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JSJ 411: Unit Testing Jest with Daniel Caldas

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Published On :: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500

Daniel Caldas is calling from Singapore. He currently works as a software engineer for Zendesk and has also worked in Portugal and Germany. He has worked primarily on the frontend with Node and JavaScript. He talks about his experience testing JavaScript, how he got started with Jest, and why he likes it. Daniel finds Jest very easy to use and straightforward. He likes that Jest has a single reference page for documentation. He feels that Jest is largely complete out of the box and has only made a small add on to get rid of Boilerplate in some tests.

Daniel explains what a snapshot, how they work, and why he prefers fixtures over factories. He gives tips on how to set up your tests so that they are easy to follow. He finds it helps to structure your scenarios in the fixture description. He talks about gotchas in Jest. While Jest is largely easy to use, Jest has been around for a while and breaking changes do happen. It’s important to check what version your code base is using. While there are a lot of free sources around Jest online, he advises listeners to stick as close to the official documentation as possible, or to people associated with Jest, and to read recent stuff. As for conventions, Jest has pretty much everything out of the box and the built in conventions make it easy to navigate any project that uses Jest.

Daniel talks about some of the features available in Jest, converting observables into promises, and tricks he has used to make tests easier to put together. He talks about his method for keeping his mocks and stubs straight. He advises listeners to have some organizational rules, such as starting the imports alphabetically, and to always follow those rules. He talks about how he runs tests and what environments he uses. While Jest is normally used for unit testing, Daniel has also used it for end to end tests, and he talks about his experience with an open source project doing both types in Jest. Daniel concludes the show by advising listeners starting with JavaScript and frontend, don’t think too much about the library you’re going to use because you’ll probably end up using Jest. It’s more important to have unit tests and a proper testing framework at the beginning than anything else. He also invites listeners to check out his open source work on Github.

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JSJ 412: Svelte and Sapper with Svelte Master

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Published On :: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500

Noah, a.k.a. Svelte Master, is from Indiana and recently moved to San Francisco. He has been given title Computational Linguist by SoundHound. He starts the show by talking about his Youtube channel all about Svelte. Svelte is a JavaScript framework similar to React and Vue. When you write components, Svelte will compile it into Vanilla JS, CSS, or HTML, and create a small bundle that will be sent to the client. Svelte is a ‘disappearing framework’, so your bundles come out as DOM APIs and there is no Svelte in the end result. Because the Svelte framework doesn’t send with the bundle, bundle sizes are significantly smaller, and it runs on all browsers. Noah shares some Svelte’s performance statistics. Sapper is a companion technology to Svelte that gives you server side rendering, routing, code splitting, and other features.

Noah talks about how to write plugins for Svelte and embedding components. One main difference between Svelte and other frameworks is that it lacks a virtual DOM. This is because since it is just compiling down to JavaScript and the framework is not sent with the package, it doesn’t need a virtual DOM and instead updates as things change. Noah talks more about how this works. Some of Svelte Master’s favorite things about Svelte is that you write less code, especially unnecessary code, and state management is simple. He talks about how routing is handled through other tools like Sapper. The panel talks about methods for testing a Svelte app, adding Svelte components into a website, and pulling in third party libraries. They discuss whether there are things that you can’t do with Svelte that would require React or Vue. The show ends with Noah talking about what the future holds for Svelte and how to get started with it.

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Steve Edwards
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JSJ 413: JavaScript Jabber at RxJs Live

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Published On :: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber Charles Max Wood does interviews at RxJS Live. His first interview is with Hannah Howard at RxJS Live about her talk. Hannah is really enthusiastic about RxJS especially when it comes to frontend development. Her talk is about how to architect full-scale apps with RxJS. Hannah gives a brief summary of her talk. Charles having met Hanna previously at Code Beam asks her how functional programming and reactive programming work together in her mind. Hannah describes how she sees programming.

Charles’s next interview is with Ben Lesh, a core team member of RxJS. Ben has been working on RxJS for the last four years. In his talk, he shares the future of RxJs, the timeline for versions 7 and 8. With Charles, he discusses his work on RxJS and the adoption of RxJS.

