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156 JSJ Soft Skills and Marketing Yourself as a Software Developer with John Sonmez

Check out ReactRally: A community React conference in Salt Lake City, UT from August 24th-25th!

03:36 - John Sonmez Introduction

04:29 - Mastermind Groups

05:53 - “Soft Skills”

  • Why Care About Soft Skills?
    • People Skills
    • Finances
    • Fitness

11:53 - Learned vs Innate

  • Lifting Limited Beliefs
  • Practice

14:14 - Promotion (Managerial) Paths

17:52 - “Marketing”

29:53 - Get Up and CODE!

33:47 - Burnout

Get John’s How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course for $100 off using the code JSJABBER

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Picks

The Recurse Center (Jamison)
Code Words Blog (Jamison)
DayZ Player Sings (And Plays Guitar) For His Life (Jamison)
Demon (Jamison)
Mastodon: Leviathan (Jamison)
Jan Van Haasteren Puzzles (Joe)
Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn (Joe)
AngularJS-Resources (Aimee)
Superfeet Insoles (Aimee)
Good Mythical Morning (AJ)
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz (Chuck)
Streak (John)
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber (John)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini (John)
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (John)
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (John)

 




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157 Moving Your Rendering Engine to React with Amit Kaufman and Avi Marcus

02:43 - Amit Kaufman Introduction

03:07 - Avi Marcus Introduction

04:35 - Why Move Your Rendering Engine to React?

07:25 - Using JavaScript

09:57 - Business Process and Progression (Getting Managerial Approval)

12:46 - Manipulation

15:11 - Layout and Performance

  • Measuring and Patching

20:21 - Building Client-Side Applications in General

  • Abstraction
  • Make Code Predictable and Clear
  • Have a Goal

26:00 - Events

29:30 - Storage

  • Lazy Components

31:31 - Immutability

34:36 - Flux and Keeping Code Maintainable

  • Packages

38:19 - Two-way Data Binding

Picks

Notes on the book "Art & Fear" by David Bayles & Ted Orland (Jamison)
Papers (Jamison)
Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store (Jamison)
LDS Conference Talks (AJ)
Stephen Young: Why your code is so hard to understand (Aimee)
Kombucha (Aimee)
Pascal Precht: Integrating Web Components with AngularJS (Pascal)
Template Syntax Constraints and Reasoning (Design Doc) (Pascal)
RUNNING WITH RIFLES (Joe)
[Pluralsight Webinar] AngularJS 2.0: What you need to know with Joe (Joe)
Whiplash (Amit)
Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? (Amit)
React Templates (Amit)
Esprima (Avi)
Big Hero 6 (Avi)

 

Check out and sign up to get new on React Rally: A community React conference on August 24th and 25th in Salt Lake City, Utah!




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163 JSJ Flow with Jeff Morrison and Avik Chaudhuri

03:32 - Jeff Morrison Introduction

03:46 - Avik Chaudhuri Introduction

04:27 - Flow

05:36 - Static Type Checking

09:52 - Flow and Unit Testing

12:39 - Gradual Typing

15:07 - Type Inference

17:50 - Keeping Up with New Features in JavaScript

20:49 - Generators

24:46 - Working on Flow

28:27 - Flow vs TypeScript

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

  • Server/Client Overview
  • Prototyping

45:26 - Flow and the JavaScript Community

46:43 - React Support

48:39 - Documentation

Picks

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

Muse (Jeff)
Shtetl-Optimized (Avik)
Chef's Table (Avik)




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164 JSJ Rendr with Spike Brehm

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02:22 - Spike Brehm Introduction

03:07 - rendr

06:24 - Why the back and forth between server-side and client-side applications?

20:28 - Tools That Help

22:21 - Why do this? Who gets statically and dynamically rendered pages?

30:26 - DOM and String-based Templating

33:11 - Use Cases

36:08 - Why does Isomorphic JavaScript get so much hate?

