02:26 - Aimee Knight Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Message Systems

02:48 - Figure Skating => Programming

• Persistence
• Balance Between Mind and Body

05:03 - Blogging (Aimee’s Blog)

06:02 - Becoming Interested in Programming

• Treehouse
  • @treehouse
• Code School
  • @codeschool
• Rails Girls
  • @railsgirls
• RailsBridge
  • @railsbridge

08:43 - Why Boot Camps?

10:04 - Mentors

• Identifying a Mentor
• Continuing a Mentorship

13:33 - Picking a Boot Camp

16:23 - Self-Teaching Prior to Attending Boot Camps

20:33 - Finding Employment After the Boot Camp

• Baltimore NodeSchool
• Passion
• Interview Prep

26:27 - Being a “Woman in Tech”

30:57 - Better Preparing for Getting Started in Programming

• Be Patient with Yourself

32:07 - Interviews

• Getting to Know Candidates
• Coding Projects and Tests

41:05 - Should you get a four-year degree to be a programmer?

• Eliza Brock

Picks

Aarti Shahani: What Cockroaches With Backpacks Can Do. Ah-mazing (Jamison)
Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences by Leah Silber (Jamison)
The Hiring Post (Jamison)
Kate Heddleston: Argument Cultures and Unregulated Aggression (Jamison)
Axios AJAX Library (Dave)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Dave)
[YouTube] Good Mythical Morning: Our Official Apocalypse (AJ)
Majora's Mask Live Action: The Skull Kid (AJ)
The Westin at Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa (Joe)
Alchemists (Joe)
Valerie Kittel (Joe)
The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (Chuck)
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (Chuck)
Freelancers’ Answers (Chuck)
Drip (Chuck)
Brandon Hays: Letter to an aspiring developer (Aimee)
SparkPost (Aimee)
Exercise and Physical Activity (Aimee)

03:32 - Jeff Morrison Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Facebook

03:46 - Avik Chaudhuri Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• Facebook

04:27 - Flow

• @flowtype
• [GitHub] flow

05:36 - Static Type Checking

• Dynamic vs Static Type Languages

09:52 - Flow and Unit Testing

• Jest

12:39 - Gradual Typing

15:07 - Type Inference

17:50 - Keeping Up with New Features in JavaScript

• Babel

20:49 - Generators

24:46 - Working on Flow

28:27 - Flow vs TypeScript

• Inference Support
• Tony Hoare: Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake

35:41 - Putting the “Java” Back in JavaScript

• Server/Client Overview
• Prototyping

45:26 - Flow and the JavaScript Community

46:43 - React Support

48:39 - Documentation

• gh-pages (link to the docs)
• IRC Channel for Flow: #flowtype on webchat.freenode.net

Picks

Nolan Lawson: We have a problem with promises (Aimee)
Jim 'N Nick's BBQ Restaurant (Aimee)
Frank McSherry: Scalability! But at what COST? (Jamison)
Frank McSherry: Bigger data; same laptop (Jamison)
Greg Wilson: What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True (Jamison)
Marron: Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/HTML Applications (Jeff)
Real World OCaml (Jeff)
Muse (Jeff)
Shtetl-Optimized (Avik)
Chef's Table (Avik)

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02:55 - Gregg Pollack Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Envy Labs
  • @envylabs
• Code School
  • @codeschool  
• Starter Studio

05:19 - Code School

• Rails for Zombies
• Try Ruby

06:49 - Course Content

• Code School Angular.js Courses
• Breaking the Ice with Regular Expressions
• The Fundamentals of Design

09:42 - Plots & Storylines

11:40 - Code School vs Pluralsight

14:09 - Structuring Courses

• Frontend vs Backend
  • Building Blocks of Express.js
  • Real-Time Web with Node.js  
• Security & Sandboxing
  • abecedary
  • Mocha

18:21 - JavaScript.com

• Try jQuery
• Contributing to JavaScript.com
  • Let Us Know
• Try JavaScript
• Resources

22:47 - Designing Exercises & Challenges

• abecedary
• Chai

30:31 - The Future of Online Learning

• Thinkful
• Bloc.io
• AirPair
• HackHands
• Smarterer

34:01 - Teaching Best Practices

Picks

Mr. Robot (Gregg)
#ILookLikeAnEngineer (Aimee)
Why we Need WebAssembly An Interview with Brendan Eich (Aimee)
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (AJ)
Periscope (Chuck)

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02:28 - Forrest Norvell Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

02:37 - Rebecca Turner Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

03:05 - Why npm 3 Exists and Changes in npm 2 => 3

• Debugging
• Life Cycle Ordering
• Deduplication

08:36 - Housekeeping

09:47 - Peer Dependency Changes

• The Singleton Pattern

15:38 - The Rewrite Process and How That Enabled Some of the Changes Coming Out

• CJ Silverio: Npm registry deep dive @ Oneshot Oslo

22:50 - shrinkwrapping

27:00 - Other Breaking Changes?

• Permissions

30:40 - Tiny Jewels

33:24 - Why Rewrite?

36:00 - npm’s Focus on the Front End

• Bower
• npm Roadmap

42:04 - Transitioning to npm 3

42:54 - Installing npm 3

44:11 - Packaging with io.js and Node.js

45:16 - Being in Beta

Picks

Slack List (Aimee)
Perceived Performance Fluent Conf Talks (Aimee)
Paul Irish: How Users Perceive the Speed of The Web Keynote @ Fluent 2015 (Aimee)
Subsistence Farming (AJ)
Developer On Fire Episode 017 - Charles Max Wood - Get Involved and Try New Things (Chuck)
Elevator Saga (Chuck)
BrazilJS (Forrest)
NodeConf Brazil (Forrest)
For quick testing: `npm init -y`, configure init (Forrest)
Where Can I Put Your Cheese? (Or What to Expect From npm@3) @ Boston Ember, May 2015 (Rebecca)
Open Source & Feelings Conference (Rebecca)
bugs [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)
docs [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)
repo [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)

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02:46 - Panel Consensus and Experience and Career Paths

16:00 - The School Doesn’t Matter

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

19:59 - Panel Experience and Career Paths (Cont’d)

38:36 - Practically Helpful Knowledge and Disciplines; Interviewing and Hiring

46:38 - Privilege and Navigating Without Opportunity

49:54 - Why get a degree if it’s not necessary?

• Support Structure

01:02:13 - Consensus Part 2

Picks

The More Things Change (Jamison)
Allison Kaptur: Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers (Jamison)
@Aimee_Knight (Joe)
Star Wars Battlefront (Joe)
Amazing Grass (Aimee)
Daniel Brain: Sane, scalable Angular apps are tricky, but not impossible. Lessons learned from PayPal Checkout. (Aimee)
xkcd: Correlation (Dave)
Lviv, Ukraine (Dave)
CharlesMaxWood.com (Chuck)
Every Time Zone (Chuck)
The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms by Philip Morgan (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)

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02:17 - Jessica Lord Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

02:40 - Amy Palamountain Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

03:14 - Electron

• Atom

04:55 - Cross-platform Compatibility

05:55 - Electron/Atom + GitHub

07:16 - Electron/Atom + React ?

07:57 - Use Cases for Electron

• muan/mojibar
• mafintosh/playback
• npm-scripts-gui
• Amy Palamountain: Building native applications with Electron @ Nordic.js 2015

15:09 - Creating Electron Apps on Phones

17:25 - Running a Service Inside of Electron  

• Visual Studio Code
• Adventures in Angular Episode #44: Visual Studio Code with Erich Gamma and Chris Dias

19:46 - Making an Electron App

• Photon
• conors/photon
• Photon Components
• N1

24:09 - Sharing Code

27:40 - Plugins for Functionality

• electron-accelerator
• electron-packager
• electron-prebuilt

31:08 - Keeping Up-to-date/Adding Features

33:14 - Pain Points

• NuGet

36:22 - Using Electron for Native

• JavaScript Jabber Episode #186: JSJ NativeScript with TJ VanToll and Burke Holland
• PhoneGap
• Reactive Native
• NativeScript

39:48 - What is a “webview”?

42:12 - Getting Started with Electron

43:28 - Robotics/Hardware Hacking with Electron

• JIBO

Picks

Autolux - Future Perfect (Jamison)
Move Fast and Break Nothing (Aimee)
[egghead.io] Getting Started with Redux (Dave)
Destructuring and parameter handling in ECMAScript 6 (Dave)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
Freelance Remote Conf (Chuck)
React Remote Conf (Chuck)
Pebble Time Steel (Chuck)
UglyBaby Etsy Shop (Amy)
Jimmy Fallon: Kid Theater with Tom Hanks (Jessica)

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02:31 - Rob Eisenberg Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

02:55 - Aurelia

• Blog

03:43 - Selling People on Aurelia vs Other Frameworks

11:09 - Using Aurelia Without Directly Engaging with the API

• Web Components

15:10 - Production Usage

18:46 - Specific Uses

23:03 - Durandal

25:26 - Aurelia and Angular 2

30:32 - Convention Over Configuration

34:56 - Web Components

• Content Projection (Transclusion)
• Polymer

41:13 - One-directional Data Flow; Data Binding

• Using a Binding System as Messaging System

46:55 - Routing

49:47 - Animation

52:56 - Code Size

55:06 - Version Support

56:27 - Performance

• Tools

01:00:20 - Aurelia in ES5

01:01:29 - Data Management

• Breeze.js

Picks

Crispy Bacon (Joe)
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Joe)
Jamison Dance: Rethinking All Practices: Building Applications in Elm @ React.js Conf 2016 (Joe)
Vessel | Lorn (Jamison)
The Moon Rang Like a Bell | Hundred Waters (Jamison)
The Top 10 Episodes of JavaScript Jabber (Chuck)
Amazon Prime (Chuck)
WiiU (Chuck)
Sketch (Rob)
Zeplin (Rob)
servo (Rob)

