REACTIVE

By Kahlil Lechelt & Henning Glatter-Götz

Technology

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Two friends map, filter and reduce streams of mostly development-related thoughts into audio form.

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REACTIVE episodes:

07.16.2018
100: "guts" Was A Little Gross
We are back! Henning talks about finally launching the first site with the "unified web platform". It's a Vue.js app talking to multiple APIs. Kahlil wrote about enums and made a small CLI tool for common Git tasks called "belly".
05.08.2018
99:
This is Raquel's farewell episode. Sadly she is leaving the podcast as a co-host. But don't fret, she will join us every once-in-a-while to tell us about her adventures at Slack and quirky animals. Other than that your three fav co-hosts...
04.09.2018
98: It's Tiring Too, But It's Good
Henning and Kahlil chop it up about moving in and out of the bay area, mob programming, building a massive e-commerce system and RSS and Twitter.
03.09.2018
97: A Smoother-ish On-Boarding Process
Henning and Kahlil chop it up about learning the systems at a new company, AWS and Kahlil feels that the Angular platform is just now reaching some kind of maturity.
02.06.2018
96: Without Cheese You Are Nothing
Henning and Raquel talk about, the Poison Dart Frog, moving cheese, when to maintain and when to develop features, a laptop theft ring and the fact that Slack is mostly PHP
01.29.2018
95: Career Pro Tip: Make Yourself Irrelevant
Henning and Raquel talk about The Swamp Hackathon, working at Slack and a book called Punished By Reward.
01.23.2018
94: There Are So Many Channels In The Slack Slack
We're back and talk about Raquel working at Slack, Henning and the hackathon, blockchain, Kahlil's new Electron app and Bootstrap 4.
12.20.2017
93: Why Not Put Everything In The JavaScript?
Raquel is off because she just started her new job. Kahlil and Henning discuss overfeatured apps, "portals", Kahlil's job changing news and Web Components for building apps.
12.07.2017
92: I Want Your Ideas, Give Me Your Ideas!
Raquel signed up for Amazon Prime. A Japanese man makes paintings with Excel. Henning is wrestling with code reviews. Somebody tweeted you need a CS degree to program. The flying squirrel is the animal of the day!
12.01.2017
91: Alright Kid, I'm Going To Teach You Basic!
Kahlil is out but Henning and Raquel chop it up and talk about Raquel's staycation, about Henning dealing with Black Friday traffic and how kids can learn how to code.
11.20.2017
90: npm Will Be Giving All Of Their Public Packages Away FOR FREE!!!
Raquel has BIG news. Kahlil did more performing. Henning is working too much because Black Friday. Raquel had a viral tweet. Firefox Quantum is out. Kahlil is still obsessing about Web Components and the CMD-R workflow.
11.08.2017
89: Compose Those Components
Henning is out hosting Possums. Raquel and Kahlil wonder about US politics. Kahlil thinks Web Components are exciting. Screenhero is now in Slack. ES Modules in Chrome work!
10.27.2017
88: I Have To Get On The Phone With The Racoon
Raquel has been kidnapped by a Racoon. Kahlil is back at work. Henning needs a testing framework for APIs. Should applicants have to do a test? Kahlil is back in Nested Loops meetings. Kahlil is watching Mindhunter.
10.23.2017
87: It Didn't Make Sense When I First Heard About It
Hiring is still hard. Henning is building APIs with AWS Lambda. We have a new logo.
10.12.2017
86: Little Fluffy Fluffballs Of Chaos
Panda facts because of a Henning no-show. Kahlil was in Croatia. React is now MIT. npm 2-factor auth, TURN IT ON! China unblocked npmjs.com. Twitter is testing 280 characters. Anonymous hiring with Limbo.io. Web Components are taking off. Python is...
10.06.2017
85: I'm In Awe That It Works As Well As It Does
Sea Urchin facts. Henning tells tales of the hurricane. npm released two-factor authentication. Henning has SAAS issues. Zoom.us is cool.
09.14.2017
84: Special Community Edition III With Guest Fredrik Andersson
Henning's power is out. Fredrik Andersson of Reactive Slack fame joined us for this episode! iPhone X is pronounced iPhone ten. Nordic.js was cool. Ex-Googlers try to kill bodegas with a vending machine. Smart phones drive all the web traffic...
09.08.2017
83: Maybe The Problem Isn't The Food Part
Henning is awaiting the storm. Software devving while blind. Henning got promoted and is hiring a team lead. Anchor.fm has some cool features. Kahlil is working on a new design for his blog.
08.28.2017
82: If There Is A CoC The Rules Are In There For A Reason
This time we needed bear facts to fill in for Henning who was sick unfortunately. Other than that we covered the Node kerfuffle as well as the re-occurance of the React license kerfuffle. Also Kahlil thinks Medium is going down...
08.18.2017
81: This Is Supposed To Just Work
Kahlil wrote about managing Git hooks for a team. npm is working on their new website with their own framework. Prettier is moving quickly. The Lean Startup is a cool scientific way to approach product building. SoundCloud might keep on...
08.10.2017
80: You're Biologically Not Able To Be On This Podcast
Kahlil declares his manifesto. Uber's cars a burning down. ServiceWorker will be landing in Safari soon. Meditation as a tool. JavaScript for people who hate JavaScript. Henning's team is moving to sprints.
08.03.2017
79: I Really Enjoy Refactoring For Some Reason
Henning is out on a conflict resolution retreat with Evil Henning this week. Rockbot tells us about how npm deals with security issues. She also went to the Node Summit. We are fangirling and fanboying over Paul Irish and Rebecca...
07.21.2017
78: Look At The Internet While You Are Driving
Henning went on a brewery tour. SoundCloud still might die. Google Glass is back. Teleporting particles. Facebook development practices
07.13.2017
77: npx tool dadadada
Henning thinks Apple Watch is called iWatch. npx has landed! SoundCloud fired lots of people. Overcast in-app ads are very interesting.
07.06.2017
76: Password Or Monkey
Henning is gone but we have Salmon facts! Was npm hacked
06.29.2017
75: Extremely Small & Very Focused
Kahlil has Hoodie working in tinydraft. He also was at the Glastonbury Festival last week. Henning did many interesting and challenging things at work. Microservices might be in Henning's future. How do Functions-as-a-Service even?!
06.22.2017
74: An Entire System In One Person's Head
