The gang talks to Lo-Dash maintainer John-David Dalton about open source software, performant Javascript, Lo-Dash and Underscore

Pete Hodgson crosses over from the iPhreaks podcasts to talk with the Jabber gang about testing asynchronous Javascript with promises.

Anton Kovalyov joins the Jabber gang to talk about JSHint, linting, parsing, lexing and much more.

The panelists discuss the MEAN stack with Ward Bell and Valeri Karpov.

The panelists discuss The New York Times and JavaScript with Eitan Konigsburg, Alastair Coote and Reed Emmons.

The panelists talk to Bart Wood about large single page JavaScript applications.

The panelists discuss npm, Inc. with Isaac Schlueter, Laurie Voss, and Rod Boothby.

The panelists talk to Raquel Vélez about robotics and JavaScript.

The panelists discuss hypermedia APIs with Steve Klabnik

The panelists talk to David Nolen about ClojureScript and Om.

The panelists discuss dependency injection with Vojta Jína & Misko Hevery.

The panelists talk about refactoring JavaScript Apps Into a Framework with Brandon Hays.

The panelists discuss jQuery vs KendoUI with Burke Holland and TJ VanToll.

The panelists talk about what skills you need to be considered a professional web developer.

The panelists chat with Erik Arvidsson about Traceur.

The panelists talk to Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript.

The panelists discuss changes in the npm package manager with Forrest Norvell, Rebecca Turner, Ben Coe, and Isaac Z. Schlueter.

The panelists talk about the famo.us framework with Steve Newcomb.

The panelists talk to Dave Nugent about organizing conferences and Meetups.

The panelists talk about MV Frameworks with Craig McKeachie.

The panelists talk about the Mozilla Developer Network with Les Orchard and David Walsh.

02:24 - Dann Toliver Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Bento Miso

02:35 - Matt Asher Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

02:51 - EveryBit.js and I.CX

• [GitHub] everybit.js
• EveryBit.js Whitepaper

03:43 - Architecture

• Episode #135: Smallest Federated Wiki with Ward Cunningham

06:54 - Sustainability and The Pieces of the System

• Content “Puffs”
• Authentication
• Storage
  • Firebase
  • Distributed Hash Table (DHT)
  • The Chord Algorithm (Peer-to-Peer)

21:56 - Decentralization

• Space Monkey
• Madesafe

25:20 - Audience: Why Should I Care?

27:38 - Getting Started: Nuts and Bolts

• Frontend Agnostic
• Storage and Performance
• Users and Data Management
  • Payload Properties
  • Metadata
  • Graph Database
    • Adding New Relationships
    • Adding Heuristics
    • Resource Allocator Component
      • Local Storage
      • RAM

34:55 - Scaling and Server Cost

36:23 - Cloud Storage and Management (Security & Trust)

• HTTPS
  • SSL Model
  • GPG Model
• “Proof of Presence”
• "Self-verifying"
  • Namecoin Project

47:22 - Implementing Cryptographic Primitives

• bitcoinjs-lib    
• Key Management
• Cryptography
• OAuth

55:13 - The Firefox Sync Tool Project

Picks

[Twitch.tv] Kylelandrypiano (Jamison)
"Visualizing Persistent Data Structures" by Dann Toliver (Jamison)
Probability and Statistics Blog (Jamison)
Seeed Studio (Tim)
Adafruit Industries (Tim)
SparkFun Electronics (Tim)
American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice (Chuck)
Introducing Relay and GraphQL (Dann)
The Clojurescript Ecosystem (Dann)
Read-Eval-Print-λove (Dann)
React Native (Matt)

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02:01 - Richard Kennard Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Kennard Consulting
• Metawidget

02:04 - Geraint Luff Introduction

• Twitter

02:07 - David Luecke Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

02:57 - Object-relational Mapping (ORM)

• NoSQL
• Duplication

10:57 - Online Interface Mapper (OIM)

• CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) UI (User Interface)

12:53 - How OIMs Work

• Form Generation
  • Dynamic Generation
  • Static Generation
• Duplication of Definitions
• Runtime Generation

16:02 - Editing a UI That’s Automatically Generated

• Shape Information => Make Obvious Choice

23:01 - Why Do We Need These?