Picks

The Paleolithic Diet (Aimee)
Programming Throwdown (Aimee)
Listen to other people’s views (Chuck)

AJ O'Neal: Access web pages through your home network via SSH (AJ)
AJ O'Neal: Reverse VPN: turn any private device into public cloud server (AJ)
Alt (Spike)
Tame Impala (Spike)




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165 JSJ ShopTalk with Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert

02:43 - Dave Rupert Introduction

03:42 - Chris Coyier Introduction

06:24 - The ShopTalk Show and Podcasting

  • @shoptalkshow
  • “What do I learn next?” => “Just Build Websites!”
  • Question & Answers Aspect

23:19 - Tech Is A Niche

29:51 - Balancing Technical Content for All Levels of Listeners

  • Community Opinion

38:42 - Learning New CSS Tricks (Writing Blog Posts)

41:54 - The Accessibility Project

56:02 - Favorite & Cool Episodes

Picks

FIFA Women's World Cup (Joe)
Winnipeg (Joe)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Joe)
Zapier (Aimee)
SparkPost (Aimee)
dev.modern.ie/tools/vms (AJ)
remote.modern.ie (AJ)
Microsoft Edge (AJ)
StarFox Zero for Wii U (AJ)
Hot Plate (AJ)
untrusted (AJ)
Skiplagged (Dave)
Judge John Hodgman (Dave)
Wayward Pines (Chris)
Sturgill Simpson (Chris)
The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time (Dave)
The Adventure Zone (Dave)
React Rally (Jamison)
Matsuoka Shuzo: NEVER GIVE UP (Jamison)
DESTROY WITH SCIENCE - Quantum Loop (Jamison)
Serial Podcast (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)




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169 JSJ Property-based Testing (QuickCheck) with Zach Kessin

02:20 - Zach Kessin Introduction

04:00 - Mostly Erlang Podcast

05:27 - Property-based Testing (QuickCheck)

07:22 - Property-based Testing and Functional Programming

09:48 - Pure Functions

  • Shrinking

18:09 - Boundary Cases

20:00 - Generating the Data

23:23 - Trending Concepts in JavaScript

32:33 - How Property-based Testing Fits in with Other Kind of Testing

35:57 - Test Failures

Panel

Nolan Lawson: Taming the asynchronous beast with ES7 (Aimee)
Nodevember (Aimee)
Hipster Sound (Jamison)
Om Next by David Nolen  (Jamison)
Gallant - Weight In Gold (Jamison)
React Rally (Jamison)
Better Off Ted (Joe)
Armada: A Novel by Ernest Cline (Joe)
Testing Erlang With Quickcheck Book (Zach)
Parrot Universal Notification Interface (Zach)
The Famine of Men by Richard H. Kessin (Zach)




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170 JSJ RabbitMQ with Derick Bailey

Check out RailsClips!

 

02:38 - Derick Bailey Introduction

03:36 - RabbitMQ

05:22 - Synchronous/Asynchronous; Chronological/Non-Chronological

10:33 - Why Do JS Devs Care About RabbitMQ?

12:10 - RabbitMQ and Complexity

14:04 - RabbitMQ’s Model

22:15 - Event Emitters, Organizing Your Code

  • Documentation

31:18 - Service Busses & Monitoring Systems

32:58 - How do you decide you need a messaging system?

36:40 - When Applications Crash…

39:24 - Event Sourcing

44:05 - Fault Tolerance/Failure Cases

  • “Just let it fail”

50:21 - Putting RabbitMQ in Place

  • Scheduling
  • Long Wait vs Short Wait

58:28 - Formatting Your Messages

01:04:13 - “Saga” (Workflow)

01:05:10 - RabbitMQ For Developers

  • Use code JSJABBER for 20% off the bundle!