Next, Charles interviews Sam Julien and Kim Maida. They gave a talk together covering the common problems developers have when learning RxJS. In the talk, they share tips for those learning RxJS. Charles wonders what inspired them to give this talk. Both share experiences where they encouraged someone to use RxJS but the learning curve was to steep. They discuss the future of RxJS adoptions and resources.

Finally, Charles interviews Kim alone about her second talk about RxJS and state management. She explains to Charles that many state management libraries are built on RxJS and that it is possible to roll out your own state management solution with RxJS. They discuss why there are so many different state management libraries. Kim shares advice for those looking to roll out their own solutions.

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Charles Max Wood

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Hannah Howard
Ben Lesch
Sam Julien
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JSJ 414: JavaScript Jabber Still at RxJs Live

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Published On :: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber Charles Max Wood continues interviewing speakers at RxJS Live. First, he interviews Mike Ryan and Sam Julien. They gave a talk about Groupby, a little known operator. They overview the common problems other mapping operators have and how Groupby addresses these problems. The discuss with Charles where these types of operators are most commonly used and use an analogy to explain the different mapping operators.

Next, Charles talks to Tracy Lee. Her talk defines and explains the top twenty operators people should use. In her talk, she shows real-world use cases and warns against gotchas. Tracy and Charles explain that you don’t need to know all 60 operators, most people only need about 5-10 to function. She advises people to know the difference between the different types of operators. Tracy ends her interview by explaining her desire to inspire women and people of minority groups. She and Charles share their passion for diversity and giving everyone the chance to do what they love.

Dean Radcliffe speaks with Charles next and discusses his talk about making React Forms reactive. They discuss binding observables in React and how Dean used this in his business. He shares how he got inspired for this talk and how he uses RxJS in his everyday work.

The final interview is with Joe Eames, CEO of Thinkster. Joe spoke about error handling. He explains how he struggled with this as did many others so he did a deep dive to find answers to share. In his talk, he covers what error handling is and what it is used for. Joe outlines where most people get lost when it comes to error handling. He also shares the three strategies used in error handling, Retry, Catch and Rethrow and, Catch and Replace. Charles shares his admiration for the Thinkster teaching approach. Joe explains what Thinkster is about and what makes them special. He also talks about The DevEd podcast.

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Charles Max Wood

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Tracy Lee
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JSJ 415: Progressive Web Apps with Maximiliano Firtman

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Published On :: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile web developer from Buenos Ares, Argentina. He has been a developer for 24 years and his most recent focus has been on progressive web apps, or PWAs. Steve and Max reflect on the technologies they were using when they first got started in web development and talk about their experience with mobile development. One area that Max emphasized was bringing the web into the mobile space. They discuss the progression of web access on mobile and some of the available tools. Max notes that responsible design has a very high cost in web performance for mobile devices, which requires unique approaches. They discuss some of the issues with latency in mobile, even on 4G. The solution to this latency is PWAs.

Progressive web apps are a set of best practices to create web apps that are installable. They can work offline at high speeds on several operating systems. Once installed, it looks like any other app on the system. Max delves into more details on how it works. He talks about how the resources for your application are managed. He assures listeners that it’s just a website that’s using a new API, they’re not changing the way the web works, and that when that API is there, the app can be installed. It will also generally use your default browser. Steve and Max discuss how local data is stored with PWAs. To write PWAs, you can use Angular, React, JavaScript, or Vue, and it’s a pretty transparent process. Max talks about some common tools used for local storage and some of the PWAs he’s worked on in the past. The benefit of using PWAs is that they generally run faster than regular web apps. To get started, Max advises listeners to install one and start exploring.

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JSJ 416: GraphQL Developer Tools with Sean Grove

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Published On :: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:00:00 -0500

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews Sean Grove from OneGraph; asking him questions about GraphQL tooling and common complaints about GraphQL. Sean starts by explaining what GraphQL is and how it benefits frontend developers. GraphiQL is a frontend open sourced tool produced by OneGraph, Sean explains how this handy tool simplifies GraphQL.

