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187 JSJ Vue.js with Evan You

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01:59 - Evan You Introduction

02:34 - Vue.js vs Competitors and Motivators Behind the Framework

07:18 - Use Cases

10:06 - Overlapping Elements and The Component System

11:21 - Pulling in Data

12:50 - DOM Manipulation

13:38 - Ease of Getting Started

15:33 - Directives

16:18 - Adoption

19:50 - The Future of Vue.js

21:59 - What is Vue.js Not Good At?

23:07 - Testing

24:06 - Vue, Angular, and React: Reactivity and Performance

29:06 - Tradeoffs

30:54 - Edgecases

32:14 - webpack

33:46 - Bundling

35:38 - Benchmarks

 

More on Vue.js

Picks

Daredevil (Dave)
AlgoRythmics (Aimee)
Relative Finder (Chuck)
FamilySearch (Chuck)
Hard Graft (Evan)
Piano Phase (Evan)




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188 JSJ JavaScript Code Smells with Elijah Manor

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02:22 - Elijah Manor Introduction

04:49 - What is a “Code Smell”?

10:21 - Copy/Paste Code Error

13:11 - Using ES6 to Eliminate Code Smells

15:48 - Refactoring Case Statements

21:29 - Juniors and Code Smells

  • Code Reviews

27:29 - Isomorphic Code

31:12 - Framework Code Smells

33:47 - Identifying New Code Smells

36:33 - When Code Smells are OK

39:10 - Why use parameters?

Picks

Terms And Conditions May Apply (AJ)
Nodevember (Aimee)
Developer Tea (Aimee)
Jake Shimabukuro (Joe)
Screeps (Joe)
react-styleguide-generator (Elijah)
react-styleguidist (Elijah)
The Phantom Menace - What it Should Have Been (AJ)
Attack of the Clones - What it Should Have Been (AJ)




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189 JSJ PureScript with John A. De Goes and Phil Freeman

02:54 - John A. De Goes Introduction

06:34 - Phil Freeman Introduction

07:38 - What is PureScript?

09:11 - Features

12:24 - Overcoming the Vocabulary Problem in Functional Programming

20:07 - Prerequisites to PureScript

26:14 - PureScript vs Elm

40:37 - Similar Languages to PureScript

44:07 - PureScript Background

47:48 - The WebAssembly Effect

51:01 - Readability

53:42 - PureScript Learning Resources

55:43 - Working with Abstractions

Picks

Philip Robects: What the heck is the event loop anyways? @ JS Conf EU 2014 (Aimee)
loupe (Aimee)
The Man in the High Castle (Jamison)
Nickolas Means: How to Crash an Airplane @ RubyConf 2015 (Jamison)  
Lambda Lounge Utah (Jamison)
Michael Trotter: Intro to PureScript @ Utah Haskell Meetup (Jamison)
Utah Elm Users (Jamison)
Screeps (Joe)
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era by Tony Wagner (Joe)
Dark Matter (Joe)
LambdaConf (John)
@lambda_conf (John)
ramda (John)
Proper beef, ale & mushroom pie (John)
Tidal (Phil)
purescript-flare (Phil)
The Forward JS Conference (Phil)




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190 JSJ Web Performance Part 2 with Nik Molnar

There’s still time! Check out and get your JS Remote Conf tickets!

 

JavaScript Jabber Episode #184: Web Performance with Nik Molnar (Part 1)

 

02:04 - Nik Molnar Introduction

02:58 - RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load)

06:03 - How do you know what is being kicked off? How do you avoid it?

08:15 - Frame Rates

16:05 - Scrolling

19:09 - The Web Animation API

21:40 - Animation Accessibility, Usability, and Speed

27:14 - HTTP and Optimization

35:25 - ES6 and Performance

40:46 - Understanding the Scale

43:30 RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) Cont’d

46:15 - Navigator.sendBeacon()

47:51 - Memory Management and Garbage Collection

Picks

Hardcore History Podcast (Jamison)
Static vs. Dynamic Languages: A Literature Review (Jamison)
TJ Fuller Tumblr (Jamison)
Pickle Cat (Jamison)
WatchMeCode (Aimee)
Don’t jump around while learning in JavaScript (Aimee)

P!nk - Bohemian Rhapsody (Joe)
Rich Hickey: Design, Composition and Performance (Joe)
Undisclosed Podcast (AJ)
History of Gaming Historian - 100K Subscriber Special (AJ)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
All Remote Confs (Chuck)
Clash of Clans (Chuck)
Star Wars Commander (Chuck)
Coin (Chuck)
The Airhook (Chuck)
GoldieBlox (Chuck)




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191 JSJ Stripe with Craig McKeachie

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02:26 - Craig McKeachie Introduction

02:54 - Stripe

08:22 - Behind the Scenes: The Stripe API

11:51 - Security

15:23 - What happens when things go wrong?