Kahlil is out rehearsing. Henning and Raquel are back! They talk rolling out humongous projects, single maintainer projects. There is also some news about Uber, some science stuff and self driving cars in this episode.
06.14.2017
73: Special Community Edition II With Guests Alexander Plavinski and Matthew Setter
Raquel and Henning are out doing important things. Kahlil took the opportunity and asked who wanted to stand in for them from the Reactive community. Meet @cilice and @settermjd from the Reactive Slack chat (join via the link below)!
06.09.2017
72: My Understanding Of The Internet Was Like Swiss Cheese
We're all back. Capybara is the animal of the week. Rockbot spoke at Web Rebels. Henning and Rockbot talk mentoring by pairing. Apple released things. Elon Musk is being awesome again. Rockbot gets into static site generating.
06.02.2017
71: Special Community Edition With Guest Felix Jung
Rockbot is in Norway webrebelling. Henning has job emergencies. Kahlil decided to ask the Reactive Podcast Community Members™ if anybody would like to help out as a co-host. So meet Felix Jung! Reactive Podcast Community Member™! He talks about how...
05.28.2017
70: Frameworks Are Becoming Compilers
The band is back together! Henning watched Moana 100 times. Rockbot had a Twitter break and a 10 year college reunion. Kahlil is porting tinydraft.net to Preact. preact-cli is out. Tom Dales says Frameworks are becoming compilers. Ben Schwarz makes...
05.18.2017
69: What Is This Lockfile Business?
Henning is out battling EvilHenning once again. Snail facts! JSConf EU happened and Kahlil did stuff there. Rockbot will be at WebRebels. npm@5 is coming. Merry
04.20.2017
68: It's Enough For Me To Know The Gist
Henning is out so we have Mosquito facts! Glitch is a place where you can learn how to dev even. CodePen launched Projects. VPN for Americans. Kahlil shipped tinydraft. Instagram is eating everything.
04.16.2017
67: It Lets You Get In At The 10th Or 15th Floor
You can find out if you have been pwned. LastPass had a breach. The Manager's Path is a cool book. Mastodon is a thing. So is Scuttlebutt. Windows 10 is ugly. There is npm news! Twitter made a PWA. Is...
04.06.2017
66: Our Commits Really Do Matter
Raquel and Henning have Manager Problems™. Kahlil writes bad commit messages. Henning is starting Brown Bag Talks at work. Raquel is kinda obsessed with the iPad Pro. Ember releases Glimmer.js. React is ruling framework-land. Node 6 had an issue. npm...
03.17.2017
65: The Principle Of Least Astonishment
Animal of the week ... Kea. Raquel is back from nz.js. Wikileaks happened. Uber just can't help it. Lots of JS news from Kahlil: webpack, cycle.js, Rails loves JS, Hoodie.js and Quokka.js. Jenn Schiffer has a new job!
03.02.2017
64: 100.000.000.000 packages
Raquel is heading to NZ. Cloudflare had some really bad days last week. AWS had a meltdown. npm has served up a HUGE number of packages. Goat facts. What happens to your digital assets when you depart this planet? Giving...
02.23.2017
63: Crazy Stuff At Uber
Kahlil is in a music video. Raquel is out. Disney has some cool tech at Magic Kingdom. Henning talks about work stuff. A mini jsonapi update. Crazy disturbing things at Uber. DHH tweets.
02.17.2017
62: Using Facts Instead Of Emotion
Henning was at Sunshine PHP. Henning bought his son a Lego Mindstorm Set. Raquel switched to Visual Studio Code. Node might be in Hennings future. Next.js v2 is coming. Henning shipped JSON API endpoints. We talk about bringing work laptops...
02.13.2017
61: The Only Way Forward Is Write Something, Anything
Henning is out being a super-bat-dad. We have bat facts! npm is hiring. regexr.com is a cool tool. How do we remember useful things? Helium is also a cool tool. GitLab had a fiasco. How to keep up writing regularly...
02.02.2017
60: How To Refactor, When To Refactor
Henning is out on mission once again. Rockbot is back from ScriptConf in Austria. Kahlil works on a big Angular Reactive form. We like refactoring. More React code will come to npmjs.com. Unsplash has a cool story. Facebook Stories are...
01.20.2017
59: Altaba Is Basically Yahoo's Zombie Name
While Henning is out fighting the sinister doings of Evil-Henning, Kahlil and Raquel talk about tech stuff! The Basilisk Lizard is the animal of the week. Trello has been sold to Atlassian. Rockbot is off to Austria next week. Medium...
12.30.2016
58: Job Title: Owner Advisor
There are panthers in Florida. Raquel got a new MacBook Pro. Tesla is doing radar magic. The uber comedy continues. npm has a NEW search. The GOP is doing sad stuff. A new markdown editor called Typora.
12.22.2016
57: How Delicious Was The T-Rex?
We are down a(n) Henning and that's why we have chicken facts!!! Kahlil has problems believing anything any officials say about hacking elections. Slack now has video calls. Skype does not care about security. Kahlil wrote a thing on his...
12.15.2016
56: Things Going The Way Of The Dodo
Kahlil caught something. Some duck facts. Storage space problems. Google gives up on self-driving cars. Pebble went away. Uber is testing self-driving cars. You should use 2-factor authentication.
12.13.2016
55: I've Been Up To ... Stuff
Raquel is back from Singapore where Monitor Lizards roam. Amazon is building a new kind of store. Thoughts on open source maintainer burnout. Standing desks. A new really good podcast.
11.10.2016
54: There Was An Election
All together again - finally! The election happened and we cannot help but vent. Raquel is going on some exciting trips. JSConf EU was announced. How to teach programming to kids. Next.js is pretty cool and butterfly feet.
10.28.2016
53: It's About Removing Cognitive Load
Grizzly bear facts. Baby talk. Henning is team-lead now. JSON API + Swagger = <3. Linting, commit messages & style guides. Kahlil was on a two-day bug-hunt. React Fiber is a thing.
10.15.2016
52: Keep The Fuzzies Going
This week's animal facts are about the European Hedgehog. Facebook released Yarn - a new npm CLI client. Florida has hurricanes, California has earthquakes. The sad state of people securing their sensitive data. How to get developers to agree on stuff. Remote...
09.30.2016
51: This Is Not Necessarily My Favorite Subject Ever
Kahlil is a dad! Twitter is for sale. Babel, Seti, Mars and other small news items. Homebrew hit 1.0.0. Raquel and Henning still don't like Snap Chat. Interviewing is hard. Raquel's upcoming talks.

