that you’re proud of? What are you working on now? APIs from Java to Node Wrote Qordoba apps for 2 years What made you switch from Angular to React? Learning WebPack And much, much more! Links: JavaScript Jabber Episode 286 Emotion Wordpress Python Django JavaScript cPanel Sass Node Angular React WebPack @tkh44 Kye’s GitHub Kye’s Medium Sponsors: Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks Charles Home Depot Tool Rentals Framework Summit Podcast Movement Kye The Console Log Brian Holt on Frontend Masters Emotion Team Full Article
1 JSJ 331: “An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2018” with Vitali Zaidman By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Joe Eames Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Vitali Zaidman In this episode, the panel talks with programmer, Vitali Zaidman, who is working with Software Solutions Company. He researches technologies and starts new projects all the time, and looks at these new technologies within the market. The panel talks about testing JavaScript in 2018 and Jest. Show Topics: 1:32 – Chuck: Let’s talk about testing JavaScript in 2018. 1:53 – Vitali talks about solving problems in JavaScript. 2:46 – Chuck asks Vitali a question. 3:03 – Vitali’s answer. 3:30 – Why Jest? Why not Mocha or these other programs? 3:49 – Jest is the best interruption of what testing should look like and the best practice nowadays. There are different options, they can be better, but Jest has this great support from their community. There are great new features. 4:31 – Chuck to Joe: What are you using for testing nowadays? 4:43 – Joe: I use Angular, primarily. 6:01 – Like life, it’s sometimes easier to use things that make things very valuable. 7:55 – Aimee: I have heard great things about Cypress, but at work we are using another program. 8:22 – Vitali: Check out my article. 8:51 – Aimee: There are too many problems with the program that we use at work. 9:39 – Panelist to Vitali: I read your article, and I am a fan. Why do you pick Test Café over Cypress, and how familiar are you with Cypress? What about Selenium and other programs? 10:12 – Vitali: “Test Café and Cypress are competing head-to-head.” Listen to Vitali’s suggestions and comments per the panelists’ question at this timestamp. 11:25 – Chuck: I see that you use sign-on... 12:29 – Aimee: Can you talk about Puppeteer? It seems promising. 12:45 – Vitali: Yes, Puppeteer is promising. It’s developed by Google and by Chrome. You don’t want to use all of your tests in Puppeteer, because it will be really hard to do in other browsers. 13:26: Panelist: “...5, 6, 7, years ago it was important of any kind of JavaScript testing you had no idea if it worked in one browser and it not necessarily works in another browser. That was 10 years ago. Is multiple browsers testing as important then as it is now? 14:51: Vitali answers the above question. 15:30 – Aimee: If it is more JavaScript heavy then it could possibly cause more problems. 15:56 – Panelist: I agree with this. 16:02 – Vitali continues this conversation with additional comments. 16:17 – Aimee: “I see that Safari is the new Internet Explorer.” 16:23: Chuck: “Yes, you have to know your audience. Are they using older browsers? What is the compatibility?” 17:01 – Vitali: There are issues with the security. Firefox has a feature of tracking protection; something like that. 17:33 – Question to Vitali by Panelist. 17:55 – Vitali answers the question. 18:30 – Panelist makes additional comments. 18:43 – If you use Safari, you reap what you sow. 18:49 – Chuck: I use Chrome on my iPhone. (Aimee does, too.) Sometimes I wind up in Safari by accident. 19:38 – Panelist makes comments. 19:52 – Vitali tells a funny story that relates to this topic. 20:45 – There are too many standards out there. 21:05 – Aimee makes comments. 21:08 – Brutalist Web Design. Some guy has this site – Brutalist Web Design – where he says use basic stuff and stop being so custom. Stop using the web as some crazy platform, and if your site is a website that can be scrolled through, that’s great. It needs to be just enough for people to see your content. 22:16 – Aimee makes additional comments about this topic of Brutalist Web Design. 22:35 – Panelist: I like it when people go out and say things like that. 22:45 – Here is the point, though. There is a difference between a website and a web application. Really the purpose is to read an article. 23:37 – Vitali chimes in. 24:01 – Back to the topic of content on websites. 25:17 – Panelist: Medium is very minimal. Medium doesn’t feel like an application. 26:10 – Is the website easy enough for the user to scroll through and get the content like they want to? 26:19 – Advertisement. 27:22 – See how far off the topic we got? 27:31 – These are my favorite conversations to have. 27:39 – Vitali: Let’s talk about how my article got so popular. It’s an interesting thing, I started researching “testing” for my company. We wanted to implement one of the testing tools. Instead of creating a presentation, I would write first about it in Medium to get feedback from the community as well. It was a great decision, because I got a lot of comments back. I enjoyed the experience, too. Just write about your problem in Medium to see what people say. 28:48 – Panelist: You put a ton of time and energy in this article. There are tons of links. Did you really go through all of those articles? 29:10 – Yes, what are the most permanent tools? I was just reading through a lot of comments and feedback from people. I tested the tools myself, too! 29:37 – Panelist: You broke down the article, and it’s a 22-minute read. 30:09 – Vitali: I wrote the article for my company, and they ad to read it. 30:24 – Panelist: Spending so much time – you probably felt like it was apart of your job. 30:39 – Vitali: I really like creating and writing. It was rally amazing for me and a great experience. I feel like I am talented in this area because I write well and fast. I wanted to express myself. 31:17 – Did you edit and review? 31:23 – Vitali: I wrote it by myself and some friends read it. There were serious mistakes, and that’s okay I am not afraid of mistakes. This way you get feedback. 32:10 – Chuck: “Some people see testing in JavaScript, and people look at this and say there are so much here. Is there a place where people can start, so that way they don’t’ get too overwhelmed? Is there a way to ease into this and take a bite-size at a time?” 32:52 – Vitali: “Find something that works for them. Read the article and start writing code.” He continues this conversation from here on out. 34:03 – Chuck continues to ask questions and add other comments. 34:16 – Vitali chimes-in. 34:38 – Chuck. 34:46 – Vitali piggybacks off of Chuck’s comments. 36:14 – Panelist: Let’s go back to Jest. There is a very common occurrence where we see lots of turn and we see ideas like this has become the dominant or the standard, a lot of people talk about stuff within this community. Then we get this idea that ‘this is the only thing that is happening.’ Transition to jQuery to React to... With that context do you feel like Jest will be a dominant program? Are we going to see Jest used just as common as Mocha and other popular programs? 38:15 – Vitali comments on the panelist’s question. 38:50 – Panelist: New features. Are the features in Jest (over Jasmine, Mocha, etc.) so important that it will drive people to it by itself? 40:30 – Vitali comments on this great question. 40:58 – Panelist asks questions about features about Jest. 41:29 – Vitali talks about this topic. 42:14 – Let’s go to picks! 42:14 – Advertisement. Links: Vitali Zaidman’s Facebook Vitali Zaidman’s Medium Vitali Zaidman’s GitHub Vitali Zaidman’s NPM Vitali Zaidman’s LinkedIn Vitali Zaidman’s Medium Article JavaScript Brutalist Web Design Jasmine Cypress React jQuery Jest Protractor – end to end testing for Angular Test Café Intern Sinon XKCD Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Cache Fly Picks: AJ O’Neal Continuous from last week’s episode: Crossing the Chasm – New Technologies from Niche to General Adaptation. Go Lang Joe Eames Board Game: Rajas of the Ganges Framework Summit Conference in Utah React Conference Aimee Knight Hacker News – “Does Software Understand Complexity” via Michael Feathers Cream City Code Chuck E-Book: How do I get a job? Express VPN Vitali Book: The Square and The Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson My article! Full Article
1 JSJ 333: “JavaScript 2018: Things You Need to Know, and a Few You Can Skip” with Ethan Brown By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Aimee Knight Joe Eames Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Ethan Brown In this episode, the panel talks with Ethan Brown who is a technological director at a small company. They write software to facilitate large public organizations and help make projects more effective, such as: rehabilitation of large construction projects, among others. There is a lot of government work through the endeavors they encounter. Today, the panel talks about his article he wrote, and other topics such as Flex, Redux, Ruby, Vue.js, Automerge, block chain, and Elm. Enjoy! Show Topics: 2:38 – Chuck: We are here to talk about the software side of things. Let’s dive into what you are looking at mid-year what we need to know for 2018. You wrote this. 3:25 – Ethan: I start off saying that doing this podcast now, how quickly things change. One thing I didn’t think people needed to know was symbols, and now that’s changed. I had a hard time with bundling and other things. I didn’t think the troubles were worth it. And now a couple of moths ago (an open source project) someone submitted a PR and said: maybe we should be using symbols? I told them I’ve had problems in the past. They said: are you crazy?! It’s funny to see how I things have changed. 4:47 – Panel: Could you talk about symbols? 4:58 – Aimee: Are they comparable to Ruby? 5:05 – Ethan talks about what symbols are and what they do! 5:52 – Chuck: That’s pretty close to how that’s used in Ruby, too. 6:04 – Aimee: I haven’t used them in JavaScript, yet. When have you used them recently? 6:15 – Ethan answers the question. 7:17 – Panelist chimes in. 7:27 – Ethan continues his answer. The topic of “symbols” continues. Ethan talks about Automerge. 11:18 – Chuck: I want to dive-into what you SHOULD know in 2018 – does this come from your experience? Or how did you drive this list? 11:40 – Ethan: I realize that this is a local business, and I try to hear what people are and are not using. I read blogs. I think I am staying on top of these topics being discussed. 12:25 – Chuck: Most of these things are what people are talking. 12:47 – Aimee: Web Assembly. Why is this on the list? 12:58 – Ethan: I put on the list, because I heard lots of people talk about this. What I was hearing the echoes of the JavaScript haters. They have gone through a renaissance. Along with Node, and React (among others) people did get on board. There are a lot of people that are poisoned by that. I think the excitement has died down. If I were to tell a story today – I would 14:23 – Would you put block chain on there? And AI? 14:34 – Panel: I think it’s something you should be aware of in regards to web assembly. I think it will be aware of. I don’t know if there is anything functional that I could use it with. 15:18 – Chuck: I haven’t really played with it... 15:27 – Panel: If you wrote this today would you put machine learning on there? 15:37 – Ethan: Machine Learning... 16:44 – Chuck: Back to Web Assembly. I don’t think you were wrong, I think you were early. Web Assembly isn’t design just to be a ... It’s designed to be highly optimized for... 17:45 – Ethan: Well-said. Most of the work I do today we are hardly taxing the devices we are using on. 18:18 – Chuck and panel chime in. 18:39 – Chuck: I did think the next two you have on here makes sense. 18:54 – Panel: Functional programming? 