25:24 - Protocol?

• Metawidget

27:56 - Plugging Into Frameworks

• backbone-forms
• JSON Schema

33:48 - Making Judgement Calls

• WebComponents, React
• JSON API
• AngularJS

49:27 - Example OIMs

• JSON Schema
• Metawidget
• Jsonary

52:08 - Testing

Picks

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (AJ)
80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More by Perry Marshall (Chuck)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Chuck)
Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education by Glenn Beck (Chuck)
Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America by Glenn Beck (Chuck)
3D Modeling (Richard)
Blender (Richard)
Me3D (Richard)
Bandcamp (David)
Zones of Thought Series by Vernor Vinge (David)
Citizenfour (Geraint)
Solar Fields (Geraint)
OpenPGP.js (Geraint)
forge (Geraint)

02:21 - Tyler McGinnis Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• DevMountain Programming Bootcamp
  • @DevMtn
• Firebase Experts Program

03:23 - Getting Started at DevMountain

• Hack Reactor
• Needle

04:38 - DevMountain Conception

• Cahlan Sharp

05:37 - How Do I Learn How to Code?

• Struggle. Fail. Tears.
• [Confreaks] Tyler McGinnis: What I’ve Learned about Learning from Teaching People to Code

08:03 - Resources => Consume ALL THE Information

• Katya Eames
  • [YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids
• A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half by Mark Myers

11:16 - Two Camps: Art (Creators) and Technicians <= Does DevMountain Cater to One or the Other?

13:08 - Repetition as a Way to Learn

• The Hard Way Series (Zed Shaw)
  • Follow @lzsthw for book related news, advice, and politeness

15:23 - Letting People Struggle vs Helping Them    

17:14 - Training/Finding Instructors / Teaching Teachers to be Better Teachers

21:08 - Why Is JavaScript a Good Language to Learn?

• JSX

24:11 - DevMountain Mentors

26:30 - Student Success Stories

28:56 - Bootcamp Learning Environments

• React Week
  • @reactweek
  • Ryan Florence

34:11 - Oldest and Youngest Students (Success Stories Cont’d)

37:18 - Bootcamp Alumni (Employment Rates and Statistics)

Picks

Costco Kirkland Brand Peanut Butter Cups (Dave)
[Confreaks] Tyler McGinnis: What I’ve Learned about Learning from Teaching People to Code (Dave)
[YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids (Dave)
[YouTube] Misko Hevery and Rado Kirov: ng-conf 2015 Keynote 2 (Dave)
Mandy’s Fiancé (AJ)
[YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids (Joe)
ng-conf Kids (Joe)
Salt (Joe)
[YouTube] Dave Smith: Angular + React = Speed (Tyler)
[YouTube] Igor Minor: (Super)Power Management (Tyler)
React.js Newsletter (Tyler)
Dave Smith’s addendum to his talk (Joe)

02:25 - Nick Shrock Introduction

• Twitter

02:40 - Joe Savona Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHhub
• Blog

02:49 - Facebook and Open Source

04:10 - GraphQL and Relay Overview

• “React for Your Data” / Component-based Data Fetching

06:11 - Unique to React? Passing Down Through the Hierarchy

• XHP
• Representational State Transfer (REST)

10:09 - Queries

• Tooling
  • Graphical
• Pulling Definitions

14:13 - Why Do I Care? (As Someone Not Working at Facebook)

15:21 - Building Applications with GraphQL and Relay

19:01 - GraphQL and Building Backends

21:42 - Drivers and Client Software

• Synthesize => Code Generation
• Flux
• Container Classes

30:58 - Reusing Components

31:50 - Data Management

34:25 - Open Source

36:40 - Reflecting Backend Constraints? (Optimizing the Backend)

43:02 - Relationships => Logs

46:24 - Security

47:16 - Replacing REST (Adopting New Technology)

• “The Progressive Disclosure of Complexity”

