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Rust and Go Research with L...

01.20.2021

Rust and Golang are two of the newest lower level languages for doing systems programming. They are often used for applications such as file systems, operating systems, and latency-sensitive applications. How do they compare in terms of safety, speed, and ...

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01.20.2021 Rust and Go Research with Linhai Song Rust and Golang are two of the newest lower level languages for doing systems programming. They are often used for applications such as file systems, operating systems, and latency-sensitive applications. How do they compare in terms of safety, speed, and ...
12.23.2020 React Best Practices with Kent Dodds (Repeat) Originally published March 6, 2020 ReactJS developers have lots of options for building their applications, and those options are not easy to work through. State management, concurrency, networking, and testing all have elements of complexity and a wide range of ...
12.21.2020 React Native Interfaces with Leland Richardson (Repeat) Originally published July 7, 2017 Airbnb is a company that is driven by design. New user interfaces are dreamed up by designers and implemented for web, iOS, and Android. This implementation process takes a lot of resources, but it used ...
12.14.2020 Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad (Repeat) Originally published December 20, 2018 Ten years ago, there was a distinction between “backend” and “frontend” developers. A backend developer would be managing the business logic and database transactions using Ruby on Rails or Java. A frontend developer would be ...
12.08.2020 WebAssembly with Brendan Eich (Repeat) Originally published March 31, 2017 Brendan Eich created the first version of JavaScript in 10 days. Since then JavaScript has evolved, and Brendan has watched the growth of the web give rise to new and unexpected use cases. Today Brendan ...
11.25.2020 React Native at Airbnb with Gabriel Peal Holiday Repeat Originally published July 27, 2018 React Native allows developers to reuse frontend code between mobile platforms. A user interface component written in React Native can be used in both iOS and Android codebases. Since React Native allows for code reuse, ...
11.18.2020 OpenBase: JavaScript Package Selection with Lior Grossman The JavaScript ecosystem has millions of packages. How do you choose from those packages to find the best in breed for your projects? OpenBase is a system for searching and discovering JavaScript packages. OpenBase includes reviews, insights, and statistics around ...
11.13.2020 Retool with David Hsu Internal tools are often built with Ruby on Rails or NodeJS. Developers create entire full-fledged applications in order to suit simple needs such as database lookups, dashboarding, and product refunds. This internal tooling creates a drain on engineering resources. Retool ...
10.22.2020 Fig: Visual Terminal Assistant with Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage For all the advances in software development over the years, one area that has seen minimal improvement is the terminal. Typing commands into a black text interface seems antiquated compared to the dynamic, flashy interfaces available in web browsers and ...
09.28.2020 Deno and TypeScript with Elio Rivero Deno is a runtime for JavaScript applications. Deno is written in Rust, which changes the security properties of it. Parts of Deno are also written in TypeScript, which are causing problems in the compilation and organization of Deno. Elio Rivero ...
09.01.2020 WebAssembly Migration with Nicolo Davis WebAssembly allows for the execution of languages other than JavaScript in a browser-based environment. But WebAssembly is still not widely used outside of a few particular niches such as Dropbox and Figma. Nicolo Davis works on an application called Boardgame ...
07.21.2020 Digital Experience Analytics with Michael Morrissey Users do not use web applications in the way that you might expect. And it is not easy to get the data that is necessary to get a full picture. But a newer API within browsers does make this more ...
07.06.2020 Pull Request Environments with Eric Silverman The modern release workflow involves multiple stakeholders: engineers, management, designers, and product managers. It is a collaborative process that is often held together with brittle workflows. A developer deploys a new build to an ad hoc staging environment and pastes ...
06.26.2020 React Native Ecosystem with Nader Dabit (Summer Break Repeat) Originally published July 6, 2017. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. React Native allows developers to reuse components from one user interface on multiple platforms. React Native was introduced by Facebook to ...
06.17.2020 HTTP with Julia Evans (Summer Break Repeat) Originally published November 21, 2019. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. HTTP is a protocol that allows browsers and web applications to communicate across the Internet. Everyone knows that HTTP is doing ...
05.22.2020 RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner Over the last 5 years, web development has matured considerably. React has become a standard for frontend component development. GraphQL has seen massive growth in adoption as a data fetching middleware layer. The hosting platforms have expanded beyond AWS and ...
04.21.2020 Frontend Monitoring with Matt Arbesfeld Web development has historically had more work being done on the server than on the client. The observability tooling has reflected this emphasis on the backend. Monitoring tools for log management and backend metrics have existed for decades, helping developers ...
04.15.2020 Shopify React Native with Farhan Thawar Shopify is a platform for selling products and building a business. It is a large e-commerce company with hundreds of engineers and several different mobile apps. Shopify’s engineering culture is willing to adopt new technologies aggressively, trying new tools that ...
04.03.2020 V8 Lite with Ross McIlroy V8 is the JavaScript engine that runs Chrome. Every popular website makes heavy use of JavaScript, and V8 manages the execution environment of that code. The code that processes in your browser can run faster or slower depending on how ...
03.25.2020 Sorbet: Typed Ruby with Dmitry Petrashko Programming languages are dynamically typed or statically typed. In a dynamically typed language, the programmer does not need to declare if a variable is an integer, string, or other type. In a statically typed language, the developer must declare the ...
03.06.2020 React Best Practices with Kent Dodds ReactJS developers have lots of options for building their applications, and those options are not easy to work through. State management, concurrency, networking, and testing all have elements of complexity and a wide range of available tools. Take a look ...
03.05.2020 React Stack with Tejas Kumar JavaScript fatigue. This phrase has been used to describe the confusion and exhaustion around the volume of different tools required to be productive as a JavaScript developer. Frameworks, package managers, typing systems, state management, GraphQL, and deployment systems–there are so ...
03.04.2020 JavaScript Deployments with Brian LeRoux Full-stack JavaScript applications have been possible since the creation of NodeJS in 2009. Since then, the best practices for building and deploying these applications have steadily evolved with the technology. ReactJS created consolidation around the view layer. The emergence of ...
03.03.2020 React Fundamentals with Ryan Florence ReactJS began to standardize frontend web development around 2015. The core ideas around one-way data binding, JSX, and components caused many developers to embrace React with open arms. There has been a large number of educators that have emerged to ...
