JavaScript Jabber celebrates its 400th episode with former host Dave Smith and some other familiar voices. Each of the panelists talks about what they’ve been up to. Dave hasn’t been on the show for 3 years, but he and Jameson Dance have started a podcast called Soft Skills Engineering where they answer questions about the non-technical side of engineering. When he left the show he was the director of engineering on Hire View, and currently he works for Amazon on Alexa. Christopher Buecheler has...
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Valeri Karpov is a maintainer on Mongoose, has started a few companies, and works for a company called Booster Fuels. Today’s topic debugging with Async/Await. The panel talks about some of the challenges of debugging with Async. AJ, however, has never encountered the same problems, so he shares his debugging method. Valeri differentiates between .catch vs try...catch, and talks about why he prefers .catch. There are two ways to handle all errors in an async function without leading to an unhand...
Oct 10, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Guest Paige Niedringhaus has been a developer full time for 3 years, and today she is here to talk about Node 12. One of the things she is most excited about is the ES6 support that is now available, so things that used to require React, Angular, or Vue can now be done in Node. The require function will not have to be used in Node 12. AJ is worried about some of these changes and expresses his concerns. Paige assures him that in the beginning you won’t have to switch things to imports. You may h...
Oct 08, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent is a self taught web developer from west France. He has worked for BBC, The Guardian, and The Financial Times in the UK. He has also worked in the US for SalesForce and currently works for Shopify on their Polaris design system. Shopify has multiple design systems, and Polaris is open source. Today the panel is talking about design systems and developer tooling around design systems. To begin, Kaelig explains what a design system is. A design system is all of the cultura...
Oct 03, 2019•39 min
Jonathan Lee Martin is an instructor and developer. He got his start in teaching at Big Nerd Ranch doing 1-2 week trainings for mid to senior developers, and then transitioned to 16 week courses for career switchers. He also worked for Digital Crafts for a year, and then wanted to focus on building out his own personal teaching brand. One of his first steps toward building his own brand was to publish his book, Functional Design Patterns for Express.js.The inspiration for Jonathan’s book came fr...
Oct 01, 2019•58 min
Mike North is the Ember guy at Frontend Masters and LinkedIn’s web developer trainer. Today the panel is talking about the upcoming Ember update, which Mike calls a total reinvention of the way you build with Ember. Finally, they are letting go of the cruft and stuff they had to hold on to in order to support IE8 and using modern interfaceThe panel talks about some of the issues with IE8, and agree that the reason Ember felt its age because it was built for IE8. Ember 314 is moving from the past...
Sep 26, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Episode SummaryDominik Kundel works as developer evangelist at Twilio. Dominik talks about the history of Twilio, which actually started with integrating phone calls into apps and then moved to SMS integration. Today Charles and Dominik are talking about how the SMS message approach can augment your user experience. Since many people are not familiar with implementing SMS, Dominik talks about how Twilio can help. Twilio created was a supernetwork where they work with carriers and gateways around...
Sep 24, 2019•29 min
Episode SummarySurma is an open web advocate for Google currently working with WebAssembly team. He was invited on the show today to talk about using web workers and how to move work away from the browser’s main thread. His primary platform is bringing multithreading out of the fringes and into the web. The panel talks about their past experience with web workers, and many of them found them isolated and difficult to use. Surma believes that web workers should pretty much always be sued because ...
Sep 19, 2019•58 min
Episode SummaryDouglas is a language architect and helped with the development of JavaScript. He started working with JavaScript in 2000. He talks about his journey with the language, including his initial confusion and struggles, which led him to write his book JavaScript: The Good Parts.Douglas’ take on JavaScript is unique because he not only talks about what he likes, but what he doesn’t like. Charles and Douglas discuss some of the bad parts of JavaScript, many of which were mistakes becaus...
Sep 17, 2019•1 hr 13 min
Episode SummaryTodd Gardner is a software developer, podcaster on the show Script and Style, startup founder, and comedy host for Pub Conf, a ‘comedy after party for developers’. Since he was last on the show 6 years ago, he has seen his startup TrackJS become quite successful. TrackJS is a JavaScript error monitoring service which gives you visibility into your client side experience. It’s different from other tools because focused on simplicity, so you’ll never need a guy on your team dedicate...