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02:16 - Greg Baugues Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Twilio
  • Ruby Rogues Episode #258: Twilio with Greg Baugues

02:41 - Developer Evangelism

04:23 - Evangelism at Twilio

• Jeff Lawson

07:05 - “Evangelism”

10:56 - Getting the Word Out

• SIGNAL

13:28 - Keeping Up-to-Date

• Greg Baugues: Devs and Depression

18:28 - Skills to Have as an Evangelist

1. Technical Credibility
2. Patience
3. Empathy
4. Hustle

21:21 - Getting Help From Companies

25:39 - Handling Larger-scale Issues

27:15 - Building an Evangelist Team

29:44 - Panelist Experiences with Evangelism

Picks

• Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (Aimee)
• Udi Dahan: The Fallacy Of ReUse (Aimee)
• Calendly (Chuck)
• Gravity Forms (Chuck)
• Trello (Chuck)
• Slack (Chuck)
• Zoom (Chuck)
• Talky.io (Greg)
• SIGNAL (Greg)
• The Tim Ferriss Show (Greg)
• Billions (Greg)

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02:11 - Heiko Behrens Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

02:42 - François Baldassari Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

03:04 - JavaScript and Pebble

• Espruino
• jerryscript

06:40 - Watch vs Phone

• Pebble.js

09:32 - Memory Constraints and Code Size Limitations

• APIs
• rockyjs
• tween.js

26:24 - Advantages of Writing in JavaScript

32:09 - Capabilities of the Watch

• iPhreaks Episode #153: Using Mobile Devices to Manage Diabetes with Scott Hanselman

37:08 - Running Web Servers

39:29 - Resources

• rockyjs
• Newsletter
• Pebble Slack Channel
• Pebble Developer Page
• @PebbleDev
• Pebble TicToc Source

41:58 - Voice Capabilities

43:06 - UI For the Round Face vs Square Face

46:18 - Future Pebble Milestones

Picks

• Vortex Poker 3 (Jamison)
• Thao & The Get Down Stay Down (Jamison)
• Maciej Ceglowski: Barely succeed! It's easier! (Jamison)
• The Way of Kings Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (Joe)
• Juniors Are Awesome (Aimee)
• octotree (Aimee)
• Fully Alive by Ken Davis (Chuck)
• Sara Soueidan (Heiko)
• Jake Archibald: Using the service worker (Heiko)
• beyond tellerrand’s Videos (Heiko)
• Fabien Chouteau: Make with Ada: Formal proof on my wrist (François)
• pebble.rs (François)
• The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig (François)

See Also

• iPhreaks Show Episode #146: Pebble with Heiko Behrens and Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño

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03:18 - Dennis Ushakov Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• JetBrains
  • JetBrains Issue Tracker
• WebStorm
  • @WebStormIDE  

03:54 - Writing an IDE in Java

• YouTrack
• TeamCity  

04:50 - Specs

05:43 - WebStorm Defined

• Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

06:19 - IDEs vs Text Editors

08:31 - Building an IDE

• Language Support
• External Tool Support
• Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)

13:00 - Code Reuse

15:07 - Prioritizing Features

17:11 - Why is IDE tooling important?

• “Code is read a lot more than it’s written.”

19:57 - Refactorings

• The Dynamic Nature of JavaScript
• TypeScript-specific Refactorings

23:35 - Next Versions of Webstorm

• Early Access Program

25:07 - Framework Support; Usage Data

28:12 - Other Technology and Framework Support

31:12 - Working for JetBrains

32:17 - Release Cycles and Procedures

• Early Access Program

34:39 - Java Source Code Contribution

• Kotlin

Picks

• Jesse Kriss: Human scale technology (Jamison)
• React Rally (Jamison)
• Vote (Chuck)
• Transmit (Chuck)
• Steam Squad (Dennis)
• Ergobaby Four Position 360 Baby Carrier (Dennis)

00:51 Jameson is looking for clients who need front and back end code for apps; @Jergason (Contact him via Direct Message)

04:40 An explanation of Capital One and its operations

6:06 How many Capital One developers are using Node and how it is being implemented

10:30 Process of approval for app/website development

14:15 How the culture at Capital One affects technology within the company

18:25 Using Javascript libraries to manage different currencies

19:40 Venmo and its influence on banking

22:32 Whether banks are prepared to operate in a cashless society

29:44 Using HTML and Javascript for updating projects or creating new ones

35:21 Who picks up Javascript easily and why: “It’s more about grit than raw intelligence.”

44:00 Upgrading via open source codes

45:40 The process for hiring developers

51:35 Typescript vs. non-typescript

PICKS:

“Nerve” Movie

Brave Browser

“Stranger Things” on Netflix

Angular 2 Class in Ft. Lauderdale, Discount Code: JSJ

“Strategy for Healthier Dev” blog post

Health-Ade Beet Kombucha

“The Adventure Zone” podcast

On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science article by E.W. Dijkstra

“The Freelancer Show” podcast

“48 Days” podcast

Node.university

Azat Mardan’s Website

Azat Mardan on Twitter

CETUSA – Foreign exchange program

3:23 Discussing the purpose and aim of Codewars

7:30 The process for building a program with Codewars

11:07 The UI and editor experience

12:55 The challenges faced when first building Codewars

14:23 Explaining PJAX

16:54 Building code on Codewars

21:24 The expanded use of KATA on Codewars

23:11 Practicing “solving problems” and how it translates to real world situations

34:00 How Codewars proves out the persistence of coders

36:41 How Codewars appeals to collaborative workers

44:40 Teachable moments on Codewars

49:40 Always check to see if Codewars is hiring. Codewars uses Qualified.io, which helps automate the hiring process.

PICKS:

Marrow Sci-fi book

Uprooted Fantasy book

“Write Less Code” blog post

“The Rands Test” blog post

Five Stack software development studio

“Stranger Things” on Netflix

Angular 2 Class in Ft. Lauderdale, Discount Code: JSJ

Lean Analytics book

Code book

Datasmart book

Letting Go book

03:45 What makes the Gun database engine special

07:00 Defining a database

12:58 The CAP Theorem

22:56 What Graphs are and how they function (circular references)

30:32 Gun and rotational disk systems

32:08 Gun’s optimizations for performance in ensuing versions

39:55 The prevalence of open source companies

42:45 Further discussing the CAP Theorem and its nuances

50:33 Gun’s purpose and design

52:13 What a Firebase is

54:22 How to get started with Gun - Visit Gun Tutorial,  Gun's Github Page, and

Gun Node Module

QUOTES:

“I think the database should bend to your application’s demands, rather than you having to bend to the database’s demands.” –Mark Nadal

“…The protocol that GUN defines is something that can be implemented in any language. Because GUN is in the language, you don’t have the context which latency of having to make an HTTP call or socket request…” –AJ O’Neill

“Let’s demystify the black magic of CAP.” –Mark Nadal

PICKS:

Dan North’s Deliberate Learning Video

8Tracks Internet Radio

Pokemon Indigo League on Netflix

Daplie Personal Cloud

Young Frankenstein Movie

Mystic Vale Card Game

JS Remote Conference

React Remote Conference

Farm Heroes Super Saga Game App

02:50 The definition of a plug-in

03:31 The definition of an extension

05:09 The way to determine the plug-ins and extensions you are running

08:22 How to create an extension file

11:02 The appeal of creating extensions

13:26 How John got into creating extensions

15:48 Ways to organize extensions

19:38 Aspects of chrome that will affect extensions

23:23 Packaging for the Chrome store

26:22 Using dev tools

29:42 Conflicting plug-ins/extensions and how to deal with them

31:30 Open source extensions

32:32 A quick way to create an extension

QUOTES:

“I teach software developers how to be cool.” –John Sonmez

“There wasn’t an ability to extend the dev tools, but now there is.” –John Sonmez

“One quick way to create an extension is just to take one of these sample apps…and then just start modifying it…” –John Sonmez

PICKS:

“Django Unchained” Website

“Using Angular 2 Patterns in Angular 1.x” Apps Egghead Course

Girls’ Life vs. Boys’ Life on Refinery29

Webinar Jam Software

“Five Mistakes That are Keeping You From Getting Hired” Webinar

Screencastify Chrome Extension

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Book on Amazon

The Complete Software Developers Career Guide Book in Progress

Simple Programmer Website

Simple Programmer on Youtube

1:00 Intro to guests Brian Douglas and Matt Christensen

2:20 Definition of JAMStack

8:12 JAMStack and confusion over nomenclature

12:56 JAMStack and security, reliability and performance

17:05 Example of traffic spike for company Sphero

18:26 Meaning of hyperdynamic

20:35 Future and limits of JAMStack technology

26:01 Controlling data and APIs versus using third parties

28:10 Netlify.com and JAMStack

31:16 APIs, JavaScript framework and libraries recommended to start building on JAMStack

35:13 Resources and examples of JAMStack: netlify.com, Netlify blog, JAMStack radio, JAMStack SF Meetup

QUOTES:

“I think in the next couple of years we’re going to see the limits being pushed a lot for what you can do with this.” - Matt

“Today we’re starting to see really interesting, really large projects getting built with this approach.” - Matt