03.02.2020 NextJS with Guillermo Rauch When ReactJS became popular, frontend web development became easier. But React is just a view layer. Developers who came to React expecting a full web development framework like Ruby on Rails or Django were required to put together a set ...
02.27.2020 Slack Frontend Architecture with Anuj Nair Slack is a messaging application with millions of users. The desktop application is an Electron app, which is effectively a web browser dedicated to running Slack. This frontend is built with ReactJS and other JavaScript code, and the application is ...
01.16.2020 JS Party with Kevin Ball The JavaScript ecosystem stretches across frontend, backend, and middleware. There are newer tools such as GraphQL, Gatsby, and WebAssembly. There are frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular. There is complex data handling with streams, caches, and TensorFlow.js. JavaScript is unlike ...
12.03.2019 Java 13 with Georges Saab Java has been popular since the 90s, when it started to be used as a programming language for enterprises. Today, Java is still widely deployed, but the infrastructure environment is dramatically different. Java is often deployed to containers in the ...
11.22.2019 Web Application Testing with Gabriel-James Safar Web applications are used on a wide variety of platforms. On each of these platforms the web app needs to load properly and allow the user to navigate the website and interact with all of the user flows, such as ...
11.21.2019 HTTP with Julia Evans HTTP is a protocol that allows browsers and web applications to communicate across the Internet. Everyone knows that HTTP is doing some important work, because “HTTP” is at the beginning of most URLs that you enter into your browser. You ...
11.11.2019 Gatsby with Kyle Mathews and Sam Bhagwat Frontend software development has become as complex as backend development. There was a time when frontend web development was simple. There was a small number of JavaScript frameworks and templating systems. Your CSS was simple configuration for the colors on ...
10.11.2019 Webflow: No-Code with Vlad Magdalin Webflow is a platform for building applications without programming. Software engineering has barely been around for 30 years. Over that period of time, there have been many attempts to create a platform that allows for the creation of software without ...
09.25.2019 WebAssembly Isolation with Tyler McMullen Isolation is a fundamental concept in computer science. Software workloads are isolated from each other in order to keep resource access cleanly separated. When programs are properly isolated, it is easier for the programmer to reason about the memory safety ...
09.06.2019 Repl.it: Browser Coding with Amjad Masad The browser has become the central application of the consumer operating system. Every piece of client software, from email to document management, has become usable through the browser. Even modern desktop software such as Slack is built using Electron, a ...
07.15.2019 Facebook PHP with Keith Adams Facebook was built using PHP, a programming language that was used widely in the late 90s and early 2000s. PHP allows developers to get web applications built quickly and easily, although PHP has a reputation for being difficult to scale. ...
07.08.2019 Edge Storage with Steve Klabnik Edge computing allows for faster data access and computation. When your client application makes a request, that request might be routed to the edge. Edge servers are more numerous and more widely distributed than normal data centers, but an edge ...
07.02.2019 Google Earth WebAssembly with Jordon Mears Google Earth allows users to explore the imagery of the real world. Imagery for Google Earth is taken from satellites, cars equipped with cameras, and other sources. Google Earth renders a data intensive 3-D model of the world on a ...
06.24.2019 Project Management with Kurt Schrader Software projects are organized and planned using project management software. Examples of project management software include JIRA, Trello, and Asana. There are hundreds of tools for managing a software project because there are infinite ways that a project could be ...
06.20.2019 WebAssembly Compilation with Till Schneidereit WebAssembly allows for web-based execution of languages other than JavaScript. Programs written in Rust or C++ can be compiled down to WebAssembly and shipped over the browser for on-the-fly execution in a safe, memory controlled environment. WebAssembly has been in ...
05.08.2019 Web Assembly Runtime with Tyler McMullen WebAssembly is a binary instruction format for applications to run in a memory-constrained, stack-based virtual machine. The WebAssembly ecosystem consists of tools and projects that allow programs in a variety of languages to compile into WebAssembly and run in a ...
03.25.2019 CodeSandbox: Online Code Editor with Bas Buursma and Ives van Hoorne Upcoming events: A Conversation with Haseeb Qureshi at Cloudflare on April 3, 2019 FindCollabs Hackathon at App Academy on April 6, 2019 Coding in the browser has been attempted several times in the last decade. Building a development environment in ...
03.06.2019 WebAssembly Execution with Syrus Akbary WebAssembly is a runtime that lets languages beyond JavaScript to execute in frontend web applications. WebAssembly is novel because most modern frontend applications are written entirely in JavaScript. WebAssembly lets us use languages like Rust and C++ after they have ...
02.22.2019 React Native Rearchitecture with G2i Team React Native allows developers to build native applications for iOS and Android using components written in the React JavaScript framework. These ReactJS components render to native application code by going over a JavaScript bridge, a message bus that communicates between ...
01.23.2019 Storybook: UI Engineering with Zoltan Olah React, Vue, and Angular are the most popular frontend JavaScript frameworks. Each of these frameworks lets frontend developers build components. A component is a high level visual abstraction that is used to compose a user interface. Frontend development has moved ...
12.20.2018 Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad Ten years ago, there was a distinction between “backend” and “frontend” developers. A backend developer would be managing the business logic and database transactions using Ruby on Rails or Java. A frontend developer would be responsible for implementing designs and ...
12.14.2018 Full Stack JavaScript with Wes Bos Wes Bos has created popular courses on React, GraphQL, and JavaScript. With hundreds of thousands of students, Wes has earned a cult following for his fun, practical lessons on web development. The courses produced by Wes teach developers how to ...
10.24.2018 JAM Stack with Phil Hawksworth Engineers can build applications faster by using tools that abstract away infrastructure. Major cloud providers offer this tooling in the form of functions-as-a-service, as well as managed services such as Google BigQuery or Azure Container Instances. The term “serverless” refers ...
10.22.2018 Google JavaScript with Malte Ubl Google Search is a highly interactive JavaScript application. As you enter a query, results are being automatically suggested to you before you even finish typing. When you press enter, some of your search results may be widgets that represent the ...
10.02.2018 Kotlin Design with Andrey Breslav Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that started as a JVM language. It gained popularity because it reduces the amount of boilerplate code required for a typical Java project. Many of the early adopters of Kotlin were building Android ...
09.26.2018 JavaScript Engines with Mathias Bynens JavaScript performance has improved over time due to advances in JavaScript engines such as Google’s V8. A JavaScript engine performs compiler optimization, garbage collection, hot code management, caching, and other runtime aspects that keep a JavaScript program running efficiently. JavaScript ...

