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The nitty gritty on BitMidi Oct 12, 2018

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Where does Feross get all those wonderful toys? He builds them with JavaScript, of course! BitMidi – a website for listening to your favorite MIDI files – is his latest creation. In this episode, Jerod “sits down” with Feross to learn all about it.

How do MIDIs even work? Why won’t they play on the web anymore? Can WASM save the day (hint: yes)? How does Feross get so many eyeballs on his creations? Is Preact awesome for building sites like this? What’s the future of BitMidi look like? Don’t ask us, listen to the episode!

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Fantastic bugs and how to squash them Oct 05, 2018

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Safia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you’re scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you prevent some of the common ones, what tools you can use to reduce bugs in your code, and a panel group therapy session where they discuss the most difficult bug they’ve had to fix.

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Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Topics covered in today’s show:

Most common JavaScript bugs
Hardest JavaScript bugs tackled by the hosts
Tools to reduce the number of bugs in your code

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The CSS expertise kerfuffle Sep 28, 2018

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Suz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it’s often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get started with it.

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Stories of personal JavaScript failures Sep 21, 2018

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Suz, Jerod, Nick and KBall talk about cringeworthy mistakes and failures they (and the community!) have experienced with JavaScript. They also give advice to themselves as if they were just starting out today in the JavaScript industry.

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Interviews from JSConf Sep 14, 2018

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KBall interviews with Michael Chan, Juan Pablo Buriticá and Julián David Duque, and Tim Doherty at JSConf.US. Conversations about the importance of DRY code, the metaphors we use for software, JavaScript communities across Latin America, how to advocate for modern tech stacks in large companies, and fostering mentorship.

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Juan Pablo Buritica – GitHub, X
Julian Duque – Website, GitHub, X
Tim Doherty – Website, GitHub, X
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Michael Chan (Chantastic)

Juan and Julián

Tim Doherty

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Decentralizing the web with Beaker Sep 07, 2018

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Feross talks with Mathias Buus and Paul Frazee about the decentralized web, why the average person should care about decentralization of the web, the Beaker browser, Dat and the differences and similarities to BitTorrent, and how Paul and Mathias first got involved in this work.

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Paul Frazee✌️ – GitHub, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X

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Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend Aug 31, 2018

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KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.

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Performance gains from compilers in JavaScript:

Performance gains from switching to Closure Compiler

Glimmer

The performance costs of parse/compile:

The Cost of JavaScript

Precompilation:

Moving sourcemaps to webassembly:

Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly

A11Y:

Opportunities for Angular, Vue, etc

Advantages of Angular Templates

Ember

Links for JavaScript Connections

VR, Browser Extensions, and Home Automation

Cryptocurrency Mining and GraphQL

Mocha and D3

WebUSB and Webtorrents

JavaScript Conferences and Community

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Experimenting with some new ideas 🔬 Aug 17, 2018

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Jerod, Nick, KBall, and Chris pre-party for JSConf by testing out some brand new segment ideas: Story of the Week, What the WHAT… WG, and Protip Time. What do you think of these segments? Like ’em? Love ’em? Not sure why we even? Please let us know!

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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Story of the Week

What the WHAT… WG

HTML or HTML5? Who Controls HTML?
Standards WHATWG works on
Lazy loading images and iframes
Add autocapitalize attribute (merged and deployed) (added to MDN)

Protip Time

paste {
 pbpaste > ${1}
}

copy {
 cat ${1} | pbcopy
}

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REST easy, GraphQL is here Aug 10, 2018

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Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.

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