“If you can farm 100% of your backend off to third parties, I feel like that really limits a lot of the interesting things you can do as a developer.” - Brian

PICKS:

Early History of Smalltalk (Jamison)

React Rally 2016 videos (Jamison)

FiveStack.computer (Jamison)

Falsehoods programmers believe about time (Aimee)

Nodevember conference (Aimee)

48 Days Podcast (Charles)

Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans (Charles)

Jon Benjamin Jazz (Brian)

RailsConf 2016 (Brian)

React Native (Brian)

Book of Ye Podcast (Brian)

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (Matt)

Sequoia Capital website

Sphero website

Isomorphic rendering on the Jam Stack by Phil Hawksworth

SPONSORS:

Front End Masters

Hired.com

00:50 Intro to guests Donovan Brown and Jordan Matthiesen

1:14 Javascript and Devops

3:49 Node JS and integrating with extensions

11:16 Learning Javascript coming from another language

15:21 Visual Studio Team Services at Microsoft, integration and unit testing

• Visualstudio.com
• Donovanbrown.com

25:10 Visual Studio Code and mobile development

• Apache Cordova open source project

31:45 TypeScript and tooling

33:03 Unit test tools and methods

38:39 ARM devices and integration

QUOTES:

“It’s not impossible, it’s just a different set of challenges.” - Donovan Brown

“Devops is the union of people, process and products to enable continuous delivery of value to your end users” - Donovan Brown

“Apps start to feel more native. They can actually get form.” - Jordan Matthiesen

PICKS:

Veridian Dynamics (AJ)

Jabberwocky Video (AJ)

Hard Rock Cafe - Atlanta (Charles)

CES (Charles)

3D printers (Donovan)

High-Yield Vegetable Gardening (Jordan)

taco.visualstudio.com

Jordan on Twitter @jmatthiesen

Visualstudio.com

Donovanbrown.com

Donovan on Twitter @donovanbrown

SPONSORS:

Front End Masters

Hired.com

TOPICS:

4:00 Things that make web development more difficult

7:40 The developer experience with Angular

10:40 How cognitive cost affects the user experience

16:52 The variety of users for whom Mads’ software is built

22:14 Creating accessible javascript tools that aren’t immediately outdated

28:20 Why people shouldn’t be using dependency installers

34:00 Node updates

QUOTES:

“The massive introduction of new tools all the time is a big part of what makes web development harder.” -Mads Kristensen

“I’m not a pretty pixels person, I’m a code and algorithms person.” -AJ O’Neill

“I’m not hearing hype about people using HTTP2 to get those benefits, I’m only hearing hype around tools that Static built.” -AJ O’Neill

PICKS:

Death Note Anime Show

JS Remote Conference

The Alloy of Law Book by Brandon Sanderson

Zig Zigler Books on Audible

Mr. Robot TV Show

RESOURCES & CONTACT INFO:

Mads on Twitter

Mads’ Website

TOPICS:

3:57 The exciting facets of CLI’s

8:25 Advantages of CLI projects

11:25 Coding in RAILS

14:18 Disagreeing with conventions encoded in a CLI

19:30 How REACT CLI functions

20:43 Is Ember cheating by using REACT CLI?

26:52 Which CLI is easiest to use

29:00 How to add commands to a CLI

34:00 The future of current CLI’s

35:30 How well CLI’s are working for their respective communities

37:00 The impact of WebPac

PICKS:

“How Break Points are Set” Hacker News Article

Chocolate Mint Tea

Ten Things Wise Parents Know Book

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters Book

Boys Should Be Boys Book

“How Half of America Lost its Effing Mind” Blog Post

Elementary TV Show

Recommendation Form for Topics and Guests

Amazon Smile

Angular Cruise

Sweet Licorice Mint Tea by Choice Organic Teas

Van’s Nintendo Sneakers

RESOURCES AND CONTACT INFO:

Tracy's E-mail

TOPICS:

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

04:28 How to determine if code has been copied

10:00 What defines a trade secret

12:11 The pending Oracle v Google lawsuit

25:29 Nintendo v Atari

27:38 The pros and cons of a patent

29:59 Terrible patents

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

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

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

49:15 Using detective work to determine who copied whom

52:55 Extreme examples of unethical behavior

56:03 The state of patent laws

PICKS:

Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet Blog Post

Bagels by P28 Foods

Let’s Encrypt Indigogo Generosity Campaign

Super Cartography Bros Album

MicroConf 2017

MindMup Mind Mapping Tool

Words with Friends Game

Upcoming Conferences via Devchat.tv

Good Intentions Book by Bob Zeidman

Horror Flick Book by Bob Zeidman

Silicon Valley Napkins

00:55 - Introducing Jerome Hardaway

• Vets Who Code
• Ruby Rogues Podcast
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

02:10 - Spouses and dependants of Vets Who Code

06:55 - Accepting and rejecting applicants

10:10 - The GI Bill

• Operation Code
• Dreamforce

15:45 - Military language and coding

18:20 - PTSD, trauma, and coding

21:10 - Moving past the veteran stigma

25:45 - Military backgrounds as an asset for jobs

30:45 - The future of Vets Who Code

32:35 - How much does it cost to be part of the program?

• General Assembly

36:15 - Is it easier or harder for Vets to get hired?

39:15 - Stories and memories

42:30 - Contributing to Vets Who Code

• Contact hello@vetswhocode.io to become a mentor
• Donate: https://vetswhocode.kindful.com/
• SwearJar
• Hiring managers please contact Jerome@vetswhocode.io

Picks:

Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (Dave)

Soft Skills Engineering Twitter (Dave)

Awesome Algorithms Github list (Aimee)

“The Churn” blog post by Bob Martin (Aimee)

The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington (Charles)

Vets Who Code (Jerome)

Practical Javascript (Jerome)

1:05 - Introducing Lee Byron

• • Ruby Rogues episode

1:55 - Immutable.js

4:35 - Modifying data and operations using Immutable.js

7:40 - Explaining Big-O notation in layman’s terms

11:30 - Internal tree structures and arrays

15:50 - Why build with Immutable.js?

23:05 - Change detection with a mutable

25:00 - Computer science history

34:35 - Other positives to using mutables

37:50 - Flux and Redux

39:50 - When should you use a mutable?

46:10 - Using Immutable.js instead of the built-in Javascript option

51:50 - Learning curves and learning materials

• Docs

54:50 - Bowties

• Knotty Co

Picks:

Contractor by Andrew Ball

17 Hats (Charles)

Asana (Charles)

Call of Duty Infinite Warfare (Joe)

LEGO Star Wars (Joe)

Advent of Code (Lee)

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Max Lynch. Max is part of the Ionic Framework and has appeared on episode 126 in the JavaScript Jabber show. Tune in to My JS Story Max Lynch as he shares his journey to becoming part of the world of programming.

On today's JavaScript Jabber Show, Aimee Knight, Cory House, and Charles Max Wood discuss Gomix with Daniel X Moore. Daniel is a Software Developer at Fog Creek Software, and has been in the industry for 10 years. Their company currently offers an amazingly convenient way to build apps. Tune in to learn about it!

Welcome to the 13th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Rebecca Turner. Rebecca is a CLI programmer at npm, Inc. She has been in the show around two to three years ago in episode 174 and talked about npm 3. Tune in to My JS Story Rebecca Turner to learn more how she got into programming and what she is up to these days!

This episode features Moving from Node.js to .NET and Raygun.io with John-Daniel Trask. John-Daniel is the Co-founder and CEO of Raygun, a software intelligence platform for web and mobile. He's been programming for many years, and is originally from New Zealand. Tune in and learn what prompted them to move to the .NET framework!

My JS Story 023 Laurie Voss

This week we have another My JavaScript story. This week’s guest is Laurie Voss. Laurie has worked with NPM from the start and has been a vital piece to getting it off the ground. Hear how Laurie got interested in computers, how Laurie got started with NPM, as well as a few things about the newly released NPM 5.

How did you get into programming?

Laurie started by going into a computer camp, at the time Laurie hadn’t spent time around computers, and it wouldn’t be until the second time that he went to the computer camp that he would see a computer again. Laurie grew up in Trinidad where not many people could afford computers. He started making his first website in Angelfire using HTML before CSS became a thing.

How did you go from web development to hardcore Javascript?

Laurie had been writing JavaScript since it was invented. Laurie started a web development company in high school using JavaScript. Laurie met Issac while working at Yahoo and he introduced Laurie to Node which was a starting point to taking JavaScript more seriously for Laurie. When Node was ready in 2013, NPM Inc was on it’s way.

What do you do at NPM Inc?

IN the beginning of 2014, Laurie was doing a lot of the JavaScript and was the CTO. Laurie says that part of his strategy has always been to hire JavaScript developers that are better at writing JavaScript that he is. Making him the worst JavaScript programmer at NPM. Laurie’s main job was doing what was needed to get NPM happen, including talking to layers and the business side of things. There are many companies that don’t understand how open source works, and in many cases it leads to run ins with lawyers. Many times NPM acts as an umbrella for open source tools that aren’t able to fight overzealous corporations.

What do you think is your biggest contributions to NPM?

Laurie expresses that it has changed over the years. A year ago he would say that he would have to say it leans towards the piece of software that is the registry. It’s very scalable and has worked great for small scale up to very large scale. Laurie works hard to gather funds and help make NPM grow as well as be scalable. He says that he is very proud that he build something that let’s others build things.

How did you get involved?