19:02 – Ethan: I have a lot of thoughts on functional programming and they are mixed. I was exposed to this in the late 90’s. It was around by 20-30 years. These aren’t new. I do credit JavaScript to bring these to the masses. It’s the first language I see the masses clinging to. 10 years ago you didn’t see that. I think that’s great for the programming community in general. I would liken it to a way that Ruby on Rails really changed the way we do web developing with strong tooling. It was never really my favorite language but I can appreciate what it did for web programming. With that said...(Ethan continues the conversation.) Ethan: I love Elm. 21:49 – Panelists talks about Elm. *The topic diverts slightly. 22:23 – Panel: Here’s a counter-argument. Want to stir the pot a little bit. I want to take the side of someone who does NOT like functional programming. 24:08 – Ethan: I don’t disagree with you. There are some things I agree with and things I do disagree with. Let’s talk about Data Structures. I feel like I use this everyday. Maybe it’s the common ones. The computer science background definitely helps out. If there was one data structure, it would be TREES. I think STACKS and QUEUES are important, too. Don’t use 200-300 hours, but here are the most important ones. For algorithms that maybe you should know and bust out by heart. 27:48 – Advertisement for Chuck’s E-book Course: Get A Coder Job 28:30 – Chuck: Functional programming – people talk bout why they hate it, and people go all the way down and they say: You have to do it this way.... What pay things will pay off for me, and which things won’t pay off for me? For a lot of the easy wins it has already been discussed. I can’t remember all the principles behind it. You are looking at real tradeoffs. You have to approach it in another way. I like the IDEA that you should know in 2018, get to know X, Y, or Z, this year. You are helping the person guide them through the process. 30:18 – Ethan: Having the right tools in your toolbox. 30:45 – Panel: I agree with everything you said, I was on board, until you said: Get Merge Conflicts. I think as developers we are being dragged in... 33:55 – Panelist: Is this the RIGHT tool to use in this situation? 34:06 – Aimee: If you are ever feeling super imposed about something then make sure you give it a fair shot, first. 34:28 – That’s the only reason why I keep watching DC movies. 34:41 – Chuck: Functional programming and... I see people react because of the hype cycle. It doesn’t fit into my current paradigm. Is it super popular for a few months or...? 35:10 – Aimee: I would love for someone to point out a way those pure functions that wouldn’t make their code more testable. 35:42 – Ethan: Give things a fair shake. This is going back a few years when React was starting to gain popularity. I had young programmers all about React. I tried it and mixing it with JavaScript and...I thought it was gross. Everyone went on board and I had to make technically decisions. A Friend told me that you have to try it 3 times and give up 3 times for you to get it. That was exactly it – don’t know if that was prophecy or something. This was one of my bigger professional mistakes because team wanted to use it and I didn’t at first. At the time we went with Vue (old dog like me). I cost us 80,000 lines of code and how many man hours because I wasn’t keeping an open-mind? 37:54 – Chuck: We can all say that with someone we’ve done. 38:04 – Panel shares a personal story. 38:32 – Panel: I sympathize because I had the same feeling as automated testing. That first time, that automated test saved me 3 hours. Oh My Gosh! What have I been missing! 39:12 – Ethan: Why should you do automated testing? Here is why... You have to not be afraid of testing. Not afraid of breaking things and getting messy. 39:51 – Panel: Immutability? 40:00 – Ethan talks about this topic. 42:58 – Chuck: You have summed up my experience with it. 43:10 – Panel: Yep. I agree. This is stupid why would I make a copy of a huge structure, when... 44:03 – Chuck: To Joe’s point – but it wasn’t just “this was a dumb way” – it was also trivial, too. I am doing all of these operations and look my memory doesn’t go through the roof. They you see it pay off. If you don’t see how it’s saving you effort, at first, then you really understand later. 44:58 – Aimee: Going back to it being a functional concept and making things more testable and let it being clearly separate things makes working in code a better experience. As I am working in a system that is NOT a pleasure. 45:31 – Chuck: It’s called legacy code... 45:38 – What is the code year? What constitutes a legacy application? 45:55 – Panel: 7 times – good rule. 46:10 – Aimee: I am not trolling. Serious conversation I was having with them this year. 46:27 – Just like cars. 46:34 – Chuck chimes in with his rule of thumb. 46:244 – Panel and Chuck go back-and-forth with this topic. 47:14 – Dilbert cartoons – check it out. 47:55 – GREAT QUOTE about life lessons. 48:09 – Chuck: I wish I knew then what I know now. Data binding. Flux and Redux. Lots of this came out of stuff around both data stores and shadow domes. How do you tease this out with the stuff that came out around the same time? 48:51 – Ethan answers question. 51:17 – Panel chimes in. 52:01 – Picks! Links: JavaScript jQuery React Elixir Elm Vue Automerge - GITHUB Functional – Light JavaScript Lego’s Massive Cloud City Star Wars Lego Shop The Traveler’s Gift – Book Jocks Rule, Nerds Drool by Jennifer Wright 2ality – JavaScript and more Cooper Press Book – Ethan Brown O’Reilly Community – Ethan Brown’s Bio Ethan Brown’s Twitter Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Cache Fly Picks: Aimee Pettier Joe Lego - Star Wars Betrayal at Cloud City Functional-Light JavaScript Charles The Traveler’s Gift The Shack The Expanse Ethan Jocks Rule, Nerd Drool JavaScipt Blog by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Cooper Press Full Article
1 MJS 081: Christiané Heiligers By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Christiané Heiligers This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Dr. Christiané Heiligers who is new to the industry. Her background is in physics where she has her Ph.D. in the field. Listen to today’s episode to hear her background, experience with the different programs/languages, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Beginning – Advertisement: Code Badges! 1:07 – Christiané: Hello! 1:17 – Chuck: I like hearing people’s stories from our community. Tell us where you come from and who you are? 1:33 – Christiané: I am from South Africa, and have been in the US for 2 years now. My formal training is in physics. I have been a researcher with lab coats and test tubes. Through immigration, which took 2 years. I couldn’t be still, and started learning code on my own. I enjoyed the art. I had to use Python, and then I was hooked. I enjoyed the functional programming and other things. I had some experience with Ruby on Rails. I enjoy development because its problem solving, methodically approach, and uses your creative side, too. My preference is a Mac, need the Internet and decided to go to camps and take courses. I snagged a job a week before I graduated! 4:36 – Chuck: your journey, thus far. You said that you couldn’t be idle – so why code? 4:53 – Guest: The UK is cold you don’t want to do anything outside! From South American I couldn’t stand the cold. I kept busy indoors – hint the code. You can’t get bored – frontend or backend. 5:28 – Chuck: Can you give us background on the Grace Hopper Academy. 5:40 – Guest: Sure! It’s based in NY City. 6:26 – Chuck: Did you move somewhere or was it remote? 6:30 – Guest: I had to live somewhere e 6:51 – Chuck: Where did you 6:55 – Guest: NY City. There were 16 of us in the course. 7:14 – Chuck: Why did you feel like you had to go to coding school? 7:25 – Guest: I am impatient with myself. The home-life you ask yourself: “Am I doing the right thing? Am I going in the right direction?” I wanted to go and pick up some skills. 7:56 – Chuck: You go through Grace Hopper – is this how you got into JavaScript? 8:11 – Guest: I didn’t know a line of JavaScript. I did my application code line in Ruby. My husband has been in software development my whole life. 9:16 – Chuck: What have you done with JavaScript since learning it? 9:24 – Guest: Some card playing games for my nieces in South Africa. 10:50 – Guest: Stack Overflow is wonderful. 11:05 – Chuck. 11:11 – Guest: I wasn’t actively contributing, but I did... 11:30 – Chuck: What is it like being a prof 11:37 – Guest: It’s addictive. When I am writing code in the frontend / backend side. It’s always learning. 12:11 – Chuck: What’s next for you? 12:18 – Guest: I would love to continue this journey. Maybe into the DevOps, but my passion happens with React. The Hapi Framework. 13:10 – Guest: The community is wonderful to work with – everyone is very helpful. 13:22 – Chuck: People are usually talking about Express and not Hapi.js. 13:35 – Guest: I have some contact names you can call. 13:43 – Guest: I am working on a few small projects right now. Some Angular sites that need assistance. Helping out where I can. It’s a small team that I am working with. There is only a few of us. 14:31 – Chuck: Usually people stick with one. What’s your experience using the different frameworks? 14:40 – Guest: It’s an eye-opener! React vs. Angular. 15:07 – Chuck: How can people find you? 15:14 – Guest: LinkedIn, Twitter, Tallwave, etc. 15:37 – Chuck: Picks! 15:40 – Advertisement! Links: React Angular Grace Hopper Academy Christiané’s Instagram Christiané’s Facebook Sponsors: Code Badge Cache Fly Get A Coder Job Picks: Charles Podcasts that Chuck listens to: Code Newbie Our podcasts through DevChat Food – Kedo Diet – 2 Keto Dudes Christiané Heiligers Hapi Framework Hapi Slack Channel – Hapi.js Full Article
1 JSJ 341: Testing in JavaScript with Gil Tayar By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 06:00:00 -0500 Panel: Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Gil Tayar In this episode, the panel talks with Gil Tayar who is currently residing in Tel Aviv and is a software engineer. He is currently the Senior Architect at Applitools in Israel. The panel and the guest talk about the different types of tests and when/how one is to use a certain test in a particular situation. They also mention Node, React, Selenium, Puppeteer, and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: KENDO UI 0:35 – Chuck: Our panel is AJ, Aimee, myself – and our special guest is Gil Tayar. Tell us why you are famous! 1:13 – Gil talks about where he resides and his background. 2:27 – Chuck: What is the landscape like now with testing and testing tools now? 2:39 – Guest: There is a huge renaissance with the JavaScript community. Testing has moved forward in the frontend and backend. Today we have lots of testing tools. We can do frontend testing that wasn’t possible 5 years ago. The major change was React. The guest talks about Node, React, tools, and more! 4:17 – Aimee: I advocate for tests and testing. There is a grey area though...how do you treat that? If you have to get something into production, but it’s not THE thing to get into production, does that fall into product or...what? 5:02 – Guest: We decided to test everything in the beginning. We actually cam through and did that and since then I don’t think I can use the right code without testing. There are a lot of different situations, though, to consider. The guest gives hypothetical situations that people could face. 6:27 – Aimee. 6:32 – Guest: The horror to changing code without tests, I don’t know, I haven’t done that for a while. You write with fear in your heart. Your design is driven by fear, and not what you think is right. In the beginning don’t write those tests, but... 7:22 – Aimee: I totally agree and I could go on and on and on. 7:42 – Panel: I want to do tests when I know they will create value. I don’t want to do it b/c it’s a mundane thing. Secondly, I find that some times I am in a situation where I cannot write the test b/c I would have to know the business logic is correct. I am in this discovery mode of what is the business logic? I am not just building your app. I guess I just need advice in this area, I guess. 