My JavaScript Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood   Guest: Jerome Hardaway   This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jerome Hardaway. Jerome used to be a panelist on Ruby Rogues and loved the ability to share his knowledge and interact with so many people from the community. He first got into programming by accident when he couldn’t find a job after becoming a veteran. He saw a commercial about job opportunities in coding, ended up finding a book on SQL and taught himself how to program. They talk about where he ran across Ruby on Rails, what he has worked on that he is particularly proud of, what he is doing currently, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Jerome’s experience being a panelist on Ruby Rogues
• Loves being able to reach his goals in a speedy manner
• Ruby Rogues Episode 279
• JavaScript Jabber Episode 239
• How did you first get into programming?
• In the military during the recession and had trouble finding a job
• Saw a commercial about coding
• Taught himself SQL
• Wordpress
• Focusing on making Vets Who Code better
• People would go for products over projects any day
• Chose Ruby on Rails 
• Setting himself apart by picking to focus on Ruby on Rails
• Where did you come across Ruby on Rails?
• From PHP to Ruby on Rails
• Ruby
• Have you found the learning curve has gotten steeper for Rails?
• Keeping up with the JavaScript community
• What have you done on Ruby in Rails that you are proud of?
• Being the right person for the job when you don’t look like it on paper
• What are you working on now?
• And much, much more!

  Links: 

• Ruby Rogues Episode 279
• JavaScript Jabber Episode 239
• Vets Who Code
• Ruby Rogues
• Wordpress
• Ruby on Rails
• Ruby
• JavaScript
• @JeromeHardaway
• Vets Who Code blog
• Jerome’s GitHub

  Sponsors: 

• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks Charles 

• Take some time with the people you care about
• Mattermost

Jerome

• Brian Holt Frontend Masters
• Pragmatic Studio

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Lizzie Siegle This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Lizzie Siegle. Lizzie is a senior computer science major at Bryn Mawr College, works for Twilio as a contracting developer evangelist, and also contributes to their documentation. She first got into programming when her AP calculus teacher told some of her classmates to attend a one day all girls coding camp at Stanford and she overheard and was interested by it. She was inspired at this camp to pursue a career in coding because she loved that you can build anything with code and be creative. They talk about what got her hooked on coding, why she chose JavaScript, why she chose to work as a developer evangelist, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Lizzie intro
• Computer Science Major
• Works at Twilio
• Greg Baugues was her assigned mentor this past summer
• How did you first get into programming?
• Grew up in Silicon Valley
• Hated STEM growing up
• Was inspired at a one day all girls coding camp at Stanford
• Loves being able to be creative with code
• What was the coding camp like?
• Camp was for high-schoolers
• HTML and CSS
• What was it that got you interested in code?
• Seeing the application of code in the real world
• Why JavaScript?
• Works also in Python, Swift, and Haskell
• Loves how versatile JS is
• Why developer evangelism?
• Internship at PubNub
• Loves being able to teach others as an evangelist
• What have you done in JavaScript that you’re proud of?
• Eon.js
• What are you working on currently?
• Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Twilio
• JavaScript
• Python
• Swift
• PubNub
• Haskell
• Eon.js
• @lizziepika
• Her newsletter
• Lizzie’s Website
• Lizzie’s GitHub

Sponsors:

• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks Lizzie

• The importance of a mentor or a sponsor

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ian Sinnott This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ian Sinnott. Since being on JavaScript Jabber for Episode 227, he has being writing a lot in JavaScript and has been taking a break from the meetups and podcast scene. He first got into programming when he took two CS courses in college that focused on Java graphical programming and SML. Once these courses were through, he stopped programming for a while and came back to it when he was creating an HTML email template. They talk about why he was excited with web development, how he got into JavaScript, what he is working on currently, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 227
• Ian intro
• How did you first get into programming?
• 2 CS courses in college
• Left programming after the classes
• Why did you decide to come back?
• Learning on PHP and WordPress
• What was it about web development that got you excited?
• Web development is high level and you can get quick wins
• What made you cross over into JavaScript?
• Really likes native apps
• Rise of the single-page web app
• Interactive apps
• What’s your flavor of choice?
• React is his go to
• MJS Episode 43 - Nick Disabato
• JSX, Angular, TypeScript, and Vue
• What are you working on now?
• Johnny-Five and Arduino
• Learning hardware allows you to attach an API to anything
• Is there anything that you have done that you are proud of?
• Rendering static sites in React
• Gatsby
• react-static-webpack-plugin and react-static-boilerplate
• RxJS and Redux-Observable
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 227
• JavaScript
• WordPress
• React
• MJS Episode 43 - Nick Disabato
• JSX
• Angular
• TypeScript
• Vue
• Johnny-Five
• Gatsby
• react-static-webpack-plugin
• react-static-boilerplate
• RxJS
• Redux-Observable
• @ian_sinn
• Ian’s GitHub
• iansinnott.com

