JavaScript Jabber

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JSJ 422: CSS and Houdini with Una Kravets Feb 25, 2020

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Una Kravets talks to the panel about CSS and its future. We dive into what Houdini is and how much of it is implemented in the browsers. She explains how the changes outlined in Houdini will improve the user experience on the web and developer experience for web developers.Panel:

Aimee Knight
AJ O’Neal
Charles Max Wood

Guest:

Una Kravets

Sponsors:

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Things you can do with a browser in 2020

AJ O’Neal:

Charles Max Wood:

Una Kravets:

Follow Una on Twitter - @Una
Una's Podcast - Toolsday
Web Series: Designing in the Browser
Having a nice Couch
Bob's Discount Furniture

Special Guest: Una Kravets.
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JSJ 421: Semantic HTML with Bruce Lawson Feb 18, 2020

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Bruce Lawson is an expert in and proponent of semantic HTML. After receiving some good natured ribbing, Bruce walks the panel through the benefits of semantic HTML. He provides several examples on how it's used and in particular how it helps with other issues like accessibility and navigability on your websites.Panel

AJ O’Neal
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood
Dan Shappir

Guest

Bruce Lawson

Sponsors

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Aimee Knight:

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Charles Max Wood:

Codineer - 100 days of Vue challenge

Dan Shappir:

Alex Russell - The Mobile Web: MIA
Bruce Lawson Website

Bruce Lawson:

Taffy music band
Follow Bruce on Twitter @brucel

Special Guest: Bruce Lawson.
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JSJ 420: OpenAPI, Redoc, and API Documentation with Adam Altman Feb 11, 2020

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Adam dives into how to document your application using OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) and then how to generate great documentation for your API's using Redoc. He gives us the history of Redoc, breaks down the process for building API documentation, and understanding the OpenAPI specification.Panelists

Aimee Knight
Dan Shappir
AJ ONeal
Steve Edwards

Guest

Adam Altman

Sponsors

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Aimee Knight:

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Dan Shappir:

Old Kingdom Book Series

AJ O’Neal:

Final Fantasy VII and VIII (Physical Copy, English) on Play Asia

Adam Altman:

concepts.app

Special Guest: Adam Altman.
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JSJ 419: Google App Script with Ben Collins Feb 04, 2020

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Today’s guest is Ben Collins, who creates online courses, writes tutorials, and teaches workshops around G Suite and App Script. Apps Script is a scripting platform developed by Google for light-weight application development in the G Suite platform. It is an implementation of JavaScript with the express purpose of extending Google apps. App Script was started 10 years ago as a side project, and it eventually took on its own life. Ben talks about some of the different things that App Script can do and where things are stored. They discuss different ways you can get into the script and how to import external scripts from a CDN. Ben gives two examples, one simple and one sophisticated, that you might build from App Script. He talks about event triggers and how authentication is handled. He goes over the three deployment options, namely web app, app executable, sheets add-on, and deploying from the manifest. Ben talks about how triggers are managed in App Script and options for debugging. There is also the option to develop locally as well as in the browser. The show ends with him talking about how to build using HTML in App Script.Panelists

Aimee Knight
Steve Edwards
Dan Shapir

Guest

Ben Collins

Sponsors

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Aimee Knight:

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Dan Shapir:

The Web Almanac

AJ O’Neal:

Photography
Magic Lantern

Bem Collins:

Cold Turkey app
Follow Ben at Benlcollins.com and Twitter

Special Guest: Ben Collins.
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JSJ 418: Security Scary Stories and How to Avoid Them with Kevin A McGrail Jan 28, 2020

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In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews security expert, Kevin A. McGrail. He starts by explaining what security frameworks and what they do. The panel wonders how to know if your developers are capable of self-auditing your security or if you need help. Kevin shares recommendations for companies to look at to answer that question. Aimee Knight explains the hell she has been in making changes to be compliant with CCPA. The panel considers how policies like this complicate security, are nearly impossible to be compliant with and how they can be weaponized. They discuss the need for technical people to be involved in writing these laws. Kevin explains how you can know how secure your systems actually are. He shares the culture of security first he tries to instill in the companies he trains. He also trains them on how to think like a bad guy and explains how this helps developers become security first developers. The panel discusses how scams have evolved and how the same scams are still being run. They consider the importance of automated training and teaching developers to do it right the first time.Finally, they consider the different ways of authentication, passwords, passphrases, sim card, biometrics. Kevin warns against oversharing or announcing vacations. The panel discusses real-world tactics bad guys use. Kevin explains what he trains people to do and look out for to increase security with both social engineering and technical expertise. Panelists

