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September 05, 2019JSJ 389: What Makes a 10x Engineer?
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Charles Max Wood
Episode Summary In today’s show, Chuck talks about the recent tweet thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is. Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is also impossible to measure a truly average engineer because there are many factors that play into measuring productivity. Chuck turns the discussion to what a 10x engineer is to him and how to find one. A 10x engineer is dependent on the organization that they are a part of, because they are not simply found, they are made. When a 10x engineer is added to a team, the productivity of the entire team increases. Employers have to consider firstly what you need in your team and how a person would fit in. You want to avoid changing the entire culture of your organization. Consider also that a 10x engineer may be hired as a 2x engineer, but it is the employer that turns them into a 10x engineer. Overall, Chuck believes these tweets are asinine because it’s impossible to measure what makes a 10x engineer in the first place, and hiring a person that fits the attributes in the list would be toxic to your company. Links
10x engineer twitter thread
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Copyhackers.com
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Keto diet
Podcast Movement

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52 min
September 03, 2019JSJ 388: Functional Programming with Brian Lonsdorf
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Aimee Knight
Chris Buecheler
AJ O’Neal
With Special Guest: Brian LonsdorfEpisode SummaryBrian Lonsdorf works for Salesforce, specializes in functional programming, and wrote a book called Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming. Brian talks about when he got into functional programming and when in their career others should be exposed to it. He talks about the fundamental tenets of functional programming (static mathematical functions), how it differs from object oriented programming, and how to manipulate data in a functional environment. The panel wonders if it is possible to use functional and object oriented programming together and discuss the functional core imperative shell. Brian talks about what is ‘super functional’ and why JavaScript isn’t, but includes methods for making it work. He shares some of the trade-offs he’s found while doing functional programming. Brian defines a monad and goes over some of the common questions he gets about functional programming, such as how to model an app using functional programming. The show concludes with Brian talking about some of the work he’s been doing in AI and machine learning. Links
Promise
Functional core, imperative shell
RxJs
Monad
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
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After The Burial (band)
Chris Buecheler:
Minecraft in JavaScript
AJ O’Neal:
Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen
Greenlock v3 campaign
Brian Lonsdorf:
Follow Brian @drboolean
Chris Penner Comonads
Special Guest: Brian Lonsdorf.

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47 min
September 03, 2019MJS 121: Sam Selikoff
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Joined by Special Guest: Sam Selikoff
Episode Summary
Sam Selikoff, Co-Founder at EmberMap shares his journey of how he became a developer. Sam was an Economics major in college and he really loved the theory of economics.
When he graduated, he started working as a consultant and while working with data for statistical analysis he found that he enjoyed working with SQL and that how he started his developing career.
Sam explains why he prefers Ember.js framework to other frameworks. He also talks about the projects he is working on currently.
Apart from coding Sam enjoys reading economics books and playing music with his family. He shares some of his favorite books to read on the Theory Of Economics.
Links
JSJ 364: Ember Octane with Sam Selikoff

