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JSJ 463: Building Web Applications with Firebase Dec 23, 2020

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Steve and AJ talk with Gareth Brown, author of the recently released Manning video course “Building Web Applications with Firebase”. They discuss what Firebase is, the services it offers, and how it is used in different types of applications, both large and small.Panel

AJ O’Neal
Steve Edwards

Guest

Gareth Brown

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AJ- Zelda Plush Doll
AJ-Bokoblin Plush Dolls
AJ- Everything GameCube Homebrew in 6 Minutes!
AJ- webinstall.dev
Steve- Outkick
Gareth- Rabbit Hole by New Yok Times
Gareth- The Social Dilemma
Gareth-Screened out

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BONUS: Start Building Video Games with Jason Weimann Dec 11, 2020

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Learn to Build Your Own Games with Jason's Course (Get 10% Off with Code DEVCHAT)Over the years, I've had dozens of developers tell me that they got into programming because they wanted to build video games. Today, it's easier and more approachable than ever. This episode dives into how to get started with game development.Jason Weimann has built games for big studios and has been teaching others to build video games with the Unity game engine. Jason talks through his journey into game development and explains how others can get started with building all sorts of games using the Unity game engine.You can get started prototyping a game by dragging a few elements in and writing a minimal amount of C#. Chuck and Jason compare front-end components to game components and then explain the ins and outs of building and designing a game. Learn to Build Your Own Games with Jason's Course (Get 10% Off with Code DEVCHAT)
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JSJ 462: The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Testing with Lucas da Costa Dec 08, 2020

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Testing JavaScript Applications by Lucas da Costa (Coupon for 40% off: podjsjabber19)Lucas da Costa literally wrote the book on testing JavaScript. He's also maintainer on ChaiJS and Sinon. The podcast follows a three part structure for testing: Entrance tests, integration tests, and structural tests. These form a pyramid of testing that has the entrance tests at the base and the structural and system tests at the top. The episode also covers TDD and approaches to different kinds of JavaScript testing.Panel

AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight
Steve Edwards

Guest

Lucas da Costa

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Lucas - HiDPI (Retina) on any display
Lucas - RDM:
Lucas - Quartz Debug (XCode Additional Tools)
Aimee - Vanilla-todo
AJ - iTerm2
AJ - Fish Shell
AJ - Cloud Encabulator link
Steve - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRupqYXNUVw
Lucas - The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker (Audiobook)
Lucas - On Writing Well
Lucas - Actionable Agile Metrics For Predictability: An Introduction
Lucas - https://github.com/neovim/neovim

Testing JavaScript Applications by Lucas da Costa (Coupon for 40% off: podjsjabber19)
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BONUS: Adding a Content Engine to Your App with a Headless CMS with Jake Lumetta Dec 04, 2020

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Go Check Out ButterCMS to Add Content to Your Apps!Do you need to add a content engine like a blog or podcast to your product’s website? Don’t want to maintain a separate WordPress installation? Why not use a Headless CMS?Jake Lumetta from ButterCMS joins Charles Max Wood to discuss how Headless CMS’s work and how they can add functionality to your application with a minimum of effort and very little maintenance. They also compare Headless CMS’s to the alternatives and explain when one choice is better for a team than the other.Go Check Out ButterCMS to Add Content to Your Apps!
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JSJ 460: The Things Every JavaScript Developer Must Know, Part 2 Dec 01, 2020

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The panel continues its discussion of various JavaScript programming topics, and whether or not they are required knowledge for JavaScript programmers. This time the debate gets even more heated with topics such as promises and async / await, regular expressions (regex), the DOM and Service Workers. Ultimately we conclude that some you must indeed know to be successful at JavaScript development, but some you just need to know enough about to know to stay away from them.Panel

AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight
Steve Edwards
Dan Shappir
Charles Max Wood

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Aimee - The Markup
Aimee - Yasso Frozen Yogurt
Dan - picks Steve Edwards (volunteer firefighter) for his service and saving lives
AJ - XKCD Dependency
AJ - YC’s How to Start a Startup
AJ - https://webinstall.dev/arc
AJ - https://webinstall.dev/un7z (still not working)
AJ - Haraka
AJ - Emkei
AJ - Mxtoolbox
AJ - Mail-tester.com
AJ - https://blog.codinghorror.com/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code/
Steve - https://blog.logrocket.com/new-features-in-vue-3-and-how-to-use-them/
Charles - https://brendon.com/podcast/
Charles - https://stimulusjs.org/
Charles - https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine

BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working Nov 27, 2020

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Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal
Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.The trick? Deep Work!Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal
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JSJ 459: Codota Tabnine and the Rise of Ai-powered Developer Tooling with Kyle Simpson PT 2 Nov 24, 2020

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Imagine a world in which your editor / IDE can actually write some of your code for you. Where you're able to produce software faster and more efficiently because your development environment "knows" what you want to do, based on code you've written before. Turns out you can start experiencing this in the present using the free TabNine editor extension by Codata. In this episode Kyle Simpson, Codata's Lead of Developer Empowerment, joins the panel to describe how they use Machine Learning to enhance and accelerate software development. Kyle explains what's already possible in the present, and what ML technology promises to enable in the future for developer experience.PicksAimee

Terraform cost estimation: https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-cost-estimation

Dan

https://www.se.rit.edu/~tabeec/RIT_441/Resources_files/How To Write Unmaintainable Code.pdf

Kyle

https://medium.com/nmc-techblog/introducing-the-async-cookie-store-api-89cbecf401f

3-Wolf Moon: https://amzn.to/3dGkRE6
Watchexec: https://webinstall.dev/watchexec
Dotenv: https://webinstall.dev/dotenv

Special Guest: Kyle Simpson.
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JSJ 458: Codota Tabnine and the Rise of Ai-powered Developer Tooling with Kyle Simpson Nov 17, 2020

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Imagine a world in which your editor / IDE can actually write some of your code for you. Where you’re able to produce software faster and more efficiently because your development environment “knows” what you want to do, based on code you’ve written before. Turns out you can start experiencing this in the present using the free TabNine editor extension by Codata. In this episode Kyle Simpson, Codata’s Lead of Developer Empowerment, joins the panel to describe how they use Machine Learning to enhance and accelerate software development. Kyle explains what’s already possible in the present, and what ML technology promises to enable in the future for developer experience.Sponsors

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AJ ONeal
Aimee Knight
Dan Shappir

Special Guest

Kyle Simpson

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Terraform cost estimation

Kyle Simpson

Introducing: The Async Cookie Store API

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JSJ 457: Career Transitioning with Laura Harvey Nov 10, 2020

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This week the panel talks with a UK boot camp student about her decision to switch careers and learn to program. They discuss unique challenges such as being part of an underrepresented group and entering the field during a pandemic. Additionally, they discuss technology choices and overall, seek to gain a deeper understanding of the state of JavaScript for new developers.Sponsors

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Aimee Knight
Dan Shappir
Steve Edwards

Special Guest

Laura Harvey

PicksAimee

Dan

Technical Tweets
twitter.com/kentcdodds/status

Laura Harvey

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JSJ 456: Developer-First Security and Security Tooling For Developers with Liran Tal & Brian Vermeer Nov 03, 2020

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Liran Tal and Brian Vermeer from Snyk join the panel to discuss development of secure software in general, and secure JavaScript and web dev in particular. They explain what developer-first security actually means, and the types of security vulnerabilities to watch out for when using modern tools to develop websites and web apps. They also present several Open Source tools that developers can use to improve their code right from within their favorite development environments and IDEs.Sponsors

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