What's REACTIVE about?

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REACTIVE episodes:

100: "guts" Was A Little Gross

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98: It's Tiring Too, But It's Good

97: A Smoother-ish On-Boarding Process

96: Without Cheese You Are Nothing

95: Career Pro Tip: Make Yourself Irrelevant

94: There Are So Many Channels In The Slack Slack

93: Why Not Put Everything In The JavaScript?

92: I Want Your Ideas, Give Me Your Ideas!

91: Alright Kid, I'm Going To Teach You Basic!

90: npm Will Be Giving All Of Their Public Packages Away FOR FREE!!!

89: Compose Those Components

88: I Have To Get On The Phone With The Racoon

87: It Didn't Make Sense When I First Heard About It

86: Little Fluffy Fluffballs Of Chaos

85: I'm In Awe That It Works As Well As It Does

84: Special Community Edition III With Guest Fredrik Andersson

83: Maybe The Problem Isn't The Food Part

82: If There Is A CoC The Rules Are In There For A Reason

81: This Is Supposed To Just Work

80: You're Biologically Not Able To Be On This Podcast

79: I Really Enjoy Refactoring For Some Reason

78: Look At The Internet While You Are Driving

77: npx tool dadadada

76: Password Or Monkey

75: Extremely Small & Very Focused

74: An Entire System In One Person's Head

73: Special Community Edition II With Guests Alexander Plavinski and Matthew Setter

72: My Understanding Of The Internet Was Like Swiss Cheese

71: Special Community Edition With Guest Felix Jung

70: Frameworks Are Becoming Compilers

69: What Is This Lockfile Business?

68: It's Enough For Me To Know The Gist

67: It Lets You Get In At The 10th Or 15th Floor

66: Our Commits Really Do Matter

65: The Principle Of Least Astonishment

64: 100.000.000.000 packages

63: Crazy Stuff At Uber

62: Using Facts Instead Of Emotion

61: The Only Way Forward Is Write Something, Anything

60: How To Refactor, When To Refactor

59: Altaba Is Basically Yahoo's Zombie Name

58: Job Title: Owner Advisor

57: How Delicious Was The T-Rex?

56: Things Going The Way Of The Dodo

55: I've Been Up To ... Stuff

54: There Was An Election

53: It's About Removing Cognitive Load

52: Keep The Fuzzies Going

51: This Is Not Necessarily My Favorite Subject Ever