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JavaScript and IoT with Nick Hehr and Peter Hoddie - JSJ 545 Aug 16, 2022

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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 home security systems and their various security issue, and of course, Steve brings the great dad jokes.
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The Story of Mel with Tomer Lichtash and David Frankiel - JSJ 544 Aug 09, 2022

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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 our panelists as to the validity of its meanings. Tomer and David tell some of the back story into their journey to discover if the story is a hoax, or if is truly real.
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AJ- Form follows function - Wikipedia
AJ- dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
AJ - The Unexplained
Dan - Downturn in the Tech Industry
Dan- The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (TV Mini Series 2022) - IMDb
Dan - War in Ukraine
David- What is Windows Presentation Foundation - WPF .NET
David - Nouran Zohar
David - In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
Tomer - Net Pioneers 1.0
Tomer- Post-Gogol World, by The Daniil Kharms

Splatty-doo and Other JavaScript Features You Should Avoid - JSJ 543 Aug 02, 2022

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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

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AJ- Virginia Ctenucha Ctenucha virginica (Esper, 1794) | Butterflies and Moths of North America
AJ- The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
AJ- Thread pitch gauge at Lowes.com: Search Results
Charles- Antidote
Charles- Conferences | Top End Devs
Charles- 1883 - Yellowstone Prequel (Official Site) Watch on Paramount+
Dan- Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
Dan - War in Ukraine
Dan- Webb Space Telescope GSFC/NASA
Steve- Coworker Standing At Desk Obviously Just Hasn't Learned About Chairs Yet
Steve - Dad Jokes

Upcoming Performance Metrics for the Web - JSJ 542 Jul 26, 2022

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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 single-page applications when looking at core web vitals.
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AJ- GothamGo 2018 - Things in Go I Never Use by Mat Ryer
AJ - America
Annie- Keynote by Mr. Thomas Dullien - CyCon 2018
Charles- Just One
Dan - Felix Arntz and WordPress Performance
Dan - Watermelons
Dan - War in Ukraine
Michal- Single Handed Podcast
Michal - Samurai Carpenter
Steve - Dad Jokes
Yoav - No meetings week
Yoav- TPAC 2022
Yoav- performance.now(); October 27-28, 2022, Amsterdam

Navigating Online Events and Conferences - JSJ 541 Jul 19, 2022

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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.
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AJ- CrowdNode Masternode Hosting - CrowdNode
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AJ- Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Charles - Airmeet.com
Charles - Riverside.fm
Charles - Devchat.tv
Charles - Premium podcasts from Top End Devs are coming soon!
Charles - TopEndDevs.com
Charles - Dice Forge
Charles- JavaScript Remote Conference 2022
Dan- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
Dan - The importance of taking care of your body
Dan- Web Directions
Dan - War in Ukraine
Steve- Vue Mastery
Steve - Dad Jokes

Builder.io and Qwik - JSJ 540 Jul 12, 2022

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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.
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AJ- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
AJ- JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
Charles- Lost Ruins of Arnak
Charles- Top End Devs | Conferences
Charles- Anedot | Powerful giving tools made easy
Dan - Callout to Twitter thread comparing Copilot to tabnine
Dan- Spinning Silver: A Novel
Dan - War in Ukraine
Steve Edwards - GitHub Copilot available to all developer
Steve Sewell - TikTok
Steve Sewell - DesignerTom (@designertom) TikTok | Watch DesignerTom's Newest TikTok Videos

Hydrogen and Oxygen - JSJ 539 Jul 05, 2022

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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 build this framework, how the framework provides super-custom experiences for the user, and discuss some of the technical challenges faced when building it.
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AJ- Muscle Rack - Freestanding Shelving Units - Shelving - The Home Depot
AJ- "WHAT IS A WOMAN?"
Charles- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game - Fantastic Four
Charles- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game - The New Mutants
Charles- Conferences | Top End Devs
Charles - TopEndDevs on TikTok
Dan- Dan - Matt Pockock - Typescript
Dan- The ins and outs of Core Web Vitals
Dan- The ins and outs of Core Web Vitals by Dan Shappir
Dan - Take a vacation
Dan - Stranger Things
Dan - War in Ukraine
Josh- The Incredibles Official Site presented by Disney Movies
Josh- Incredibles 2

To TypeScript or Not to TypeScript - JSJ 538 Jun 28, 2022

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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.
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AJ- dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
AJ- GothamGo 2018 - Things in Go I Never Use by Mat Ryer
AJ- GopherCon 2019: Mat Ryer - How I Write HTTP Web Services after Eight Years
AJ- Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Oslo 2021
AJ - coolaj86 on Twitch
Charles- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game - Dark City
Charles - Conferences | Top End Devs
Charles - Sponsors | Top End Devs
Charles- Trusted CDN Provider | Faster Content Delivery | CacheFly
Charles - Podcasts | Top End Devs
Matt- The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
Matt - Race for the Galaxy
Steve - Dad Jokes

Core Web Vitals and Whatnot - JSJ 537 Jun 21, 2022

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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.
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AJ- The Pretender | Apple TV
AJ- ‎@coolaj86
AJ- AJ ONeal - Youtube
AJ- Beyond Code Bootcamp
Annie- Google I/O 2022 Session Details
Annie- Procreate® - Sketch, Paint, Create.
Annie- Art with Flo - YouTube
Charles- TACO CAT GOAT CHEESE PIZZA
Charles - Tag someone that has made a difference in one of our podcasts!
Dan- ‎@anniesullie
Dan- Safari is crippling the mobile market, and we never noticed
Dan - War in Ukraine
Steve - New York City removes the last payphone from service
Steve - Dad Jokes

Gal Schlezinger and Edge Functions - JSJ 536 Jun 14, 2022

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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.
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AJ - None Dare Call It Conspiracy
AJ - WHO KILLED BITCOIN? - Documentary
Dan - How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks
Dan - A deep dive into optimizing LCP
Dan - War in Ukraine
Gal - Raycast
Gal - Working with smarter people
Steve - Podcast from syntax.fm
Steve - Dad Jokes

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