pe JSJ 270 The Complete Software Developers Career Guide with John Sonmez By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 06:00:00 -0400 JSJ 270 The Complete Software Developers Career Guide with John Sonmez This episode features a panel of Joe Eames, AJ O’Neal, as well as host Charles Maxwell. Special guest John Sonmez runs the website SimpleProgrammer.com that is focused on personal development for software developers. He works on career development and improving the non-technical life aspects of software developers. Today’s episode focuses on John’s new book The Complete Software Developers Career Guide. Did the book start out being 700 pages? No. My goal was 200,000 words. During the editing process a lot of questions came up, so pages were added. There were side sections called “Hey John” to answer questions that added 150 pages. Is this book aimed at beginners? It should be valuable for three types of software developers: beginner, intermediate, and senior developers looking to advance their career. The book is broken up into five sections, which build upon each other. These sections are: - How to get started as a software developer - How to get a job and negotiate salary - The technical skills needed to know to be a software developer - How to work as a software developer - How to advance in career Is it more a reference book, not intended to read front to back? The book could be read either way. It is written in small chapters. Most people will read it start to finish, but it is written so that you can pick what you’re interested in and each chapter still makes sense by itself. Where did you come up with the idea for the book? It was a combination of things. At the time I wanted new blog posts, a new product, and a new book. So I thought, “What if I wrote a book that could release chapters as blog posts and could be a product later on?” I also wanted to capture everything I learned about software development and put it on paper so that didn’t lose it. What did people feel like they were missing (from Soft Skills) that you made sure went into this book? All the questions that people would ask were about career advice. People would ask things regarding: - How do I learn programming? - What programming language should I learn? - Problems with co-workers and boss - Dress code What do you think is the most practical advice from the book for someone just getting started? John thinks that the most important thing to tell people is to come up with a plan on how you’re going to become educated in software development. And then to decide what you’re going to pursue. People need to define what they want to be. After that is done, go backwards and come up with a plan in order to get there. If you set a plan, you’ll learn faster and become a valuable asset to a team. Charles agrees that this is how to stay current in the job force. What skills do you actually need to have as a developer? Section 3 of the book answers this question. There was some frustration when beginning as a software developer, so put this list together in the book. - Programming language that you know - Source control understanding - Basic testing - Continuous integration and build systems - What kinds of development (web, mobile, back end) - Databases - Sequel Were any of those surprises to you? Maybe DevOps because today’s software developers need to, but I didn’t need to starting out. We weren’t involved in production. Today’s software developers need to understand it because they will be involved in those steps. What do you think is the importance of learning build tools and frameworks, etc. verses learning the basics? Build tools and frameworks need to be understood in order to understand how your piece fits into the bigger picture. It is important to understand as much as you can of what’s out there. The basics aren’t going to change so you should have an in depth knowledge of them. Problems will always be solved the same way. John wants people to have as few “unknown unknowns” as possible. That way they won’t be lost and can focus on more timeless things. What do you think about the virtues of self-taught verses boot camp verses University? This is the first question many developers have so it is addressed it in the book. If you can find a good coding boot camp, John personally thinks that’s the best way. He would spend money on boot camp because it is a full immersion. But while there, you need to work as hard as possible to soak up knowledge. After a boot camp, then you can go back and fill in your computer science knowledge. This could be through part time college classes or even by self-teaching. Is the classic computer science stuff important? John was mostly self-taught; he only went to college for a year. He realized that he needed to go back and learn computer science stuff. Doesn’t think that there is a need to have background in computer science, but that it can be a time saver. A lot of people get into web development and learn React or Angular but don’t learn fundamentals of JavaScript. Is that a big mistake? John believes that it is a mistake to not fully understand what you’re doing. Knowing the function first, knowing React, is a good approach. Then you can go back and learn JavaScript and understand more. He states that if you don’t learn the basics, you will be stunted and possibly solve things wrong. Joe agrees with JavaScript, but not so much with things algorithms. He states that it never helped him once he went back and learned it. John suggests the book Algorithms to Live By – teaches how to apply algorithms to real life. Is there one question you get asked more than anything else you have the answer to in the book? The most interesting question is regarding contract verses salary employment and how to compare them. It should all be evaluated based on monetary value. Salary jobs look good because of benefits. But when looking at pay divided by the hours of work, usually a salary job is lower paid. This is because people usually work longer hours at salary jobs without being paid for it. What’s the best place for people to pick up the book? simpleprogrammer.com/careerguide and it will be sold on Amazon. The book will be 99 cents on kindle – want it to be the best selling software development book ever. Picks Joe Wonder Woman AJ The Alchemist Charles Artificial Intelligence with Python John Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Apple Airpods Links Simple Programmer Youtube Full Article
pe JSJ BONUS: Cloud Services and Manifold with Matthew Creager and Peter Cho By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Amiee Knight Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Special Guests: Matthew Creager and Peter Cho In this episode, JavaScript Jabbers speak with Matthew Ceager and Peter Cho. Matthew and Peter are part of the team at Manifold. Manifold is a marketplace for developer services. Matthew takes care of growth and relations, and Peter oversee products at Manifold. The panel discusses with Peter and Matthew what Manifold does and the benefits of a Cloud Service. Matthew gives perspective on how developers can get their cloud product on the market compared to open source. Further discussion goes into how this will help the developer to get their products or services turned into a business quicker and save time Also learn about when it is the ideal time to move to cloud services vs. running a server yourself. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Different kinds of definition of Cloud Services Anything you would rely on as a third party service What is the cloud service ecosystem - Services that connect to an application Independent market place - because it is difficult to turn a product into a business Where are people using cloud services or running their own server Spinning up a version of it is easier. Time verses doing it yourself? Experts running the services Focusing on your product instead of managing the server and such Where does the data live and who has access to that? Lock In’s? Tourist - Credentials management How do I get this setup? Command Line or register online And much more! Links: Manifold https://github.com/mattcreager @manifoldco @etcpeter @matt_creager blog.manifold.com Picks: Amiee Ryan McDermott Charles GitLab AdminLTE Joe What You Can’t Say Matt Star Trek Puppeteer Peter Player Unknown Battle Ground Sourdough by Robin Sloan Full Article