52:14 - What You Wouldn’t Use GraphQL or Relay For

• Games

Picks

Another Eternity by Purity Ring (Jamison)
JT Olds: What riding a unicycle can teach us about microaggressions (Jamison)
OCReMix (AJ)
Duet Display (Chuck)
Summoners War (Chuck)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Joe)
Learning a new language (Joe)
Other People: What Kind of Man (Nicolas Jaar remix) - Florence & the Machine (Nick)
Boosted Boards (Nick)
The Onion: Succession Of Terrible Events Fails To Befall 33-Year-Old Riding Longboard To Digital Media Job (Nick)

02:26 - Aimee Knight Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Message Systems

02:48 - Figure Skating => Programming

• Persistence
• Balance Between Mind and Body

05:03 - Blogging (Aimee’s Blog)

06:02 - Becoming Interested in Programming

• Treehouse
  • @treehouse
• Code School
  • @codeschool
• Rails Girls
  • @railsgirls
• RailsBridge
  • @railsbridge

08:43 - Why Boot Camps?

10:04 - Mentors

• Identifying a Mentor
• Continuing a Mentorship

13:33 - Picking a Boot Camp

16:23 - Self-Teaching Prior to Attending Boot Camps

20:33 - Finding Employment After the Boot Camp

• Baltimore NodeSchool
• Passion
• Interview Prep

26:27 - Being a “Woman in Tech”

30:57 - Better Preparing for Getting Started in Programming

• Be Patient with Yourself

32:07 - Interviews

• Getting to Know Candidates
• Coding Projects and Tests

41:05 - Should you get a four-year degree to be a programmer?

• Eliza Brock

Picks

Aarti Shahani: What Cockroaches With Backpacks Can Do. Ah-mazing (Jamison)
Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences by Leah Silber (Jamison)
The Hiring Post (Jamison)
Kate Heddleston: Argument Cultures and Unregulated Aggression (Jamison)
Axios AJAX Library (Dave)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Dave)
[YouTube] Good Mythical Morning: Our Official Apocalypse (AJ)
Majora's Mask Live Action: The Skull Kid (AJ)
The Westin at Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa (Joe)
Alchemists (Joe)
Valerie Kittel (Joe)
The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (Chuck)
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (Chuck)
Freelancers’ Answers (Chuck)
Drip (Chuck)
Brandon Hays: Letter to an aspiring developer (Aimee)
SparkPost (Aimee)
Exercise and Physical Activity (Aimee)

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03:36 - John Sonmez Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Simple Programmer
• The Entreprogrammers Podcast
• Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez
• How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course

04:29 - Mastermind Groups

• Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Napoleon Hill

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

• The Peter Principle

17:52 - “Marketing”

• Value: Give Away 90% / Charge For 10%
• Seeming “Spammy” (Resistance to Sell)
• Neil Patel's Blog
• Documentation for Yourself
  • AJ O'Neal: How to Tweet from NodeJS

29:53 - Get Up and CODE!

• #086: Figure Skating and Software Development with Aimee Knight
• #067: Weight Loss Plan for Charles (Max Wood)

33:47 - Burnout

• Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
• Systems and Habits (Routines)
  • Methods of Execution

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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)

02:43 - Amit Kaufman Introduction

• GitHub
• Wix

03:07 - Avi Marcus Introduction

• GitHub
• Wix

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

• [GitHub] react

07:25 - Using JavaScript

• Object-Oriented Programming

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

• Client-Side vs. Server-Side Rendering

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)

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02:54 - Everyone Gets It But Me

• Martin Fowler

04:06 - Tools You “Need” to Know

06:29 - Clojures

07:39 - JavaScript as “Object-Oriented” vs “Event-Oriented”

• Object-Oriented Programming

09:30 - Code That Can’t Be Serialized or Deserialized

10:49 - Clojures (Cont’d)

14:32 - The DOM (Document Object Model)

• [YouTube] Angular + React = Speed by Dave Smith @ ng-conf 2015

19:52 - Math Is Hard

• IEEE754 (Floating-Point Arithmetic)

22:39 - Prototypes

• Sebastian Porto: A Plain English Guide to JavaScript Prototypes

25:43 - Asynchronous Programming

• Debugging
• Gregor Hohpe: Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit
• How Do You Learn It?

