My JavaScript Story

MJS 156: Wayne Haugen

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

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MJS 155: Rakesh Pandey

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

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Rakesh Pandey

MJS 154: Soumyajit Pathak

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:02:00 +0000

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MJS 153: Dean Radcliffe

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Dean Radcliffe talks about how he got into programming early in life and the influences that brought him to writing code. He also then explains how he got into programming again in college and his internship at a company that did livestreaming of sports and concerts. He nearly didn't graduate. He finished his degree and then went on to write Ruby and later got deep into JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Dean Radcliffe Sponsors

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MJS 152: Kevin Kreuzer

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Kevin Kreuzer, a freelance front end engineer from Switzerland shares his developer’s journey in this episode of the My JavaScript Story. Kevin is also a Google Developer expert, who loves JavaScript, Angular etc and as such writes a lot of blog posts and maintains some open source libraries. And when he is not engrossed in the tech world, he is out snowboarding or playing soccer. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Kevin Kreuzer Sponsors

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MJS 151: Raul Jimenez

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

React Native Remote Conf Raúl Jiménez runs a small consultancy focused on Angular out of Barcelona Spain. Raul got into programing in High School. He was working on the equivalent of a USA based Associates Degree. He had a computer when he was 5 and got into copy/paste programming on the Spectrum computer. He started writing on his own at 16. He started with TurboPascal and then got into other languages before graduating to Angular and JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Raúl Jiménez Sponsors

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MJS 150: Loiane Groner

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

React Native Remote Conf July 28th to 31th Loiane Groner is an Angular developer from Brazil currently living the USA. She started out working in Java and has worked in Java for nearly 14 years before moving over to Angular. She did an episode on Adventures in Angular about writing documentation in Portuguese. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Loiane Groner Sponsors

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MJS 149: Andrew Evans

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Andrew Evans is a history major turned designer turned developer. His journey leads through doing development in Java, getting and MBA, and eventually picking up Angular and working at Capital One. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Andrew Evans Sponsors

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MJS 148: Farzad Yousefzadehr

Tue, 26 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In this week's episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Farzad Yousefzadehr, who was a guest on the React Round Up show. As a Senior Software Engineer, Farzad has the cool job of designing and refactoring existing games at Epic Games. He currently lives in Helsinki, Finland, with his lovely wife and cat. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Farzad Yousefzadehr Sponsors

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MJS 147: Kay Plößer

Tue, 12 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Kay Plößer is an German developer who does front-end and mobile development with React. He primarily focuses on developer relations and will be teaching at a University soon. He got started in programming doing basic scripting and game mods to buy game weapons when the game started. He also build IRC bots and programs that ran in IRC. We dive into his journey through development into React and JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Kay Plößer Sponsors

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MJS 146: Håkon Krogh

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Håkon Krogh is a Norweigan developer who focuses on web performance. We start out discussing working from home in the current pandemic. His current company works in Product Information Management. It's a headless ecommerce system. We dive into his experience learning learning to build applications and learning JavaScript and leading a team. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Håkon Krogh Sponsors

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MJS 145: Varya Stepanova

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:03:00 +0000

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Varya is an expert in design systems. She talks about the process of working in and building design systems. She learned basic Pascal at school. She did programming exercises on paper. She then got into building web pages for groups she was a part of. She then picked up PHP and went professional at that point. On the front-end, she began picking up JavaScript and worked using Yandex's internal framework. Follow here story through the rest of the podcast. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Varya Stepanova Sponsors

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Learn a New Language!

MJS 144: Josh Ponelat

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Josh Ponelat is Software Architect at SmartBear working on Swagger and OpenAPI. He's from South Africa. Josh's father is a programmer and was heavily influenced by his father. He started with ANSI-C and hacking on shells. He studied graphic design in school. He got back into programming in PHP and MySQL and wound up transitioning to JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Josh Ponelat Sponsors

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MJS 143: Paige Niedringhaus

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Paige Niedringhaus started her career as a Digital Marketer before making the move to becoming a software developer at the Home Depot. She current works with React and Node building internal apps for them. This episode discusses the ins and outs of making that transition in a semi-recent world and community. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Paige Niedringhaus Sponsors

JSJ 398: Node 12 with Paige Niedringhaus
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Gatsby
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MJS 142: Daniel Caldas

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Daniel Caldas is a Portuguese developer working and living in Singapore. He learned to code in high school programming in Pascal. He moved up to the university and that's where he encountered JavaScript. He wound up doing a bunch of design work, static websites, and jQuery. He explains his journey and learning methods leading to a job working for Zendesk on their CRM. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Daniel Caldas Sponsors

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MJS 141: Jared Palmer

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Jared Palmer has been a guest on 3 different shows on Devchat.tv. He's talked to us about Formik, Razzle, and React. He's taking a break from consulting to build up Formik, Inc and tools for forms. He got started in programming by taking a programming class at Cornell on a lark and quickly transitioned out of Investment Banking after graduating from university. His first apps were custom lock screens for mobile phones. We then move through framer and CoffeeScript and eventually in to JavaScript and React. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Jared Palmer Sponsors

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The Man In the High Castle

MJS 140: Tommy Hodgins

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Tommy Hodgins is a developer that typically works on A/B tests figuring out how to get websites the outcomes they want. He got into JavaScript and front-end technologies and then read a paper that led him to realize the capabilities of writing software to solve problems. He maintains a front-end focus with his A/B testing work and CSS in JS and other work. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Tommy Hodgins Sponsors

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MJS 139: Radoslav Stankov

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Rado Stankov is the Head of Engineering at Product Hunt. He's based in Sofia Bulgaria. He walks us through learning Pascal and PHP and Flash. We then dive into Ruby and JavaScript and what he's working on now at Product Hunt. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Radoslav Stankov Sponsors

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MJS 138: Carl Mungazi

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:01:00 +0000

Carl is a developer from Zimbabwe currently living in London. He explains how he started out as a journalist and wound up doing web development to keep track of news stories coming out in his local area. He leveled up by attending meetups and talking to other developers. He currently works for LimeJump, an energy startup which is creating a virtual power plant by connecting together different power assets Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Carl Mungazi Sponsors

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MJS 137: Florian Rival

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Florian Rival is a React developer who has built his own game engine. He's been a guest on both React Round Up and React Native Radio. This episode provides you a walkthrough on using gDevelop to build games from scratch and goes into his history as a game developer. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Florian Rival Sponsors

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GDevelop

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MJS 136: Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

This My JavaScript Story episode is a discussion with Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent. Kaelig works on the Polaris design system from Shopify. We walk through his journey into programming, HTML, and CSS. We wander through is career until he was building design systems at Shopify. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Kaelig Deloumeau-Pregent Sponsors

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The Name of The Wind

MJS 135: Paul Cowan

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

My JavaScript Story this week welcomes Paul Cowan. Paul works as a consultant in front end development. He learned how to program at a really early age but didn't own an email address until he was 30 years old. When he was 30 years old he wanted to change his lifestyle and attended a course in London and took a job as a software developer. Paul was interested in React because, for him, much of programming didn’t make a whole lot of sense until he read about the flux model and React Redux was one of the few frameworks that followed the flux model. Spending most of his life outside of the programming world has granted him a unique perspective framework like React. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Paul Cowan Sponsors

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MJS 134: Maximiliano Firtman

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

My JavaScript Story this week welcomes Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile web developer from Buenos Ares, Argentina. He has been a developer for 24 years and his most recent focus has been on progressive web apps. Maximiliano started coding when he was 11 years old by creating games and digital magazines. He got into web development by learning HTML in college. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Maximiliano Firtman Sponsors

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MJS 133: Jonathan Martin

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

My JavaScript Story this week welcomes Jonathan Lee Martin. Jonathan is an educator, speaker, and author. He has been a developer since high school and he started out by teaching at Big Nerd Ranch and currently has his own teaching brand. He teaches career switchers and senior developers and also has written a book "Functional Design Patterns for Express.js". Teaching career switchers has led him to adopt a pedagogy approach to teaching where he focuses on getting people to absorb relevant information faster. Some of the lessons he has learned when working with career switchers is the role of failure in the classroom. He noticed when something did not work in their code career switchers tended to want to start out again instead of debugging what was wrong with the code. Jonathan had to show that most of developing is turning failure into success and getting code that doesn't work bu debugging and asking for help. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Jonathan Martin Sponsors

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The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:00:00 +0000

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MJS 132: Douglas Crockford

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:48:00 +0000

Douglas Crockford self-described as the person who discovered that JavaScript has good parts is on this week's My JavaScript Story. Charles and Douglas talk about how Douglas got introduced to programming. and how he specialized in JavaScript. Douglas realized that there's going to be a convergence of TV and computing very early in his career. So a lot of his career has been bridging those two things, helping the evolution toward digital media. After working for Atari he went to work at Lucasfilm where he stayed for 8 years. Charles asks Douglas what he is working on now, and what his plans are for the future. Douglas is planning to write more books one of which is Math for Programmers. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Douglas Crockford Sponsors

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MJS 131: Chris Biscardi

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Chris is an independent consultant working with open source startups. He taught himself to program and started in open source. He talks about how he got into programming and how he learned to code. Chris' first access to programming was writing index.hml files when he was younger and again when he was majoring in Arts in university he was introduced to ActionScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Chris Biscardi Sponsors

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MJS 130: Javan Makhmali

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:05:00 +0000

This week, My Javascript Story welcomes Javan Makhmali,a Programmer at Basecamp from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Javan attended Community College to study Computer Science but then decided to work as a Freelancer developer. Javan and Charles debate whether having a 4-year college degree is better to become a developer and conclude that it depends on the person. Some people prefer a structured 4 year degree to feel ready for a full time jo and some people do better with bootcamps. Javan mentions he knows several people that switched careers after completing an 8 week bootcamp and that the industry was really flexible to accomodate both options. Charles and Javan then continue talking about Javan's journey as a developer and particularly his journey with Basecamp. Javan started out working with Ruby on Rails and after a couple of years applied for a job at Basecamp (then known as 37 Signals). Javan then started working with CoffeeScript which helped him understand working with JavaScript. Charles and Javan talk about the projects Javan is working on currently at Basecamp. Outside of work Javan, is a new parent and enjoys spending time with his daughter. He feels ever since he has become a parent, his work life balance has been better. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Javan Makhmali Links

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MJS 129: Filipa Lacerda

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:22:00 +0000

Charles Max Wood talks to Filipa Lacerda in this week's My JavaScript Story. Filipa has been working as a front end engineer since 2011 and she currently works at GitLab. Filipa originally wanted to study Economy but when she got to university she decided to major in Communications thinking it would be a lot more about communication and not as much about coding. At first she really didn't like the coding aspect of it but then as time went by she actually started to enjoy coding. When she first started working she started out on the User Experience side, but then she wanted to switch to building stuff with code because she wanted to see results really fast and enjoyed that aspect of coding. Charles asks why she stuck with that degree instead of switching it and Filipa explains that at first because she didn't want to go back and re - take the exams and also decided that this degree offered many job opportunities in many different industries and now she can't imagine herself doing anything else. Filipa then talks about why she is working with Vue and all the different kind of projects she has done using Vue as well as what working for GitLab looks like on a day to day basis. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Filipa Lacerda Links

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MJS 128: Mike Hartington

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of My JavaScript Story is Charles talks to Mike Hartington. Mike Hartington is a Developer Advocate for Ionic Framework and a Google Developer Expert, but he is most famous in the developer community because of his beard. Charles asks how Mike got introduced to development. Mike tried to code Tic-Tac-Toe and that was a challenge because knowing the rules to the game and trying to tell a computer the rules are two very two different things. Mike then majored in Graphic Design at Rhode Island College, and started learning Flash and ActionScript. Mike talks about what kind of projects he created with Flash and ActionScript and then the process of teaching himself JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Mike Hartington Links

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MJS 128: Mike Hartington

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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MJS 127: Thorsten Lünborg

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles talks to Thorsten Lünborg. Thorsten is a Business Service Manager at MVV Energy Solutions from Frankfurt Germany. Charles asks about Thorsten's developer journey in particular how he was introduced to JavaScript. Thorsten is also a core team member for Vue.js and he talks about his involvement with the Vue community. Thorsten mainly focuses on working on Vue CLI and answering questions in forums. He describes the Vue community as a very friendly and helpful one. According to Thorsten, Vue is very stable and seems to satisfy a lot of the needs of Vue community and so people are not looking for the "next best thing" with Vue. Out of all the frameworks i tried to learn, i found Vue was the one that i liked the most and i started answering questions about Vue on the forums. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Thorsten Lünborg Sponsors

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MJS 126: Eduardo San Martin Morote

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of My JavaScript Story is Charles talks to Eduardo San Martin Morote. Eduardo is a freelance developer, a core team member of Vue.js, and loves contributing to open source. Eduardo started web development with games. He then majored in Computer Science and Mathematics. Eduardo works as a freelancer so he can work on Open Source projects in his free time. One of the problems he draws attention to is the sustainability of Open Source Projects. The developers that maintain the projects on Open Source are not funded, and even though many companies use Open Source code they don't have sponsor it even though they have the financial means to do so. Charles Max Wood recommends another podcast Devchat.tv hosts, Sustain Our Software that addresses this problem among others for Open Source. Eduardo and Charles talk about characters that have accents that have to be encoded and how they deal with this problem. Eduardo then talks about some of the projects he is working on currently with Vue.js. Sponsors

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MJS 125: Dan Pastori

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles talks to Dan Pastori, Co-Founder, Software Architect at 521 Dimensions. Charles asks about Dan's average day and what his life looks like before diving into his coding journey. Dan talks about how he got into web development. Dan taught himself PHP and JavaScript. Charles talks about the Views on Vue episode Dan was on VoV 012: Re-using VueJS Mixins and Filtering Google Map Data with Dan Pastori, and wants to know how Dan got into Vue. Dan compares learning times of Vue and Angular and mentions he learned Vue in a week as opposed to the months he spent learning Angular. Dan talks about his involvement in the Vue community and the future of Vue as well as the projects he is currently working on. Dan then talks about his future projects and plans. They finish off with picks. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Dan Pastori Sponsors

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MJS 124: Daniel Gruesso

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

This episode of My JavaScript Story is coming to you live from OSCON. Joining Charles Max Wood is Daniel Gruesso from GitLab to talk about developing in the Open Source and the Developer Report. GitLab works with an open core model, Daniel talks about the trade - offs of having code open to public, the first of which is having everything up-to-date so any contributions made will work with the latest version. Daniel calls this the "bus-factor" where if one of the team members gets hit by a bus, the rest of the team will have everything to work with. They then talk about the GitLab 2019 Global Developer Report results. One of the most interesting results of this survey with over 4,000 respondents, was that remote teams outperformed on site teams. This ties into the current Twitter discussion about "10x Performing Engineers". Remote teams are able to work on their own most productive hours and are not disturbed by their teammates when they are doing dedicated work on a deadline. Also remote teams by nature have to be more conscious of security. Sponsors

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MJS 123: Nick Basile

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Episode Summary My JavaScript Story this week meets with Nick Basile, UX instructor at Lambda School from Austin, TX. Nick talks about how much he enjoys working with Laravel and Vue as well as his journey as a developer. Upon graduating from university in Switzerland with a degree in Economics, he started working for two start-ups doing UX/UI design. He then wanted to be able to build UI as well so he taught himself JavaScript and HTML. He then got a job as a front-end developer to further develop his skills. Charles makes a comment about how many developers don't have a Computer Science Degrees. Nick then talks about how he got into Laravel and Vue and also how he started working for Lambda. They briefly discuss Lambda's business model and Nick's approach to teaching. Finally Nick talks about how he spends his life outside work in Austin, which nowadays involves looking after his 4-month old daughter. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Nick Basile Sponsors

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How It Actually Works
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MJS 122: Rachel Roumeliotis and Roger Magoulas

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Episode Summary Rachel Roumeliotis and Roger Magoulas from O'Reilly Media join Charles Max Wood at OSCON to talk about the process of content development for OSCON. Rachel is the Vice President of Content Strategy at O'Reilly and Roger is Vice President of Radar at O'Reilly. Rachel and Roger talk about the history of OSCON Conference as well as the key technologies they wanted to cover this year such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cloud-Native applications. They then talk about the future of OSCON and the highlights they wat to cover next year such as security. Sponsors

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MJS 121: Sam Selikoff

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Sam Selikoff Episode Summary Sam Selikoff, Co-Founder at EmberMap shares his journey of how he became a developer. Sam was an Economics major in college and he really loved the theory of economics. When he graduated, he started working as a consultant and while working with data for statistical analysis he found that he enjoyed working with SQL and that how he started his developing career. Sam explains why he prefers Ember.js framework to other frameworks. He also talks about the projects he is working on currently. Apart from coding Sam enjoys reading economics books and playing music with his family. He shares some of his favorite books to read on the Theory Of Economics. Links

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Podcast Movement

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MJS 120: Thomas Grassl

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Thomas Grassl Episode Summary Thomas Grassl from SAP joins Charles Max Wood at OSCON to talk about what SAP is doing in the Open Source world. Thomas talks about SAP's recently released a UI5 Web Components. Charles wonders how the components will work with different frameworks and Thomas explains UI5 Web Components are HTML components and they should be used how regular HTML components are used. UI5 Web Components is Open Source so Thomas expects contributions from the Open Source community. Thomas then talks about UI5 Web Components' enterprise-ready functionality and scalability features as well as the security and accessibility aspects. They then talk about Thomas' position as Developer Relations in SAP and what it entails. Thomas then talks about the career opportunities that comes with customization on the enterprise scale. Finally Charles and Thomas talk about how SAP approaches developer relations and what developers should do if they would like to contribute to SAP Open Source project. Links

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MJS 119: Jeffrey Meyerson

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Jeffrey Meyerson Episode Summary Jeffrey Meyerson, founder of FindCollabs and host at Software Engineering Daily joins Charles Max Wood for a discussion about latest trends in developer world, ways of monetizing podcasts and finding ads for podcasts.Jeffrey shares how he started hosts podcasts and how he became a developer. Jeffrey's journey as a developer started out with his interest through music and poker. They compare advertising through sponsoring a booth in a conference versus advertising through a podcast. Tune in for a fun chat that covers everything from Keto dieting to software buzz words. Links

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#75Hard

Jeffrey Meyerson

Owning a Rice Cooker

MJS 118: Aaron Frost

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Aaron Frost Episode Summary Aaron Frost joins Charles to talk about what Observables are and why developers should learn about them and use them in their code. He explains the difference between Observables, Promises and Callbacks with an example. Aaron then invites all listeners to attend the upcoming RxJS Live Conference and introduces the impressive speaker line-up. The conference will take place on September 5-6 in Las Vegas and tickets are still available. Aaron also offers a $100 discount to all listeners with the code "chuckforlife". For any questions you can DM Aaron on his Twitter account. Links

MJS 117: The Devchat.tv Mission and Journey with Charles Max Wood

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Episode Summary Charles talks about his journey as a podcaster and his mission with Devchat.tv. Devchat.tv is designed to home podcasts that speak to all developer communities. Charles also plans Devchat.tv to host shows for technologies that are on the verge of a breakthrough and will be a lot more widely available in the near future such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). There are new shows being added continuously to reach out to new communities, some examples of which are: a Data Science show, a DevOps show and an Open Source show. As a kid, Charles would record his own shows on a tape recorder. He was always interested in technology. While studying Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, he worked in the University's Operations Center. Upon graduation, he started working for Mozy where he was introduced to podcasts. Listen to the show to find out the rest of Charles' story, some of the lessons and tips he learned throughout his journey and the evolution of the shows on Devchat.tv. If there isn't a show for your community and you would like there one to be, reach out to Charles. Also if there was a podcast about a programming related subject that ended abruptly and you would like it to continue, reach out to Charles. Devchat.tv would like to host these podcasts. Links

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MJS 116: Jeremy Fairbank

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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

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MJS 115: Noam Rosenthal

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Noam Rosenthal Episode Summary Noam has recently started offering his services and experiences independently after 20 hands-on years in the software industry. His most recent position was as a Software Architect working on the Wix Editor at Wix, an Israeli cloud-based web development platform. Noam was first introduced to programming at the age of seven when he started creating games in Pascal language. He then went onto learn HTML. Charles and Noam talk about how the programming community has changed over the years and how it is a lot easier to access knowledge today. On how to improve as a developer, Noam recommends not staying in the comfort zone of the job description and doing as many volunteer projects as possible. Noam is also a musician and he plays base in Lost Highways music band. When he isn't coding he is busy producing the songs for their new upcoming album with his band. Links

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For developers working with JavaScript - learn another language such as Rust Language
TensorFlow
Shadertoy
Learn to play an instrument
Ultimate Guitar Tabs
Do volunteer projects and do not stay in the comfort zone of work

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MJS 114: Christian Heilmann

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Christian Heilmann Episode Summary Christian is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, working out of Berlin, Germany. Links

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Privacy Badger - Google Chrome
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MJS 113: Sarah Dayan

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Sarah Dayan Episode Summary Sarah Dayan is a Frontend Software Engineer working for Algolia in Paris. She is also the author of Dinero.js which was the result of a production bug they discovered in JavaScript. Sarah first got introduced to computers when she was a child. She spent hours playing on her grandmother's computer with dial-up internet. At age 15, she created her first HTML website. Sarah and Charles discuss the evolution of front-end development. Listen to the show to find out more about Sarah's journey as a front-end developer and the projects she is working on now. Links

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MAS 082: James Daniels and Alex Okrushko

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 112: Ryan McDermott

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 111: Anatoliy Zaslavskiy

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Anatoliy Zaslavskiy Episode Summary Anatoliy Zaslavskiy has been interested in computers since he was 7 years old, and began his programming career in high school, doing web development in PHP for the online community for his favorite show Avatar: The Last Airbender. Anatoliy currently works for Hover as a Frontend developer transforming home photos into 3D models to help visualize what the final project will look like. Anatoliy shares his journey as a developer with bipolar disorder and tells us how he restructured his career with his employer so he can focus on projects that he enjoys working on. This way he performs at his best and both him and Hover can benefit from his talents. Anatoliy and Charles stress the importance for companies to talk to their developers to understand their nature as both parties benefit from open and honest dialogue. Links

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MJS 110: Phil Hawksworth

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Phil Hawksworth Episode Summary Currently the Head of Developer Relations at Netlify, Phil has been a developer for 20 years. Even though he was interested in computers from an early age, he started studying Civil Engineering in university before changing course and switching to Computer Science. Though he didn't particularly enjoy studying Computer Science, he really liked working with HTML where he didn't have to compile any code and that's when he started thinking about a career in web development. Phil talks about his favorite projects he has worked on using JAMstack and JavaScript. He works remotely out of London, UK and as head of developer relations he spends a lot of time traveling for conferences for work. He doesn't have a 'typical' work day, but when he is not traveling for work he enjoys catching up on conversations on Slack and Twitter about JAMstack and collaborating with the rest of is team in San Francisco. Links

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Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity

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EverywhereJS JavaScript Community

MJS 109: James Shore

Tue, 28 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: James Shore Episode Summary James Shore, the author of the book, “The Art of Agile Development” and a thought leader in the Agile software development community, talks about his journey in Agile development. James and Charles discuss how Agile has transformed software development process and the traits that a good software developer should have. James talks about his contributions to the developer community, his CSS testing tool quixote and the Agile Fluency Project. Links

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MJS 108: Dan Shappir

Tue, 21 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Dan Shappir Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Dan Shappir from Tel Aviv, Israel, who is a computer software developer and performance specialist at Wix. Listen to Dan on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. Dan got a TI-99/4 when he was very young and enjoyed programming games. He first started with Basic language. After he studied Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined the Israel army to serve his military service. While in the military he also obtained his Masters Degree in Computer Science. Currently Dan is working as a Performance Tech Lead at Wix, he works on speeding up the delivery and execution of 50+ million websites hosted on the Wix platform, as well as Wix own applications and services. Links

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MJS 107: Dan Fernandez

Tue, 14 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Dan Fernandez Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Dan Fernandez, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. Listen to Dan on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. Dan went to a programming camp and fell in love with programming. He majored in Computer Science in college and started working for IBM upon graduation. Listen to the show for Dan’s journey into programming and much more! Links

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MJS 106: Shawn Clabough

Tue, 07 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Shawn Clabough Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Shawn Clabough, Information Systems Manager and Senior Developer at Washington State University. Listen to Shawn on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. Shawn got interested in computers in high school. His first computer was a TRS-80. Upon graduating from Washington State University, he worked as an assistant buyer at a computer chain store before going back to university to receive further education as a programmer. He then got a job at the University of Idaho where he worked in web application development for 17 years before switching to Washington State University. Currently he is a senior developer and a developer manager at Washington State University. Shawn also works as a custom .NET application development consultant. Links

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If you were listening to a podcast in any of the above topics or any other programming related subject that ended abruptly within the last 6 months and would like it continued please contact Charles Max Wood. We would like to host these shows on devchat.tv. Most of time time podcasts stop being recorded due to lack of time or lack of money.