8:55 – Guest gives advice to panelist’s question. He mentions how there are two schools of thought. 10:20 – Guest: Don’t mock too much. 10:54 – Panel: Are unit tests the easiest? I just reach for unit testing b/c it helps me code faster. But 90% of my code is NOT that. 11:18 – Guest: Exactly! Most of our test is glue – gluing together a bunch of different stuff! Those are best tested as a medium-sized integration suite. 12:39 – Panel: That seems like a lot of work, though! I loathe the database stuff b/c they don’t map cleanly. I hate this database stuff. 13:06 – Guest: I agree, but don’t knock the database, but knock the level above the database. 13:49 – Guest: Yes, it takes time! Building the script and the testing tools, but when you have it then adding to it is zero time. Once you are in the air it’s smooth sailing. 14:17 – Panel: I guess I can see that. I like to do the dumb-way the first time. I am not clear on the transition. 14:47 – Guest: Write the code, and then write the tests. The guest gives a hypothetical situation on how/when to test in a certain situation. 16:25 – Panel: Can you talk about that more, please? 16:50 – Guest: Don’t have the same unit – do browser and business logic stuff separated. The real business logic stuff needs to be above that level. First principle is separation of concerns. 18:04 – Panel talks about dependency interjection and asks a question. 18:27 – Guest: What I am talking about very, very light inter-dependency interjection. 19:19 – Panel: You have a main function and you are doing requires in the main function. You are passing the pieces of that into the components that need it. 19:44 – Guest: I only do it when it’s necessary; it’s not a religion for me. I do it only for those layers that I know will need to be mocked; like database layers, etc. 20:09 – Panel. 20:19 – Guest: It’s taken me 80 years to figure out, but I have made plenty of mistakes a long the way. A test should run for 2-5 minutes max for package. 20:53 – Panel: What if you have a really messy legacy system? How do you recommend going into that? Do you write tests for things that you think needs to get tested? 21:39 – Guest answers the question and mentions Selenium! 24:27 – Panel: I like that approach. 24:35 – Chuck: When you say integration test what do you mean? 24:44 – Guest: Integration tests aren’t usually talked about. For most people it’s tests that test the database level against the database. For me, the integration tests are taking a set of classes as they are in the application and testing them together w/o the...so they can run in millisecond time. 26:54 – Advertisement – Sentry.io 27:52 – Chuck: How much do the tools matter? 28:01 – Guest: The revolutions matter. Whether you use Jasmine or Mocha or whatever I don’t think it matters. The tests matter not the tools. 28:39 – Aimee: Yes and no. I think some tools are outdated. 28:50 – Guest: I got a lot of flack about my blog where I talk about Cypress versus Selenium. I will never use Jasmine. In the end it’s the 29:29 – Aimee: I am curious would you be willing to expand on what the Selenium folks were saying about Puppeteer and others may not provide? 29:54 – Guest: Cypress was built for frontend developers. They don’t care about cross browser, and they tested in Chrome. Most browsers are typically the same. Selenium was built with the QA mindset – end to end tests that we need to do cross browser. The guest continues with this topic. 30:54 – Aimee mentions Cypress. 31:08 – Guest: My guessing is that their priority is not there. I kind of agree with them. 31:21 – Aimee: I think they are focusing on mobile more. 31:24 – Guest: I think cross browser testing is less of an issue now. There is one area that is important it’s the visual area! It’s important to test visually across these different browsers. 32:32 – Guest: Selenium is a Swiss knife – it can do everything. 33:32 – Chuck: I am thinking about different topics to talk about. I haven’t used Puppeteer. What’s that about? 33:49 – Guest: Puppeteer is much more like Selenium. The reason why it’s great is b/c Puppeteer will always be Google Chrome. 35:42 – Chuck: When should you be running your tests? I like to use some unit tests when I am doing my development but how do you break that down? 36:06 – Guest. 38:30 – Chuck: You run tests against production? 38:45 – Guest: Don’t run tests against production...let me clarify! 39:14 – Chuck. 39:21 – Guest: When I am talking about integration testing in the backend... 40:37 – Chuck asks a question. 40:47 – Guest: I am constantly running between frontend and backend. I didn’t know how to run tests for frontend. I had to invent a new thing and I “invented” the package JS DONG. It’s an implementation of Dong in Node. I found out that I wasn’t the only one and that there were others out there, too. 43:14 – Chuck: Nice! You talked in the prep docs that you urged a new frontend developer to not run the app in the browser for 2 months? 43:25 – Guest: Yeah, I found out that she was running the application...she said she knew how to write tests. I wanted her to see it my way and it probably was a radical train-of-thought, and that was this... 44:40 – Guest: Frontend is so visual. 45:12 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 45:16 – Guest: I am working with Applitools and I was impressed with what they were doing. The guest goes into further detail. 46:08 – Guest: Those screenshots are never the same. 48:36 – Panel: It’s...comparing the output to the static site to the... 48:50 – Guest: Yes, that static site – if you have 30 pages in your app – most of those are the same. We have this trick where we don’t upload it again and again. Uploading the whole static site is usually very quick. The second thing is we don’t wait for the results. We don’t wait for the whole rendering and we continue with the tests. 50:28 – Guest: I am working mostly (right now) in backend. 50:40 – Chuck: Anything else? Picks! 50:57 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! END – Advertisement: CacheFly! Links: JavaScript React Elixir Node.js Puppeteer Cypress SeleniumHQ Article – Ideas.Ted.Com Book: Never Split the Difference Applitools Guest’s Blog Article about Cypress vs. Selenium Gil’s Twitter Gil’s Medium Gil’s LinkedIn Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry CacheFly Picks: Aimee How Showing Vulnerability Helps Build a Stronger Team AJ Never Split the Difference Project - TeleBit Charles Monster Hunter International Metabase Gil Cat Zero The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Full Article
1 MJS 091: Jamund Ferguson By devchat.tv Published On :: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 06:02:00 -0500 Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit Clubhouse Full Article
1 JSJ 351: Dinero.js with Sarah Dayan By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 06:01:00 -0500 Sponsors Netlify Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit Clubhouse Panel: Joe Eames Aimee Knight Chris Ferdinandi AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood Special Guest - Sarah Dayan In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, the panelists talk to Sarah Dayan, who is a Frontend Software Engineer working for Algolia in Paris. They about the complications in handling money in software development and ask Sarah about the journey that led to the creation of Dinero.js, it’s implementation details, importance of maintaining good documentation, dealing with issues faced along the way, various features of Dinero and working with open source projects in general. Check it out! Show Topics: 0.40 - Advertisement : Netlify 1:44 - Sarah introduces herself and Chris talks about his interest in learning more about Dinero and compliments Sarah on its great documentation. 3.10 - Sarah gives some background saying that she created and published Dinero around a year ago. She goes on to explain that the Dinero library helps in handling monetary values. It comes with several methods to parse, manipulate and format these values. The reason behind creating it is that there is no consensus on representing money in software development currently. She shares the story from her previous job where her work was to maintain legacy accounting software, and along the way they realized, that since JavaScript did not have a way to natively represent decimal values, it led to adding large numbers of rounded up numbers continuously, eventually leading to wrong computations. 6:50 - Aimee asks about ways to handle different currencies in Dinero. Sarah answers that she has followed Martin Fowler’s money pattern where two different currencies were not allowed to be worked on directly, conversion was mandatory, just like in real life. 7:50 - Charles talks about his old freelance work where he was overwhelmed while handling and representing money in software. 8:25 - Aimee enquires if Dinero can be used for both frontend and backend. Sarah replies that it can be used anywhere and explains that there is no such thing as just a number when it comes to money, there must be a currency associated with it. 9:30 - Charles asks how to figure out the direction to go to when dealing with money and to make sure that all use-cases are covered. Sarah answers that in cases such as floating-point math where the computations don’t end up being accurate as handling is not supported, numbers can be used if treated as subunits (for e.g. 100cents = 1$). However, even then, there are issues in dividing money. She then explains the procedure of “allocation” from the Fowler pattern and she says that Dinero helps in doing the same in such scenarios. 12:54 - They discuss how they did not realize how difficult it was dealing with monetary values in development. Sarah talks about the fact that there are numerous aspects involved in it, giving the example of rounding off and stating that there are even factors such as different laws in different countries that need to be considered. 16:00 - AJ asks details about crafting the library, maintaining the centralized code and covering of edge cases and using inheritance. Sarah explains the concept of domain driven development and the importance of being an expert in the respective domains. She talks about the library structure briefly, describing that is kept very simple with a module pattern and it has allowed her to manage visibility, make it immutable, include currency converters, formatters and so on. 19:34 - AJ asks about the internal complexity of the implementation. Sarah answers that code wise it is extremely simple and easy, anyone with a limited JavaScript experience can understand it. 20:50 - AJ asks if it’s open source to which Sarah answers in affirmative and says that she would like external help with implementing some features too. 22:10 - Chris asks about Sarah’s excellent documentation approach, how has she managed to do it in a very detailed manner and how important it is in an open source project. Sarah says that she believes that documentation is extremely important, and not having good docs is a big hindrance to developers and to anyone who is trying to learn in general. She talks about her love for writing which explains the presence of annotations and examples in the source code. 27:50 - Charles discusses how autogenerated documentation gives an explanation about the methods and functions in the code but there is no guidance as such, so it is important to have guides. Sarah agrees by saying that searching for exact solutions is much simpler with it, leading to saving time as well. 29:43 - Chris speaks about Vue also being quite good at having guides and links and thanks Sarah for her work on Dinero. 