Sponsors:

• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks Charles

• Sling TV
• JS Dev Summit
• Views on Vue, React Round Up, and Elixir Mix

Ian

• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued by Patrick McKenzie
• A Curious Moon
• Cortex Podcast

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tracy Lee This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Tracy Lee. Tracy is the co-founder This Dot and her goal with it is to bring the JavaScript community together. She first got into programming when she tried to build websites for people and then was interested in learning JavaScript and really fell in love with the community. She really stayed with Angular because of the community she found there, the size of the community, and the fact that it gave her the ability to have a voice. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:

• This Dot
• ContributorDays.com
• How did you first get into programming?
• Really loves community
• Angular community being so welcoming
• What made you pick the Angular community?
• Ember originally
• Loves how big the Angular community is
• Business background
• Loves the challenge of trying to create things
• On the RxJS Core team
• This Dot Media
• This Dot Labs
• Loves to builds brands and consult
• The importance of mentors
• Starting an apprentice program
• She loves being able to help others
• People underestimate the impact they have on the world
• AngularAir and JavaScript Air
• And much, much more!

Links:

• This Dot
• ContributorDays.com
• JavaScript
• Angular
• Ember
• RxJS Core Team
• This Dot Media
• This Dot Labs
• AngularAir
• JavaScriptAir
• Tracy’s Medium
• @LadyLeet
• LadyLeet.com
• DevChat.tv Youtube
• This Dot Media Youtube

Picks: Charles

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Bad Lip Reading YouTube

Tracy

• Mermaid Tail Makeup Brushes
• Beauty Fix Box

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Henrik Joreteg This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Henrik Joreteg. Henrik has been on JavaScript Jabber previously discussing &yet back in December of 2014 on episode 137. He has since then left &yet and now does independent consulting and works on his own projects. He first got into programming when he started a company that created online video tours for houses and he needed to teach himself programming in order to create the website. They talk about what led him to JavaScript, what he’s proud of contributing to the community, what he is working on now, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 137
• &yet
• How did you first get into programming?
• Liked computers as a child but didn’t want to spend his life on it originally
• Studied Business in college
• Create house touring video company
• Adobe ColdFusion
• How were you exposed to JavaScript?
• Gig as a ColdFusion developer
• jQTouch, jQuery, and Django
• Interested in building app-like experiences
• What have you done with JavaScript that you are proud of?
• Want to push the web into an app-like space
• Helped to create Ampersand.js
• Wrote Human JavaScript
• Created Simple WebRTC
• Promote web as an application platform
• What are you working on now?
• Redux and React
• New book: Human Redux
• Independent consulting
• Speedy.gift
• Redux-bundler
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 137
• JavaScript Jabber
• &yet
• JavaScript
• jQTouch
• jQuery
• Django
• Human JavaScript
• Ampersand.js
• Simple WebRTC
• Human Redux
• Redux
• React
• Speedy.gift
• Redux-bundler
• Henrik’s GitHub
• Joreteg.com
• @HenrikJoreteg

Sponsors:

• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks Charles

• Hogwarts Battle
• React Dev Summit
• JS Dev Summit
• Newspaper Theme on Themeforest
• Get a Coder Job Course

