Check out Newbie Remote Conf! July 13-15, 2016

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

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

On today's JavaScript Jabber Show, Charles Max Wood, AJ O'neal, Aimee Knight, Joe Eames, and Cory House discuss Docker for Developers with Derick Bailey. Derick is currently into Docker and has been doing a series on it at WatchMeCode. He is also writing an ebook titled Docker Recipes for Node.js Development which aims to provide solutions for things that concern Node.js. Stay tuned to learn more about Docker and the ebook which Derick is working on!

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Adam Baldwin. Adam is the team lead at Lift Security and founder and organizer of the Node Security Project (NSP). He appeared on episode 89, and talked about NSP in 2013. Learn more about what he's passionate about and how his life navigated towards programming. Tune in!

Panel:

Amy Knight

Charles Max Wood

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

Picks:

Amiee

• Nodevember 

Charles

• Mike Gehard 
• Admin LTE

Nick

• HotJar.com

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

AJ O’Neal

Joe Eames

Special Guests: Adam Baldwin

In this episode, JavaScript Jabber panelist speak with Adam Baldwin. Adam is a return guest and has many years of application security experience. Currently, Adam runs the Node Security Project/Node Security Platform, and Lift Security. Adam discusses the latest of security of Node Security with Charles and AJ. Discussion topics cover security in other platforms, dependencies, security habits, breaches, tokens, bit rot or digital atrophy, and adding security to your development.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What is  the Node Security Project/Node Security Platform
• Dependency trees
• NPM
• Tokens and internal data
• What does Node Security do for me?
• NPX and NSP
• Command Line CIL
• Bit Rot or Digital Atrophy
• How often should you check repos.
• Advisories
• If I NPM install?
• Circle CI or Travis
• NSP Check
• What else could I add to the securities?
• Incorporate security as you build things
• How do you find the vulnerabilities in the NPM packages
• Two Factor authentication for NPM
• Weak Passwords
• OL Dash?
• Install Scripts
• Favorite Security Story?
• And much more!

Links:

• Node Security 
• Lift Security
• https://github.com/evilpacket
• @nodesecurity
• @liftsecurity
• @adam_baldwin

Picks:

Adam

• Key Base
• Have I been Pwned?

Charles

• Nettie Pot 
• convo.com

AJ

• This Episode with Adam Baldwin
• Free the Future of Radical Price
• Made In America Sam Walton
• Sonic - VGM Album

Joe

• Pych - Movie
• NG Conf
• Why We Don’t Suck

Panel: 

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

Picks

Charles

• Dash Pro 
• convo.com

Nick

• Visual Web Optimizer 
• Designing for Accessibility 

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Cory House
• Aimee Knight

Special Guests: Ben Titzer

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists discuss WebAssembly and JavaScript with Ben Titzer. Ben is a JavaScript VM engineer and is on the V8 team at Google. He was one of the co-inventors of WebAssembly and he now works on VM engineering as well as other things for WebAssembly. They talk about how WebAssembly came to be and when it would be of most benefit to you in your own code.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Ben intro
• JavaScript
• Co-inventor of WebAssembly (Wasm)
• Joined V8 in 2014
• asm.js
• Built a JIT compiler to make asm.js faster
• TurboFan
• What is the role of JavaScript? What is the role of WebAssembly?
• SIMD.js
• JavaScript is not a statically typed language
• Adding SIMD to Wasm was easier
• Easy to add things to Wasm
• Will JavaScript benefit?
• Using JavaScript with Wasm pros and cons
• Pros to compiling with Wasm
• Statically typed languages
• The more statically typed you are, the more you will benefit from Wasm
• TypeScript
• Is WebAssembly headed towards being used in daily application?
• Rust is investing heavily in Wasm
• WebAssembly in gaming
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript
• V8
• WebAssembly
• asm.js
• TurboFan
• TypeScript
• Rust
• WebAssembly GitHub
• Ben’s GitHub

Picks:

Charles

• Ready Player One Movie
• DevChat.tv YouTube
• Alexa Flash Briefings: Add skill for “JavaScript Rants”

Cory

• npm Semantic Version Calculator
• Kent Beck Tweet

Aimee

• MDN 418 Status code
• Quantity Always Trumps Quality blog post

Ben

• American Politics

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Aimee Knight
• AJ ONeal
• Joe Eames

