Panel: https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en Guest: Nicholas Zakas This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles talks with Nicholas Zakas who is a blogger, author, and software engineer. Nicholas’ website is titled, https://humanwhocodes.com – check it out! You can find him on https://twitter.com/slicknet https://github.com/nzakas/, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/nzakas among other social media platforms. Today, Nicholas and Chuck talk about Nicholas’ background, https://www.javascript.com, and current projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ 1:00 – Chuck: Welcome! Give us a background, please, Nicholas! 1:14 – Guest: I am probably best known for making https://eslint.org and I have written a bunch of books, too! (See links below.) 1:36 – Chuck: https://player.fm/series/all-javascript-podcasts-by-devchattv/jsj-336-the-origin-of-eslint-with-nicholas-zakas and https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/075-jsj-maintainable-javascript-with-nicholas-zakas/ episodes are the two past episodes we’ve had you on! (See links below.) Let’s go back and how did you get into programming? 1:58 – Guest: I think the first was written in BASIC, which was on a Laser computer. It was a cheaper knockoff version. I think I was into middle school when I got into BASIC. Then when I got into high school I did this computer project, which was the first time someone else used one of my programs. 4:02 – Chuck: Was it all in BASIC or something else? 4:13 – Guest: Just BASIC, but then transferred to something else when we got our first PC. 5:13 – Chuck: How did you get to use https://www.javascript.com 5:18 – Guest: 1996 was my freshman year in college. Netscape 3 got into popularity around this time. I had decided that I wanted to setup a webpage to stay in-touch with high school friends who were going into different directions. I got annoyed with how static the [web] pages were. At the time, there was no CSS and the only thing you could change was the source of an image (on webpages). On the you could do... 8:35 – Chuck: You get into https://www.javascript.com and at what point did you become a prolific operator and author? 8:52 – Guest: It was not an overnight thing. It definitely was fueled by my own curiosity. The web was so new (when I was in college) that I had to explore on my own. I probably killed a few trees when I was in college. Printing off anything and everything I could to learn about this stuff! 10:03 – Guest (continues): Professors would ask ME how to do this or that on the departmental website. When I was graduating from college I knew that I was excited about the WEB. I got a first job w/o having to interview. 12:32 – Guest (continues): I got so deep into https://www.javascript.com 13:30 – Guest (continued): They couldn’t figure out what I had done. That’s when I got more into designing JavaScript APIs. About 8 months after graduating from college I was unemployed. I had extra time on my hands. I was worried that I was going to forget the cool stuff that I just developed there. I went over the code and writing for myself how I had constructed it. My goal was...