32:23 - Browser Environments

34:48 - Keeping Up with JavaScript

35:46 - Node

• Nesting
• Context Switching

42:48 - UTF-8 Conversion

44:56 - Jamison’s Stack

• React
• Koa    
• RethinkDB
• io.js
• Webpack

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Picks

Jason Orendorff: ES6 In Depth (Aimee)
Cat Strollers (Aimee)
Stephano Legacy of the Void (Joe)
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Joe)
Gregor Hohpe: Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit  (AJ)
Firefox OS (AJ)
Flame (AJ)
OpenWest 2015 (AJ)
801 Labs Hackerspace (AJ)
Stack Overflow Careers (AJ)
Dota 2 (Jamison)
Beats, Rye & Types Podcast (Jamison)
JS Remote Conf Talks (Chuck)
Workflowy (Chuck)

02:52 - David Herman Introduction

• Twitter
• Blog
• JavaScript Jabber Episode #54: JavaScript Parsing, ASTs, and Language Grammar w/ David Herman and Ariya Hidayat
• JavaScript Jabber Episode #44: Book Club! Effective JavaScript with David Herman
• Effective JavaScript by David Herman
  • @effectivejs
• TC39
• Mozilla

03:50 - The Rust Programming Language

• [GitHub] rust

06:31 - “Systems Programming Without Fear”

07:38 - High vs Low-level Programming Languages

• Garbage Collection and Deallocation
• Memory Safety
• Performance and Control Over Performance

11:44 - Stack vs Heap Memory

• Etymology of "Foo"
• RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization)

16:52 - The Core of Rust

• Ownership
• Type System

24:23 - Segmentation Fault (Seg Faults)

27:51 - How much should programmers care about programming languages?

• Andrew Oppenlander: Rust FFI (Embedding Rust in projects for safe, concurrent, and fast code anywhere.)

32:43 - Concurrency and Multithreaded Programming

35:06 - Rust vs Go

37:58 - servo

40:27 - asm.js

• emscripten

42:19 - Cool Apps Built with Rust

• Skylight
• Wit.ai

45:04 - What hardware architectures does the Rust target?

45:46 - Learning Rust

• Rust for Rubyists by Steve Klabnik

Picks

Software Engineering Radio (Dave)
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen (Dave)
The Presidents of the United States of America (Dave)
Design Patterns in C (AJ)
Microsoft Edge Dev Blog: Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge (AJ)
The Web Platform Podcast: Episode 43: Modern JavaScript with ES6 & ES7 (AJ)
Firefox Fame Phone (AJ)
iTunes U CS106A (Programming Methodology) (Aimee)
Valerian Root on Etsy (Aimee)
The Dear Hunter - Live (Jamison)
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (Jamison)
Fogus: Perlis Languages (Jamison)
Galactic Civilizations III (Joe)
Visual Studio Code (Joe)
Tessel 2 (Dave)
Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences by Leah Silber (Dave)
Plush Hello Kitty Doll (Dave)

03:32 - Jeff Morrison Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Facebook

03:46 - Avik Chaudhuri Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• Facebook

04:27 - Flow

• @flowtype
• [GitHub] flow

05:36 - Static Type Checking

• Dynamic vs Static Type Languages

09:52 - Flow and Unit Testing

• Jest

12:39 - Gradual Typing

15:07 - Type Inference

17:50 - Keeping Up with New Features in JavaScript

• Babel

20:49 - Generators

24:46 - Working on Flow

28:27 - Flow vs TypeScript

• Inference Support
• Tony Hoare: Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake

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

• gh-pages (link to the docs)
• IRC Channel for Flow: #flowtype on webchat.freenode.net

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)

02:43 - Dave Rupert Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Paravel

03:42 - Chris Coyier Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• CSS-Tricks
• CodePen

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

• Paul Ford: What is Code?