Laurie has been with NPM since the beginning. He tells us how Issac had been running NPM on donated hardware in spare time while working with Node. NPM would break a lot and be down due to the borrowed equipment. They decided that they needed to create a business model around NPM to help it grow. Laurie had just finished working on a startup and knew how to get funding and got their first round in 2014.

How did you get to being profitable?

Laurie talks about making sure that their plan is in line with their customers. NPM could easily charge for many parts of NPM but they would rather charge for things that make sense to charge, so in this case the private packages. Enough people are using the private package to getting NPM to profitability. Laurie says that even if money stopped coming in they would have to git rid of a few employees but would be able to keep a small team and sustain the NPM registry, but would never build anything new. It’s always between being profitable or using money to build new things.

What are you working on now?

NPM 5 was just released and it’s much faster, five times faster. Laurie talks about being excited about the team and what they are putting into it. Things like making deployments easier. Many developers use NPM to put code together as well as to deploy it. If you didn’t have a lock file, it’s possible that it would change. But the lock file can take a long time, and you already know what needs to go there so they are adding npm store and npm fetch making deploys much faster. Additionally they will be adding a feature called insights. They are able to see information about different users packages, security information, performance information, etc. They can use that information to help developers with suggestions based off of data gathered by what other people are doing. Charles adds that it would be great for coming up with topics for the podcast.

Anything else?

Laurie reminds everyone about NPM Organizations as well as NPM Enterprise. NPM Organizations is a way to organize packaging as well as teams of developers and helps you to collaborate. NPM Enterprise allows for single sign on support, license auditing, and features that corporations care about.

Picks

Laurie

Zite and NextJS
Slides.com

Charles

VMWorld
Tweet or email if you’re looking at resources for learning VR AI or Iot

Links

Twitter
NPM Organizations
NPM Enterprise

JSJ 273: Live to Code, Don't Code to Live with 2 Frugal Dudes Sean Merron and Kevin Griffin

This episode of JavaScript Jabber features panelists Aimee Knight, Cory House, and Charles Max Wood. Special guests Sean Merron and Kevin Griffin discuss how to live frugally. Tune in to hear their advice!

[00:02:14] Introduction to Sean and Kevin

Sean and Kevin are the hosts of the 2 Frugal Dudes Podcast. They are middle class software engineers. Sean works a 9 to 5 job, while Kevin owns a small business called Swift Kick. Swift Kick is a company that focuses on independent consulting, software development, and training companies for software development.

[00:05:50] Different Types of Financial Advisors

There is no legal reason that financial advisors have to work in your best interest. On the 2 Frugal Dudes Podcast, Sean and Kevin advise people to use fiduciary advisors. These types of advisors are not legally allowed to accept kickbacks from different funds. This means that they are more likely to help you to the best of their ability. They get paid for their services. Laws are currently changing so that everyone has to be a fiduciary advisor unless clients sign a specific form.

[00:10:00] What do I do with money left over at the end of the month that I can’t put into a 401K and Roth IRA?

They suggest that you put only the amount of money in your 401K that your company will match. Then, put the rest into a Roth IRA and max that out. Before you decide to do what next, you need to decide why you are saving money. When will you need the money? What will you need it for? Once you know the answer to these questions, you will be able to assess what your money will best be placed. For example, if you are saving to buy a house you need to put your money in a safe investment. A Roth IRA can be used as a savings vehicle or as an emergency fund. Sean believes that a Bank CD is the safest return you can get.

[00:14:30] Best Way to Save 

For those who are self-employed, it is a good idea to have two emergency funds – a personal and a business fund. Business emergency funds should have five months of personal salary. Kevin built his up over two or three years and uses it as self-insurance.

Sean says that the employee world is different. For him, he only keeps the minimum amount in his emergency fund. He knows that he is in a field where his job is in high demand, so feels comfortable with being able to get a job quickly. For others, this may not be the case. Have to evaluate how much to save based on how long you think you may need the money. 

[00:18:50] What is the first thing people should be doing for their own financial well being?

Kevin follows Dave Ramsey’s advice.

1. Basic emergency fund. He uses $1,000. Most emergencies fall under that amount of money.
2. Get rid of all consumer debt. This includes car payments, credit cards, and student loans. Mortgage is not consumer debt.
3. Grow an emergency fund to three or six months of expenses.
4. Investments. Setting up retirement funds, paying for college, or mortgages.

Sean values early retirement so he focuses on that. What does retirement mean to me? What does rich mean? You should always track your money through a budget. Then you can funnel money towards emergency funds and tackling debt.

Self-insurance means that you don’t have to worry about funds. It helps lower your stress knowing that you have your finances in order. It is a peaceful place to be and opens up opportunities for you. If someone has stressors in their life – for example, their car breaks down – and they have no money to fix it, they now have car and money problems. This stress can then potentially lead to other problems such as marriage problems. If the money to fix the broken car would have been there, it would alleviate stress.

[00:28:23] Difference between 401k, IRA, and Roth IRAs

A 401k is an employer provided, long-term retirement savings account. This is where you put in money before it is taxed. With this plan you are limited with the funds you can choose from to invest in.

IRAs are long-term retirement plans as well. The first type of IRA is a Traditional IRA, which is similar to a 401k. You get tax reduction for the money you put in the account. You pay taxes once you withdraw money. A Roth IRA is where you already pay taxes on money that you are putting in, but don’t have to pay taxes when withdrawing money. You can withdraw contributions at anytime without being penalized, you just can’t take out any earnings.

Another thing that is potentially good for early retirement is a Roth IRA conversion ladder. This is where you take money from a 401k and convert it into a Roth IRA and use it before 60 years old to fund early retirement.

Traditional IRAs are good for business owners looking for tax deductions now. An HSA (Health Savings Account) can also be used as a retirement device. It goes towards medical expenses if needed.

[00:34:20] Are there tools or algorithms I can use to figure this stuff out?

There are some. Portfolio Visualizer allows you to choose different portfolio mixes and put different amounts of money in each one. Portfolio Charts is similar to Portfolio Visualizer but gives nice graphics. Sean created a JavaScript website to help people use to figure out early retirement.

The hardest part is calculating return because you have to estimate what your return will be each year.

[00:39:00] Put Your Money Somewhere

The only bad investment is not making an investment. Even making a bad investment is better than not having any at all. Inflation eats away at money that is just sitting.

[00:42:05] If you get one of these advisors what advice should you be looking for?

Need someone that tries to understand your particular situation. “It depends” is very true and your advisor should know that. No two people will have the same financial goals. They should want to help reach your goals in the least costly way possible. Other things they should be able to do is be honest and help you control your emotions during upswings and downswings. 

[00:47:08] Why index funds?

As an investor, you can buy an index fund cheaper than buying the whole index. A mutual fund will try to buy and sell the stocks in that index in order to follow the index's performance. As an investor, you have the opportunity to buy into a mutual fund that handles it for you.

You don’t have to independently invest in companies either. You can invest in an index instead that will look at, for example, top performing technology companies. It is usually a better value.

[00:53:33] How much do I invest in my business verses putting money into a Roth IRA or 401k?

Sean thinks it comes down to retirement goals. At some point you will want money to come in passively and retire in the future. If you can passively put X amount of dollars into your company then it can be looked at as a form of investment.

Kevin evaluates his business goals every quarter. He creates a business budget based off of those goals.

Picks

Cory

• Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel 
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki 
• Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

Aimee

• Hacker News Thread – How to Not Bring Emotions Home With You
• Phantogram 

Charles

• Money Master the Game by Tony Robbins 
• ELPs (Endorsed Local Providers) Dave Ramsey

Sean

• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle
• Mr. Money Mustache Blog 
• www.mint.com

Kevin

• Unshakable by Tony Robbins
• YNABS 
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley

Links

• 2 Frugal Dudes Twitter
• Sean's Twitter
• Kevin's Twitter
• www.swiftkick.in
• www.kevgriffin.com
• http://earlyretirementroadmap.com/
• 2 Frugal Dudes Podcast

MJS 030: Mike North

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

[00:01:15] Introduction to Mike

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Picks

Mike:

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

Charles

• Visual Studio Code
• Frontend Masters 

Links

• Twitter
• www.mike.works

MJS 031: Mike Hostetler

Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Mike Hostetler. Mike talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community. Listen to learn more about Mike!

[00:50] – Introduction to Mike Hostetler

Mike was on episode 133 which was like 2.5 years ago.

[01:45] – How did you get into programming?

First computer

Mike got their first computer when he was 5 or 6 years old. 286 IBM Clone had a command prompt that he spent several years trying to figure out how to code with it until he stumbled on a few basic books at their local public library in junior high. He began teaching himself how to code with QBasic and Borland C++. He, then, found the internet early high school and downloaded the Mosaic browser. He started coding HTML and early JavaScript, late 90’s. Then, he went off to college to get a Computer Science degree.

First job

When Mike was late high school, he decided that he knew enough coding that he was going to try to get a job. He ended up finding web development companies in the phone book and calling each one of them, trying to explain that his 16-year-old self could help them code and build websites. He ended up landing a job and was paid minimum wage to build HTML sites - a lot of 1x1 pixels transparent gifs, coding HTML by hand and notepad. Then, he ended up working for that company for his first couple of years of college as well.

[05:30] – How did you wind up doing JavaScript?

After college, the job that Mike landed was spent on learning Microsoft technologies and then half on the open-source side of learning the LAMP stack. At that time, it required hand-coding JavaScript. His next role is building a custom mapping application which was a single page application that heavily relied upon JavaScript. This was client-side object-oriented. There were no frameworks but it was enough script to build a URL that called a custom CGI to render the map. So, he immediately jumped in and started using the early JavaScript frameworks and prototypes.