30:15 - Advertisement - Sentry - Use code “devchat” to get two months free on Sentry’s small plan. 31:23 - Chris asks what the process is, for creating and running Dinero in different places. Sarah explains that she uses rollup.js which is a bundler suited for libraries, it takes in the ES module library and gives the output in any format. She states that the reason for using the ES module library is that she wanted to provide several builds for several environments with a clean and simple source and goes on to explain that these modules are native, have a terse syntax, easy to read and can be statically analyzed. She also gives the disadvantages in choosing webpack over rollup. 36:05 - Charles asks if anyone else is using Dinero. Sarah replies that around two or three people are using it, not much, but she is happy that it is out there to help people and she enjoyed working on it. 37:50 - Joe asks if there are any interesting stories about issues such as involving weird currency. Sarah answers in affirmative and gives the example of the method “hasCents”. She explains that she had to deprecate it because the unit “cents” does not have any value in non-Western currencies, and has created “hasSubUnits” method instead. She explains some problems like dealing with currencies that don’t support the ISO 4217 standard. 42:30 - Joe asks if social and political upheavals that affect the currencies have any effect on the library too. Sarah gives the example of Chinese and Japanese currencies where there are no sub-units and states that it is important to be flexible in developing stuff in an ever-changing domain like money. She also says that she does not include any third-party dependency in the library. 46:00 - AJ says that BigInts have arrived in JavaScript but there is no way to convert between typed arrays, hexadecimal or other storage formats. But later (1:10:55), he corrects that statement saying that BigInts in fact, does have support for hexadecimals. Sarah talks about wanting to keep the code simple and keep developer experience great. 49:08 - Charles asks about the features in Dinero. Sarah elaborates on wanting to work more on detecting currencies, improve the way it is built, provide better support for type libraries and get much better at documentation. 52:32 - Charles says that it is good that Sarah is thinking about adopting Dinero to fit people’s needs and requirements and asks about different forms of outreach. Sarah says that she blogs a lot, is active on Twitter and attends conferences as well. Her goal is not popularity per se but to help people and keep on improving the product. 55:47 - Chris talks about the flip side that as the product grows and becomes popular, the number of support requests increases too. Sarah agrees that open source projects tend to eat up a lot of time and that doing such projects comes with a lot of responsibility but can also help in getting jobs. 59:47 - Sarah says that she is available online on her blog - frontstuff, on Twitter as Sarah Dayan and on GitHub as sarahdayan. 1:00:06 - Advertisement - Clubhouse 1:01:01 - Picks! 1:11:42 - END - Advertisement - CacheFly! Picks: Sarah DocSearch - Algolia AJ O’Neal The Legendary Profile by Modern Jazz Quartet Webcam Cover by Dcreate How Music Works - David Byrne Chris Tommy Hodgins Code Series Tom Scott - YouTube Future Man Joe Timeless A Christmas Carol narrated by Patrick Stewart Aimee Hacker News thread on working with Legacy Codebases Charles George Marathon Garmin Forerunner 235 Full Article
1 MJS 100: Joe Eames By Published On :: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Clubhouse CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Joe Eames Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Joe Eames, CEO of Thinkster.io and organizer of many different conferences, two of which are the AngularJS conference, ng-conf, and the WordPress developer conference, LoopConf. Joe is a front end web developer and an educator. He has authored over 10 Pluralsight.com courses. He is also a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast and the Adventures in Angular podcast on DevChat.TV. Joe talks about his passion project, being on the organization team of Framework Summit, a two-day conference focused on all front end JavaScript frameworks, the first of which was held in Utah in October 2018. It was a great success and he and the rest of the organization team will be looking to repeat it in January of 2020. Another conference Joe was involved in organizing was React Conf 2018 which took place in October in Henderson, Nevada. He is in the process of organizing the React Conf 2019 with the rest of the organization team. Aside from organizing conferences Joe’s second passion is education. He has started up a podcast called Dev Ed Podcast. Joe has recently become the CEO of Thinkster.io. Thinkster.io is a unique platform where learners can really master web development with a lot of hands on training. Joe wants developers to be able to learn how to “generate” solutions to problems. He explains the concept of “interleaving” while learning a subject which helps students retain more and learn faster. Links https://webflow.com/ My Angular Story 049: Joe Eames My Angular Story 073: Joe Eames https://twitter.com/josepheames https://medium.com/@josepheames https://github.com/joeeames https://thinkster.io/ https://reactrally.com https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus https://www.ng-conf.org/ https://twitter.com/loopconf http://www.pluralsight.com/author/joe-eames https://www.facebook.com/adventuresinangular https://twitter.com/angularpodcast https://www.frameworksummit.com/ https://conf.reactjs.org/ Dev Ed Podcast Picks Joe Eames: Gizmo Board Game Chronicles of Crime Board Game Deep Space D-6 Board Game https://boardgamegeek.com/ Charles Max Wood: Villainous Board Game Pandemic Legacy Season 2 Board Game Splendor Board Game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle Board Game Full Article
1 MJS 101: Chris Ferdinandi By Published On :: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Clubhouse CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Chris Ferdinandi Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Chris Ferdinandi, a Senior Front-End Engineer at Mashery. Chris is also a panelist on the podcast JavaScript Jabber and runs Go Make Things. Chris started out his career as in Human Resources, decided he wanted to go into development after he was asked to work on a coding project by his manager and he really enjoyed it. He got his first coding job as an entry level developer after attending a web development conference. Chris authors Vanilla JavaScript Pocket Guides which are short, focused e-books and video courses made for beginners. Links JavaScript Jabber: How To Learn JavaScript When You’re Not a Developer with Chris Ferdinandi Vanilla JavaScript Pocket Guides Go Make Things Chris' GitHub Chris' Twitter Chris' LinkedIn Mashery https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/ Picks Chris Ferdinandi: Accessibility: Back to the Future by Bruce Lawson Ralph Breaks the Internet | Disney Movies Charles Max Wood: Running along San Francisco Bay Marriage Full Article
1 MJS 102: Gil Tayar By Published On :: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Gil Tayar Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Gil Tayar, a Senior Architect at Applitools from Israel. Listen to Gil on the podcast JavaScript Jabber Testing in JavaScript with Gil Tayar. Gil started his developing journey when he was 13 years old. He continued his training during his military service and became an instructor for the PC unit. During this time, he learned and taught C, C++ and Windows. He then started working for Wix before he went onto co-found his own startup. You can listen to Dan Shappir, another developer from Wix that has been a guest on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. During this experience Gil realized he loves the coding side of the business but not the management side. Gil also loves testing and he very much enjoys his work at Applitools. As a Senior Architect in Applitools R&D, he has designed and built Applitools' Rendering Service. Links JavaScript Jabber: Testing in JavaScript with Gil Tayar JavaScript Jabber: “Web Performance API” with Dan Shappir Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer WIX Gil’s LinkedIn Gil’s Twitter Gil’s Medium Applitools Kubernetes https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/ Picks Gil Tayar: The Polish German War The Great War 1919 Channel Peaky Blinders My Struggle (Knausgård novels) Charles Max Wood: The MFCEO Project Podcast - Andy Frisella The #AskGaryVee Show podcast! - Gary Vaynerchuk A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Full Article
1 MJS 103: Isaac Schlueter By Published On :: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Isaac Schlueter Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Isaac Schlueter, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at NPM. Listen to Isaac’s journey as a developer on the podcast My Java Story on this episode and on the podcast My Angular Story on this episode. Isaac recently switched roles from Chief Executive Officer to Chief Product Officer, he explains the reasoning behind this switch. He talks about NPM Enterprise and its value proposition. He talks about projects he is working on currently and also the future of NPM. He also talks about the current available positions at NPM, both in Oakland, CA and remote. Links My JavaScript Story Isaac Schlueter My Angular Story Isaac Schlueter JavaScript Jabber Node & NPM with Isaac Schlueter Isaac's Twitter NPM's Twitter NPM's blog NPM website https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/ Picks Isaac Schlueter: Ink Umbrella Academy Netflix I Love Hue Do By Friday Charles Max Wood: The Expanse (TV Series) The Travelers (TV Series) Podfest Multimedia Expo Netlify Eleventy We're Alive Charles’ Personal Blog Full Article
1 JSJ 361: Enough with the JS Already with Nicholas Zakas By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit CacheFly Panel AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Chris Ferdinandi Joined by Special guest: Nicholas Zakas Summary Nicholas Zakas discusses the overuse of JavaScript and the underuse of HTML and CSS. The panel contemplates the talk Nicholas Zakas gave 6 years ago about this very same topic and how this is still a problem in the development community. Nicholas expounds on the negative effects overusing Javascript has on web applications and the things that using HTML and CSS do really well. The panel talks about the need for simplicity and using the right tool to build applications. Nicholas recommends the methods he uses to build greenfield applications and to improve existing applications. Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li4Y0E_x8zE https://www.slideshare.net/nzakas/enough-withthejavascriptalready https://twitter.com/slicknet https://humanwhocodes.com/ https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber https://twitter.com/JSJabber Picks Chris Ferdinandi: The Umbrella Academy Official Trailer https://github.com/features/actions AJ O’Neal: Jurassic Park Terminator 2 E6000 adhesive Aimee Knight: https://www.reebok.com/us/reebok-legacy-lifter/BD4730.html https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation Charles Max Wood: https://podfestexpo.com/ http://charlesmaxwood.com/ https://www.11ty.io/ https://www.netlify.com/ Joe Eames: https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/blog-article/5905-tom-straw-the-author-behind-castle Richard Castle books https://vanillajslist.com/ Nicholas Zakas: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz https://opencollective.com/eslint Full Article