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MJS 105: Brian Woodward

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Brian Woodward Summary Brian Woodward shares his programming story starting at 7 or 8 messing around on his dad's computer and getting a degree in computer science. Brian discusses his journey through technologies and why he decided to work with JavaScript. Brian discloses his struggle with deciding what to do as a programmer and his decision to get a business degree. Today Brian is the co-founder of Sellside, he discusses their tools and stack and what they are currently working on. Links

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MJS 104: Ethan Brown

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Ethan Brown Summary Ethan Brown shares his story starting with his homeschooling days and getting into programming. He started selling commercial software through his dad’s company at age 16. At age 17 he was recruited for a programming job and moved to New Jersey. Ethan and Charles discuss getting university degrees, whether or not to get them and share their experiences at university. Ethan talks about getting into javascript, what he has done in the Javascript community, and his experience giving talks at conferences. They discuss what the stack looks like for Ethan's company, Value Management Strategies, and what Ethan is currently working on. Ethan ends the episode by talking about one turning point in his career. Links

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Ethan Brown

MJS 103: Isaac Schlueter

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Isaac Schlueter Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Isaac Schlueter, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at NPM. Listen to Isaac’s journey as a developer on the podcast My Java Story on this episode and on the podcast My Angular Story on this episode. Isaac recently switched roles from Chief Executive Officer to Chief Product Officer, he explains the reasoning behind this switch. He talks about NPM Enterprise and its value proposition. He talks about projects he is working on currently and also the future of NPM. He also talks about the current available positions at NPM, both in Oakland, CA and remote. Links

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MJS 102: Gil Tayar

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Gil Tayar Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Gil Tayar, a Senior Architect at Applitools from Israel. Listen to Gil on the podcast JavaScript Jabber Testing in JavaScript with Gil Tayar. Gil started his developing journey when he was 13 years old. He continued his training during his military service and became an instructor for the PC unit. During this time, he learned and taught C, C++ and Windows. He then started working for Wix before he went onto co-found his own startup. You can listen to Dan Shappir, another developer from Wix that has been a guest on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. During this experience Gil realized he loves the coding side of the business but not the management side. Gil also loves testing and he very much enjoys his work at Applitools. As a Senior Architect in Applitools R&D, he has designed and built Applitools' Rendering Service. Links

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MJS 101: Chris Ferdinandi

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Chris Ferdinandi Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Chris Ferdinandi, a Senior Front-End Engineer at Mashery. Chris is also a panelist on the podcast JavaScript Jabber and runs Go Make Things. Chris started out his career as in Human Resources, decided he wanted to go into development after he was asked to work on a coding project by his manager and he really enjoyed it. He got his first coding job as an entry level developer after attending a web development conference. Chris authors Vanilla JavaScript Pocket Guides which are short, focused e-books and video courses made for beginners. Links

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MJS 100: Joe Eames

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Joe Eames Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Joe Eames, CEO of Thinkster.io and organizer of many different conferences, two of which are the AngularJS conference, ng-conf, and the WordPress developer conference, LoopConf. Joe is a front end web developer and an educator. He has authored over 10 Pluralsight.com courses. He is also a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast and the Adventures in Angular podcast on DevChat.TV. Joe talks about his passion project, being on the organization team of Framework Summit, a two-day conference focused on all front end JavaScript frameworks, the first of which was held in Utah in October 2018. It was a great success and he and the rest of the organization team will be looking to repeat it in January of 2020. Another conference Joe was involved in organizing was React Conf 2018 which took place in October in Henderson, Nevada. He is in the process of organizing the React Conf 2019 with the rest of the organization team. Aside from organizing conferences Joe’s second passion is education. He has started up a podcast called Dev Ed Podcast. Joe has recently become the CEO of Thinkster.io. Thinkster.io is a unique platform where learners can really master web development with a lot of hands on training. Joe wants developers to be able to learn how to “generate” solutions to problems. He explains the concept of “interleaving” while learning a subject which helps students retain more and learn faster. Links

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MJS 099: Christopher Buecheler

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Christopher Buecheler Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Christopher Buecheler, novelist, web developer and founder of CloseBrace, a JavaScript tutorial and resource site. Christopher is a self-taught full-stack web developer with extensive experience in programming with JavaScript, jQuery, React.js, Angular.js, and much more. Listen to Christopher on the JavaScript Jabber podcast. Christopher started CloseBrace because he really enjoys helping people and giving back to the community. In his spare time, he writes science fiction novels and is also working on a web application for knitting called Stitchly with a friend. Links

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MJS 098: Vitali Zaidman

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Vitali Zaidman Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Vitali Zaidman, Technical Lead at WellDone Software Solutions. He is also the author of the popular blog piece: “An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2019”. Vitali has been writing code since he was 13 years old. After completing his military service, he attended The Open University of Israel where he took computer science courses. He picked JavaScript not knowing that it was going to be so popular. He has been working for WellDone Software Solutions since he was a student where he has had the chance to work in many different projects. Vitali feels in order to keep up with technology it is important to work in different projects. Vitali talks about projects he has worked on that he is proud of, one of which is his library at https://github.com/welldone-software/why-did-you-render Links

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https://www.testim.io/
https://applitools.com/
An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2019 by Vitali Zaidman
https://github.com/welldone-software/why-did-you-render

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MJS 097: Charles Lowell

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Charles Lowell Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Charles Lowell, founder and developer at The Frontside Software based in Austin, TX. Listen to Charles on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. Links

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Yousician App

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MJS 096: Bart Wood

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Bart Wood Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood speaks with his namesake Bart Wood. They talked about tools for tracking and monitoring problems while using apps. One app in particular was able to track new releases and errors, automatically scrub passwords to secure information as well as customize the scrubbing process while allowing users to provide feedback. Charles delves into the past of Bart Wood who has been working with the same company, Henry Shine. He started studying Economics before he got into programming by chance and eventually ended up graduating with a Masters in Computer Science. Initially Bart had misconceptions of computing and eventually realized that it was not only about maintaining the OS system and learning keyboard strokes, but creating new apps and delving into the world of creating new software.

MJS 095: Misko Hevery

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:18:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Miško Hevery Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Miško Hevery, creator of Angular and Senior Computer Scientist at Google. Miško was introduced to computers when his father brought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home for them to play with. When they moved to the United States from Czech Republic, Miško attended Rochester Institute of Technology and studied Computer Engineering. After working for companies such as Adobe, Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Xerox, he joined Google where created the Angular framework. For more on the story of how Miško created AngularJS, listen to the ‘Birth of Angular’ episode on the Adventures in Angular podcast here. Miško is currently working on Angular Ivy at Google and plans to restart a blog in the future. Links

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Prusa3D - 3D Printers from Josef Prusa

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The Kingfountain Series by Jeff Wheeler

MJS 094: Lee Byron

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:02:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Lee Byron Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Lee Byron, web engineering lead at Robinhood, a financial services company based in California. Listen to Lee on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode and on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Links

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The Arm Cortex-M4 processor

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MJS 093: Ben Lesh

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:01:00 +0000

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Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Ben Lesh, RxJS Lead and senior software engineer at Google. Ben studied to be an illustrator in Columbus College of Art & Design, but upon graduation he realized he wanted to work in web development. Ben thinks having an interest in problem solving was a key factor on his journey in becoming a developer. For his first programming job, he applied to a position and when he didn’t hear back he kept calling them until they gave him an opportunity. He then worked as a consultant at several other positions before he was offered a job at Netflix where he became the development lead for RxJS 5. Ben then switched over to Google’s Angular team. He is currently working on Angular Ivy at Google. Ben then talks about the projects he has worked on that he is proud of. In his journey as a developer, Ben believes that the take-away lesson is asking lots of questions. He himself had no formal programming training and he got to where he is today by asking sometimes embarrassingly simple questions. Links

MJS 092: Shashank Shekhar

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 02:53:00 +0000

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Shashank Shekhar Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Shashank Shekhar, a product developer at Localtrip from India. Shashank was introduced to programming when he was in school with Logo language. He then attended freeCodeCamp and learned JavaScript. Shashank talks about his journey as a developer and the projects he is working on now at Localtrip. Links

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Do what you love

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MJS 091: Jamund Ferguson

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

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MJS 090: AJ O’Neal

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: A.J. O’Neal This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles talks with A.J. O’Neal who is a panelist on My JavaScript Jabber usually, but today he is a guest! The guys talk about AJ’s background and past/current projects. Today’s topics include: JavaScript, Ruby, jQuery, Rails, Node, Python, and more. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 1:23 – Chuck: Introduce yourself, please. 1:27 – AJ: I brief introduction: I am a quirky guy who is ADD and I love to figure out why/how things work. I like self-hosting or owning things in technology. 2:00 – Chuck: Where do you work now? 2:02 – AJ: I work in UTAH at Big Squid! 3:29 – AJ: I have my own company, too! 3:41 – Chuck: Yeah we’ve talked about that before. Where can we go? 3:54: AJ: We have 2 products that are both Node. Greenlock for Node.js is one of them! The other one is Telebit. 5:44 – Chuck: This interview is all about your background. How did you get into programming? 6:04 – AJ: I was in middle school but before that my grandmother was a secretary at the Pentagon. She worked on getting people paid and she wrote a program to assist these paychecks to be printed with fewer errors. Because of that she had a computer at home. I remember playing games on her computer. The guest talks about his background in more detail. 15:21 – Chuck: No it’s interesting! I’ve done a couple hundred interviews and they all say either: I went to school for it OR I did it for my free time. It’s interesting to see the similarities! 16:00 – AJ: Yep that’s pretty much how I got into it! I went on a church service mission to Albania and really didn’t do any computer work during those 2 years. 19:39 – Chuck: You went to BYU and your mission trip. A lot of that stuff I can relate to and identify with b/c I went to BYU and went on missions trip, too! And then you got into Ruby and that’s how we met was through Ruby! 20:25 – AJ: Yep that’s it. Then that’s when I learned about Node, too. There was a guy with a funny hate – do you remember that? (No.) 21:03 – Chuck: Maybe? 21:07 – AJ continues. 27:53 – Chuck: What made you make the transition? People come into and out of different technologies all the time. 28:18 – AJ: Yeah it started with me with jQuery! Rails has layers upon layers upon layers. AJ talks about different technologies their similarities/differences and mentions: JavaScript, Rails, Python, Node, Ruby, and much more. 31:05 – Chuck: Node went out of their way on certain platforms that Rails didn’t prioritize. 31:11 – AJ continues to talk about different technologies and platforms. 33:00 – Chuck: You get into Node and then at what point does this idea of a home-server and Node and everything start to come together? How much of this do you want to talk bout? At one point did they start to gel? 33:33 – AJ: It’s been a very long process and started back in high school. It started with me trying to think: How do I get this picture on my phone to my mom? I thought of uploading it to Flickr or could I do this or that? What about sending it to someone in China? 39:57 – Chuck. 40:01 – AJ continues and talks about libraries and certificate standards. 42:00 – AJ continues with the topic: certificates. 42:44 – Chuck: I am going to go to PICKS! Where can people find you? 42:55 – AJ: Twitter! Blog! GitHub! Anywhere! 43:55 – Chuck: Picks! 43:58 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! END – Cache Fly Links:

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MJS 089: Gareth McCumskey

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Gareth McCumskey This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles talks with Gareth McCumskey who is a senior web developer for RunwaySale! They talk about Gareth’s background, current projects and his family. Check out today’s episode to hear all about it and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 0:53 – Chuck: Hey everyone! Welcome! We are talking today with Gareth McCumseky! 1:05 – Gareth: Hi! 1:22 – Chuck: Are you from Cape Town, Africa? (Guest: Yes!) 1:35 – Gareth and Chuck talk about his name, Gareth, and why it’s popular. 1:49 – Chuck: I am in my late 40’s. You were here for JSJ’s Episode 291! It’s still a hot topic and probably should revisit that topic. 2:20 – Guest: Yes! 2:30 – Chuck: It’s interesting. We had a long talk about it and people should go listen to it! 2:45 – Guest: I am a backend developer for the most part. 3:03 – Chuck: Yeah I started off as an ops guy. It probably hurt me. 3:21 – Guest: Yeah, if you poke it a certain way. 3:29 – Chuck: Let’s talk about YOU! How did you get into programming? 3:39 – Guest: South Africa is a different culture to grow-up in vs. U.S. and other places. I remember the computer that my father had back in the day. He led me drive his car about 1km away and I was about 11 years old. We would take home the computer from his office – played around with it during the weekend – and put it back into his office Monday morning. This was way before the Internet. I was fiddling with it for sure. The guest talks about BASIC. 6:20 – Chuck: How did you transfer from building BASIC apps to JavaScript apps? 6:30 – Guest: Yeah that’s a good story. When I was 19 years old...I went to college and studied geology and tried to run an IT business on the side. I started to build things for HTML and CSS and build things for the Web. The guest goes into-detail about his background! 9:26 – Chuck: Yeah, jQuery was so awesome! 9:34 – Guest: Yeah today I am working on an app that uses jQuery! You get used to it, and it’s pretty powerful (jQuery) for what it is/what it does! It has neat tricks. 10:11 – Chuck: I’ve started a site with it b/c it was easy. 10:19 – Guest: Sometimes you don’t need the full out thing. Maybe you just need to load a page here and there, and that’s it. 10:39 – Chuck: It’s a different world – definitely! 10:48 – Guest: Yeah in 2015/2016 is when I picked up JavaScript again. It was b/c around that time we were expecting our first child and that’s where we wanted to be to raise her. Guest: We use webpack.js now. It opened my eyes to see how powerful JavaScript is! 12:10 – Chuck talks about Node.js. 12:21 – Guest: Even today, I got into AWS Cognito! 13:45 – Chuck: You say that your problems are unique – and from the business end I want something that I can resolve quickly. Your solution sounds good. I don’t like messing around with the headaches from Node and others. 14:22 – Guest: Yeah that’s the biggest selling point that I’ve had. 15:47 – Chuck: How did you get into serverless? 15:49 – Guest: Funny experience. I am not the expert and I only write the backend stuff. Guest: At the time, we wanted to improve the reliability of the machine and the site itself. He said to try serverless.com. At the time I wasn’t impressed but then when he suggested it – I took the recommendation more seriously. My company that I work for now... 17:39 – Chuck: What else are you working on? 17:45 – Guest: Some local projects – dining service that refunds you. You pay for a subscription, but find a cheaper way to spend money when you are eating out. It’s called: GOING OUT. Guest: My 3-year-old daughter and my wife is expecting our second child. 18:56 – Chuck and Gareth talk about family and their children. 22:17 – Chuck: Picks! 22:29 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! END – Cache Fly Links:

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MJS 088: Nicholas Zakas

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en Guest: Nicholas Zakas This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles talks with Nicholas Zakas who is a blogger, author, and software engineer. Nicholas’ website is titled, https://humanwhocodes.com – check it out! You can find him on https://twitter.com/slicknet https://github.com/nzakas/, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/nzakas among other social media platforms. Today, Nicholas and Chuck talk about Nicholas’ background, https://www.javascript.com, and current projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ 1:00 – Chuck: Welcome! Give us a background, please, Nicholas! 1:14 – Guest: I am probably best known for making https://eslint.org and I have written a bunch of books, too! (See links below.) 1:36 – Chuck: https://player.fm/series/all-javascript-podcasts-by-devchattv/jsj-336-the-origin-of-eslint-with-nicholas-zakas and https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/075-jsj-maintainable-javascript-with-nicholas-zakas/ episodes are the two past episodes we’ve had you on! (See links below.) Let’s go back and how did you get into programming? 1:58 – Guest: I think the first was written in BASIC, which was on a Laser computer. It was a cheaper knockoff version. I think I was into middle school when I got into BASIC. Then when I got into high school I did this computer project, which was the first time someone else used one of my programs. 4:02 – Chuck: Was it all in BASIC or something else? 4:13 – Guest: Just BASIC, but then transferred to something else when we got our first PC. 5:13 – Chuck: How did you get to use https://www.javascript.com 5:18 – Guest: 1996 was my freshman year in college. Netscape 3 got into popularity around this time. I had decided that I wanted to setup a webpage to stay in-touch with high school friends who were going into different directions. I got annoyed with how static the [web] pages were. At the time, there was no CSS and the only thing you could change was the source of an image (on webpages). On the you could do... 8:35 – Chuck: You get into https://www.javascript.com and at what point did you become a prolific operator and author? 8:52 – Guest: It was not an overnight thing. It definitely was fueled by my own curiosity. The web was so new (when I was in college) that I had to explore on my own. I probably killed a few trees when I was in college. Printing off anything and everything I could to learn about this stuff! 10:03 – Guest (continues): Professors would ask ME how to do this or that on the departmental website. When I was graduating from college I knew that I was excited about the WEB. I got a first job w/o having to interview. 12:32 – Guest (continues): I got so deep into https://www.javascript.com 13:30 – Guest (continued): They couldn’t figure out what I had done. That’s when I got more into designing JavaScript APIs. About 8 months after graduating from college I was unemployed. I had extra time on my hands. I was worried that I was going to forget the cool stuff that I just developed there. I went over the code and writing for myself how I had constructed it. My goal was to have an expandable tree. This is the design process that I went through. This is the API that I came up with so you can insert and how I went about implementing it. At some point, I was on a discussion with my former colleagues: remember that JavaScript tree thing I wrote – I wrote a description of how I did it. Someone said: Hey this is really good and you should get this published somewhere. Huh! I guess I could do that. I went to websites who were publishing articles on JavaScript. I went to submit the article to one of them. I think it was http://www.devx.com or http://webreference.com 18:03 – Guest: A book is a compilation of different articles?! I can do that. I wanted to write a book that would fill in that next step that was missing. I didn’t know what the book was going to be, and I decided to start writing. Once I’ve had enough content I would take a step back and see what it was about. (Check out Nicholas’ books https://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-C.-Zakas/e/B001IGUTOC 19:01 – Chuck: Oh you can turn this into a book! 19:10 – Guest: There was very little that I had planned out ahead of time. Anything that happened to me that was exciting had stumbled into my lap! 19:37 – Chuck: That’s how I felt about podcasting – it fell into my lap/life! 19:50 – Chuck: Listeners – check out the past episodes with Nicholas, please. Nicholas, what are you proud of? 20:10 – Guest: In 2006, I was at https://www.yahoo.com and started off with My Yahoo Team. This was the first time that I was exposed to a massive amount of JavaScript in a single web application. 26:21 – Chuck: Can you talk about your health issues? People would definitely benefit from your example and your story. 26:44 – Guest: I think it is something important for people to understand. The guest talks about https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/signs_symptoms/index.html 35:49 – Chuck: Yep taking care of yourself is important! 36:00 – Guest: Yes to enjoy time with friends and explore other hobbies. Help yourself to de-stress is important. Cognitive work is very draining. When you aren’t getting the right amount of sleep your body is going to get stressed out. Take the time to do nonsense things. You need to let your brain unwind! https://www.amazon.com/s/?hvadid=241617461232&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027276&hvnetw=g&hvpone=&hvpos=1t1&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11884020101243677847&hvtargid=kwd-78351604748&ie=UTF8&index=aps&keywords=adult+coloring+books%2527&ref=pd_sl_65it5fsqxk_e&tag=googhydr-20 38:07 – Chuck: I love to take a drive up the canyon. 38:12 – Guest. 38:24 – Chuck: Yeah to focus on ourselves is important. 38:36 – Guest: Your body will make it a point to say: pay attention to me! Your body goes into flight or fight mode and your systems shut-off, which of course is not good. You don’t want your body to stay in that state. New parents get sick frequently with newborns, because they aren’t getting enough sleep. 41:08 – Guest: Get some R&R! 41:20 – Chuck: This is great, but I have another call! Let’s do some Picks! 41:35 – https://www.freshbooks.com END – https://www.cachefly.com Links:
- https://reactjs.org
- https://angular.io
- https://vuejs.org
- https://www.javascript.com
- https://www.emberjs.com
- https://guide.elm-lang.org
- https://jquery.com
- https://nodejs.org/en/
- http://www.devx.com/welcomead?_qstu=%252F
- http://webreference.com/index.html
- https://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-C.-Zakas/e/B001IGUTOC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?language=en_US&linkCode=sl2&linkId=969561db0412012a35dceae4aab88341&qid=1542055961&sr=8-2-ent&tag=devchattv-20
- https://eslint.org
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint
- https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/signs_symptoms/index.html
- https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/index.html
- https://twitter.com/slicknet
- https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-336-the-origin-of-eslint-with-nicholas-zakas/
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MJS 087: Rob Eisenberg

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: https://twitter.com/eisenbergeffect?lang=en This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with https://twitter.com/eisenbergeffect?lang=en who is a principal software engineer at InVision, and is the creator of Caliburn.Micro, Durandal, and Aurelia. Today, they talk about Rob’s past and current projects among other things. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:40 – Chuck: Our special guest is https://twitter.com/EisenbergEffect?lang=en. We’ve had you on Adventures on Angular (https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/009-aia-ng-2-0-with-rob-eisenberg/ and https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/080-aia-aurelia-with-rob-eisenberg/), JavaScript Jabber, and others like https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/203-jsj-aurelia-with-rob-eisenberg/ 2:36 – Rob: That was over the period of 4 years all of those podcasts. I am getting older. 2:50 – Chuck: Anything that you’ve done that you want to talk about? 3:04 – Rob: I am known for opensource work over the years. Maybe we can talk about my progression through that over the years. 3:25 – Chuck: How did you get into this field? 3:29 – Rob: When I was 8 years old my dad wanted to buy a computer. We went to Sears and we bought our first computer. You’d buy the disk drive and the keyboard looking unit. You could by a monitor, we didn’t, but we used a black and white TV for our monitor. Later we bought the colored monitor and printer. That’s where my fascination started. We set up the computer in my bedroom. We played games. I got intrigued that you could write code to make different games. It was just magical for me. As being an adult engineer I am trying to go back to that moment to recapture that magical moment for me. It was a great creative outlet. That’s how I first started. I started learning about Q basic and other flavors of Basic. Then I heard about C! I remember you could do anything with C. I went to the library and there wasn’t the Internet, yet. There were 3 books about C and read it and re-read it. I didn’t have any connections nor a compiler. When I first learned C I didn’t have a compiler. I learned how to learn the codes on notebook paper, but as a kid this is what I first started doing. I actually saved some of this stuff and I have it lying around somewhere. I was big into adventure games. That’s when I moved on http://www.cplusplus.com and printed out my source code! It’s so crazy to talk about it but at the time that’s what I did as a kid. In JHS there was one other kid that geeked-out about it with me. It was a ton of fun. Then it was an intense hobby of mine. Then at the end of HS I had 2 loves: computers and percussion. I was composing for music, too. I had to decide between music or coding. I decided to go with music. It was the best decision I ever made because I studied music composition. When you are composing for dozens of instruments to play one unified thing. Every pitch, every rhythm, and it all works together. Why this note and why that rhythm? There is an artistic side to this and academia, too. The end result is that music is enjoyed by humans; same for software. I did 2 degrees in music and then started my Master’s in Music. I then realized I love computers, too, how can I put these two together? I read some things on audio programming, and it stepped me back into programming. At this time, I was working in music education and trying to compose music for gamming. Someone said look at this program called https://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/ I don’t know cause...how can you get any better than http://www.cplusplus.com In 2003 – I saw a book: teach yourself https://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/ in 24 hours. I read it and I was enthralled with how neat this was! I was building some Windows applications through C#. I thought it was crazy that there was so much change from when I was in college. 17:00 – Chuck: You start making this transition to web? What roped you in? 17:25 – Rob: I realized the power of this, not completely roped in just, yet. Microsoft was working (around this time) with... 19:45 – (Continued from Rob): When Silver Light died that’s when I looked at the web. I said forget this native platform. I came back to JavaScript for the 2nd time – and said I am going to learn this language with the same intensity as I learned C++ and https://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/ I started working with Durandal. 21:45 – Charles: Yeah, I remember when you worked with the router and stuff like that. You were on the core team. 21:53 – Rob: The work I did on that was inspired by screen activation patterns. 23:41 – Rob (continued): I work with https://www.invisionapp.com now. 24:14 – Charles: I remember you were on the Angular team and then you transitioned – what was that like? 24:33 – Rob comments. 25:28 – Rob (continued): I have been doing opensource for about 13 years. I almost burned myself a few times and almost went bankrupt a few times. The question is how to be involved, but run the race without getting burned-out. It’s a marathon not a sprint. These libraries are huge assets. Thank God I didn’t go bankrupt but became very close. The more popular something if there are more varieties and people not everyone is so pleasant. It’s okay to disagree. Now what are the different opinions and what works well for your team and project? It’s important to stay to your core and vision. Why would you pick THIS over THAT? It’s a fun and exciting time if you are 28:41 – Charles: What are you 28:47 – Rob: InVision and InVision studio. It’s a tool for designing screens. I work on that during the day and during the night I work on Aurelia. 30:43 – Chuck: I am pretty sure that we have had people from InVision on a show before. 31:03 – Rob comments. Rob: How we all work together. 31:20 – What is coming in with https://twitter.com/AureliaEffect next? 31:24 – Rob: We are trying to work with as much backwards compatibility as we can. So you don’t see a lot of the framework code in your app code. It’s less intrusive. We are trying next, can we keep the same language, the same levels, and such but change the implementation under the hood. You don’t learn anything new. You don’t have new things to learn. But how it’s implemented it’s smaller, faster, and more efficient. We have made the framework more pluggable to the compiler-level. It’s fully supported and super accessible. Frameworks will come and go – this is my belief is that you invest in the standards of the web. We are taking that up a notch. Unobtrusiveness is the next thing we want to do. We’ve always had great performance and now taking it to the next level. We are doing a lot around documentation. To help people understand what the architectural decisions are and why? We are taking it to the next level from our core. It’s coming along swimmingly so I am really excited. We’ve already got 90% test coverage and over 40,000 tests. 37:33 – Chuck: Let’s get you on JavaScript Jabber! 38:19 – Chuck: Where can people find you? 38:22 – Twitter, and everywhere else. https://aurelia.io/blog/ 39:17 – Chuck: Picks? 39:23 – Rob dives in! Links:
- https://jquery.com
- https://angular.io
- https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=javascript&rls=en
- https://vuejs.org
- http://www.cplusplus.com
- https://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/
- https://www.invisionapp.com
- https://twitter.com/AureliaEffect
- https://aurelia.io/blog/
- https://twitter.com/eisenbergeffect?lang=en
- http://robeisenberg.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/robeisenberg
- https://github.com/EisenbergEffect
- https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/009-aia-ng-2-0-with-rob-eisenberg/
- https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/080-aia-aurelia-with-rob-eisenberg/
- Rob’s Episode 203
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MJS 086: James Adams