Sep 12, 2019•50 min
Episode SummaryAdam Leventhal is the CEO and cofounder of Transposit. Transposit was born from the desire to build a way for developers to work with lots of different APIs, take authentication and pagination off the table, and let developers focus on the problems they’re trying to solve. Transposit is a serverless platform that’s free and gives you a combination of SQL or JavaScript to start playing with your API.Since interacting with API data securely can be difficult, the panel discusses how ...
Sep 10, 2019•47 min
Sponsors Sustain Our Software Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Adventures in Blockchain Panel Charles Max Wood Episode Summary In today’s show, Chuck talks about the recent tweet thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is. Defining a 1...
Sep 05, 2019•52 min
Sponsors Adventures in Blockchain Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit My Ruby Story Panel Aimee Knight Chris Buecheler AJ O’Neal With Special Guest: Brian LonsdorfEpisode SummaryBrian Lonsdorf works for Salesforce, specializes in functional programming, and wrote a book called Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming. Brian talks about when he got into functional programming and when in their career others should be exposed to it. He talks about the fundamen...
Sep 03, 2019•47 min
Sponsors GitLab | Get 30% off tickets with the promo code: DEVCHATCOMMIT Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Views on Vue Panel Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Episode SummaryToday Joe and Charles are discussing how to stay current in the tech field. Since looking at all the new technology can be overwhelming, they advise listeners on what to focus on, which will differ depending on your career. Joe brings up that one of the top reasons people choose a job is because it has a technology t...
Aug 29, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Sponsors GitLab | Get 30% off tickets with the promo code: DEVCHATCOMMIT Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Panel Chris Beucheler AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight With Special Guest: Chris BiscardiEpisode SummaryChris 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. One of Chris’ current clients is Gatsby, a static site generator. Chris talks about his...
Aug 27, 2019•44 min
Sponsors RxJS Live Panel Charles Max Wood Christopher Beucheler Episode SummaryToday Charles and Christopher discuss what can you do with JavaScript. They talk about the kinds of things they have used JavaScript to build. They discuss non-traditional ways that people might get into JavaScript and what first drew them to the language. They talk about the some of the non-traditional JavaScript options that are worth looking into. Christopher and Charles talk about some of the fascinating things th...
Aug 22, 2019•49 min
Sponsors Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Panel Charles Max Wood AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Aimee Knight With Special Guest: Evan WeaverEpisode SummaryEvan Weaver is the CEO and cofounder of FaunaDB, a serverless database and a great way to get started with GraphQL. Evan talks about what went into building the FaunaDB and his background with Twitter. FaunaDB arose from trying to fix Twitter’s scalability issues, and the panel discusses scalability issues encountered in both large and sma...
Aug 20, 2019•51 min
Sponsors RxJS Live Panel Charles Max Wood Christopher Beucheler Aimee Knight Episode SummaryToday’s episode is an exploration of the question “What is JavaScript?”. Each of the panelists describes what they think JavaScript is, giving a definition for both technical and non-technical people. They talk about how the different layers of JavaScript tie into their definitions. They agree that it’s incorrect to call JavaScript one of the ‘easy’ programming languages and some of the challenges unique ...
Aug 15, 2019•45 min
Sponsors Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Panel Charles Max Wood With Special Guest: Anatoliy ZaslavskiyEpisode SummaryAnatoliy Zaslavsky works for Hover, made framework called Pickle.js, and has been on JavaScript Jabber before. Today Chuck and Anatloliy are talking about the importance of mental health. Anatoliy has Bipolar Disorder, and he talks about what it is and his experience with it and how his manic and depressive episodes have affected him. Thankfully, his employers at ...
Aug 13, 2019•53 min
Sponsors Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit RxJS Live Panel Charles Max Wood Christopher Beucheler AJ O’Neal With Special Guest: John SomnezEpisode SummaryJohn is the founder of Bulldog Mindset andSimple Programmer, which teaches software developers soft skills, and the author of a couple books. He specializes in creating a personal brand and marketing. He addresses the rumors of him leaving software development and gives an introduction to marketing yourself as a software developer...
