My JavaScript Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ely Lucas This week on My JavaScirpt Story, Charles speaks with Ely Lucas who is a software developer. He loves technologies and mobile technologies among other things. Let’s listen to today’s episode where Chuck and Ely talk about Ionic, Angular, React and many other topics! Check it out! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:33 – Hello! 1:40 Chuck: Give us a background on who you are, and tell us how famous you are! 2:31 – Chuck: What do you do with Ionic? 2:40 – Ely answers the question. 3:51 – Chuck: How did you get into your field? 3:55 – Ely: When I was a kid and played with video games. Later on I got into web development, like my website. Then I got into a professional-level of developing. Ely goes into detail about how his passion for developing began and developed. 6:30 – Chuck: Yeah, I’ve talked with people who have gotten into video games, then got into software development. 7:01 – Ely: Someday I would like to develop games. 7:12 – Chuck: Yes, web developing is awesome. Chuck asks Ely another question. 7:25 – Ely answers the question and mentions web controls. 9:17 – Ely: I thought Ajax was easier. 9:38 – Chuck: When I got into web development jQuery was sort of new. It made things a lot easier. 9:58 – Ely: A lot of people like to sneer at jQuery now, but back in the day it was IT. 10:28 – Chuck: How did you get into Ionic? 10:43 – Ely: I got a fulltime gig working on Ionic; I like the framework. I saw a job application and sent in my résumé. Two days later I got a callback and was amazed. They were hiring remotely. The team liked me and started over a year ago. 11:46 – Chuck asks a question. 11:54 – Ely answers the question. 13:20 – Chuck: Why Ionic? 13:35 – Ely: It was based off of Angular. 15:17 – Chuck: You mentioned...what has the transition been like? 15:32 – Ely talks about past programs he has worked with. He taught React in the early React days. 16:37 – Ely: I have a deep appreciation on React now. 17:09 – Chuck: I like seeing the process that people go through. 17:24 – Ely continues the conversation. Ely: It is interesting to see the learning process that people go through to arrive in the same place. 18:18 – Chuck: Redux is a good example of this. Anyway, this is near the end of our time. 18:39 – Chuck: Anything else you want to talk about? 18:48 – Ely: Yes, I have been involved in the Denver community. Check us out. Links:

• Ionic
• jQuery
• JavaScript
• React
• Ely Lucas’ Twitter
• Ely Lucas’ LinkedIn
• Ely Lucas
• Ely Lucas’ GitHub