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: James Adams This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with James Adams who is a web and a full stack developer who currently resides in Melbourne, Australia. Chuck and James talk about James’ background, current projects, JavaScript, Ruby, Meetups, and much more! Check out today’s episode to hear all of the details. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 0:55 – Chuck: Welcome to My Java Script story! You are the 4th person I have talk to today. I have only talked to one person in the U.S. Other people were from Denmark, Tennessee (USA), and Bulgaria. 1:39 – Guest: I am in Australia! 1:48 – Chuck: I try to open it up for different times and different locations. I started making my own program. I want one tool to manage my podcast company. 2:20 – Guest. 2:26 – Chuck: Introduce yourself, please! 2:33 – Guest: I have been working in JavaScript for 2 years now, and I just FOUND it. I could have been put anywhere but working with a large company. I discovered React.js. I went to study Math and Chemistry originally. 3:24 – Chuck: What was it – why did you change from mathematics to programming? 3:38 – Guest: I like solving problems and that has been true my whole life. 4:25 – Chuck: I identify with that – you’re right – for me, it’s more tangible and it’s neat to see something being built. White line on a black floor is mentioned. 5:30 – Guest: I had a great education, but seems like the education in the U.S. is more fun. We didn’t get to program and stuff like that. 5:51 – Chuck: My experience was that I got to do really interesting things in High School. 6:20 – Guest: I think you reap benefits by diving into one topic. 6:36 – Chuck: We were building little circuits that were turning on/off LED. We then went to building robots and then computer chips. How did you get into JavaScript? 7:01 – Guest: We didn’t touch JavaScript until my 3rd year. I went to a school in Jerusalem for a while. 9:05 – Chuck: How did you get your first programming job? 9:10 – Guest: I wasn’t really applying – I thought I would travel for a year or so. It was weird I didn’t think I had to apply to jobs right away. I applied to a few jobs, and my friend started sharing my resume around and I ended up doing some contract work for that company. I used RUBY for that team. 10:18 – Chuck: First few jobs I got were through the “spray-and-pray” method. The best jobs I got are because I KNEW somebody. 10:30 – Guest and Chuck go back-and-forth. 11:31 – Guest mentions networking. 11:41 – Chuck: What have you done with JavaScript that you are especially proud of? 11:45 – Guest. 13:43 – Chuck: I didn’t know that honestly. I never really thought of integrating React Native into a native app. 14:00 – Guest: Yeah, it’s really cool. I didn’t think about it before either! 14:24 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 14:28 – Guest: Actually, I am working on some integration with different parties. Now we are routing everything back to the backend. 15:46 – Chuck: I think I have heard of Pro... 15:52 – Guest: Yeah, they are located in the U.S. 16:01 – Chuck: Every community/country is different, but what is it like to be a programmer in Melbourne, Australia? 16:16 – Guest: It’s cool and I think it has a way to go. We have a React Meetup. 16:55 – Chuck: Sounds like you have a healthy community down there. So in Denmark if you get away from the bigger cities then you have a harder time finding a community in the rural areas. 17:30 – Guest: Do you spend more time online? 17:50 – Chuck: Yeah, I don’t know. I live in Utah. It is hard because there is a community North in Logan, UT. 18:13 – Guest: You have 5-6 main cities in Australia. We don’t have medium-sized cities. In the U.S. you have a mixture out there. 18:42 – Chuck talks about the population throughout Utah. 19:03 – Guest asks a question to Chuck. 19:09 – Chuck: Yes, Facebook is putting in Data Center about 20 minutes away from my house. They have built satellite offices here. The startup scene is picking up, too. 19:49 – Chuck: We are fairly large land wise. We can spread-out more. 20:07 – Guest talks about the population density in Australia vs. U.S. 20:20 – Chuck: It’s interesting to see what the differences are. If you are in a community that HAS a tech community you are set. 20:39 – Guest: I find it really interesting. 21:25 – Guest: Humans are a funny species – you can put out your hand, shake it, and you start talking. 21:45 – Chuck talks about the tech hubs in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in U.S. 22:17 – Guest: Yeah, if you aren’t interested than you aren’t interested. 22:28 – Chuck. 22:37 – Guest. 22:53 – Chuck: Join the mailing list, get involved and there are online groups, too. 23:11 – Guest: I really didn’t get into functional programming at first. I got to talk about this at a React Meetup. 24:25 – Chuck: The logic is the same. 24:32 – Guest: You put these functions together and there you go! 24:40 – Chuck: Go ahead. 24:48 – The guest is talking about React’s integrations. 24:56 – Chuck: Anything that is shared and put in some functional component, hook it up, and that’s it. Picks! 25:09 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! END – Cache Fly 29:55 – Guest: Shout-out to my mentors. I am really blessed to have these mentors in my life and I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for them. Lucas is one of them who work with Prettier. Links:

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MJS 085: Chris McKnight

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en Guest: https://github.com/cmckni3?from=2014-12-01&tab=overview&to=2014-12-31 This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with https://github.com/cmckni3?from=2014-12-01&tab=overview&to=2014-12-31 who is a software developer who knows Angular, Ruby, Node.js, and iOS. He went to college at Louisiana State University and graduated with a computer science degree from LSU. They talk about Chris’ background, past/current projects, among other things. Check out today’s episode to hear the panel talk about JavaScript, Angular, C and C++, Node, React, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ 1:12 – Chuck: Hello! Introduce yourself, please! 1:15 – Guest: I am a software engineer outside of Nashville, Tennessee. I work for a medium consultancy company. I know https://www.javascript.com, https://angular.io, https://www.nativescript.org, and JS, too. 1:41 – Chuck: Cool! Tell us your story and how you got into programming? 2:00 – Guest: I was a really big nerd in high school and grew up in Louisiana, USA. There was one other person in the school that knew what I was talking about. I was learning C++ and Visual Studio in 2003. That was really back in the day and Microsoft Foundation class was a thing. I moved onto PHP and started working for a company in Baton Rouge after graduating college. I have a computer science degree with a secondary discipline in mathematics. I graduated from LSU and got a job offer before I graduated. Doing some part-time work for them b/c they were swamped. I was writing PHP and they said that they used jQuery a lot. 4:47 – Chuck: You got started and you said you used C and C++, why those languages? 5:05 – Guest: I did a little bit of Java, but it was the “new kid on the block.” I wanted to get into a program that was user-friendlier. 6:21 – Chuck: I took C and C++ classes in college. Eventually I did Ruby on Rails. I totally understand why you went that way. 6:44 – Guest: I picked-up Rails, because a company (that I worked for at the time) used it. I usually reached for jQuery among other options. 7:31 – Chuck: When did you start taking JavaScript seriously? 7:40 – Guest: 2012-2013. Frustrations of not using JavaScript as good as I could. For jQuery you have to call when you have an issue. Then you run into all of these bugs, and... 9:18 – Chuck: It sounds like it was more out of necessity. 9:30 – Guest: Yep, exactly. Those pain points have been reduced b/c I have been using Type Script and Angular and now version 6 and version 7. You try to call a number method on a string and vice versa, and app development time. 10:03 – Chuck: ...it has a process running with it. 10:13 – Guest: Catching a lot of those easy mistakes (bugs) and it’s a 5-10 minute fix. It takes a lot of that away. Sometimes you can say: I want to ignore it. Or it doesn’t give you runtime guarantees. Some other libraries out there have been on the forefront of fixing those problems. REST TYPE is an example of that. 11:39 – Chuck: When I talk to people about JavaScript a lot of times I get basically that they are saying: I started doing more things in https://nodejs.org/en/ or React – I fell in love with the language. Your reasons for starting JavaScript are because “I hated running into these problems.” Did you start loving to work in JavaScript? 12:11 – Guest: I did start loving it but it took a while. I could write a short amount of code and then at the end I get a result. Another thing that bothers me is FILTER. What does it return? It’s actually https://github.com/wesbos/es6-articles/blob/master/26%2520-%2520Array.%2520find()%2520and%2520.findIndex().md and you use the pattern of filter and run this expression and give me index zero. 14:16 – Chuck: What work have you done that you are proud of? 14:20 – Guest: I started a new job last month; beforehand I worked at a mortgage company. I was proud of the Angular application and applications that I worked on. 16:55 – Chuck: How did you get into https://angular.io 17:00 – Guest: Interesting story. October of 2016 – at this time I was all against Angular. However someone came to me and said we have to... At the time I wasn’t impressed with the language. I learned about Angular at the time, though, and learned through Egghead. I learned a lot in 2 days, and I got pretty decent at it. I was writing https://angular.io applications pretty quickly, and it made sense to me. 20:53 – Chuck: I am a fan of the CLI b/c that’s what we have in Rails. It’s really nice. What are you working on these days? 21:13 – Guest: Less on Angular b/c of the new job. I will do Angular on my free time. I work on Angular at nighttime. I build some things in React these past few weeks. 23:07 – Chuck: Any part of your experience that could help people? 23:17 – Guest: Learn what’s happening under the hood of libraries such as jQuery. Explore and find resources to help you. Keep learning and keep at it. Tools are so god now – such as https://github.com/prettier/prettier and http://www.javascriptlint.com – they will tell me “you don’t want to do this.” Use the tooling and learn the fundamentals. Also, use https://babeljs.io Those are my tips of advice. 25:55 – Chuck: That’s solid. Yes, the fundamentals and the poly-fills will fill in the gaps. So now it’s: what do I want to stack on top of this? Once you know the fundamentals. 26:55 – Guest: Learn what the frameworks and libraries are doing. Don’t get overwhelmed. That’s my advice. 28:16 – Chuck: Where can people find you? 28:24 – Guest: https://github.com/cmckni3 and https://twitter.com/cmckni3?lang=en I’ve been working on a website, but not ready, yet. 29:08 – Chuck: Picks! 29:15 – https://www.freshbooks.com 35:45 – https://www.cachefly.com Links:
- https://reactjs.org
- https://angular.io
- https://vuejs.org
- https://www.javascript.com
- https://www.emberjs.com
- https://guide.elm-lang.org
- https://jquery.com
- https://nodejs.org/en/
- https://github.com/wesbos/es6-articles/blob/master/26%2520-%2520Array.%2520find()%2520and%2520.findIndex().md
- https://www.nativescript.org
- http://www.javascriptlint.com
- https://babeljs.io
- https://github.com/prettier/prettier
- https://github.com/cmckni3
- https://twitter.com/cmckni3?lang=en
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MJS 084: Henry Zhu

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Henry Zhu This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Henry Zhu who is working full-time on Babel! They discuss Henry’s background, past/current projects, Babel, and Henry’s new podcast. Check-out today’s episode to hear more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 1:00 – Chuck: Today we are talking with Henry Zhu! You are the maintainer of Babel – and we have had you on the show before. Anything else? 1:25 – Henry: I used to work with Adobe and now live in NY. 1:44 – Chuck: Episode 321 we talked to you and you released Babel 7. Tell us about Babel, please. 2:01 – Henry: It’s a translator for programming languages and it’s a compiler. It only translates JavaScript to JavaScript. You would do this because you don’t know what your users’ are using. It’s an accessibility thing as well. 3:08 – Chuck: Later, we will dive into this some more. Let’s back-up: how did you get into programming? 3:22 – Henry: I think I was in middle school and I partnered with a friend for science class and we made a flash animation about earthquakes. Both of my parents worked in the field, too. They never really encouraged me to do it, but here I am. 4:07 – Chuck: How did you get into Java? 4:11 – Henry: I made some games and made a Chinese card game. Then in college I went to a bunch of Hackathons. In college I didn’t major into computer science, but I took a bunch of classes for fun. I learned about Bootstrap and did a bunch of things with that. 5:12 – Chuck: How did you settle on JavaScript? 5:28 – Henry: It was my experience – you don’t have to download anything. You can just open things up in the console and it’s easy to share. I think I like the visual part of it and their UI. 6;07 – Chuck: At some point you ran across Babel – how did you get into that? 6:17 – Henry: After college I wanted to do software. I threw out my degree of industrial engineering. I tried to apply to Google and other top companies. I applied to various places and picked something that was local. I met Jonathan Neal and he got me into open source. Through that, I wanted to contribute to Angular, but it was hard for me. Then I found a small issue with a linting error. After that I made 30 commits to Angular. I added a space here and there. JSES is the next thing I got involved with. There is one file for the rule itself and one for the test and another for the docs. I contributed there and it was easy. I am from Georgia and a year in I get an email through Adobe. They asked if I wanted to work through Enhance in Adobe. I moved to NY and started working here. I found JS LINT, and found out about Babel JS LINT. And that’s how I found about Babel. 9:24 – Chuck: Was Sebastian still running the project at the time? 9:33 – Henry. 10:53 – Chuck: It seems like when I talk with people that you are the LEAD on Babel? 11:07 – Henry: I guess so, because I am spending the most time on it. I also quit the job to work on it. However, I want people to know that there are other people out there to give you help, too. 11:45 – Chuck: Sebastian didn’t say: this is the guy that is the lead now. But how did that crystalize? 12:12 – Henry: I think it happened by accident. I stumbled across it. By people stepping down they stepped down a while ago and others were helping and making changes. It was weird because Sebastian was going to come back. It’s hard when you know that the person before had gotten burnt-out. 14:28 – Chuck: What is it like to go fulltime on an open source project and how do you go about it? 14:34 – Henry: I don’t want to claim that you have to do it my way. Maybe every project is different. Maybe the focus is money. That is a basic issue. If your project is more of a service, then direct it towards that. I feel weird if I made Babel a service. For me it feels like an infrastructure thing I didn’t want to do that. I think people want to do open source fulltime, but there are a lot of things to take into consideration. 16:38 – Chuck. 16:50 – Guest. 16:53 – Henry. 16:55 – Chuck: How do you pay the bills? 17:00 – Henry: Unlike Kickstarter, Patreon is to help donate money to people who are contributing content. If you want to donate a lot then we can tweak it. 19:06 – Chuck: Is there something in particular that you’re proud of? 19:16 – Henry: I worked on JS ES – I was a core team member of that. Going through the process of merging them together was quite interesting. I could write a whole blog post about that. There are a lot of egos and people involved. There are various projects. Something that I have been thinking about... 20:53 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 20:58 – Henry: We released 7 a while ago and 7.1. Not sure what we are going to do next. Trying to figure out what’s important and to figure out what we want to work on. I have been thinking long-term; for example how do we get reviewers, among other things. I can spend a lot of time fixing bugs, but that is just short-term. I want to invest ways to get more people in. There is a lot of initiatives but maybe we can do something new. Maybe pair with local universities. Maybe do a local Meetup? Learning to be okay with not releasing as often. I don’t want to put fires out all day. Trying to prioritize is important. 23:17 – Chuck. 23:2 – Henry: Twitter and other platforms. 23:37 – Chuck: Picks! 23:38 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! 24:45 – Picks. Links:

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MJS 083: Christine Legge

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Christine Legge This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Christine Legge who is a computer software engineer who works for Google in New York. Previous employment includes Axiom Zen, and Vizzion, Inc. She and Chuck talk about her background, past and current projects, and her future goals. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:07 – Hello! 1:10 – Chuck: You were on Episode 328 in the past. Tell us about yourself! 1:24 – Christine: I started working with Google about 2 weeks ago. In the past I worked in Vancouver, Canada. 2:05 – Chuck: Let’s start with how you got into programming? 2:14 – Christine: When I was in HS I wasn’t interested at all into computers. I wanted to do applied math in Toronto Canada for college. For engineering you have to take an introduction to programming in the 1st year. I had a 4-hour computer science course in the morning and I dreaded it. I dropped out 3 months later b/c I didn’t like the program. Surprisingly, enough, I did like the computer science course. I went back to Vancouver and I said to my parents that I wanted an office job. I went to the YMCA center and wanted to be hired. The man there asked if I had any interest in data entering, and I started working for him. I worked 4 hours a week with him where he taught me C+. I decided to go back to school for it. 5:37 – Chuck: What did you like about it? 5:43 – Christine: I liked the problem solving part of it. I like how you can break things down. The technology doesn’t interest me that much, but I like the problem-solving aspect. The guy wasn’t that up-to-date with the newest technologies either. 6:53 – Chuck: You have a 4-year degree in computer science. 7:05 – Yes that and statistics, too. 7:13 – Chuck: I was going to say “nerd.” How do you go from desktop applications to web apps? 7:25 – Christine: I worked with a company part-time and fulltime depending on the year/season. I didn’t know what web development was but I thought that THAT was computer science. I thought that if I knew how to do web development then I was going to be good to go. This company asked: What do you want to do? And I answered that I wanted to do web development b/c I thought that’s what I was lacking. I basically got thrown into it. I didn’t understand anything at all. It took me to write one line of CSS and it took 4 hours. 10:35 – Why did JavaScript attract you more so than C# or other languages that you’ve used? 10:43 – It’s simpler and you don’t need a lot of setup; from top to bottom. I am working in typescript, I like it even more, but I like how Java is more free to do what you want. I like functional programming in JavaScript. I like the big community for Java, and there are tons of applications for it. I really like how flexible the language is. You can do functional and oriented or you can combine the two. You aren’t constrained. 12:00 – Chuck: You get in, you work through JavaScript, were you only doing backend? 12:14 – Christine: Yep, backend. 13:00 –Chuck: I know you talked at the conference, and what are you most proud of? 13:14 – Christine: To be honest, no. My mentor (Pablo) at the last company – he wrote a book about D3. He started learning and writing the book. To me that I had thought that all these people are experts from the get go. I realized that everyone has to start somewhere to eventually become an expert. I do want to make an impact even outside of my job. I don’t have anything new that I’ve been working on. It’s a goal for me within the next couple of months. 15:30 – Chuck: I understand that. 15:36 – Christine: I haven’t found that balance, yet. When I gave that talk during Developer Week I was moving and stressed out. “I am NEVER doing this again!” It was over and it was very rewarding. People gave good feedback, and I would like to do that again. 16:56 – Chuck: People have different experience with that kind of stuff. People are interested in different things. So you’ve been working on moving and all that stuff right? What would you like to dive back into? 17:32 – Christine: Yes we are using Angular 2 and typescript and a Reactive Library. Angular is interesting to me. I would like to dive into the dependency injection in Angular. I really like typescript. 19:24 – Chuck: Have you looked at resources? 19:39 – Christine: I read the documentation so far. Like for React I just read the documentation but I haven’t found a central source just, yet. Not a single source. The docs are okay to get started but I haven’t found that they were enough. 20:50 – Chuck: This is about your story. I worked through the Tour of Heroes, and that helped me with Angular. It’s in the Angular Documentation. 21:23 – Christine: When you are starting at a new job I want to make sure I’m settled-in. And now I want to start thinking at a high-level of how these things work. I think the cool thing working here is that you can talk to the people who are working on Angular and get some insight that way. 22:27 – Chuck: People are usually very approachable. 22:34 – Christine: Yes, I agree. To be apart of the communities people want you to use their stuff. 22:48 – Chuck: Do you have another talk in mind when you are ready to give your next talk? 22:59 – Christine: Not sure. I have one thing on my list right now and that’s it. 23:42 – Chuck: I haven’t looked at RJX documentation but I think it’s pretty easy to pick-up. Ben who is the main developer RJX joined the team last year. 24:04 – Christine: It’s a lot of promises. When I figure it out that’s how something would work if it were a promise then I can usually get there. 24:25 – Chuck: Yeah. 24:38 – Christine: I kind of want to make connections in the office rather than me trying to do myself. I don’t want to waste time. Working on those connections would be good. 25:20 – Chuck: Let’s do some picks! 25:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! Links:

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MJS 082: Benjamin Hong

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Benjamin Hong This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Benjamin Hong who is a Senior UI Developer at Politico where he lives in the Washington, D.C. area. He has worked with other companies including Treehouse, Element 84, and Udacity. Charles and Benjamin talk about his past and current projects, and how it’s different working for the government vs. working for a business. Check it out! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:06 – Chuck: Tell us a brief introduction, please. 1:23 – Ben: I am a lead frontend developer at Politico. 1:43 – Chuck: It’s an area that can affect everyone. How did you get into developing? 1:52: Ben: I had everything you can think of to develop at first. 2:10 – Chuck: For me it was a TI90 calculator! 2:18 – Chuck: Was it somebody or something that pushed you towards this area? 2:32 – Ben: I wanted to change something with the theme, Googled it, and it went from there, and the Marquis Tag. 2:51 – Chuck: And the Blink Tag! The goodies. So you got the he HTML book – and what website did you build that was your first big project? 3:07 – Ben: It was fiddling around, but it was fortune cookie universe. 3:20 – Chuck: You will have to recreate it! 3:27 – Ben: I think this was 1993/1995 timeframe. 3:40 – Chuck: Yep, me too same time frame. If you had something move on your website it was so cool. You went to building... 4:02 – Ben: JavaScript was a roadblock for me. There was nobody to correct me. I had a JavaScript book and it was a massive failure. 4:33 – Chuck: You took a break and you came back? 4:40 – Ben: Oh – people will PAY you to do this?! 4:54 – Chuck: Did you go to college? 5:01 – Ben: Yes, I have a Master’s in a different field. I was always a tech junkie. I just wanted to put things together. 5:20 – Chuck: Take us through your journey through JS? 5:30 – Ben: I started off with the jQuery piece of it. I needed Java, and it took me awhile to wrap my head around it at first. Through the trial and process of trying to get into Angular and React, too. 6:19 – Chuck: Did you play with Backbone, Knockout, or Ember? 6:32 – Ben: I did do SOME Ember and some Knockout. Those were my first interactions. 6:49 – Chuck: What got you into the profession? How did you get from your Master’s to being a tech guy? 7:14 – Ben: From the Master’s field I learned a lot about human experience, and anted to breed the two together. Also, consulting and helping to build things, too. 7:44 – Charles: What was the career change like? 7:53 – Ben: I went to the federal government at first around the recession – it was good having a stable job. I was bored, though. While I was working for the government I was trying to get my foot in the door. From there I have been building my way up. 8:30 – Ben: I was working on Medicare.gov and then later... 8:46 – Charles: We won’t use the word “disaster”! What is it like to work for the government? 9:20 – Ben: Yep. The federal government is a different area because they are stake holders. They were about WHO owned the content, and who do we have to talk to get something approved. It was not product oriented like a business. I made my transition to Politico, because I wanted to find solutions and diversify the problems I was having. 10:31 – Chuck: Have you been there from the beginning? 10:39 – Ben answers the question. Ben: They were looking for frontend developers 10:54 – Chuck: You are the lead there now. What was that like with the transition? 11:08 – Ben talks about the beginnings stages of his time with Politico and the current situation. He talks about the different problems, challenges, and etc. 11:36 – Chuck: Do you consider yourself a news organization or? 11:47 – Ben: We have Politico Pro, too. I have been working with this site more so. There are updates about campaign and voting data. People will pay a fee. 12:25 – Chuck: Do they pain themselves as leaning one way or another or nonpartisan? 12:38 – Ben: We are objective and nonpartisan. 12:51 – Chuck: I know, I was hesitant to ask. What’s the mission of the company and into what you do? 13:09 – Ben: The projects get dumped to us and we are about solving the problems. What is the best route for solving it? I had to help pioneer the new framework into the tech staff is one of my roles. 13:48 – Chuck: What’s your tech stack? 13:55 – Ben: JavaScript and Vue.js. We are experimenting with other software, too. 14:16 – Chuck: We should get you talking about Vue on the other show! Are you working at home? 14:32 – Ben answers the question. Ben: One thing I am helping with Meetup. Community outreach is important and I’m apart of that. 15:09 – Chuck: Yep, it’s interesting to see various fields into the tech world. I am not one of those liberal arts majors, I do have a computer science degree. It’s interesting to see the different perspectives. How little it is for someone to be able to dive-in right away. What are you working on? 16:09 – Ben: Meetup population and helping with the work at Politico. 16:27 – Chuck: Reusable components. Are those opensource or only internal? 16:41 – Ben: They are now opensource but we are seeing which portions can be opensource or not. 17:01 – Chuck: Different companies have come out and offered their opensource. Where do they find you? 17:20 – BenCodeZen! They are more than welcome to message me. 17:36 – Chuck: Any advice on newbies to this field? 17:46 – Ben: Attending those meetings and making those connections. 18:18 – Chuck: I have been writing a book on HOW to get a job as a coder. That’s the same advice that I am giving, too. 18:46 – Chuck: Picks! 18:51 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! Links:

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MJS 081: Christiané Heiligers

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Christiané Heiligers This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Dr. Christiané Heiligers who is new to the industry. Her background is in physics where she has her Ph.D. in the field. Listen to today’s episode to hear her background, experience with the different programs/languages, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Beginning – Advertisement: Code Badges! 1:07 – Christiané: Hello! 1:17 – Chuck: I like hearing people’s stories from our community. Tell us where you come from and who you are? 1:33 – Christiané: I am from South Africa, and have been in the US for 2 years now. My formal training is in physics. I have been a researcher with lab coats and test tubes. Through immigration, which took 2 years. I couldn’t be still, and started learning code on my own. I enjoyed the art. I had to use Python, and then I was hooked. I enjoyed the functional programming and other things. I had some experience with Ruby on Rails. I enjoy development because its problem solving, methodically approach, and uses your creative side, too. My preference is a Mac, need the Internet and decided to go to camps and take courses. I snagged a job a week before I graduated! 4:36 – Chuck: your journey, thus far. You said that you couldn’t be idle – so why code? 4:53 – Guest: The UK is cold you don’t want to do anything outside! From South American I couldn’t stand the cold. I kept busy indoors – hint the code. You can’t get bored – frontend or backend. 5:28 – Chuck: Can you give us background on the Grace Hopper Academy. 5:40 – Guest: Sure! It’s based in NY City. 6:26 – Chuck: Did you move somewhere or was it remote? 6:30 – Guest: I had to live somewhere e 6:51 – Chuck: Where did you 6:55 – Guest: NY City. There were 16 of us in the course. 7:14 – Chuck: Why did you feel like you had to go to coding school? 7:25 – Guest: I am impatient with myself. The home-life you ask yourself: “Am I doing the right thing? Am I going in the right direction?” I wanted to go and pick up some skills. 7:56 – Chuck: You go through Grace Hopper – is this how you got into JavaScript? 8:11 – Guest: I didn’t know a line of JavaScript. I did my application code line in Ruby. My husband has been in software development my whole life. 9:16 – Chuck: What have you done with JavaScript since learning it? 9:24 – Guest: Some card playing games for my nieces in South Africa. 10:50 – Guest: Stack Overflow is wonderful. 11:05 – Chuck. 11:11 – Guest: I wasn’t actively contributing, but I did... 11:30 – Chuck: What is it like being a prof 11:37 – Guest: It’s addictive. When I am writing code in the frontend / backend side. It’s always learning. 12:11 – Chuck: What’s next for you? 12:18 – Guest: I would love to continue this journey. Maybe into the DevOps, but my passion happens with React. The Hapi Framework. 13:10 – Guest: The community is wonderful to work with – everyone is very helpful. 13:22 – Chuck: People are usually talking about Express and not Hapi.js. 13:35 – Guest: I have some contact names you can call. 13:43 – Guest: I am working on a few small projects right now. Some Angular sites that need assistance. Helping out where I can. It’s a small team that I am working with. There is only a few of us. 14:31 – Chuck: Usually people stick with one. What’s your experience using the different frameworks? 14:40 – Guest: It’s an eye-opener! React vs. Angular. 15:07 – Chuck: How can people find you? 15:14 – Guest: LinkedIn, Twitter, Tallwave, etc. 15:37 – Chuck: Picks! 15:40 – Advertisement! Links:

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MJS 080: Ely Lucas

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ely Lucas This week on My JavaScirpt Story, Charles speaks with Ely Lucas who is a software developer. He loves technologies and mobile technologies among other things. Let’s listen to today’s episode where Chuck and Ely talk about Ionic, Angular, React and many other topics! Check it out! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:33 – Hello! 1:40 Chuck: Give us a background on who you are, and tell us how famous you are! 2:31 – Chuck: What do you do with Ionic? 2:40 – Ely answers the question. 3:51 – Chuck: How did you get into your field? 3:55 – Ely: When I was a kid and played with video games. Later on I got into web development, like my website. Then I got into a professional-level of developing. Ely goes into detail about how his passion for developing began and developed. 6:30 – Chuck: Yeah, I’ve talked with people who have gotten into video games, then got into software development. 7:01 – Ely: Someday I would like to develop games. 7:12 – Chuck: Yes, web developing is awesome. Chuck asks Ely another question. 7:25 – Ely answers the question and mentions web controls. 9:17 – Ely: I thought Ajax was easier. 9:38 – Chuck: When I got into web development jQuery was sort of new. It made things a lot easier. 9:58 – Ely: A lot of people like to sneer at jQuery now, but back in the day it was IT. 10:28 – Chuck: How did you get into Ionic? 10:43 – Ely: I got a fulltime gig working on Ionic; I like the framework. I saw a job application and sent in my résumé. Two days later I got a callback and was amazed. They were hiring remotely. The team liked me and started over a year ago. 11:46 – Chuck asks a question. 11:54 – Ely answers the question. 13:20 – Chuck: Why Ionic? 13:35 – Ely: It was based off of Angular. 15:17 – Chuck: You mentioned...what has the transition been like? 15:32 – Ely talks about past programs he has worked with. He taught React in the early React days. 16:37 – Ely: I have a deep appreciation on React now. 17:09 – Chuck: I like seeing the process that people go through. 17:24 – Ely continues the conversation. Ely: It is interesting to see the learning process that people go through to arrive in the same place. 18:18 – Chuck: Redux is a good example of this. Anyway, this is near the end of our time. 18:39 – Chuck: Anything else you want to talk about? 18:48 – Ely: Yes, I have been involved in the Denver community. Check us out. Links:

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MJS 079: Michael Garrigan

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Michael Garrigan This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with http://michaelgarrigan.com who is one of the podcast’s listeners. He is changing careers midway and has had many exciting careers in the past, such as being a professional chef, carpenter, repairman, and so on. Listen to today’s episode to hear Michael’s unique experience with programming and JavaScript. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:18 – Chuck: I started this show but interviewing guests and then opened up to listeners. Michael scheduled an interview and here we go! I find that his experience will be different than mine than others. We will be getting guests on here, but wanted this to be a well-rounded view within the community. 2:25 – Michael’s background! His experience is a mid-career change. To see the things that are intimidating and exciting. 3:16 – How did you get into programming? 3:23 – Michael: How do people talk to machines? What are the different computer languages out there? What do people prefer to use? The C programming language, I saw as the “grandfather” program. That’s the first thing I looked at. Then I was like, “what is going on?” I got a copy of the original K&R book and worked through that. 4:58 – Chuck: I did the C language in college. The Java that I was learning then was less complicated. How did you end up with JavaScript then? 5:26 – Guest: It was easy and you can just open up a console and it works. You want to see things happen visually when you program is great. It’s a great entry point. We started building things in React and how fun that is. I enjoy JavaScript in general. 6:11 – Chuck: What is your career transition? 6:18 – Guest: I have always been a craftsman and building things. I had a portion time I was a professional chef, which is the cold side like sausages and meats and cheeses, etc. I used to do a lot of ice carvings, too. Stopped that and opened a small business and repaired antique furniture for people. Wicker restoration. It was super cool because it was 100+ years old. To see what people did very well was enjoyable. Every few years I wanted to see how something worked, and that’s how I got into it. That was the gateway to something that was scary to something that made programs. 8:24 – Chuck: I was working in IT and wrote a system that managed updates across multiple servers. There is some automation I can do here, and it grew to something else. What made you switch? Were you were looking for something more lucrative? 9:01 – Michael: Main motivation I appreciate the logic behind it. I always build physical items. To build items that are non-physical is kind of different. Using logic to essentially put out a giant instruction sheet is fun. 9:52 – Chuck: At what point do you say I want to do a boot camp? 10:04 – Michael: I might to this as a career. Hobby level and going to work is definitely different. I could see myself getting up every day and going to meetings and talking about these topics and different issues. Coding day to day. 10:51 – Chuck: Who did you talk to who got you started? 10:57 – Guest: Things I read online and friends. They said get the basics behind programming. Languages come and go. Be able to learn quickly and learn the basics. 12:13 – Chuck: In NY city? It’s pricy to live there. 12:33 – Guest: Cost of living is much greater. 12:42 – Chuck: What was it like to go to a boot camp? 12:50 – Guest answers question. 14:30 – Advertisement – Get a Coder Job 15:11 – Chuck: What different projects have you worked on? 15:19 – Guest talks about his many different projects. Like senses.gov. 18:11 – Michael: Working on getting a job. I put together a portfolio and just graduated this past week. 19:38 – Charles: Anything that has been a huge challenge for you? 19:47 – Not really just one. I’ve done big projects in the past. Seeing that I can do them and sheer amount of work that I have put in. Not really too concerned. Only concern is that mid-30s any bias that is out there. I don’t think that will really affect me. 20:25 – Chuck: Yeah, it’s rally not age-bias. 20:55 – Michael: “Making your bones” is an expression in culinary school. That means that you put in the hours in the beginning to become a professional at it. So I have had transitioned several times and each time I had to make my bones and put in the time, so I am not looking forward to that for me right now, but... 21:43 – Chuck: Anything else? 21:51 – Guest: Meetups. 22:40 – Chuck: I have been putting time into making this book. 22:53 – Guest puts in his last comments. 24:00 – Chuck: Thinking about what I want DevChat TV to be. I have been thinking and writing the mission statement for DevChat TV. 25:14 – Chuck: It’s a big deal to get out of debt. My wife and I will be at the end of the year. 25:37 – Guest: Discipline not to spend money, and peer pressure. 25:48 – Picks! 25:57 – Advertisement for Digital Ocean! Links:

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MJS 078: Steve Edwards

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en Guest: https://twitter.com/wonder95 This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with https://twitter.com/wonder95 who is a website developer and lives in Portland, OR. He is a senior developer at an international corporation called, https://www.fluke.com. Today’s main topic of conversation is https://www.drupal.org. Check out the episode to hear about this and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:05 – Chuck: Welcome! I appreciate your contributions with hooking me up with some people. 2:22 – Started in IT in 1995. 2:38 – Chuck: How did you get into software development? 2:46 – Steve: In high school not much courses on it. Then in college did some programming there. After college, I was supposed to get married. I was thinking finance. Never nailed down what I wanted to do. Called Bank of America in 1991 – called them. He said let me put in touch with someone. One of the things I got to put classes on “how does this system work.” I got into the banking job and realized not for me. Did realize that I do like teaching. Got software support for another bank. My banking software experience got me the job. We did interfaces – data from PC base to main systems like IBM, etc. I dealt with the source. Same time, I was a diehard racket ball player; on the board state organization. Someone organizing a website for group through Front Page. Hey do you want to take this over? Got to know Front Page. It’s painful to think about it. Same time a position opened up. I got PHP books, and created a new website for our racket ball organization. Off-time learning this. At work I used other tools for the job. That’s where I got into programming and developing. I was an analyst and wanted to program. I created a website from nothing in 2004 for a mountain bike shop. Learned a lot about PHB – and learned that I never want to build anything from scratch ever again. 2006 I start looing for a CMS and I got into some evaluations and got into https://www.drupal.org. Now I got to do fulltime https://www.drupal.org. Some guys left the company and got to do https://www.drupal.org, also. There’s a book on basic https://www.javascript.com, and haven’t gotten into it. It’s nice because since 2009 I have been working from home. 3-4 years ago I heard about https://angular.io and how it was used in https://www.drupal.org. Weather.com – they did things with Angular. I started diving into https://angular.io. Then a small project – worked with Travis then we started with our new ideas/projects. Then I went and took some https://angular.io classes, and I was working on my project. I had these questions. They said that this was used for a one-time use. Okay, I had to figure it out. Travis one day asked: What are you doing? I showed him with the calendar and integrated with... Travis asked if I wanted to go to work with him. Then the past few years I have been working with https://vuejs.org. 12:41 – Chuck: In 2006 I got into Ruby on Rails. I got into https://jquery.com and did some backbone and progressed the same way you did. Worked with https://angular.io and Vue. There is a lot going on there. Interesting to see how this has all progressed. At what point did you decide – https://www.javascript.com is the focus to some of these projects? 13:42 –https://www.linkedin.com/in/wonder95: Lightweight functions. 15:25 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ 16:05 – Chuck: What are you proud of with the work you’ve done? 16:20 – Steve: Article - All the different projects that it looks like for a developer – I have 5 or 6 projects that I want to get to that I haven’t had time to get to. Steve talks about one of the projects he is working on. 17:55 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 17:59 – https://www.linkedin.com/in/wonder95: My company, Fluke, we have a cool setup. It has a three-legged system. In that we have all the background data, another for digital assets, and... Steve: It’s so fast – I am trying to enhance it to make it even faster. Another thing that I am working on is that we have a scheduling website for the fire department I am apart of. Band-Aids and glue hold it together. I am trying to work with a calendar so it can integrate – take over the data of a cell and put y stuff in there. It would be efficient so I don’t get all these errors with this old system. It would give me grand control. 20:16 – Steve: I want to get more and more into JavaScript. The one thing that I like about my story is that you did in your spare time. That’s how I got into Google. Multiple years working up late, working with people and different modules. I got good enough (in 2009) and got good enough – it got me into the door. 21:13 – Chuck talks about his course on how to get a job. Chuck: All you have to do to level-up is to put into the time. Working on open-source project 21:56 – Steve: Learning – find a project you want to do. What is something you want to tackle? What and how can you get it done with your tools? Stack overflow, orhttps://slack.com/lp/two?Matchtype=e&c3api=5523%2C257483843273%2Cslack&cvo_campaign=&cvo_creative=257483843273&cvo_crid=257483843273&cvosrc=ppc.google.slack&dclid=CK6Wm-Tf2d0CFZDBwAodYAYANg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7arP4t_Z3QIVD5t-Ch0lkAAXEAAYASAAEgKrOfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&utm_campaign=d_ppc_google_us_en_brand-hv&utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=google&utm_term=slack questions. We started a new https://www.meetup.com (last meeting was last month) and people do Vue on a regular basis. Slack room. That’s how I got into... Personal experience you can help people and find 23:00 – Chuck: People want to level-up for different reasons. Whether you are trying to get better, or learn new things – getting to know people and having these conversations will shape your thinking. 23:33 – Steve: Also, networking. 24:10 – Chuck: I wasn’t happy where I was at and talked to people. Hey – what else is out there? 24:37 – Chuck: Any recommendations? 24:42 – Steve: The amount of courses that are out there, and it can be overwhelming. Find courses when they go on sale. I found some courses that were only $10.00. There is stuff that is free and things that you can pay for. It can be inexpensive. 26:38 – Chuck: I do the same thing. I wait for things to go on sale first. I’ve done that with courses. However you learn it. Some people work through a book and for others that’s not the way. Sometimes I will start with a video course then I get frustrated. It helps, though. There are different ways to do it. Go do it. 27:39 – Steve: There is a lot of good jobs – get your foot in the door as a junior guy. Getting the real-life experience. 28:15 – Chuck: How do people get ahold of you? 28:18 – Steve: Twitter, GitHub, wherever... 28:48 – Picks! 28:53 – Advertisement for Digital Ocean Links:
- https://weather.com
- https://angular.io
- https://www.drupal.org
- https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/aia-125-api-powered-components-for-severless-applications-with-travis-tidwell/
- https://www.pluralsight.com
- https://events.drupal.org
- https://www.fluke.com
- https://www.javascript.com
- https://slack.com/lp/two?Matchtype=e&c3api=5523%2C257483843273%2Cslack&cvo_campaign=&cvo_creative=257483843273&cvo_crid=257483843273&cvosrc=ppc.google.slack&dclid=CK6Wm-Tf2d0CFZDBwAodYAYANg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7arP4t_Z3QIVD5t-Ch0lkAAXEAAYASAAEgKrOfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&utm_campaign=d_ppc_google_us_en_brand-hv&utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=google&utm_term=slack
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- https://vuejs.org
- https://jquery.com
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MJS 077: Sérgio Crisóstomo

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Sérgio Crisóstomo This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Sérgio Crisóstomo. Charles is now interviewing podcast listeners, not just guest speakers. Check-out toady’s episode to hear Sérgio’s background as a musician and as a programmer. Also, to hear Sérgio’s latest projects and how he fell in-love with Sweden and ended up moving there! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:46 – Chuck: How did you get into programming? 1:53 – Sérgio: As a child, I got interested into gaming. I wrote coding. Spectrum. 2:22 – Chuck: I think that makes you about my age. 2:41 – Sérgio: I was born in 1978. 2:51 – Sérgio: I had a cousin who got inspired by me and we started doing things together. We would show each other what we were doing. Better games and better computers came around. Turned out that I came back to it later in life. 3:29 – Chuck: what got you interested? 3:30 – Sérgio: It was all about problem-solving. There was no book. It was trial and error. It was magic. I was doing small steps, and it was empowering to me. 4:29 – Chuck: I used Logo. How did you get into programming at the professional-level? 4:45 – Sérgio: It was a long journey. My family was deep into a musical background. I went to the conservatory. I had a background in math, music, and physics. I went into programming because my father pushed me towards that direction. I did my Master’s in violin. After that I moved to Sweden. I really liked Sweden’s educational system. After 20 years I got into program working. I faked it until I made it. I had no one who could help me day-to-day life. I love solving problems. I found myself helping people in Portugal and other countries, since their English wasn’t strong. I liked that I was helping the community. That made me feel good about c 10:15 – Chuck: You switch from PHP to Node? What was the reasoning to that? 11:30 – Chuck: What things have you built in JavaScript? 11:47 – Sérgio: I started doing some freelance work. In the beginning it was helping friends. 13:22 – Chuck: Football – do you mean soccer or football? 13:35 – Sérgio: One day in the school, we got a new principal that the school didn’t like. I left because I wasn’t happy. I was a fulltime musician, and looked at this fulltime-programming job. I went to an interview where there were code quizzes. I loved the challenges. I had to choose between two different careers. After some negotiations it was a great fit for me. I got to be in-charge of different projects. Right now, I am a senior developer. It’s a small company but it is growing. 15:48 – Advertisement  E-book! 16:31 – Chuck: It’s interesting to see how you weren’t happy with your original job and how you got into programming fulltime. 17:29 – Sérgio: It’s important to have a good perspective. I am used to meeting people because I worked with choirs, orchestras, dance, and people and I can use those tools that I learned with musicians and transfer over to programming. Since I was good in JavaScript that helped me. Also, it was good that I was head-in-chief, because of my background of being a teacher. I found similarities and made it happen. That was my way in. 19:36 – Chuck: I find that very interesting. Yes, in the larger markets they might have their pick, but if you look into the smaller markets they might need you. 20:21 – Sérgio: People will invest into you if you are willing to learn and stay for a while. 20:48 – Chuck: What is the community like over in Sweden? 21:12 – Chuck: Do you have a lot of communities/boot camps out there to help people to code out in Sweden? 21:32 – Sérgio: Yes. It’s a really active community, and I have been involved helping connect people. People are curious and wanting to grow. It’s really open. 22:39 – Chuck: How do you start a program like that? 22:53 – Sérgio: I went to MEETUP.COM. 23:45 – Sérgio: I fell in-love with the concept of Sweden’s education system. I was there touring and decided I wanted to move to Sweden. It was worth staying. Sweden is having different political winds now. They are open to foreigners. I am a Swedish citizen now. 25:18 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 25:26 – Sérgio answers Chuck’s question. 26:45 – Chuck: Anything else? 26:54 – Sérgio: I can talk about music a lot! I find a lot of programmers are musicians, too. 27:23 – Chuck: One more question. I have met, too, a lot of programmers who are musicians, too. What is the correlation? 27:43 – Music has a lot of mathematics. You have to play on time and solve problems all the time. I was in a workshop with musicians and entrepreneurs, and I learned a lot in this workshop. There are different attitudes when conducting. There is problem solving and managing people. I see the connections there. Links:

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MJS 076: Kevin Griffin

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kevin Griffin This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kevin Griffin. Kevin is one of the hosts of the 2 Frugal Dudes Podcast which helps programmers learn how to be smarter with handling their money. He first got into programming really young when his Dad brought home a computer and he was curious about it so he read books and taught himself basic programming that way. They talk about his first job out of college and how that has impacted him now, the fact that you have to create your own job security, and what kind of frameworks he uses. They also touch on the importance of exposing yourself to new technologies and being open-minded, what he is working on currently, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 273
Helping programmers handle their money
2 Frugal Dudes Podcast
Runs financial peace university at his church
Mindset is everything
How did you first get into programming?
Got started really young when his Dad brought home a computer
DOS for Dummies
Taught himself very basic coding
Really into text adventures as a child – wrote some of his own
Taught Logo in Middle school
Computer Science degree in college
Got into software developer community because he was laid off from first job
You have to build your own job security
Do you do JavaScript full-time?
Doesn’t like to pigeon hole himself into one language
C++ and C#
Didn’t want to support JavaScript originally
Using jQuery, Knockout, Ember, and Backbone
Working with Vue and React now
The same problems persist now, just with different frameworks
Looking at the project and then deciding which tool to use
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MJS 075: Jeff Escalante

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

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MJS 074: Scott Wyatt

Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Scott Wyatt This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Scott Wyatt. Scott is a VC partner and is the CTO at Cali Style Technologies, works with startups, and was the CTO of the Dollar Beard Club. He first got into programming because his dad was a computer programmer and he really got hooked from a young age writing games and playing on the computer. They talk about the benefit of not living in the hustle and bustle of California and the Silicon Valley, how he got into JavaScript, what was it about JavaScript that hooked him, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 282
Scott intro
Works remotely from Indiana
The pros to not living in Silicon Valley
How did you first get into programming?
Father was a computer programmer
Strong arts background
Started coding really young
How did you get into JavaScript?
Started out with ActionScript
JavaScript to jQuery
The cool part of having a diverse background as a programmer
What was it that got you into JavaScript?
Back-end JavaScript
Node.js
JavaScript is very versatile
How did you get into doing something like Trails.js?
Sails.js
Fabrix and TypeScript
What have you done in JS that you are most proud of?
Partitioned apps
Contributing to freedom of information
What are you working on now?
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MJS 073: Tara Z. Manicsic