The role that Mike was in next was building a touchscreen capable device. They needed custom plug-ins to provide the highlight focus effect around the button. He needed to write a plugin to do that and jQuery has just been released. So, he stripped all the prototype code, throw JQuery in there, and then, write a plug-in to navigate this interface by keyboard.

[09:20] – Contributions with JavaScript

jQuery

Mike’s first participation was on the JQuery project. If you ever use the JQuery plug-ins site, the old site, that was his contribution. He ended up running infrastructure for JQuery for several years. JQuery launched his business career. He switched into an entrepreneur around 2009. Since then, he’s contributed in numerous ways through speaking, leading training, and writing articles. He was a co-author of the JQuery Cookbook.

Node.js

As Node began to get more popular, Mike switched his attention to Node and found passion around the Sails.js project. It was a Node framework that made it easy to build Express-powered apps with Node and limit a lot of the convention over configuration elements of the Sails framework. That morphed into ES6 rewrite of Sails called the Trails framework. Currently, he is an organizer of the Chicago Node.js Meetup and he’s a contributor to the Trails framework.

[11:50] – JQuery challenges and experiences

jQuery 1.4

Mike and the team made community’s problems their problems so the gravity of what they were working didn’t hit them very much until jQuery 1.4. They had an online conference. They all recorded talks and they’re releasing a talk a day for jQuery that will be going to accommodate the 1.4 release. He remembered that he was setting up, managing the servers, and was doing some last-minute configuration. Then, John had tweeted that 1.4 was ready, pointing to jQuery.com. The web server just ground to a halt as he saw the traffic come in off a tweet.

Open-source community

Mike remain friends with a lot of them. According to Mike, they were just normal people who made a choice to lean in, contribute, where those contributions ended up becoming popular. Looking forward, he said that he’s going to continue to contribute to the open-source community. He wants to help the junior developer that is learning ES6 for the first time and is solving a syntax error. From Mike’s perspective, technologies come in waves. jQuery was a wave but jQuery’s wave focuses its energy into JavaScript’s wave. Certain people catch a contribution wave. React is on the upswing. Node is in an interesting spot because they’ve been on the upswing for many years but there’s new work that could be done. He said that had a shot to be at the forefront of the wave and got to see it.

Advice

For anybody else that maybe listening, find a spot where there’s new ground that you can contribute to and just dive in and do what you can to solve a problem to make it better. You’ll catch your wave.

[21:00] – How to pick frameworks

Node frameworks

There was a Reddit thread about Node frameworks in 2017 that listed out all the possible frameworks. The classic answer is to use the right tool for the right job but Mike’s answer is: Node has grown so big that different frameworks are built to different people on the learning curve of Node. The other thing that Node has done is they have this culture of really running away from any Monolithic one-size-fits-all solution. The community of Node has made sure that they make space for an incredible diversity of solutions and frameworks.

Antipattern

The anti-pattern is: what is the best framework of 2017. That’s the wrong question in the Node culture. Look at your team, look at your project, what framework can you be most productive in and what framework can you contribute back into the community with? That is one of the key reasons that Node itself has remained and continued to grow in popularity.

[23:40] – Role in Sails and Trails

Mike’s not contributing to the Sails project at the moment. He has been focusing on the Trails project. He has written a couple of Trails packs or the equivalent of plug-ins, messed around with GraphQL. He is also helping answer questions in the Gitter chat – small ways.

[24:25] – Best ways to contribute

Stack Overflow

Go on to Stack Overflow. Subscribe to tags where you can answer questions. Every answer on Stack Overflow is a contribution. Go, watch, subscribe to the issue queues for the projects that you use. Just even sharing your experience with how you solve a problem, there is somebody that you could reach down to and answer their questions that take their burden off.

Gitter

Get involved in the Gitter chat. Listen, watch, stand on the sidelines, and see what’s going on how the community works.

Pull request

The next step, if you see a problem, submit a pull request, listen to see what the roadmap is, and see what you can contribute.

Infrastructure

A lot of projects need help in infrastructure in their build scripts to produce better-written code. You can document for them. If you wait for the next sexy thing to do, you’ll never get there. Be humble.

Fun

Remember that open-source is fun. If it becomes a drag, you are doing it wrong. Look for the opportunities that are aligned with what you do so it’s a fun, happy experience.

[26:45] – What are you working on now?

Raise Marketplace

Currently, Mike is taking on a new role as Director of Front-end Engineering at Raise Marketplace. It is a marketplace start-up in Chicago. His focus is rebuilding the front-end of Raise on a micro service Node.js in Go service architecture. They have also been listed to help some folks at Google in the web performance team. They are always hiring. If you are looking for a remote role for a start-up. Feel free to reach out to him on Twitter or on Raise.

ModernWeb

Mike’s side-project now is a website called ModernWeb.com, where they help connect companies with teams of software developers and tell the stories of those software projects. A lot of developers are great at writing code but are terrible at telling the awesome things that we do. So, ModernWeb exists to tell the stories of development. The great side effect is companies want to work with you when you tell your stories. They help complete that circle. Go over to ModernWeb.com and you can contact them through the website or you can drop him an email at mike@modernweb.com.

Picks

Mike Hostetler

• App: OmniFocus
• App: Sleep Cycle
• App: Life Cycle
• Zapier
• Twitter: @mikehostetler
• Mike-hostetler.com

Charles Max Wood

• Talk: Setting up and Contributing to Open-source Projects by Kent C. Dodds
• JavaScript Jabber Slack

MJS 032: Feross Aboukhadijeh

Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community to the decentralized web. Listen to learn more about Mike!

[01:00] – Introduction to Feross Aboukhadijeh

Feross was on episode 155 and he talked about Webtorrent. It was 2 years ago.

[01:35] – How did you get into programming?

Toddler

Feross has always been interested in computers and technology. His mom told him a story about how when he was a toddler, he was always watching people whenever they’re using technology – the television, the microwave, or the VCR. She said that he’s trying to imitate what he saw.

HTML and Web proxies

According to Feross, he became seriously interested when he was in middle school when he learned about HTML and wanted to make a personal site. In high school, there was this class that you could take. It’s a tech team where they went around and fixed teachers’ computers because they were understaffed. Some of the computers have administrator privileges turned on for the student accounts as well because some of the software that was required for certain classes needed it. The computers always had viruses on them because people would install first-person shooters and play during class time. They actually have school-wide filtering system so students can’t access certain sites. One of the categories they blocked was downloading sites. In order to even do their job, they have to figure out web proxies to get around the filters. He ended up setting up one of those on his own server.

First website

Feross’ real programming experience was PHP. It was in his junior year of high school. He bought a book in Barnes & Noble about PHP and MySQL. He wanted to build a site to host his favorite flash animations. That project was a database-driven website where people can segment their flash animations and soundboards, prank phone calls, and other internet humor. The site was called freetoflash. That was the first website that he built.

[07:10] – How did you get into JavaScript?

Feross thinks JavaScript is one of those languages that you don’t actually really bother to sit down and learn. There weren’t any good resources. According to him, He really didn’t know JavaScript until he started a company right after he graduated from college. He started taking JavaScript seriously because he was learning Node.js and realized that you can build real things from it. The start-up is called PeerCDN. They’re trying to make a content delivery network that would work in the browser using WebRTC. The idea is you would add a script tag to your website and then we would try to find other people visiting your site that already has the content that you want, you’ll fetch it from them over a peer-to-peer connection to save on your hosting build to reduce your CDN bill. That was a big Node application. It also has intense front-end component. He started learning about NPM, how you build things with microservices, and how do you deploy a JavaScript application. That was in 2013.

[09:35] – Webtorrent

Feross has been trying to transition Webtorrent into a distributed contribution model. It’s always been something that he would give out commit rights. If someone makes a good contribution, he’ll just add them to the Github for it. He recently made it into an organization on Github. He’s hoping to make it something that’s not completely dependent on him in order for it to continue existing. He’s going to be involved with it for the foreseeable future but he’s also trying to do new projects as well besides that. The good news is Webtorrent is mostly done in some sense. It works well. There are bugs. But if you use Webtorrent, especially if you use the desktop application to torrent things, it’s really polished and works nicely.

Picks

Feross Aboukhadijeh

• Decentralized web
• Dat Project
• Beaker Project
• IPFS
• Secure Scuttlebutt
• Patchwork
• Brave
• Twitter: @WebTorrentApp
• Twitter: @feross

Charles Max Wood

• Let’s Encrypt
• Digital Ocean

MJS 033: Dylan Schiemann

Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Dylan Schiemann. Dylan talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community to what JavaScript is back in 2004. Listen to learn more about Dylan!

[01:10] – Introduction to Dylan Schiemann

Dylan was on episode 62 of JavaScript Jabber, which was about 4 years ago. We had him on to talk about the Dojo Toolkit.

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

When Dylan was 7 or 8 years old, he and his father took basic programming class together. In Junior high, probably mid-1980’s, he received his first Commodore 64 computer. He picked up the Programmer’s Reference Guide, toppled on Assembly, and tried to write data to a tape drive. It got updated to a floppy drive. And then in high school, he took some Pascal classes. He learned the basics - ranging from BASIC, Pascal, and to Assembly.

[03:00] – How did you get into JavaScript?