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Ely

• Fantasy Novel: Shadow of what was lost.
• Ionic

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Michael Garrigan This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with http://michaelgarrigan.com who is one of the podcast’s listeners. He is changing careers midway and has had many exciting careers in the past, such as being a professional chef, carpenter, repairman, and so on. Listen to today’s episode to hear Michael’s unique experience with programming and JavaScript. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:18 – Chuck: I started this show but interviewing guests and then opened up to listeners. Michael scheduled an interview and here we go! I find that his experience will be different than mine than others. We will be getting guests on here, but wanted this to be a well-rounded view within the community. 2:25 – Michael’s background! His experience is a mid-career change. To see the things that are intimidating and exciting. 3:16 – How did you get into programming? 3:23 – Michael: How do people talk to machines? What are the different computer languages out there? What do people prefer to use? The C programming language, I saw as the “grandfather” program. That’s the first thing I looked at. Then I was like, “what is going on?” I got a copy of the original K&R book and worked through that. 4:58 – Chuck: I did the C language in college. The Java that I was learning then was less complicated. How did you end up with JavaScript then? 5:26 – Guest: It was easy and you can just open up a console and it works. You want to see things happen visually when you program is great. It’s a great entry point. We started building things in React and how fun that is. I enjoy JavaScript in general. 6:11 – Chuck: What is your career transition? 6:18 – Guest: I have always been a craftsman and building things. I had a portion time I was a professional chef, which is the cold side like sausages and meats and cheeses, etc. I used to do a lot of ice carvings, too. Stopped that and opened a small business and repaired antique furniture for people. Wicker restoration. It was super cool because it was 100+ years old. To see what people did very well was enjoyable. Every few years I wanted to see how something worked, and that’s how I got into it. That was the gateway to something that was scary to something that made programs. 8:24 – Chuck: I was working in IT and wrote a system that managed updates across multiple servers. There is some automation I can do here, and it grew to something else. What made you switch? Were you were looking for something more lucrative? 9:01 – Michael: Main motivation I appreciate the logic behind it. I always build physical items. To build items that are non-physical is kind of different. Using logic to essentially put out a giant instruction sheet is fun. 9:52 – Chuck: At what point do you say I want to do a boot camp? 10:04 – Michael: I might to this as a career. Hobby level and going to work is definitely different. I could see myself getting up every day and going to meetings and talking about these topics and different issues. Coding day to day. 10:51 – Chuck: Who did you talk to who got you started? 10:57 – Guest: Things I read online and friends. They said get the basics behind programming. Languages come and go. Be able to learn quickly and learn the basics. 12:13 – Chuck: In NY city? It’s pricy to live there. 12:33 – Guest: Cost of living is much greater. 12:42 – Chuck: What was it like to go to a boot camp? 12:50 – Guest answers question. 14:30 – Advertisement – Get a Coder Job 15:11 – Chuck: What different projects have you worked on? 15:19 – Guest talks about his many different projects. Like senses.gov. 18:11 – Michael: Working on getting a job. I put together a portfolio and just graduated this past week. 19:38 – Charles: Anything that has been a huge challenge for you? 19:47 – Not really just one. I’ve done big projects in the past. Seeing that I can do them and sheer amount of work that I have put in. Not really too concerned. Only concern is that mid-30s any bias that is out there. I don’t think that will really affect me. 20:25 – Chuck: Yeah, it’s rally not age-bias. 20:55 – Michael: “Making your bones” is an expression in culinary school. That means that you put in the hours in the beginning to become a professional at it. So I have had transitioned several times and each time I had to make my bones and put in the time, so I am not looking forward to that for me right now, but... 21:43 – Chuck: Anything else? 21:51 – Guest: Meetups. 22:40 – Chuck: I have been putting time into making this book. 22:53 – Guest puts in his last comments. 24:00 – Chuck: Thinking about what I want DevChat TV to be. I have been thinking and writing the mission statement for DevChat TV. 25:14 – Chuck: It’s a big deal to get out of debt. My wife and I will be at the end of the year. 25:37 – Guest: Discipline not to spend money, and peer pressure. 25:48 – Picks! 25:57 – Advertisement for Digital Ocean! Links:

• Book
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• Hack Reactor
• JavaScript
• Meetup
• Michaelgarrigan.com – website