Special Guests: Henry Zhu

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Henry Zhu about Babel and open source software. Henry is one of the maintainers on Babel, which is a JavaScript compiler, and recently left this job to work on doing open source full time as well as working on Babel. They talk about where Babel is today, what it actually is, and his focus on his open source career. They also touch on how he got started in open source, his first PR, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Henry intro
• Babel update
• Sebastian McKenzie was the original creator of Babel
• Has learned a lot about being a maintainer
• What is Babel?
• JavaScript compiler
• You never know who your user is
• Has much changed with Babel since Sebastian left?
• Working on open source
• How did you get started in pen source?
• The ability to learn a lot from open source
• Atrocities of globalization
• More decentralization from GitHub
• Gitea and GitLab
• Gitea installer
• Open source is more closed now
• His first PR
• JSCS
• Auto-fixing
• Prettier
• Learning more about linting
• You don’t have to have formal training to be successful
• Codefund.io
• Sustainability of open source
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Babel
• JavaScript
• Gitea
• GitLab
• Gitea installer
• Prettier
• Codefund.io
• @left_pad
• Henry’s GitHub
• henryzoo.com
• Henry’s Patreon

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Sentry
• Digital Ocean

Picks:

Charles

• Orphan Black
• Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson

Aimee

• Desk with cubby holes for cats
• The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind blog post

AJ

• Gitea
• Gitea installer
• Greenlock

Joe

• Solo
• Justified

Henry

• Celeste
• Zeit Day talks

Panel:

• Aimee Knight
• Joe Eames
• AJ ONeal

Special Guests: Jeremy Fairbank

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Jeremy Fairbank about his talk Practical Functional Programming. Jeremy is a remote software developer and consultant for Test Double. They talk about what Test Double is and what they do there and the 6 things he touched on in his talk, such as hard to follow code, function composition, and mutable vs immutable data. They also touch on the theory of unit testing, if functional programming is the solution, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Jeremy intro
• Works for Test Double
• What he means by “remote”
• What is Test Double?
• They believe software is broken and they are there to fix it
• His talk - Practical Functional Programming
• The 6 things he talked about in his talk
• Practical aspects that any software engineer is going to deal with
• Purity and the side effects of programming in general
• Hard to follow code
• Imperative VS declarative code
• Code breaking unexpectedly
• Mutable data VS immutable data
• The idea of too much code
• Combining multiple functions together to make more complex functions
• Function composition
• Elm, Elixir, and F#
• Pipe operator
• Scary to refactor code
• Static types
• The idea of null
• The theory of unit testing
• Is functional programming the solution?
• His approach from the talk
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Test Double
• His talk - Practical Functional Programming
• Elm
• Elixir
• F#
• @elpapapollo
• jeremyfairbank.com
• Jeremy’s GitHub
• Jeremy’s YouTube

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Sentry
• Digital Ocean

Picks:

Aimee

• American Dollar
• Force with lease

AJ

• Superfight

Joe

• The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap by Brandon Morelli
• Svelte

Jeremy

• Programming Elm
• The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg
• Connect.Tech

Sponsors:

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

Host: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Bart Wood

Episode Summary

In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood speaks with his namesake Bart Wood. They talked about tools for tracking and monitoring problems while using apps.  One app in particular was able to track new releases and errors, automatically scrub passwords to secure information as well as customize the scrubbing process while allowing users to provide feedback. 

Charles delves into the past of Bart Wood who has been working with the same company, Henry Shine.  He started studying Economics before he got into programming by chance and eventually ended up graduating with a Masters in Computer Science.  Initially Bart had misconceptions of computing and eventually realized that it was not only about maintaining the OS system and learning keyboard strokes, but creating new apps and delving into the world of creating new software.

Sponsors

• Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus
• Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit
• Linode offers $20 credit
• CacheFly

Panel

• Joe Eames

• AJ O’Neal

Episode Summary

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Joe Eames and AJ O’Neal talk about what TypeScript is, and their background and experiences with it. They discuss the different kinds of typed languages such as dynamic vs static, strong vs weak, implicit vs explicit casting and the reasons for selecting one type over the other. AJ shares his opinion on not preferring TypeScript in general, while Joe offers a counter perspective on liking it, and both give a number of reasons to support each argument. They talk about some final good and bad points about TypeScript and move on to picks.

Links

• TypeScript
• CoffeeScript

Follow JavaScript Jabber on Devchat.tv, Facebook and Twitter.

Picks

Joe Eames:

• Cypress
• What if your dev environment was a PWA? ???? | Eric Simons
• Angular 8 Intergalactic
• Star Wars Tantive IV Lego set

AJ O’Neal:

• Measure What Matters
• @root on npm
• @bluecrypt on npm

Sponsors

• Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan
• CacheFly

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined By Special Guest: Jeremy Fairbank

Episode Summary

Jeremy is a Software Developer at Test Double and the author of Programming Elm book. Even though Jeremy majored in Chemistry in college, he was always interested in programming since middle school. After he graduated from college he went to work as a web developer at Plastic Industries and relied on blog posts and other online resources to teach himself how to code. Gradually as the company’s needs changed, Jeremy transitioned into an application developer. He taught himself JavaScript using the book Professional JavaScript for Web Developers . He then attented a Coursera classto learn on principles of functional programming and gained experience with many front end frameworks and libraries, including Elm, React, Redux, Backbone.js, and Marionette.js. Jeremy is based out of Hawaii and when he isn't coding, he spends his time playing his guitar and hiking and going to the beach with his family.

