JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development episodes

October 12, 2018The nitty gritty on BitMidi
Where does Feross get all those wonderful toys? He builds them with JavaScript, of course! BitMidi – a website for listening to your favorite MIDI files – is his latest creation. In this episode, Jerod “sits down” with Feross to learn all about it.
How do MIDIs even work? Why won’t they play on the web anymore? Can WASM save the day (hint: yes)? How does Feross get so many eyeballs on his creations? Is Preact awesome for building sites like this? What’s the future of BitMidi look like? Don’t ask us, listen to the episode!
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Featuring:
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Changelog #227: Mad Science, WebTorrent, WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh
Popular MIDIs — BitMidi
Announcing BitMidi » Feross.org
feross/bitmidi.com: 🎹 Listen to free MIDI songs, download the best MIDI files, and share the best MIDIs on the web
Chrome User Experience Report
PageSpeed Insights
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 11 min
October 05, 2018Fantastic bugs and how to squash them
Safia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you’re scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you prevent some of the common ones, what tools you can use to reduce bugs in your code, and a panel group therapy session where they discuss the most difficult bug they’ve had to fix.
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Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
Vettery – Vettery helps you scale your teams by connecting you with highly qualified tech, sales & finance candidates. Download their tech salary report for 2018 with insights from tech hiring activity in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. Download at vettery.com/changelog.
Featuring:
Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Topics covered in today’s show:
Most common JavaScript bugs
Hardest JavaScript bugs tackled by the hosts
Tools to reduce the number of bugs in your code
Links mentioned in the show:
Top 10 JavaScript errors from 1000+ projects (and how to avoid them)
TypeScript
A Year of Other’s Bugs: the sad state of error handling (by Brittany Storoz)
Flow
Nuxt
Angular
Zone.js
Visual Studio Code
w0rp/ale: Asynchronous linting/fixing for Vim and Language Server Protocol (LSP) integration
Code Lauren
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
59 min
September 28, 2018The CSS expertise kerfuffle
Suz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it’s often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get started with it.
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Vettery – Vettery helps you scale your teams by connecting you with highly qualified tech, sales & finance candidates. Download their tech salary report for 2018 with insights from tech hiring activity in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. Download at vettery.com/changelog.
DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
Featuring:
Aimee Knight – Website, GitHub, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
CSS dismissal is about exclusion, not technology
9 CSS in JS Libraries You Should Know in 2018 – Bits and Pieces
CSS Blocks
Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You’ve Never Heard Of — Smashing Magazine
Is Houdini Ready Yet?
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 1 min
September 21, 2018Stories of personal JavaScript failures
Suz, Jerod, Nick and KBall talk about cringeworthy mistakes and failures they (and the community!) have experienced with JavaScript. They also give advice to themselves as if they were just starting out today in the JavaScript industry.
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Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
NativeScript – NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript and TypeScript with frameworks like Angular and Vue. Learn more at nativescript.org/jsparty.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
JavaScript 30 — Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials
Learn to Code and Help Nonprofits | freeCodeCamp
Learning Web Development in 2018
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 6 min
September 14, 2018Interviews from JSConf
KBall interviews with Michael Chan, Juan Pablo Buriticá and Julián David Duque, and Tim Doherty at JSConf.US. Conversations about the importance of DRY code, the metaphors we use for software, JavaScript communities across Latin America, how to advocate for modern tech stacks in large companies, and fostering mentorship.
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NativeScript – NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript and TypeScript with frameworks like Angular and Vue. Learn more at nativescript.org/jsparty.
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Featuring:
Michael Chan – Website, GitHub, X
Juan Pablo Buritica – GitHub, X
Julian Duque – Website, GitHub, X
Tim Doherty – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Michael Chan (Chantastic)
React Podcast
‘Hot Garbage, Clean Code Is Dead’ recording from React Rally
Sandi Metz on Churn vs Complexity
Ice Cube and his real name
Juan and Julián
JSConf Colombia
‘The Butterfly.js Effect’ slides
Yayquery
Lending Privilege
Transifex
Tim Doherty
Generators
Proxies
JavaScript: Prototype vs Class
Innovation Debt
npm audit
npm outdated
Dependabot
Santa Barbara JavaScript Meetup
‘ES6 In Practice’ slides
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 29 min
September 07, 2018Decentralizing the web with Beaker
Feross talks with Mathias Buus and Paul Frazee about the decentralized web, why the average person should care about decentralization of the web, the Beaker browser, Dat and the differences and similarities to BitTorrent, and how Paul and Mathias first got involved in this work.