Picks

W3Schools (AJ)
1984 by George Orwell (AJ)
The edit button on the
MDN page (AJ)
[YouTube] W3Schools is just... Better (AJ)
The Go Programming Language (AJ)
[YouTube] Go Programming: Learn the Go Programming Language in One Video (AJ)
hackthe.computer (AJ)
Maze Algorithm (AJ)
A* Algorithm (AJ)
React Rally (Jamison)
Web Design: The First 100 Years (Jamison)
Evan Czaplicki: Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm @ Curry On Prague 2015 (Jamison)
Paracord (Chuck)
Soto Pocket Torch (Chuck)
Exploring ES6: Upgrade to the next version of JavaScript by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer (Derick)
Small World (Derick)
Star Wars Darth Bane Trilogy (Derick)
LEGO Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Slave I Set #75060 (Derick)




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171 JSJ Babel with Sebastian McKenzie

02:28 - Sebastian McKenzie Introduction

02:53 - Babel (Pronunciation Clarification)

05:56 - History

09:14 - The State of Babel

09:59 - Babel and the TC39 Process

11:54 - Features That Can’t Be Transpiled

  • Weak Maps and Proxies    

13:45 - Readability and Performance Output

18:12 - Plugin Architecture

19:58 - ES6/2015 Feature Implementation

  • Blockscoping
  • Labels
  • Exceptions
  • Destructuring

25:49 - The Birth of Babel

26:45 - Babel vs Traceur

28:08 - Future Babel Features

  • Code Optimization
  • Minification
  • Linting

30:15 - The Status of ES2015 and ES2016

31:01 - Browser Support

35:03 - Marketing

35:59 - TypeScript

37:24 - Babel Development and Labor

Picks

Primitive.io (Joe)
Armada: The Novel by Ernest Cline (Joe)
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (AJ)
Web Security Warriors Podcast (AJ)
Nodevember (Aimee)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Dave)
Yellowstone National Park (Dave)
React Rally (Dave)
Iterativ: AngularJS Kurs (Chuck)
Hire Thom Parkin! (Chuck)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Sebastian)
Five Guys Burgers and Fries (Sebastian)




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173 JSJ Online Learning with Gregg Pollack

Check out Angular Remote Conf!

 

02:55 - Gregg Pollack Introduction

05:19 - Code School

06:49 - Course Content

09:42 - Plots & Storylines

11:40 - Code School vs Pluralsight

14:09 - Structuring Courses

18:21 - JavaScript.com

22:47 - Designing Exercises & Challenges

30:31 - The Future of Online Learning

34:01 - Teaching Best Practices

Picks

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




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175 JSJ Elm with Evan Czaplicki and Richard Feldman

02:27 - Evan Czaplicki Introduction

02:32 - Richard Feldman Introduction

02:38 - Elm

04:06 - Academic Ideas

05:10 - Functional Programming, Functional Reactive Programming & Immutability

16:11 - Constraints

24:24 - Compilation

27:05 - Signals

36:34 - Shared Concepts & Guarantees at the Language Level

43:00 - Elm vs React

47:24 - Integration

52:23 - Upcoming Features

54:15 - Testing

56:38 - Websites/Apps Build in Elm

58:37 - Getting Started with Elm

59:41 - Canonical Uses?

01:01:26 - The Elm Community & Contributions

Extras & Resources

Picks

The Pragmatic Studio: What is Elm? Q&A (Aimee)
Elm (Joe)
Student Bodies (Joe)
Mike Clark: Getting Started With Elm (Joe)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
Stripe (Chuck)
Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, No. 1) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Evan)
The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse (Evan)
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman (Richard)
Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy (Richard)
NoRedInk Tech Blog (Richard)




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176 JSJ RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet

02:20 - Slava Akhmechet Introduction

02:41 - RethinkDB Overview

04:24 - How It’s Used

05:58 - Joins

12:50 - Returning Data

13:53 - Getting Data to the Browser

19:35 - Clustering

26:37 - ReQL

30:53 - Indexes

32:18 - MapReduce

35:44 - The RethinkDB Community & Contributors

38:04 - Is it production ready?