Henrik

• Preact
• Parcel.js
• Rollup.js
• Space repetition systems
• Anki

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Greg Wilson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Greg Wilson about his educational and programming background, a Canadian company (Rangle) who’s doing amazing things, and much more! Currently, Greg is the head of instructor training at DataCamp. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Past Episode – 184
• JavaScript
  • The one unavoidable language.
• Company in Canada – Rangle.
• 1980’s when Greg got into super computing – everything was custom hardware.
• Want to be “rich, famous, and popular?” – check out 11:58!
• Rangle – what a great company!
  • Emily Porta
  • Rangle’s program, Bridge, aimed at women who are trying to get into the tech industry.
• How did you get into programming?
  • Queen’s University – 1980.
  • Started off as chemistry major.
  • From Vancouver, Canada.
  • Engineering degree.
  • Got hired to do math with computers.
  • Software.
  • 1985 – working for a lab in Ottawa.
  • Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Scotland.
  • Ph.D.
  • Academia.
  • Moved to Toronto.
• Ruby
  • Greg is a Python user.
  • Not familiar with Ruby.
• Violence and video games?
  • Where is the data?
  • If people had the habit of being skeptical, such as fake news and other things, that simply isn’t true.
    • For example: are vaccines dangerous?
• Professor Marian Petre – Open University
• Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre

Links:

• Digital Ocean, LLC
• FreshBooks
• Greg Wilson’s Third Bit
• Greg Wilson’s Twitter
• Greg Wilson’s GitHub
• Greg Wilson’s LinkedIn
• Greg Wilson’s “What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True”
• JavaScript
• Past Episode – 184
• Rangle
• Rangle’s Bridge
• Python
• Ruby
• Professor Marian Petre – Open University
• Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre
• CacheFly
• Charles Max Wood’s Twitter

Sponsor:

• Digital Ocean, LLC

Picks: Charles

• St. George, Utah
• Parade of Homes
• Upside
• Bose SoundLink Headphones
• ATR2100 Microphone

Greg

• Rangle’s Bridge
  • Inclusivity and diversity
• AOSABOOK.ORG
• Samson Meteor Microphone

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Troy Hunt This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Troy Hunt who is from Australia. In this episode, Troy and Charles talk about web security and how Troy got into the field. Troy writes a blog, creates courses for Pluralsight, and he is a Microsoft Regional Director and an MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Web security
• This show is not about code or technology, but about the person.
• How did you get into programming, Troy?
  • 1995 Troy started at the university.
• Book: HTML for Dummies
• How did you get into web development and JavaScript in general?
  • 1999 – JavaScript
  • Bank – Cahoot
• What have you done with JavaScript that you are particularly proud of?
  • At the time, I was proud of my work with the Pizza Hut application.
  • Fast-forward – I still use JavaScript but also framework.
• How did you get into security?
  • Architectural role in Pfizer pharmaceutical company.
  • Troy started writing a blog in 2009.
• What are you working on now?
  • Launched my Version 2 of “Pwned Passwords.”
  • Cloud Flare
• E-mails and Passwords breached
  • Have a program that tells you to do something different instead.
  • Try to find a balance.
  • Do most people think about web security? Probably not.
  • Bring awareness about this.
  • Make systems usable
  • Give people enough advice.
• Service
  • Pwned.com
• Troy’s Real-Life Stories
• How do you stay current with all of this web security information?
  • Having a healthy following in Twitter.
  • Stay on top of the mentions.
  • Interesting spread of people within this field.

Links:

• Digital Ocean
• Troy Hunt’s Website
• Book: HTML for Dummies
• JavaScript
• Cahoot
• Troy’s Blog
• Version 2 of “Pwned Passwords”
• Pwned.com
• Troy Hunt’s Twitter
• Troy Hunt’s Medium
• Troy Hunt’s Facebook
• Troy Hunt’s LinkedIn
• Troy Hunt’s GitHub
• Fresh Books
• CacheFly

Sponsors:

• Digital Ocean

Picks Charles

• The Greatest Showman – Musical
• JavaScript

Troy

• BrowseAloud
• Subresource Integrity – Blog at Hunt’s Website
• CSP’s
• Supply chain