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Tara intro
Very excited and fascinated with the web
Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist
Her experience as a developer
Started out as a business school dropout
How did you first get into programming?
Learned Logo in the second grade
Loved the ability to help people and create change
Crystal Reports at Harvard Law
CS courses with tuition assistance
Getting back into CS
Being a non-traditional student
Finding Women Who Code
First job as a Node software engineer
How did Women Who Code help you?
OpenHatch
Being familiar with open source software
The importance of having support
How did you first get into JavaScript?
Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails
Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber
NG conf
Her intro to the Angular community in person
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MJS 072: Orta Therox

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Orta Therox This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Orta Therox. Orta is a native engineer that believes that the right way to build systems is to understand as many systems as possible. He works predominately on iOS programming at a company called Artsy, where they make it easy to buy and sell art on the internet. He first got into programming because he loved playing video games as a child, loved creating his own video games, and worked his way up from there. They talk about his work at Artsy, how he used open source to learn himself how program, how he got into Ruby and then React and React Native, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 305
Orta intro
Artsy
iOS programming
Hates lack of documentation
CocoaPods
Trouble with building native apps
His move to React and React Native
Used to run iOS team at Artsy
How did you get into programming?
Played video games as a kid
Taught himself with books
Using open source to learn
Open source by default idea
Loves giving back through blogging and open source
How did you get into Ruby?
MacRuby
Boundaries are very obvious in React Native
How did you get into React and React Native?
Native developers building stuff in JavaScript
Culture conflicts
How they dealt with dependencies in their apps
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MJS 071: Kye Hohenberger

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:28:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kye Hohenberger This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kye Hohenberger. Kye is a senior front-end engineer at Gremlin, where they do chaos as a service and break your stuff on purpose so that you can fix it and it hopefully won’t happen again. He also created the Emotion library, which is a CSS-in-JS library. He first got into programming because his Grandpa was always working on computers and Kye was curious about how they worked. They talk about how he got into JavaScript, what he's built in JavaScript that he’s proud of, what he’s working on now, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 286
Kye intro
Works at Gremlin as a front-end engineer
How did you first get into programming?
Always had a burning curiosity for computers
Worked on HTML first
Worked with flash in High School
Tried to major in Computer Science and dropped out of it
Job in IT
Wordpress maintenance
Hooked on wanting to learn more
Python with Django
What was it that caught your attention?
How did you get into JavaScript?
Job at cPanel
What led you to build something like Emotion?
Didn’t like having to use the Sass compiler
What problem were you trying to solve?
Have you worked on anything else in JavaScript that you’re proud of?
What are you working on now?
APIs from Java to Node
Wrote Qordoba apps for 2 years
What made you switch from Angular to React?
Learning WebPack
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MJS 070: Jerome Hardaway

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jerome Hardaway This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jerome Hardaway. Jerome used to be a panelist on Ruby Rogues and loved the ability to share his knowledge and interact with so many people from the community. He first got into programming by accident when he couldn’t find a job after becoming a veteran. He saw a commercial about job opportunities in coding, ended up finding a book on SQL and taught himself how to program. They talk about where he ran across Ruby on Rails, what he has worked on that he is particularly proud of, what he is doing currently, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Jerome’s experience being a panelist on Ruby Rogues
Loves being able to reach his goals in a speedy manner
Ruby Rogues Episode 279
JavaScript Jabber Episode 239
How did you first get into programming?
In the military during the recession and had trouble finding a job
Saw a commercial about coding
Taught himself SQL
Wordpress
Focusing on making Vets Who Code better
People would go for products over projects any day
Chose Ruby on Rails
Setting himself apart by picking to focus on Ruby on Rails
Where did you come across Ruby on Rails?
From PHP to Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Have you found the learning curve has gotten steeper for Rails?
Keeping up with the JavaScript community
What have you done on Ruby in Rails that you are proud of?
Being the right person for the job when you don’t look like it on paper
What are you working on now?
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MJS 069: Lizzie Siegle

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Lizzie Siegle This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Lizzie Siegle. Lizzie is a senior computer science major at Bryn Mawr College, works for Twilio as a contracting developer evangelist, and also contributes to their documentation. She first got into programming when her AP calculus teacher told some of her classmates to attend a one day all girls coding camp at Stanford and she overheard and was interested by it. She was inspired at this camp to pursue a career in coding because she loved that you can build anything with code and be creative. They talk about what got her hooked on coding, why she chose JavaScript, why she chose to work as a developer evangelist, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Lizzie intro
Computer Science Major
Works at Twilio
Greg Baugues was her assigned mentor this past summer
How did you first get into programming?
Grew up in Silicon Valley
Hated STEM growing up
Was inspired at a one day all girls coding camp at Stanford
Loves being able to be creative with code
What was the coding camp like?
Camp was for high-schoolers
HTML and CSS
What was it that got you interested in code?
Seeing the application of code in the real world
Why JavaScript?
Works also in Python, Swift, and Haskell
Loves how versatile JS is
Why developer evangelism?
Internship at PubNub
Loves being able to teach others as an evangelist
What have you done in JavaScript that you’re proud of?
Eon.js
What are you working on currently?
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
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MJS 068: Ian Sinnott

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ian Sinnott This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ian Sinnott. Since being on JavaScript Jabber for Episode 227, he has being writing a lot in JavaScript and has been taking a break from the meetups and podcast scene. He first got into programming when he took two CS courses in college that focused on Java graphical programming and SML. Once these courses were through, he stopped programming for a while and came back to it when he was creating an HTML email template. They talk about why he was excited with web development, how he got into JavaScript, what he is working on currently, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 227
Ian intro
How did you first get into programming?
2 CS courses in college
Left programming after the classes
Why did you decide to come back?
Learning on PHP and WordPress
What was it about web development that got you excited?
Web development is high level and you can get quick wins
What made you cross over into JavaScript?
Really likes native apps
Rise of the single-page web app
Interactive apps
What’s your flavor of choice?
React is his go to
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JSX, Angular, TypeScript, and Vue
What are you working on now?
Johnny-Five and Arduino
Learning hardware allows you to attach an API to anything
Is there anything that you have done that you are proud of?
Rendering static sites in React
Gatsby
react-static-webpack-plugin and react-static-boilerplate
RxJS and Redux-Observable
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MJS 067: Tracy Lee

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tracy Lee This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Tracy Lee. Tracy is the co-founder This Dot and her goal with it is to bring the JavaScript community together. She first got into programming when she tried to build websites for people and then was interested in learning JavaScript and really fell in love with the community. She really stayed with Angular because of the community she found there, the size of the community, and the fact that it gave her the ability to have a voice. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:

This Dot
ContributorDays.com
How did you first get into programming?
Really loves community
Angular community being so welcoming
What made you pick the Angular community?
Ember originally
Loves how big the Angular community is
Business background
Loves the challenge of trying to create things
On the RxJS Core team
This Dot Media
This Dot Labs
Loves to builds brands and consult
The importance of mentors
Starting an apprentice program
She loves being able to help others
People underestimate the impact they have on the world
AngularAir and JavaScript Air
And much, much more!

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Tracy

MJS 066: Henrik Joreteg

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Henrik Joreteg This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Henrik Joreteg. Henrik has been on JavaScript Jabber previously discussing &yet back in December of 2014 on episode 137. He has since then left &yet and now does independent consulting and works on his own projects. He first got into programming when he started a company that created online video tours for houses and he needed to teach himself programming in order to create the website. They talk about what led him to JavaScript, what he’s proud of contributing to the community, what he is working on now, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 137
&yet
How did you first get into programming?
Liked computers as a child but didn’t want to spend his life on it originally
Studied Business in college
Create house touring video company
Adobe ColdFusion
How were you exposed to JavaScript?
Gig as a ColdFusion developer
jQTouch, jQuery, and Django
Interested in building app-like experiences
What have you done with JavaScript that you are proud of?
Want to push the web into an app-like space
Helped to create Ampersand.js
Wrote Human JavaScript
Created Simple WebRTC
Promote web as an application platform
What are you working on now?
Redux and React
New book: Human Redux
Independent consulting
Speedy.gift
Redux-bundler
And much, much more!

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Henrik

Preact
Parcel.js
Rollup.js
Space repetition systems
Anki

MJS 065: Greg Wilson

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Greg Wilson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Greg Wilson about his educational and programming background, a Canadian company (Rangle) who’s doing amazing things, and much more! Currently, Greg is the head of instructor training at DataCamp. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Past Episode – 184
JavaScript
- The one unavoidable language.
Company in Canada – Rangle.
1980’s when Greg got into super computing – everything was custom hardware.
Want to be “rich, famous, and popular?” – check out 11:58!
Rangle – what a great company!
- Emily Porta
- Rangle’s program, Bridge, aimed at women who are trying to get into the tech industry.
How did you get into programming?
- Queen’s University – 1980.
- Started off as chemistry major.
- From Vancouver, Canada.
- Engineering degree.
- Got hired to do math with computers.
- Software.
- 1985 – working for a lab in Ottawa.
- Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Scotland.
- Ph.D.
- Academia.
- Moved to Toronto.
Ruby
- Greg is a Python user.
- Not familiar with Ruby.
Violence and video games?
- Where is the data?
- If people had the habit of being skeptical, such as fake news and other things, that simply isn’t true.
  - For example: are vaccines dangerous?
Professor Marian Petre – Open University
Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre

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Digital Ocean, LLC

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Greg

Rangle’s Bridge
- Inclusivity and diversity
AOSABOOK.ORG
Samson Meteor Microphone

MJS 064: Troy Hunt

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Troy Hunt This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Troy Hunt who is from Australia. In this episode, Troy and Charles talk about web security and how Troy got into the field. Troy writes a blog, creates courses for Pluralsight, and he is a Microsoft Regional Director and an MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Web security
This show is not about code or technology, but about the person.
How did you get into programming, Troy?
- 1995 Troy started at the university.
Book: HTML for Dummies
How did you get into web development and JavaScript in general?
- 1999 – JavaScript
- Bank – Cahoot
What have you done with JavaScript that you are particularly proud of?
- At the time, I was proud of my work with the Pizza Hut application.
- Fast-forward – I still use JavaScript but also framework.
How did you get into security?
- Architectural role in Pfizer pharmaceutical company.
- Troy started writing a blog in 2009.
What are you working on now?
- Launched my Version 2 of “Pwned Passwords.”
- Cloud Flare
E-mails and Passwords breached
- Have a program that tells you to do something different instead.
- Try to find a balance.
- Do most people think about web security? Probably not.
- Bring awareness about this.
- Make systems usable
- Give people enough advice.
Service
- Pwned.com
Troy’s Real-Life Stories
How do you stay current with all of this web security information?
- Having a healthy following in Twitter.
- Stay on top of the mentions.
- Interesting spread of people within this field.

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Digital Ocean

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The Greatest Showman – Musical
JavaScript

Troy

BrowseAloud
Subresource Integrity – Blog at Hunt’s Website
CSP’s
Supply chain

MJS 063: Fred Zirdung

Wed, 30 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Fred Zirdung This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Fred Zirdung. Fred is currently the head of curriculum at Hack Reactor, where he essentially builds all of the tools and learning materials for the students there. He is also an instructor and has been there for five years. Prior to that, he worked for multiple companies such as Walmart Labs as well as many small startups. He first got into programming with the Logo programming language in the 6th grade and he had always been interested in working with computers since a young age. They talk about what got him into web programming, what enthralled him about JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, and what he is proud of contributing to the JavaScript community. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 76
Fred intro
How did you first get into programming?
Coding professionally for 20+ years
Coding prior to college graduation
Logo programming language
QNX operating system
Were you always interested in programming?
Always interested in computers
Commodore 64
Basic programming in high school
Programming didn’t click for him until high school
In college when the web became popular
Computer engineering degree in college
What was it that appealed to you about software over hardware?
Software vs hardware
Embedded systems software
How did you get into web programming?
Dolby Laboratories
What technologies got you excited?
JavaScript, Perl, and Ruby on Rails
Loved the flexibility of JS and Rails
Found something he could be productive with
What are you proud of contributing to the JavaScript community?
What are you working on now?
And much, much more!

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MJS 062: Zachary Kessin

Wed, 23 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Zachary Kessin This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Zachary Kessin. Zach is a web developer who has written Programming HTML5 Applications and Building Web Applications with Erlang. Currently, he works a lot with functional programming. He first got into programming because his mother used to write in Lisp and he earned his first computer by begging his relatives to help pitch in to get him one when he was seven. They talk about what led him to Erlang and Elm, why he wanted to be a programmer from a young age, and what he is most proud of in his career. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 57
JavaScript Jabber Episode 169
Zach intro
Elm and Erlang
How did you first get into programming?
Mother was writing Lisp when he was a kid
RadioShack color computer
Mother taught him Basic
Pascal and AP Computer Science
Studied CS originally in college and then switches to Physics
First web app written in Pearl 4
Did PHP for a living for a while and hated it
Elm saves him time and effort
What was it that made you want to program from a young age?
Don’t be afraid to jump into programming at a late age
Elm error messages
Writes fewer tests in Elm code that JS code
What are you most proud of?
Loves mentoring
Making a difference in the community
It’s not just about the code, it’s about the people
What are you doing now?
And much, much more!

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Zach

If you like a book, tell the author!
How to Get a Meeting with Anyone by Stu Heinecke
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline

MJS 061: Kyle Simpson

Wed, 16 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kyle Simpson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kyle Simpson. Kyle is most well-known for being the writer of You Don’t Know JS. He first got into programming because his friend’s dad was a programmer and he was hooked by the software side of computers. He grew up writing games with QBasic and Turbo Pascal and then in his teens did some client projects. He was very much a self-taught programmer and ended up sticking with it into his career today. They talk about what led him to JavaScript and what he is doing currently. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Kyle intro
You Don’t Know JS
How did you first get into programming?
Dad’s friend was a programmer
Dad built computers
Wrote games with QBasic and Turbo Pascal
Some client projects in teen years
Very much self-taught programmer
CS degree in college
First professional job at a biotech company
Do you feel people need to get a CS degree these days?
Grateful for his degree
What engineering taught him
Striving to understand why and how things work
Don’t need a CS degree but you do need a certain mindset
Valuable but not necessary
What led you to JavaScript?
Web Portal at his college
What made you want to deepen your knowledge of JS?
What are you working on now?
And much, much more!

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Template Weeks
Working Out

Kyle

MJS 060: Jeff Cross

Wed, 09 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jeff Cross This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jeff Cross. Jeff has been working on Angular and JavaScript for the past five years with Google and now with Nrwl, which he created in the past year. He got started with programming around 12 years old when his Mom taught him and his siblings how to create websites using FrontPage. He then worked as a web designer utilizing Flash and joined an agency when he was in his 20’s that focused on Flash. Jeff talks about his path to his success and the different steps it took him to get to where he is today. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
HTML and FrontPage
Dreamweaver
GeoCities
Gifs
Started off as a web designer
Flash
Object-Oriented Programming
JavaScript
Backbone
From JavaScript to Angular
Node Programming
APIs
Deployd
Angular Team at Google
What have you contributed to angular?
Embarrassing stories
Consulting
NX
And much, much more!

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MJS 059: Merrick Christensen

Wed, 02 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Merrick Christensen This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Merrick Christensen. Christensen works at a company called Webflow, where they try to empower people to create software without code. The company is similar to Squarespace or Wix, except they give 100% design control to the client. Christensen talks about his journey into programming, starting by creating websites for his childhood band. He moved on from Microsoft to Dreamweaver, and his Dad got him started with some freelance jobs to create websites for people, which really sparked his interest. Christensen discusses his path to where he is as a programmer today. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Getting into JavaScript
Infogenix job
Red Olive job using Flash
Got into JavaScript through ActionScript
Discovered Moo Tools
Flex
Steve Jobs says no Flash on iPhone
Why Moo Tools and not jQuery?
Liked flexibility of JavaScript
How did you get into Angular?
Angular was trendy at the time and was easier to use
New code base with React
Backbone
Programming as an art form
Webflow
Meta-layers
Working a remote job
Framework Summit
Angular, React, View, and Backbone
And much, much more!

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MJS 058: Dean J Sofer

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Dean J Sofer This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Dean J Sofer. Dean currently works at PlayStation now and has recently taken a step back from open source recently. He first got into programming because his Dad was really into technology, and he first started off with scripting and creating portfolio websites. They also talk about his time using Angular and what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Episode 95 JSJ
Dean intro
Realized he prefers working at larger corporations
How did you first get into programming?
Dove into computers because of his Dad
Started with scripting
Creating portfolio websites
CSS, HTML, and MVC
Node scripts
Took a visual basic class in High School
Liked being able to create things that other people could interact with
Cake PHP and Node
What was it that made you want to switch over to JavaScript?
Angular
What was it about Angular that appealed to you?
Why he went searching for Angular
Angular UI
Don’t be zealot when it comes to frameworks
Create states in your application
Is there anything that you are particularly proud of in your career?
And much, much more!

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Dean

MJS 057: David Luecke

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: David Luecke This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with David Luecke. David currently works for Bullish Ventures, which is a company that builds APIs and mobile web applications for clients using their open source tools. He first got into programming when he got his first computer and started programming using Delphi with Pascal. They also touch on how he first got into JavaScript, Feathers JS, and what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

David intro
How did you first get into programming?
Tinkered a lot with electronics as a child
Delphi with Pascal
Planned on doing an apprenticeship computer programming
Went to University and got a CS degree
How critical do you think a CS degree is?
Having a CS degree helps you to pick up things faster
How did you get into JavaScript?
Did some website development in the beginning of his career
Java
Dojo and JavaScript MVC
Works a lot with React Native now
What products have you worked on that you’re proud of?
Feathers JS
How did you come around to creating this?
In-server architecture idea at university
What are you working on now?
mySam
And much, much more!

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David

MJS 056: Jonathan Carter

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jonathan Carter This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jonathan Carter. Jonathan is a PM at Microsoft and has been a web developer for over 15 years. At Microsoft, he’s had the opportunity to work on tooling, platform pieces for JavaScript applications, and many other things. He first got into programming when his uncle let him shadow him and the IT department he had working for him, and this is where he was first introduced to software and the idea of working with computers as a career. They talk about his proudest accomplishments within the JavaScript community as well as what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Jonathan intro
Asure
How did you first get into programming?
Interest in creating a website
Dual enrollment in high school at local community college
Started off with VB6
Uncle was very active in his programming start
.net
Scrappy boredom mixed with curiosity led to him actually getting into software
Everyone comes into programming differently
Your past is important in explaining where you have ended up
Node.js on Asure
How did you get into JavaScript?
Worked at a newspaper in the software division
Ajax
jQuery
Wanted to write better apps
CodePush
Stayed in JavaScript community because it brings him inspiration and excitement
Likes to be able and look back on his past projects
App development for fun
Is there anything that you are particularly proud of?
Profiling tools
Liked building tools that meet people where they are at and simplify their jobs
Qordoba
React Native
And much, much more!

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Anti-Pick: Intellibed
Tuft and Needle

Jonathan

MJS 055: Johannes Schickling

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:47:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Johannes Schickling This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Johannes Schickling. Johannes is the CEO and Co-Founder of GraphCool and works a lot on Prisma. He first got into programming when he started online gaming and would build websites for gaming competitions. He then started getting into creating websites, then single page apps, and has never looked back since. He also gives an origin story for GraphCool and the creation of Prisma. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Johannes intro
How did you first get into programming?
Always been interested in technology
PHP to JavaScript
Creating single page apps
Self-taught
The problem-solving aspect keeps people coming back to programming
Always enjoyed math and physics
Programmers make up such a diverse community
How did you find JavaScript?
Has used a wide range of front-end frameworks
Node
WebAssembly
Opal
What drew you into doing single page apps?
Like the long-term flexibility of single page apps
Don’t have to worry about the back-end right off the bat
GraphQL
What have you done in JavaScript that you are most proud of?
Open source tooling
GraphCool origin story
What are you working on now?
Prisma
And much, much more!

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Johannes

MJS 054: Gordon Zhu

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Gordon Zhu This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Gordon Zhu. Gordon is the founder of Watch and Code. The mission of the company is to take total beginners and turn them into amazing developers. He first got into programming by trying to avoid programming. He studied business in college and was really interested in the internet, leading him to have to learn coding. He talks about the importance of being focused, especially in the beginning, and the ability to figure things out. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Watch and Code
How did you first get into programming?
Studied business in college
Peak
Two different eras of programmers
There is more than one way to get into programming
Culture is promoting a new way of thinking about technology
Black Mirror
How did you get into JavaScript?
Marketing, product management, and engineering
Angular
Tried to avoid JS and focused on Python
Importance of focus
The ability to figure things out
How to spend your time in the beginning
Current focus
Focus gives you freedom
Reading a lot of code
What are you proud of?
And much, much more!

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Gordon

MJS 053: Quincy Larson

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Quincy Larson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Quincy Larson. Quincy created Free Code Camp, whose goal is to build a huge community of people who will then contribute to the project so that they can help more people learn code for free. Quincy first got into programming when he wanted to find a way to get teachers out from behind the computer and into the classrooms. This revealed to him how powerful technology was and really got him interested in learning more code. He feels very strongly about the importance of accessibility and strived to make his camp as accessible as he could so he could reach the most people with it. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Free Code Camp
How did you first get into programming?
Previously a school director and teacher
AutoHotkey
How did you get into JavaScript?
Focused on the problem of learning the code
Free Code Camp was his main focus as a programmer
The importance of accessibility
Free Code Camp curriculum
New update launching soon
Build projects in order to get a certificate
6 certificates in total
What is the work breakdown with Free Code Camp?
Editorial staff now
Free Code Camp YouTube Channel
Writes on Medium
Loves the fact that he gets to help others and positively affect their lives
What else are you working on now?
Beta.freeCodeCamp.org
Expanding Free Code Camp Directory
And much, much more!

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VRBO
Mesquite, Nevada
Upside.com

Quincy

The state of machine learning in JavaScript
Tensor Fire

MJS 052: Jeremy Likness

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jeremy Likness This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jeremy Likness. Jeremy works for Microsoft currently and first got into programming when he was kept home while having a sunburn and taught himself how to type in a program into his family’s TI-99 4A computer and then later moved on to the Commodore 64. They stress the fact that you can be a successful programmer, no matter your background and they talk about the pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you first get into programming?
How much Microsoft is in the different programming aspects
Cloud developer advocates
Azure
TI-99 4A and Commodore 64
C and C+
You don’t have to go the traditional route to be a programmer
Having a CS major is not the only way
How did you get into JavaScript?
Discovered the internet in college
Career focused on Web apps
jQuery
Backbone.js
Hands-on career with the code
He did consulting for 10 years
Linux
How has your earning changed?
His biggest fear was getting out of touch with the realities of day-to-day programming
Pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate
Community, Content, and Connection with engineering
And much, much more!

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BusyCal

Jeremy

MJS 051: Todd Gardner

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:51:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Todd Gardner This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Todd Gardner. Todd is one of the co-founders of Track JS, which is a JavaScript error monitoring service. He first got into programming in Jr. High when he and his friends played around with computers they had dumpster dived for from their school in order to play video games. In High School, he learned how to create websites so that people could register for his LAN parties online. They also discuss the importance of finding passion in what you do as well as what Todd is most proud of contributing to the JS community. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Track JS
Stack trace
Telemetry
Decodes errors that are actually good to focus on
How did you get into programming?
Warcraft video game
Started programming past gaming in High School
LAN parties
Pearl
The importance of passion in programming
C#
He didn’t start off with programming as his focus
Find the thing that inspires you and go do it!
How did you wind up on JavaScript?
Working as a consultant
Knockout vs Backbone
.net contractor to JS contractor
Node JS
What are you most proud of in JS?
Understand that you’re never done with a JS app
What are you doing now?
And much, much more!