pe JSJ 284 : Helping Developers Build Healthy Bodies By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:08:00 -0400 Panel: Amiee Knight Charles Max Wood Special Guests: JC Hiatt In this episode, JavaScript Jabbers speak with JC Hiatt. JC is a software consultant, and working a starting a company called DevLifts. DevLifts is a company that helps developers learn to live healthier lives. JC mentions this business was base on this health journey. JC and the panel discuss output and mental clarity to get work done in a healthy fashion. Also, the benefits of eating a healthy diet, rather it is the Keto Diet or others types of healthy clean eating, there is a physical and mental benefit. JC and the panel talk about count macros, healthy food intake, and a basic outline of getting into ketosis. Also, the panel discusses finding the motivation to get into a healthy lifestyle to benefit work and your lifestyle. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Mental Clarity Keto Diet Cutting out processed foods Counting Macros Getting into Ketosis Supporting brain function Motivation for a healthy lifestyle Gaining energy Getting started - Walking, Eat Whole. Etc. Pack your own lunch Mindset change - you are responsible for anyone else’s healthy choices Drink Water You can find a healthy balance and practice moderation Cheat day? Sugar Sitting to0 long at work Sleep - brain wave activity, caffeine, and light Naps And much more! Links: @jchiatt @devlifts devlifts.io Picks: Amiee https://www.womenwhotech.com/panelist-bios https://github.com/AllThingsSmitty/css-protips Charles Gunnar blue blockers Flux ReactDevSummit.com JSDevSummit.com JC American Vandal Confession Tapes Qalo https://lodash.com Full Article
pe JSJ 285 : Finding a Job Even If You're Not a Senior Developer by Charles Max Wood By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:09:00 -0400 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 Full Article
pe JSJ 288: TypeScript with Amanda Silver By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:22:00 -0500 Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Amanda Silver In this episode, Charles is at Microsoft Connect 2017 in NYC. Charles speaks with Amanda Silver. Amanda is deemed the TypeScript and future of JavaScript guru, and this year's speakers at Microsoft Connect with Visual Studio Live Share. Amanda shares what is new with TypeScript and how that is a kind of subscript to JavaScript. Amanda explains the big picture of TypeScript’s inception and where she believes the language will be most efficient and effective for JavaScript and TypeScript developers. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What is new in TypeScript? Keep JavaScript and TypeScript aligned TypeScript is implemented to create larger scaled applications Integration with VS Code, etc. Building better tools for JavaScript Developers When would this be taken on by users Defaults in Visual Studio TypeScript replacing JavaScript type service TypeScript is written in TypeScript Chakra runtime Diaspora The different faces of JavaScript Optimized JavaScript runtime Languages should be created with tooling A satisfying tooling experience Foot Guns New Tokens Eco-systems and metadata Multi-phase Minimum common denominator constantly changing Collaborating on the same code Open Source and the impact How to move to open source Contributing The next thing for TypeScript The future of JavaScript And much more! Links: @amandaksilver Picks: Amanda Visual Studio Live Share Instinct of learning technology Charles Visual Studio Live Share AI Full Article
pe JSJ 290: Open Source Software with Dirk Hohndel - VMWare Chief Open Source Officer By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 06:00:00 -0500 Panel: Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight Corey House Joe Eames Special Guests: In this episode, JavaScript Jabber speaks with Dirk Hohndel about Open Source Software. Dirk is the Chief Open Source Officer at VMWare and has been working with open source for over 20 years. Dirk duties as the Chief Open Source Officer is to engage with the open source community and help promote the development between the community, companies, and customers. Dirk provides historical facts about open sources to current processes. The discussion covers vision and technological advances with languages, security, and worries of using open source software, view/consumption and burnout on maintaining a project. This is a great episode to learn about more different avenues of Open Source. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What does the Chief Open Source Officer do? What is really different and has stayed the same in open source? Technological advances Good engineering and looking ahead or forward 100 million lines of code running a car… This is in everything.. Production environments Security Bugs in the software and the security issues Scaling and paying attention Where should we be worried about open source Notation and data sets Write maintainable software How does VMWare think about open source? View and Consumption of open source The burnout of open source projects - how to resolve this abandonment To much work to maintain open source - not a money issue Scaling the team workload not the money Contribution and giving back Companies who do and don’t welcome open source What to do to make a project open source? Adopting an API And much more! Links: @_drikhh VMWare Drikhh - everywhere! https://github.com/dirkhh Picks: Aimee De Contact Dodow Dirk Track This Critical Thinking Charles Nicholas Zakas - Books Corey Fun Fun Function Show Joe Dice Forge Concept of empathy Full Article
pe MJS 038: Peter Cooper By Published On :: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 06:00:00 -0500 MJS 038: Peter Cooper Panel: 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 Picks Peter Litmus Cheap Gaming consoles on eBay Jason Scott of archive.org Charles Hyper Drive J5 Dash Pro In-Ear Headphones Full Article
pe MJS 042: Kassandra Perch By devchat.tv Published On :: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:34:00 -0500 Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kassandra Perch This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kassandra Perch. Kassandra is a return guest from JavaScript Jabber episode 197. Kassandra is a developer relations engineer for IOpipe, that does AWS Lambda monitoring and visibility in the server-less space. Kassandra talks about her journey into program through game sharks or programming game cartridges. Also, furthering her interest in programming was taking computer science courses in college, and getting a part-time job in the technology field during college while networking. Kassandra shares her favorite contributions to javascript and open source projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming? Game Sharks Game Cartridges Austin Meetup Group and JavaScript Working in the open source community College courses Contributions - Nodebotanist Interest in education and being autistic Child of a teacher Serving the community Helping people with projects IOT - Internet of Things Building Robots Serverless What are you working on now? AVR Girl and much, much more! Links: https://www.iopipe.com https://github.com/nodebotanist https://github.com/noopkat/avrgirl http://johnny-five.io IOpipe Picks Kassandra Sue Hitten Johnny 5 Serverless Framework Charles VS Code Azure pluggin Serverless Framework Amanda Silver interview More VS Code Interviews on Dev Chat TV Full Article
pe JSJ 295: Developers as Entrepreneurs with Ryan Glover By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:07:00 -0500 Panel: Charles Max Wood Cory House Joe Eames Aimee Knight Special Guests: Ryan Glover In this episode, JavaScript Jabber panelist speak with Ryan Glover. Ryan is on JavaScript Jabber to talks about Entrepreneurship as a developer. Ryan runs Clever Beagle in Chicago Illinois. Clever Beagle is a mentorship company that helps people build their first software Product. Ryan and the panel discuss the many roads of entrepreneurship, startup business ideas, servicing and teaching the community, how to’s, and psychological challenges, hiring, seeing your ideas through to the end, and privilege. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How do you get started as an entrepreneur? Clever Beagle The Meteor Chef Where are people getting stuck on the builds? Fear, unknowns Simple, but not easy Drive and ability to step into the unknown Survival of the fittest Hire before you are already Losing your marbles Starting on a smaller scale How do I know my idea is going to work? Book - Brick by Brick Multiple lines of business Managing a portfolio of business Revenue streams Marketing Quitter When do I quit? 6-12 months of cash before you quit Making mistakes in entrepreneurship? Be a reader and study Go out a read books! Experiential not taught Luck and Privilege Video - Life of Privilege Explained in a $100 Race Procrastinate on Purpose And much more! Links: Clever Beagle The Meteor Chef https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangglover http://www.ryanglover.net Brick by Brick Quitter Procrastinate on Purpose Do Thing That Don’t Scale @rglover Picks: Cory The Power of Moments The 50th Law Charles ReactDevSummit.com Indiegogo for Dev Chat .NetRocks Aimee Life of Privilege Explained in a $100 Race Joe Everybody Lies Murder on the Orient Express Ryan Turning Pro - Steven Pressfield series The Power of Beliefs in Business Full Article