1 MJS 104: Ethan Brown By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Ethan Brown Summary Ethan Brown shares his story starting with his homeschooling days and getting into programming. He started selling commercial software through his dad’s company at age 16. At age 17 he was recruited for a programming job and moved to New Jersey. Ethan and Charles discuss getting university degrees, whether or not to get them and share their experiences at university. Ethan talks about getting into javascript, what he has done in the Javascript community, and his experience giving talks at conferences. They discuss what the stack looks like for Ethan's company, Value Management Strategies, and what Ethan is currently working on. Ethan ends the episode by talking about one turning point in his career. Links Web Development with Node and Express: Leveraging the JavaScript Stack by Ethan Brown https://vms-inc.com/ http://automerge.com/ https://ant.design/ https://twitter.com/EthanRBrown Picks Charles Max Wood: https://andyfrisella.com/products/the-power-list-daily-planner/ Audiograms https://wavve.co/ https://snappa.com/ Ethan Brown https://cooperpress.com/ https://regexcrossword.com/ Full Article
1 MJS 105: Brian Woodward By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Brian Woodward Summary Brian Woodward shares his programming story starting at 7 or 8 messing around on his dad's computer and getting a degree in computer science. Brian discusses his journey through technologies and why he decided to work with JavaScript. Brian discloses his struggle with deciding what to do as a programmer and his decision to get a business degree. Today Brian is the co-founder of Sellside, he discusses their tools and stack and what they are currently working on. Links https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/098-jsj-assemble-io-with-brian-woodward-and-jon-schlinkert/ https://github.com/enquirer/enquirer https://github.com/generate/generate https://github.com/assemble/assemble https://github.com/verbose/verb https://github.com/update/update https://twitter.com/doowb https://github.com/doowb https://doowb.com Picks Brain Woodward: https://www.cypress.io/ https://github.com/jonschlinkert/maintainers-guide-to-staying-positive https://github.com/jonschlinkert/idiomatic-contributing https://github.com/jonschlinkert/guide-to-staying-productive http://www.toastmasters.org/ Charles Max Wood: https://www.instagram.com/charlesmaxwood/ https://problogger.com/31-days-to-build-a-better-blog-course/ Full Article
1 MJS 107: Dan Fernandez By Published On :: Tue, 14 May 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Dan Fernandez Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Dan Fernandez, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. Listen to Dan on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. Dan went to a programming camp and fell in love with programming. He majored in Computer Science in college and started working for IBM upon graduation. Listen to the show for Dan’s journey into programming and much more! Links JavaScript Jabber 241: Microsoft Docs with Dan Fernandez Dan’s Twitter Dan's LinkedIn https://twitter.com/JSJabber https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber Picks Dan Fernandez: Microstang: Microsoft helps build a custom Mustang packed with Windows 8 and Kinect JavaScript Jabber 347: JAMstack with Divya Sasidharan & Phil Hawksworth Full Article
1 MJS 108: Dan Shappir By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 21 May 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Dan Shappir Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Dan Shappir from Tel Aviv, Israel, who is a computer software developer and performance specialist at Wix. Listen to Dan on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. Dan got a TI-99/4 when he was very young and enjoyed programming games. He first started with Basic language. After he studied Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined the Israel army to serve his military service. While in the military he also obtained his Masters Degree in Computer Science. Currently Dan is working as a Performance Tech Lead at Wix, he works on speeding up the delivery and execution of 50+ million websites hosted on the Wix platform, as well as Wix own applications and services. Links JavaScript Jabber 334: “Web Performance API” with Dan Shappir Dan Shappir’s Twitter Dan Shappir’s LinkedIn Dan Shappir’s Crunch Base Dan Shappir’s GitHub Dan Shappir’s Talk through Fluent Dan Shappir’s Medium Wix Dan Shappir’s YouTube Talk: JavaScript riddles for fun and profit https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks Dan Shappir: Open Source Functional JavaScript Library Dan's JavaScript Riddles on Twitter Dan's JavaScript Riddles in Conference Talk Wix Engineering Blog Charles Max Wood: VDOT O2 Charles Max Wood Instagram Account Full Article
1 MJS 109: James Shore By Published On :: Tue, 28 May 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: James Shore Episode Summary James Shore, the author of the book, “The Art of Agile Development” and a thought leader in the Agile software development community, talks about his journey in Agile development. James and Charles discuss how Agile has transformed software development process and the traits that a good software developer should have. James talks about his contributions to the developer community, his CSS testing tool quixote and the Agile Fluency Project. Links JavaScript Jabber 360: Evolutionary Design with James Shore JavaScript Jabber 349: Agile Development – The Technical Side with James Shore My Angular Story 061: James Shore The Art Of Agile Development By James Shore James Shore’s Website James Shore Twitter James Shore’s GitHub https://www.agilefluency.org/ Agile Fluency Join The Conversation https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks James Shore: Neil Killick Twitter http://vihart.com Charles Max Wood: ng-conf Ready Player One (2018) Full Article
1 MJS 110: Phil Hawksworth By Published On :: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Phil Hawksworth Episode Summary Currently the Head of Developer Relations at Netlify, Phil has been a developer for 20 years. Even though he was interested in computers from an early age, he started studying Civil Engineering in university before changing course and switching to Computer Science. Though he didn't particularly enjoy studying Computer Science, he really liked working with HTML where he didn't have to compile any code and that's when he started thinking about a career in web development. Phil talks about his favorite projects he has worked on using JAMstack and JavaScript. He works remotely out of London, UK and as head of developer relations he spends a lot of time traveling for conferences for work. He doesn't have a 'typical' work day, but when he is not traveling for work he enjoys catching up on conversations on Slack and Twitter about JAMstack and collaborating with the rest of is team in San Francisco. Links JavaScript Jabber 347: JAMstack with Divya Sasidharan & Phil Hawksworth Eleventy JAMstack Phil’s Medium Phil's Twitter Phil's GitHub Phil's LinkedIn Phil's Website https://www.thenewdynamic.org/ Netlify https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber https://twitter.com/JSJabber https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks Phil Hawksworth: Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity Charles Max Wood: EverywhereJS JavaScript Community Full Article
1 MJS 111: Anatoliy Zaslavskiy By Published On :: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Anatoliy Zaslavskiy Episode Summary Anatoliy Zaslavskiy has been interested in computers since he was 7 years old, and began his programming career in high school, doing web development in PHP for the online community for his favorite show Avatar: The Last Airbender. Anatoliy currently works for Hover as a Frontend developer transforming home photos into 3D models to help visualize what the final project will look like. Anatoliy shares his journey as a developer with bipolar disorder and tells us how he restructured his career with his employer so he can focus on projects that he enjoys working on. This way he performs at his best and both him and Hover can benefit from his talents. Anatoliy and Charles stress the importance for companies to talk to their developers to understand their nature as both parties benefit from open and honest dialogue. Links JavaScript Jabber 358: Pickle.js, Tooling, and Developer Happiness with Anatoliy Zaslavskiy Anatoliy's Website Anatoliy's Facebook Anatoliy's LinkedIn https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber https://twitter.com/JSJabber https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks Anatoliy Zaslavskiy: XState - JavaScript State Machines and Statecharts Nozbe/WatermelonDB: High-performance reactive database Monorepo Charles Max Wood: https://www.twitch.tv/ OBS: Open Broadcaster Software Full Article
1 MJS 113: Sarah Dayan By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Sarah Dayan Episode Summary Sarah Dayan is a Frontend Software Engineer working for Algolia in Paris. She is also the author of Dinero.js which was the result of a production bug they discovered in JavaScript. Sarah first got introduced to computers when she was a child. She spent hours playing on her grandmother's computer with dial-up internet. At age 15, she created her first HTML website. Sarah and Charles discuss the evolution of front-end development. Listen to the show to find out more about Sarah's journey as a front-end developer and the projects she is working on now. Links JavaScript Jabber 351: Dinero.js with Sarah Dayan Sarah's Twitter Sarah's GitHub Sarah's Medium Dinero.js https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber https://twitter.com/JSJabber https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks Sarah Dayan: Zdog Library Dear White People TV Series Mass Effect Trilogy for PC Charles Max Wood: Taking a roadtrip Hotels.com Velocity 2019 Food Fight Show Netlify Dev Full Article
1 JSJ 371: The Benefits and Challenges of Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with Dan Shappir By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit CacheFly Panel Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Christopher Buecheler Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Joined by special guest: Dan Shappir Episode Summary In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, special guest Dan Shappir, Performance Tech Lead at Wix, kicks off the discussion by defining server-side rendering (SSR) along with giving its historical background, and touches on the differences between server rendering and server-side rendering. He helps listeners understand in detail how SSR is beneficial for the web and takes questions from the panel about how it affects web performance in cases where first-time users and returning users are involved, and how does SSR fare against technologies such as pre-rendering. He then elaborates on the pitfalls and challenges of SSR including managing and declaring variables, memory leaks, performance issues, handling SEO, and more, along with ways to mitigate them. In the end, Dan sheds some light on when should developers use SSR and how should they start working with it. Links Dan’s Twitter Dan’s GitHub SSR WeakMap Follow JavaScript Jabber on Devchat.tv, Facebook and Twitter. Picks Christopher Buecheler: Tip - Take some time off once in a while Aimee Knight: Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects AJ O’Neal: Fatherhood! Joe Eames: Tiny Towns The Goldbergs Charles Max Wood: EverywhereJS Christopher Buecheler’s books Get a Coder Job - Publishing soon! Dan Shappir: Quora Corvid by Wix You Gotta Love Frontend Conferences Full Article