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

Guest

Kevin A McGrail

Sponsors

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AJ O’Neal:

Dan Shappir:

Kevin A McGrail:

Steve Edwards:

Special Guest: Kevin A. McGrail.
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JSJ 417: Serverless with Microsoft Azure with Burke Holland Jan 21, 2020

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Burke Holland works for Microsoft on the Azure team in developer relations. He starts the show talking about how he got started in serverless. He’s careful to note that just because things are marketed as serverless doesn’t always make them so. In order for something to be serverless, it must be sufficiently abstracted in terms of technology, only require payment for what is used, and infinitely scalable. He talks about the statelessness of serverless, and the panel discusses what it means to be stateless. Burke reminds listeners that serverless is not for long-lived operations, but there are features in serverless providers that can help you get around this. Burke talks about how writing serverless code differs from standard or previous coding approaches and practices. He advises that serverless functions are best kept small, and talks about how to fit them in with other kinds of APIs. The panelists talk about the multi-cloud and why people would want to be on multiple cloud servers. Burke talks about what Microsoft has done with Serverless Frameworks to accomplish multi-cloud compatibility. The JavaScript experts discuss the advantages and disadvantages of picking JavaScript over other languages, and Burke talks about why he prefers TypeScript and the Easy-Off feature. They talk about speed on a serverless platform, especially concerning the cold start time, which Azure is relentlessly trying to lower. He does talk about some things that can be done to decrease load time and about premium functions. The panel discusses how to debug serverless functions and tools that are available, such as the Azure Functions extension. They talk about ways to set up more secure functions to keep things from racking up charges. Burke talks about some things Microsoft does internally to control cloud costs, such as sending monthly reports with reminders to delete and using tools like Azure Reaper to delete short-lived projects. Azure can also put spending caps on subscriptions, but when you hit that cap you can’t serve any more requests. Burke concludes by saying that most of the time, going serverless is a lower-cost way to improve productivity, and because it’s event-driven, it allows you to tie into things that you’re already doing in the cloud. Serverless almost always justifies itself from an ease of use point of view and a cost point of view. Panelists

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

Guest

Burke Holland

Sponsors

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Louis L'Amour books, especially The Lonesome Gods
Ultra Sabers Azure Reaper

Burke Holland:

Follow Burke on Github

Dan Shapir:

Taking a vacation

AJ O’Neal:

Charles Max Wood:

The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job
Buy Me a Coffee
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Special Guest: Burke Holland.
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JSJ 416: GraphQL Developer Tools with Sean Grove Jan 14, 2020

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In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews Sean Grove from OneGraph; asking him questions about GraphQL tooling and common complaints about GraphQL. Sean starts by explaining what GraphQL is and how it benefits frontend developers. GraphiQL is a frontend open sourced tool produced by OneGraph, Sean explains how this handy tool simplifies GraphQL. Authentication and authorization are one of the biggest criticisms of GraphQL. Sean walks the panel through the solution, getting a schema definition language and adding directives to build a simple authentication and authorization. The panel defines authentication and authorization and explains the difference. The next issue common with GraphQL that the panel discusses is migration. Sean explains how OneGraph helps with migration using a Rust network layer and how it works. They also discuss how to migrate without this tool. Without the tool it is painful and he recommends incremental migration. Sean explains that another problem in GraphQL is poor documentation. He explains why the documentation is poor and explains how they hope to fix it at OneGraph. The last issue they cover is the length of queries. Sean tells the panel how they can handle this problem with depth analysis or persistent queries. The episode ends with an elevator pitch for Reason. Panelists

Aimee Knight
AJ O’Neal
Charles Max Wood
Dan Shappir

Guest

Sean Grove

Sponsors

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AJ O’Neal:

Dan Shappir:

Guatemala
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Sean Grove:

Yuki Li: “Breaking Out of Box”

Charles Max Wood:

Special Guest: Sean Grove.
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JSJ 415: Progressive Web Apps with Maximiliano Firtman Jan 07, 2020

