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How great the (front end) divide (JS Party #61) Feb 01, 2019

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Panelists Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Kevin Ball chat about the perceived Great Divide in front end development, why 2019 is the year of TypeScript, and shout outs to inspirational members of the community.

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Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

The Great Divide
Jest moving to TypeScript
Yarns Future - v2 and beyond
Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript
TypeScript support in Tink
Monica Dinculescu on Twitter
Magenta
Tenori-off
Magic Sketchpad
Dan Abramov on Twitter
Overreacted
Rachel Andrew on Twitter
Rachel Andrew’s author profile on Smashing Magazine
Grid by Example
Jen Simmons on Twitter
Jen’s YouTube channel: Layout Land

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Laura Gaetano doesn't want to be a manager (Away from Keyboard #12) Jan 31, 2019

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Laura Gaetano was born in Italy, and by my count has lived in at least four different countries. Her multicultural upbringing has had a huge impact on her life. In fact, she currently works at the Travis Foundation with a focus on diversity and inclusion.

We talk about her upbringing, her troubles with art school, the work she’s doing now, and changes that may be on the horizon.

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Laura Gaetano – Twitter, Website
Tim Smith – Twitter, GitHub
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Show Notes:

A big thank you to Abi Prado, who did the narration for this episode since my voice is gone (and who knows if it will ever return).
Travis Foundation
If you or someone you know would make a great guest for this show, send us an email at: afk@changelog.com.

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A UI framework without the framework (Changelog Interviews #332) Jan 30, 2019

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Jerod and Adam talked with Rich Harris –a JavaScript Journalist on The New York Times Investigations team– about his magical disappearing UI framework called Svelte. We compare and contrast Svelte to React, how the framework is embedded in a component, build time vs. run time, scoping CSS to components, and CSS in JavaScript. Rich also shares where Svelte v3 is heading and the details on Sapper, a framework for building extremely high-performance progressive web apps, powered by Svelte.

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Rich Harris – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this interview on Ping
The Great Divide by Chris Coyier
Frameworks without the framework; why didn’t we think of this sooner?
Rich’s spectacular work on display in a piece for The New York Times on Twitter bots
Watch Rich’s talk at JSConf EU 2018, “Computer, build me an app”
Svelte website
Follow Svelte on Twitter

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New year’s resolution: dive into deep learning! (Practical AI #28) Jan 28, 2019

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Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.

If you’re anything like us, your New Year’s resolutions probably included an AI section, so this week we explore some of the learning resources available for artificial intelligence and deep learning. Where you go with it depends upon what you want to achieve, so we discuss academic versus industry career paths, and try to set you on the Practical AI path that will help you level up.

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Courses

Books

(Daniel is too humble to put his own book in this list, so Chris inserted it above without Daniel’s knowledge - because it’s a damn fine book!)

Hybrid resources

Machine learning with TensorFlow crash course
Intro to deep learning with PyTorch
Spinning Up in Deep RL

Meetups

PyData
Atlanta Deep Learning Meetup

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Isaac Schlueter on building npm and hiring a CEO (Founders Talk #61) Jan 25, 2019

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With JavaScript in every corner of software development and npm in every corner right along with it, the rise of npm can be drawn as a hockey stick up and to the right with Isaac Schlueter at the top grinning ear to ear. After reading their recent announcement to hire a CEO, I knew it was time to talk one-on-one with Isaac about building npm and the journey of hiring his successor.

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Isaac Schlueter – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

npm, Inc. has a new CEO, Bryan Bogensberger
npm for enterprises
npm for orgs
npm’s about page
npm/cli on GitHub
npm audit

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You might want to read up on PAW Patrol (JS Party #60) Jan 25, 2019

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Your 3 intrepid hosts try to explain JS concepts (bind/apply, thunks, and ReasonML) to each other as if we’re five year olds. Hilarity and/or confusion ensues. During Pro Tip Time, Suz tells a story of woe, KBall motivates himself, and Jerod tries to keep you in the flow. Finally, we point our project spotlight at Fly CDN and talk edge applications and IoT.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Explaining things like we’re 5

Here it is: PAW Patrol
Because KBall uses them to describe bind and apply
Did Suz’ explanation of thunks leave you wanting? GOTO
You could listen to Jerod, or just read this page about Reason
Should we do a show with some folks from the Reason team?

Pro Tip Time

What is the purpose of /etc/hosts? Read all about it
Jerod mentioned Paul Graham’s essay on Maker Schedule, Manager Schedule
You can also read Jerod’s tips on dev.to

Project Spotlight

Fly CDN - a CDN just for developers

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GitHub Actions is the next big thing (Changelog Interviews #331) Jan 23, 2019

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Adam and Jerod talk to Kyle Daigle, the Director of Ecosystem Engineering at GitHub. They talk about GitHub Actions, the new automation platform announced at GitHub Universe this past October 2018. GitHub Actions is the next big thing coming out of GitHub with the promise of powerful workflows to supercharge your repos and GitHub experience. Build your container apps, publish packages to registries, or automate welcoming new users to your open source projects — with access to interact with the full GitHub API and any other public APIs, Actions seem to have limitless possibilities.

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Kyle Daigle – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Learn more information about GitHub Actions
Read this post by Jessie Frazelle on how a GitHub action works
Marketplace of GitHub actions (only available to people in the public beta for now)
Pull Reminders helps you remember to review code and get pull requests merged.
Future of Software: Developers at the center of the universe
This org has repos of different GitHub actions for many situations
Adam logged Sarah Drasner’s list of awesome GitHub actions
Article from GitLab about the importance of continous integration

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IBM's AI for detecting neurological state (Practical AI #27) Jan 21, 2019

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Ajay Royyuru and Guillermo Cecchi from IBM Healthcare join Chris and Daniel to discuss the emerging field of computational psychiatry. They talk about how researchers at IBM are applying AI to measure mental and neurological health based on speech, and they give us their perspectives on things like bias in healthcare data, AI augmentation for doctors, and encodings of language structure.

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Guillermo Cecchi –
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Our thoughts and experiences with SSGs (JS Party #59) Jan 18, 2019

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The JS Party crew discuss static site generators, our experiences with them, and what the future might hold for this ever-evolving technology.

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Safia Abdalla – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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11ty static site generator
How We Used Gatsby.js to Build a Blazing Fast E-Commerce Site
Vuepress
Both the nteract Website and nteract Play were made with Next.js
Siteleaf is a CMS that works with Jekyll
Panini on GitHub
The Building Blocks site was made with Panini

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Adam Clark wants to be independently wealthy (Away from Keyboard #11) Jan 17, 2019

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Adam Clark and I met back in 2013. We started a podcasting company together (which we both left), he shut down his consulting business to move to California and work for Apple, and now he’s back in Tennessee. Last year he launched a new business, Podcast Royale, a company he says will afford him more freedom to do whatever he wants to do.

He talks to me about growing up in a cult, losing his father, marriage, and how being a parent gives him a purpose in life.

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Adam Clark – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Tim Smith – Twitter, GitHub

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Adam’s company, Podcast Royale
I can’t remember the particular episode of Today Explained that I referenced in the show, but it’s a fantastic podcast you should subscribe to.

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