pe JSJ 297: Scrollytelling with Russell Goldenberg and Adam Pearce By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:45:00 -0500 Panel: Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Aimee Knight Special Guests: Russell Goldenberg and Adam Pearce In this episode, JavaScript Jabber panelist speak with Russell Goldenberg and Adam Pearce Russell creates visualizations, interactive graphics, and documentaries for the web. Currently an editor at The Pudding. Adam is a graphics editor at The New York Times and a journalist engineers/developer Russell and Adam are on the show to talk about what Scrollytelling is, as well as Scrollama. Scrollama is a modern and lightweight JavaScript library for scrollytelling using IntersectionObserver in favor of scroll events. This is a great episode to understand another technology/tool created with JavaScript. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What is Scrollytelling! Graph Scroll library What is the intersection Observerable? How long does it take to build an interactive graphic…? How do you test something like this? Test on a lot of different devices Can you do automated testing? Do you have to understand the use cases or can you implement quickly? Recommendation for getting started? Is this a skill set people have to have before that some on board? How do design these interactions? Scroll jacking What JS developers should know about this technology. Position sticky What are other uses cases? What can devs use it for? Tax calculator And much more! Links: https://github.com/russellgoldenberg/scrollama https://pudding.cool/process/introducing-scrollama/ @codenberg @adamrpearce https://pudding.cool/ http://russellgoldenberg.github.io https://github.com/1wheel?direction=desc&sort=created&tab=stars https://roadtolarissa.com Picks: Adam Dominion - Broad Game Charles Smoker Tiny Epic Galaxies Indiegogo Dev Chat TV Aimee Deadlines Quest Protein Powder Joe Giving! Board Game - Azul Russel Crokinole Bust Out Full Article
pe JSJ 298: Angular, Vue and TypeScript with John Papa By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:35:00 -0500 Panel: Charles Max Wood Cory House Joe Eames Aimee Knight Special Guests: John Papa In this episode, JavaScript Jabber panelist speak with John Papa. John has been doing web programming for over twenty years on multiple platforms and has been contributing to the developer communities through conferences, authoring books, videos and courses on Pluralsight. John is on the show to discuss an articles he wrote on A Look at Angular Along Side Vue, and another article on Vue.js with TypeScript. John talks about the new features with the different versions of Angular technologies, anxiety in the different features, comparisons between the technologies and use case with Angular. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: A look at Angular Along Side Vue - Article Angular 5, Amber,Vue, React, Angular Angular 2 - different features CLI Spell Webpack Comparisons - Why the anxiety? Opinions of Angular and sprinkling in other technologies Vue is the easy to use with Angular Are there breakpoints with the uses case? Choosing technologies Talk about working with Vue and Angular DSL - Domain Specific Language Vue and 3rd party libraries Talk about Vue working with TypeScript Vue.js with TypeScript Vue with TypeScript looks similar to Angular Vetur What does 2018 have in store for Angular? Native apps and web functionality And much more! Links: https://johnpapa.net Vue.js with TypeScript A Look at Angular Along Side Vue @john_papa https://github.com/johnpapa Picks: Corey cypress.io Charles E Myth Revisited Profit First Dunkirk Aimee Crucial Conversations Ripple or XRP Joe The Greatest Showman Better Late Then Never Vue 7 Languages In 7 Weeks - Book John Jumanji 2017 Emotional Intelligence Full Article
pe JSJ 299: How To Learn JavaScript When You're Not a Developer with Chris Ferdinandi By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:10:00 -0500 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 Full Article
pe JSJ 307: Apollo with Peggy Rayzis By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 09:47:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight AJ ONeal Special Guests: Peggy Rayzis In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk about Apollo with Peggy Rayzis. Peggy is an open source engineer on the Apollo team where she primarily focuses on client stuff, working on Apollo Client, and also other libraries. Previously, she was a UI engineer at Major League Soccer where she worked primarily with React and React Native. She discusses what GraphQL is and how it is used, as well as how they use it in the Apollo team to make their lives as developers easier. They also touch on when it would work best to use GraphQL and when it is not ideal to use it. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: AiA 127 Episode Peggy intro What is GraphQL? What is a Typed Query Language? What is a schema? Where do schemas get defined? GraphQL SDL Apollo Stack and Apollo Server Tracing and cash control Apollo Engine How GraphQL Replaces Redux GraphQL cuts down on front-end management Apollo Link State The best code is no code Apollo Client allows for greater developer productivity Does the conversation change if you’re not using Redux or in a different ecosystem? When is the right time to use this? Data doesn’t have to be graph shaped to get the most out of GraphQL Analyze schema with Apollo Engine Is there a way to specify depth? Max Stoiber blog post How would people start using this? HowtoGraphQL.com And much, much more! Links: React Dev Summit JS Dev Summit Apollo AiA 127 Episode Apollo Client Major League Soccer React React Native GraphQL GraphQL SDL Apollo Server Apollo Engine How GraphQL Replaces Redux Apollo Link State Redux Max Stoiber blog post HowtoGraphQL.com @PeggyRayzis Peggy’s GitHub Peggy’s Medium Picks: Charles GraphQL Ruby WordPress GraphQL Hogwarts Battles Board Game Pandemic Legacy Risk Legacy Aimee How GraphQL Replaces Redux JavaScript Meetup in LA AJ Simple.com BroccoliWallet.com The Four by Scott Galloway Peggy Workshop.me Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone Full Article
pe JSJ 321: Babel and Open Source Software with Henry Zhu By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight AJ ONeal Joe Eames Special Guests: Henry Zhu In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Henry Zhu about Babel and open source software. Henry is one of the maintainers on Babel, which is a JavaScript compiler, and recently left this job to work on doing open source full time as well as working on Babel. They talk about where Babel is today, what it actually is, and his focus on his open source career. They also touch on how he got started in open source, his first PR, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Henry intro Babel update Sebastian McKenzie was the original creator of Babel Has learned a lot about being a maintainer What is Babel? JavaScript compiler You never know who your user is Has much changed with Babel since Sebastian left? Working on open source How did you get started in pen source? The ability to learn a lot from open source Atrocities of globalization More decentralization from GitHub Gitea and GitLab Gitea installer Open source is more closed now His first PR JSCS Auto-fixing Prettier Learning more about linting You don’t have to have formal training to be successful Codefund.io Sustainability of open source And much, much more! Links: Babel JavaScript Gitea GitLab Gitea installer Prettier Codefund.io @left_pad Henry’s GitHub henryzoo.com Henry’s Patreon Sponsors Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Picks: Charles Orphan Black Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson Aimee Desk with cubby holes for cats The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind blog post AJ Gitea Gitea installer Greenlock Joe Solo Justified Henry Celeste Zeit Day talks Full Article