Authentication and authorization are one of the biggest criticisms of GraphQL. Sean walks the panel through the solution, getting a schema definition language and adding directives to build a simple authentication and authorization. The panel defines authentication and authorization and explains the difference.

The next issue common with GraphQL that the panel discusses is migration. Sean explains how OneGraph helps with migration using a Rust network layer and how it works. They also discuss how to migrate without this tool. Without the tool it is painful and he recommends incremental migration.

Sean explains that another problem in GraphQL is poor documentation. He explains why the documentation is poor and explains how they hope to fix it at OneGraph. The last issue they cover is the length of queries. Sean tells the panel how they can handle this problem with depth analysis or persistent queries. The episode ends with an elevator pitch for Reason.

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Aimee Knight
AJ O’Neal
Charles Max Wood
Dan Shappir

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Sean Grove

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JSJ 417: Serverless with Microsoft Azure with Burke Holland

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Published On :: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Burke Holland works for Microsoft on the Azure team in developer relations. He starts the show talking about how he got started in serverless. He’s careful to note that just because things are marketed as serverless doesn’t always make them so. In order for something to be serverless, it must be sufficiently abstracted in terms of technology, only require payment for what is used, and infinitely scalable. He talks about the statelessness of serverless, and the panel discusses what it means to be stateless. Burke reminds listeners that serverless is not for long-lived operations, but there are features in serverless providers that can help you get around this. Burke talks about how writing serverless code differs from standard or previous coding approaches and practices. He advises that serverless functions are best kept small, and talks about how to fit them in with other kinds of APIs.

The panelists talk about the multi-cloud and why people would want to be on multiple cloud servers. Burke talks about what Microsoft has done with Serverless Frameworks to accomplish multi-cloud compatibility. The JavaScript experts discuss the advantages and disadvantages of picking JavaScript over other languages, and Burke talks about why he prefers TypeScript and the Easy-Off feature. They talk about speed on a serverless platform, especially concerning the cold start time, which Azure is relentlessly trying to lower. He does talk about some things that can be done to decrease load time and about premium functions. The panel discusses how to debug serverless functions and tools that are available, such as the Azure Functions extension.

They talk about ways to set up more secure functions to keep things from racking up charges. Burke talks about some things Microsoft does internally to control cloud costs, such as sending monthly reports with reminders to delete and using tools like Azure Reaper to delete short-lived projects. Azure can also put spending caps on subscriptions, but when you hit that cap you can’t serve any more requests. Burke concludes by saying that most of the time, going serverless is a lower-cost way to improve productivity, and because it’s event-driven, it allows you to tie into things that you’re already doing in the cloud. Serverless almost always justifies itself from an ease of use point of view and a cost point of view.

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MJS 133: Jonathan Martin

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Published On :: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:00:00 -0500

My JavaScript Story this week welcomes Jonathan Lee Martin. Jonathan is an educator, speaker, and author. He has been a developer since high school and he started out by teaching at Big Nerd Ranch and currently has his own teaching brand. He teaches career switchers and senior developers and also has written a book "Functional Design Patterns for Express.js". Teaching career switchers has led him to adopt a pedagogy approach to teaching where he focuses on getting people to absorb relevant information faster. Some of the lessons he has learned when working with career switchers is the role of failure in the classroom. He noticed when something did not work in their code career switchers tended to want to start out again instead of debugging what was wrong with the code. Jonathan had to show that most of developing is turning failure into success and getting code that doesn't work bu debugging and asking for help.

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JSJ 418: Security Scary Stories and How to Avoid Them with Kevin A McGrail

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 06:00:00 -0500

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews security expert, Kevin A. McGrail. He starts by explaining what security frameworks and what they do. The panel wonders how to know if your developers are capable of self-auditing your security or if you need help. Kevin shares recommendations for companies to look at to answer that question.

Aimee Knight explains the hell she has been in making changes to be compliant with CCPA. The panel considers how policies like this complicate security, are nearly impossible to be compliant with and how they can be weaponized. They discuss the need for technical people to be involved in writing these laws.

