WebAssembly (WASM) is a core technology of the Web and supported by all browsers as well as various other runtimes. Yet despite this fact most Web devs don't use it and have little or no familiarity with it. This week we are joined by Istvan Szmozsanszky "Flaki" to discuss some of the significant transformations currently taking place with this tech, which could make it much more mainstream. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin...
Dec 06, 2022•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Maina Wycliffe is a Full-stack Software Engineer, Google Developer Expert, and Mentor who currently works at Flanksource. He is a Typescript Enthusiast and is the author of All things Typescript . He joins Chuck and Steve as he shares the reason behind starting his newsletter. His main goal is to teach developers to learn more about it and its typing system. About this Episode How Maina handles and future plans in his newsletter All about Typescript Features of Typescript Transitioning to Typesc...
Nov 29, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "THRIVE" for a GIANT discount Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back? Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers? Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basi...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are joined by Yoav Abrahami, Chief Architect and Head of Velo to discuss the transformation of Wix from a Website builder to an application development platform. Wix Velo enables developers to implement code that runs either on the client-side or on Wix hosted Node server, while constructing the UI using a WYSIWYG page editor. In this way, Wix provides an interesting alternative to app development frameworks such as NextJS and Nuxt. Sponsors "Request Metrics, who does performance monitoring a...
Nov 22, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lane Wagner is the founder of a startup company called Boot.dev. He teaches backend development online in Go, Python, and JavaScript. Lane joins Chuck and Steve as they talk all things Functional Programming. They also talk about its importance and share their thoughts about it. Moreover, Lane also shares his experience with creating boot.dev and the different teaching strategies he uses on his online learning platform. About this Episode The difference between Functional Programming VS Object-o...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode the panelists share war stories from their career and the lessons they have learned from them. They discuss things they have done back in their early days in tech, and how they now behave differently given those experiences. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Picks AJ - Duratech 8mm-22mm COMPLETE wrench set AJ - ATV Body Armor / Adventure Jackets AJ - Project ...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shai Yalin is a freelance software architect and mentor. He specializes in teaching organizations and individuals how to use Test Driven Development (TDD) and other development methodologies and best practices. In this episode Shai joins us to explain how to use these methods in order to create software that is resilient to change, and how to refactor existing brittle code in order to clean out the rot. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Chronomatic: my side-project story Your S...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kent C. Dodds is a well-known JavaScript developer who has done myriad development courses and training. He's also done outreach for Remix. He's spoken at tons of conferences and his now working on creating EpicWeb.dev which helps developers become epic web developers. The Jabber crew starts out talking about learning, teaching, and EpicWeb.dev before going into the changes in the web platform and progressive enhancement and eventually Remix. Links: TestingJavaScript.com EpicWeb.dev EpicReact.de...
Oct 25, 2022•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Diego Moura is a newer developer who has recently joined the ranks of professional developers. The panel talks to Diego about his career as a fashion designer and how he moved to Canada and go into programming. He initially got into digital marketing and figured out that he could modify and manage pages and picked up development as a function of doing UI work on his marketing pages. From there he fell in love with web development. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Architect, who prov...
Oct 18, 2022•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast The panel goes back a few years and reviews some technology predictions that Dan made a few years ago on Quora. These include WASM, Progressive web apps, and others. Most were wrong, but one did end up being sort of accurate. Along the way, they go into some deep rabbit holes but manage to pull themselves out. As always, they end with picks, and Steve's stupendous dad jokes. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Apple iOS browser grip loosened under latest draft EU rules - Top End ...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Netta Bondy, a front end developer at Twang and dive into a discussion about when software development becomes a craft. We discuss the challenges of practicality vs. art, and the challenges of properly crafting code vs. working with popularly adopted methods. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links The Story of Mel with Tomer Lichtash and David Frankiel - JSJ 544 Creeds of Craftsmanship · Issue #18 · BeyondCodeBootcamp/beyondcodebootcamp FRONTEND CON 2020 Twitter: ...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Adam Bradley, the Director of Technology at Builder.io. He previously worked at Ionix as a creator of Ionic Framework, a mobile UI interface builder for web applications, and StencilJS which powers Ionix. Currently he works on both Qwik and Partytown at Builder.io. In today’s episode we dive into Partytown, discussing the unique ways it improves website performance. When there are so many third-party scripts injected into the average website, you can quickly lose control of sp...
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Misko Hevery about solving the loading speed issue for websites constructed using JavaScript frameworks. Such websites are often slow to load, which is detrimental to their ability so succeed. After 16 years at Google, where he created Angular, he now works on the Qwik framework at Builder.io, a headless visual CMS. We learn how Qwik dramatically improves page speed metrics through an innovative architecture that enables resumability instead of hydration. We talk about how thi...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Felix Arntz, a developer relations engineer at Google. Hired on the Google WordPress team, and involved with the Sidekick plugin, we discuss some of the challenges and approaches of improving performance on WordPress sites, as well as other open source CMS’s. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Core Performance Slack WordPress + Slack Twitter: @DanShappir Twitter: @wonder95 Twitter: @JSJabber - Top En...
Sep 06, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast There is no question that the volume, sophistication, and severity of software supply chain attacks is on the rise. How do you navigate your supply chain security? Stephen Chin joins the show today to discuss various strategies and action plans for how to best prevent and address these types of attacks. In this episode… Where do you start with supply chain security? Spotting attackers and prevention How do you know who to trust? Dependency injections and malicious packages Network reliability an...