pe JSJ 334: “Web Performance API” with Dan Shappir By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Panel: Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Christopher Ferdinandi (Boston) Special Guests: Dan Shappir (Tel Aviv) In this episode, the panel talks with Dan Shappir who is a computer software developer and performance specialist at Wix.com. As Dan states, his job is to make 100 million websites (hosted on the Wix platform) load and execute faster! Past employment includes working for companies, such as: Ericom, Ericom Software, and BackWeb. He studied at Technion Institute of Management and currently lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. The panel talks about web performance API among other things. Check it out! Show Topics: 1:29 – Charles: Let us know who you are and why you’re famous! 1:39 – “Hello!” from Dan Shappir. 2:25 – Charles: You should say that you go to EACH site EVERY day out of the millions of sites out there. 2:53 – Charles: My mom mentioned Wix to me at first. My mom teaches High School Math. 3:16 – Dan: Yes that is our mission statement. That everyone can get a website without the knowledge of how to build a website. 3:52 – Aimee makes her comments. 3:59 – Dan: On our platform we try to offer people flexibility. There are bounds and limits, but people can do their very own thing, though. To make Wix faster because as we add more features and functionality that is our goal. 4:40 – Chuck: Okay, I know how to make X perform a little bit better. You are looking at a platform that controls TONS of sites, how do you even go about that? 4:58 – Dan: It is more difficult then that. We have millions of users leveraging the platform but there are a lot of developers in Wix who are developing the platform. I don’t think anyone at Wix has a total grasp of the complexity of the platform that we built. We have hundreds of frontend people working on our platform. All of them have pieces to the kingdom. We have processes in place with code reviews and whatnot, but there is so much going on. There is a change every 2 minutes, 24/7. We need to make sure progressing instead of regressing. 6:54 – Aimee: I think it was interesting in one of the links you sent over. Because you know when something is getting worse you consider that a bug. 7:15 – Dan: It is more than a bug because if we see regression in performance then that is a problem. I can literally see any part of the organization and say, “stop” if it will 7:57 – Chuck: We are talking about performance, but what does that mean? What measures are there? 8:15: Dan: We are looking at performance can mean different things in different contents. User sites, for example, most important aspect is load time. How quickly the page loads and gets open to the viewer to that specific site. When they click something they want it instantly and no drag time. It does change in different contexts. 9:58 – Chuck: People do talk about load time. People have different definitions of it. 10:12: Dan: Excellent question. When you look at the different sites through Wix. Different people who build sites – load time can mean something else to everybody. It can mean when you see the MAIN text or the MAIN image. If it’s on an ECON site then how soon can they purchase or on a booking site, how long can the person book X product. I heard someone at a conference say that load time is when: HERO TEXT And HERO IMAGE are displayed. 12:14 – Chuck: What is faster React or Vue? 12:21 – NEW HOST: Not sure. It all depends. 12:34 – Dan: We are big into React. We are one of the big React users outside of Facebook. I joined Wix four years ago, and even back then we were rebuilding our framework using React. One of our main modifications is because we wanted to do server-side rendered. 13:27 – Christopher asks Dan a question. 14:16 – Dan: We are in transition in this regard. Before we were totally client-site rendered, and that was the case until middle of last year. Then we deployed... Dan: We are 100% server-side rendered now. Some things we are still using JavaScript. We have another project going on now and it’s fully CSS, and little JavaScript as possible. What you might want to do with that site is... You might get in a few months every Wix site will be visible even if JavaScript is disabled. 16:26 – Aimee adds in her comments and observations to this topic. 16:55 – Dan: We don’t want things displayed incorrectly before it lays out. We hide the content while it’s downloading then make it visible. They lay-outing are done faster, because... 17:44 – Christopher asks Dan a question. 18:04 – Dan: I got into API... Either you are moving forward or are you moving back. AKA – You are either progressing or regressing. Different stages: 1.) Development stage 2.) Pre-Production (automated tools that check the performance with specific use cases) 3.) Check it out! It’s beneficial to use these APIs. 21:11 – Christopher: What is performance APIs? 21:38 – Dan: There is a working group – Todd from Microsoft and others who are exposing the information (that is available in the browser) out into the browser. When the browser downloads a certain source (image, font, etc.) it can measure the various stages of downloading that feature. You have these different sages of downloading this resource. The browser can measure each of these stages and then expose them to you. Basically it’s for the browser to expose this information to you and in a way that is coherent and uniform. It essentially maintains this buffer that puts performance entries sequentially. Dan continues explaining this topic in detail. 25:55 – Dan: You have this internal buffer... 28:45 – Advertisement – Sentry – They support opensource. 29:39 – Christopher: everything you are saying seems that I can use this or that tab right now... Why would I prefer the API to something visual, hypothetically? 30:03 – Dan: Three Different Stages. (See above.) This information is very, very helpful during the developmental stage. Say you got a link from someone... Dan mentions: Performance.mark 34:04 – Aimee: When you were talking about resource-ends. Many people don’t know what this is. Can you spend 2-3 minutes about how you guys are using these? Are there people can add for big bang for their buck? 34:41 – Dan: This might want to be a topic for its own podcast show. Dan gives a definition of what a resource-end means. Go back to fonts as an example. Pre-connect for example, too. 39:03 – Dan: Like I said, it’s a huge topic. You have to exercise some care. Bandwidth is limited. Make sure you aren’t blocking other resources that you do need right now. 40:02 – Aimee: Sounds like a lot of great things to tap into. Another question I have is about bundling. 40:27 – Dan: One of the things that we try to do (given that we are depending on the JavaScript we are downloading) we need to download JavaScript content to the client side. It has been shown often that JS is the most impactful resources that you need to download. You really want to be as smart as possible with that. What is even more challenging is the network protocols are changing. Dan continues to go in-depth about this topic. Dan: What we have found is that you want to strive to bundle resources together. 44:10 – Aimee: Makes sense. 44:15 – Dan continues talking about this topic. 45:23 – Chuck asks two questions. (First question is now and second question is at 51:32.) 2 Questions: 1. You gather information from web performance AI - What system is that? 45:42 – Dan: I am not the expert in that. I will try not to give misleading information. Actually let me phrase it different. There are 3rd party tools that you can use leverage in your website. IF you are building for commercial reasons I highly recommend that you use performance-monitoring solution. I am not going to advertise one because there are tons out there. We ended up rolling out our own infrastructure because our use case is different than most. At a conference I talked with a vendor and we talked about... 51:32 – 2nd Question from Charles to Dan: Now you’ve gathered this information now what to you do? What patterns? What do you look for? And how do you decide to optimize things? 54:23 – Chuck: Back to that question, Dan. How should they react to it and what are they looking for 54:41 – Dan: Three main ways: 1.) Generate alerts 2.) See trends over long period of time 3.) Looking at real-time graphs. Frontend developer pro is that likely being woken up in the middle of the night is lower. We might be looking at the real time graph after we deployed... 57:31 – Advertisement – Get a Coder Job! 58:10 – Picks! Links: JavaScript jQuery React Elixir Elm Vue Wix Window Performance Web Performance Terra Genesis Terra Genesis: Space Colony The One Thing DevChat TV – YouTube GitHub: Off Side HBO: Insecure Wix: Engineering JavaScript Riddle JavaScript Riddles for Fun and for Profit Dan Shappir’s Twitter Dan Shappir’s LinkedIn Dan Shappir’s Crunch Base Dan Shappir’s GitHub Dan Shappir’s Talk through Fluent Dan Shappir’s Medium Dan Shappir’s YouTube Talk: JavaScript riddles for fun and profit Sponsors: Code Badges Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Cache Fly Picks: Aimee: Waking up early! How to Deal with Dirty Side Effects in Your Pure Functional JavaScript Chris: Offside - Toomuchdesign Insecure TV Show Charles: Terraform - Game “The One Thing" Code Badge DevChat on YouTube Dan Wix Engineering JavaScript Riddle Full Article
