DESCRIPTIVE

By Kahlil Lechelt

DESCRIPTIVE is a weekly technical interview podcast with people from the JavaScript and web development world.... more

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The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.

DESCRIPTIVE episodes:

April 02, 201514: Discussing the EmberConf 2015 Opening Keynote
Show notes & links
Henning and Kahlil talk about the EmberConf 2015 Opening Keynote video.
Henning is @hglattergotz on Twitter
Kahlil is @distilledhype on Twitter
EmberConf 2015 Opening Keynote
Kahlil's picks:
WorkingDraft episode 213
Is Ember Fast Yet?
Web Development Reading List
Henning's picks:
1Password
Workflowy
Big Hero 6
...more
1h 32min
March 18, 201513: Introducing Henning Glatter-Götz
Show Notes & Links
Kahlil talks to Henning about his career as a programmer and about how he ended up with EmberJS as his JavaScript framework of choice.
They also talk about Henning joining DESCRIPTIVE as a co-host and express their awe about the EmberConf Opening Keynote.
Henning is @hglattergotz on Twitter
Throne of JS Panel: Shogun Showdown (Yehuda in 2012)
Blog post and slides to Henning's talk about why you should (really) have a look at Ember (again)
Beer:
Bison Honey Basil Ale
Rogue Chocolate Stout
spf13 - The Ultimate Vim Distribution
Apigility:
apigility - API creator
Git repo for apigility Angular admin UI
Henning's picks:
Vimium
Keynote Rails Conf Chicago 2014: 10 years! by Yehuda Katz
untappd.com
MUSIC PICK: Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Kahlil's picks:
The Frontside Podcast epi 19
Mort by Terry Pratchett
EmberConf Keynote
MUSIC PICK: Armon Warren & Trey Traylor covering 7 seconds of Clarity by Zedd
...more
1h 56min
March 10, 201512: We've Never Had This Many Active Contributors to Core Before with Mikeal Rogers
Show Notes & Links
Mikeal talks to Kahlil about his long career as a programmer, his work as a JavaScript community organiser and io.js.
Mikeal is @mikeal on Twitter
mikealrogers.com
NodeConf
JSFest
io.js
io.js Github Org (get involved!)
Node.js
Mikeal's picks:
Twyla Tharp: Creative Habit & Collaborative Habit
Blue Bottle At Home
Jenn's other blog
MUSIK PICK: The Origin of Love - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (video)
Kahlil's picks:
Awesomeplete
load-grunt-config
Futuristic Routing in Angular
MUSIC PICK: Ich rolle mit meim besten - Haftbefehl feat. Marteria (video)
Intro and outro music by Boris Lechelt.
...more
1h 18min
February 16, 201511: I Probably Wrote 70 Tests Today or Something with Sean Devine
Show Notes & Links
Sean talks to Kahlil about his career as a programmer, TDD, DHH, API-first development, JSON API, Ruby on Rails and EmberJS.
Sean Devine is @barelyknown on Twitter
EmberJS
Ruby on Rails
JSON API
DHH on TDD
Sean's picks:
NBA
NBA League Pass
NPR’s Invisibilia
Cross Country Skiing Gear from EMS
MUSIC PICK: Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik’s “Half a Room”
Kahlil's picks:
Download progress bar on Dribbble
Signal v. Noise Post on Podcasts
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
MUSIC PICK: Limb by Limb – Fireworkz feat. Bounty Killa, Ghetts, Shystie, Trilla, 3.2.1, English Frank
...more
1h 51min
February 11, 201510: All These Components Do is Fetch Things and Render Them, Essentially with Tiffany Conroy
Show Notes & Links
Tiffany talks to Kahlil about her work at SoundCloud, @weareallawesome and JSConf.eu.
Tiffany on Twitter
Tiffany works at SoundCloud and they are hiring ;)
Tiffany co-curates JSConf.eu
Tiffany runs BerlinJS
Tiffany's speaker resource site We Are All Awesome
Cocktail bars in Berlin:
Redwood
The Antlered Bunny
Bryk Bar
Tiffany's picks:
Floraison gin from G’Vine
Falke tights and socks
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
MUSIC PICK: You Are The Blood, a cover by Sufjan Stevens, found on the compilation album, Dark Was the Night
iTunes link
Music video on YouTube
Kahlil's picks:
JSCS
Exploding Kittens
Twitter Flight
MUSIC PICK: Lethal Bizzle – Rari Workout ft. JME & Tempa T
iTunes link
Epic live performance video at BBC 1Xtra studios
...more
2h 56min