40:08 - Differences Between Version 2.0 and 2.1

 

Extras

Picks

Our World War (Dave)
Quest Protein Bars (Aimee)
You-Dont-Know-JS (Aimee)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
Orphan Black (Chuck)
Mr. Robot (Slava)
Rick and Morty (Slava)
The Rust Programming Language (Slava)




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178 JSJ Tech Education and The Business of Running Front End Masters with Marc Grabanski

03:01 - Marc Grabanski Introduction

03:35 - The jQuery UI Datepicker

04:29 - Frontend Masters

07:26 - The Live Streaming Phenomenon

09:17 - Scalability

11:25 - Value, Feedback Cycle

14:43 - Structuring Courses and Workshops

16:09 - Online vs In-Person

  • Prerequisites

18:11 - Booking Workshops

19:02 - Scaling (Cont’d)

20:00 - Online Education (eLearning) in General

21:40 - The Business Model

  • Licensing

24:12 - Hot Sellers

25:28 - Technical Setup

27:27 - Selecting Topics

29:41 - Future Topics / Topics in Production

30:38 - Individual / Company Attendees

31:45 - Upcoming Plans for Frontend Masters

32:32 - Advice For Starting Something Like Frontend Masters

34:23 - Keeping Content Up-to-date

36:14 - eLearning Experiments

39:30 - Giveaways

40:07 - Getting Started with Programming

43:03 - Marketing

45:20 - Teacher Compensation

Picks

Jessica Kerr: Functional Principles In React @ React Rally 2015 (Jamison)
thought-haver (Jamison)
[Frontend Masters] Angular Application Development (Aimee)
[Frontend Masters] JavaScript the Good Parts (Aimee)
LÄRABAR (Aimee)
Taking time off (Chuck)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Joe)
BB-8 by Sphero (Joe)
ng-conf (Joe)
The Tim Ferriss Show (Marc)
CodeCombat (Marc)
Untrusted (Marc)




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181 JSJ The Evolution of Flux Libraries with Andrew Clark and Dan Abramov

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Dan and Andrew's super awesome, helpful document that they made for the show during preparation

03:22 - Andrew Clark Introduction

03:39 - Dan Abramov Introduction

04:03 - Flux

09:36 - Data Flow

22:52 - Conceptualizing React and Flux

27:50 - Documentation

30:38 - The Elm Programming Language

32:34 - Making Patterns Explicit in Frameworks

36:31 - Getting Started with React and Flux

  • Classes

42:42 - Where Flux Falls Short

58:23 - Keeping the Core Small; Making Decisions

Picks

Strange Loop 2015 Videos  (Jamison)
Typeset In The Future (Jamison)
Open-source as a project model for internal work (w/ speaker notes) by Kevin Lamping (Jamison)
Explanation of Zipf's Law (Dave)
Will Conant's talk at UtahJS 2015 on Flux (Dave)
The Legend of ZERO (3 Book Series) by Sara King (Joe)
Camel Up (Joe)
The Elm Programming Language (Joe)
Boundaries: A talk by Gary Bernhardt from SCNA 2012 (Aimee)
Nodevember (Aimee)
TV Fool (Chuck)
RCA Outdoor Digital HDTV VHF UHF Yagi Type Antenna (Chuck)
The Michael Vey Book Series (Chuck)
BusinessTown (Dan)
Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man (Dan)
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (Dan)
Abiogenesis (Dan)
react-future (Dan)
The Righteous Mind (Andrew)
lodash-fp (Andrew)
Inside Amy Schumer (Andrew)
dataloader (Andrew)
Careers at OpenGov (Andrew)




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182 JSJ RxJS with Matthew Podwysocki

02:19 - Matthew Podwysocki Introduction

04:01 - RxJS

10:18 - Practical Experience of Use

  • Observables

17:28 - observable-spec

21:43 - Observables and Promises

25:06 - Using RxJS in Common Frameworks

27:53 - Are there places where observables might not be better than callbacks/Promises?

29:16 - Why would someone use RxJS on the backend in place of Node streams?

32:28 - Are Promises dying?

36:13 - Observable Gotchas

  • Hot vs Cold Observables

40:29 - Influence

47:47 - Will observables in ES2016 replace RxJS?