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

• Community Opinion

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

• Code Golf

41:54 - The Accessibility Project

• Adventures in Angular Episode #027: Accessibility with Marcy Sutton
• Anne Gibson: An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues

56:02 - Favorite & Cool Episodes

• ShowTalk Show Episode #091: with Jamison Dance and Merrick Christensen
• ShopTalk Show Episode #101: with John Resig
• ShopTalk Show Episode #157: with Alex Russell  
• ShopTalk Show Episode #147: with Tom Dale
• ShopTalk Show Episode #123: Special Archive Episode from 2004
• ShopTalk Show Episode #166: with Lisa Irish
• ShopTalk Show Episode #161: with Eric Meyer

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)

03:04 - Jafar Husain Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Netflix
• TC39

03:29 - The Great Name Debate (ES6, ES7 = ES2015, ES2016!!)

05:35 - The Release Cycle

• What This Means for Browsers

08:37 - Babel and ECMAScript

09:50 - WebAssembly

13:01 - Google’s NACL

13:23 - Performance > Features?

• ES6 Feature Performance (JavaScript Weekly Article)
• Features Implemented as Polyfills (Why Bother?)

20:12 - TC39

24:22 - New Features

• Decorators
  • Performance Benefit?

28:53 -Transpilers

34:48 - Object.observe()

37:51 - Immutable Types

45:32 - Structural Types

47:11 - Symbols

48:58 - Observables

52:31 - Async Functions

• asyncawait

57:31 - Rapid Fire Round - When New Feature Will Be Released in ES2015 or ES2016

• let - 15
• for...of - 15
• modules - 15
• destructuring - 15
• promises - 15
• default function argument expressions - 15
• asyncawait - 16

Picks

ES6 and ES7 on The Web Platform Podcast (AJ)
Binding to the Cloud with Falcor Jafar Husain (AJ)
Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix by Jafar Husain @ MountainWest Ruby 2014 (AJ)
Let's Encrypt on Raspberry Pi (AJ)
adventures in haproxy: tcp, tls, https, ssh, openvpn (AJ)
Let's Encrypt through HAProxy (AJ)
Mandy's Fiancé's Video Game Fund (AJ)
The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (Dave)
The Majority Illusion (Dave)
[Egghead.io] Asynchronous Programming: The End of The Loop (Aimee)
Study: You Really Can 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' (Aimee)
Elm (Jamison)
The Katering Show (Jamison)
Sharding Tweet (Jamison)
The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (Joe)
mdn.io (Joe)
Aftershokz AS500 Bluez 2 Open Ear Wireless Stereo Headphones (Chuck)
Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose: The Science of What Motivates Us, Animated (Jafar)
Netflix (Jafar)
quiescent (Jafar)
Clojurescript (Jafar)

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02:28 - Forrest Norvell Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

02:37 - Rebecca Turner Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

03:05 - Why npm 3 Exists and Changes in npm 2 => 3

• Debugging
• Life Cycle Ordering
• Deduplication

08:36 - Housekeeping

09:47 - Peer Dependency Changes

• The Singleton Pattern

15:38 - The Rewrite Process and How That Enabled Some of the Changes Coming Out

• CJ Silverio: Npm registry deep dive @ Oneshot Oslo

22:50 - shrinkwrapping

27:00 - Other Breaking Changes?

• Permissions

30:40 - Tiny Jewels

33:24 - Why Rewrite?

36:00 - npm’s Focus on the Front End

• Bower
• npm Roadmap

42:04 - Transitioning to npm 3

42:54 - Installing npm 3

44:11 - Packaging with io.js and Node.js

45:16 - Being in Beta

Picks

Slack List (Aimee)
Perceived Performance Fluent Conf Talks (Aimee)
Paul Irish: How Users Perceive the Speed of The Web Keynote @ Fluent 2015 (Aimee)
Subsistence Farming (AJ)
Developer On Fire Episode 017 - Charles Max Wood - Get Involved and Try New Things (Chuck)
Elevator Saga (Chuck)
BrazilJS (Forrest)
NodeConf Brazil (Forrest)
For quick testing: `npm init -y`, configure init (Forrest)
Where Can I Put Your Cheese? (Or What to Expect From npm@3) @ Boston Ember, May 2015 (Rebecca)
Open Source & Feelings Conference (Rebecca)
bugs [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)
docs [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)
repo [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)