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NativeScript – NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript and TypeScript with frameworks like Angular and Vue. Learn more at nativescript.org/jsparty.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Mathias Buus – GitHub, X
Paul Frazee✌️ – GitHub, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Beaker Browser
Dat Project
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 8 min
August 31, 2018Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend
KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.
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Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
NativeScript – NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript and TypeScript with frameworks like Angular and Vue. Learn more at nativescript.org/jsparty.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Chad Hietala – GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Performance gains from compilers in JavaScript:
Performance gains from switching to Closure Compiler
Glimmer
The Glimmer Binary Experience
The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
Experiments porting Glimmer VM pieces to WASM
The performance costs of parse/compile:
The Cost of JavaScript
Precompilation:
Svelte
Prepack
Moving sourcemaps to webassembly:
Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly
A11Y:
JSParty: A11y is your ally
Reach Router
Ember A11y
Opportunities for Angular, Vue, etc
Advantages of Angular Templates
Ember
The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks
Github Stars !== Usage: React is still blowing Vue and Angular Away
issue: Latest version of angular-cli shows ember-cli help
#dadt (Dojo already did that)
Ember RFCs
Other Linkedin Projects:
CSS Blocks
Kafka
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
53 min
August 24, 2018LIVE from JSConf!
In this special episode of JS Party at JS Conf in Carlsbad, Nick, Suz, Feross, and KBall talk about crazy JavaScript combinations, tips to get started speaking, being committed to diversity as a conference organizer, and much more.
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Algolia – Our search partner. Algolia’s full suite search APIs enable teams to develop unique search and discovery experiences across all platforms and devices. We’re using Algolia to power our site search here at Changelog.com. Get started for free and learn more at algolia.com.
Indeed – Indeed Assessments is a remote-first team that operates like a startup within Indeed — and they’re hiring. If you’re looking to join a remote-first team working on really big problems that will literally impact 100’s of Millions of people, head to indeed.jobs/changelog
Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing.
Featuring:
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Links for JavaScript Connections
VR, Browser Extensions, and Home Automation
VR
Building AR/VR with Javascript and HTML – Hacker Noon
Browser Extensions
Home Automation
Virtual Desktop for VR
Cryptocurrency Mining and GraphQL
Cryptocurrency in JavaScript
JavaScript Mining
GraphQL
GraphQL Blockchain Explorer
Mocha and D3
Mocha
D3
NPM audits / tree security audits
WebUSB and Webtorrents
WebUSB
Webtorrents
Previous JSParty episode covering WebUSB and Webtorrents
BitTorrent for build distribution
JavaScript Conferences and Community
JSConf Code of Conduct
NEJSConf
JSConf activity day
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
50 min
August 17, 2018Experimenting with some new ideas 🔬
Jerod, Nick, KBall, and Chris pre-party for JSConf by testing out some brand new segment ideas: Story of the Week, What the WHAT… WG, and Protip Time. What do you think of these segments? Like ’em? Love ’em? Not sure why we even? Please let us know!
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Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Story of the Week
ndb
Babel 7.0 RC 1
The Cost of JavaScript in 2018
Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
Vue CLI 3.0
What the WHAT… WG
HTML or HTML5? Who Controls HTML?
Standards WHATWG works on
Lazy loading images and iframes
Add autocapitalize attribute (merged and deployed) (added to MDN)
Protip Time
paste {
pbpaste > ${1}
}
copy {
cat ${1} | pbcopy
}
z
brain.fm
Astral
jscodeshift
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 8 min
August 10, 2018REST easy, GraphQL is here
Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
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Featuring:
John Resig – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
John’s intro to the GraphQL Guide
Get the GraphQL Guide (beta)
The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool?
The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 5 min

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Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. Current panelists: Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball (KBall), Nick Nisi, Chris Hiller, Amal Hussein & Amy Dutton.