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Fred Zirdung This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Fred Zirdung. Fred is currently the head of curriculum at Hack Reactor, where he essentially builds all of the tools and learning materials for the students there. He is also an instructor and has been there for five years. Prior to that, he worked for multiple companies such as Walmart Labs as well as many small startups. He first got into programming with the Logo programming language in the 6th grade and he had always been interested in working with computers since a young age. They talk about what got him into web programming, what enthralled him about JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, and what he is proud of contributing to the JavaScript community. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 76
• Fred intro
• How did you first get into programming?
• Coding professionally for 20+ years
• Coding prior to college graduation
• Logo programming language
• QNX operating system
• Were you always interested in programming?
• Always interested in computers
• Commodore 64
• Basic programming in high school
• Programming didn’t click for him until high school
• In college when the web became popular
• Computer engineering degree in college
• What was it that appealed to you about software over hardware?
• Software vs hardware
• Embedded systems software
• How did you get into web programming?
• Dolby Laboratories
• What technologies got you excited?
• JavaScript, Perl, and Ruby on Rails
• Loved the flexibility of JS and Rails
• Found something he could be productive with
• What are you proud of contributing to the JavaScript community?
• What are you working on now?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 76
• Hack Reactor
• Walmart Labs
• Dolby Laboratories
• JavaScript
• Perl
• Ruby on Rails
• @fredzirdung
• Fred’s GitHub
• Fred’s Medium

Picks Charles

• React Developer Tools plugin
• PluralSight
• React Round Up and Views on Vue
• Framework Summit

Fred

• Navalia
• Koa
• Vue

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Zachary Kessin This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Zachary Kessin. Zach is a web developer who has written Programming HTML5 Applications and Building Web Applications with Erlang. Currently, he works a lot with functional programming. He first got into programming because his mother used to write in Lisp and he earned his first computer by begging his relatives to help pitch in to get him one when he was seven. They talk about what led him to Erlang and Elm, why he wanted to be a programmer from a young age, and what he is most proud of in his career. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 57
• JavaScript Jabber Episode 169
• Zach intro
• Elm and Erlang
• How did you first get into programming?
• Mother was writing Lisp when he was a kid
• RadioShack color computer
• Mother taught him Basic
• Pascal and AP Computer Science
• Studied CS originally in college and then switches to Physics
• First web app written in Pearl 4
• Did PHP for a living for a while and hated it
• Elm saves him time and effort
• What was it that made you want to program from a young age?
• Don’t be afraid to jump into programming at a late age
• Elm error messages
• Writes fewer tests in Elm code that JS code
• What are you most proud of?
• Loves mentoring
• Making a difference in the community
• It’s not just about the code, it’s about the people
• What are you doing now?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 57
• JavaScript Jabber Episode 169
• Programming HTML5 Applications
• Building Web Applications with Erlang
• Elm
• Erlang
• Lisp
• Zach’s GitHub
• @zkessin
• Zach’s YouTube
• Zach’s LinkedIn

Picks Charles

• Masterbuilt Smoker
• Crock-Pot

Zach

• If you like a book, tell the author!
• How to Get a Meeting with Anyone by Stu Heinecke
• 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kyle Simpson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kyle Simpson. Kyle is most well-known for being the writer of You Don’t Know JS. He first got into programming because his friend’s dad was a programmer and he was hooked by the software side of computers. He grew up writing games with QBasic and Turbo Pascal and then in his teens did some client projects. He was very much a self-taught programmer and ended up sticking with it into his career today. They talk about what led him to JavaScript and what he is doing currently. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Kyle intro
• You Don’t Know JS
• How did you first get into programming?
• Dad’s friend was a programmer
• Dad built computers
• Wrote games with QBasic and Turbo Pascal
• Some client projects in teen years
• Very much self-taught programmer
• CS degree in college
• First professional job at a biotech company
• Do you feel people need to get a CS degree these days?
• Grateful for his degree
• What engineering taught him
• Striving to understand why and how things work
• Don’t need a CS degree but you do need a certain mindset
• Valuable but not necessary
• What led you to JavaScript?
• Web Portal at his college
• What made you want to deepen your knowledge of JS?
• What are you working on now?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• You Don’t Know JS
• JavaScript
• Kyle’s GitHub
• Functional-Light JavaScript
• @getify
• Kyle on Front-end masters

Picks Charles

• Template Weeks
• Working Out

Kyle

• Fluent Conf
• Node RSA