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Michael Garrigan

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Panel: https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en Guest: https://twitter.com/wonder95 This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with https://twitter.com/wonder95 who is a website developer and lives in Portland, OR. He is a senior developer at an international corporation called, https://www.fluke.com. Today’s main topic of conversation is https://www.drupal.org. Check out the episode to hear about this and much more!  In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:05 – Chuck: Welcome! I appreciate your contributions with hooking me up with some people. 2:22 – Started in IT in 1995. 2:38 – Chuck: How did you get into software development? 2:46 – Steve: In high school not much courses on it. Then in college did some programming there. After college, I was supposed to get married. I was thinking finance. Never nailed down what I wanted to do. Called Bank of America in 1991 – called them. He said let me put in touch with someone. One of the things I got to put classes on “how does this system work.” I got into the banking job and realized not for me. Did realize that I do like teaching. Got software support for another bank. My banking software experience got me the job. We did interfaces – data from PC base to main systems like IBM, etc. I dealt with the source. Same time, I was a diehard racket ball player; on the board state organization. Someone organizing a website for group through Front Page. Hey do you want to take this over? Got to know Front Page. It’s painful to think about it. Same time a position opened up. I got PHP books, and created a new website for our racket ball organization. Off-time learning this. At work I used other tools for the job. That’s where I got into programming and developing. I was an analyst and wanted to program. I created a website from nothing in 2004 for a mountain bike shop. Learned a lot about PHB – and learned that I never want to build anything from scratch ever again. 2006 I start looing for a CMS and I got into some evaluations and got into https://www.drupal.org. Now I got to do fulltime https://www.drupal.org. Some guys left the company and got to do https://www.drupal.org, also. There’s a book on basic https://www.javascript.com, and haven’t gotten into it. It’s nice because since 2009 I have been working from home. 3-4 years ago I heard about https://angular.io and how it was used in https://www.drupal.org. Weather.com – they did things with Angular. I started diving into https://angular.io. Then a small project – worked with Travis then we started with our new ideas/projects. Then I went and took some https://angular.io classes, and I was working on my project. I had these questions. They said that this was used for a one-time use. Okay, I had to figure it out. Travis one day asked: What are you doing? I showed him with the calendar and integrated with... Travis asked if I wanted to go to work with him. Then the past few years I have been working with https://vuejs.org. 12:41 – Chuck: In 2006 I got into Ruby on Rails. I got into https://jquery.com and did some backbone and progressed the same way you did. Worked with https://angular.io and Vue. There is a lot going on there. Interesting to see how this has all progressed. At what point did you decide – https://www.javascript.com is the focus to some of these projects? 13:42 –https://www.linkedin.com/in/wonder95: Lightweight functions. 15:25 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ 16:05 – Chuck: What are you proud of with the work you’ve done? 16:20 – Steve: Article - All the different projects that it looks like for a developer – I have 5 or 6 projects that I want to get to that I haven’t had time to get to. Steve talks about one of the projects he is working on. 17:55 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 17:59 – https://www.linkedin.com/in/wonder95: My company, Fluke, we have a cool setup. It has a three-legged system. In that we have all the background data, another for digital assets, and... Steve: It’s so fast – I am trying to enhance it to make it even faster. Another thing that I am working on is that we have a scheduling website for the fire department I am apart of. Band-Aids and glue hold it together. I am trying to work with a calendar so it can integrate – take over the data of a cell and put y stuff in there.  It would be efficient so I don’t get all these errors with this old system. It would give me grand control. 20:16 – Steve: I want to get more and more into JavaScript. The one thing that I like about my story is that you did in your spare time. That’s how I got into Google. Multiple years working up late, working with people and different modules. I got good enough (in 2009) and got good enough – it got me into the door. 21:13 – Chuck talks about his course on how to get a job. Chuck: All you have to do to level-up is to put into the time. Working on open-source project 21:56 – Steve: Learning – find a project you want to do. What is something you want to tackle? What and how can you get it done with your tools? Stack overflow, orhttps://slack.com/lp/two?Matchtype=e&c3api=5523%2C257483843273%2Cslack&cvo_campaign=&cvo_creative=257483843273&cvo_crid=257483843273&cvosrc=ppc.google.slack&dclid=CK6Wm-Tf2d0CFZDBwAodYAYANg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7arP4t_Z3QIVD5t-Ch0lkAAXEAAYASAAEgKrOfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&utm_campaign=d_ppc_google_us_en_brand-hv&utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=google&utm_term=slack questions. We started a new https://www.meetup.com (last meeting was last month) and people do Vue on a regular basis. Slack room. That’s how I got into... Personal experience you can help people and find 23:00 – Chuck: People want to level-up for different reasons. Whether you are trying to get better, or learn new things – getting to know people and having these conversations will shape your thinking. 23:33 – Steve: Also, networking. 24:10 – Chuck: I wasn’t happy where I was at and talked to people. Hey – what else is out there? 24:37 – Chuck: Any recommendations? 24:42 – Steve: The amount of courses that are out there, and it can be overwhelming. Find courses when they go on sale. I found some courses that were only $10.00. There is stuff that is free and things that you can pay for. It can be inexpensive. 26:38 – Chuck: I do the same thing. I wait for things to go on sale first. I’ve done that with courses. However you learn it. Some people work through a book and for others that’s not the way. Sometimes I will start with a video course then I get frustrated. It helps, though. There are different ways to do it. Go do it. 27:39 – Steve: There is a lot of good jobs – get your foot in the door as a junior guy. Getting the real-life experience. 28:15 – Chuck: How do people get ahold of you? 28:18 – Steve: Twitter, GitHub, wherever... 28:48 – Picks! 28:53 – Advertisement for Digital Ocean Links:
- https://weather.com
- https://angular.io
- https://www.drupal.org
- https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/aia-125-api-powered-components-for-severless-applications-with-travis-tidwell/
- https://www.pluralsight.com
- https://events.drupal.org
- https://www.fluke.com
- https://www.javascript.com
- https://slack.com/lp/two?Matchtype=e&c3api=5523%2C257483843273%2Cslack&cvo_campaign=&cvo_creative=257483843273&cvo_crid=257483843273&cvosrc=ppc.google.slack&dclid=CK6Wm-Tf2d0CFZDBwAodYAYANg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7arP4t_Z3QIVD5t-Ch0lkAAXEAAYASAAEgKrOfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&utm_campaign=d_ppc_google_us_en_brand-hv&utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=google&utm_term=slack
- https://www.meetup.com
- https://vuejs.org
- https://jquery.com
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Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Sérgio Crisóstomo This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Sérgio Crisóstomo. Charles is now interviewing podcast listeners, not just guest speakers. Check-out toady’s episode to hear Sérgio’s background as a musician and as a programmer. Also, to hear Sérgio’s latest projects and how he fell in-love with Sweden and ended up moving there! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:46 – Chuck: How did you get into programming? 1:53 – Sérgio: As a child, I got interested into gaming. I wrote coding. Spectrum. 2:22 – Chuck: I think that makes you about my age. 2:41 – Sérgio: I was born in 1978. 2:51 – Sérgio: I had a cousin who got inspired by me and we started doing things together. We would show each other what we were doing. Better games and better computers came around. Turned out that I came back to it later in life. 3:29 – Chuck: what got you interested? 3:30 – Sérgio: It was all about problem-solving. There was no book. It was trial and error. It was magic. I was doing small steps, and it was empowering to me. 4:29 – Chuck: I used Logo. How did you get into programming at the professional-level? 4:45 – Sérgio: It was a long journey. My family was deep into a musical background. I went to the conservatory. I had a background in math, music, and physics. I went into programming because my father pushed me towards that direction. I did my Master’s in violin. After that I moved to Sweden. I really liked Sweden’s educational system. After 20 years I got into program working. I faked it until I made it. I had no one who could help me day-to-day life. I love solving problems. I found myself helping people in Portugal and other countries, since their English wasn’t strong. I liked that I was helping the community. That made me feel good about c 10:15 – Chuck: You switch from PHP to Node? What was the reasoning to that? 11:30 – Chuck: What things have you built in JavaScript? 11:47 – Sérgio: I started doing some freelance work. In the beginning it was helping friends. 13:22 – Chuck: Football – do you mean soccer or football? 13:35 – Sérgio: One day in the school, we got a new principal that the school didn’t like. I left because I wasn’t happy. I was a fulltime musician, and looked at this fulltime-programming job. I went to an interview where there were code quizzes. I loved the challenges. I had to choose between two different careers. After some negotiations it was a great fit for me. I got to be in-charge of different projects. Right now, I am a senior developer. It’s a small company but it is growing. 15:48 – Advertisement  E-book! 16:31 – Chuck: It’s interesting to see how you weren’t happy with your original job and how you got into programming fulltime. 17:29 – Sérgio: It’s important to have a good perspective. I am used to meeting people because I worked with choirs, orchestras, dance, and people and I can use those tools that I learned with musicians and transfer over to programming. Since I was good in JavaScript that helped me. Also, it was good that I was head-in-chief, because of my background of being a teacher. I found similarities and made it happen. That was my way in. 19:36 – Chuck: I find that very interesting. Yes, in the larger markets they might have their pick, but if you look into the smaller markets they might need you. 20:21 – Sérgio: People will invest into you if you are willing to learn and stay for a while. 20:48 – Chuck: What is the community like over in Sweden? 21:12 – Chuck: Do you have a lot of communities/boot camps out there to help people to code out in Sweden? 21:32 – Sérgio: Yes. It’s a really active community, and I have been involved helping connect people. People are curious and wanting to grow. It’s really open. 22:39 – Chuck: How do you start a program like that? 22:53 – Sérgio: I went to MEETUP.COM.  23:45 – Sérgio: I fell in-love with the concept of Sweden’s education system. I was there touring and decided I wanted to move to Sweden. It was worth staying. Sweden is having different political winds now. They are open to foreigners. I am a Swedish citizen now. 25:18 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 25:26 – Sérgio answers Chuck’s question. 26:45 – Chuck: Anything else? 26:54 – Sérgio: I can talk about music a lot! I find a lot of programmers are musicians, too. 27:23 – Chuck: One more question. I have met, too, a lot of programmers who are musicians, too. What is the correlation? 27:43 – Music has a lot of mathematics. You have to play on time and solve problems all the time. I was in a workshop with musicians and entrepreneurs, and I learned a lot in this workshop. There are different attitudes when conducting. There is problem solving and managing people. I see the connections there. Links:

• Meetup.com
• Sergio’s GitHub
• Sergio’s Website
• Sergio’s Website
• Sergio’s Twitter

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Sérgio

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Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kevin Griffin This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kevin Griffin. Kevin is one of the hosts of the 2 Frugal Dudes Podcast which helps programmers learn how to be smarter with handling their money. He first got into programming really young when his Dad brought home a computer and he was curious about it so he read books and taught himself basic programming that way. They talk about his first job out of college and how that has impacted him now, the fact that you have to create your own job security, and what kind of frameworks he uses. They also touch on the importance of exposing yourself to new technologies and being open-minded, what he is working on currently, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 273
• Helping programmers handle their money
• 2 Frugal Dudes Podcast
• Runs financial peace university at his church
• Mindset is everything
• How did you first get into programming?
• Got started really young when his Dad brought home a computer
• DOS for Dummies
• Taught himself very basic coding
• Really into text adventures as a child – wrote some of his own
• Taught Logo in Middle school
• Computer Science degree in college
• Got into software developer community because he was laid off from first job
• You have to build your own job security
• Do you do JavaScript full-time?
• Doesn’t like to pigeon hole himself into one language
• C++ and C#
• Didn’t want to support JavaScript originally
• Using jQuery, Knockout, Ember, and Backbone
• Working with Vue and React now
• The same problems persist now, just with different frameworks
• Looking at the project and then deciding which tool to use
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 273
• 2 Frugal Dudes Podcast
• DOS for Dummies
• jQuery
• JavaScript
• Knockout
• Ember
• Backbone
• Vue
• React
• @2frugaldudes
• @1kevgriff
• kevgriffin.com
• Kevin’s Twitch
• Swift Kick

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• Code Badges
• Digital Ocean

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• The Expanse

Kevin

• Twitch – His twitch

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Panel: Charles Max Wood   Guest: Scott Wyatt   This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Scott Wyatt. Scott is a VC partner and is the CTO at Cali Style Technologies, works with startups, and was the CTO of the Dollar Beard Club. He first got into programming because his dad was a computer programmer and he really got hooked from a young age writing games and playing on the computer. They talk about the benefit of not living in the hustle and bustle of California and the Silicon Valley, how he got into JavaScript, what was it about JavaScript that hooked him, and more!   In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 282
• Scott intro
• Works remotely from Indiana
• The pros to not living in Silicon Valley
• How did you first get into programming?
• Father was a computer programmer
• Strong arts background
• Started coding really young
• How did you get into JavaScript?
• Started out with ActionScript
• JavaScript to jQuery
• The cool part of having a diverse background as a programmer
• What was it that got you into JavaScript?
• Back-end JavaScript
• Node.js
• JavaScript is very versatile
• How did you get into doing something like Trails.js?
• Sails.js
• Fabrix and TypeScript 
• What have you done in JS that you are most proud of?
• Partitioned apps
• Contributing to freedom of information
• What are you working on now?
• And much, much more!