EmberMap Podcast

Sam's Twitter

Picks
Charles Max Wood
Podcast Movement

Sam Selikoff
UPLIFT Desk

Midsommar Movie
28 min
August 29, 2019JSJ 387: How to Stay Current in the Tech Field
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Views on Vue
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Charles Max Wood
Joe Eames
Episode SummaryToday Joe and Charles are discussing how to stay current in the tech field. Since looking at all the new technology can be overwhelming, they advise listeners on what to focus on, which will differ depending on your career. Joe brings up that one of the top reasons people choose a job is because it has a technology they want to learn. Joe and Charles discuss trends in the tech world, such as the rise and fall of Rails. They discuss what to do if you’re happy with what you’re doing now but want your career to stay viable. While it is important to continue moving along with technology, they agree that the stuff that’s really important is the stuff that doesn’t change. Charles believes that if you have a solid knowledge on a subject that isn’t necessary current, that is still very valuable. Joe and Charles discuss the importance of having a learning plan and the importance of having soft skills in addition to technological know-how. Another important part of staying current is figuring out where you want to end up and making a plan. If you want to work for a specific company, you need to learn the technology they’re using. Joe talks about some of his experiences trying to get a job with a big company and how he was reminded of the importance of the fundamentals. They discuss the merits of being a generalist or a specialist in your studies and the best approach once you’ve chosen a technology to learn. Once you’ve learned a technology, it’s important to start building with it. Charles and Joe talk about different ways of learning, such as books, videos, code reading, or tutorials, and the importance of finding a medium that you can understand. They discuss the isolating nature of tutorials and how it is important to have real-world experience with the code. They discuss how to know if you’ve learned a technology well enough to move onto the next thing, and whether the technologies you studies should be career focused or passion based. Charles advises listeners to divide their time as follows: 50% of your learning should be focused on what you’re currently doing at your job, 25% looking towards the future and studying upcoming technology, and 25% on your passion. Links
Node
Backbone
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Rails 6
Containerization
Joe Eames:
Gatsby

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1 hr 3 min
August 27, 2019JSJ 386: Gatsby.js with Chris Biscardi
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With Special Guest: Chris BiscardiEpisode SummaryChris is an independent consultant working with open source startups. He taught himself to program and started in open source. He talks about how he got into programming and how he learned to code. One of Chris’ current clients is Gatsby, a static site generator. Chris talks about his work with Gatsby themes, how he got started working with Gatsby, and how you can get started with Gatsby. Chris talks about how Gatsby differs from other static site generators and how difficult it is to use. The panel discusses possible use cases for Gatsby, and agree that if your site is going to get more complex and larger over time, something like Gatsby is what you want to use. Chris talks about what it’s like to migrate to Gatsby from another service. The panel discusses the pros and cons of server-side rendering. Chris talks about building more app-oriented sites with Gatsby and things that you can plug into a Gatsby theme besides a blog. The show concludes with Chris and the panelists agreeing that if you can write it in JavaScript, you can ship it in a Gatsby theme. Links
Gatsby
Shadowing
Docker
React
GraphQL
WordPress
Hugo
Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter PicksAJ O’Neal:
Sam Walton Made America: My Story
Cinematic by Owl City
Aimee Knight:
Some things that might help you make better software
Chris Beucheler:
Venture Cafe Providence
Chris Biscardi:
Jason Lengstorf Twitch show
Chris’ Blog
Special Guest: Chris Biscardi.

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44 min
August 27, 2019MJS 120: Thomas Grassl
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Joined by Special Guest: Thomas Grassl
Episode Summary
Thomas Grassl from SAP joins Charles Max Wood at OSCON to talk about what SAP is doing in the Open Source world. Thomas talks about SAP's recently released a UI5 Web Components.
Charles wonders how the components will work with different frameworks and Thomas explains UI5 Web Components are HTML components and they should be used how regular HTML components are used. UI5 Web Components is Open Source so Thomas expects contributions from the Open Source community.
Thomas then talks about UI5 Web Components' enterprise-ready functionality and scalability features as well as the security and accessibility aspects.
They then talk about Thomas' position as Developer Relations in SAP and what it entails. Thomas then talks about the career opportunities that comes with customization on the enterprise scale.
Finally Charles and Thomas talk about how SAP approaches developer relations and what developers should do if they would like to contribute to SAP Open Source project.

Links
UI5 Web Components- SAP

Thomas' LinkedIn

Thomas' Twitter

Open Source & Software Development| O'Reilly OSCON

SAP Open Source | Developer
31 min
August 22, 2019JSJ 385: What Can You Build with JavaScript?
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Charles Max Wood
Christopher Beucheler
Episode SummaryToday Charles and Christopher discuss what can you do with JavaScript. They talk about the kinds of things they have used JavaScript to build. They discuss non-traditional ways that people might get into JavaScript and what first drew them to the language. They talk about the some of the non-traditional JavaScript options that are worth looking into. Christopher and Charles talk about some of the fascinating things that have been done with JavaScript, such as Amazon Alexa capabilities, virtual reality, and games. They spend some time talking about JavaScript usage in game creation and building AI. They talk about how they’ve seen JavaScript change and progress during their time as developers. They talk about areas besides web that they would be interested in learning more about and what kinds of things they would like to build in that area. They finish by discussing areas that they are excited to see improve and gain new capabilites. Links
Node.js
WebGL
React
React Native
Quake
TenserFlow.js
WebAssembly
Hermes
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JavaScript Jabber Reccomendations
New shows: Adventures in Block Chain, Adventures in .Net
Christopher Beucheler:
Pair programming
VS Code Live Share