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Rust and Go Research with Linhai Song

React Best Practices with Kent Dodds (Repeat)

React Native Interfaces with Leland Richardson (Repeat)

Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad (Repeat)

WebAssembly with Brendan Eich (Repeat)

React Native at Airbnb with Gabriel Peal Holiday Repeat

OpenBase: JavaScript Package Selection with Lior Grossman

Retool with David Hsu

Fig: Visual Terminal Assistant with Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage

Deno and TypeScript with Elio Rivero

WebAssembly Migration with Nicolo Davis

Digital Experience Analytics with Michael Morrissey

Pull Request Environments with Eric Silverman

React Native Ecosystem with Nader Dabit (Summer Break Repeat)

HTTP with Julia Evans (Summer Break Repeat)

RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner

Frontend Monitoring with Matt Arbesfeld

Shopify React Native with Farhan Thawar

V8 Lite with Ross McIlroy

Sorbet: Typed Ruby with Dmitry Petrashko

React Best Practices with Kent Dodds

React Stack with Tejas Kumar

JavaScript Deployments with Brian LeRoux

React Fundamentals with Ryan Florence

NextJS with Guillermo Rauch

Slack Frontend Architecture with Anuj Nair

JS Party with Kevin Ball

Java 13 with Georges Saab

Web Application Testing with Gabriel-James Safar

HTTP with Julia Evans

Gatsby with Kyle Mathews and Sam Bhagwat

Webflow: No-Code with Vlad Magdalin

WebAssembly Isolation with Tyler McMullen

Repl.it: Browser Coding with Amjad Masad

Facebook PHP with Keith Adams

Edge Storage with Steve Klabnik

Google Earth WebAssembly with Jordon Mears

Project Management with Kurt Schrader

WebAssembly Compilation with Till Schneidereit

Web Assembly Runtime with Tyler McMullen

CodeSandbox: Online Code Editor with Bas Buursma and Ives van Hoorne

WebAssembly Execution with Syrus Akbary

React Native Rearchitecture with G2i Team

Storybook: UI Engineering with Zoltan Olah

Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad

Full Stack JavaScript with Wes Bos

JAM Stack with Phil Hawksworth

Google JavaScript with Malte Ubl

Kotlin Design with Andrey Breslav

JavaScript Engines with Mathias Bynens

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