  Links: 

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 282
• Cali Style Technologies
• Dollar Beard Club
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• Node.js
• Trails.js
• Sails.js
• Fabrix
• TypeScript
• @ScottBWyatt
• Scott’s GitHub

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• Loot Crate
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  Picks Charles 

• Get a Coder Job Course
• Golf Clash
• Golfing
• Planning in sanity time
• Suggest a Topic
• [email protected] 

  Scott

• Gun.js
• Bitcoin

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Tara intro
• Very excited and fascinated with the web
• Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist
• Her experience as a developer
• Started out as a business school dropout
• How did you first get into programming?
• Learned Logo in the second grade
• Loved the ability to help people and create change
• Crystal Reports at Harvard Law
• CS courses with tuition assistance
• Getting back into CS
• Being a non-traditional student
• Finding Women Who Code
• First job as a Node software engineer
• How did Women Who Code help you?
• OpenHatch
• Being familiar with open source software
• The importance of having support
• How did you first get into JavaScript?
• Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails
• Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber
• NG conf
• Her intro to the Angular community in person
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Progress
• React Round Up
• Crystal Reports
• Women Who Code
• Node
• OpenHatch
• JavaScript
• Ruby on Rails
• Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber
• NG conf
• Angular
• @Tzmanics
• tzmanics.com
• Tara’s GitHub

Sponsors:

• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks Charles

• Get a Coder Job Course
• Golf Clash

Tara

• Connect.Tech
• DevFest Atlanta
• Cedar Point

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Orta Therox This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Orta Therox. Orta is a native engineer that believes that the right way to build systems is to understand as many systems as possible. He works predominately on iOS programming at a company called Artsy, where they make it easy to buy and sell art on the internet. He first got into programming because he loved playing video games as a child, loved creating his own video games, and worked his way up from there. They talk about his work at Artsy, how he used open source to learn himself how program, how he got into Ruby and then React and React Native, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 305
• Orta intro
• Artsy
• iOS programming
• Hates lack of documentation
• CocoaPods
• Trouble with building native apps
• His move to React and React Native
• Used to run iOS team at Artsy
• How did you get into programming?
• Played video games as a kid
• Taught himself with books
• Using open source to learn
• Open source by default idea
• Loves giving back through blogging and open source
• How did you get into Ruby?
• MacRuby
• Boundaries are very obvious in React Native
• How did you get into React and React Native?
• Native developers building stuff in JavaScript
• Culture conflicts
• How they dealt with dependencies in their apps
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 305
• Artsy
• CocoaPods
• React
• React Native
• MacRuby
• JavaScript
• @orta
• orta.io
• Orta’s GitHub
• Artsy Engineering

Sponsors:

• Loot Crate
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• South Pacific
• Get a Coder Job course
• Framework Summit

Orta

• Prettier

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kye Hohenberger This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kye Hohenberger. Kye is a senior front-end engineer at Gremlin, where they do chaos as a service and break your stuff on purpose so that you can fix it and it hopefully won’t happen again. He also created the Emotion library, which is a CSS-in-JS library. He first got into programming because his Grandpa was always working on computers and Kye was curious about how they worked. They talk about how he got into JavaScript, what he's built in JavaScript that he’s proud of, what he’s working on now, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 286
• Kye intro
• Works at Gremlin as a front-end engineer
• How did you first get into programming?
• Always had a burning curiosity for computers
• Worked on HTML first
• Worked with flash in High School
• Tried to major in Computer Science and dropped out of it
• Job in IT
• Wordpress maintenance
• Hooked on wanting to learn more
• Python with Django
• What was it that caught your attention?
• How did you get into JavaScript?
• Job at cPanel
• What led you to build something like Emotion?
• Didn’t like having to use the Sass compiler
• What problem were you trying to solve?
• Have you worked on anything else in JavaScript that you’re proud of?
• What are you working on now?
• APIs from Java to Node
• Wrote Qordoba apps for 2 years
• What made you switch from Angular to React?
• Learning WebPack
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 286
• Emotion
• Wordpress
• Python
• Django
• JavaScript
• cPanel
• Sass
• Node
• Angular
• React
• WebPack
• @tkh44
• Kye’s GitHub
• Kye’s Medium

Sponsors:

• Loot Crate
• FreshBooks

Picks Charles

• Home Depot Tool Rentals
• Framework Summit
• Podcast Movement

Kye

• The Console Log
• Brian Holt on Frontend Masters
• Emotion Team