23:18 - Server-side Libraries

25:34 - Building Custom Forms

29:06 - Stripe + Promises

32:43 - Handling Payments on Behalf of your Customers

34:40 - Stripe Integration

37:39 - The Stripe Dashboard

Picks

Star Wars (Joe)
Masks: A New Generation (Joe)
A Defense of Comic Sans (AJ)
Runscope T-shirt (AJ)
angularjs-in-patterns (Aimee)
Mall of America Events: Photos with Santa (Aimee)
Christmas Cats TV (Joe)
Cats with Cucumbers (Aimee)
RIDGID X4 18-Volt Lithium-Ion Cordless Drill and Impact Driver Combo Kit (2-Tool) (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
Angular Remote Conf Video Playlist (Chuck)
Hour of Code (Craig)
[egghead.io] ...learn when to use a service, factory, or provider? (Craig)
A Dark Room (Craig)
EntreProgrammers: Episode 47.1 A Dark Room for iOS (Chuck)
EntreProgrammers: Episode 47.2 A Dark Room for iOS (Chuck)
Craig’s Babel Course on Pluralsight (Craig)




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192 JSJ IoT with Peter Hoddie

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02:10 - Peter Hoddie Introduction

02:36 - Kinoma     

03:28 - Embedded Development in C; Approachability

05:24 - IoT = Internet of Things; Embedded Devices and Systems

08:59 - Mesh Networking

10:41 - IoT and JavaScript

20:08 - Getting Started & Electrical Engineering

22:42 - Testing

24:56 - Security

31:07 - Bootstrap

34:16 - Community Resistance

35:56 - Where is IoT heading as far as applications go?

  • Scriptability

41:57 - Preparing Today for the Future

Picks

Let’s Encrypt (AJ)
The web accessibility basics (Jamison)
readthesource (Aimee)
Drip (Chuck)
Twilio (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
All Remote Confs (Chuck)
Standard ECMA-262 (Peter)
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain (Peter)
Software Freedom Conservancy (Peter)




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193 JSJ Electron with Jessica Lord and Amy Palamountain

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Freelance’ Remote Conf’s schedule is shaping up! Head over here to check it out!

 

02:17 - Jessica Lord Introduction

02:40 - Amy Palamountain Introduction

03:14 - Electron

04:55 - Cross-platform Compatibility

05:55 - Electron/Atom + GitHub

07:16 - Electron/Atom + React ?

07:57 - Use Cases for Electron

15:09 - Creating Electron Apps on Phones

17:25 - Running a Service Inside of Electron  

19:46 - Making an Electron App

24:09 - Sharing Code

27:40 - Plugins for Functionality

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

33:14 - Pain Points

36:22 - Using Electron for Native

39:48 - What is a “webview”?

42:12 - Getting Started with Electron

43:28 - Robotics/Hardware Hacking with Electron

Picks

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

 

 




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195 JSJ Rollup.js with Rich Harris and Oskar Segersvärd

02:17 - Rich Harris Introduction

02:34 - Oskar Segersvärd Introduction

02:50 - rollup.js

04:47 - Caveats and Fundamental Differences Between CommonJS and AMD Modules and ES6 Modules

11:26 - Where rollup.js Fits in the Ecosystem

17:40 - Input Modules

18:35 - Why Focus on Bundling Tools vs HTTP/2

20:13 - Tree-shaking versus dead code elimination

25:53 - ES6/ES2016 Support

27:36 - Other Important Optimizations

32:11 - Small modules: it’s not quite that simple

41:54 - jsnext:main – should we use it, and what for?

Picks

Better Off Ted (Joe)
Elementary (Joe)
Ruby Rogues Episode #137: Book Club - Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer with Brian Marick (Aimee)
Ruby Rogues Episode #115: Functional and Object Oriented Programming with Jessica Kerr (Aimee)
Ruby Rogues Episode #65: Functional vs Object Oriented Programming with Michael Feathers (Aimee)
Operation Code (Aimee)
Google Define Function (Dave)

Scott Hanselman: Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (Dave)
MyFitnessPal (Chuck)
Nike+ Running (Chuck)
Couch to 10k (Chuck)
Aftershokz Bluez 2 Headphones (Chuck)
Pebble Time Steel (Chuck)
Climbing (Rich)

The Codeless Code (Rich)
Star Wars (Rich)
The Website Obesity Crisis (Oskar)




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196 JSJ Tabris.js with Jochen Krause and Ian Bull

Check out Freelance Remote Conf and React Remote Conf!

 

02:31 - Jochen Krause Introduction

03:21 - Ian Bull Introduction

04:01 - Tabris.js

04:48 - Tabris vs React, Cordova, and React Native

  • Exposing Bluetooth Functionality

08:25 - Benefits/Advantages of Using Tabris

12:45 - Creating Panels and Flows

14:26 - Getting Started Experience

16:40 - Handling Updates; Live Updating

25:15 - Views (Declarative and Imperative UI)

29:09 - "Write once, run anywhere." vs "Learn once write anywhere."

35:21 - Why have other projects failed or not failed?

39:41 - What does it mean to be statically compiled?

