Episodes
Thursday Sep 29, 2016
042 jsAir - Web Components with Rob Dodson, Tushar Mathur, and Monica Dinculescu
Thursday Sep 29, 2016
Thursday Sep 29, 2016
Web Components with Rob Dodson, Tushar Mathur, and Monica Dinculescu
There's been quite a bit of talk about the Web Components spec lately. As with anything new, there's been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about Web Components. We're going to chat about some of their use cases, strengths, and weaknesses to give us all a better idea of this tech.
- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- TrackJS - JavaScript Error Monitoring
- WebStorm - Smart JavaScript IDE
- Trading Technologies - Building For What's Next
- Hired.com - We Bring Job Offers To You
- Emoji-cli is an emoji-searcher-by-keyword as a cli
- Electron!
- GO VOTE
- punchesbears is an amazing twitter where a dude posts hilarious videos of various videogames he is making (dancing bears! Throw macbooks at hipsters! Drunk navigating of a 7-11 for a burrito!)
- Server Components (https://pimterry.github.io/server-components/)
- Using React app techniques at the web component level with Redux, virtual-dom, and JSX
- Dig up twitter thread. It’s a total centithread but here’s a decent jumping in point (https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/770645608415784960)
- The gas arrow in your rental car dashboard tells you which side the gas tank is on
- Slappy Cakes (http://www.slappycakes.com/)
- Elon Musk biography by Ashlee Vance (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KVI76ZS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
- The Corgi sticker from cotton bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/)
- Delete your Facebook (app)
- Vote
- If you know Elon Musk, I’d like an intro because I want him on the show I’m. Not. Joking.
- slice-js so far... (a gist giving a quick demo
- React.js 50,000 stars (and some awesome shirts for the whole family!)
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
041 jsAir - Test all the things with Cypress with Brian Mann and Gleb Bahmutov
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
Cypress.io is an automated testing tool that runs in the context of the browser and has some really solid features that make unit, integration, and even end to end testing much easier!
- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- TrackJS - JavaScript Error Monitoring
- WebStorm - Smart JavaScript IDE
- Trading Technologies - Building For What's Next
- React.js Program - Master the React.js Ecosystem
- Sentry - Cross-platform crash-reporting
- Recent GitHub changes: Projects Tab is awesome!
- Electron
- Crash reporting (like TrackJs / Sentry / Raygun) are really useful during e2e testing!
- Katacoda - online Docker and Kubernetes training in live containers.
- Don’t forget to set your audio input setting in Hangouts on Air… :(
- "Idealized Commit Logs: Code Simplification via Program Slicing" by Alan Shreve
- split-guide - A tool to help generate code for workshop repositories
Saturday Sep 17, 2016
Saturday Sep 17, 2016
"Tie your hands to free your mind" is a mantra you hear that applies really well to the constraints that you put on yourself by embracing statically typed languages and functional programming. We're going to hear from various people about their respective visions of typed FP in JS.
- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- TrackJS - JavaScript Error Monitoring
- WebStorm - Smart JavaScript IDE
- Trading Technologies - Building For What's Next
- React.js Program - Master the React.js Ecosystem
- Sentry - Cross-platform crash-reporting
- Don’t wait for a rewrite! Introduce a new language incrementally. Build a small thing that works. Get that small thing in production. Then expand.
- Vim-mode-plus: Atom plugin recreating Vim’s editing paradigm
- Real World OCaml: Great technical book, free online version
- Fable
- F# for fun and profit - Learning F# and FP
- Ionide - F# plugin for Atom and Visual Studio Code
- React30 episode 006 - Origins of React with Jordan Walke
- Midwest JS next week - tickets are still available!
- My frontend masters workshops are next week! Webpack Deep Dive and Writing an Open Source JavaScript Library - tickets are still available for in person and online.
- Ragtime the musical
- Use an ide or vim setup
- Learn to reason about type signatures alone
- Constraints are great, but start simple and dial them up later
- Write simple code w/o abstractions until you feel the pain - then learn abstractions to solve that
Wednesday Sep 07, 2016
Wednesday Sep 07, 2016
A huge part of open source is the community that is formed around it. This is one of the best parts of open source. It is also a challenge to manage, especially with big projects like Node.js. We'll be chatting with some community builders and code contributors to learn how Node.js fosters and grows its community.
- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- TrackJS - JavaScript Error Monitoring
- WebStorm - Smart JavaScript IDE
- Trading Technologies - Building For What's Next
- React.js Program - Master the React.js Ecosystem
- Sentry - Cross-platform crash-reporting
- Take Vacation! Put the Laptop Down! Go outside!
- Be Patient!
- We have Node.js developers in Fresno! Fresnode.js Meetup, 2nd monday of every month. We’re looking for speakers!
- If you make a mistake genuinely apologize and move on. Stop engaging / don’t double down
- Show empathy for those you make stuff for, make stuff with, and for yourself
- When you feel something that you’re emotionally invested in, write a draft and take a second before you send it.
- Surround yourself with people that are good to you. Especially if you work remotely
- Invest into mentoring (JavaScript Air Episode)
- New Podcast from The Changelog by Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rodgers: Request for Commits
- Offline Camp: Nov 4-7 in Santa Margarita, California
- If you feel like you know something really well, don’t be afraid to admit that you might be wrong or there may be something else better