As an undergraduate, Dylan studied Chemistry and Mathematics. He did some basic HTML and discovered the web roughly when he was a junior year in college. And then, he went to graduate school and studied Physical Chemistry at UCLA. He was studying the topology and reality of quasi-two-dimensional phone. If you imagine a bunch of beer bubbles at the top of a glass, and you spin it around really quickly, you watch how the bubbles rearrange as force is applied to it. He wanted to put his experiments on the web so he started learning this new language that had just been invented called JavaScript. So, he dropped out of graduate school a few years later. Eight years after that point in time, it was possible to show his experiments with Dojo and SVG.

[04:25] – How did you get into Dojo and the other technologies?

SitePen

Right after grad school, Dylan helped start a company called SitePen. That let him really learn how JavaScript works. He started doing some consulting work. And he started working with Alex Russell, who had a project called netWindows at the time, which is a predecessor to any JavaScript framework that most people have worked with.

Dojo

Dylan got together and decided to create a next generation version of the HTML toolkit, which ended up becoming Dojo back in 2004. Things that they created back then are now part of the language - asynchronous patterns such as Promises, or even modules, widgets, which led to the web components pack. Over the years, they’ve built on that and done various utilities for testing and optimizing applications.

[06:20] – Ideas that stood the test of time

A lot of the things that Dylan and his team did in Dojo were on the right path but first versions ended up iterating before they’ve met their way into the language. Other things are timing. They were there very early and but to tell people in 2005 and 2006 that you need to architect the front-end application met some confusion of why you would want to do that. According to him, they never created Dojo to say that they want to create the world’s leading framework.

[07:45] – JavaScript

Dylan no longer answers the question of, “Oh, JavaScript, you mean, Java?”

The expectations of 2004 were the hope of making something that might work in a browser. The expectation today is we are competing against every platform and trying to create the best possible software in the world, and do it in a way that’s distributable everywhere in the browser. The capabilities have grown. There are audio, video and real-time capabilities. They were ways to do those things but they were brutal and fragile. And now, we have real engineering solutions to many of those things but there are still going to be ways to do this. There were few people who are interested in this and maybe this wasn’t even their day job. But now, literally hundreds and thousands of engineers who write code in JavaScript every day.

Picks

Dylan Schiemann

• JavaScript user groups
• JavaScript conferences
• SeattleJS
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MJS 034: John-David Dalton

Today’s episode is a My JavaScript Story with John-David Dalton. JD talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community like Lo-Dash, Sandboxed Native, etc. Listen to learn more about JD!

[01:15] – Introduction to JD

JD has been on JavaScript Jabber. He talked about Lo-Dash.

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

First website

This was when JD was a junior in high school. Then, he got involved with a flight squadron for a World War 1 online game. They needed a website so he created a GeoCities website for them. That’s what got him into JavaScript. He’d have to enhance the page with mouseover effects - cursor trail, etc.

JavaScript

From there, JD started created a Dr. Wiley little-animated bot that would say random things in a little speech bubble with the HTML on your page like a widget. He also passed an assignment turning a web page into an English class paper. He used to spend his lunch breaks learning JavaScript and programming. He also created a little Mario game engine – Mario 1 with movable blocks that you could click and drag and Mario could jump over it. That was back with the document.layers and Netscape Navigator.

Animation

JD wanted to be an animator in animation so he started getting into macro media flash. That led him to ActionScript, which was another ECMAScript-based language. He took a break from JavaScript and did ActionScript and flash animations for a while as his day job too.

PHP and JavaScript

JD started learning PHP and they needed to create a web app that got him right back into JavaScript in 2005. That was when AJAX was coined and that’s when Prototype JS came up. He was reading AJAX blog posts back then because that was the place to find all of your JavaScript news.

JS Specification

JD remembers being really intimidated by JavaScript libraries so he started reading the JavaScript specification. It got him into a deeper understanding of why the language does what it does and realized that there’s actually a document that he could go to and look up exactly why things do what they do.

[06:45] – What was it about JavaScript?

JD has been tinkering with programming languages but what he liked about ActionScript at the time was it is so powerful. You could create games with it or you could script during animations. He eventually created a tool that was a Game Genie for flash games that you could get these decompilers that would show you the variables in the game, and then, you could use JavaScript to manipulate the variables in the flash game. He created a tool that could, for example, change your lives to infinite life, grow your character or access hidden characters that they don’t actually put in the game but they have the animations for it.

JD was led to a page on the web archive called Layer 51 or Proto 51. That was a web page that had a lot of JavaScript or ActionScript snippets. There were things for extending the built-in prototypes - adding array methods or string methods or regex methods. That was how JavaScript became appealing to him. He has been doing JavaScript for almost 20 years. PHP also made him appreciate JavaScript more because, at the time, you couldn’t have that interface.

[09:30] – Lo-Dash, Sandboxed Native, Microsoft

Lo-Dash

Eventually, JD grew to respect jQuery because I became a library author. jQuery is the example of how to create a successful library. It’s almost on 90% of the Internet. He likes that right now but before, he was a hardcore Prototype fanboy. He didn’t like new tools either. He liked augmenting prototypes but over time, he realized that augmenting prototypes wasn’t so great whenever you wanted to include other code on your page because it would have conflict and collisions. Later on, he took Prototype, forked it, and he made it faster and support more things, which is essentially what he did with Lo-Dash.

Sandboxed Native

JD created something called Sandboxed Native, which got him into talking on conferences. Sandboxed Native extends the prototypes for the built-ins for your current frame. It would import new built-ins so you got a new array constructor, a new date constructor, a new regex, or a new string. It wouldn’t collide or step on the built-ins of the current page.

Microsoft

After that, JD ended up transitioning to performance and benchmarking. That landed him his Microsoft job a couple years later.

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• JS Foundation
• Sonarwhal
• Twitter / Github: @jdalton

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John-Daniel Trask is the CEO and developer at Raygun.io.

JD and Chuck talk in this episode about learning to program as a kid, the arc of JD's career, and entrepreneurship.

Links:

• 154 JSJ Raygun.io Error Reporting and Workflow with John-Daniel Trask
• JSJ 263 Moving from Node.js to .NET and Raygun.io with John-Daniel Trask
• C
• C++
• Delphi
• NetScape Navigator
• VBScript
• JQuery
• Mindscape
• Raygun.io
• CoffeeScript
• Visual Studio
• Scott Hanselman on Dark Matter Developers
• Tensorflow
• Stripe
• @traskjd

Picks:

JD:

• Keygen.sh
• Octopus Deploy
• JavaScript x86

Chuck:

• The Miracle Morning
• Meditations App
• Vision Board App
• LootCrate
• Game of Thrones Journal
• Zelda Theme Journal

Panel:

Amy Knight

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Special Guests: 

Nick Disabato

In this episode, Java Script Jabbers talk with Nick Disabato. Nick is a newbie to JavaScript Jabber. Nick is the founder of Draft, an interaction design agency where he does research driven A/B testing of E-commerce business.

This is a practical episode for those who are running a business and doing marketing for the products and services. Nick talks about A/B testing for a number scenarios within the company, such as for websites, funnels, and various marketing mechanisms. Nick further goes into how this helps companies strategically increase revenue by changing things such as websites design or building funnels.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Testing of changes of Copy, Websites, etc.
• What does it mean of changes, Tools, Framework, Plugins, etc
• Does it matter what tools you use? Framework that works within your stack
• How do make we company money
• Researching for the next test
• Testing for conversion rate to decide which design to go implement - Variant
• Responsibility for the designs
• Feature and getting pay for the service
• Learn more about the resources and Copy Hackers
• Large organization or developers, or a QA department
• Optimization teams
• Usability tests and coming up with A/B tests
• Expertise
• Why should be care?
• And much more!

Links:

Draft

Nick Disabato

@nickd

ConversionXL

AB Testing Manual

Wider Funnels 

Copy Hackers

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Amiee

• Nodevember 

Charles

• Mike Gehard 
• Admin LTE

Nick

• HotJar.com

Panel:

Charles Max Wood

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Charles does a solo episode talking about entrepreneurship and the topic/course on “How to Get a Job.” This is an informative episode for those looking for a job as a developer and how to prepare your resume for your career search. Charles covers the core pieces of the course and specific areas of tailoring your credentials for the job you want to acquire.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How do I get a great job? Companies are only hiring Senior Devs.
• Your selling point as a Jr. Dev.
• Framing your experience for the companies to better see your experience.
• I don’t want a ( this kind of boss)
• Feeling like you are making a difference in your job.
• Who do you want to work for, with, where, and how, etc?
• Working in a facility or remotely. What do you want?
• Check out the meet-up places or workplaces (WeWork), Glassdoor
• Check out the people who work that these companies, LinkedIn.
• Check out company’s Slack rooms, forum, etc. to make connections
• Visit the companies personally
• Look into contacting the Meetup Organizers
• Building rapport
• Resume mistakes - how to properly format it so it is skim-able
• Top 3 bullet points and tailor you resume for each job
• Unnecessary material in your resume - again tailor to the company
• Important material to include on your resume, contributions on projects
• The cover letter - How to do this correctly with a personal touch
• What to do when you get the interview - the offer!
• And much more!

Links:

• devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job-full-accessfull-access
• WeWork
• Expert Salary Negotiation

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Ryan Glover

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ryan Glover, Ryan is the COO of Clever Beagle. Clever Beagle is a company that helps people create their first products and begin selling to their customers. Clever Beagle uses platforms like  Meteor JS, Node JS, and React to provide frameworks for help build applications.