02:27 - Evan Czaplicki Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Prezi

02:32 - Richard Feldman Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• NoRedInk

02:38 - Elm

• @elmlang

04:06 - Academic Ideas

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

16:11 - Constraints

• Faruk Ateş
  • Modernizr
  • The Beauty of Constraints
• Types / Typescript

24:24 - Compilation

27:05 - Signals

• start-app

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

43:00 - Elm vs React

47:24 - Integration

• Ports
• lunr.js

52:23 - Upcoming Features

54:15 - Testing

• Elm-Test
• elm-check

56:38 - Websites/Apps Build in Elm

• CircuitHub

58:37 - Getting Started with Elm

• The Elm Architecture Tutorial
• Elm Examples

59:41 - Canonical Uses?

01:01:26 - The Elm Community & Contributions

• The Elm Discuss Mailing List
• Elm user group SF
• Stack Overflow ?
• The Sublime Text Plugin
• WebStorm Support for Elm?
  • Coda
• grunt-elm
• gulp-elm

Extras & Resources

• Evan Czaplicki: Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm @ Curry On 2015
• Evan Czaplicki: Blazing Fast HTML: Virtual DOM in Elm

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)

02:20 - Slava Akhmechet Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

02:41 - RethinkDB Overview

• @rethinkdb
• rethinkdb repo    

04:24 - How It’s Used

• Compose.io

05:58 - Joins

12:50 - Returning Data

• JSON

13:53 - Getting Data to the Browser

• Quora Article
• Socket.IO

19:35 - Clustering

• Reliability & Performance Issues
  • Jepsen (Call Me Maybe Series)
  • Consensus Algorithms

26:37 - ReQL

30:53 - Indexes

• B-tree

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

• JavaScript Jabber Episode #161: Rust with David Herman
• Steve Klabnik: Systems Programming for the Ruby Developer @ Ruby Remote Conf 2015  

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)

02:43 - Oren Rubin Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• TESTIM.IO

05:43 - Testing

• Unit Testing
• End-to-end Testing
• Acceptance Testing
• Functional Testing
• Performance Testing

18:18 - Page Object(s)

• Locators

27:10 - Protractor & Selenium

• Zombie

32:06 - Checking UI (Screenshots)

37:04 - End-to-end > Full Coverage?

40:03 - When should you start testing?

42:21 - Cucumber

45:39 - Debugging

Picks

Paul Ford: 10 Timeframes (Jamison)
Kishi Bashi - “In Fantasia” (Jamison)
Matt Zabriskie (Jamison)
http-backend-proxy (Aimee)
repl.it (Aimee)
React.js Training with Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence (Joe)
React Rally (Joe)
AngularConnect (Joe)
ng-conf (Joe)
Ruby Remote Conf Videos (Chuck)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Dave Haeffner: Elemental Selenium (Oren)
CSS Secrets by Lea Verou (Oren)
Cloudinary (Oren)

02:25 - Dan Abramov Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Dan Abramov: Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel @ react-europe 2015

02:43 - Dan’s Background and Journey Into Building Stuff with React

• Visual Basic

05:48 - redux and React    

10:07- The Elm Programming Language

12:19 - Reducers

14:04 - Hot Reloading

17:50 - “React makes you a better JavaScript developer.”

22:10 - Time Travel

28:26 - Storing Data and Managing State

• Interacting with the browser on CircleCI's VM

34:43 - [Patreon] Support Dan Abramov Creating Redux and React Hot Loader

36:24 - react-transform

• react-proxy
• babel-plugin-react-transform
• react-transform-catch-errors

41:34 - Using redux outside React

43:52 - Editors and Programmer Productivity

45:35 - Future Plans

Picks

The OAuth2 RFC (Aimee)
Michael Ries: Hiring Apprentices (Jamison)
@sebmck: "Sometimes having email history isn't always a good thing..." (Jamison)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Jamison)
Firefly (Joe)
The Elm Programming Language (Joe)
Google Keep (Dave)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Pebble Time (Chuck)
100 Days of Burpees (Chuck)
Broad City (Dan)
Jamie xx: In Colour (Dan)
Cycle.js (Dan)