Picks

A cartoon guide to Flux (Aimee)
Promisees (Aimee)
The Dear Hunter - Act IV Rebirth in Reprise (Jamison)
Jessie Char: Expert On Nothing @ NSConf7 (Jamison)
XHR Breakpoints (Dave)
Glove and Boots (Dave)
Computer Programming (Joe)
Evan Czaplicki’s Thesis for Elm (Joe)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Chuck)
thaliproject (Matthew)
BBC Micro Bit (Matthew)
Minutemen (Matthew)




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184 JSJ Web Performance with Nik Molnar

Submit a talk or buy a ticket! Check out JS Remote Conf!

 

02:30 - Nik Molnar Introduction

02:50 - What Microsoft’s Cross-Platform and Open Tooling Team Does

03:41 - Microsoft and Open Source

05:25 - Performance

08:15 - Is good, clean architecture at odds with high-performance code?

09:41 - Latency and Bandwidth

20:23 - Hierarchy of Needs for Users of Software

24:36 - Controlling Performance

  • “Performance Budget”

26:21 - The Cost of Performance (ROI)

31:57 - Speed Index

41:50 - Avoiding the “It feels fast on my machine” Syndrome

45:03 - RUM = Real User Monitoring

  • Navigation Timing
  • Resource Timing
  • User Timing

46:24 - Synthetic Testing

47:50 - Performance Audits

50:39 - Do Less

More From Nik

Picks

UtahJS 2015 (Dave)
ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points (Jamison)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (High Frequency Training) (Jamison)
Chris Zacharias: Page Weight Matters (Jamison)
React Rally Talks (Jamison)
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins (Chuck)
Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner by Rush Limbaugh (Chuck)
Visual Studio Code (Nik)
High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik (Nik)
Nik's Pluralsight Courses (Nik)




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186 JSJ NativeScript with TJ VanToll and Burke Holland

Check out JS Remote Conf! Buy a ticket! Submit a CFP!

 

03:07 - Burke Holland Introduction

04:01 - TJ Van Toll Introduction

04:33 - Telerik

04:57 - NativeScript

07:41 - The Views

10:07 - Customizability, Styling, and Standardization

16:19 - React Native vs NativeScript

18:37 - APIs

21:17 - How NativeScript Works

23:04 - Edgecases?

26:12 - Memory Management

27:06 - UITableView

29:59 - NativeScript and Angular

33:22 - Adding NativeScript to Existing Projects

33:51 - Building for Wearables and AppleTV

35:59 - Building Universal Applications

37:14 - Creating NativeScript

39:42 - Use Cases

41:01 - Are there specific things NativeScript isn’t good for?

42:54 - Testing and Debugging

48:35 - Data Storage

Picks

Caddy (AJ)
OC ReMix #505: Top Gear 'Track 1 (Final Nitro Mix)' by Rayza (AJ)
Jamie Talbot: What are Bloom filters? A tale of code, dinner, and a favour with unexpected consequences (Aimee)
Mike Gehard (@mikegehard) (Aimee)
Joe Eames: Becoming Betazoid: How to Listen and Empathize with Others in the Workplace @ AngularConnect 2015 (Dave)
Exercise (Chuck)
Sleep (Chuck)

electron (Aaron)
The Synchronicity War Series by Dietmar Wehr (Aaron)
PAUSE (Burke)
Outlander (TJ)




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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

Check out JS Remote Conf!

 

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

Check out React Remote Conf

 

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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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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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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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

 

Picks




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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

 

Picks




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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

 

Picks




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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

 

Picks




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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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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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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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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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244 JSJ Visual Studio with Sam Guckenheimer

1:05 - Introducing Sam Guckenheimer

2:45 - Continuous integration with Visual Studio

4:15 - Visual Studio on Macs

5:55 - Is Visual Studio just for C#?