40:44 - Styling: Creating a Middle Group that Looks and Feels Good (iOS vs Android)

  • Cross-platform Logic and Ecosystems

47:51 - ES6 Implications

49:29 - Plugins

Picks

Star Wars Essentials (AJ)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (AJ)
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe (AJ)
James Edwards: Making a Mini-Lisp: Introduction to Transpilers (Aimee)
Nick Saban (Aimee)
Lloyd Borrett: Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (Jamison)
Dan Luu: Normalization of Deviance in Software: How Completely Broken Practices Become Normal (Jamison)
Craig Stuntz: Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work (Jamison)
Microsoft (Dave)
Tina Fey (Dave)
thoughtram Blog (Dave)
Pascal Precht (Dave)
CES (Chuck)
The Modern Team (Ian)
Eric Elliott (Ian)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Jochen)




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197 JSJ Auth0 with Kassandra Perch

02:03 - Kassandra Perch Introduction

02:46 - Auth0

04:10 - Centralized Auth Services: Handing Out User Data to Third Parties

05:32 - Security, Storage, and Compliance

08:48 - Managing Session Data

09:35 - Cookies vs JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)

  • How Authentication Works

12:47 - OAuth

14:12 - Identification, Authorization, and Authentication

20:16 - Auth0 Infrastructure

22:10 - Using Node

23:06 - The Backend

24:25 - Documentation and Education

36:42 - The Value of OpenID Connect

38:25 - Identity

Picks

Add AJ on Tri-Force Heroes (AJ)
Making a Murderer (AJ)
Mazie's Girl Scout Digital Cookie Site (Aimee)
React (with Introduction to Flux Architecture) (Aimee)
Jordan Scales: Let’s Make A Webpage In 2016 (Jamison)
building-brooklynjs (Jamison)
Cult of the Party Parrot (Jamison)
CSS-Tricks (Jamison)
Auth0 Docs (Kassandra)
OpenID Foundation (Kassandra)
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (Kassandra)




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199 JSJ Visual Studio Code with Chris Dias and Erich Gamma

Check out allremoteconfs.com to get in on all the conference action this year -- from the comfort of your own home!

 

02:13 - Chris Dias Introduction

02:21 - Erich Gamma Introduction

02:31 - Visual Studio Code

03:49 - Built on Electron

04:25 - Why another tool?

  • Visual Debugging
  • Keybinding Support

08:12 - Code Folding

09:00 - Will people move from Visual Studio to Visual Studio Code?

12:06 - Language Support

18:06 - Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Goals

22:47 - Community Support and Building Extensions

28:31 - The Choice to Use Electron

32:41 - Getting VS Code to Work on the Command Line

35:02 - Tabs

38:49 - Visual Studio Code Uptake and Adoption

40:11 - Licenses

44:46 - Designing a UX for Developers

58:15 - Design Patterns

Picks

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Video Game - Announce Teaser Trailer (Joe)
Firebase (Joe)
Progress bar noticeably slows down npm install: Issue #11283 (Jamison)
Darkest Dungeon (Jamison)
Trek Glowacki Twitter Thread (Jamison)
Mogo Portable Seat (Chuck)
Clear Acrylic Wall Mountable 10 Slot Dry Erase Marker & Eraser Holder Organizer Rack (Chuck)
Bitmap Graphics SIGGRAPH'84 Course Notes (Erich)
Salsa (Chris)

The Microsoft Band (Chris)
Making a Murderer (Chris)




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201 JSJ Security with Troy Hunt

02:32 - Troy Hunt Introduction

04:12 - Why should people care about security?

06:19 - When People/Businesses Get Hacked

09:47 - “Hacking”

11:42 - Inventive “Hacks”

13:24 - Motivation for Hacking/Can hacking be valuable?

17:08 - Consequences and Retribution

19:10 - How to Build Secure Applications

20:47 - Weighing in UX

22:50 - Common Misconceptions

  • Password Storage
  • Encoding
  • Cookies

31:27 - Passwords (Cont’d)

33:16 - Justifying the Importance of Security

35:24 - Client-side Security

44:10 - Resources

45:27 - Routing

47:21 - Timeouts

51:36 - Cached Data

Picks

awesome-react (Aimee)
Edsger W. Dijkstra Quotes (Jamison)
Sam Newman: Telstra, Human Error and Blame Culture (Jamison)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (Jamison)
T.I.M.E Stories (Joe)
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency Paperback by Parmy Olson (Troy)
The Have I been pwned Project (Troy)




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202 JSJ DoneJS + CanJS with Justin Meyer

Check out and get your tickets for React Remote Conf! May 11th-13th, 2016.

 

02:30 - Justin Meyer Introduction

03:02 - DoneJS and CanJS

05:44 - Versus Meteor

07:41 - Versus React

  • Set Algebra

12:06 - Getting Started with DoneJS

18:04 - Can <=> Done

25:39 - MVC => MVVM

28:24 - Flux vs MVVM

32:20 - Use Cases

39:19 - App Size

Picks

Beautiful Eyes Album by Taylor Swift (AJ)
When Amazon Dies (AJ)
PROTODOME (AJ)
City Libraries (AJ)

The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith (AJ)
Learn X in Y Minutes (Aimee)
Which cat is your JavaScript framework? (Aimee)
@johnpapa Tweet (Joe)
SumoMe (Chuck)
Drip (Chuck)
7 Wonders (Chuck)
Shadow Hunters (Chuck)
Calamity (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles) by Kevin Hearne (Chuck)
BB-8™ by Sphero (Justin)
Hyperion Cantos Series (Justin)
UtahJS (Justin)




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203 JSJ Aurelia with Rob Eisenberg

Check out React Remote Conf!