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03:22 - Andrew Clark Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• OpenGov
• flummox

03:39 - Dan Abramov Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• JavaScript Jabber Episode #179: redux and React with Dan Abramov

04:03 - Flux

• Flux vs MVC

09:36 - Data Flow

• Why FluxComponent > fluxMixin
• Mixins Are Dead. Long Live Composition.  
• Higher-order Components
• Sebastian Markbåge's Tweet

22:52 - Conceptualizing React and Flux

• React.js Conf 2015 - Flux Panel
• Does redux limit ambiguity that exists in Flux?

27:50 - Documentation

30:38 - The Elm Programming Language

32:34 - Making Patterns Explicit in Frameworks

• Tom Dale @ TXJS 2015
• Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.
• Sebastian Markbåge: Minimal API Surface Area @ JSConf EU 2014

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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03:07 - Burke Holland Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

04:01 - TJ Van Toll Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

04:33 - Telerik

• Telerik Platform

04:57 - NativeScript

• JavaScriptCore
• JavaScript Jabber #128: JavaScriptCore with Cesare Rocchi
• React Native

07:41 - The Views

10:07 - Customizability, Styling, and Standardization

16:19 - React Native vs NativeScript

18:37 - APIs

• CocoaPods

21:17 - How NativeScript Works

23:04 - Edgecases?

• Message Passing
• Marshalling (Mapping)

26:12 - Memory Management

27:06 - UITableView

29:59 - NativeScript and Angular

• AngularConnect Talks on YouTube
• Sebastian Witalec: Building native mobile apps with Angular 2 0 and NativeScript​

33:22 - Adding NativeScript to Existing Projects

33:51 - Building for Wearables and AppleTV

• Burke Holland: Apple Watch and the Cross-Platform Crisis

35:59 - Building Universal Applications

37:14 - Creating NativeScript

• Kendo UI

39:42 - Use Cases

• nativescript.org/app-samples-with-code

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

• npmjs.com search: nativescript

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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01:59 - Evan You Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Meteor

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

• Evan You: Vue.js: A (Re)introduction

07:18 - Use Cases

10:06 - Overlapping Elements and The Component System

• Getting Started Guide

11:21 - Pulling in Data

12:50 - DOM Manipulation

13:38 - Ease of Getting Started

15:33 - Directives

16:18 - Adoption

• awesome-vue
• vue (GitHub)

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

• Knockout

29:06 - Tradeoffs

30:54 - Edgecases

32:14 - webpack

33:46 - Bundling

35:38 - Benchmarks

• js-repaint-perfs

More on Vue.js

• Laravel Podcast Episode 37: I Love The Things You Are Saying
• Developer Tea: Part One: Paul Straw & Sean Washington (@paulstraw & @seanwashington) talk about focus, JavaScript frameworks, and rites of passage (starting around 16:25)

Picks

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

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02:22 - Elijah Manor Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• LeanKit
• Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells (Elijah's Talk Abstract)
• A video containing the 30 min version of the talk: Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells
• The full slides (60 mins worth of material)

04:49 - What is a “Code Smell”?

• Martin Fowler: CodeSmell
• ESLint
• JSHint

10:21 - Copy/Paste Code Error

• jsinspect and jscpd
• ES6, ES7, Babel Support

13:11 - Using ES6 to Eliminate Code Smells

15:48 - Refactoring Case Statements

• The Strategy Pattern

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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03:59 - JavaScript Tools Fatigue

• Catalyst: Eric Clemmons: Javascript Fatigue
• Some Twitter Opinions and Perspectives:
  • Ryan Florence
  • Michael Jackson
  • Jamison
  • Vjeux
  • Sebastian McKenzie

09:25 - Are popular technologies ahead of public consumability?

• Ryan Florence Tweet

12:53 - Adopting New Things / Churn Burnout

18:02 - Non-JavaScript Developers and Team Adoption

30:49 - Is this the result of a crowdsourced design effort?

35:44 - Human Interactions

45:00 - Tools

47:03 - How many/which of these tools do I need to learn?