8:45 - Container support and the Cloud

14:20 - Docker and Visual Studio

17:40 - Communicating with multiple services

24:15 - Talking to clients about change and working with transformation

33:00 - Telemetry and collecting data

37:50 - Xamarin forms

47:50 - Deployment with changed endpoints

Picks:

Daplie Wefunder (AJ)

Unroll.Me (Charles)

Focused Inbox on Outlook (Sam)

WhiteSource (Sam)

The Girl On The Train (Sam)

The Pigeon Tunnel by John le Carre (Sam)




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MJS #001: Keith Horwood

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Keith Horwood. Keith was previously on ep 220 of Jabbascript Jabber talking about Nodal. On this, the first episode of My JS Story, we'll find out more about Keith and what makes him tick as a programmer. Tune in to MJS #001: Keith Horwood.




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MJS #002: Mark Nadal

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Mark Nadal. Mark  runs GUN, an open source fire-based. He loves open source community that's why he focuses on it. On this, he shares how he got into the world of programming, and we'll find out how he feels about doing it. Tune in to MJS 002 My JS Story Mark Nadal.




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JSJ 251 InfoSec for Web Developers with Kim Carter

On today's episode, Charles Max Wood and Aimee Knight discuss InfoSec for Web Developers with Kim Carter. Kim is a senior software engineer/architect, an information security professional, and the founder of binarymist.io. He is currently working on his book called Holistic InfoSec for Web Developers. Tune in to learn more on what his book is all about.




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MJS #006: Dennis Ushakov

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Dennis Ushakov. Dennis is a team lead of WebStorm and RubyMine at JetBrains. Tune in to My JS Story Dennis Ushakov to learn more about his programming experience in Java and JavaScript.




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MJS #007: Mikeal Rogers

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Mikeal Rogers. Mikeal is the creator of NodeConf and request, community organizer at Node.js Foundation, and a co-host of RFC podcast. Tune in to My JS Story Mikeal Rogers to learn more about how he started in programming and what he is currently up to.




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JSJ 252 The 20th Anniversary of Visual Studio with Bowden Kelly

Javascript Jabber is hosted this week by Joe Eames, Aimee Knight, AJ O'Neal, Cory House, Charles Max Wood and their special guest Bowden Kelly. Bowden is a program manager at Microsoft and he shares some insight into the new features in Visual Studio 2017 RTM with Bowden Kelly.




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MJS #008: Jon Schlinkert

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Jon Schlinkert. Jon was on JavaScript Jabber episode 98 where he talked about Assemble.io. Tune in to My JS Story Jon Schlinkert to learn how his journey began in programming and what's keeping him busy these days.




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JSJ 255 Docker for Developers with Derick Bailey

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




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MJS #011: Valeri Karpov

Welcome to the 11th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Valeri Karpov. Valeri is a Platform Tech Lead at Booster Fuels, the author of Professional Angular JS and The 80/20 Guide to ES2015 Generators, and a blogger at codebarbarian.com. He is also the one who maintains mongoose JS. Stay tuned to My JS Story Valeri Karpov to learn more how he started coding and what he is currently up to!




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JSJ 257 Graphcool with Johannes Schickling

On today's JavaScript Jabber Show, Charles, Aimee, and AJ discuss Graphcool with Johannes Schickling. Johannes is based in Berlin, Germany and is the founder of Graphcool, Inc. He also founded Optonaut, an Instagram for VR, which he sold about a year ago. Tune in to learn more about GraphQL and see what's in store for you!




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MJS #014: Kim Carter

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Kim Carter. Kim is a software engineer, architect, web developer, entrepreneur, and the founder of BinaryMist Ltd. He recently appeared as a guest in episode 251, and talked about InfoSec for Web Developers. Also, he is currently writing a powerbook series and runs InfoSec conferences based in New Zealand. Stay tuned to know more about his journey in programming!




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MJS #019: Aimee Knight

On today's episode, Charles Max Wood features My JS Story Aimee Knight. Aimee first appeared in episode 153, where talked about her career as a Junior Developer. She eventually became one of the awesome panelists of JavaScript Jabber. Tune in to learn about her journey in programming!