Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development.

• Vern's Reviews

• Exercise by Raquel Valez

• cycle.js

Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one!

This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyone else to many "failures" and victories to finally creating Falcor at Netflix which brings together all the lessons he learned along the way.

• React

• Amazon Prime Music

• Angular 2

Kahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architecture and where her interest in teaching comes from. She becomes the lead instructor at Flatiron School after being rejected as a student, which leads to many different teaching and speaking engagements. Before taking a position at npm, Inc. she also worked at Mozilla and Bocoup.

• Inside Jokes by Daniel Dennet

• Ember Global meetup

• React on Web Components

Henning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go & Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his current job at Docker and his numerous speaking engagemens on a large variety of topics.

• Badman Under the Red Hood

• Based on the graphic novel of the same name

• The Science Of Selling Yourself Short

• Google inbox

• AngularJS.de

Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be.

• Amy Schumer

• The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse

• Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015

Henning and Kahlil have an interesting and amusing conversation with Steve Klabnik about his origins as a programmer and how he got involved in Ruby, JSON API and Rust.

• Tropical Ruby 2015 - Keynote: The Soul of Software by Avdi Grimm

• JSON Server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)

• Jake Archibald's perf video

Raquel talked to Kahlil about getting into robots, transitioning to web development, working at several startups and landing at npm inc. as employee #1. Raquel also goes into what it was like to rebuild npm's website and the different challenges they are facing at npm because of the explosive growth.

• Peepresearch

• Building a Simple Command Line Tool With npm

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Henning and Kahlil talk to Pascal about what's going on with Angular, how internationalisation works it's way into core and what he and his business partner are doing with Thoughtram.

Just after we recorded this episode parts of the Angular 2 API, that we talked about, have changed as you can see here and here.

There are no terms like 'Decorator' and 'Viewport' directives anymore. As mentioned in this episode, the framework provides ES7 decorators formerly known as AtScript Annotations.

If you want to find out more about the difference between Annotations and Decorators, read Pascal's corresponding article.

• Lee Byron, Facebook on Immutable Data and React

• Startup Podcast

• Elevator.js

Rachel talked to Kahlil about how she got interested in programming after her philosophy major, how she ended up at GitHub, what RailsBridge and the Passions Projects are and what her talk at SoCoded Conf will be about.

• Jetboil – Flash Cooking System – SAPPHIRE

• Good sound engineers

Henning and Kahlil talk about a document and Angular 2's architecture that was floating around on the internet recently.

• Lammily