My JavaScript Story

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now! Håkon Krogh is a Norweigan developer who focuses on web performance. We start out discussing working from home in the current pandemic. His current company works in Product Information Management. It's a headless ecommerce system. We dive into his experience learning learning to build applications and learning JavaScript and leading a team. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Håkon Krogh Sponsors

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• RRU 078: The Uncanny Valley with Håkon Krogh
• Crystallize
• FindThatLead
• Twitter: Håkon Krogh

Picks Håkon Krogh:

• High Performance Browser Networking
• Tiny Helpers

Charles Max Wood:

• Cleverly
• Scrabin

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now! Varya is an expert in design systems. She talks about the process of working in and building design systems. She learned basic Pascal at school. She did programming exercises on paper. She then got into building web pages for groups she was a part of. She then picked up PHP and went professional at that point. On the front-end, she began picking up JavaScript and worked using Yandex's internal framework. Follow here story through the rest of the podcast. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Varya Stepanova Sponsors

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• RRU 068: Design Systems with Varya Stepanova
• Zend
• The History of BEM

Picks Charles Max Wood:

• Contigo Water Bottle
• Run With Hal

Varya Stepanova:

• Learn a New Language!

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now! Josh Ponelat is Software Architect at SmartBear working on Swagger and OpenAPI. He's from South Africa. Josh's father is a programmer and was heavily influenced by his father. He started with ANSI-C and hacking on shells. He studied graphic design in school. He got back into programming in PHP and MySQL and wound up transitioning to JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Josh Ponelat Sponsors

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• JSJ 409: Swagger and Open API with Josh Ponelat
• D3.js
• Swagger.io
• What is OpenAPI?
• SwaggerHub
• Immutable
• JSJ 243 Immutable.js with Lee Byron
• 231 RR GraphQL with Lee Byron
• Hacker News
• Clojure
• ClojureScript
• Parinfer
• Datomic Cloud

Picks Josh Ponelat:

• Miro
• Pour Over Coffee

Charles Max Wood:

• Interview Cake
• Docking Station

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now! Paige Niedringhaus started her career as a Digital Marketer before making the move to becoming a software developer at the Home Depot. She current works with React and Node building internal apps for them. This episode discusses the ins and outs of making that transition in a semi-recent world and community. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Paige Niedringhaus Sponsors

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• JSJ 398: Node 12 with Paige Niedringhaus
• Syntax.
• GitHub testing-library/react-testing-library
• Gatsby
• NextJS
• Interview Cake
• Medium - Paige Niedringhaus
• Follow Paige on Twitter: @pniedri

Picks Paige Niedringhaus:

• Breville Milk Frother
• Stuff You Should Know

Charles Max Wood:

• Instant Pot
• Sphero BB-8

Daniel Caldas is a Portuguese developer working and living in Singapore. He learned to code in high school programming in Pascal. He moved up to the university and that's where he encountered JavaScript. He wound up doing a bunch of design work, static websites, and jQuery. He explains his journey and learning methods leading to a job working for Zendesk on their CRM. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Daniel Caldas Sponsors

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• JSJ 411: Unit Testing Jest with Daniel Caldas
• goodguydaniel.com

Picks Daniel Caldas:

• tweak

Charles Max Wood:

• Shift
• Bose SoundLink Around Ear Wireless Headphones II

Jared Palmer has been a guest on 3 different shows on Devchat.tv. He's talked to us about Formik, Razzle, and React. He's taking a break from consulting to build up Formik, Inc and tools for forms. He got started in programming by taking a programming class at Cornell on a lark and quickly transitioned out of Investment Banking after graduating from university. His first apps were custom lock screens for mobile phones. We then move through framer and CoffeeScript and eventually in to JavaScript and React. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Jared Palmer Sponsors

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• RRU 014: Razzle with Jared Palmer
• RRU 052: React Suspense with Jared Palmer
• Formik feat. Jared Palmer of The Palmer Group

Picks Jared Palmer:

• Remote UI (Shopify)

Charles Max Wood:

• The Man In the High Castle

Tommy Hodgins is a developer that typically works on A/B tests figuring out how to get websites the outcomes they want. He got into JavaScript and front-end technologies and then read a paper that led him to realize the capabilities of writing software to solve problems. He maintains a front-end focus with his A/B testing work and CSS in JS and other work. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Tommy Hodgins Sponsors

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• QuickJS
• Language Learning with Netflix

Charles Max Wood:

• Gmelius
• The Man In the High Castle
• The Name of the Wind
• Verdict with Ted Cruz

Rado Stankov is the Head of Engineering at Product Hunt. He's based in Sofia Bulgaria. He walks us through learning Pascal and PHP and Flash. We then dive into Ruby and JavaScript and what he's working on now at Product Hunt. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Radoslav Stankov Sponsors

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• MRS 077: Radoslav Stankov
• RR 396: GrapQL at Product Hunt with Radoslav Stankov
• RRU 042: React at Product Hunt with Radoslav Stankov
• React Native at Product Hunt feat. Radoslav Stankov and Vlad Vladimirov
• Prototypejs
• jQuery

Picks Radoslav Stankov:

• Dependency cruiser
• The Unicorn Project

Charles Max Wood:

• The Name of the Wind
• LinkedIn
• Clean Coders Podcast
• Devchat.tv Workshops

Carl is a developer from Zimbabwe currently living in London. He explains how he started out as a journalist and wound up doing web development to keep track of news stories coming out in his local area. He leveled up by attending meetups and talking to other developers. He currently works for LimeJump, an energy startup which is creating a virtual power plant by connecting together different power assets Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Carl Mungazi Sponsors

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• Nailing Your First (Info-Product) Launch
• CarlMungazi.com

Picks Carl Mungazi:

• React Dev Tools

Charles Max Wood:

• Gmelius
• Devchat Workshops
• The Dev Rev Podcast

Florian Rival is a React developer who has built his own game engine. He's been a guest on both React Round Up and React Native Radio. This episode provides you a walkthrough on using gDevelop to build games from scratch and goes into his history as a game developer. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Florian Rival Sponsors

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• RNR 126: Native Web Apps with Florian Rival
• RRU 058: React.js and WebAssembly to Rewrite Native Apps with Florian Rival
• LinkedIn Florian Rival
• PixiJS

Picks Florian Rival:

• GDevelop

Charles Max Wood:

• Gmelius