Ryan describes their business as a technical therapist for bringing ideas to fruition. Ryan shares his journey into programming by learning to build websites with Geocities. Thereafter, Ryan had began his self-taught journey with programming after learning he did not like his college major. Ryan talks about his contribution to the JS community, his website called Meteor Chef designed to help newbies learn to build with Meteor JS.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Learning Geocites
• Becoming a Self Taught programmer
• Freelancing
• Building WordPress websites and learning JS
• By trade a  being a designer
• Building with JavaScript
• Learning about Meteor on Hacker News in 2013
• Sacha Greif 
• Apollo
• Raw Node JS
• Understanding Webpack?
• Gearheads vs. Builders
• Boilerplates
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• Sacha Greif
• Clever Beagle
• https://www.meteor.com
• https://themeteorchef.com/info/about
• https://cleverbeagle.com/subcribe
• @rglover
• ryanglover.net

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Ryan

• Halt and Catch Fire
• Sacha Greif State of JavaScript
• Tom Coleman

Charles

• React Developer Summit
• JavaScript Developer Summit
• How To Find A Job Course 
• Stranger Things Season 2
• moviepass.com

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Nader Dabit

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Nader Dabit. Nader is a familiar guest on JavaScript Jabber, talking about the state of React Native. Nader is the host of React Native Radio, another podcast on the Dev Chat TV network. Nader is a React Native trainer that does consulting and workshops in major cities in the US.

Nader dives into his background and how he began his journey as a developer. Interestingly, Nader became successful as a developer without any formal training, but, by only learning to code on the job. This is a great episode to learn specific ways to build a career without formal training, and how to present yourself for the job.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• React Native Radio and the React Native world
• React Training and pop up workshops
• How Nader got into programming
• Learning HTML and Web Development
• E-commerce, WordPress
• Nader talks about getting his first job
• Positioning  yourself as a developer for success
• Specialization
• Presenting yourself for the job
• How Nader learn to do JavaScript
• Learning a viable option
• Ionic
• What is it about React Native that interest you?
• React Native In Action - Book!
• React Native Elements 
• Sharing Content
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• React Native In Action
• reactnative.training
• https://github.com/react-native-training
• Ideas anyone?

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Nader

• Audio Book- A Guide To the Good Life 

Charles

• The Way of Kings
• Scratching your own itch!

MJS 038: Peter Cooper

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Charles Max Wood

Guest: Peter Cooper

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Peter Cooper. Peter was one the original panelist on Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber. Currently, Peter runs several weekly new letters on JS, Ruby, Go, React, etc. Peter talks about his journey as a programmer, which started at an early age tinkering with his father’s computer at home. Peter describes the beginning as a hobby until he learned the skills to being programming on many platforms. Peter talks about how he learn Ruby and JavaScript, and in early stages of noodling or learning code. Lastly, Peter talks about his contributions to the community and giving back.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• Playing with computers at an early age
• Computers were a hobby, rather than a career builder then
• Being heavily into to anything can become your career, age does not matter
• Finding the skill or passion in programming
• Natural ability to see and make sense of code
• UseNet
• AJax
• Directness
• Blogging 
• New Letters
• rubyflow.com
• What is the ultimate goal of the new letters?
• Contributions
• Helping host podcasts
• Current work?
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• http://peterc.org
• https://rubyweekly.com
• https://github.com/peterc/
• Cooper Press

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Peter

• Litmus
• Cheap Gaming consoles on eBay
• Jason Scott of archive.org

Charles

• Hyper Drive
• J5
• Dash Pro In-Ear Headphones

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Charles Max Wood

Guest: Tyler Renelle

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tyler Renelle. Tyler is a contractor and developer who has worked in many web technologies like Angular, Rails, React and much more! Tyler is a return guest, previously on Adventure in Angular and JavaScript Jabber talking Ionic and Machine learning.

Tyler has recently expanded his work beyond JavaScript and is on the show to talk his interest in AI or Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. Furthermore, Tyler talks about his early journey as a game developer, web developer, and work with some content management systems, and more recently, his development in various technologies.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Writing games out of college
• Studies computer science in college
• Did web development to pay for college working with PHP and ASP
• Content management
• Working with various technologies
• Working with React, is this it?
• Problems React has solved with web apps
• What is the next big innovation?
• View
• Creating Podcasts
• Machine Learning
• Specialized application of AI
• NLP
• Never use his computer science degree as a web developer
• You don’t study code to be a developer
• AI and machine learn is based on Computer Science
• Tensor Flow
• Data Skeptic - podcast
• Performance
• Graphics cards
• Philosophy of Consciousness
• The subjective experience
• Job displacement phenomenon
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• http://ocdevel.com
• http://ocdevel.com/podcasts/machine-learning
• Tensor Flow
• Data Skeptic - podcast
• https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-278-machine-learning-tyler-renelle
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lefnire

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Tyler

• The Great Courses 

Charles

• CES
• Email beforehand and set up an appointment
• VRBO.com
• Autonomous.ai

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Charles Max Wood

Special Guests: Nishant Thacker

In this episode, JavaScript Jabber speaks with Nishant Thacker. Nishant is the technical product manager for all things big data at Microsoft. Nishant mentions the many new technologies and announcements he is in-charge of at Microsoft.

Nishant is on the show to talk about Big Data and gives advice on how to process data and acquire deep insight of your customers. This is a great episode to understand the development of data systems that are the backbone of some marketing tools.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Processing Metrics
• Processing into report and usable information
• Data lake
• Collecting data points
• Creating and maintaining the data lake in its raw form
• Scale up engines and limits
• Commodity machines and leverage
• Big data means to scale out
• Specialized engines for audio and video files
• How to have a cohesive report?
• Writing and Querying across data
• Storing raw data and retrieve data
• Data cluster
• What does the data box look like?
• And much more!

Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishantthacker
• @nishantthacker

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Nishant

• Robot I

Charles

• Zoom H6
• Shure SM 58
• Lavalier Mics

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Charles Max Wood

Guest: Nick Disabato

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Nick Disabato. Nick is a return guest how was recent on JavaScript Jabber episode 283   talking about AB testing. Also, Nick is an interaction designer from Chicago and runs a consultancy called Draft, who do research AB testing for online stores to increase conversion rate without increase ad spend. Nick talks about his current work, and his journey into programming, more on testing, and contributions to the JavaScript Community.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How much programming do you do day today?
• Programming activities
• Interacting with programmers to deliver products
• What was your introduction to programmer
• Logo - Turtle
• Cue Basic
• How did that get you to where you are today?
• Did not want to be a mathematician
• Never been to art school?
• Being a creative person but not visual
• Describe the creative, design, position you are in.
• Wire Frames
• Verbal communication
• Web development, etc.
• Front facing pages
• How did you get into JavaScript and how much do you have to know?
• Where are the bottlenecks?
• Which framework is the best?
• What are you working on now?
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• https://draft.nu
• https://nickd.org/bio/
• draftsletters.com
• @nickd

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Charles

• Dash Pro 
• convo.com

Nick

• Visual Web Optimizer 
• Designing for Accessibility 

Panel: 

AJ O’Neal

Joe Eames

Aimee Knight

Special Guests: Chris Ferdinandi

In this episode, JavaScript Jabber panelist speak with Chris Ferdinandi. Chris teaches vanilla JavaScript to beginners and those coming from a design background. Chris mentions his background in Web design and Web Develop that led him JavaScript development. Chris and the JSJ panelist discuss the best ways to learn JavaScript, as well as resources for learning JavaScript. Also, some discussion of technologies that work in conjunction with vanilla JavaScript.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Teaching JavaScript - Beginners and Design patrons
• Web Design and Web Development
• CSS Tricks 
• Todd Motto
• How to do jQuery Things without jQuery
• Doing things like mentors (Todd)
• When JavaScript makes sense.
• CSS is easier to learn then JS?
• Being good at CSS and JS at the same time?
• How about Node developers?
• jRuby, DOM
• Documentation
• And much more!

Links:

• https://github.com/cferdinandi
• https://gomakethings.com
• @ChrisFerdinandi
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/cferdinandi
•  

Picks:

AJ

• Discover Card
• Mistborn 

Aimee

• Your Smart Phone is Making You Stupid…
• Crypto Currency

Joe

• Mystic Vale
• Kedi

Chris

• https://gomakethings.com
• Teva Mush

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Aimee Knight

Cory House

AJ O'Neal

Joe Eames

Special Guests: None

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists speak on where they are what they are up to today. Aimee is still in Nashville, Tennessee, and it is currently working at

Built Technologies and is working with JavaScript. Cory is still authoring courses for Pluralsite, has more recently been doing consulting with React, and is the principal engineer at Cox Automotive. Joe is doing a lot of Pluralsight work, puts together conferences, and is working on a new podcast with Charles. AJ recently did some side work with Dash, is interested in working on a new domain service, and recently got married. Charles is currently at ngATL conference, and has been attending a lot of conferences recently. He is also starting to head over to the video realm and is creating a new podcast called React Roundup and a View Podcast with Joe. They also talk about what they each have planned in the upcoming year for their careers and their lives.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Built Technologies
• JavaScript
• Front End and Full Stack
• Pluralsite
• React consulting
• Cox Automotive
• Front end apps
• View and React podcast
• Angular JS to Angular
• Pluralsight courses
• Big Picture React courses
• Fork of Bitcoin called Dash
• New domain service
• ngATL
• React Roundup Podcast
• New podcasts on artificial intelligence, IOT, augmented and virtual reality game development, python
• Node, JavaScript, and Rust
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Linode
• Built Technologies
• Pluralsite
• Cox Automotive
• Dash
• ngATL
• DevChat.tv Youtube
• FreshBooks

Picks:

Charles

• ATR2100 Microphone
• Zoom H6
• Apple AirPods
• ngATL
• ngGirls

Aimee

• Improving Ourselves to Death
• What Does Code Readability Mean?

