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The great divide reprise Mar 20, 2019

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Chris Coyier joins Suz and Jerod to continue the discussion on The Great Divide in front-end-land. We also use this as an opportunity to gush on how much CSS-Tricks has done for the community, get Chris’ perspective on the history of the website, and finish up by sharing some amazing Pens on CodePen.io.

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Chris Coyier – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Read The Great Divide on CSS-Tricks
For more discussion, listen to our previous show on the topic
If you liked this, you will probably like listening to Shop Talk
Suz suggests anything by Ana Tudor or Sarah Drasner on CodePen
Chris mentioned A CSS Approach to Trap Focus Inside of an Element
Jerod got nostalgic with Nintendo Pens 1, 2, and 3

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Mastering the art of conference-driven development Mar 08, 2019

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KBall and Suz interview Ashi Krishnan, visual poet and senior software engineer at GitHub. Topics include how Ashi got into programming, her upcoming talk at React Amsterdam, code bootcamps, and developer tools.

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Ashi Krishnan – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS Mar 04, 2019

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Panelist Jerod Santo and first-time panelist Adam Stacoviak talk with Adam Wathan of Full Stack Radio fame about his CSS utility library called Tailwind CSS that’s growing in popularity to rapidly build custom user interfaces.

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Adam Wathan – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.
Adam’s post “Going Full-Time on Tailwind CSS”
Adam’s post “CSS Utility Classes and ‘Separation of Concerns’”
Full Stack Radio
Sass control directives: @if, @for, @each and @while
Post CSS
CSS Stats ~> Tailwind CSS

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TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript Feb 25, 2019

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Panelists Suz Hinton and Nick Nisi discuss TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript with special guest Paige Bailey, TensorFlow mom and developer Advocate for Google AI.

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Show Notes:

TensorFlow.js
Google AI
ml5.js - Friendly Machine Learning for the Web
Machine Learning Glossary
TensorFlow tutorials
Tero Parviainen on CodePen
tfjs-layers - High-level machine learning model API
tfjs-models - Pre-trained TensorFlow.js models
tfma-slicing-metrics-browser.gif 📷
TensorFlow Model Analysis (TFMA) - a library for evaluating TensorFlow models
What-If Tool - Building effective machine learning systems means asking a lot of questions. It’s not enough to train a model and walk away. Instead, good practitioners act as detectives, probing to understand their model better.
EthicalMachineLearning.ipynb
TensorBoard: Visualizing Learning
TensorBoard: Graph Visualization
People + AI Research (PAIR) - Human-centered research and design to make AI partnerships productive, enjoyable, and fair.
Distill - Clear explanations of machine learning
Book: Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Book: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
A new course to teach people about fairness in machine learning
List of cognitive biases
CleverHans - a Python library to benchmark machine learning systems’ vulnerability to adversarial examples
CleverHans paper
Breaking linear classifiers on ImageNet
CV Dazzle - explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition

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LIVE from JSConf Hawai'i Feb 15, 2019

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KBall picks the brains of 4 of the speakers at JSConf Hawai’i to investigate the future of JavaScript and Web Development.

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Willian Martins – GitHub, X
Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, X
Lin Clark – Website, GitHub, X
Till Schneidereit – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

JavaScript language

WebAssembly

Other References

The event-stream bitcoin wallet hack

What the Panelists are Excited About

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From voice devices to mobile, you just can't escape JS Feb 08, 2019

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KBall and Nick catch up with Nara Kaspergen and Jen Looper for a pair of conversations covering Voice UI Devices, using NativeScript for mobile development, and Jen’s work with Vue Vixens helping make the Vue.js community welcoming to women and non-binary people.

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Jen Looper – Website, GitHub, X
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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Nara Kaspergen

NPR
NPR One

Voice UI Devices

SDKs and Tooling

Other Concepts

Jen Looper

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How great the (front end) divide Feb 01, 2019

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Panelists Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Kevin Ball chat about the perceived Great Divide in front end development, why 2019 is the year of TypeScript, and shout outs to inspirational members of the community.

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Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

The Great Divide
Jest moving to TypeScript
Yarns Future - v2 and beyond
Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript
TypeScript support in Tink
Monica Dinculescu on Twitter
Magenta
Tenori-off
Magic Sketchpad
Dan Abramov on Twitter
Overreacted
Rachel Andrew on Twitter
Rachel Andrew’s author profile on Smashing Magazine
Grid by Example
Jen Simmons on Twitter
Jen’s YouTube channel: Layout Land

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You might want to read up on PAW Patrol Jan 25, 2019

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Your 3 intrepid hosts try to explain JS concepts (bind/apply, thunks, and ReasonML) to each other as if we’re five year olds. Hilarity and/or confusion ensues. During Pro Tip Time, Suz tells a story of woe, KBall motivates himself, and Jerod tries to keep you in the flow. Finally, we point our project spotlight at Fly CDN and talk edge applications and IoT.

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Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Explaining things like we’re 5

Here it is: PAW Patrol
Because KBall uses them to describe bind and apply
Did Suz’ explanation of thunks leave you wanting? GOTO
You could listen to Jerod, or just read this page about Reason
Should we do a show with some folks from the Reason team?

Pro Tip Time

What is the purpose of /etc/hosts? Read all about it
Jerod mentioned Paul Graham’s essay on Maker Schedule, Manager Schedule
You can also read Jerod’s tips on dev.to

Project Spotlight

Fly CDN - a CDN just for developers

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Our thoughts and experiences with SSGs Jan 18, 2019

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The JS Party crew discuss static site generators, our experiences with them, and what the future might hold for this ever-evolving technology.

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Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

11ty static site generator
How We Used Gatsby.js to Build a Blazing Fast E-Commerce Site
Vuepress
Both the nteract Website and nteract Play were made with Next.js
Siteleaf is a CMS that works with Jekyll
Panini on GitHub
The Building Blocks site was made with Panini

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Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above Jan 11, 2019

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KBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig into the use of ASTs to transform and analyze JavaScript.

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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Standards & Opening the Black Box

On the distribution of stakeholders

Representing Web Developers in W3C

On testing the JavaScript spec with JavaScript

On the Boundaries of the Spec

ASTs

Other

Bocoup

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