JavaScript Jabber

Today we talk with Misko Hevery about solving the loading speed issue for websites constructed using JavaScript frameworks. Such websites are often slow to load, which is detrimental to their ability so succeed. After 16 years at Google, where he created Angular, he now works on the Qwik framework at Builder.io, a headless visual CMS. We learn how Qwik dramatically improves page speed metrics through an innovative architecture that enables resumability instead of hydration. We talk about how this is implemented, and about how you can get started with it.

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• ng-conf 2022
• Builder.io and Qwik - JSJ 540
• Core Web Vitals and Whatnot - JSJ 537
• JSJ 476: Understanding Search Engines and SEO (for devs) - Part 
• Resumable Frameworks: | Miško Hevery | ng-conf 2022 Webinar
• Framework reimagined for the edge!
• Twitter: Miško Hevery 

Picks

• AJ- JULIAN SMITH - Malk
• AJ- webinstall.dev
• AJ- Watch The Sandman | Netflix Official Site
• Charles- JavaScript Remote Conference 2022
• Charles- Home
• Dan- Gentleman Bastard Series
• Dan - War in Ukraine
• Misko- Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Steve - Dad Jokes

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Today we talk with Felix Arntz, a developer relations engineer at Google.  Hired on the Google WordPress team, and involved with the Sidekick plugin, we discuss some of the challenges and approaches of improving performance on WordPress sites, as well as other open source CMS’s.

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Core Performance
• Slack
• WordPress + Slack
• Twitter: @DanShappir
• Twitter: @wonder95
• Twitter: @JSJabber
• - Top End Devs
• Felix Arntz
• Twitter: @felixarntz
• GitHub: felixarntz

Picks

• AJ- Just Use An npm Package
• AJ- Engineering Festivus
• AJ- Caddy 2 - The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
• AJ- webinstall.dev
• Dan- Watch Better Call Saul Season 6 Online | AMC
• Dan- Web Directions
• Dan - War in Ukraine
• Felix- Prey (2022) - IMDb
• Felix - Man jumps out of plane at 25,000 ft without parachute
• Steve- A New Vertical Farm Will Grow 3 Million Pounds of Mycelium a Year for Fungi-Based Bacon
• Steve - Dad Jokes

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There is no question that the volume, sophistication, and severity of software supply chain attacks is on the rise.  How do you navigate your supply chain security?  Stephen Chin joins the show today to discuss various strategies and action plans for how to best prevent and address these types of attacks.

In this episode…

• Where do you start with supply chain security?
• Spotting attackers and prevention
• How do you know who to trust?
• Dependency injections and malicious packages 
• Network reliability and uptime
• Pyrsia and JFrog as software tools

Connect with Stephen Chin

• Twitter: @steveonjava

Links

• DevOps Tools for Java Developers
• The Decentralized Package Network | Pyrsia.io
• Software Supply Chain to Release Fast & Secure, Continuously | JFrog

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Today’s episode is a continuation of the previous JavaScript Jabber Episode 543, where we discuss JS language features to avoid.  Do you agree with the list?  Today we talk about:

• for in
  
  
• forEach
  
  
• else
  
  
• null
  
  
• object.create
  
  
• A named function using the arrow operator 
  
  
• switch
  
  
• labels 

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Picks

• Charles- Orbis
• Charles- Diablo Immortal
• Charles- Richard Paul Evans
• Charles- JavaScript Remote Conference 2022
• Charles- - Top End Devs
• Dan- John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
• Dan - BuilderIO framework benchmark mitosis
• Dan - War in Ukraine
• Steve- James Webb Space Telescope Shows Big Bang Didn't Happen? Wait...
• Steve - Dad Jokes

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Today Steve and Charles talk about the many updates and events coming to Top End Devs, from upcoming conferences to new courses and content.  Check out the conference lineup at https://topenddevs.com/conferences.  If you are interested in building courses or would like to speak at any of the conferences, contact Charles.  We also dive into a conversation about what it really means to be a 10x developer and a top 1% developer.

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Overview - Nuxt 3 Essentials | Vue Mastery
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• - Podcast Playbook
• - Top End Devs
• vue/CHANGELOG.md

Picks

• Charles- Quiddler
• Charles- Chart.js
• Charle- Business Software and Services Reviews | G2
• Steve- JSON Creator Douglas Crockford Interview by Evrone
• Steve - Dad Jokes

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Steve, Dan and A.J talk with Nick Hehr and Peter Hoddie about using JavScript with IoT devices. They cover a wide range of topics, including the XS JavaScript Engine, the only complete ECMAScript 2018 engine optimized for embedded devices (created by Moddable), and even get into the nitty gritty of how it is built and how it works. They also cover TC53 - the standards committee for JS in embedded systems, a committee that Nick and Peter are part of. In picks, they get into a great discussion on home security systems and their various security issue, and of course, Steve brings the great dad jokes.