Kevin explains how you can know how secure your systems actually are. He shares the culture of security first he tries to instill in the companies he trains. He also trains them on how to think like a bad guy and explains how this helps developers become security first developers. The panel discusses how scams have evolved and how the same scams are still being run. They consider the importance of automated training and teaching developers to do it right the first time.

Finally, they consider the different ways of authentication, passwords, passphrases, sim card, biometrics. Kevin warns against oversharing or announcing vacations. The panel discusses real-world tactics bad guys use. Kevin explains what he trains people to do and look out for to increase security with both social engineering and technical expertise.

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Aimee Knight
AJ O’Neal
Charles Max Wood
Dan Shappir
Steve Edwards

Guest

Kevin A McGrail

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MJS 134: Maximiliano Firtman

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 06:00:00 -0500

My JavaScript Story this week welcomes Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile web developer from Buenos Ares, Argentina. He has been a developer for 24 years and his most recent focus has been on progressive web apps.

Maximiliano started coding when he was 11 years old by creating games and digital magazines. He got into web development by learning HTML in college.

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JSJ 419: Google App Script with Ben Collins

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Published On :: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Today’s guest is Ben Collins, who creates online courses, writes tutorials, and teaches workshops around G Suite and App Script. Apps Script is a scripting platform developed by Google for light-weight application development in the G Suite platform. It is an implementation of JavaScript with the express purpose of extending Google apps. App Script was started 10 years ago as a side project, and it eventually took on its own life. Ben talks about some of the different things that App Script can do and where things are stored. They discuss different ways you can get into the script and how to import external scripts from a CDN. Ben gives two examples, one simple and one sophisticated, that you might build from App Script. He talks about event triggers and how authentication is handled. He goes over the three deployment options, namely web app, app executable, sheets add-on, and deploying from the manifest. Ben talks about how triggers are managed in App Script and options for debugging. There is also the option to develop locally as well as in the browser. The show ends with him talking about how to build using HTML in App Script.

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Aimee Knight
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Ben Collins

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MJS 135: Paul Cowan

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Published On :: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0500

My JavaScript Story this week welcomes Paul Cowan. Paul works as a consultant in front end development. He learned how to program at a really early age but didn't own an email address until he was 30 years old. When he was 30 years old he wanted to change his lifestyle and attended a course in London and took a job as a software developer.

Paul was interested in React because, for him, much of programming didn’t make a whole lot of sense until he read about the flux model and React Redux was one of the few frameworks that followed the flux model. Spending most of his life outside of the programming world has granted him a unique perspective framework like React.

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JSJ 420: OpenAPI, Redoc, and API Documentation with Adam Altman

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Published On :: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Adam dives into how to document your application using OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) and then how to generate great documentation for your API's using Redoc. He gives us the history of Redoc, breaks down the process for building API documentation, and understanding the OpenAPI specification.

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Steve Edwards

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Adam Altman

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MJS 136: Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent

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Published On :: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0500

This My JavaScript Story episode is a discussion with Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent. Kaelig works on the Polaris design system from Shopify. We walk through his journey into programming, HTML, and CSS. We wander through is career until he was building design systems at Shopify.

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MJS 137: Florian Rival

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Florian Rival is a React developer who has built his own game engine. He's been a guest on both React Round Up and React Native Radio. This episode provides you a walkthrough on using gDevelop to build games from scratch and goes into his history as a game developer.

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JSJ 421: Semantic HTML with Bruce Lawson

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:10:00 -0500

Bruce Lawson is an expert in and proponent of semantic HTML. After receiving some good natured ribbing, Bruce walks the panel through the benefits of semantic HTML. He provides several examples on how it's used and in particular how it helps with other issues like accessibility and navigability on your websites.

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Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood
Dan Shappir

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Bruce Lawson

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MJS 138: Carl Mungazi

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Published On :: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 06:01:00 -0500

Carl is a developer from Zimbabwe currently living in London. He explains how he started out as a journalist and wound up doing web development to keep track of news stories coming out in his local area. He leveled up by attending meetups and talking to other developers. He currently works for LimeJump, an energy startup which is creating a virtual power plant by connecting together different power assets

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JSJ 422: CSS and Houdini with Una Kravets

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Published On :: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 06:06:00 -0500

Una Kravets talks to the panel about CSS and its future. We dive into what Houdini is and how much of it is implemented in the browsers. She explains how the changes outlined in Houdini will improve the user experience on the web and developer experience for web developers.