 

02:31 - Rob Eisenberg Introduction

02:55 - Aurelia

03:43 - Selling People on Aurelia vs Other Frameworks

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

  • Web Components

15:10 - Production Usage

18:46 - Specific Uses

23:03 - Durandal

25:26 - Aurelia and Angular 2

30:32 - Convention Over Configuration

34:56 - Web Components

  • Content Projection (Transclusion)
  • Polymer

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

  • Using a Binding System as Messaging System

46:55 - Routing

49:47 - Animation

52:56 - Code Size

55:06 - Version Support

56:27 - Performance

  • Tools

01:00:20 - Aurelia in ES5

01:01:29 - Data Management

Picks

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




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204 JSJ Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson

03:10 - Quincy Larson Introduction

03:20 - Free Code Camp

04:47 - Quincy’s Background

06:43 - Curriculum and Non-Profit Projects

09:47 - Keeping the Curriculum Updated

10:30 - Enrollment; Starting & Finishing

12:20 - Resources for Learning

15:39 - Funding

16:06 - Working Through a Self-Paced System vs Structure

17:17 - Nonprofits

19:51 - Learning to Work on Non-Greenfield Code

21:47 - Getting Hired After the Program

23:21 - Marketing and Media

26:07 - Sustaining Living While Running This Program

27:31 - The Future of Free Code Camp

28:34 - Long-term Sustainability

29:44 - Hypothetical Monetization and Contribution

33:51 - Coding as a form of art or function?

36:55 - Partnerships

37:53 - Making Free Code Camp More Effective

39:18 - Criticism?

40:29 - Curriculum Development and Evolution

43:02 - Is Free Code Camp for everybody?

  • Read, Search, Ask

46:09 - The Community

51:07 - Getting Involved in Free Code Camp

Picks

Our Greatest Fear — Marianne Williamson (AJ)
The Rabbit Joint - The Legend of Zelda (AJ)
Nintendo (Twilight Princess HD Soundtrack) (AJ)
Steve Wozniak: The early days @ TEDxBerkeley (AJ)
Favor of the Pharaoh (Joe)
The Goldbergs (Joe)
The Best Podcast Rap (Chuck)
Word Swag (Chuck)
Cecily Carver: Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code (Quincy)
Code for the Kingdom (Aimee)
diff-so-fancy (Aimee)




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205 JSJ Shasta with Eric Schoffstall

02:28 - Eric Schoffstall Introduction

02:59 - shasta

07:20 - Getting Started

08:20 - Solidifying on Best Practices

10:37 - Made to Work Together vs Made to be Neatly Modular

11:19 - shasta and redux

12:01 - shasta Ideals

15:07 - Making Choices

17:35 - redux-thunk, redux-saga

19:01 - Lessons Learned from gulp.js

  • Open Source Marketing

23:55 - redux-router

25:20 - React-Specific vs Agnostic

27:35 - Experimentation with shasta

29:50 - Relay and GraphQL Conflict

31:31 - Swapability

35:30 - The Future of front-end development in JavaScript; Where shasta fits in

Picks

Victor Savkin: Managing State in Angular 2 Applications (Joe)
Lazer Team (Joe)
Big Black Delta (Jamison)
Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen (Jamison)
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe (Dave)
Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (Dave)
RevolutionConf 2016 (Aimee)
[Frontend Masters] Functional-Lite JavaScript (Aimee)
Lush Cosmetics (Aimee)
horizon (Eric)
Shannon and the Clams - Rip Van Winkle (Eric)
shasta (Eric)




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206 JSJ PostCSS with Ben Briggs

02:30 - Ben Briggs

03:03 - PostCSS

07:16 - What problems was PostCSS designed to solve for developers?

09:46 - Using PostCSS vs Sass

14:02 - Using Future Features

16:28 - Tool Fatigue

23:39 - When should people start thinking about using PostCSS?

31:24 - Postprocessing

33:43 - Shipping Apps with Emojis?

36:21 - Where does PostCSS end and where does css-modules begin?

Picks

Chet Corcos: Functional Programming for JavaScript People (Aimee)
Operation Code Scholarship (Aimee)
Web Platform Daily Digest (Ben)
Cadbury Caramel Eggs (Joe)
Hello World Podcast (Joe)
React Rally (Dave)




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207 JSJ Growing Happy Developers with Marcus Blankenship

02:51 - Marcus Blankenship Introduction

03:09 - Panelist Worst Boss Experiences

13:06 - Developer Anarchy vs Having a Hierarchy

20:57 - Transitioning Managers

26:05 - Manager Influence

28:33 - Management vs Leadership

34:37 - Interpersonal Relationships and Happiness

38:24 - What kind of feedback do managers want from their employees?

  • Timesheets

46:17 - Am I manager material? Am I ready to go into management?