pe JSJ 346: Azure Pipelines with Ed Thomson LIVE at Microsoft Ignite By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Sponsors: KendoUI Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit Clubhouse Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Ed Thomson In this episode, the Charles speaks with Ed Thomson who is a Program Manager at Azure through Microsoft, Developer, and Open Source Maintainer. Ed and Chuck discuss in full detail about Azure DevOps! Check out today’s episode to hear its new features and other exciting news! Show Topics: 0:59 – Live at Microsoft Ignite 1:03 – Ed: Hi! I am a Program Manager at Azure. 1:28 – Rewind 2 episodes to hear more about Azure DevOps! 1:51 – Ed: One of the moves from Pipelines to DevOps – they could still adopt Pipelines. Now that they are separate services – it’s great. 2:38 – Chuck talks about features he does and doesn’t use. 2:54 – Ed. 3:00 – Chuck: Repos and Pipelines. I am going to dive right in. Let’s talk about Repos. Microsoft just acquired GitHub. 3:18 – Ed: Technically we have not officially acquired GitHub. 3:34 – Chuck: It’s not done. It’s the end of September now. 3:55 – Ed: They will remain the same thing for a while. GitHub is the home for open source. Repos – we use it in Microsoft. Repositories are huge. There are 4,000 engineers working in these repositories. Everyone works in his or her own little area, and you have to work together. You have to do all this engineering to get there. We bit a tool and it basically if you run clone... Ed continues to talk about this topic. He is talking about One Drive and these repositories. 6:28 – Ed: We aren’t going to be mixing and matching. I used to work through GitHub. It’s exciting to see those people work close to me. 6:54 – Chuck. 6:59 – Ed: It has come a long way. 7:07 – Chuck: Beyond the FSF are we talking about other features or? 7:21 – Ed: We have unique features. We have branch policies. You can require that people do pole request. You have to use pole request and your CI has to pass and things like that. I think there is a lot of richness in our auditing. We have enterprise focus. At its core it still is Git. We can all interoperate. 8:17 – Chuck. 8:37 – Ed: You just can’t set it up with Apache. You have to figure it out. 8:51 – Chuck: The method of pushing and pulling. 9:06 – Chuck: You can try DevOps for free up to 5 users and unlimited private repos. People are interested in this because GitHub makes you pay for that. 9:38 – Ed and Chuck continue to talk. 9:50 – Ed: Pipelines is the most interesting thing we are working on. We have revamped the entire experience. Build and release. It’s easy to get started. We have a visual designer. Super helpful – super straightforward. Releases once your code is built – get it out to production say for example Azure. It’s the important thing to get your code out there. 10:55 – Chuck: How can someone start with this? 11:00 – Ed: Depends on where your repository is. It will look at your code. “Oh, I know what that is, I know how to build that!” Maybe everyone isn’t doing everything with JavaScript. If you are using DotNet then it will know. 12:05 – Chuck: What if I am using both a backend and a frontend? 12:11 – Ed: One repository? That’s when you will have to do a little hand packing on the... There are different opportunities there. If you have a bash script that does it for you. If not, then you can orchestrate it. Reduce the time it takes. If it’s an open source project; there’s 2 – what are you going to do with the other 8? You’d be surprised – people try to sneak that in there. 13:30 – Chuck: It seems like continuous integration isn’t a whole lot complicated. 13:39 – Ed: I am a simple guy that’s how I do it. You can do advanced stuff, though. The Cake Build system – they are doing some crazy things. We have got Windows, Lennox, and others. Are you building for Raspberries Pies, then okay, do this... It’s not just running a script. 15:00 – Chuck: People do get pretty complicated if they want. It can get complicated. Who knows? 15:26 – Chuck: How much work do you have to do to set-up a Pipeline like that? 15:37 – Ed answers the question in detail. 16:03 – Chuck asks a question. 16:12 – Ed: Now this is where it gets contentious. If one fails... Our default task out of the box... 16:56 – Chuck: If you want 2 steps you can (like me who is crazy). 17:05 – Ed: Yes, I want to see if it failed. 17:17 – Chuck: Dude, writing code is hard. Once you have it built and tested – continuous deployment. 17:33 – Ed: It’s very easy. It’s super straightforward, it doesn’t have to be Azure (although I hope it is!). Ed continues this conversation. 18:43 – Chuck: And it just pulls it? 18:49 – Ed: Don’t poke holes into your firewall. We do give you a lot of flexibility 19:04 – Chuck: VPN credentials? 19:10 – Ed: Just run the... 19:25 – Chuck comments. 19:36 – Ed: ...Take that Zip... 20:02 – Ed: Once the planets are finely aligned then...it will just pull from it. 20:25 – Chuck: I host my stuff on Digital Ocean. 20:46 – Ed: It’s been awhile since I played with... 20:55 – Chuck. 20:59 – Ed and Chuck go back and forth with different situations and hypothetical situations. 21:10 – Ed: What is Phoenix? 21:20 – Chuck explains it. 21:25 – Ed: Here is what we probably don’t have is a lot of ERLANG support. 22:41 – Advertisement. 23:31 – Chuck: Let’s just say it’s a possibility. We took the strip down node and... 23:49 – Ed: I think it’s going to happen. 23:55 – Ed: Exactly. 24:02 – Chuck: Testing against Azure services. So, it’s one thing to run on my machine but it’s another thing when other things connect nicely with an Azure set-up. Does it connect natively once it’s in the Azure cloud? 24:35 – Ed: It should, but there are so many services, so I don’t want to say that everything is identical. We will say yes with an asterisk. 25:07 – Chuck: With continuous deployment... 25:41 – Ed: As an example: I have a CD Pipeline for my website. Every time I merge into master... Ed continues this hypothetical situation with full details. Check it out! 27:03 – Chuck: You probably can do just about anything – deploy by Tweet! 27:15 – Ed: You can stop the deployment if people on Twitter start complaining. 27:40 – Chuck: That is awesome! IF it is something you care about – and if it’s worth the time – then why not? If you don’t have to think about it then great. I have mentioned this before: Am I solving interesting problems? What projects do I want to work on? What kinds of contributions do I really want to contribute to open source? That’s the thing – if you have all these tools that are set-up then your process, how do you work on what, and remove the pain points then you can just write code so people can use! That’s the power of this – because it catches the bug before I have to catch it – then that saves me time. 30:08 – Ed: That’s the dream of computers is that the computers are supposed to make OUR lives easier. IF we can do that and catch those bugs before you catch it then you are saving time. Finding bugs as quickly as possible it avoids downtime and messy deployments. 31:03 – Chuck: Then you can use time for coding style and other things. I can take mental shortcuts. 31:37 – Ed: The other thing you can do is avoiding security problems. If a static code analysis tool catches an integer overflow then... 32:30 – Chuck adds his comments. Chuck: You can set your policy to block it or ignore it. Then you are running these tools to run security. There are third-party tools that do security analysis on your code. Do you integrate with those? 33:00 – Ed: Yep. My favorite is WhiteSource. It knows all of the open source and third-party tools. It can scan your code and... 34:05 – Chuck: It works with a lot of languages. 34:14 – Ed. 34:25 – Chuck: A lot of JavaScript developers are getting into mobile development, like Ionic, and others. You have all these systems out there for different stages for writing for mobile. Android, windows Phone, Blackberry... 35:04 – Ed: Let’s throw out Blackberry builds. We will ignore it. Mac OS dies a fine job. That’s why we have all of those. 35:29 – Chuck: But I want to run my tests, too! 35:36 – Ed: I really like to use App Center. It is ultimately incredible to see all the tests you can run. 36:29 – Chuck: The deployment is different, though, right? 36:40 – Ed: I have a friend who clicks a button in... Azure DevOps. 