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Win a FREE 🎟️ to All Things Open 2019! Sep 30, 2019

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A brief announcement about the upcoming All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC. What we’ll be doing there, why you should join us, and how to win a FREE 🎟️ to the event.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Tweet and mention @Changelog or @JSPartyFM for a chance to win 1 of 5 free passes to the conference!

“I want a free pass to @AllThingsOpen because…”

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Visual programming with hardware and Node-RED Sep 27, 2019

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Special guest Nick O’Leary joins us this episode to chat about the Node-RED project, how it started, and the fascinating uses cases for it out in the wild. We go into some of the technical challenges behind designing easy to use interfaces for hardware, and ask Nick what the future of Node-RED looks like.

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Nick O'Leary – Website, GitHub, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Node-RED
Node-RED org on Github (they’re looking for contributors!)
Arduino pubsub client written by Nick O’Leary

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Ohhh! Caching!! Sep 20, 2019

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The gang gets together to catch you up on what’s new & noteworthy in the community. Then we share a few things we’ve learned recently in our first-ever “Today I Learned” segment. Finally, we wrap it up with things we’re excited about.

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CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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New & Noteworthy

Today I Learned

I’m excited about X

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Remember, people are human Sep 13, 2019

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KBall, Divya, Feross, and Jerod get together to discuss tips and tricks for communicating with other coders, project stakeholders, and users.

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CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.

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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Segment 2

Segment 3

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The conference scene ✨ Sep 06, 2019

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This episode is all about conferences and there is a lot to talk about! Why even go? What makes a conference worth it? How can you get the most of the experience? Is speaking worth all the effort? How can you make your talk amazing? How can you get your talk selected? We chime in on all of these questions plus more.

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CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Semver would be great if nobody ever shipped bugs Aug 30, 2019

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With the jumping off point of KBall’s question: “What are best practices for organizing a Node project?” Mikeal and Feross drop an incredible amount of wisdom about Node, organizing using modules, release management, deployment approaches, how to adopt change, and more.

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CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.

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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X

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Segment 2

Segment 3

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You fought in the framework wars? Aug 23, 2019

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KBall, Divya, and Chris talk about what’s going on in all the big frontend frameworks, share some pro tips, and shout out awesome people and things in the community.

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Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Segment 1 - The Framework Wars

Segment 2 - Pro Tips

Type Checking JavaScript Files
JSDoc
Daniel Rosenwasser
JavaScript programming in VSCode
How (and why!) to keep your Git commit history clean
JSParty #77 where Divya, KBall, Nick, and Jerod talk about git histories and squashing
Vue2 Functions API plugin

Segment 3 - Shoutouts

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Is modern JS tooling too complicated? Aug 16, 2019

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Adam adds a twist to our YepNope format this week. Instead of 2v2, it’s 1v1v1 with Mikeal reppin’ team Yep, Divya on team Nope, and Feross sitting in the middle on team It Depends. You don’t want to miss this excellent debate/discussion all about JS tooling complexity.

Many packages
New frameworks built all the time
Config hell. Webpack

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

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Droppin' insider logic bombs Aug 09, 2019

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Jerod, Feross, and Nick discuss the latest npm security fiasco, opine on the strengths and weaknesses of spreadsheets, explain CORS like they’re 5 (sorta), and give shout outs to deserving purveyors of fine software.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Story of the week

The episode’s namesake, Insider Logic Bombs
The story on dude who outsourced his job to Chine
Nick and Jerod have both been using Notion lately
‘No way to prevent this’ is satire, y’all
The purescript/npm incident explained

ELI5

Nick mentioned gifsockets, which might be the best hack of all time
You’ll have to google the Hassehloffian Recursion yourself…
If Feross’ explanation of the Zoom hack failed you, here’s a good one
Read up on DNS rebinding for an upcoming ELI5 segment

Shout outs

Jerod shouts out hpdang and FOSS Asia
Feross shouts out Kyle Drake of neocities.org
Nick shouts out coc.nvim

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Should websites work without JS? Aug 02, 2019

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We’re trying a brand new segment called YepNope, wherein your intrepid panelists engage in a lively debate around a premise. In this debate, Feross and KBall argue that websites should work without requiring JS and Divya and Chris say, “Nah!”

Please let us know if you like this style episode! We had fun recording it, but that doesn’t matter much if y’all don’t enjoy listening to it.

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CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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