Cory

• JavaScript Tip Tweet
•  

AJ

• How to Start a Startup YouTube Series
• Singham Movie
•  

Joe

• WebFlow.com

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Aimee Knight

Cory House

AJ O'Neal

Joe Eames

Aaron Frost

Special Guests: Dave Geddes

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk with Dave Geddes about CSS Grids. Dave quit his job about a year ago and has been living the entrepreneur and programmer life since then. Now, he builds mastery games to help people learn CSS. Dave discusses the differences between Flexbox and CSS Grid and how the games that he creates can help people learn CSS Grid in a fun and interactive way.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• CSS Mastery games
• FlexboxZombies.com
• GridCritters.com
• Uses spaced repetition and delayed recall to learn
• CSS Grid
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid as the cake and Flexbox as the frosting
• Edge spec
• What Flexbox can do
• Sub-Grids
• Geddski.com
• Nesting Grids
• Old Grid vs New Grid layout
• Why would you move from Flexbox to CSS Grid?
• CSS Grid tools
• GridByExample.com
• Education and Gamification
• Pick a UI that interests you
• For a discount on Grid Critters: enter JS Jabber for 20% off
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Linode
• FlexboxZombies.com
• GridCritters.com
• Geddski.com
• GridByExample.com
• FreshBooks
• @Geddski

Picks:

Charles

• R Pods Earphones

Aimee

• NEU Cleanse
• “At Age 6, Girls Are Less Likely to Identify Females As ‘Really, Really Smart’”

Cory

• Cory Tweet

AJ

• How to Start a Startup
• Made in America by Sam Walton

Joe

• The Dungeoneers by John David Anderson
• NG Conf

Aaron

• Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

Dave

• They Are Billions

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Aimee Knight

AJ O'Neal

Special Guests: Kitson Kelly

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk with Kitson Kelly about evaluating web frameworks. Kitson is currently in Australia working for ThoughtWorks as a principle technologist. He has written many articles on frameworks and urges that people don’t get stuck on one framework in their programming. He talks about how using only frameworks that you know could hurt you in the long run. This episode is great for understanding when to use certain JavaScript frameworks and how branching out from what is comfortable might make your job easier.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Articles on web frameworks
• How do you pick a JavaScript framework to use?
• The framework depends on your changing needs
• Recommending less popular frameworks
• Angular, Ember, React
• React vs Redux
• Certain domains with different frameworks?
• Each framework takes a different approach
• How to decide which framework to use?
• Only give it a couple days to see if your app works with the framework
• Is it ever appropriate to not use a certain framework?
• Frameworks are there to make your job easier
• Don’t be afraid to try new frameworks
• Choose a framework that will “be there tomorrow”
• What is the future for frameworks?
• Experiment and be honest with what you need
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Linode
• ThoughtWorks
• Kendo UI
• LootCrate
• @KitsonK
• Kitson’s GitHub

Picks:

Charles

• Facebook
• The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moore
• Google Drive for Business

Aimee

• Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?
• URL to PDF Converter
• CSS History

AJ

• Tylenol Cold and Flu Severe

Kitson

• Microsoft Azure
• Zype

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Aimee Knight

Corey House

AJ O'Neal

Special Guests: Ben Coe, Aaron Abramov, and Issac Schleuter

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk with Ben Coe, Aaron Abramov, and Issac Schleuter about test coverage and testing tools. They talk about the different tools and libraries that they have contributed to the coding community, such as NYC, conf, and Jest. They also discuss what test coverage is actually about and when using test coverage tools is necessary.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What have you contributed to the testing tools community?
• npm
• NYC tool and instanbul project
• conf
• Jest
• These libraries were developed to be easy and have “batteries included”
• False positives with test coverage
• Encourage testing practices that don’t practice in a superficial way
• Test coverage is about making sure you test every state a public API can get into
• Think through the test you’re writing first
• Barriers against testing
• Don’t spike the code too quickly
• Provides guardrails for newer developers to contribute to open source projects
• Use tests to understand the system
• How to spend your time better
• When you need tests
• Value is very short term
• TDD
• And much, much more!

Links:

• @BenjaminCoe
• @AaronAbramov_
• Issac’s GitHub

Picks:

Charles

• React Roundup
• Views on Vue
• Adventures in Angular
• React Dev Summit 2018

Aimee

• Galentine’s Day
• Dnote CLI

AJ

• The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

Corey

• We are hive project guidelines
• Tip: You can install node as a dependency on your project

Ben

• Hack Illinois 2018
• C8

Aaron

• Reason

Issac

• The Tap 100
• Krypton App
• Friendly Fire Podcasts

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Aimee Knight
• Joe Eames
• Cory House
• AJ O'Neal

Special Guests: None

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk about React: The Big Picture, Cory’s course on Pluralsight and what React is all about. They discuss both the pros and cons when it comes to using React and when it would be the best to use this library. They also encourage programmers to use React in a more consistent way so that people can share components.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is React: The Big Picture course?
• React
• The frameworks work with each other
• Reason and Elm
• How to decide when using React is the best option?
• React tradeoffs
• JavaScript
• React expects you to do a little more typing and work
• React is very close to JavaScript
• React pushes you towards a single file per component
• React Round Up
• Are the Code Mods as wonderful as they sound?
• Angular
• Create React App
• What are Code Mods?
• Lack of opinionated approach in React
• Using React in a more consistent way
• MobX and Redux
• Start off using just plain React
• When wouldn’t you want to use React?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• React: The Big Picture
• Cory’s Pluralsight
• Reason
• Elm
• React
• JavaScript
• React Round Up
• Create React App
• Angular
• MobX
• Redux
• Framework Summit 2018
• Angular: The Big Picture
• React Dev Summit

Picks:

Charles

• Hunting Hitler
• The Greatest Showman: Sing-a-long

Aimee

• “Why being a perfectionist is an obstacle (and how to beat it)” by Gui Fradin
• “How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?” blog post

Joe

• Marital Bliss Card Game

AJ

• Pplwink.com

Panel:

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

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

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

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

Links:

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

Picks:

Charles

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

Aimee

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

Joe

• SaltCON
• Stuffed Fables Board Game

AJ

• UniFi AC Lite
• Fullmetal Alchemist

Orta

• The Wire
• Worm Web Serial

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Quincy Larson

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Quincy Larson. Quincy created Free Code Camp, whose goal is to build a huge community of people who will then contribute to the project so that they can help more people learn code for free. Quincy first got into programming when he wanted to find a way to get teachers out from behind the computer and into the classrooms. This revealed to him how powerful technology was and really got him interested in learning more code. He feels very strongly about the importance of accessibility and strived to make his camp as accessible as he could so he could reach the most people with it. 

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Free Code Camp
• How did you first get into programming?
• Previously a school director and teacher
• AutoHotkey
• How did you get into JavaScript?
• Focused on the problem of learning the code
• Free Code Camp was his main focus as a programmer
• The importance of accessibility
• Free Code Camp curriculum
• New update launching soon
• Build projects in order to get a certificate
• 6 certificates in total
• What is the work breakdown with Free Code Camp?
• Editorial staff now
• Free Code Camp YouTube Channel
• Writes on Medium
• Loves the fact that he gets to help others and positively affect their lives
• What else are you working on now?
• Beta.freeCodeCamp.org
• Expanding Free Code Camp Directory
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Free Code Camp
• AutoHotkey
• JavaScript
• Free Code Camp YouTube Channel
• Quincy’s Medium
• Beta.freeCodeCamp.org
• @Ossia
• Free Code Camp Medium

Picks

Charles

• VRBO
• Mesquite, Nevada
• Upside.com

Quincy

• The state of machine learning in JavaScript
• Tensor Fire

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Cory House
• Aimee Knight
• Joe Eames
• AJ O'Neal

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk about the Framework Summit. It was the brainchild of Merrick Christensen. This summit includes talks on multiple different frameworks all in a two-day conference, which allows you to get exposed to new frameworks while still learning more about the framework your job requires you to use. Another goal of the conference is that it will be able to open people’s eyes up to the different frameworks available to them and show that no one framework is superior to another.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is the Framework Summit?
• The framework you use plays a huge role in your programming
• For people who want to learn about more than one framework
• Allows you to explore
• The format of the conference
• Park City, Utah in October 2018
• Helps you answer which framework should you use?
• Goal is to open people’s eyes up to other frameworks
• Decrease internet arguments over which framework is better
• Fluent Conference
• Get to have conversation with other people who work in your framework
• Making connections
• React Rally Talk Evan Czaplicki
• The context matters
• Being able to deep dive into the different frameworks
• Using frameworks in conjunction with one another
• Have you seen “religionist” themes in programming frameworks?
• Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
• Some people will never look beyond their frameworks
• If it’s working, why would you mess with it?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• React Dev Summit
• JS Dev Summit
• Framework Summit
• Angular
• React
• Ember
• JavaScript
• Fluent Conference
• React Rally Talk Evan Czaplicki
• Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
• @FrameworkSummit

Picks:

Charles

• Parked Out By the Lake Dustin Christensen
• DevChat.tv
• Newspaper by Themeforest

Cory

• Quokka

Aimee

• Republic of Tea – Apple Cider Vinegar Tea
• The Way of Testivus

Joe

• Evan Czaplicki Talk

AJ

• Dinosaurs
• Cough Syrup by Young the Giant