Aug 08, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Sponsors Datadog Sentry – use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Panel Charles Max Wood With Special Guest: Charlie CheeverEpisode SummaryGuest Charlie Cheever joins the discussion on JavaScript Jabber today. He was previously on React Round Up episode 47 . Charlie works on Expo, which is a way to make React apps on every platform. Right now, Expo supports IOS, Android, and Web, provides a standard library of features, and takes care of services like builds and updates over the air. There are al...
Aug 06, 2019•51 min
Sponsors Netlify RxJS Live Panel Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood With Special Guest: Jeff MeyersonEpisode SummaryJeff Meyerson is the host of the Software Engineering daily podcast and has also started a company called FindCollabs, an online platform for finding collaborators and building projects. Jeff started FindCollabs because he believes there are all these amazing tools but people are not combining and collaborating as much as they could, when so much good could be accomplished tog...
Aug 01, 2019•1 hr
Sponsors Datadog Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Panel Aimee Knight Chris Ferdinandi Joe Eames AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood With Special Guests: Josh Thomas and Mike HartingtonEpisode SummaryToday’s guests Josh Thomas and Mike Hartington are developers for Ionic, with Josh working on the open source part of the framework on Ionic. They talk about their new compiler for web components called Stencil. Stencil was originally created out of work they did for Ionic 4 (now available for Vue,...
Jul 30, 2019•53 min
JSJ BONUS EPISODE: Observables and RxJS Live with Aaron FrostMon Jul 29 2019 13:00:56 GMT+0300 (+03) Episode Number: bonus Duration: 29:35https://media.devchat.tv/js-jabber/JSJ_Bonus_Aaron_Frost.mp3 Host: Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Aaron FrostEpisode SummaryAaron 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 t...
Jul 29, 2019•30 min
Sponsors Datadog Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Panel Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood With Special Guest: Rene RubalcavaEpisode SummaryRene is a software developer for ESRI and works in spatial and mapping software. ESRI has been around since 1969 and has seen their work explode since they shifted to providing address and location services. Rene talks about how he thinks about location and mapping when building software around it and things that he has to approach in unique ...
Jul 25, 2019•44 min
Sponsors Datadog Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Panel Aimee Knight Chris Ferdinandi Christopher Beucheler AJ O’Neal With Special Guest: Javan MakhmaliEpisode SummaryToday’s guest is Javan Makhmali, who works for Basecamp and helped develop Trix. Trix is a rich text editor for the web, made purposefully simple for everyday use instead of a full layout tool. Trix is not the same as Tiny MCE, and Javan discusses some of the differences. He talks about the benefits of using Trix over ot...
Jul 23, 2019•52 min
Sponsors Triplebyte $1000 signing bonus Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Panel Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight Chris Ferdinandi AJ O’Neal Christopher Beucheler Episode SummaryToday the panel discusses the effect of current development practices, such as the heavy reliance JavaScript, on the web. Chris explains why he believes that current development practices are ruining the web. The panelists discuss different situations where they see complications on the web. They discuss the advant...
Jul 18, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Sponsors DataDog Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly PanelCharles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Steve FaulknerEpisode SummaryComing to you live from the podcast booth at Microsoft BUILD is Charles Max Wood with Steve Faulkner. Steve is a Senior Software Developer for Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft. Cosmos DB is a global distributed, multi-model noSQL database. Steve explains the Cosmos DB service and scenarios it can be used in. They discuss how Cosmos...
Jul 16, 2019•30 min
Sponsors Triplebyte $1000 signing bonus Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Linode Panel Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight Chris Ferdinandi AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Episode SummaryToday the panel discusses what is necessary to get a website up and how complicated or simple it needs to be. They mention different tools they like for static sites and ways to manage their builds and websites. They talk about why some people choose to host their websites and at what point the heavier tools become a co...
Jul 11, 2019•58 min
Sponsors Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit CacheFly Panel Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Jessica DeenEpisode SummaryComing to you live from the podcast booth at Microsoft BUILD is Charles Max Wood with The Deen of DevOps aka Jessica Deen . Jessica is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. As an advocate she acts a liaison between developer communities and Microsoft to help understand developer pain points and road blocks especially in...
Jul 09, 2019•40 min