January 19, 20159: What Comes Out of the Box Will Be Dependable with Elise Huard
Show Notes & Links
Elise Huard talks to Kahlil about how she got started with programming and explains what Haskell is and some of the principles in functional programming.
Elise has worked with many languages throughout her career: C, JAVA, Ruby, JavaScript among others. Two years ago she started teaching herself Haskell and is now working as a Haskell freelancer in Berlin. She is also writing a book on writing games in Haskell.
Elise is @elise_huard on Twitter
Elise's blog: jabberwocky.eu
Elise's book on writing games in Haskell
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good - a beginners guide
PICK: The Rhesus Chart - Charles Stross
PICK: Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell - Simo Marlow
PICK: DEC2 gene
MUSIC PICK: Buckeye Jim - Burl Ives
PICK: How to Use npm As a Build Tool
PICK: The AppCache-Nanny by Gregor Martynus
PICK: Should I Buy A Selfie-Stick?
MUSIC PICK: Marten Hørger - BADUKA
...more
1h 3min
December 05, 20148: If You Want to Keep Making Money off of It, You Have To Make it Easy to Work On with Jamison Dance
Show Notes & Links
Jamison Dance talks to Kahlil about working at iTV and Kualico, ReactJS and ImmutableJS and about how this whole JavaScript Jabber thing started.
Jamison is @jergason on Twitter
jamisondance.com
PICK: Local State, Global Concerns
PICK: Networks Without Networks
MUSIC PICK: The Weeknd - Wicked Games (Until The Ribbon Breaks Reimagination)
PICK: Signal vs. Noise
PICK: Inquisitive 14: Building Monument Valley, with Daniel Gray
PICK: JSFMT
MUSIC PICK: M.I.A. & The Partysquad - Double Bubble Trouble
Flux
React
The Changelog 131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
...more
1h 45min
November 22, 20147: I Don't Know, Why Don't You Write A BitTorrent Client? with Mathias Buus
Show Notes & Links
Kahlil talks to Mathias Buus about working with Node early on, application structure, LevelDB, distributed infrastructure and his JSConf.eu talk on streaming anything with BitTorrent and Node.
Mathias is @mafintosh on Twitter
Leveldb for Node
Database experiments Mathias has been doing:
multi-master-merge
merkle-dag
BitTorrent stuff:
torrent stream
peeflix
peerwiki
Mathias' JSConf.eu talk: Javascript... Torrents... and Mad Science!
Distributed infrastructure:
IPFS
Secure scuttlebutt
dat
Picks
PICK: F8 Flux & React talk
PICK: Adventures in Angular 16: 1.3 and 2.0 with Brad Green, Igor Minar, and Miško Hevery
PICK: 9 Basic Principles Of RWD
MUSIC PICK: Differentology by Bunji Garlin
MUSIC PICK: We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Satan's Power
Mathias' Music Picksatan's power by nick reinhart
Kahlil's Music Pick
Intro and outro music by Boris Lechelt.
...more
1h 48min
November 11, 20146: Everyone Who Has Root Also Does On Call with Ole Michaelis
Show Notes & Links
Kahlil talks to Ole about his history in programming, working at Jimdo, speaking at conferences and making slidr.io.
Ole is @codestars on Twitter
Ole's article on speaking: Finding Your Voice
Jimdo
dev.jimdo.com
yolodevs.jimdo.com
slidr.io
slidr.io Stickers: male & female
slidr.io Tees
Codepalousa
Ole's Codepalousa Slidedeck
Catch Ole on one of his speaking gigs
GratiPay
Patreon
MUSIC PICK: Umse – Feiert Das (iTunes)
PICK: lolcommits (Ole's lolcommit)
PICK: Deckset
PICK: #AskGaryVee Show (audio podcast)
PICK: StartUp Podcast
MUSIC PICK: The Affair Main Title Sequence with Original Music by Fiona Apple
...more
1h 45min
November 05, 20145: We Should Make This its Own Thing with Gregor Martynus
Show Notes & Links
Kahlil talks to Gregor Martynus about how he got started in programming, the Africa Hack Trip & Hoodie.
Gregor is @gr2m on Twitter
Hoodie
noBackend
Africa Hack Trip
Offline First
PICK: Made in Africa
PICK: Raise the Roof
MUSIC PICK: Khona by Mafikozolo
PICK: Can AngularJS Maintain its Dominance
PICK: The Road to Ember 2.0 RFC
PICK: Headspace App
PICK: The Muse
MUSIC PICK: The System by Popcaan
Gregor's Music Pick
Kahlil's Music Pick
...more
1h 33min

FAQs about DESCRIPTIVE:

How many episodes does DESCRIPTIVE have?

The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.