37:00 – Chuck: I like to remind people that this isn’t a new product. 37:15 – Ed: Yes, Azure DevOps. 37:24 – Chuck: Any new features that are coming out? 37:27 – Ed: We took a little break, but... 37:47 – Ed: We will pick back up once Ignite is over. We have a timeline on our website when we expect to launch some new features, and some are secret, so keep checking out the website. 39:07 – Chuck: What is the interplay between Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Code? Because they have plugins for freaking everything. I am sure there is something there that... 39:30 – Ed: I am a VI guy and I’m like 90% sure there is something there. You are an eMac’s guy? The way I think about it is through Git right out of the box. Yes, I think there are better things out there for integration. I know we have a lot of great things in Visual Code, because I worked with it. 40:45 – Chuck: Yes, people can look for extensions and see what the capabilities are. Chuck talks about code editor and tools. 41:28 – Ed: ... we have been pulling that out as quickly as possible. We do have IE extensions, I am sure there is something for VS Code – but it’s not where I want to spend my time. 42:02 – Chuck: Yes, sure. 42:07 – Ed: But everyone is different – they won’t work the way that I work. So there’s that. 42:30 – Ed: That Chuck. 42:36 – Chuck: Where do people get news? 42:42 – Ed: Go to here! 42:54 – Chuck: Where do people find you? 43:00 – Ed: Twitter! 43:07 – Chuck: Let’s do Picks! 43:20 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! Links: GitHub Microsoft’s Azure Microsoft’s Pipeline Azure DevOps Erlang WhiteSource Chuck’s Twitter Ed Thomson’s Twitter Ed Thomson’s GitHub Ed Thomson’s Website Ed Thomson’s LinkedIn Picks: Ed Podcast - All Things Git Full Article
pe JSJ 358: Pickle.js, Tooling, and Developer Happiness with Anatoliy Zaslavskiy By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit CacheFly Panel AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Anatoliy Zaslavskiy Summary Anatoliy Zaslavskiy introduces pickle.js and answers the panels questions about using it. The panel discusses the automated testing culture and employee retention. The panel discusses job satisfaction and why there is so much turn over in development jobs. Charles Max Wood reveals some of the reasons that he left past development jobs and the panel considers how the impact of work environments and projects effect developers. Ways to choose the right job for you and how to better a work situation is discussed. Anatoliy finishes by advocating for junior developers and explaining the value they bring to a company. Links https://github.com/storybooks/storybook https://www.picklejs.com/docs/getting-started https://opencv.org/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapcrap/id1436238261 https://tolicodes.com/ https://www.facebook.com/tolicodes https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber https://twitter.com/JSJabber Picks AJ O’Neal The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, Second Edition by Michael Jay Geier Charles Max Wood https://andyfrisella.com/blogs/mfceo-project-podcast https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/the-askgaryvee-show-podcast/ The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd by Allan Dib Skyward by Brandon Sanderson Anatoliy Zaslavskiy Acro yoga http://www.cuddleparty.com/ Full Article
pe JSJ 368: TypeScript - Good or Bad By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0400 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 Full Article
pe JSJ 381: Building a Personal Brand with John Sonmez By devchat.tv Published On :: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for $100 credit RxJS Live Panel Charles Max Wood Christopher Beucheler AJ O’Neal With Special Guest: John Somnez Episode Summary John is the founder of Bulldog Mindset andSimple Programmer, which teaches software developers soft skills, and the author of a couple books. He specializes in creating a personal brand and marketing. He addresses the rumors of him leaving software development and gives an introduction to marketing yourself as a software developer and its importance. The panel discusses their experience with consulting and how marketing themselves has paid off. John talks about the importance of having soft skills. In his opinion, the most important soft skills for programmers are communication, persuasion and influence, people skills and charisma. He talks about highlight those soft skills. The truth is, more and more people are hiring for people skills rather than technical skills. The panel discusses more about the importance of people skills. John talks about ways to build your personal brand. One of the easiest ways is blogging but he talks about other methods like podcasts YouTube, writing books, and others. A key to building a personal brand is choosing something that you can become the best at, no matter how small it is. The panel shares their experiences of what things have gotten them attention and notoriety and talk about how other influential programmers got famous. They talk about interacting with central platforms like Medium and Github. Building a personal brand for software developers is the same as any other personal brand, such as having a consistent message, consistent logos and color schemes, and repeated exposure). Most people in the software world aren’t willing to do what’s necessary to build a personal brand, so it makes you stand out when you do it. John talks about the importance of controlling your image so that companies want to hire you. John gives a brief overview of his course How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer. Click here to cast your vote NOW for JavaScript Jabber - Best Dev Podcast Award Links John Somnez’s books Data Grid Girl Follow JavaScript Jabber on Facebook and Twitter Picks Charles Max Wood: To Sell is Human How to Win Friends and Influence People John Somnez: Follow John at bulldogmindset.com and simpleprogrammer.com The Little Book of Stoicism Training Peaks Christopher Beucheler: Strasborg, France AJ O’Neal Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Parallels Cam Slide Full Article
pe JSJ 402: SEO for Developers with Vitali Zaidman By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Vitali Zaidman is a full stack developer who works for WellDone Software Solutions and is currently working on a SEO project. Today’s show is about SEO for developers. SEO stands for search engine optimization, which helps your website appear higher on search engines. SEO has changed a lot in the past 10 years. It has become much more regulated, and the “dirty tricks” of the past will actually penalize you, so it is important to do it properly. Today the best way to promote yourself on Google besides making good content is for developers to optimize the content, make it small, operational, secure, accessible, and operate on mobile. Much of it goes back to using semantic HTML since Google looks at it before looking at the structure of your website, how valuable it is, and how users interact with it. Having good semantics helps Google determine how valuable it is, so semantic HTML should be a top priority. Semantic HTML can also make your site more accessible to users, which will in turn give you a larger audience. The panel talks about some of the challenges of SEO faced by companies. While bigger companies have the privilege of dedicated SEO teams, small companies often lack these specialists. Thankfully, Google has made their guidelines for SEO very accessible and gives you a lot of tools to track your optimization. The panel talks about different methods of SEO, such as including FAQ at the bottom of the web page, optimizing page speed, and image optimization. Structured data like questions and answers enriches the data that is shown for users on the search results page. To score your website’s SEO, Google released the tool PageSpeed Insights, which will assign your website a performance score. Google uses two main tools to track a website’s SEO. First, they use real field data. If you opt in to ‘help improve Chrome’s features and performance’ when you install Chrome, it tracks how fast websites load on your Chrome, and they collect this information to understand how webpages load. It is required that your website has a certain amount of visitors to be tracked and added to the database. Second, Google has their own devices that will check your website. Currently, they are using a Moto G4 to test for mobile access, and a slow internet connection. Because of this, it is pretty easy to get a good score on desktop, but difficult to get a good score on mobile. The technology that drives all this is called Lighthouse. Overall, performance is the main thing users look for, so aim for good performance and fast websites. The panel discusses the correlation between performance and SEO. For example, Fox News and CNN are two of the top search results for ‘news’, but they have a dismal Google PSI score. They conclude that performance shouldn’t be ignored, but be careful about directly correlating performance and SEO. They also caution against getting obsessed over certain aspects of SEO by themselves. Panelists Dan Shapir Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood With special guest: Vitali Zaidman Sponsors Tidelift Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan Elixir Mix Links SEO JSON Google Webmaster guidelines Google PageSpeed Insights Chrome CrUX Lighthouse Here's How the Google Speed Update Will Impact Your Site SEO for Developers - A Quick Overview Google Quality Guidelines Follow DevChatTV on Facebook and Twitter Picks Aimee Knight: Spotify CLI Dan Shapir: Chrome Dev Summit 2019 Dan Shapir on Twitter The Anubis Gates Charles Max Wood: St. George Marathon Vitali Zaidman: Vitali’s website Arzamas Academy Follow Vitali on Medium and Twitter Full Article