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MJS 139: Radoslav Stankov

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Published On :: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Rado Stankov is the Head of Engineering at Product Hunt. He's based in Sofia Bulgaria. He walks us through learning Pascal and PHP and Flash. We then dive into Ruby and JavaScript and what he's working on now at Product Hunt.

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JSJ 423: State of JS

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Published On :: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 06:03:00 -0500

The panelists discuss that latest State of JS survey. They begin talking about the merits and methods of the survey and then discuss the value you can extract from the survey. They also consider the various comparisons and trends presented by the survey and what they may mean.

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Charles Max Wood
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MJS 140: Tommy Hodgins

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Published On :: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:00:00 -0400

Tommy Hodgins is a developer that typically works on A/B tests figuring out how to get websites the outcomes they want. He got into JavaScript and front-end technologies and then read a paper that led him to realize the capabilities of writing software to solve problems. He maintains a front-end focus with his A/B testing work and CSS in JS and other work.

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JSJ 424: UI5 and web components with Peter Muessig

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Published On :: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:01:00 -0400

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panelists and guest delve into the advantages of the shadow dom, transitioning from polymer js polyfills to native web components when moving for SAP UI to UI5, which works within React, Vue, Angular, and others.

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AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight
Steve Edwards
Dan Shappir

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Peter Müßig
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MJS 141: Jared Palmer

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Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0400

Jared Palmer has been a guest on 3 different shows on Devchat.tv. He's talked to us about Formik, Razzle, and React. He's taking a break from consulting to build up Formik, Inc and tools for forms. He got started in programming by taking a programming class at Cornell on a lark and quickly transitioned out of Investment Banking after graduating from university. His first apps were custom lock screens for mobile phones. We then move through framer and CoffeeScript and eventually in to JavaScript and React.

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined By Special Guest: Jared Palmer

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JSJ 425: The Evolution of JavaScript

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Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 06:05:00 -0400

Dan Shappir takes the lead and walks the panel through the history of JavaScript and a discussion on ES6, TypeScript, the direction and future of JavaScript, and what features to be looking at and looking for in the current iteration of JavaScript.

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AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood
Steve Edwards
Dan Shappir

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JSJ 426: Killing the Release Night with Progressive Delivery with Dave Karow

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Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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Dave Karow is a developer evangelist for Split. He dives into how you can deliver software sustainably without burning out. His background is in performance and he's moved into smooth deliveries. He pushes the ideas behind continuous delivery and how to avoid getting paid to stay late in "free" pizzas.

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AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood
Dan Shappir

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Dave Karow

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MJS 142: Daniel Caldas

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Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0400

Daniel Caldas is a Portuguese developer working and living in Singapore. He learned to code in high school programming in Pascal. He moved up to the university and that's where he encountered JavaScript. He wound up doing a bunch of design work, static websites, and jQuery. He explains his journey and learning methods leading to a job working for Zendesk on their CRM.

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined By Special Guest: Daniel Caldas

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JSJ 427: How to Start a Side Hustle as a Programmer with Mani Vaya

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Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to talk about how developers can add the enterepreneur hat to the others they wear by starting a side gig. They discuss various ideas around entrepreneurship, the books they got them from, and how they've applied them in their own businesses.

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Charles Max Wood

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Mani Vaya

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MJS 143: Paige Niedringhaus

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Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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Paige Niedringhaus started her career as a Digital Marketer before making the move to becoming a software developer at the Home Depot. She current works with React and Node building internal apps for them. This episode discusses the ins and outs of making that transition in a semi-recent world and community.

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined By Special Guest: Paige Niedringhaus

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JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements

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Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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Dan Shappir takes the lead to explain all of the acronyms and metrics for measuring the performance of your web applications. He leads a discussion through the ins and outs of monitoring performance and then how to improve and check up on how your website is doing.