Picks

Julie Evans: How to Get Better at Debugging (Jamison)
Totally Tooling Tips: Debugging Promises with DevTools (Jamison)
Making a Murderer (Jamison)
Scott Alexander: I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (Jamison)
@SciencePorn (Dave)
postcss (Aimee)
Cory House: The Illogical Allure of Extremes (Aimee)
Kerrygold Natural Irish Butter (Aimee)
Star Wars (Joe)
@iammerrick (Joe)
Greg Wilson: What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True (Joe)
The U.S. Military (Joe)
Operation Code (Aimee)
Ruby Rogues Episode #184: What We Actually Know About Software Development and Why We Believe It's True with Greg Wilson and Andreas Stefik (Chuck)
Serial Podcast (Chuck)

02:17 - Rich Harris Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• The Guardian

02:34 - Oskar Segersvärd Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Widespace

02:50 - rollup.js

• rollup - npm

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

• lodash
• Static Analysis

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

• Bundler vs Loader
  • systemjs
  • jspm
• webpack

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

• three.js

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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02:13 - Chris Dias Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

02:21 - Erich Gamma Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

02:31 - Visual Studio Code

• @code

03:49 - Built on Electron

• JavaScript Jabber Episode #193: Electron with Jessica Lord and Amy Palamountain

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

• C#

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)

02:51 - Marcus Blankenship Introduction

• Twitter
• Blog

03:09 - Panelist Worst Boss Experiences

13:06 - Developer Anarchy vs Having a Hierarchy

• SE-Radio Episode 253: Fred George on Developer Anarchy
• The Valve Playbook

20:57 - Transitioning Managers

• Impostor Syndrome

26:05 - Manager Influence

28:33 - Management vs Leadership

• Leader-Member Exchange Theory

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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01:56 - Valeri Karpov Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• JavaScript Jabber Episode #92: The MEAN Stack with Ward Bell and Valeri Karpov

02:17 - Booster Fuels

03:06 - ES2015 Generators

• The 80/20 Guide to ES2015 Generators by Valeri Karpov
• co

05:47 - try-catch

07:49 - Generator Function vs Object

• The Fibonacci Sequence

10:39 - Generator Use Cases

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

• Koa

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

• nightmare
• Professional AngularJS

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)

02:34 - Michael Glukhovsky Introduction

• Twitter
• RethinkDB
• @rethinkdb

02:35 - horizon-js

04:52 - Versus Open Source Firebase

06:15 - The Security Model

• Horizon.io

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

• That Conference (Joe)
• AngularConnect (Joe)
• React Rally (Joe)
• Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (Dave)
• May the 4th (Chuck)
• The Developer Preview (Mike)
• The Art Spirit Paperback by Robert Henri (Mike)
• React Rally (Jamison)
• Uncanny Valley Podcast  (Jamison)
• Kishi Boshi (Jamison)
• David R. MacIver: On criticizing programming languages (without criticizing their users) (Aimee)

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02:16 - Greg Baugues Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Twilio
  • Ruby Rogues Episode #258: Twilio with Greg Baugues

02:41 - Developer Evangelism

04:23 - Evangelism at Twilio

• Jeff Lawson

07:05 - “Evangelism”

10:56 - Getting the Word Out

• SIGNAL

13:28 - Keeping Up-to-Date

• Greg Baugues: Devs and Depression

18:28 - Skills to Have as an Evangelist

1. Technical Credibility
2. Patience
3. Empathy
4. Hustle

21:21 - Getting Help From Companies

25:39 - Handling Larger-scale Issues

27:15 - Building an Evangelist Team

29:44 - Panelist Experiences with Evangelism

Picks

• Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (Aimee)
• Udi Dahan: The Fallacy Of ReUse (Aimee)
• Calendly (Chuck)
• Gravity Forms (Chuck)
• Trello (Chuck)
• Slack (Chuck)
• Zoom (Chuck)
• Talky.io (Greg)
• SIGNAL (Greg)
• The Tim Ferriss Show (Greg)
• Billions (Greg)

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

Picks

• TypeScript (Gaurav)
• Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin from .NETRocks