Links

• JSJ 325: Practical functional programming in JavaScript and languages like Elm with Jeremy Fairbank
• Jeremy’s GitHub
• Jeremy's LinkedIn
• Jeremy’s Blog
• Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas C. Zakas
• Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Matt Frisbie
• https://knockoutjs.com/
• https://marionettejs.com/
• https://www.coursera.org/
• https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
• elm-lang.org
• https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber
• https://twitter.com/JSJabber
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks

Jeremy Fairbank:

• Programming Elm
• The Umbrella Academy
• Beyond Burger

Charles Max Wood:

• Orphan Black
• https://devchat.tv/
• https://www.netlify.com/
• https://www.11ty.io/
• https://github.com/cmaxw/devchat-eleventy
• JavaScript Jabber - Devchat.tv

Sponsors

• Datadog  

• Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free

Panel

• Aimee Knight

• AJ O’Neal

• Charles Max Wood

With Special Guest: Rene Rubalcava

Episode Summary

Rene is a software developer for ESRI and works in spatial and mapping software. ESRI has been around since 1969 and has seen their work explode since they shifted to providing address and location services. Rene talks about how he thinks about location and mapping when building software around it and things that he has to approach in unique ways. The panel discusses some of their past experiences with location software. Some of the most difficult aspects of this software is changing time zones for data and actually mapping the Earth, since it is not flat nor a perfect sphere. Rene talks about the different models used for mapping the Earth.

Most mapping systems use the same algorithm as Google maps, so Rene talks about some of the specific features of ArcGIS, including the ability to finding a point within a polygon. Rene talks about what routing is, its importance, and how it is being optimized with ArcGIS, such as being able to add private streets into a regular street network.

The panel discusses how the prevalence of smartphones has changed mapping and GPS and some of their concerns with privacy and location mapping. One thing ESRI is very careful about is not storing private information. Rene talks about the kinds of things he has seen people doing with the mapping and location data provided by ArcGIS, including a Smart Mapping feature for developers, mapping planets, indoor routing, and 3D models. 

Links

• Webricate 

• Esri

• ArcGIS

Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter

Picks

Rene Rubalcava:

• Old Man’s War series

• Always Be My Maybe

• Rene’s website

AJ O’Neal:

• INTL

• Colorful

• Time zones in Postgress

• Time zones in JavaScript

Aimee Knight:

• Advice to Less Experienced Developers

Charles Max Wood:

• Heber Half Marathon

• Netlify CMS

• Villainous

• Firefox

Episode Summary

My JavaScript Story this week meets with Nick Basile, UX instructor at Lambda School from Austin, TX. Nick talks about how much he enjoys working with Laravel and Vue as well as his journey as a developer.

Upon graduating from university in Switzerland with a degree in Economics, he started working for two start-ups doing UX/UI design. He then wanted to be able to build UI as well so he taught himself JavaScript and HTML. He then got a job as a front-end developer to further develop his skills. Charles makes a comment about how many developers don't have a Computer Science Degrees.

Nick then talks about how he got into Laravel and Vue and also how he started working for Lambda. They briefly discuss Lambda's business model and Nick's approach to teaching.

Finally Nick talks about how he spends his life outside work in Austin, which nowadays involves looking after his 4-month old daughter.

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined by Special Guest: Nick Basile

Sponsors

• Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan

• Adventures in DevOps

• Adventures in BlockChain

• CacheFly

Links

• VoV 008: Getting Started with TDD on Vue.js with Nick Basile

• Nick's LinkedIn

• Lambda School

• Nick's Twitter

• https://nick-basile.com/

• https://laravel-news.com/the-10-best-laravel-podcasts

•  

Picks

Charles Max Wood:

• SEMrush SEO Tools

• https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/

• ActiveCampaign

Nick Basile:

• How It Actually Works

• Tailwind CSS

• Going Back to the Gym

Bloomberg's risk map signals where danger lurks

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Aitken, Robert, 1917-2010

Badger, Michael

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This cohort study compares the characteristics and management of acute heart failure in global regions comprising 44 countries.

This essay describes a physician’s experience of the sudden, unexplained death of her brother and her family’s discovery of the genetic cause.

Latin jazz musician and band leader Machito (circa 1908-1984) was active on the New York City jazz scene with his innovative band the Afro-Cubans from 1940 to the early 1980s, forming an influential legacy that includes salsa music and Afro-Cuban jazz. The collection contains approximately 150 manuscript and published compositions and arrangements performed by the ensemble, as well as clippings,...

As polls come closer arrows are flying thicker, faster, sharper. Some are of time-honoured design, others quite modern. Included in the first category is flaming a party leader as communal or dissing her for being in the Italians’ pocket.