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AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight
Steve Edwards
Dan Shappir

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AJ O’Neal:

The Way of Kings
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New accessibility feature in Chrome Dev Tools: simulate vision deficiencies, including blurred vision & various types of color blindness. In Canary at the bottom of the Rendering tab.
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MJS 144: Josh Ponelat

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Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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Josh Ponelat is Software Architect at SmartBear working on Swagger and OpenAPI. He's from South Africa. Josh's father is a programmer and was heavily influenced by his father. He started with ANSI-C and hacking on shells. He studied graphic design in school. He got back into programming in PHP and MySQL and wound up transitioning to JavaScript.

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined By Special Guest: Josh Ponelat

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Charles Max Wood:

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MJS 145: Varya Stepanova

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Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:03:00 -0400

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Varya is an expert in design systems. She talks about the process of working in and building design systems. She learned basic Pascal at school. She did programming exercises on paper. She then got into building web pages for groups she was a part of. She then picked up PHP and went professional at that point. On the front-end, she began picking up JavaScript and worked using Yandex's internal framework. Follow here story through the rest of the podcast.

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined By Special Guest: Varya Stepanova

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JSJ 429: Learning about Postman with Joyce Lin

By devchat.tv
Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:04:00 -0400

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Join us as we talk to Joyce Lin, a developer relations advocate with Postman, and we talk about this amazing tool for interacting with APIs. We discuss it’s more well-known features, and also learn about other less well known, but very powerful features that allow users to greatly increase the usefulness of the tool, both for front end and back end developers.

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Aimee Knight
Steve Edwards

Guest

Joyce Lin

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Steve Edwards:

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JSJ 430: Learning JavaScript in 2020 with Matt Crook

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Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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Matt Crook joins the conversation to talk with the JavaScript Jabber panel to talk about his experience going through Nashville Software School. The panel discusses and asks questions about getting into programming, working through the bootcamp, and what prospects are for bootcamp graduates.

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AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood
Steve Edwards
Dan Shappir

Guest

Matt Crook

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Swolenormous
Fireship
Static Headz
Yugen

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JSJ 431: Personal Branding for Developers with Morad Stern

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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The JSJ panel talks with Morad Stern from Wix about personal branding; what it is, why it’s important for developers, and how to build it.

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Steve Edwards
AJ O’Neal
Dan Shappir

Guest

Morad Stern

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AJ O’Neal:

Steve Edwards:

Follow Steve on Twitter > @wonder95, Website
Six13 Uptown Passover - an "Uptown Funk" adaptation for Pesach

Dan Shappir:

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Scott Lynch

Morad Stern:

Follow Morad on Twitter > @morad
This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See: Seth Godin

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MJS 146: Håkon Krogh

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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Håkon Krogh is a Norweigan developer who focuses on web performance. We start out discussing working from home in the current pandemic. His current company works in Product Information Management. It's a headless ecommerce system. We dive into his experience learning learning to build applications and learning JavaScript and leading a team.

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined By Special Guest: Håkon Krogh

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JSJ 432: Internet of Things (IoT) with Joe Karlsson

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Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 06:00:00 -0400

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Joe Karlsson is a developer advocate at MongoDB. He and the panel walk through the different approaches, uses, and libraries for building IoT with JavaScript

Panel

Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood
AJ O’Neal
Dan Shappir
Steve Edwards

Guest

Joe Karlsson

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AJ O’Neal:

Aimee Knight:

Cutting Your own Hair
Joe's Appartment

Charles Max Wood:

Steve Edwards:

Pearls Before Swine

Dan Shappir:

Joe Karlsson:

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Human Papillomavirus Vaccination for Adults

By jamanetwork.com
Published On :: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ 2019 updated recommendations for human papillomavirus vaccination for adults.

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Association Between Genetically Proxied Inhibition of HMG-CoA Reductase and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

This study uses mendelian randomization to estimate the associations between genetic variants related to reduced HMG-CoA reductase activity and epithelial ovarian cancer in the general population and in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.

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