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Todd

MJS 050: Azat Mardan

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Azat Mardan This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Azat Mardan. Azat is the author of 14 books on Node JS, JavaScript, and React JS. He also founded Node University, speaks at conferences, and works at Capitol One. Azat first got into programming when he was in college and his major was Informatics in eastern Europe and then when he graduated, he taught himself JavaScript and PHP and did some freelance work. Once he came to the United States, he got his master’s degree in Information Systems Technology and was building websites for country embassies. His main advice to people new to programming and IT is to just focus on one thing and give yourself enough time to get comfortable with that technology, and then move on to a new technology to conquer. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Major in informatics
PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
Freelancing
Masters in Information Systems Technology
C++ class
FDIC
Advice to new programmers
The importance of focus
His startup experience
Ruby on Rails
Mac vs Windows
Taught himself different frameworks and languages
Location matters
MongoDB
The best way to learn is to teach others
What was it about JavaScript that really clicked for you?
JavaScript has expressiveness
The Talent Code
What led you to React?
Which contributions are you most proud of?
And much, much more!

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Azat

Echo JS

MJS 049: Sean Merron

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Sean Merron This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Sean Merron. Sean is currently in Austin, Texas and is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is a full-time software engineer, and has been for a little over 15 years now, and runs a podcast called 2 Frugal Dudes. He first got into programming when he was in high school and went to a trade school for computer networking. This trade school really gave him a leg up with his certifications and led him to his first job where he did tech support for an office. Sean urges new programmers to always have a project and to never be afraid to learn something new. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

2 Frugal Dudes
How did you get into programming?
CCNA and A+ certification
Frist experience learning programming
AP Computer Science
C++ and Java
How did you get into JavaScript?
Gaming led to him wanting to build websites
GeoCities
HTML files
HTML application
Any advice for new programmers?
Scripting
Life-long learning
What have your contributed to the programming community?
Teaching, meetups, and conferences
How did 2 Frugal Dudes come about?
The importance of learning about finances
The goal of podcasts
His podcast audience demographics
They discuss finances in layman’s terms
What are you working on now and what are your future plans?
And much, much more!

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React and View Podcast coming up
PodWrench.com

Sean

MJS 048: JC Hiatt

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: JC Hiatt This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with JC Hiatt. JC is a 25-year-old software consultant from Jackson, Mississippi. He first got into programming in the 7th grade when he had the desire to create a website. He has since done a lot of work with WordPress, helped to found DevLifts, and much more. Now, he is doing a lot of little things to help make an impact on the programming world, including running multiple podcasts and creating tutorials for new programmers. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
w3schools.com
HTML and CSS
What got you into JavaScript?
Hackers
HackThisSite.com
jQuery
WordPress
What are you most proud of?
Tutorial involving React and WordPress
Consulting
Cryptocurrencies Podcast: HODL Daily
DevLifts and DevLifts Podcast
Cryptocurrency interest
Balance
And much, much more!

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CSS Grid
The Punisher

Charles

Artemis by Andy Weir
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
React Dev Summit

MJS 047: Tim Caswell

Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:50:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tim Caswell This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tim Caswell. Tim got into programming when he was a kid and would mess around on a Commodore 64 he had found. He next moved onto writing games in Cue Basic, and once the internet came into play in the mid to late 90’s, his programming really took off, especially after he got Windows. Tim has since written his own language based on Lua, called Luvit, worked on browser-based IDE systems, like Cloud 9, and so much more. After working on many projects and programs over the years, he is now focusing on building his startup. His advice is to always balance your needs with what you can do and make sure that you are always moving forward. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Commodore 64
386SX
Games in Cue Basic
CompuServe
SweetSharks.com startup
JavaScript and HTML
Learning about CPUs in college
Studied at Central Arkansas originally
C++
Software engineering at UT Dallas
Connect Framework
NVM in Bash
Luvit computer language
Polyglot startup
New product, SDK, coming soon
Daplie
Balance and moving forward
Getting paid for value
His mission
The power to create and to inspire
And much, much more!

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Daplie
Upcoming SDK
Beaker Browser
Secure Scuttle Butt

Charles

CES
Upside.com (CODE: VGCU7O)

MJS 046: Donovan Brown

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 04:46:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Donovan Brown This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Donovan Brown. Donovan is a principle DevOps Manager at Microsoft. Donovan talks about his journey into programming starting in the 8th grade with Cue Basic to college and writing games in Cue Basic. Donovan talks about different avenues of programming and working independently, and being entrepreneurial, and finally getting a call from Microsoft. Donovan tells many great high energy stories and shares his enthusiasm in his career in DevOps. This is a great episode to hear the possibilities in the programming and developer world. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
8th grade Cue Basic
Computer Math Cue Basic
Selling notes - Chemistry class
Board Game creation
Teach yourself C in 21 days
Change majors
Work at Compaq Computers and go promoted as a software engineer
Independent, then into Dev Ops
Notion Solutions
Ending up in Microsoft doing DevOps
Hot Topic - Dev Opts - Release
BrianKellerVM
Demos
DevOps and the Process
Visual Studio and people
Pain Points
Programmers - Permission to do your job?
JQuery
Yeoman Generator
Power Shell Plugin
Open source and Contributions to the community
DevOps Interviews Podcast
and much, much more!

Links:

http://donovanbrown.com
https://github.com/DarqueWarrior
@DonovanBrown
DevOps Interviews Podcast

Picks Donovan

Visual Studio Code

Charles

MJS 045: Gant LaBorde

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:29:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Gant LaBorde This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Gant LaBorde. Gant is a regular in React Native Radio of Dev Chat TV. Gant works for Infinite Red and works with Ignite, a toolkit/framework for React Native. Infinite Red is a mobile app consulting company. Gant talks about his journey in programming and working in the development world. Gant describes his early introduction to programming through the fascination of home computers and friends. Gant talks about his experience in learning Javascript, PHP, Data Base, Desktop apps, and much more. Lastly, Gant talks about his contributions to React Native, and other platforms, and his current projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Got into programming by help his dad with technology and computers
Started his intro into programming through a friend programming on their home computer
Basic
AOL world - Visual Basic
Programming
Backend web
ASP
PHP
Javascript talk
Typescript talk
Cardboard talk
How did you get into React Native?
Ruby Motion
Building the Story
How does React Native allow you to build the story?
Components and structures
Reactotron
What are you working on now?
Out of sync Yarn files
and much, much more!

Links:

https://infinite.red
https://infinite.red/ignite
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/81600398588/npm-install-ben-coe-g
Yargs
InstanbulJS
gantlaborde.com

Picks Gant

Chain React Conference

Charles

MJS 044: Ben Coe

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ben Coe This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ben Coe. Ben is the co-founder of attachments.me. Currently, work for NPM, and had worked for Freshbooks where he began his professional development career. Ben talks about his journey into programming and learning JavaScript, and the many experiences into his successful dev career. Ben shares his contributions to the Javascript community and the open source world with technologies like Yargs and InstanbulJS. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Noodling around with old computers from Waterloo
Geo cites
How did you get into Javascript?
Working at Freshbooks
Backend infrastructure at NPM
How did you end up working at NPM?
Operations person at NPM
Dev Ops
What was it like being there in the early days?
Automation
Yargs
InstanbulJS
Product management at NPM
C8
What is next?
and much, much more!

Links:

https://github.com/bcoe
@BenjaminCoe
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/81600398588/npm-install-ben-coe-g
Yargs
InstanbulJS

Picks Ben

https://www.hackillinois.org
C8 tool

MJS 043: Nick Disabato

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 02:15:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nick Disabato This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Nick Disabato. Nick is a return guest how was recent on JavaScript Jabber episode 283 talking about AB testing. Also, Nick is an interaction designer from Chicago and runs a consultancy called Draft, who do research AB testing for online stores to increase conversion rate without increase ad spend. Nick talks about his current work, and his journey into programming, more on testing, and contributions to the JavaScript Community. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How much programming do you do day today?
Programming activities
Interacting with programmers to deliver products
What was your introduction to programmer
Logo - Turtle
Cue Basic
How did that get you to where you are today?
Did not want to be a mathematician
Never been to art school?
Being a creative person but not visual
Describe the creative, design, position you are in.
Wire Frames
Verbal communication
Web development, etc.
Front facing pages
How did you get into JavaScript and how much do you have to know?
Where are the bottlenecks?
Which framework is the best?
What are you working on now?
and much, much more!

Links:

Picks Charles

Nick

MJS 042: Kassandra Perch

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 04:34:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kassandra Perch This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kassandra Perch. Kassandra is a return guest from JavaScript Jabber episode 197. Kassandra is a developer relations engineer for IOpipe, that does AWS Lambda monitoring and visibility in the server-less space. Kassandra talks about her journey into program through game sharks or programming game cartridges. Also, furthering her interest in programming was taking computer science courses in college, and getting a part-time job in the technology field during college while networking. Kassandra shares her favorite contributions to javascript and open source projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming? Game Sharks
Game Cartridges
Austin Meetup Group and JavaScript
Working in the open source community
College courses
Contributions - Nodebotanist
Interest in education and being autistic
Child of a teacher
Serving the community
Helping people with projects
IOT - Internet of Things
Building Robots
Serverless
What are you working on now?
AVR Girl
and much, much more!

Links:

Picks Kassandra

Charles

MJS 041: Austin McDaniel

Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:44:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Austin McDaniel This week on My JavaScript Story/My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Austin McDaniel. Austin is a return guest and was previously featured on JavaScript Jabber episode 275 . Austin talks about his journey getting into programming as an 11year old, to recently, as a web developer with more complex technologies. Austin talks about building widgets, working in Angular, JavaScript, and more in-depth web development on many different platforms. Lastly, Austin talks about his contributions to NGX Charts and speaking at a variety of developer conferences. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming? 11 years old
Cue Basic
Web developer
College jobs was in web developing
IE6
Building Widgets
Components
jquery
Web is the future
How did you get into Angular? 2013, v1.2
Backbone
Angular 1 & 2
NG X Charts
Speaking at Conferences
Augmented Reality and VR
Web AR
Angular Air Podcast
Working as a contractor with Google
and much, much more!

Links:

Picks Austin

Todd Motto

Charles

MJS 040: Kitson Kelly

Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:02:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kitson Kelly This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kitson Kelly. Kitson is a return guest, previously on JavaScript Jabber 277. Kitson is the CTO at SitePen, and has been working and maintaining Dojo 2 for the last couple years. Kitson talks about his journey as a developer. First, sparking his interest with old Atari games and getting his first computer in his early years. Kitson talks about his education background and introduction to computers in high school and hang out with other in the same programming niche. Kitson talks about his challenges not having a degree in computer science, but still very successful as a developer after climbing the corporate latter. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Atari Games and old first computer
Hangout with the computer nerds
Community college
No actual formal computer science degree
Tech Support and Self Taught
Challenges with not degree
Climbing the latter
Troubles even with a degree
Is a degree in computer science really needed?
Experience verses degree
Working with other people is important
Getting into JavaScript and Dojo
What kept you working in JavaScript
How do you get to being CTO and SitePen?
What are you most proud of with the work on Dojo
Contributions
Side Projects - Dojo 2
and much, much more!

Links:

https://github.com/kitsonk
Kistson Kelly
https://www.sitepen.com
https://dojo.io

Picks: Kitson

Charles

adminlte.io
Ruby on Rails, Jquery
podwrench.com

MJS 039: Tyler Renelle

Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tyler Renelle This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tyler Renelle. Tyler is a contractor and developer who has worked in many web technologies like Angular, Rails, React and much more! Tyler is a return guest, previously on Adventure in Angular and JavaScript Jabber talking Ionic and Machine learning. Tyler has recently expanded his work beyond JavaScript and is on the show to talk his interest in AI or Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. Furthermore, Tyler talks about his early journey as a game developer, web developer, and work with some content management systems, and more recently, his development in various technologies. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Writing games out of college
Studies computer science in college
Did web development to pay for college working with PHP and ASP
Content management
Working with various technologies
Working with React, is this it?
Problems React has solved with web apps
What is the next big innovation?
View
Creating Podcasts
Machine Learning
Specialized application of AI
NLP
Never use his computer science degree as a web developer
You don’t study code to be a developer
AI and machine learn is based on Computer Science
Tensor Flow
Data Skeptic - podcast
Performance
Graphics cards
Philosophy of Consciousness
The subjective experience
Job displacement phenomenon
and much, much more!

Links:

http://ocdevel.com
http://ocdevel.com/podcasts/machine-learning
Tensor Flow
Data Skeptic - podcast
https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-278-machine-learning-tyler-renelle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lefnire

Picks Tyler

The Great Courses

Charles

CES
Email beforehand and set up an appointment
VRBO.com
Autonomous.ai

MJS 038: Peter Cooper

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:00:00 +0000

MJS 038: Peter Cooper Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Peter Cooper This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Peter Cooper. Peter was one the original panelist on Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber. Currently, Peter runs several weekly new letters on JS, Ruby, Go, React, etc. Peter talks about his journey as a programmer, which started at an early age tinkering with his father’s computer at home. Peter describes the beginning as a hobby until he learned the skills to being programming on many platforms. Peter talks about how he learn Ruby and JavaScript, and in early stages of noodling or learning code. Lastly, Peter talks about his contributions to the community and giving back. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Playing with computers at an early age
Computers were a hobby, rather than a career builder then
Being heavily into to anything can become your career, age does not matter
Finding the skill or passion in programming
Natural ability to see and make sense of code
UseNet
AJax
Directness
Blogging
New Letters
rubyflow.com
What is the ultimate goal of the new letters?
Contributions
Helping host podcasts
Current work?
and much, much more!

Links:

Picks Peter

Litmus
Cheap Gaming consoles on eBay
Jason Scott of archive.org

Charles

Hyper Drive
J5
Dash Pro In-Ear Headphones

MJS 037: Nader Dabit

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:06:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nader Dabit This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Nader Dabit. Nader is a familiar guest on JavaScript Jabber, talking about the state of React Native. Nader is the host of React Native Radio, another podcast on the Dev Chat TV network. Nader is a React Native trainer that does consulting and workshops in major cities in the US. Nader dives into his background and how he began his journey as a developer. Interestingly, Nader became successful as a developer without any formal training, but, by only learning to code on the job. This is a great episode to learn specific ways to build a career without formal training, and how to present yourself for the job. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

React Native Radio and the React Native world
React Training and pop up workshops
How Nader got into programming
Learning HTML and Web Development
E-commerce, WordPress
Nader talks about getting his first job
Positioning yourself as a developer for success
Specialization
Presenting yourself for the job
How Nader learn to do JavaScript
Learning a viable option
Ionic
What is it about React Native that interest you?
React Native In Action - Book!
React Native Elements
Sharing Content
and much, much more!

Links:

React Native In Action
reactnative.training
https://github.com/react-native-training
Ideas anyone?

Picks Nader

Audio Book- A Guide To the Good Life

Charles

The Way of Kings
Scratching your own itch!

MJS 036: Ryan Glover

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ryan Glover This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ryan Glover, Ryan is the COO of Clever Beagle. Clever Beagle is a company that helps people create their first products and begin selling to their customers. Clever Beagle uses platforms like Meteor JS, Node JS, and React to provide frameworks for help build applications. Ryan describes their business as a technical therapist for bringing ideas to fruition. Ryan shares his journey into programming by learning to build websites with Geocities. Thereafter, Ryan had began his self-taught journey with programming after learning he did not like his college major. Ryan talks about his contribution to the JS community, his website called Meteor Chef designed to help newbies learn to build with Meteor JS. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Learning Geocites
Becoming a Self Taught programmer
Freelancing
Building WordPress websites and learning JS
By trade a being a designer
Building with JavaScript
Learning about Meteor on Hacker News in 2013
Sacha Greif
Apollo
Raw Node JS
Understanding Webpack?
Gearheads vs. Builders
Boilerplates
and much, much more!

Links:

Picks Ryan

Halt and Catch Fire
Sacha Greif State of JavaScript
Tom Coleman

Charles

React Developer Summit
JavaScript Developer Summit
How To Find A Job Course
Stranger Things Season 2
moviepass.com

MJS 035: John-Daniel Trask

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Tweet this Episode John-Daniel Trask is the CEO and developer at Raygun.io. JD and Chuck talk in this episode about learning to program as a kid, the arc of JD's career, and entrepreneurship. Links:

Picks: JD:

Chuck:

MJS #034 John-David Dalton

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Tweet this Episode MJS 034: John-David Dalton Today’s episode is a My JavaScript Story with John-David Dalton. JD talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community like Lo-Dash, Sandboxed Native, etc. Listen to learn more about JD! [01:15] – Introduction to JD JD has been on JavaScript Jabber. He talked about Lo-Dash. [02:00] – How did you get into programming? First website This was when JD was a junior in high school. Then, he got involved with a flight squadron for a World War 1 online game. They needed a website so he created a GeoCities website for them. That’s what got him into JavaScript. He’d have to enhance the page with mouseover effects - cursor trail, etc. JavaScript From there, JD started created a Dr. Wiley little-animated bot that would say random things in a little speech bubble with the HTML on your page like a widget. He also passed an assignment turning a web page into an English class paper. He used to spend his lunch breaks learning JavaScript and programming. He also created a little Mario game engine – Mario 1 with movable blocks that you could click and drag and Mario could jump over it. That was back with the document.layers and Netscape Navigator. Animation JD wanted to be an animator in animation so he started getting into macro media flash. That led him to ActionScript, which was another ECMAScript-based language. He took a break from JavaScript and did ActionScript and flash animations for a while as his day job too. PHP and JavaScript JD started learning PHP and they needed to create a web app that got him right back into JavaScript in 2005. That was when AJAX was coined and that’s when Prototype JS came up. He was reading AJAX blog posts back then because that was the place to find all of your JavaScript news. JS Specification JD remembers being really intimidated by JavaScript libraries so he started reading the JavaScript specification. It got him into a deeper understanding of why the language does what it does and realized that there’s actually a document that he could go to and look up exactly why things do what they do. [06:45] – What was it about JavaScript? JD has been tinkering with programming languages but what he liked about ActionScript at the time was it is so powerful. You could create games with it or you could script during animations. He eventually created a tool that was a Game Genie for flash games that you could get these decompilers that would show you the variables in the game, and then, you could use JavaScript to manipulate the variables in the flash game. He created a tool that could, for example, change your lives to infinite life, grow your character or access hidden characters that they don’t actually put in the game but they have the animations for it. JD was led to a page on the web archive called Layer 51 or Proto 51. That was a web page that had a lot of JavaScript or ActionScript snippets. There were things for extending the built-in prototypes - adding array methods or string methods or regex methods. That was how JavaScript became appealing to him. He has been doing JavaScript for almost 20 years. PHP also made him appreciate JavaScript more because, at the time, you couldn’t have that interface. [09:30] – Lo-Dash, Sandboxed Native, Microsoft Lo-Dash Eventually, JD grew to respect jQuery because I became a library author. jQuery is the example of how to create a successful library. It’s almost on 90% of the Internet. He likes that right now but before, he was a hardcore Prototype fanboy. He didn’t like new tools either. He liked augmenting prototypes but over time, he realized that augmenting prototypes wasn’t so great whenever you wanted to include other code on your page because it would have conflict and collisions. Later on, he took Prototype, forked it, and he made it faster and support more things, which is essentially what he did with Lo-Dash. Sandboxed Native JD created something called Sandboxed Native, which got him into talking on conferences. Sandboxed Native extends the prototypes for the built-ins for your current frame. It would import new built-ins so you got a new array constructor, a new date constructor, a new regex, or a new string. It wouldn’t collide or step on the built-ins of the current page. Microsoft After that, JD ended up transitioning to performance and benchmarking. That landed him his Microsoft job a couple years later. Picks John-David Dalton

Charles Max Wood

MJS #033 Dylan Schiemann

Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 033: Dylan Schiemann Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Dylan Schiemann. Dylan talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community to what JavaScript is back in 2004. Listen to learn more about Dylan! [01:10] – Introduction to Dylan Schiemann Dylan was on episode 62 of JavaScript Jabber, which was about 4 years ago. We had him on to talk about the Dojo Toolkit. [02:00] – How did you get into programming? When Dylan was 7 or 8 years old, he and his father took basic programming class together. In Junior high, probably mid-1980’s, he received his first Commodore 64 computer. He picked up the Programmer’s Reference Guide, toppled on Assembly, and tried to write data to a tape drive. It got updated to a floppy drive. And then in high school, he took some Pascal classes. He learned the basics - ranging from BASIC, Pascal, and to Assembly. [03:00] – How did you get into JavaScript? As an undergraduate, Dylan studied Chemistry and Mathematics. He did some basic HTML and discovered the web roughly when he was a junior year in college. And then, he went to graduate school and studied Physical Chemistry at UCLA. He was studying the topology and reality of quasi-two-dimensional phone. If you imagine a bunch of beer bubbles at the top of a glass, and you spin it around really quickly, you watch how the bubbles rearrange as force is applied to it. He wanted to put his experiments on the web so he started learning this new language that had just been invented called JavaScript. So, he dropped out of graduate school a few years later. Eight years after that point in time, it was possible to show his experiments with Dojo and SVG. [04:25] – How did you get into Dojo and the other technologies? SitePen Right after grad school, Dylan helped start a company called SitePen. That let him really learn how JavaScript works. He started doing some consulting work. And he started working with Alex Russell, who had a project called netWindows at the time, which is a predecessor to any JavaScript framework that most people have worked with. Dojo Dylan got together and decided to create a next generation version of the HTML toolkit, which ended up becoming Dojo back in 2004. Things that they created back then are now part of the language - asynchronous patterns such as Promises, or even modules, widgets, which led to the web components pack. Over the years, they’ve built on that and done various utilities for testing and optimizing applications. [06:20] – Ideas that stood the test of time A lot of the things that Dylan and his team did in Dojo were on the right path but first versions ended up iterating before they’ve met their way into the language. Other things are timing. They were there very early and but to tell people in 2005 and 2006 that you need to architect the front-end application met some confusion of why you would want to do that. According to him, they never created Dojo to say that they want to create the world’s leading framework. [07:45] – JavaScript Dylan no longer answers the question of, “Oh, JavaScript, you mean, Java?” The expectations of 2004 were the hope of making something that might work in a browser. The expectation today is we are competing against every platform and trying to create the best possible software in the world, and do it in a way that’s distributable everywhere in the browser. The capabilities have grown. There are audio, video and real-time capabilities. They were ways to do those things but they were brutal and fragile. And now, we have real engineering solutions to many of those things but there are still going to be ways to do this. There were few people who are interested in this and maybe this wasn’t even their day job. But now, literally hundreds and thousands of engineers who write code in JavaScript every day. Picks Dylan Schiemann

JavaScript user groups
JavaScript conferences
SeattleJS
Phoenix TypeScript Meet-up
London HalfStack

Charles Max Wood

MJS #032 Feross Aboukhadijeh

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 032: Feross Aboukhadijeh Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community to the decentralized web. Listen to learn more about Mike! [01:00] – Introduction to Feross Aboukhadijeh Feross was on episode 155 and he talked about Webtorrent. It was 2 years ago. [01:35] – How did you get into programming? Toddler Feross has always been interested in computers and technology. His mom told him a story about how when he was a toddler, he was always watching people whenever they’re using technology – the television, the microwave, or the VCR. She said that he’s trying to imitate what he saw. HTML and Web proxies According to Feross, he became seriously interested when he was in middle school when he learned about HTML and wanted to make a personal site. In high school, there was this class that you could take. It’s a tech team where they went around and fixed teachers’ computers because they were understaffed. Some of the computers have administrator privileges turned on for the student accounts as well because some of the software that was required for certain classes needed it. The computers always had viruses on them because people would install first-person shooters and play during class time. They actually have school-wide filtering system so students can’t access certain sites. One of the categories they blocked was downloading sites. In order to even do their job, they have to figure out web proxies to get around the filters. He ended up setting up one of those on his own server. First website Feross’ real programming experience was PHP. It was in his junior year of high school. He bought a book in Barnes & Noble about PHP and MySQL. He wanted to build a site to host his favorite flash animations. That project was a database-driven website where people can segment their flash animations and soundboards, prank phone calls, and other internet humor. The site was called freetoflash. That was the first website that he built. [07:10] – How did you get into JavaScript? Feross thinks JavaScript is one of those languages that you don’t actually really bother to sit down and learn. There weren’t any good resources. According to him, He really didn’t know JavaScript until he started a company right after he graduated from college. He started taking JavaScript seriously because he was learning Node.js and realized that you can build real things from it. The start-up is called PeerCDN. They’re trying to make a content delivery network that would work in the browser using WebRTC. The idea is you would add a script tag to your website and then we would try to find other people visiting your site that already has the content that you want, you’ll fetch it from them over a peer-to-peer connection to save on your hosting build to reduce your CDN bill. That was a big Node application. It also has intense front-end component. He started learning about NPM, how you build things with microservices, and how do you deploy a JavaScript application. That was in 2013. [09:35] – Webtorrent Feross has been trying to transition Webtorrent into a distributed contribution model. It’s always been something that he would give out commit rights. If someone makes a good contribution, he’ll just add them to the Github for it. He recently made it into an organization on Github. He’s hoping to make it something that’s not completely dependent on him in order for it to continue existing. He’s going to be involved with it for the foreseeable future but he’s also trying to do new projects as well besides that. The good news is Webtorrent is mostly done in some sense. It works well. There are bugs. But if you use Webtorrent, especially if you use the desktop application to torrent things, it’s really polished and works nicely. Picks Feross Aboukhadijeh