1 MJS 114: Christian Heilmann By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Christian Heilmann Episode Summary Christian is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, working out of Berlin, Germany. Links JavaScript Jabber 332: “You Learned JavaScript, Now What?” with Chris Heilmann https://christianheilmann.com/ Christian's Twitter Christian's LinkedIn Christian's Medium Christian's GitHub https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber https://twitter.com/JSJabber https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks Christian Heilmann: https://webhint.io/ http://csstricks.com/ https://dev.to/ https://codepen.io/ Microsoft Edge Insider Charles Max Wood: Privacy Badger - Google Chrome Emacs Adventures in DevOps - new podcast on https://devchat.tv/ Full Article
1 MJS 115: Noam Rosenthal By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Noam Rosenthal Episode Summary Noam has recently started offering his services and experiences independently after 20 hands-on years in the software industry. His most recent position was as a Software Architect working on the Wix Editor at Wix, an Israeli cloud-based web development platform. Noam was first introduced to programming at the age of seven when he started creating games in Pascal language. He then went onto learn HTML. Charles and Noam talk about how the programming community has changed over the years and how it is a lot easier to access knowledge today. On how to improve as a developer, Noam recommends not staying in the comfort zone of the job description and doing as many volunteer projects as possible. Noam is also a musician and he plays base in Lost Highways music band. When he isn't coding he is busy producing the songs for their new upcoming album with his band. Links Noam's LinkedIn Noam's Twitter Noam's Medium Rack Rust Language TensorFlow Shadertoy Lost Highways Ultimate Guitar Tabs https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber https://twitter.com/JSJabber https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks Noam Rosenthal: For developers working with JavaScript - learn another language such as Rust Language TensorFlow Shadertoy Learn to play an instrument Ultimate Guitar Tabs Do volunteer projects and do not stay in the comfort zone of work Charles Max Wood: Cibola Burn The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Book by John M. Gottman and Nan Silver OBS: Open Broadcaster Software Full Article
1 MJS 116: Jeremy Fairbank By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Jeremy Fairbank Episode Summary Jeremy is a Software Developer at Test Double and the author of Programming Elm book. Even though Jeremy majored in Chemistry in college, he was always interested in programming since middle school. After he graduated from college he went to work as a web developer at Plastic Industries and relied on blog posts and other online resources to teach himself how to code. Gradually as the company’s needs changed, Jeremy transitioned into an application developer. He taught himself JavaScript using the book Professional JavaScript for Web Developers . He then attented a Coursera classto learn on principles of functional programming and gained experience with many front end frameworks and libraries, including Elm, React, Redux, Backbone.js, and Marionette.js. Jeremy is based out of Hawaii and when he isn't coding, he spends his time playing his guitar and hiking and going to the beach with his family. Links JSJ 325: Practical functional programming in JavaScript and languages like Elm with Jeremy Fairbank Jeremy’s GitHub Jeremy's LinkedIn Jeremy’s Blog Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas C. Zakas Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Matt Frisbie https://knockoutjs.com/ https://marionettejs.com/ https://www.coursera.org/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages elm-lang.org https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber https://twitter.com/JSJabber https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks Jeremy Fairbank: Programming Elm The Umbrella Academy Beyond Burger Charles Max Wood: Orphan Black https://devchat.tv/ https://www.netlify.com/ https://www.11ty.io/ https://github.com/cmaxw/devchat-eleventy JavaScript Jabber - Devchat.tv Full Article
1 MJS 117: The Devchat.tv Mission and Journey with Charles Max Wood By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Episode Summary Charles talks about his journey as a podcaster and his mission with Devchat.tv. Devchat.tv is designed to home podcasts that speak to all developer communities. Charles also plans Devchat.tv to host shows for technologies that are on the verge of a breakthrough and will be a lot more widely available in the near future such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). There are new shows being added continuously to reach out to new communities, some examples of which are: a Data Science show, a DevOps show and an Open Source show. As a kid, Charles would record his own shows on a tape recorder. He was always interested in technology. While studying Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, he worked in the University's Operations Center. Upon graduation, he started working for Mozy where he was introduced to podcasts. Listen to the show to find out the rest of Charles' story, some of the lessons and tips he learned throughout his journey and the evolution of the shows on Devchat.tv. If there isn't a show for your community and you would like there one to be, reach out to Charles. Also if there was a podcast about a programming related subject that ended abruptly and you would like it to continue, reach out to Charles. Devchat.tv would like to host these podcasts. Links Charles' Twitter EverywhereJS JavaScript Community EverywhereRB Ruby and Rails Community Find Your Dream Job As A Developer Devchat.tv on Facebook Devchat.tv Picks EverywhereJS JavaScript Community EverywhereRB Ruby and Rails Community Netlify Eleventy https://github.com/cmaxw/devchat-eleventy Full Article
1 JSJ 381: Building a Personal Brand with John Sonmez By devchat.tv Published On :: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for $100 credit RxJS Live Panel Charles Max Wood Christopher Beucheler AJ O’Neal With Special Guest: John Somnez Episode Summary John is the founder of Bulldog Mindset andSimple Programmer, which teaches software developers soft skills, and the author of a couple books. He specializes in creating a personal brand and marketing. He addresses the rumors of him leaving software development and gives an introduction to marketing yourself as a software developer and its importance. The panel discusses their experience with consulting and how marketing themselves has paid off. John talks about the importance of having soft skills. In his opinion, the most important soft skills for programmers are communication, persuasion and influence, people skills and charisma. He talks about highlight those soft skills. The truth is, more and more people are hiring for people skills rather than technical skills. The panel discusses more about the importance of people skills. John talks about ways to build your personal brand. One of the easiest ways is blogging but he talks about other methods like podcasts YouTube, writing books, and others. A key to building a personal brand is choosing something that you can become the best at, no matter how small it is. The panel shares their experiences of what things have gotten them attention and notoriety and talk about how other influential programmers got famous. They talk about interacting with central platforms like Medium and Github. Building a personal brand for software developers is the same as any other personal brand, such as having a consistent message, consistent logos and color schemes, and repeated exposure). Most people in the software world aren’t willing to do what’s necessary to build a personal brand, so it makes you stand out when you do it. John talks about the importance of controlling your image so that companies want to hire you. John gives a brief overview of his course How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer. Click here to cast your vote NOW for JavaScript Jabber - Best Dev Podcast Award Links John Somnez’s books Data Grid Girl Follow JavaScript Jabber on Facebook and Twitter Picks Charles Max Wood: To Sell is Human How to Win Friends and Influence People John Somnez: Follow John at bulldogmindset.com and simpleprogrammer.com The Little Book of Stoicism Training Peaks Christopher Beucheler: Strasborg, France AJ O’Neal Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Parallels Cam Slide Full Article
1 MJS 118: Aaron Frost By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly A $100 discount for RxJS Live tickets for all listeners with the code "chuckforlife" Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Aaron Frost Episode Summary Aaron Frost joins Charles to talk about what Observables are and why developers should learn about them and use them in their code. He explains the difference between Observables, Promises and Callbacks with an example. Aaron then invites all listeners to attend the upcoming RxJS Live Conference and introduces the impressive speaker line-up. The conference will take place on September 5-6 in Las Vegas and tickets are still available. Aaron also offers a $100 discount to all listeners with the code "chuckforlife". For any questions you can DM Aaron on his Twitter account. Links RxJS Live Conference RxJS Conference Tickets Aaron's Twitter Full Article
1 MJS 119: Jeffrey Meyerson By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Ruby Rogues React Native Radio CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Jeffrey Meyerson Episode Summary Jeffrey Meyerson, founder of FindCollabs and host at Software Engineering Daily joins Charles Max Wood for a discussion about latest trends in developer world, ways of monetizing podcasts and finding ads for podcasts.Jeffrey shares how he started hosts podcasts and how he became a developer. Jeffrey's journey as a developer started out with his interest through music and poker. They compare advertising through sponsoring a booth in a conference versus advertising through a podcast. Tune in for a fun chat that covers everything from Keto dieting to software buzz words. Links Jeffrey's LinkedIn https://www.secretsofsongwriting.com/ https://www.hooktheory.com/ FindCollabs Software Media with Charles Max Wood Picks Charles Max Wood #75Hard Jeffrey Meyerson Owning a Rice Cooker Full Article
1 MJS 120: Thomas Grassl By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Ruby Rogues React Native Radio CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Thomas Grassl Episode Summary Thomas Grassl from SAP joins Charles Max Wood at OSCON to talk about what SAP is doing in the Open Source world. Thomas talks about SAP's recently released a UI5 Web Components. Charles wonders how the components will work with different frameworks and Thomas explains UI5 Web Components are HTML components and they should be used how regular HTML components are used. UI5 Web Components is Open Source so Thomas expects contributions from the Open Source community. Thomas then talks about UI5 Web Components' enterprise-ready functionality and scalability features as well as the security and accessibility aspects. They then talk about Thomas' position as Developer Relations in SAP and what it entails. Thomas then talks about the career opportunities that comes with customization on the enterprise scale. Finally Charles and Thomas talk about how SAP approaches developer relations and what developers should do if they would like to contribute to SAP Open Source project. Links UI5 Web Components- SAP Thomas' LinkedIn Thomas' Twitter Open Source & Software Development| O'Reilly OSCON SAP Open Source | Developer Full Article