pe JSJ 403: Why Developers Need Social Skills with Mani Vaya By devchat.tv Published On :: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0400 In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Charles talks about the new direction he has for the company. He wants to drive people to the point that they have the skills that make people want to hire and work with them, to teach them how to ‘Max out’. Today the panel the skills that developers need to progress in their careers: social skills. The panel talks about their observations from work that the people who advanced and grow in their career were the ones with social skills, not necessarily with technical skills. The company wants to get stuff done, and if your social skills are getting in the way of projects getting done because you can’t work with others, you are not that useful to the company, and you will be stuck in the lower ranks while others who may not have the same technical skills will rise in the ranks because they are pleasant to work with. Mani talks about his personal experience getting laid off for lacking these soft skills. But then he read the book 48 Laws of Power by Robert Green, realized his shortcomings, and started to apply just one lesson from the book. Within 6 months, he was promoted. Mani delves deeper into the first lesson taught in 48 Laws of Power, Never Outshine the Master. Fundamentally, this means that you don’t try to prove in meetings how good you are, or that they’re wrong, or that you think that you are better than them. The more you the aforementioned things, the less likely you will be to get promoted or trusted. Mani talks about how he used to do these things and how it cost him multiple jobs. When he put this lesson into practice, he changed his methods and the boss started to like him, leading to his promotion 6 months later. The panel discusses this lesson and what benefits can come from it. Mani shares another lesson that he learned through the story of a friend trying to get him to invest in his business. After Mani refused to invest multiple times, his friend stopped asking him to invest, but instead asked him for business advice. Eventually, Mani invested in the business because when he saw that his friend was influenced by his advice, it engendered trust between them. The panel agrees that if you want to influence someone, you have to be influenced by them. It is important to treat someone as a person rather than an asset or wallet, and ensure them that their investment is not their end goal. One of the most fundamental social skills that you must be able to like people, because other people can smell manipulation. The panel transitions to talking about the paradoxical nature of social skills and that they are often the opposite of what you think will work in a situation. Unfortunately, there will always be difficult people to work with. To illustrate how to work with difficult people, Mani shares the story of how Gengis Khan was convinced not to destroy a city of artists and engineers by his advisor, Yelu Chucai. Gengis Khan agreed because Yelu Chucai was able to structure his plea in a way that would also benefit Gengis Khan. The conversation shifts to how to conduct an interview to see if a candidate will fit into your team culture. First, you must know what you’re looking for and understand your team culture, and then ask for stories of when they accomplished something in the interview. If every story is all about how they did something and they don’t include other people, then that may indicate their self-centeredness. They discuss the Ben Franklin Effect. For those listeners wondering where to begin with all this self improvement, Mani has read over 2,000 books on business and offers a course on his website, 2000books.com. Mani has teamed up with JavaScript Jabber to offer a special deal to the listeners of this podcast. To get lifetime access to Mani’s courses at a 40% discount, follow the links below. Panelists Steve Edwards Charles Max Wood With special guest: Mani Vaya Sponsors React Native Radio Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan React Round Up Links 48 Laws of Power by Robert Green The 360 Degree Leader by John C. Maxwell The Ben Franklin Effect javascriptjabber.com/social and 2000books.com 40% off for the first 200 people Coupon code: Jabber Follow DevChatTV on Facebook and Twitter Picks Steve Edwards: Rex Chapman Charles Max Wood: BombBomb IndieHackers.com Stolen bike prank Mani Vaya: How I Built This by NPR As a Man Thinketh Full Article
pe The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:48:00 -0500 "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is available on Amazon. Get your copy here today only for $2.99! Full Article
pe The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job By devchat.tv Published On :: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:01:00 -0500 "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is available on Amazon. Get your copy here today only for $2.99! Full Article
pe JSJ 409: Swagger and Open API with Josh Ponelat By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Today the panel discusses the difference between Swagger and Open API with Josh Ponelat. Josh details the difference between the two. Swagger is a set of protocols around describing restful APIs. Swagger was taken over by a company called SmartBear, who donated the donated the specification to the Open Linux Foundation, and that became the Open API. Swagger is the tooling surrounding these specifications. Open API is a standardized way to describe a restful API in a YAML file. Once you’ve got a YAML file to describe your API, you can use tooling like Swagger to leverage that and take it to the next level. Using the Open API process is useful for situations where you already have an API in place, but want to codify and document it so that it’s controlled. Then going forward, you won’t introduce contradictions and it remains consistent because it’s documented in a YAML file. The process leaves room for enhancement in the future as well. Josh talks about some of the benefits of standardizing your API and some of the use cases besides tooling. A standardized API can help show developers how to use your API, SDKs, and service stubs by knowing your API is consistent in style. This makes it easier to find breaking changes and more. Josh talks more about Swagger, a finite set of tooling around Open API, most of which are open source. He talks about other tools that test APIs and do linting on YAML files. Some of the companies that use Open API include Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Josh talks about how Amazon implements Open API. Josh talks about the book he’s writing, Designing APIs with Swagger and Open API. The book goes over describing APIs today, how to design APIs without writing code first, and how to get the most out of the system. The show concludes with Josh talking about the power of consistency and writing things down on paper. He discusses where implications that the standardization of APIs has on the text industry. Panelists Dan Shapir Charles Max Wood Guest Josh Ponelat **To receive your the 40% OFF coupon for Manning Publications (good for all our products in all formats) visit us at Facebook - click on "Send A Message"and type "YES"** Sponsors Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Links Swagger Open API Difference Between Swagger and Open API GraphQL Designing APIs with Swagger and Open API Picks Dan Shapir Saga of Pliocene Exile Charles Max Wood DevChat.tv Merchandise BusyCal Josh Ponelat AsciiDoc FASD tool Full Article