48:06 - Following a Technical Track

51:55 - Why would anyone ever want to be a department manager?

Picks

A Plain English Guide to JavaScript Prototypes (Aimee)
Oatmega (Aimee)
Luck by Tom Vek (Jamison)
The 27 Challenges Managers Face: Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems by Bruce Tulgan (Marcus)
React Rally Call for Proposals (Jamison)
React Rally (Jamison)
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman (Dave)
Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (Dave)




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208 JSJ MS Office with Jeremy Thake

This episode was recorded live from The Microsoft Build Conference 2016. In this episode we chatted with Jeremy Thake of Microsoft about MS Office. You can follow him on Twitter, see what he’s done over on GitHub, or visit his blog.

Resources:

Office Dev Center

Picks

Billions (Jeremy)




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209 JSJ TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg

This episode was recorded live from The Microsoft Build Conference 2016. In this episode we chatted with Anders Hejlsberg of Microsoft about Typescript. You can follow him on Twitter, or check out what he’s done over on GitHub

Resources

Picks

Writing Code (Anders)

 




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210 JSJ The 80/20 Guide to ES2015 Generators with Valeri Karpov

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01:56 - Valeri Karpov Introduction

02:17 - Booster Fuels

03:06 - ES2015 Generators

05:47 - try-catch

07:49 - Generator Function vs Object

10:39 - Generator Use Cases

12:02 - Why in ES6 would they come out with both native promises and generators?

14:04 - yield star and async await

17:06 - Wrapping a Generator in a Promise

19:51 - Testing

20:56 - Use on the Front-end

22:14 - The 80/20 Guide to ES2015 Generators by Valeri Karpov and Tech Writing

Picks

Why and How Testing Can Make You Happier (Aimee)
Pitango Gelato (Aimee)
The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson (Chuck)
The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation (Chuck)
acquit (Valeri)
nightmare (Valeri)
now (Valeri)
The 80/20 Guide to ES2015 Generators by Valeri Karpov (Valeri)




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211 JSJ Ember and EmberConf with Michael North

02:22 - Michael North Introduction

04:10 - Ember vs React or Angular

07:13 - Convention Over Configuration

09:39 - Changes in Ember

16:04 - Ember FastBoot

18:53 - EmberConf

22:47 - Mobile/Native Experience & Optimization

29:52 - Electron

30:46 - Open Source Empowerment; The Ember Learning Team

33:54 - Michael North's Frontend Masters Ember 2 Series

37:11 - The Ember Community

Picks

React Rally (Jamison)
Embedded (Jamison)
Remy Sharp: A debugging thought process (Jamison)
NashDev Podcast (Aimee)
JS developers who don’t know what closure is are fine. (Aimee)
Sublime Text (Chuck)
DesktopServer (Chuck)
MemberPress (Chuck)
Frontend Masters (Mike)
Wicked Good Ember Conf (Mike)
Debugging Node.js with
Visual Studio Code (Mike)




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212 JSJ Horizon.js with Horizon.js with Michael Glukhovsky: Live from ng-conf!

02:34 - Michael Glukhovsky Introduction

02:35 - horizon-js

04:52 - Versus Open Source Firebase

06:15 - The Security Model

07:56 - The Admin Interface

09:16 - RethinkDB + Horizon

10:56 - Versus Meteor

13:35 - Message Format

14:26 - Getting Started

19:01 - Real-time

21:24 - Security

26:56 - The Grand Vision; Use Cases

32:17 - Managing Deployment with Redundancy

 

Picks




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213 JSJ Developer Evangelism with Greg Baugues

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

 

02:16 - Greg Baugues Introduction

02:41 - Developer Evangelism

04:23 - Evangelism at Twilio

07:05 - “Evangelism”

10:56 - Getting the Word Out

13:28 - Keeping Up-to-Date

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




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214 JSJ Pebble with Heiko Behrens and François Baldassari

Check out Newbie Remote Conf!

 

02:11 - Heiko Behrens Introduction

02:42 - François Baldassari Introduction

03:04 - JavaScript and Pebble

06:40 - Watch vs Phone

09:32 - Memory Constraints and Code Size Limitations

26:24 - Advantages of Writing in JavaScript

32:09 - Capabilities of the Watch

37:08 - Running Web Servers

39:29 - Resources

41:58 - Voice Capabilities

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

46:18 - Future Pebble Milestones

 

Picks

 

See Also





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216 JSJ Angular with Rob Wormald Live from Microsoft Build 2016

This episode was recorded live from The Microsoft Build Conference 2016. In this episode we chatted with Rob Wormald of the Angular Core team at Google about Angular. You can follow him on Twitter, or check out what he’s done over on GitHub.

 

Picks




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217 JSJ The Now Project with Guillermo Rauch

Check out Newbie Remote Conf and get your tickets!

 

02:24 - Guillermo Rauch Introduction

03:07 - Now: Realtime Node.js Deployments

04:28 - Key Concepts

10:22 - Deployment Process

14:55 - Getting Started Experience

17:22 - Technology vs Design

20:36 - Running Now vs npm-install

27:17 - Simplicity; SSH and Metrics

35:33 - Debugging and Performance

37:34 - Security

41:44 - What’s Next?