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• Top End Devs
• Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• TC53
• Resuscitating IoT with JavaScript - Peter Hoddie & Lizzie Prader, Moddable - YouTubeECMA-419: The ECMAScript Embedded Systems API and J5e - Donovan Buck, BrandExtract - YouTube
• HipsterBrown
• Moddable
• Twitter: @hipsterbrown
• Twitter: @phoddie

Picks

• AJ- GitHub - BeyondCodeBootcamp/jsdoc-typescript-starter
• AJ- Typing without Transpilation
• AJ- Eyeglasses Online | Eyewear for Everyone™ | Zenni Optical
• AJ- Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more.
• AJ- Oakley MX L Frame Adult Tear-Off Off-Road/Dirt Bike Motorcycle Eyewear Accessories
• Nick -Microcenter
• Nick- Abode Home Security - #1 DIY Wireless Home Security Solution
• Nick-  Build With Matter | Smart Home Device Solution
• Peter- The Extensible Web Manifesto
• Peter- Fanny Mendelssohn - Wikipedia
• Steve-  Introducing multitasking to Arduino | Arduino Blog

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Today we have special guests Tomer Lichtash and David Frankiel, a web developer and programmer behind the epic hacker folklore project The Story of Mel, a comprehensive guide to The Story of Mel.  

This story, which has survived through all the changes in the internet since its birth in 1983, and has morphed through all its iterations into something almost poetic in nature.  This allegory tells the story of the birth of of high-tech culture as we know it today, and creates some heated debate among our panelists as to the validity of its meanings.  Tomer and David tell some of the back story into their journey to discover if the story is a hoax, or if is truly real.


Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Mel's Loop - A Comprehensive Guide to The Story of Mel
• Creeds of Craftsmanship · Issue #18 · BeyondCodeBootcamp/beyondcodebootcamp
• Twitter: @tomerlichtash
• tomerlichtash - Overview

Picks

• AJ- Form follows function - Wikipedia
• AJ- dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
• AJ - The Unexplained
• Dan - Downturn in the Tech Industry
• Dan- The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (TV Mini Series 2022) - IMDb
• Dan - War in Ukraine
• David- What is Windows Presentation Foundation - WPF .NET
• David - Nouran Zohar
• David - In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
• Tomer - Net Pioneers 1.0
• Tomer- Post-Gogol World, by The Daniil Kharms

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Today in this all panelist episode, we talk about JS features you should avoid using.  However opinions don't always align, and some come with much debate!  Although we couldn’t cover them all, today we discuss:

• eval 
• with
• arguments
• do while 
• for I
• ++
• continue 
• classes
• prototypes
• this
• var with let
• delete

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• JavaScript Remote Conference 2022
• Twitter: ‎@cmaxw

Picks

• AJ- Virginia Ctenucha Ctenucha virginica (Esper, 1794) | Butterflies and Moths of North America
• AJ- The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
• AJ- Thread pitch gauge at Lowes.com: Search Results
• Charles- Antidote
• Charles- Conferences | Top End Devs
• Charles- 1883 - Yellowstone Prequel (Official Site) Watch on Paramount+
• Dan- Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
• Dan - War in Ukraine
• Dan- Webb Space Telescope GSFC/NASA
• Steve- Coworker Standing At Desk Obviously Just Hasn't Learned About Chairs Yet
• Steve - Dad Jokes

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Today we have three guests on the show, Annie Sullivan, Yoav Weiss, and Michal Mocny, all of who are engineers who work for Google on the Chrome Web platform.  Looking forward to Google’s new developments for measuring web performance, we dive deep into upcoming performance metrics Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Interaction to Next Paint (INP), a full page lifecycle metric.  We discuss what user page interactions we can measure successfully and which we cannot.  We discuss the challenges of single-page applications when looking at core web vitals.

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Top End Devs | Conferences
• Twitter: @anniesullie
• Twitter: @mmocny
• Twitter: @yoavweiss

Picks

• AJ- GothamGo 2018 - Things in Go I Never Use by Mat Ryer
• AJ - America
• Annie- Keynote by Mr. Thomas Dullien - CyCon 2018
• Charles- Just One
• Dan - Felix Arntz and WordPress Performance
• Dan - Watermelons
• Dan - War in Ukraine
• Michal- Single Handed Podcast
• Michal - Samurai Carpenter
• Steve - Dad Jokes
• Yoav - No meetings week
• Yoav- TPAC 2022
• Yoav- performance.now(); October 27-28, 2022, Amsterdam

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Today, in this all-panelist episode we talk about upcoming online events and conferences.  With upcoming Top End Devs meetups and conferences, starting in August, we talk about all the benefits of being in person at an event, and the camaraderie at and after the event.  We talk about the ways that Airmeet allows for a good connection between the speakers and audience.  You’ll also pick up some tips on becoming a speaker at one of these events.

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• Top End Devs
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• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Top End Devs | Conferences
• GitHub - dadoomer/markdown-slides
• The Original Skunk Works - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017

Picks

• AJ- CrowdNode Masternode Hosting - CrowdNode
• AJ- coolaj86/crowdnode-cli
• AJ- Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
• Charles - Airmeet.com
• Charles - Riverside.fm
• Charles - Devchat.tv
• Charles - Premium podcasts from Top End Devs are coming soon!
• Charles - TopEndDevs.com
• Charles - Dice Forge
• Charles- JavaScript Remote Conference 2022
• Dan- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
• Dan - The importance of taking care of your body
• Dan- Web Directions
• Dan - War in Ukraine
• Steve- Vue Mastery
• Steve - Dad Jokes

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