pe JSJ 410: Iterating on Open Source By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Today the panel is discussing iterating on open source projects. Aimee and AJ recall a conversation they had in the past on this subject and AJ talks about some of his experience iterating with open source. AJ believes that we have an obligation to capture the value of what you create so that we can reinvest and create more value, though he admits that making money in open source is a unique challenge because donations only really work if you have a project that gets billions of downloads a month. As your project grows, it has to change in order to survive, and eventually you will need to get financial support from your project. The panel agrees that some of the main issues with iterating in open source are maintaining the code and getting feedback from users, financial backing, and roadmapping and integrations. The panel discusses their methods for getting feedback from their users. This feedback is valuable because it can show you things that you missed. They acknowledge that there can be conflicts of interest between those who only use the project and those who financially support it, and you have to make a choice. Unfortunately, someone is probably going to be inconvenienced no matter what choice you make. When making these decisions, you have to consider who it helps, who it frustrates, and who it may cause problems for. The panelists talk about different ways they’ve handled making these decisions in the past. The JavaScript experts talk about the importance of having data on your user base in order to make good choices for your users. They talk about different methods for notifying your users of upcoming changes and how it will affect compatibility, and some of the challenges with communicating with your users. AJ talks about an iteration he thought was a good idea but that a lot of people hated and how he noticed that the new users liked it but the old users did not. They panel agrees that people in general don’t like change. AJ talks about what he learned from this experience. Another common issue is integrating with other services. Integrating with cloud services, or at least giving people the option to integrate gives you an opportunity to reach more people and maintain the project long term. AJ gives some final thoughts to close the show, namely that most projects never go anywhere, and that’s ok. If you’ve got something that starts going somewhere, think early on about how you can better serve the community and remember that these people are mostly grateful and semi-willing to support you. He believes that if you are helping people create value, you deserve to see the fruits of your labor. He advises listeners to stay true to your open source ideals, think about your users perspective, and that the earlier you can think about this and make these choices, the better it is for your project Panelists Aimee Knight Steve Edwards AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood **To receive your 40% OFF coupon for Manning Publications (good for all our products in all formats) visit us on Facebook - click on "Send A Message"and type "YES"** Sponsors Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Links How-npm-am-i React Vue.js Let’s Encrypt Async/await Node Picks Aimee Knight: Debug Like a Ninja Steve Edwards: Jack Ryan AJ O’Neal: Why I, as a black man, attend KKK meetings Charles Max Wood: It’s a Wonderful Life Mr. Kreuger’s Christmas Full Article
pe JSJ 412: Svelte and Sapper with Svelte Master By devchat.tv 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. Panelists Steve Edwards Charles Max Wood **To receive your 40% OFF coupon for Manning Publications (good for all our products in all formats) visit us on Facebook - click on "Send A Message"and type "YES"** Guest Noah (Svelte Master) Sponsors Hasura.io Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit ____________________________________________________________ > "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Links SoundHound Svelte Master Youtube channel Syntax.fm Show 173: Hasty Treat Wes and Scott Look at Svelte Svelte Sapper Rollup Netlify Heroku Cypress Apollo Async/await Svelma Sveltstrap Svelte-Apollo Smelte Electron Svelte-Native Picks Steve Edwards: The Court Jester Charles Max Wood: The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job The Bishop’s Wife Miracle on 34th Street Daniel Caldas: WaniKani Full Article
pe JSJ 416: GraphQL Developer Tools with Sean Grove By devchat.tv 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. Panelists Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Guest Sean Grove Sponsors Split CacheFly ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Links https://github.com/graphql/graphiql https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-401-hasura-with-tanmai-gopal/ Follow DevChatTV on Facebook and Twitter Picks Aimee Knight: http://ergonomictrends.com/hand-wrist-exercises-computer-users/ Cats in your lap AJ O’Neal: The Grievance Studies Affair Go Proverbs Music Dan Shappir: Guatemala Tigana Sean Grove: Yuki Li: “Breaking Out of Box” Charles Max Wood: A Christmas Story Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer The Little Drummer Boy Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town The Ultimate Gift Frosty the Snowman Full Article
pe JSJ 420: OpenAPI, Redoc, and API Documentation with Adam Altman By devchat.tv 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. Panelists Aimee Knight Dan Shappir AJ ONeal Steve Edwards Guest Adam Altman Sponsors G2i ____________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Links https://twitter.com/redocly Https://Redoc.ly https://www.facebook.com/redocly Picks Steve Edwards: https://wesbos.com/announcing-my-css-grid-course/ https://flexbox.io/ Aimee Knight: https://github.com/ErikCH/DevYouTubeList Dan Shappir: Old Kingdom Book Series AJ O’Neal: Final Fantasy VII and VIII (Physical Copy, English) on Play Asia Adam Altman: concepts.app Full Article
pe JSJ 424: UI5 and web components with Peter Muessig By devchat.tv 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. Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Guest Peter Müßig Follow Peter on Twitter > @pmuessig, Github Sponsors Taiko, free and open source browser test automation ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Links OpenUI5 Home - SAPUI5 SDK Picks AJ O’Neal: Vinyl Clocks Acrylic Stand AJ's YouTube Channel (AMA) Aimee Knight Announcing Div Ops as the Slack and Reddit communities Steve Edwards Today on Pearls Before Swine - Comics by Stephan Pastis Dan Shappir The Wixing Street Interview | Facts about Wixing in Germany Wix.com werbung | versuch nicht zu lachen UI5 Web Components Peter Müßig JavaScript Jabber Follow JavaScript Jabber on Twitter > @JSJabber Full Article
pe JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0400 JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! 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. Panel AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Steve Edwards Dan Shappir Sponsors Taiko, free and open source browser test automation Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Links <picture>: The Picture element - HTML: Hypertext Markup Language | MDN Picks AJ O’Neal: The Way of Kings Taco Bell Aimee Knight: web.dev @DanShappir Dan Shappir: 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. Better Call Saul Follow JavaScript Jabber on Twitter > @JSJabber Full Article
pe JSJ 431: Personal Branding for Developers with Morad Stern By devchat.tv Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0400 JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! 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. Panel Steve Edwards AJ O’Neal Dan Shappir Guest Morad Stern Sponsors Taiko Educative.io | Click here for 10% discount "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! Links Obama asks America to learn computer science Configuring Apache Solr Multi-core With Drupal and Tomcat on Ubuntu 9.10 Picks AJ O’Neal: Follow AJ on Twitter > @coolaj86 War Stories | How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation Crash Bandicoot Co-Creator Andy Gavin: Extended Interview | Ars Technica The Story of Spyro the Dragon | Gaming Historian Utah Node.js: Scaling Node.js at Plaid Steve Edwards: Follow Steve on Twitter > @wonder95, Website Six13 Uptown Passover - an "Uptown Funk" adaptation for Pesach Dan Shappir: Follow Dan on Twitter > @DanShappir Scott Lynch Morad Stern: Follow Morad on Twitter > @morad This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See: Seth Godin Follow JavaScript Jabber on Twitter > @JSJabber Full Article
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