 

Picks




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218 JSJ Ember.js with Yehuda Katz

Check out Newbie Remote Conf!

 

02:38 - Yehuda Katz Introduction

05:37 - Batching Updates

10:04 - Naming

14:19 - Communication

16:21 - Decorators

19:46 - “Junior Developer” and Knowledge Bias

28:25 - Termanology in Tech

29:23 - Diversity

 

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220 JSJ Teaching JavaScript with Kyle Simpson

02:25 - Kyle Simpson Introduction

04:43 - Development => Teaching

16:20 - Inheritance and Delegation

29:40 - Evolving a Language

36:23 - Cohersion

50:37 - Performance

  • The Width Keyword

54:33 - Developer Education Programs and The Skill of Teaching

 

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221 JSJ Visual Studio Code with Wade Anderson Live From Microsoft Build 2016

This episode was recorded live from The Microsoft Build Conference 2016. In this episode we chatted with Wade Anderson of Microsoft about Visual Studio Code. You can follow him on Twitter, or check out what he’s done over on GitHub.

 

Picks

 

A special thanks again goes out to Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin from .NETRocks for putting this podcast series together! You rock!




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222 JSJ Nodal with Keith Horwood

02:35 - Keith Horwood Introduction

02:50 - Nodal | nodal

05:41 - Frameworks

07:56 - Async Flow; Callback Execution

10:29 - Nodal Use Cases

13:11 - GraphQL

15:07 - PostgreSQL

17:56 - Developer Evolution

24:05 - Scheduled Tasks and Migrations

28:57 - ORM Flexibility

33:14 - API Payloads

35:24 - The ORM

40:37 - Testing

43:10 - 1.0?

45:18 - Getting Started

 

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223 JSJ WebStorm with Dennis Ushakov

React Remote Conf and Angular Remote Conf

 

03:18 - Dennis Ushakov Introduction

03:54 - Writing an IDE in Java

04:50 - Specs

05:43 - WebStorm Defined

06:19 - IDEs vs Text Editors

08:31 - Building an IDE

13:00 - Code Reuse

15:07 - Prioritizing Features

17:11 - Why is IDE tooling important?

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

19:57 - Refactorings

  • The Dynamic Nature of JavaScript
  • TypeScript-specific Refactorings

23:35 - Next Versions of Webstorm

25:07 - Framework Support; Usage Data

28:12 - Other Technology and Framework Support

31:12 - Working for JetBrains

32:17 - Release Cycles and Procedures

34:39 - Java Source Code Contribution

 

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224 JSJ Cypress.js with Brian Mann

Angular Remote Conf and React Remote Conf

 

03:18 - Brian Mann Introduction

03:33 - Cypress.io

04:09 - Selenium

08:56 - Cypress vs Selenium

16:54 - Similarities: Cypress and Protractor

18:22 - Mocking API Data

20:40 - Getting Started with Cypress and The Migration Process

21:54 - Testing

30:31 - Handling Data on the Backend

34:16 - What’s coming next in Cypress?




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225 JSJ Functional Programming with John A. De Goes

03:08 - John A. De Goes Introduction

04:07 - PureScript

JavaScript Jabber Episode #189: PureScript with John A. De Goes and Phil Freeman

04:58 - “Purely Functional”

09:18 - Weaknesses With Functional Programming

14:36 - Organizing a FP Codebase

17:54 - Beginners and Functional Programming; Getting Started

  • Learning About the History of Functional Programming
  • Hiring Junior Devs to do FP

28:20 - The Rise of Functional Programming in JavaScript-land

32:08 - Handling Existing Applications

36:03 - Complexity Argument

41:53 - Weighing Language Tradeoffs; Alt.js


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226 JSJ Test Doubles with Justin Searls

React Remote Conf and Angular Remote Conf

 

03:15 - Justin Searls Introduction

04:13 - Testing

08:44 - Mocking

14:45 - Starting These Concepts as a Junior Developer

17:55 - testdouble.js vs. sinon.js

26:39 - Duck TypingMonkey Patching, Duck Punching

32:22 - Node.js Negativity

42:52 - Community

45:08 - The AAA Rule: Arrange, Act, Assert

51:19 - Error Messages

 

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227 JSJ Fostering Community Through React with Benjamin Dunphy, Berkeley Martinez, and Ian Sinnott

03:08 - Benjamin Dunphy Introduction

04:07 - Berkeley Martinez Introduction

04:19 - Ian Sinnott Introduction

05:19 - The React Codebase

12:38 - Other Important Parts of the React Ecosystem

14:22 - The Angular vs the React Ecosystem and Community

22:07 - Community

Developer Experience

26:56 - Getting Connected to the React Community

29:34 - Conferences

33:28 - Technology From the Community

40:19 - The Future of React

42:39 - Starting More Communities

 

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228 JSJ React Native with Nader Dabit and Mike Grabowski

Code-sharing between mobile and web apps with React Native

Using native code and Javascript

What to know about developing with React Native

The importance of tooling

Live and hot-reloading

Updating your app on the fly

Possible difficulties faced by transitioning to React Native

Bridging between native API’s and React Native

Writing apps in Swift or React Native

The future of React Native

How to start a React Native project

 

Resources:

Frontend Masters

Hired.com

Rollbar

Microsoft Code Push

React Native Radio Episode 8

Tadeu Zagallo’s Website




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229 JSJ Elm with Richard Feldman

1:13 No Red Ink is hiringRichard’s book-in-progress

2:10 Frontend Masters Workshop

2:55 Elm’s primary function

5:10 Using Elm over using Haskell, React, Javascript, etc.