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Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile web developer from Buenos Ares, Argentina. He has been a developer for 24 years and his most recent focus has been on progressive web apps, or PWAs. Steve and Max reflect on the technologies they were using when they first got started in web development and talk about their experience with mobile development. One area that Max emphasized was bringing the web into the mobile space. They discuss the progression of web access on mobile and some of the available tools. Max notes that responsible design has a very high cost in web performance for mobile devices, which requires unique approaches. They discuss some of the issues with latency in mobile, even on 4G. The solution to this latency is PWAs.Progressive web apps are a set of best practices to create web apps that are installable. They can work offline at high speeds on several operating systems. Once installed, it looks like any other app on the system. Max delves into more details on how it works. He talks about how the resources for your application are managed. He assures listeners that it’s just a website that’s using a new API, they’re not changing the way the web works, and that when that API is there, the app can be installed. It will also generally use your default browser. Steve and Max discuss how local data is stored with PWAs. To write PWAs, you can use Angular, React, JavaScript, or Vue, and it’s a pretty transparent process. Max talks about some common tools used for local storage and some of the PWAs he’s worked on in the past. The benefit of using PWAs is that they generally run faster than regular web apps. To get started, Max advises listeners to install one and start exploring.Panelists

Steve Edwards

Guest

Maximiliano Firtman

Sponsors

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Maximiliano Firtman:

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Follow Max on Twitter

Special Guest: Maximiliano Firtman.
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JSJ 414: JavaScript Jabber Still at RxJs Live Dec 31, 2019

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In this episode of JavaScript Jabber Charles Max Wood continues interviewing speakers at RxJS Live. First, he interviews Mike Ryan and Sam Julien. They gave a talk about Groupby, a little known operator. They overview the common problems other mapping operators have and how Groupby addresses these problems. The discuss with Charles where these types of operators are most commonly used and use an analogy to explain the different mapping operators. Next, Charles talks to Tracy Lee. Her talk defines and explains the top twenty operators people should use. In her talk, she shows real-world use cases and warns against gotchas. Tracy and Charles explain that you don’t need to know all 60 operators, most people only need about 5-10 to function. She advises people to know the difference between the different types of operators. Tracy ends her interview by explaining her desire to inspire women and people of minority groups. She and Charles share their passion for diversity and giving everyone the chance to do what they love. Dean Radcliffe speaks with Charles next and discusses his talk about making React Forms reactive. They discuss binding observables in React and how Dean used this in his business. He shares how he got inspired for this talk and how he uses RxJS in his everyday work. The final interview is with Joe Eames, CEO of Thinkster. Joe spoke about error handling. He explains how he struggled with this as did many others so he did a deep dive to find answers to share. In his talk, he covers what error handling is and what it is used for. Joe outlines where most people get lost when it comes to error handling. He also shares the three strategies used in error handling, Retry, Catch and Rethrow and, Catch and Replace. Charles shares his admiration for the Thinkster teaching approach. Joe explains what Thinkster is about and what makes them special. He also talks about The DevEd podcast. Panelists

Charles Max Wood

Guests

Mike Ryan
Sam Julien
Tracy Lee
Dean Radcliffe
Joe Eames

Sponsors

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Special Guests: Joe Eames, Mike Ryan, Sam Julien, and Tracy Lee.
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JSJ 413: JavaScript Jabber at RxJs Live Dec 24, 2019

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In this episode of JavaScript Jabber Charles Max Wood does interviews at RxJS Live. His first interview is with Hannah Howard at RxJS Live about her talk. Hannah is really enthusiastic about RxJS especially when it comes to frontend development. Her talk is about how to architect full-scale apps with RxJS. Hannah gives a brief summary of her talk. Charles having met Hanna previously at Code Beam asks her how functional programming and reactive programming work together in her mind. Hannah describes how she sees programming. Charles’s next interview is with Ben Lesh, a core team member of RxJS. Ben has been working on RxJS for the last four years. In his talk, he shares the future of RxJs, the timeline for versions 7 and 8. With Charles, he discusses his work on RxJS and the adoption of RxJS. Next, Charles interviews Sam Julien and Kim Maida. They gave a talk together covering the common problems developers have when learning RxJS. In the talk, they share tips for those learning RxJS. Charles wonders what inspired them to give this talk. Both share experiences where they encouraged someone to use RxJS but the learning curve was to steep. They discuss the future of RxJS adoptions and resources. Finally, Charles interviews Kim alone about her second talk about RxJS and state management. She explains to Charles that many state management libraries are built on RxJS and that it is possible to roll out your own state management solution with RxJS. They discuss why there are so many different state management libraries. Kim shares advice for those looking to roll out their own solutions.Panelists