1 MJS 121: Sam Selikoff By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Ruby Rogues React Native Radio CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Sam Selikoff Episode Summary Sam Selikoff, Co-Founder at EmberMap shares his journey of how he became a developer. Sam was an Economics major in college and he really loved the theory of economics. When he graduated, he started working as a consultant and while working with data for statistical analysis he found that he enjoyed working with SQL and that how he started his developing career. Sam explains why he prefers Ember.js framework to other frameworks. He also talks about the projects he is working on currently. Apart from coding Sam enjoys reading economics books and playing music with his family. He shares some of his favorite books to read on the Theory Of Economics. Links JSJ 364: Ember Octane with Sam Selikoff EmberMap Podcast Sam's Twitter Picks Charles Max Wood Podcast Movement Sam Selikoff UPLIFT Desk Midsommar Movie Full Article
1 JSJ 389: What Makes a 10x Engineer? By devchat.tv Published On :: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sustain Our Software Sentry– use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Adventures in Blockchain Panel Charles Max Wood Episode Summary In today’s show, Chuck talks about the recent tweet thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is. Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is also impossible to measure a truly average engineer because there are many factors that play into measuring productivity. Chuck turns the discussion to what a 10x engineer is to him and how to find one. A 10x engineer is dependent on the organization that they are a part of, because they are not simply found, they are made. When a 10x engineer is added to a team, the productivity of the entire team increases. Employers have to consider firstly what you need in your team and how a person would fit in. You want to avoid changing the entire culture of your organization. Consider also that a 10x engineer may be hired as a 2x engineer, but it is the employer that turns them into a 10x engineer. Overall, Chuck believes these tweets are asinine because it’s impossible to measure what makes a 10x engineer in the first place, and hiring a person that fits the attributes in the list would be toxic to your company. Links 10x engineer twitter thread Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter Picks Charles Max Wood: Copyhackers.com Good to Great by Jim Collins Keto diet Podcast Movement Full Article
1 MJS 122: Rachel Roumeliotis and Roger Magoulas By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Episode Summary Rachel Roumeliotis and Roger Magoulas from O'Reilly Media join Charles Max Wood at OSCON to talk about the process of content development for OSCON. Rachel is the Vice President of Content Strategy at O'Reilly and Roger is Vice President of Radar at O'Reilly. Rachel and Roger talk about the history of OSCON Conference as well as the key technologies they wanted to cover this year such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cloud-Native applications. They then talk about the future of OSCON and the highlights they wat to cover next year such as security. Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Adventures in DevOps Adventures in Blockchain CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guests: Rachel Roumeliotis and Roger Magoulas Links Rachel's LinkedIn Roger's LinkedIn Open Source & Software Development| O'Reilly OSCON O'Reilly Radar O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training Full Article
1 JSJ 391: Debugging with Todd Gardner By devchat.tv Published On :: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Episode Summary Todd Gardner is a software developer, podcaster on the show Script and Style, startup founder, and comedy host for Pub Conf, a ‘comedy after party for developers’. Since he was last on the show 6 years ago, he has seen his startup TrackJS become quite successful. TrackJS is a JavaScript error monitoring service which gives you visibility into your client side experience. It’s different from other tools because focused on simplicity, so you’ll never need a guy on your team dedicated solely to TrackJS because everyone can use it. The panel begins by talking about debugging methods and tools. Some rely solely on the debugger built into their platform while others prefer to use a third party service. They discuss the necessity of using a third party debugger and if there are better solutions than just the built in debugger. They then discuss what to do after you’ve fixed a bug, such as if it is necessary to write a test to make sure it was completely fixed They talk about things to do to make debugging more effective. Todd and Aimee believe that code needs to begin by being designed for debug-ability. The panel discusses issues with invisible boundaries encountered while debugging, such as running out of memory. They talk about ways to mitigate issues that happen outside of your code base. Todd talks about the dangers of ad-blockers, and the panel agrees that it is important to consider how your website will be crippled by the user’s own technology. The end user in a production environment will have a different experience than you did writing it on a professional computer. Todd talks about the difference between debugging for the web versus a mobile application. Todd has encountered particular problems with debugging on a remote device, and he talks about how he solved the issue. The show concludes with Todd giving a quick elevator pitch for TrackJS Panelists Chris Ferdinandi Christopher Buecheler Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Steve Emmrich With special guest: Todd Gardner Sponsors Adventures in Blockchain Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan React Round Up Links Track JS (free trial available) Script and Style podcast PubConf Console.log Blackbox for Firefox and Chrome Redux lager Remote JS Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter Picks Christopher Buecheler: React/TypeScript cheat sheet Chris Ferdinandi: Pokemon Brawl Space Invaders game Gomakethings.com newsletter Aimee Knight: TechLead Youtube channel Charles Max Wood: Atomic Habits Getting up at 4 am Steve Emmrich: Trello Babushkas and grandmas to help you with your newborn Todd Gardner: PubConf Follow Todd @toddhgardner or todd.mn Full Article
1 MJS 123: Nick Basile By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Episode Summary My JavaScript Story this week meets with Nick Basile, UX instructor at Lambda School from Austin, TX. Nick talks about how much he enjoys working with Laravel and Vue as well as his journey as a developer. Upon graduating from university in Switzerland with a degree in Economics, he started working for two start-ups doing UX/UI design. He then wanted to be able to build UI as well so he taught himself JavaScript and HTML. He then got a job as a front-end developer to further develop his skills. Charles makes a comment about how many developers don't have a Computer Science Degrees. Nick then talks about how he got into Laravel and Vue and also how he started working for Lambda. They briefly discuss Lambda's business model and Nick's approach to teaching. Finally Nick talks about how he spends his life outside work in Austin, which nowadays involves looking after his 4-month old daughter. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Nick Basile Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Adventures in DevOps Adventures in BlockChain CacheFly Links VoV 008: Getting Started with TDD on Vue.js with Nick Basile Nick's LinkedIn Lambda School Nick's Twitter https://nick-basile.com/ https://laravel-news.com/the-10-best-laravel-podcasts Picks Charles Max Wood: SEMrush SEO Tools https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/ ActiveCampaign Nick Basile: How It Actually Works Tailwind CSS Going Back to the Gym Full Article
1 MJS 124: Daniel Gruesso By devchat.tv Published On :: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 06:00:00 -0400 This episode of My JavaScript Story is coming to you live from OSCON. Joining Charles Max Wood is Daniel Gruesso from GitLab to talk about developing in the Open Source and the Developer Report. GitLab works with an open core model, Daniel talks about the trade - offs of having code open to public, the first of which is having everything up-to-date so any contributions made will work with the latest version. Daniel calls this the "bus-factor" where if one of the team members gets hit by a bus, the rest of the team will have everything to work with. They then talk about the GitLab 2019 Global Developer Report results. One of the most interesting results of this survey with over 4,000 respondents, was that remote teams outperformed on site teams. This ties into the current Twitter discussion about "10x Performing Engineers". Remote teams are able to work on their own most productive hours and are not disturbed by their teammates when they are doing dedicated work on a deadline. Also remote teams by nature have to be more conscious of security. Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Adventures in DevOps Adventures in Blockchain CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Daniel Gruesso Links Daniel's LinkedIn GitLab Open Source & Software Development| O'Reilly OSCON GitLab 2019 Global Developer Report | GitLab 10x Engineer Twitter Full Article
1 MJS 125: Dan Pastori By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0400 In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles talks to Dan Pastori, Co-Founder, Software Architect at 521 Dimensions. Charles asks about Dan's average day and what his life looks like before diving into his coding journey. Dan talks about how he got into web development. Dan taught himself PHP and JavaScript. Charles talks about the Views on Vue episode Dan was on VoV 012: Re-using VueJS Mixins and Filtering Google Map Data with Dan Pastori, and wants to know how Dan got into Vue. Dan compares learning times of Vue and Angular and mentions he learned Vue in a week as opposed to the months he spent learning Angular. Dan talks about his involvement in the Vue community and the future of Vue as well as the projects he is currently working on. Dan then talks about his future projects and plans. They finish off with picks. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Dan Pastori Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Adventures in DevOps Adventures in Blockchain CacheFly Links VoV 012: Re-using VueJS Mixins and Filtering Google Map Data with Dan Pastori Dan's LinkedIn https://github.com/521dimensions/amplitudejs 521 Dimensions https://avotoast.app/ https://github.com/521dimensions https://serversideup.net Dan's Twitter Picks Dan Pastori: Clean Code by Robert C. Martin The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by Cherie Mason and J. Kenji López-Alt Charles Max Wood: Headliner App Full Article