9:15 Increased usability of Elm with each update

13:45 Striking differences between Elm and Javascript

16:08 Community reactions to Elm

20:21 First Elm conference in September

22:11 The approach for structuring an Elm app

23:45 Realistic time frame for building an app from scratch

32:20 Writing pure functions and immutable data; how Elm uses Side-Effects

38:20 Scaling a big FP application

44:15 What Javascript developers can take away from using Elm

48:00 Richard on Twitter

PICKS

“In a World…” Movie

Building a Live-Validated Signup Form in Elm

Apple Cider Vinegar

CETUSA – Foreign exchange program




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230 JSJ Node at Capital One with Azat Mardan

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

04:40 An explanation of Capital One and its operations

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

10:30 Process of approval for app/website development

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

18:25 Using Javascript libraries to manage different currencies

19:40 Venmo and its influence on banking

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

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

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

44:00 Upgrading via open source codes

45:40 The process for hiring developers

51:35 Typescript vs. non-typescript

PICKS:

“Nerve” Movie

Brave Browser

“Stranger Things” on Netflix

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

“Strategy for Healthier Dev” blog post

Health-Ade Beet Kombucha

“The Adventure Zone” podcast

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

“The Freelancer Show” podcast

“48 Days” podcast

Node.university

Azat Mardan’s Website

Azat Mardan on Twitter

CETUSA – Foreign exchange program




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231 JSJ Codewars with Nathan Doctor, Jake Hoffner, and Dan Nolan

3:23 Discussing the purpose and aim of Codewars

7:30 The process for building a program with Codewars

11:07 The UI and editor experience

12:55 The challenges faced when first building Codewars

14:23 Explaining PJAX

16:54 Building code on Codewars

21:24 The expanded use of KATA on Codewars

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

34:00 How Codewars proves out the persistence of coders

36:41 How Codewars appeals to collaborative workers

44:40 Teachable moments on Codewars

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

PICKS:

Marrow Sci-fi book

Uprooted Fantasy book

“Write Less Code” blog post

“The Rands Test” blog post

Five Stack software development studio

“Stranger Things” on Netflix

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

Lean Analytics book

Code book

Datasmart book

Letting Go book




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232 JSJ GunDB and Databases with Mark Nadal

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




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233 JSJ Google Chrome Extensions with John Sonmez

02:50 The definition of a plug-in

03:31 The definition of an extension

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

08:22 How to create an extension file

11:02 The appeal of creating extensions

13:26 How John got into creating extensions

15:48 Ways to organize extensions

19:38 Aspects of chrome that will affect extensions

23:23 Packaging for the Chrome store

26:22 Using dev tools

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

31:30 Open source extensions

32:32 A quick way to create an extension

QUOTES:

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

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

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

PICKS:

“Django Unchained” Website

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

Girls’ Life vs. Boys’ Life on Refinery29

Webinar Jam Software

 

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

Screencastify Chrome Extension

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

The Complete Software Developers Career Guide Book in Progress

Simple Programmer Website

Simple Programmer on Youtube




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234 JSJ JAMStack with Brian Douglas and Matt Christensen

1:00 Intro to guests Brian Douglas and Matt Christensen

2:20 Definition of JAMStack

8:12 JAMStack and confusion over nomenclature

12:56 JAMStack and security, reliability and performance

17:05 Example of traffic spike for company Sphero

18:26 Meaning of hyperdynamic

20:35 Future and limits of JAMStack technology

26:01 Controlling data and APIs versus using third parties

28:10 Netlify.com and JAMStack

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

35:13 Resources and examples of JAMStack: netlify.comNetlify blogJAMStack radioJAMStack SF Meetup

QUOTES:

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

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

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

PICKS:

Early History of Smalltalk (Jamison)

React Rally 2016 videos (Jamison)

FiveStack.computer (Jamison)

Falsehoods programmers believe about time (Aimee)

Nodevember conference (Aimee)

48 Days Podcast (Charles)

Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans (Charles)

Jon Benjamin Jazz (Brian)

RailsConf 2016 (Brian)

React Native (Brian)

Book of Ye Podcast (Brian)

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (Matt)

Sequoia Capital website

Sphero website

Isomorphic rendering on the Jam Stack by Phil Hawksworth

SPONSORS:

Front End Masters

Hired.com




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235 JSJ JavaScript Devops and Tools with Donovan Brown and Jordan Matthiesen

00:50 Intro to guests Donovan Brown and Jordan Matthiesen

1:14 Javascript and Devops

3:49 Node JS and integrating with extensions

11:16 Learning Javascript coming from another language

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

25:10 Visual Studio Code and mobile development

  • Apache Cordova open source project

31:45 TypeScript and tooling

33:03 Unit test tools and methods

38:39 ARM devices and integration

QUOTES:

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

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

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

PICKS:

Veridian Dynamics (AJ)

Jabberwocky Video (AJ)

Hard Rock Cafe - Atlanta (Charles)

CES (Charles)

3D printers (Donovan)

High-Yield Vegetable Gardening (Jordan)

taco.visualstudio.com

Jordan on Twitter @jmatthiesen

Visualstudio.com

Donovanbrown.com

Donovan on Twitter @donovanbrown

SPONSORS:

Front End Masters

Hired.com




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236 JSJ Interview with Mads Kristensen from Microsoft Ignite

TOPICS:

4:00 Things that make web development more difficult

7:40 The developer experience with Angular

10:40 How cognitive cost affects the user experience

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

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

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

34:00 Node updates

QUOTES:

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

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

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

PICKS:

Death Note Anime Show

JS Remote Conference

The Alloy of Law Book by Brandon Sanderson

Zig Zigler Books on Audible

Mr. Robot TV Show

RESOURCES & CONTACT INFO:

Mads on Twitter

Mads’ Website

 




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237 JSJ CLls - Ember Angular and React with Tracy Lee

TOPICS:

3:57 The exciting facets of CLI’s

8:25 Advantages of CLI projects

11:25 Coding in RAILS

14:18 Disagreeing with conventions encoded in a CLI

19:30 How REACT CLI functions

20:43 Is Ember cheating by using REACT CLI?

26:52 Which CLI is easiest to use

29:00 How to add commands to a CLI

34:00 The future of current CLI’s

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

37:00 The impact of WebPac

PICKS:

“How Break Points are Set” Hacker News Article

Chocolate Mint Tea

Ten Things Wise Parents Know Book

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters Book

Boys Should Be Boys Book

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

Elementary TV Show

Recommendation Form for Topics and Guests

Amazon Smile

Angular Cruise

Sweet Licorice Mint Tea by Choice Organic Teas

Van’s Nintendo Sneakers

RESOURCES AND CONTACT INFO:

Tracy's E-mail




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238 JSJ Intellectual Property and Software Forensics with Bob Zeidman

TOPICS:

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

04:28 How to determine if code has been copied

10:00 What defines a trade secret

12:11 The pending Oracle v Google lawsuit

25:29 Nintendo v Atari

27:38 The pros and cons of a patent

29:59 Terrible patents

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

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

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

49:15 Using detective work to determine who copied whom

52:55 Extreme examples of unethical behavior

56:03 The state of patent laws

PICKS:

Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet Blog Post

Bagels by P28 Foods

Let’s Encrypt Indigogo Generosity Campaign

Super Cartography Bros Album

MicroConf 2017

MindMup Mind Mapping Tool

Words with Friends Game

Upcoming Conferences via Devchat.tv

Good Intentions Book by Bob Zeidman

Horror Flick Book by Bob Zeidman

Silicon Valley Napkins




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239 JSJ Vets Who Code with Jerome Hardaway

00:55 - Introducing Jerome Hardaway

02:10 - Spouses and dependants of Vets Who Code

06:55 - Accepting and rejecting applicants

10:10 - The GI Bill

15:45 - Military language and coding

18:20 - PTSD, trauma, and coding

21:10 - Moving past the veteran stigma

25:45 - Military backgrounds as an asset for jobs

30:45 - The future of Vets Who Code

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

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

39:15 - Stories and memories

42:30 - Contributing to Vets Who Code

Picks:

Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (Dave)

Soft Skills Engineering Twitter (Dave)

Awesome Algorithms Github list (Aimee)

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

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

Vets Who Code (Jerome)

Practical Javascript (Jerome)




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240 JSJ Visual Studio Code with Chris Dias

Previous Episodes with Visual Studio Code’s Team:

JSJ Episode 199, Visual Studio Code with Chris Dias and Erich Gamma

JSJ Episode 221, Visual Studio Code with Wade Anderson

1:45 - What’s new at Visual Studio Code

3:42 - Confusion with Javascript versus separate languages

7:15 - Choosing your tools carefully

8:20 - Integrated shell and docker extensions

12:05 - Agar.io Extensions and extension packs

16:15- Deciding what goes into Visual Studio Code and what becomes an extension

18:20 - Using Github Issues and resolving user complaints

22:08 - Why do people stray away from VS proper?

23:10 - Microsoft and VS legacy

27:00 - Man hours and project development

31:30 - The Visual Studio default experience

37:10 - What are people writing with VS Code?

39:20 - Community versus developer views of VS Code

41:40 - Using Electron

44:00 - Updating the system

44:50 - How is Visual Code written?

48:00 - The future of Visual Code Studios

Picks:

Don McMillan (AJ)

Daplie Wefunder (AJ)

Daplie (AJ)

Facebook feed blocker plug-in (Charles)

Tab Wrangler (Charles)

Smart Things (Chris)

Wood Pizza Ovens (Chis)

PJ Mark, Chris’ friend and marketer (Chris)