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50 min
August 20, 2019JSJ 384: FaunaDB: Support for GraphQL and Serverless Development with Evan Weaver
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Charles Max Wood
AJ O’Neal
Joe Eames
Aimee Knight
With Special Guest: Evan WeaverEpisode SummaryEvan Weaver is the CEO and cofounder of FaunaDB, a serverless database and a great way to get started with GraphQL. Evan talks about what went into building the FaunaDB and his background with Twitter. FaunaDB arose from trying to fix Twitter’s scalability issues, and the panel discusses scalability issues encountered in both large and small companies. They talk about the difference between transient and persistent data. They discuss how to develop locally when using a serverless database and the importance of knowing why you’re using something. Evan talks about how developing locally works with FaunaDB. He addresses concerns that people might have about using FaunaDB since it is not backed by a tech giant. Evan talks about some of the services FaunaDB offers and talks about the flexibility of its tools. He talks about how to get started with FaunaDB and what the authentication is like. Finally, Evan talks about some well known companies that are using FaunaDB and what they are doing with it. Links
FaunaDB
GraphQL
Netlify
AWS Lambda
Apollo.io
SQL
Jamstack
Akkeris
Graphile
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Captain Sonar
Canny
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Aimee Knight:
Falling in Reverse
Joe Eames:
Battlestations
Evan Weaver
Forza Motorsport
Follow Evan on Twitter and Github @evan
Special Guest: Evan Weaver.

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52 min
August 20, 2019MJS 119: Jeffrey Meyerson
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Joined by Special Guest: Jeffrey Meyerson
Episode Summary
Jeffrey Meyerson, founder of FindCollabs and host at Software Engineering Daily joins Charles Max Wood for a discussion about latest trends in developer world, ways of monetizing podcasts and finding ads for podcasts.Jeffrey shares how he started hosts podcasts and how he became a developer.
Jeffrey's journey as a developer started out with his interest through music and poker. They compare advertising through sponsoring a booth in a conference versus advertising through a podcast. Tune in for a fun chat that covers everything from Keto dieting to software buzz words.
Links
Jeffrey's LinkedIn

https://www.secretsofsongwriting.com/

https://www.hooktheory.com/

FindCollabs

Software Media with Charles Max Wood

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#75Hard

Jeffrey Meyerson
Owning a Rice Cooker
46 min
August 15, 2019JSJ 383: What is JavaScript?
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Charles Max Wood
Christopher Beucheler
Aimee Knight
Episode SummaryToday’s episode is an exploration of the question “What is JavaScript?”. Each of the panelists describes what they think JavaScript is, giving a definition for both technical and non-technical people. They talk about how the different layers of JavaScript tie into their definitions. They agree that it’s incorrect to call JavaScript one of the ‘easy’ programming languages and some of the challenges unique to JavaScript, such as the necessity of backwards compatibility and that it is used in tandem with CSS and HTML, which require a different thinking method. They discuss the disdain that some developers from other languages hold for JavaScript and where it stems from. They discuss methods to level up from beginner to mid level JavaScript programmer, which can be tricky because it is a rapidly evolving language. They revisit the original question, “What is Java Script?”, and talk about how their definition of JavaScript has changed after this discussion. They finish by talking about the story they want to tell with JavaScript, why they chose JavaScript, and what is it they are trying to do, create, become through using the language. They invite listeners to share their answers in the comments. Links
JQuery
JavaScript
JSON
React.js
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This Patch of Sky
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Silversun Pickups album Widow’s Weeds
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