Charles Max Wood

MJS #031 Mike Hostetler

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 031: Mike Hostetler Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Mike Hostetler. Mike talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community. Listen to learn more about Mike! [00:50] – Introduction to Mike Hostetler Mike was on episode 133 which was like 2.5 years ago. [01:45] – How did you get into programming? First computer Mike got their first computer when he was 5 or 6 years old. 286 IBM Clone had a command prompt that he spent several years trying to figure out how to code with it until he stumbled on a few basic books at their local public library in junior high. He began teaching himself how to code with QBasic and Borland C++. He, then, found the internet early high school and downloaded the Mosaic browser. He started coding HTML and early JavaScript, late 90’s. Then, he went off to college to get a Computer Science degree. First job When Mike was late high school, he decided that he knew enough coding that he was going to try to get a job. He ended up finding web development companies in the phone book and calling each one of them, trying to explain that his 16-year-old self could help them code and build websites. He ended up landing a job and was paid minimum wage to build HTML sites - a lot of 1x1 pixels transparent gifs, coding HTML by hand and notepad. Then, he ended up working for that company for his first couple of years of college as well. [05:30] – How did you wind up doing JavaScript? After college, the job that Mike landed was spent on learning Microsoft technologies and then half on the open-source side of learning the LAMP stack. At that time, it required hand-coding JavaScript. His next role is building a custom mapping application which was a single page application that heavily relied upon JavaScript. This was client-side object-oriented. There were no frameworks but it was enough script to build a URL that called a custom CGI to render the map. So, he immediately jumped in and started using the early JavaScript frameworks and prototypes. The role that Mike was in next was building a touchscreen capable device. They needed custom plug-ins to provide the highlight focus effect around the button. He needed to write a plugin to do that and jQuery has just been released. So, he stripped all the prototype code, throw JQuery in there, and then, write a plug-in to navigate this interface by keyboard. [09:20] – Contributions with JavaScript jQuery Mike’s first participation was on the JQuery project. If you ever use the JQuery plug-ins site, the old site, that was his contribution. He ended up running infrastructure for JQuery for several years. JQuery launched his business career. He switched into an entrepreneur around 2009. Since then, he’s contributed in numerous ways through speaking, leading training, and writing articles. He was a co-author of the JQuery Cookbook. Node.js As Node began to get more popular, Mike switched his attention to Node and found passion around the Sails.js project. It was a Node framework that made it easy to build Express-powered apps with Node and limit a lot of the convention over configuration elements of the Sails framework. That morphed into ES6 rewrite of Sails called the Trails framework. Currently, he is an organizer of the Chicago Node.js Meetup and he’s a contributor to the Trails framework. [11:50] – JQuery challenges and experiences jQuery 1.4 Mike and the team made community’s problems their problems so the gravity of what they were working didn’t hit them very much until jQuery 1.4. They had an online conference. They all recorded talks and they’re releasing a talk a day for jQuery that will be going to accommodate the 1.4 release. He remembered that he was setting up, managing the servers, and was doing some last-minute configuration. Then, John had tweeted that 1.4 was ready, pointing to jQuery.com. The web server just ground to a halt as he saw the traffic come in off a tweet. Open-source community Mike remain friends with a lot of them. According to Mike, they were just normal people who made a choice to lean in, contribute, where those contributions ended up becoming popular. Looking forward, he said that he’s going to continue to contribute to the open-source community. He wants to help the junior developer that is learning ES6 for the first time and is solving a syntax error. From Mike’s perspective, technologies come in waves. jQuery was a wave but jQuery’s wave focuses its energy into JavaScript’s wave. Certain people catch a contribution wave. React is on the upswing. Node is in an interesting spot because they’ve been on the upswing for many years but there’s new work that could be done. He said that had a shot to be at the forefront of the wave and got to see it. Advice For anybody else that maybe listening, find a spot where there’s new ground that you can contribute to and just dive in and do what you can to solve a problem to make it better. You’ll catch your wave. [21:00] – How to pick frameworks Node frameworks There was a Reddit thread about Node frameworks in 2017 that listed out all the possible frameworks. The classic answer is to use the right tool for the right job but Mike’s answer is: Node has grown so big that different frameworks are built to different people on the learning curve of Node. The other thing that Node has done is they have this culture of really running away from any Monolithic one-size-fits-all solution. The community of Node has made sure that they make space for an incredible diversity of solutions and frameworks. Antipattern The anti-pattern is: what is the best framework of 2017. That’s the wrong question in the Node culture. Look at your team, look at your project, what framework can you be most productive in and what framework can you contribute back into the community with? That is one of the key reasons that Node itself has remained and continued to grow in popularity. [23:40] – Role in Sails and Trails Mike’s not contributing to the Sails project at the moment. He has been focusing on the Trails project. He has written a couple of Trails packs or the equivalent of plug-ins, messed around with GraphQL. He is also helping answer questions in the Gitter chat – small ways. [24:25] – Best ways to contribute Stack Overflow Go on to Stack Overflow. Subscribe to tags where you can answer questions. Every answer on Stack Overflow is a contribution. Go, watch, subscribe to the issue queues for the projects that you use. Just even sharing your experience with how you solve a problem, there is somebody that you could reach down to and answer their questions that take their burden off. Gitter Get involved in the Gitter chat. Listen, watch, stand on the sidelines, and see what’s going on how the community works. Pull request The next step, if you see a problem, submit a pull request, listen to see what the roadmap is, and see what you can contribute. Infrastructure A lot of projects need help in infrastructure in their build scripts to produce better-written code. You can document for them. If you wait for the next sexy thing to do, you’ll never get there. Be humble. Fun Remember that open-source is fun. If it becomes a drag, you are doing it wrong. Look for the opportunities that are aligned with what you do so it’s a fun, happy experience. [26:45] – What are you working on now? Raise Marketplace Currently, Mike is taking on a new role as Director of Front-end Engineering at Raise Marketplace. It is a marketplace start-up in Chicago. His focus is rebuilding the front-end of Raise on a micro service Node.js in Go service architecture. They have also been listed to help some folks at Google in the web performance team. They are always hiring. If you are looking for a remote role for a start-up. Feel free to reach out to him on Twitter or on Raise. ModernWeb Mike’s side-project now is a website called ModernWeb.com, where they help connect companies with teams of software developers and tell the stories of those software projects. A lot of developers are great at writing code but are terrible at telling the awesome things that we do. So, ModernWeb exists to tell the stories of development. The great side effect is companies want to work with you when you tell your stories. They help complete that circle. Go over to ModernWeb.com and you can contact them through the website or you can drop him an email at mike@modernweb.com. Picks Mike Hostetler

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MJS 030: Mike North

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 030: Mike North This episode is a My JavaScript Story featuring Mike North. Tune in to learn more about how Mike started his journey as a developer in JavaScript! [00:01:15] Introduction to Mike Mike has a Frontend Masters Series for Ember 2 and has two other courses that help developers stand out from the software perspective. [00:02:45] How did you get into programming? Mike describes that he has taken a non-linear path to get to where he is now. He started programming as a teenager. He was laying dry wall with a construction company when he was 15 or 16. At the end of the job, he built a training app for the company in order to decrease their paperwork. Mike states that the programming work he does day-to-day he only learned two or three years ago. [00:04:13] Is that due to things changing so quickly? Mike’s role and passion keeps evolving. People pick what is important to them. A goal of his is to always stay learning; he enjoys having a deep understanding of topics. He enjoys using brand new skills and calls himself a “perpetual beginner.” Mike is always talking about something that he has just figured out how to do. [00:05:20] How do you approach keeping current? Mike thinks that it is impossible to keep up with everything. It is a full time job to keep track of everything. Developers don’t need to spend so much time going through information. He goes to teams once every quarter and helps them absorb the information in a distilled way so they do not have to filter through stuff such as what frameworks are worth paying attention to. This condenses the information and frees them from having to learn everything. Instead, they are able to focus on their product. [00:08:27] How did you get into JavaScript and web development? When Mike entered college, he was going into mechanical engineering and did not want to write code. He thought it was boring. When he began getting into code, it was because he could use it to solve real world problems. When he first started, he wrote engineering simulation code for Formula One racecars. When the iPhone came out, it gave him clarity that he wanted to work with that. He began to work with jQuery Mobile. He liked doing this enough that he ran a consultancy at night. He ran projects that he had no previous experience with in order to learn skills that would help him make JavaScript his full-time job. [00:13:29] Where does Ember fit in with all of this? When Mike started working at Yahoo, he became very familiar with Ember. Ember allowed employees to treat engineers as resources towards the larger goal of building and merging all apps together instead of having separate pockets of different technology everywhere. There were only a few Ember experts at the time, so Mike took advantage and spent a lot of time to gain expertise with the framework. [00:16:50] What kinds of contributions do you feel like you’ve made to the JavaScript community? Mike believes the way he has contributed to the community has evolved over time. In the past, he wrote libraries and worked with issues in the framework itself. The impact he has now is representing newcomers to a technology. He does workshops at conferences. He loves teaching and enabling people. [00:19:07] How do you structure the learning to make it that it is approachable for people? How do you address both audiences? As far as newcomers to programming, there is an alarming statistic of companies hiring computer programmers at 400% of the rate at which CS majors can graduate. The demand for software engineers exceeds the ability to educate conventionality. This means companies have to take people seriously that were educated via boot camps. There is a lot of material for new beginners. For people who are established programmers but new to specific technologies, there is a huge gap of material. Video courses, tutorials, and books should be made more accessible for these people. Mike also believes it is the job of a senior engineer to spend time teaching people. Books, tutorials, and trainings that scrape the surface disappoint Mike. This has informed the techniques he uses to teach during his workshops. Students spend 50% of their time solving problems. His students are given code tests and spend time working how to solve problems. It takes a long time to build his curriculum but it is his main focus right now. Picks Mike:

TypeScript Deep Dive by Basarat Ali Syed
Proposal for Async Iteration

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MJS #029 Matt Creager

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 029: Matt Creager On this episode, we have another My JavaScript Story, our guest is Matt Creager. Matt works for Manifold. He's here with us today to tell us his story. Stay tuned! [01:00] – Introduction to Matt Creager Matt works for an interesting company called Manifold. They sponsored the show. [01:35] – How did you get into programming? Before Matt fell in love with programming, he was in love with technology. They bought his first computer. It was a Gateway 2000 and he got access to the internet around the same time. He spent all of his time on that computer because they were moving around so much. That became the way that he stayed in touch with people. He remembers taking it apart and formatting the hard drive accidentally. His uncle has been in the IT industry since he was a kid too. Matt was always associating him with spending time with his computer programming, a role model, and stabilizer in his life. He was switching tapes. And then, his cousin decided that he was going to start scripting his character’s actions in a game that they were playing. And now, looking back, it was some combination of Lua and C++. He started taking his cousin’s scripts apart to automate his own character in the game. He was 13 or 14. The first programming book that he bought was a result of not being able to figure out how to get his character what it wants to do. It was one of the C++ bibles. And then, he became active in the forums around the scripting language. He was sharing the scripts and he started to realize that he can harvest stuff in the game and sell it for real cash. Matt never considered himself technical and never considered programming a career. He was just translating CPU and RAM for people who were shopping for computers. And then, he wanted people to measure theirs so he built tools that took the data they had in an office and turn them into reports. When the manager started using that, it became a nationwide program and suddenly, he was on the map. He was leading a team. When Blackberry started a technical interview, he realized that he has the answers to these questions. Initially, he was just a Technical Issues Manager. He had a Data Science team and that team was responsible for identifying and prioritizing issues. They were using Node 0.4, very early version of Node. And then, he discovered Angular and dived head first to the Angular community. [13:10] – BlackBerry got Matt to JavaScript Matt looked at Node because he was trying to figure out how he could do real time analytics. He wanted these dashboards that data scientists are looking at. That was the stepping stone into JavaScript. [15:30] – Hackathon On the side, a couple of local companies started to run hackathons. Matt was going to hackathons all the time. Then, he ended up of hopping from BlackBerry to becoming a full time front-end developer at a start-up. Matt was talking with one of the organizers at LA Hacks. She was telling him that the reason why people are going to these hackathons is because they want to win and they want to put that fact on their resumes. In his day, that was not hackathons were like. The prizes can act as a negative incentive. They really work hard for the prizes. Sometimes they actually end up becoming more creative as a result because they know they need to use this specific combination of API’s. [18:45] – Contributions to JavaScript community When Matt joined GoInstant, it was very early days of RTC. Web sockets are new at that point. You’re probably more familiar with Firebase. In the early days, GoInstant and Firebase are competing for the same developers. They’re working on the same problems. The tools that they are building were real time synchronization between the state you have on the client and the state you have on the server. A lot of those that they build, open-source tools, they went with GoInstant to Salesforce. But they inspired the libraries and a lot of it is probably on the same code base that you now see in libraries that pretty much does the same things with Firebase. And then, most recently, Matt and the team built Torus. They realized that if they are going to be building smaller applications, going to start to use more cloud services, more services tailored towards developers, and going to manage a lot more credential, a lot of credentials that need to be secured and shared with the teammates, they needed to take those credentials and put them on applications wherever they are running, whether that’s a Docker container or Heroku. That’s his most recent open-source project. [20:50] – What are you working on now? Manifold is their latest project. They’re trying to build a market place for developer services. It’s been 3 months. They moved from Torus to building Manifold earlier this year. The official launch hasn’t happened yet. That’s hopefully to come earlier this year – September. If it’s something that you want to try out and experiment with, there is a coupon for My JS. Give it a try before they launch a $25 credit that they can use to provision a logging instance, monitoring, or database. You can use it with any type of services that you might need to build your app. Picks Matt Creager

Charles Max Wood

AWS Lambda
Zapier
Heroku
Udemy course for Ionic Framework

MJS #028 Zach Kessin

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 028 Zach Kessin In this episode we have another JavaScript Story, this time our guest is Zach Kessin. Zach is a Developer and consultant. On the server side he works with Erlang and Elixir. On the front end he works on Elm. He also also written a few books for O’Reilly and a video course for Manning available sometime in the fall. He was a guest on episode 57 and is here with us today to tell us his story. Stay tuned! [2:48] How did you get into programming. Zack tells the story about how when he was 7 he asked his mother for a computer. She agreed that if he paid for half of it somehow, then she would help him get it. He Gathered his half by calling relatives and gathering funds. His mom taught him Basic and Logo. He also learned Pascal. While in University he picked up the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and loved it. He talks about remembering writing a HTML forum but not knowing how to submit entries. After college he started working. [4:38] Resources then vs now. Charles adds that if you’re tenacious enough to call your family members to find funding to buy a computer to learn, then you probably have the drive it takes to be a programmer. Charles and Zack talk about how in the 80s it was rare to have access to a computer, and now homes have multiple computers throughout. The resources are more readily available now with the internet. If you’re looking to get into development, there are plenty of great resources. [7:45] How did you get into JavaScript and Erlang? Zach starts explaining by telling how he get into JavaScript before the internet really existed. His first JavaScript program exposure was a loan calculator at a bank. Early on the only thing you could do was validate forms, but over time it grew. He started working for a company writing php. He felt like it wasn’t as functional or elegant as he was hoping for. He found various languages and landed on Erlang. Erland was designed to work for programming telephone switches. Due to phone services nature, It handles high scale, high reliability, has to be upgraded on the fly, etc. Zach talks about how server programming looks very similar to phone line programming. Zach adds that a few years ago he wanted work on some front end and after looking around finally he learned about Elm. He says that he is always looking for what’s new and useful. [14:26] Programming Languages Change the Way We Think Charles points out that it’s very interesting out about how functional programming has played out. He mentions that many JavaScript programmers use functional style programming to help with speed or efficiency. He adds that a fully functional programming language is very interesting and could be helpful. Zach talks about how learning new languages helps adjust the way we think. [16:45] How have you contributed to the development community? Charles starts off with mentioning Zach’s podcast that was called Mostly Erlang. Zach adds that he has wrote two books for O’ Reilly, one on HTML5 and Erlang. He has done some blogging and is creating a video course called Startup Elm. He mentions that he spends most of his time teaching. He admires people who write libraries and sustains them over years, but it isn’t something he sees himself getting into. He adds that having the libraries are useless unless you have someone to communicate about it and teach it. Charles mentions that contributions come in various ways and the community needs those sort of teachers. Zach mentions that he often speaks at conferences and meet ups. Public speaking can be a great way to progress your career. Charles brings up the idea of “Sweeping the dojo floor”. He was introduced to this idea by Dave Hoover. Sweeping the dojo floor means that you’ve got enough experience to talk about the topic, but maybe not fully contribute and so you do things like document code, or write articles and outreach for the topic. Talks can lead to work. You can easily find research papers and do talks on that. Zach adds that sometimes in a community, you see the same speakers over and over and new speakers are needed. Zach also mentions that there are plenty of opportunities to do talks in something other than english. [26:36] What are you working on now? Zach talks about the list of things he is working on. Starting with Startup Elm and it’s live course that will be happening in October. He is also working on a SaSS product for Instagram marketers called SquareTarget. He adds that he has a day job as well. Picks Zach Intrepid Large Format Camera Kickstarter Charles Toast Masters
Zapier
Javascriptjabber.com/slack

MJS #027 Chris Anderson

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 027 Chris Anderson This episode is a My JavaScript Story with guest Chris Anderson. Chris works at Microsoft, specifically on Azure Functions and WebJobs SDK. Hear how he got his start, how he has contributed to the community, as well as a bit about what it’s like being a Program Manager for Microsoft. [00:01:50] ]How did you get into programming? In college Chris was an aerospace engineer. His first taste of working with code was at an internship at Lockheed Martin. Most of his daily work was with spread sheets so he learned Visual Basic to help handle that. He found himself interested in writing code more so he took an intro in C summer course and then things snowballed. When he finished that semester, he talked to advisor about switching to Computer Science. Immediately landed into JavaScript. Chris talks about having a ‘clicking moment’ while in a topics class. A classmate was talking about NodeJS and so he tried it out and hasn’t stopped using it since. [00:03:36] What about programing appealed to you? Chris says that programming made him have a sense of having superpowers. In aerospace he learned how planes worked and that was fun, but programming had an immediately feedback on what he was working on. He adds that it made sense in the way that programming is a universal toolset for no matter what field you’re in. Charles adds that he dug into coding after working in tech support and needing it. [00:05:22] Have you worked with JavaScript before learning about Node? Chris’ first real coding experience was with his internship. He taught himself JavaScript on the job and after a few months found himself really liking it. He felt like JavaScript felt more natural and expressive. Javascript empowered him to work on the client side and the server side and he felt empowered to do full stack. [00:06:55] Was this before Microsoft? Microsoft’s hiring process for college graduates you apply the year you graduate and go through a handful of interviews. He got hired into a team working on databases, working in SQL server. He wanted to work in developer tools and learned how to use power shell and SQL works and how powerful it was. He started moving back and pushing NodeJS onto SQL. There was a driver for SQL purely in JavaScript called TDS and he would make pull requests and contributed to that. He talks about searching internally looking for other work and finding a mobile services team that needed a NodeJS person so he started there. Later he started WebJobs and then later Functions, as an effort to make NodeJS technology work with a .Net technology called Webjobs SDK. Functions exists because he wanted to add a NodeJS to a .Net product. [00:11:07] ] Did you find pushing NodeJS into a well developed language ecosystem risky? Chris talks about helping push adoption of .Net and creating prototype ideas, and it sparking from that. His goal was to make customers more productive. [00:12:02] Having fun at work Chris talks about the team culture being fun at times. Sometimes as a developer you get buffered by Project Managers, but in the case developers spend a lot of time talking to customers. They are excited so they have loads of interactions, helping develop diverse ideas. Charles adds that the preconception to how the environment feels in Microsoft tends to be negative but from talking to people who work there, things seem to be more open than expected. Chris points to open source concepts that really makes working with Microsoft great. [14:40] What does a Program Manager do on a team? Chris talks about how his job is to explore the issues and talk to customers and then prioritize how to make things better. He talks about doing whatever he can to make the product successful with the customers, including building a prototype of an idea, taking a sort of position similar to an entrepreneur. Charles adds that it’s refreshing to find that someone in the Program Manager also being technical sufficient and hands on. Chris talks about how teams are built naturally and pulled together with a group of people who love what they are doing. [00:16:52] Does the Azure Functions team use Azure Functions to make Azure Functions work? Chris talks about not using Azure functions under the covers, for the most part it’s built on top of the app service technology stack like web apps and mobile apps. Things that power that is what powers the Azure functions, like Angular. A lot of the engineering pieces are on top of that. They do use Azure for various Microsoft internal things. All of the tests they build are functions to test functions. [00:18:24] How did you and your team come to use Angular? Chris was working on the prototype for Azure Functions. Amed had experience with working on front end applications and he wanted to try out Angular 2 even though it was still in beta. He found that had the right amount of stuff out of the box. Additionally it had typescript which meshed well. They tend to pick things that people on the team know well and not as much as trying to stay tied into Microsoft supported systems. Chris talks about doing one or two major refactoring. How much Angular have you worked on yourself? Amed works the most on Angular, Chris’ job as Program Manager puts in him in a place where his commits don’t go into production, but he will often write prototypes. He played around a lot with the Monaco editor and adding features for that. As far as outside of that, he has written a few tutorials for using Functions plus Angular as well as written his wedding website with Angular. [00:22:33] What other extracurricular projects have you worked on? Chris talks about doing a lot of side projects for a while. One working with ExpressSocket.io. He also built a middleware project where you can write middleware into Functions. Plenty of little projects he puts on GitHub and never finishes. Chris talks about wishing he could switch hats between being the Program Manager and a developer. [00:23:42] Is there anything in particular you feel like you’ve contributed to Angular? Chris talks about improving by putting in loads of pull requests for tons of JavaScript libraries and a few NodeJS libraries. He would like to be more involved in the start of those processes. Chris says he hopes to maybe be involved in the next Node version update. He really likes the Node community. Picks Chris Mountain Dew Pitch Black
The Expanse Series on SciFi
Application Insights Charles Wheel of Time
Coolage
Dog Company
Data Dog Links Twitter
GitHub

MJS #026 Chris Coyier

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 026 Chris Coyier This week’s episode is a My JavaScript Story with Chris Coyier. He is from the ShopTalk Show and CodePen. Listen to learn more about Chris! How did you get started programming?
Chris has an atypical story. good time in life. He is from a small town in Madison, Wisconsin and had a very privileged upbringing. He went to a nice high school that had a programming elective in his high school. He took a class that taught Turbo Pascal and loved it. He had a lot of fun doing it and became set on doing it in college. How do you go from that to professional web developer? Have to give up on it first. He almost got a degree in university management computer systems, which was more management focused than programming focused. He tried and gave up on Java. He then tried graphic design and ended up getting a degree in that. He got into digital prepress at print jobs where he designed documents. It was fun but it was not as fun as being a “real programmer” would be in his mind. He then got a job at an agency doing web developer work. During this time JavaScript was not on his radar. How do you get from front-end work to building something like CodePen and starting a front-end podcast? He has made his career his hobby. He loves doing this stuff. When he was building websites for the first time he started CSS tricks. It became really fun. He grew it over ten years. Because it’s his career and hobby he got better over time. All of his time was spent helping friends, writing, or at conferences. He then decided to build CodePen with some of his friends. What are you working on these days? Chris wants to be careful not to be working on too many things at once. His top priority is CodePen, which he says is hard to keep up with what developers want there. The second priority is CSS tricks. He likes to publish quality articles for people to read. This third priority is his podcast. What’s the thing you’ve done that you’re the proudest of? CodePen is what has been so continually rewarding. This last month he is all money accounted for. He is really proud of CodePen because they made a company from nothing. He and his coworkers have made the podcast over a decade of growing an audience and it feels entrepreneurial. Charles’ most proud thing is the decision to go full time with his podcast for the last year and a half. Picks Chris:

CodePen https://codepen.io/
ShopTalk www.shoptalkshow.com
Alien Covenant http://www.alien-covenant.com/

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MJS #025 Helen V. Holmes

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 025: Helen V. Holmes This episode features a My JavaScript story with Helen V. Holmes. Helen has never before been a guest on the show. She is both a designer and front-end programmer who previously worked for Mozilla. In January, she started her own freelancing business. Listen to Charles Max Wood and Helen discuss how she got into programming, what made her decide to open a freelance business, and more! How did you get into programming? Helen started by making themes for herself and friends in LiveJournal using other people's CSS themes. Once she got to college she realized that although this wasn't a career, it was an aspect of a career. She then majored in graphic design, going on to do internships in both front-end development and design. Since college, she has gone back and forth between front-end development and design work. How long ago was that? Helen graduated college in 2013. Did you graduate in computer science? Helen did not even minor in computer science. At the time, she was focused on making stuff. The computer science major was too heavily focused on theory. She did take a couple of classes in it, but the graphic design major was more focused on building prototypes. Her graphic design major didn't teach her how to do anything - she said that you're on your own, and you have to figure out how to show off your ideas. The major appealed to her at the time because of that reason. Now Helen thinks majoring in computer science would have been really helpful for her career. Charles points out that you don't have to have a computer science degree to do this work. Helen agrees; it can be wasted on you if you don't have the right enthusiasm to learn everything. Both say that you can get the education you want through self-education. Helen explains that so much of successful programming is good communication - this can be learned in college, while the specifics of how to code can be learned later. How do you get from a graphic design major to "serious programming?" Helen doesn't know how serious the programming she does is now. Her first real job was at Capital One as a front-end developer on their design team. She was doing prototypes and communicating between the design and production/engineering teams. She realized that nobody knew how to write JavaScript when trying to communicate between the two teams, so she decided that she should learn. A lot of the engineers came to the same realization at the same time. She started to write React as she was leaving Capital One. Everyone was trying to improve his or her JavaScript chops at the same time. Did you get into Angular or React at Capital One? When she first started at Capital One everyone was writing Angular. She wrote a lot of Angular in the beginning of her work. Most of the prototypes could be solved with React. Near the end of her time, she started using a lot of React. What do you see is the difference between Angular and React? Angular solves a lot more problems than React. It brings logic to the client side. React is only about solving visual problems. That's why it appealed to Helen. The design team she worked with was all about solving visual problems. Why did you choose the front end? Helen mainly chose it because she was a graphic design major. She believes that because the web is so accessible that it is the easiest thing. She also thinks the front end is fun. How'd you wind up at Mozilla? She met James Long through a mutual friend. Once they met, he thought she'd be a good addition to their team. He told her why it'd be a good switch for her - they were doing React work and they were looking for someone to understand problems that engineers go through. What do they use React on? She was on the browser team. The front-end of the developer tools was a JavaScript application that wasn't Angular. They were working on moving it to become a more documented framework. They wanted to use Redux and React. The team was converting it panel by panel. What made you decide you were going to go freelance? Helen had been missing things that she had done in college such as branding and illustration work. She had done some illustration work while at Firefox. She ultimately wanted to do a variety of different things instead of just product work. What gave her courage to go into freelance work was that James Long was also going freelance at the same time, so she thought that she was in good company. She also is related to a lawyer, so it wasn't as scary filing the paperwork because she had someone to ask for help during the process. What contributions do you feel like you've made to the JavaScript community? Helen believes that the highest impact work she has done has been on the Firefox browser. She didn't write a lot of code, but feels like what she did write is being used by a lot of people. She is most proud of the CSS grid because she says that it is exciting for people who do layout stuff on the web. What are you working on now? Helen started her own business at the beginning of the year. She is figuring out how she wants her skills to grow and with what kind of clients she wants to work. She has a lot of side projects, one being what she calls an art project. She is translating JPEG to Pixel art. She is taking NeoPixels, which are little programmable LEDs, and taking a matrix of values and displaying them on a sight board. With everything that's out there in JavaScript, how do you keep current? Helen answers that she doesn't. She tries to stay current with the tools she is using, which is React. She doesn’t try to be good at everything because she is also a designer, so she says that she has to pick and choose what she stays current on. Charles says that is what he tells people to do. There is so much out there that there is no way that anyone is going to stay current on everything. He says to keep current on what you are doing specifically. Picks Helen:

Wonder Woman http://wonderwomanfilm.com
Debt: The First 5,000 Years https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290

Charles:

JavaScript Jabber Slack Room https://devchat.tv/javascript-jabber-slack
Monthly Webinars https://devchat.tv/webinars
Angular Remote Conf https://devchat.tv/conferences/angular-remote-conf-2017

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MJS #024 Aaron Frost

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000

MJS 024 Aaron Frost This episode can double as a My JavaScript Story and a My Angular Story and features Aaron Frost. Aaron has been on both JavaScript Jabber and Adventures in Angular. He has been a principal engineer for four years and recently organized his fourth NG-Conf. How did you get into programming? Aaron was working as a loan officer when he decided he needed a new career. He went to work at an accounting support phone center. There he discovered he was good at Sequel. He tried out for the QA team; the UA automation made sense to him. He became a senior QA and in 2010 jumped to working in development full time. He knew JavaScript; which made everyone wanted to hire him. He learned JQuery too. What was it about JavaScript that really got you excited about it? In Utah when he was working for a company, he had never learned JavaScript; he was told he had to learn jQuery to do browser extensions. The first night he learned jQuery he decided he loved the language. He stuck with it for three to four months. After that, he learned actual JavaScript. He explains that it just “fits in his head,” and made him feel well equipped and powerful. How do you get to Angular? He worked for a big, local corporation in Utah with powerful developers. The JavaScript community was strong there. They used Backbone and one day he emailed the developers. He suggested they Angular. One of the developers asked Aaron to help with the conversion. They were writing less code in Angular than in Backbone. It saved time. Sometime after that, his friend Kip Lawrence suggested that they go to an Angular Conference. When they looked up conferences they couldn’t find any. They decided to start their own Angular conference after that. How do you become a GDE? There is a GDE app where you nominate yourself. In order to be picked, you have to meet a lot of criteria. You have to answer a lot of questions. There are things they want you to have done to prove you stand out and are a leader in the community. They want more than someone who is just smart. They want people who have presented at conferences, made open source contributions, written books, etc. What else have you done in JavaScript or Angular? One of the very first projects Aaron did is one that he considers one of the coolest. He built a browser extension for his twin brother’s real estate website that solved a captcha. He then marketed it to other people. He believes it is one of the most fun problems to solve. What are you working on these days? Aaron has a side project, which is a remote communication app for remote workers to use. He is working on how to make the NG-Conf bigger and better each year. He is also spending time being a dad. Is there an overarching thing you’ve learned over the last 7 or so years of programming? The thing that keeps recurring is that there is a need for engineers to focus on solving problems for users and less on having perfect code. He has noticed that developers make decisions to try to make perfect code that can sink a company. Developers should be more business focused than tech problems. It is more responsible for making a business profitable. Solve problems for the user first and don’t try to replace a language that’s working. Picks Aaron:

Superpowers https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00YU1C4ZY/ref=dp_st_0141321342
Yarn www.yarnpkg.com
Samsung SmartThings www.smartthings.com

Charles:

Nimble www.nimble.com
Bluetick www.bluetick.io
Visual studio code www.code.visualstudio.com
Wade Anderson interview, Microsoft build https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-265-wade-anderson-ramya-rao-visual-studio-code
www.zapier.com

Links

Twitter: https://twitter.com/js_dev
GitHub: https://github.com/aaronfrost

MJS #023 Laurie Voss

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000

My JS Story 023 Laurie Voss This week we have another My JavaScript story. This week’s guest is Laurie Voss. Laurie has worked with NPM from the start and has been a vital piece to getting it off the ground. Hear how Laurie got interested in computers, how Laurie got started with NPM, as well as a few things about the newly released NPM 5. How did you get into programming? Laurie started by going into a computer camp, at the time Laurie hadn’t spent time around computers, and it wouldn’t be until the second time that he went to the computer camp that he would see a computer again. Laurie grew up in Trinidad where not many people could afford computers. He started making his first website in Angelfire using HTML before CSS became a thing. How did you go from web development to hardcore Javascript? Laurie had been writing JavaScript since it was invented. Laurie started a web development company in high school using JavaScript. Laurie met Issac while working at Yahoo and he introduced Laurie to Node which was a starting point to taking JavaScript more seriously for Laurie. When Node was ready in 2013, NPM Inc was on it’s way. What do you do at NPM Inc? IN the beginning of 2014, Laurie was doing a lot of the JavaScript and was the CTO. Laurie says that part of his strategy has always been to hire JavaScript developers that are better at writing JavaScript that he is. Making him the worst JavaScript programmer at NPM. Laurie’s main job was doing what was needed to get NPM happen, including talking to layers and the business side of things. There are many companies that don’t understand how open source works, and in many cases it leads to run ins with lawyers. Many times NPM acts as an umbrella for open source tools that aren’t able to fight overzealous corporations. What do you think is your biggest contributions to NPM? Laurie expresses that it has changed over the years. A year ago he would say that he would have to say it leans towards the piece of software that is the registry. It’s very scalable and has worked great for small scale up to very large scale. Laurie works hard to gather funds and help make NPM grow as well as be scalable. He says that he is very proud that he build something that let’s others build things. How did you get involved? Laurie has been with NPM since the beginning. He tells us how Issac had been running NPM on donated hardware in spare time while working with Node. NPM would break a lot and be down due to the borrowed equipment. They decided that they needed to create a business model around NPM to help it grow. Laurie had just finished working on a startup and knew how to get funding and got their first round in 2014. How did you get to being profitable? Laurie talks about making sure that their plan is in line with their customers. NPM could easily charge for many parts of NPM but they would rather charge for things that make sense to charge, so in this case the private packages. Enough people are using the private package to getting NPM to profitability. Laurie says that even if money stopped coming in they would have to git rid of a few employees but would be able to keep a small team and sustain the NPM registry, but would never build anything new. It’s always between being profitable or using money to build new things. What are you working on now? NPM 5 was just released and it’s much faster, five times faster. Laurie talks about being excited about the team and what they are putting into it. Things like making deployments easier. Many developers use NPM to put code together as well as to deploy it. If you didn’t have a lock file, it’s possible that it would change. But the lock file can take a long time, and you already know what needs to go there so they are adding npm store and npm fetch making deploys much faster. Additionally they will be adding a feature called insights. They are able to see information about different users packages, security information, performance information, etc. They can use that information to help developers with suggestions based off of data gathered by what other people are doing. Charles adds that it would be great for coming up with topics for the podcast. Anything else? Laurie reminds everyone about NPM Organizations as well as NPM Enterprise. NPM Organizations is a way to organize packaging as well as teams of developers and helps you to collaborate. NPM Enterprise allows for single sign on support, license auditing, and features that corporations care about. Picks Laurie Zite and NextJS
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NPM Organizations
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MJS #022 Cory House

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000

My JS Story Cory House On this Episode we have another JS Story, and this time it’s with Cory House, a Pluralsight author, software architect for Cox Automotive, and a consultant with a focus on React. Listen to Charles Max Wood and Cory discuss a bit about how Cory got into programming, how learning how to learn is vital to being a talented developer, as well as using documentation as your development environment to ensure your code’s documentation doesn’t fall behind. This and more right here. Stay tuned. How did you get into programming? Cory starts his story as a business major in college but had interest in computers. He spent time around various computers and machines, giving him experience in various operating systems and platforms. On any given day he would be using any of three different operating systems. His interest in computers inspired him to double major. He started learning Cobalt and Visual Basic and C++. He talks about being interested in web development, including Flash. He specialized in Flash throughout college, as well as early on in his software development career. He also talks a bit about that the open web seems to innovate in a way that keeps it relevant. He talks about using Flash to make websites with entering screens and animations and now that is obsolete. Charles mentions that it’s interesting that his main interest was business and computers became something he was interested in later on and that you don’t have to be someone who started young to be proficient. Cory talks about being driven to catch up, being around people who knew things off the top of their head while he was still asking questions and looking things up. Learning How to Learn Out of college Cory found that he had a degree, but what he had really learned was how to learn. He never used Cobalt, C ++, or visual basic after school. Learning how to learn combined with being able to create a focus on a specific technology are vital. Charles adds that he would hear often that it took being a natural in programming to get it, and that maybe being a natural was really just being someone who has learned how to learn and to focus. Getting Good With Your Craft Cory mentions that working with someone who head and shoulders ahead of everyone else. They were working in Unix and seemed to know every single Unix command and flag. He found it inspiring to see someone take the craft so seriously and to learn a specific technologies tool with so much dedication. Some technologies will be so important that they will be key technologies that will still be useful many years later. Cory suggests that one of those tools seem to be JavaScript. JavaScript is almost mandatory in frontend web development. Additionally, JavaScript is reaching into other new technology types including IoT and VR and other places, constantly expanding. How did you get into JavaScript? Cory talks about how it really all got started when Steve Jobs killed Flash. He opened his mind to other technologies and started working with JavaScript. Remembering learning jQuery, he found himself really enjoying it. He started building online business applications. Browser inconsistencies were a huge issue, making it so that you’d have to check your work on each browser to make sure it worked cross platform. Things are moving so quickly that being a full stack developer is becoming less and less prevalent, to the point where he considers himself primarily a JavaScript developer. Being an expert in a single technology can make you really valuable. Companies are running into issues with not finding enough people that are experts in a single tech. Cory suggests that employers should find employees that seem interested and help allow them to focus and learn whatever that tech is. Charles talks about the split between developers that tend to lean full stack and plug in technologies when they need it versus developers that work exclusively in front end. He suggests it may be a case by case situation. Service Oriented Architecture Cory suggests that service oriented architecture movement has moved us that way. Once you have a set of services set up, it becomes more realistic to turn on the front end. If there were a good set of services there, Cory adds that he doesn’t think he would be able to build services faster using a server side framework like Rails, Django, or ASP.Net MVC than he could in React today using something like create React app. The front end has become much more mature. Cory mentions that he has had good experiences with ASP.Net NPC and Visual Basic being a Microsoft stack developer. He adds that he doesn’t feel like he has given up anything working with JavaScript. He adds that with the nesting of different models together, he gets to reuse a lot of code in server side development. NPM makes it easy to stand up a new package. If you are planning to create an API, it becomes much harder to use a server side rendering stack, with so many APIs available, it’s a logical move to go client side. Possible Future for Front-end and Back-end Roles Charles brings up that the development of things like VR are making changes in the roles that front end and back end development play. The front end will more to taking care of the overall application development of apps, while the back end will become supporting roles as services and APIs. New technology like VR and artificial intelligence will need a high amount of computing power on the backend. The front end will focus more on the overall experience, display, and the way we react with things. Charles talks about how the web may move away from being just an HTML platform. He says that it will be interesting to find where JavaScript and frameworks like React will fall into this shift into this next generation. We already are seeing some of this with the capabilities with canvases, WebVR, and SVG and how they are changing how we experience the web. Reasonable Component Story Cory brings up being interested in the Reasonable component story. Sharing code from a traditional web app, to a native app, and to potentially a VR app as well is exciting and he hopes to see it flesh out more in the coming years. He talks about going to conferences and how much we have built and how much we don’t have easily sharable innovation. He hopes to see it solved in the next few years. What contributions have you made to the JavaScript community? Cory mentions working on the open source project Slingshot. He was trying to solve issues that many found in React. React isn’t very opinionated. React is for writing reasonable components for the web, but it doesn’t have opinions on how you structure your files, how you minify, bundle, deploy, or make API calls, etc. He realized that telling people to use React and to deal with those issues wasn’t reasonable. He created React Slingshot as a development boilerplate. He put it to use in many applications and it became popular. It’s easy because it did things like allow you to run NPM to pull independencies and pull a file, it would fire up a web browser, watch your files, run tests, hot reloading on save, and had a running Redux application build it. It allowed people to get started very quickly. He talks about how he wasn’t the only person trying to solve this issue. He says that if you look now there are well over one hundred boiler plates for React that do similar things. Most popular being Create React App. Contributions outside of this, he talks about editing documentation on open source projects being part of his biggest contribution, writing it in markdown and then making pull requests. What are you working on now? Cory adds that he just finished his 7th or 8th Pluralsight course on creating usable React components. At work they create their own reusable React component library. He says that he realizes that it’s a complicated process, where all decisions you make, in order to have a reusable component story, you have to make a lot of decisions. Things like how granular to make the components, reusable styles and how they are packaged, how they are hosted, will it be open or source, etc. Publicly Closed - Internally Open Source Projects Cory talks about the idea of having it as a closed source project, but treating it like an internal open source project for the company, having many people feel invested into the project. He found creating the documentation story was the toughest part. Having solid documentation story that helps with showing how to use the components and it’s features and behaviors. He spends much of his type looking at other documents to help him come up with ways to create his own. He talks about generating the documents automatically with the updates so that they are always in sync. Charles adds that documentation syncing often happens right in the comments, which are also acceptable to being outdated. Pull-request-Template.md Cory adds that a useful way to allow for well documented and safe pull requests is to make a pull request template in GitHub by creating a file called pull-request-template.md so that any time someone makes a pull request, that .md tem

MJS #021 Justin Meyers

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000

My JS Story Justin Meyers On this week’s episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Justin Meyers Cofounder and CEO of Bitovi, a Javascript consulting firm focused on simplifying Javascript development through the use and creation of open source tools as well general consulting, training, and web applications. He was on Episode 202 and talked about DoneJS and CanJS. Tune in to hear Justin’s full story! 7th Grade and a TI82 [3:02]
Justin’s discovery of conditional statements and methods on a classic TI82 was his first taste of programming. With a little guidance, he soon learned to program games on the TI82 and then later moved onto bigger and better mediums like C and QBasic. Grunt work is good for you. [4:51]
While studying Computer Science, Justin finds out that professors often have grunt work, and although they may not pay well now, sometimes they can in time lead to loads of experience and maybe even a bigger job. After 4 years of working on websites and writing documentation, he gets his first real job at Accenture. Open Source and reducing waste. [6:23]
Accenture, while giving him a great chance to make some impressive projects, provoked Justin to see the efficiency in sharing code. Justin and a college friend get together to work on a project to build a platform that…builds. Although their project was unsuccessful, the tools they started to create for the project had plenty of potential. The Last desperate gasp. AKA shaving his head. [9:40]
Justin talks about the Ajaxian blog and conference. Ten years ago, the Ajaxian blog was one of the best online resources for Javascript news. Justin was running low on funds and struggling and as his “last desperate gasp” he heads to the Ajaxian conference with his head shaved. Leaving only “Javascript MVC” shaped out of his hair. This stunt gets him remembered by many of the important attendees and also scores him his big break with a consulting job with T-Mobile. Two to Three weeks later, Justin had a stroke. Justin talks about how incredible the timing was. How Javascript MVC came to be. [13:23]
Justin talks about starting with JSJunction and modeling after it. Their first steps were to add a model layer as well as Event Delegation. Javascript MVC reflects some of Ruby on Rails. Justin worked with Peter Svensson from Dojo, with a methodology that at the time seemed crazy. Justin reminisces when Steve Jobs “Killed” Flash with HTML5 and CSS. Bitovi begins. [17:24]
Justin talks about how the T-Mobile job meant that he would need an official business. Originally dubbing it JupiterIT. Justin found that MVC was too encompassing and that programmers enjoyed a sense of creativity. By pulling Javascript MVC’s tools apart and creating single frameworks from the tools, Justin then created tools like CanJS and DoneJS. Who does the heavy lifting at Bitovi? [20:48]
As the CEO of Bitovi, Justin has less time to program as before. Working with Open Source, development is a mix between contributors and full time employees. The majority being the employees. Justin talks about not having a sales force and focusing on their product to drive sales. Mainly, long term cost of ownership and the ability for the framework to last, working hard to make sure that clients that have committed to Javascript MVC years ago still have a relevant use for the framework. Exploring HTTP2 and Push. [23:42]
With the emergence of HTTP2 and Push, Justin talks about working on and exploring different ways for streaming/server side rendering. Justin describes one of the experiments with building an empty skeletons, javascript assets, but also pushing instructions on how to mutate the page to the client. Before the javascript payload is fully loaded, the page starts to mutate. Allowing for optimal performance on slower connections, fantastic for mobile. Problems they are looking at for the future include things like different ways that CDNs can work with HTTP2 and Push. Justin has also worked with using Fetch to enable streaming by building tools around that. He suggests that HTTP2 and Push will maybe bring a renaissance in the developer world. Justin’s side Parsing Project. [28:45]
Additional to his other work, Justin is working on a generic parsing project. Similar to BISON or JISON. Designed for simple parsing at faster speeds. He describes how to compiles to the code that parses your code. Working in runtime. A way other companies can learn from Bitovi. [29:52]
We don’t know what the future is going to be for code, so packaging the framework into separate repos allows for better scheduling and a better way to manage long term. Updating a segment of a framework can sometimes break another segment if having it all happen together. Picks [34:26] Justin: Dean Radcliff’s Antares Framework Charles: Boom Beach Clash of Clans BlueTick.io Nimble Keeping up with Justin’s work. Bitovi.com’s Blog Justin’s Twitter. Sponsors Cachefly.com
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MJS #020: Alex Russell

Wed, 24 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Alex Russell. Alex is a software engineer on the Chrome team. He focuses on designing new features and running their standards work. He appeared as a guest on episode 87, where he talked about TC39. Tune in to his story!

MJS #019: Aimee Knight

Wed, 17 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000

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!

MJS #017: Bob Zeidman

Thu, 11 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Bob Zeidman. Bob focuses on software forensics, but he also does consultations whenever he sells the intellectual property of a startup. He was on episode 238 and talked about intellectual property and software forensics. How did his life navigate towards programming? Tune in!

MJS #016: Adam Baldwin

Thu, 04 May 2017 10:00:00 +0000

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

MJS #015: Justin Searls

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +0000

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Justin Searls. Justin was on the show on episode 38 and 226 in the show. He co-founded Test Double, a software agency which helps developers improve the quality of the software they write. Want to know how he got into this career path? Stay tuned!

MJS #014: Kim Carter

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +0000

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!

MJS #013: Rebecca Turner

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the 13th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Rebecca Turner. Rebecca is a CLI programmer at npm, Inc. She has been in the show around two to three years ago in episode 174 and talked about npm 3. Tune in to My JS Story Rebecca Turner to learn more how she got into programming and what she is up to these days!

MJS #012: Max Stoiber

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the 12th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Max Stoiber. Max is a frontend JavaScript Developer from Vienna, Austria and currently works as an open source developer for Thinkmill, a company based in Sydney, Austria. Tune in to My JS Story Max Stoiber to learn more how he learned to program and discover what he enjoys doing!

MJS #011: Valeri Karpov

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000

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!

MJS #010: Richard Feldman

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the 9th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Richard Feldman. Richard works at No Red Ink, and he is the author of Elm in Action. He was in JavaScript Jabber and talked about Elm with Evan Czlapicki in episode 175 and covered the same topic alone in episode 229 . Stay tuned to My JS Story Richard Feldman to learn more how he started in programming and what he's up to now.

MJS #009: Joe Fiorini

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the 9th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Joe Fiorini. Joe has been into programming since his teenage years. He discussed about functional reactive programming in episode 61 of JavaScript Jabber. Get to know him better at My JS Story Joe Fiorini.

MJS #008: Jon Schlinkert

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:00:00 +0000

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.

MJS #007: Mikeal Rogers

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:00:00 +0000

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.

MJS #006: Dennis Ushakov

Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:00:00 +0000

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.

MJS #005: Joe Eames

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Joe Eames. Joe is both into JavaScript Jabber and Adventures in Angular. Tune in to My JS Story Joe Eames to learn more about his journey into getting where he is now.

MJS #004: Isaac Schlueter

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000

On today's episode, Charles Max Wood shares My JS Story Isaac Schlueter. Isaac is the co-founder and chief executive officer at NPM. Listen to his interesting javascript story, and learn how you can connect with him!

MJS #003: Max Lynch

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Max Lynch. Max is part of the Ionic Framework and has appeared on episode 126 in the JavaScript Jabber show. Tune in to My JS Story Max Lynch as he shares his journey to becoming part of the world of programming.

MJS #002: Mark Nadal

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000

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.

MJS #001: Keith Horwood

Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000

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.