1 JSJ 398: Node 12 with Paige Niedringhaus By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Guest Paige Niedringhaus has been a developer full time for 3 years, and today she is here to talk about Node 12. One of the things she is most excited about is the ES6 support that is now available, so things that used to require React, Angular, or Vue can now be done in Node. The require function will not have to be used in Node 12. AJ is worried about some of these changes and expresses his concerns. Paige assures him that in the beginning you won’t have to switch things to imports. You may have to change file extensions/types so Node can pick up what it’s supposed to be using. They are also trying to make it compatible with CommonJS. Node 12 also boasts an improved startup time. The panel discusses what specifically this means. They talk about the code cache and how Node caches the built in libraries that it comes prepackaged with. The V8 engine is also getting many performance enhancements. Paige talks about the shift from promises to async. In Node 12, async functions will actually be faster than promises. They discuss some of the difficulties they’ve had in the past with Async08, and especially callbacks. Another feature of Node 12 is better security. The transcripted security layer (TLS), which is how Node handles encrypted strains of communication, is upgrading to 1.3. The protocol is simpler to implement, quicker to negotiate sessions between the applications, provides increased end user privacy, and reduces request time. Overall, this means less latency for everybody. 1.3 also gets rid of the edge cases that caused TLS to be way far slower than it needed to be. The conversation turns to properly configuring default heap limits to prevent an ‘out of memory’ error. Configuring heap limits is something necessary when constructing an incredibly large object or array of objects. Node 12 also offers formatted diagnostic summaries, which can include information on total memory, used memory, memory limits, and environment lags. It can report on uncaught exceptions and fatal errors. Overall, Node 12 is trying to help with the debugging process. They talk about the different parsers available and how issues with key pairing in Node have been solved. Paige talks about using worker threads in Node 12. Worker threads are really beneficial for CPU intensive JavaScript operations. Worker threads are there for those things that eat up all of your memory, they can alleviate the load and keep your program running efficiently while doing their own operations on the sideline, and returning to the main thread once they’ve finished their job. None of the panelists have really used worker threads, so they discuss why that is and how they might use Worker Threads in Node 12. In addition, Node 12 is making Native module creation and support easier, as well as all the different binaries a node developer would want to support. Paige makes it a point to mention the new compiler and minimum platform standards. They are as follows: GCC minimum 6 GLIVC minimum 2.17 on platforms other than Mac and Windows (Linux) Mac users need at least 8 and Mac OS 10.10 If you’ve been running node 11 builds in Windows, you’re up to speed Linux binaries supported are Enterprise Linux 7, Debian 8, and Ubuntu 14.04 If you have different requirements, go to the Node website Panelists J.C. Hyatt Steve Edwards AJ O’Neal With special guest: Paige Niedringhaus Sponsors Tidelift Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Sustain Our Software Links Async CommonJS njs Promise Node Event Stream llhttp llparse LLVM Papa Parse Json.stringify Json.parse Optimizing Web Performance TLS 1.3 Overlocking SSL Generate Keypair Follow DevChatTV on Facebook and Twitter Picks J.C. Hyatt: AWS Amplify framework 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Petersen React and Gatsby workshops Steve Edwards: The Farside comic coming back? AJ O’Neal: Field of Hopes and Strings Link’s Awakening Dune Paige Niedringhaus: DeLonghi Magnifica XS Automatic Espresso Machine, Cappuccino Maker CONNECT.TECH Conference Follow Paige on Twitter, Medium, and Github Full Article
1 MJS 126: Eduardo San Martin Morote By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0400 In this episode of My JavaScript Story is Charles talks to Eduardo San Martin Morote. Eduardo is a freelance developer, a core team member of Vue.js, and loves contributing to open source. Eduardo started web development with games. He then majored in Computer Science and Mathematics. Eduardo works as a freelancer so he can work on Open Source projects in his free time. One of the problems he draws attention to is the sustainability of Open Source Projects. The developers that maintain the projects on Open Source are not funded, and even though many companies use Open Source code they don't have sponsor it even though they have the financial means to do so. Charles Max Wood recommends another podcast Devchat.tv hosts, Sustain Our Software that addresses this problem among others for Open Source. Eduardo and Charles talk about characters that have accents that have to be encoded and how they deal with this problem. Eduardo then talks about some of the projects he is working on currently with Vue.js. Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Adventures in Blockchain Adventures in DevOps CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Eduardo San Martin Morote Links VoV 038: Webassembly and Typescript with Eduardo San Martin Morote VoV 010: “Vue Libraries, Open Source, Meetups” with Eduardo San Martin Morote Eduardo's LİnkedIn Eduardo's Twitter J2EE jQuery Picks Eduardo San Martin Morote Tajin Eduardo's GitHub Charles Max Wood Subscribers Subscribe to your favorite podcast on Devchat.tv https://canny.io Suggest a Topic or a Guest for your Favorite Podcast on Devchat.tv by clicking on Suggest A Topic Or Guest Full Article
1 MJS 127: Thorsten Lünborg By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0400 In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles talks to Thorsten Lünborg. Thorsten is a Business Service Manager at MVV Energy Solutions from Frankfurt Germany. Charles asks about Thorsten's developer journey in particular how he was introduced to JavaScript. Thorsten is also a core team member for Vue.js and he talks about his involvement with the Vue community. Thorsten mainly focuses on working on Vue CLI and answering questions in forums. He describes the Vue community as a very friendly and helpful one. According to Thorsten, Vue is very stable and seems to satisfy a lot of the needs of Vue community and so people are not looking for the "next best thing" with Vue. Out of all the frameworks i tried to learn, i found Vue was the one that i liked the most and i started answering questions about Vue on the forums. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Thorsten Lünborg Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Sustain Our Software Adventures in DevOps CacheFly Links VoV 060: Our Least Favorite Parts of Vue with An Phan and Thorsten Lunborg VoV 022: How I became a Vue.js core team member without a professional background with Thorsten Luenborg Thorsten's Twitter Picks Thorsten Lünborg Preacher TV Series Borderlands 3 Vue.js London 2019 https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs Charles Max Wood Running a Marathon Honeywell wifi thermometer Full Article
1 JSJ 401: Hasura with Tanmai Gopal By devchat.tv Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Tanmai is one of the founders at Hasura. Hasura gives you instant graphQL APIs on top of a Postgres database. The eventual idea is to make data access secure and easy. Tanmai explains the challenges of doing this in the cloud. He talks about some of the difficulties with the tooling around using GraphQL and its bias towards working well with a monolith. Since GraphQL is basically a shared type system that describes your API, that means all your types need to be in the same code base. This is at odds with the folks who want to do microservices and serverless functions, because since their API is split across multiple services they have different types, and forcing these types to work together defeats the purpose of using microservices. Also, storing state across requests doesn’t work well with serverless and cloud native stuff. In short, learning to live without state is one of the general challenges with going serverless. This is where Hasura comes into play, and Tanmai explains how it works. Hasura is metadata driven, and each instance of the server can leverage multiple calls and exhibit a high amount of concurrency. It’s designed to be a little more CPU bound than memory bound, which means that configuring auto scaling on it is very easy and allows you to utilize the elasticity of cloud native applications. Tanmai clarifies his usage of the word ‘cloud native’, by which he means microservices. He explains that when you have a metadata based engine, this metadata has a language that allows you to bring to bring in types from multiple upstream microservices, and create a coherent graphQL API on top of that. Hasura is a middle man between the microservices and the consumer that converts multiple types into a single coherent graphQL API. Next, Tanmai explains how Hasura handles data fetching and a high volume of requests. They also invented PostgresQL, RLS-like semantics within Hasura. He explains the process for merging your microservices into a single graphQL interface. Back on data fetching, Tanmai explains that when the product is an app, preventing an overabundance of queries becomes easier because during one of the staging processes that they have, they extract all of the queries that the app is actually making, and in the production version it only allows the queries that it has seen before. Hasura is focused on both the public interface and private use cases, though private is slightly better supported. Tanmai talks about the customizations available with Hasura. Hasura supports two layers. One is an aliasing layer that lets you rename tables, columns, etc as exposed by PostgresQL. The other is a computer column, so that you can add computer columns so you can extend the type that you get from a data model, and then you can point that to something that you derive. The panelist discusses the common conception of why it is a bad idea to expose the data models to the frontend folks directly. They discuss the trend of ‘dumbing down’ available tooling to appeal to junior developers, at the cost of making the backend more complicated. They talk about some of the issues that come from this, and the importance of tooling to solve this concern. Finally, Tanmai talks about the reasons to use Hasura over other products. There are 2 technologies that help with integrating arbitrary data sources. First is authorization grammar, their version of RLS that can extend to any system of types and relationships, The second is the data wrapper, part of the compiler that compiles from the graphQL metadata AST to the actual SQL AST. That is a generic interface, so anyone can come in and plug in a Haskell module that has that interface and implement a backend compiler for a native query language. This allows us to plug in other sources and stitch microservices together. The show concludes with Tanmai talking about their choice to use Haskell to make Hasura. Panelists AJ O’Neal Dan Shapir Steve Edwards Charles Max Wood With special guest: Tanmai Gopal Sponsors Adventures in DevOps Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan The Dev Ed Podcast Links Hasura Haskell Node.js Cloud Native Microservices PostGraphile Postgres PostgresQL RLS Swagger JAMstack Soap Rest Follow DevChatTV on Facebook and Twitter Picks AJ O’Neal: The Economic Singularity Capital Cities GameCube Homebrew Dan Shapir: Romania JSCamp Steve Edwards: Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders Charles Max Wood: Maxcoders.io TripIt St. George Marathon VO2 Max app Tanmai Gopal: Follow Tanmai on Twitter @tanmaigo Broken Earth Trilogy The Three-Body Problem graphQL Asia Full Article
1 MJS 128: Mike Hartington By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0400 In this episode of My JavaScript Story is Charles talks to Mike Hartington. Mike Hartington is a Developer Advocate for Ionic Framework and a Google Developer Expert, but he is most famous in the developer community because of his beard. Charles asks how Mike got introduced to development. Mike tried to code Tic-Tac-Toe and that was a challenge because knowing the rules to the game and trying to tell a computer the rules are two very two different things. Mike then majored in Graphic Design at Rhode Island College, and started learning Flash and ActionScript. Mike talks about what kind of projects he created with Flash and ActionScript and then the process of teaching himself JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Mike Hartington Links Mike's Twitter Ionic Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Adventures in DevOps Adventures in Blockchain CacheFly Picks Mike Hartington Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Trailer Charles Max Wood: Atomic Habits by James Clear Superfans by Pat Flynn Full Article