Sep 02, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s episode is a continuation of the previous JavaScript Jabber Episode 543, where we discuss JS language features to avoid. Do you agree with the list? Today we talk about: for in forEach else null object.create A named function using the arrow operator switch labels Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles- Orbis Charles- Diablo Immortal Charles- Richard Paul Evans Charles- JavaScript Remote Conference 2022 Charles- - Top End Devs Dan- John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI,...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today Steve and Charles talk about the many updates and events coming to Top End Devs, from upcoming conferences to new courses and content. Check out the conference lineup at https://topenddevs.com/conferences . If you are interested in building courses or would like to speak at any of the conferences, contact Charles. We also dive into a conversation about what it really means to be a 10x developer and a top 1% developer. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Overview - Nuxt 3 Es...
Aug 23, 2022•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve, Dan and A.J talk with Nick Hehr and Peter Hoddie about using JavScript with IoT devices. They cover a wide range of topics, including the XS JavaScript Engine, the only complete ECMAScript 2018 engine optimized for embedded devices (created by Moddable), and even get into the nitty gritty of how it is built and how it works. They also cover TC53 - the standards committee for JS in embedded systems, a committee that Nick and Peter are part of. In picks, they get into a great discussion on ...
Aug 16, 2022•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we have special guests Tomer Lichtash and David Frankiel, a web developer and programmer behind the epic hacker folklore project The Story of Mel, a comprehensive guide to The Story of Mel. This story, which has survived through all the changes in the internet since its birth in 1983, and has morphed through all its iterations into something almost poetic in nature. This allegory tells the story of the birth of of high-tech culture as we know it today, and creates some heated debate among ...
Aug 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today in this all panelist episode, we talk about JS features you should avoid using. However opinions don't always align, and some come with much debate! Although we couldn’t cover them all, today we discuss: eval with arguments do while for I ++ continue classes prototypes this var with let delete Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links JavaScript Remote Conference 2022 Twitter: @cmaxw Picks AJ- Virginia Ctenucha Ctenuch...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we have three guests on the show, Annie Sullivan, Yoav Weiss, and Michal Mocny, all of who are engineers who work for Google on the Chrome Web platform. Looking forward to Google’s new developments for measuring web performance, we dive deep into upcoming performance metrics Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Interaction to Next Paint (INP), a full page lifecycle metric. We discuss what user page interactions we can measure successfully and which we cannot. We discuss the challenges of sin...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, in this all-panelist episode we talk about upcoming online events and conferences. With upcoming Top End Devs meetups and conferences, starting in August, we talk about all the benefits of being in person at an event, and the camaraderie at and after the event. We talk about the ways that Airmeet allows for a good connection between the speakers and audience. You’ll also pick up some tips on becoming a speaker at one of these events. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get starte...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Steve Sewell, co-founder and CEO of Builder.io, about their visual editor and designer which connects to many open source systems. Running within a website wysiwyg, it integrates with most modern front end frameworks, such as React, Due and Svelte. We discuss how it functions and connects to various systems. We also dive into the backstory of how and why builder.io created their framework called Qwik. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Steve - Builder io Drag ...
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Josh Larson a senior staff developer at Shopify who is front and center in development of Hydrogen. We learn how Hydrogen addresses the varying needs of shop owners to build storefronts quickly and effectively. With rendering on the server only, this metaframework provides a toolkit helping customers build a more customized web presence. We learn about Oxygen, which allows customers to host and deploy Hydrogen. We also discuss the decision behind the decision to use React to b...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Matt Pocock, who comes from Oxfordshire, England. As a big fan of TypeScript and maintainer of the Xstate library, we discuss the benefits and downsides of TypeScript. As the discussion gets a bit heated, we debate the true value of TypeScript, and where it holds value to the programming community. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Advanced TypeScript - Become a TS Wizard TypeScript Error Translator Podcast Hosting and Analytics - Welcome to Fireside! Transis...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest Annie Sullivan, a software engineer on the Chrome Platform team, focussing on core web vitals metrics which is all about performance and user experience metrics for websites. We discuss topics such as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and how it works behind the scenes. We also touch on Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) and things that impact browser experience. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links CrUX and Core ...
Jun 21, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Gal working on developer tooling for the last decade. Previously working at WIX, and now working at Vercel, he has created an open source FNM fast node version manager within that operates within Rust. We talk about Vercel’s Edge Functions, which allows users to insert routing strategies with user code without having performance hits. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams - Vercel Edge Functions - Vercel Bun - f...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today’s all-panelist episode, we take a deep dive into some of the nooks and crannies of JavaScript. We discuss and debate the benefits and problems of various methods such as getter and setter, Const, Freeze and Proxy. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Picks AJ - Valley Forge Flags AJ - Frog Chess AJ - Beyond Code Bootcamp AJ - Creeds of Craftsmanship Dan - JSConf Budapest Dan - Stock Market / Tech Stocks going down Dan...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we talk with Paul Asjes, a developer advocate at Stripe. We get some insight into creating a more secure site for credit card transactions. We also discuss card testing, or account stealing, techniques that are used to gain access to active credits cards. This topic is very important because it can have big financial consequences, and if serious enough, could cause a business to close. Paul gives us some techniques and strategies to discourage and prevent this activity. Sponsors Top End De...
May 31, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today we chat with Thomas Randolph from GitLab, to discuss his Top 10 list of the upcoming TC39 proposals. The list… Temporal Proposal Import Assertions JSON Modules Built-In Modules Observable Proposal Partial Application UUID Pipeline Operator Module Blocks Emitter Proposal +1 Records and Tuples +2 Reverse and Sort Methods on Arrays Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Twitter: Thomas Randolph ( @rockerest ) JSJ 425: The Evolution of JavaScript Temporal import assertions JSON mo...
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