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How to get into OSS Jul 30, 2019

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KBall and Nick sync up with Node.js core contributor Ujjwal Sharma to dive deep into how to get into the world of open source software.

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Ujjwal Sharma – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Stories on getting involved

How to get involved

How to level up

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Creating JavaScript Jul 30, 2019

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We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek of CodeNewbie, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.

Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.

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Clive Thompson – Website, X
Charles Severance – Website, GitHub, X
Michael Clayton – Website, X
Klint Finley – Website, X
Saron Yitbarek – Website, GitHub, X

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A mission to set the course of the world wide web in its early days. 10 days to get it done. The result? An indispensable language that changed everything.

JavaScript was the underdog that won against all odds. Clive Thompson recounts the browser wars and how much the fallout influenced the future of the internet. Charles Severance explains how JavaScript went from a last-minute moonshot to the default web development language. Michael Clayton confesses he, like many others, underestimated JavaScript. And Klint Finley describes a gloomy internet without it.

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Building PizzaQL at the age of 16 Jul 26, 2019

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Jerod, Mikeal, and Feross welcome Antoni Kepinski to the show to discuss his open source pizza ordering management web app. We talk about learning programming at a young age, how overwhelming web development can be these days, how Antoni decided which technologies to use, and more. This is a super fun conversation with many insights and takeaways for developers at every stage of their career.

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Antoni Kępiński – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

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The pizzaql/pizzaql repo
Antoni’s other project, oji, on npm

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React + WebAssembly = ❤️ Jul 15, 2019

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KBall catches up with Florian Rival about bring a C++ based game engine to the web by compiling to WebAssembly and creating a React-based frontend.

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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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An honest conversation about burnout Jul 09, 2019

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Suz, Feross, and Emma have an honest conversation about burnout. They ask questions like — How do developers deal with burnout? What is burnout? What are examples of burnout in open source? Plus they close the show by sharing tips for avoiding burnout and also how to manage burnout if/when it happens.

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Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Job burnout: How to spot it and take action
Book — No Hard Feelings

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LIVE from NodeConf Colombia Jul 01, 2019

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KBall MC’d a live show at NodeConf Colombia with a panel of 4 experts from the Node community — Kat Marchán, Anna Henningsen, Ruben Bridgewater, and James Snell. It was a great discussion about the future of Node.js and the Node.js ecosystem.

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Kat Marchán – GitHub, X
Anna Henningsen – GitHub, X
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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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The story of Konami-JS Jun 21, 2019

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Jerod and Divya are joined by George Mandis to learn all about his “frivolous” JavaScript library that’s helped countless websites implement the beloved cheat code. Ten years later and still actively maintained, Konami-JS has stood the test of time and produced some epic stories along the way (you’ll love hearing how George broke Marvel.com).

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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Featuring:

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

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Brush up on your Contra knowledge
Here’s the Konami-JS repo on GitHub
Try it for yourself on huffpost.com
here’s the issue we discuss regarding keyCode
Party Parrot as a Service
Also the OG: Cult of the Party Parrot
confetti-js (might break your computer)
Check out vaporJS
And its security-focused successor: Semicolon.js
cloud-to-butt went mainstream
thanos-js might be the greatest package of all times

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JavaScript is the CO2 of the web Jun 14, 2019

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KBall, Divya, and Nick get together with Chris Ferdinandi to talk about vanilla JavaScript, best resources for learning, and our favorite vanilla JavaScript tips, tricks and APIs.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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Chris Ferdinandi – Website, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Segment 2:

Segment 3:

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Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️ Jun 10, 2019

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Zach Leatherman joins the party with Divya and Nick to talk about fonts and static site generators! Zach shares his knowledge about font loading, what can go wrong, and how we can avoid issues. Then we discuss Zach’s newest project, Eleventy, a simple static site generator, and the panelists share things they are excited about.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.

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Zach Leatherman – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Fonts and font loading

Eleventy

Eleventy - a simpler static site generator
GitHub Actions
Who’s using 11ty?
- web.dev
- v8.dev
- CERN
Support Eleventy

What we’re excited about

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Developer strengths and weaknesses 🏋️‍♂️ May 31, 2019

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Jerod, Suz, Divya, and Kball share their thoughts, opinions, and advice on developer strengths and weaknesses — compromise, communication, tool mastery, deep dives into dev history, and mentorship/sponsorship.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

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