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Modernizing Etsy’s codebase with React Dec 06, 2019

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KBall connects with Katie Sylor-Miller to talk about migrating OhShitGit to the JAMStack, migrating legacy codebases to modern front-end technologies, and design systems.

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Katie Sylor-Miller – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Mentor-ship 🛳️ Nov 29, 2019

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This week we chatted with Kahlil Lechelt about mentorship. What types of mentorships are there, what makes a successful mentorship, and where can you find a mentor?

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Kahlil Lechelt – Website, GitHub, X
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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You're probably using streams Nov 22, 2019

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This week we chat with Matteo Collina, Technical Director at NearForm and member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, about his upcoming Node+JS Interactive talk on Node Streams. We talk about their creation before any standards and how they are one of the bedrock APIs used throughout the Node ecosystem. We also talk about WHATWG streams and some of their key differences, and how streams have gotten easier to work with thanks to the addition of async iterators and generators to the language.

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Matteo Collina – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Catch us and Matteo at Node+JS interactive 2019!

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Component libraries, style guides, design systems... OH MY Nov 15, 2019

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Design systems are taking the tech industry by storm, but what exactly are they? Do you even need one? This week we’re talking all things design systems. We’ll chat about component libraries and style guides, companies who are building design systems, and more!

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Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Should we rebrand JavaScript? Nov 08, 2019

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We’re back with another #YepNope episode, this time debating whether or not JavaScript needs to be rebranded. This premise was inspired by Kieran Potts’ article of the same name. Divya/Jerod represent Team Yep and Chris/KBall represent Team Nope. Nick, as always, represents Team Type Script 😜

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The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com.

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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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11 awesome lightning chats ⚡️ Nov 01, 2019

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What you’re about to hear is a series of lightning chats recorded live from All Things Open 2019. How’s this for topic diversity? 👇

A/B testing, finding your tribe, dancing, TikTok, what is happening with front-ends becoming full-stacks, Code the Dream, OSI approved licenses, breaking in to tech, a11y, hiring juniors, whiteboard interviews, better interview practices, JPGs, coding bootcamps, tech re-entry programs, and more.

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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Matt Broberg – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Crystal Williams-Brown – GitHub, X
Danese Cooper – Website, GitHub, X
Mo Hampton – GitHub, X
Maria Lamardo – GitHub, X
Eva Howe – X
Vanessa Alvarez – GitHub, X
Clinton Dreisbach – GitHub, X
Henri Helvetica – X
Jill Burns – LinkedIn
Jannaee Sick – Website, GitHub, X
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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There’s no server more secure than one that doesn’t exist Oct 25, 2019

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KBall catches up with Phil Hawksworth of Netlify at JAMStackConfSF to dive deep into JAMStack, what it’s about, where the ecosystem is going, and what is still hard.

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Phil Hawksworth – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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And... the website is down 😱 Oct 18, 2019

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Jerod, Divya, & Suz get together to discuss top-level await, the JS13kGames winner, Liran Tal’s is-website-vulnerable, Vue 3’s source code, and Facebook’s take on AR/VR/XR. Plus 3 awesome pro tips you don’t want to miss!

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Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Pro Tip Time

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The wonderful thing about Tiggers Oct 11, 2019

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KBall, Jerod, and Divya dig deep into how we learn. We look into how to choose what to learn, techniques for learning, and a set of respective resources.

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Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Segment 3

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Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGui Oct 04, 2019

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What if you could have an Electron-like app framework without the Chromium dependency and resulting performance woes? Well, now you can. NodeGui is a Qt5-powered, cross-platform, native app GUI framework for JavaScript with CSS-like styling. In this episode, Jerod and Nick sit down with Atul –author of NodeGUI and NodeGUI React– to learn about this exciting framework. We ask him a zillion and one questions about it.

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All Things Open – Exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Raleigh, NC — October 13-15, 2019