This week is the first part of a two episode miniseries on interviewing! We brave the thunder and lightning to talk about the candidate's point of view and share some tips and interviewing horror stories. We try out a new "What are you learning?" intro, Evan has good news about trees and Joe has good news about a cloud.

This week's article: F*** you I Quit, Hiring is Broken

Music by Hina and Kevin MacLeod

Our first guest! Seraphina Orsini drops in to talk about open source sustainability with this week's article Sponsoring Dependencies. We reminisce about the time we were all on the same team, Joe forgets to introduce Seraphina with her full name, and Evan forgets where Antarctica is.

The other article we mention is Don't be that open source user, don't be me.

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This week we read Write Code Every Day by James Resig and talk about our own experiences keeping up a coding habit. We also mention 180 websites in 180 days by Jennifer Dewalt, Evan learning to type again, and Joe feeling unprepared for his upcoming exam.

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In this episode, we talk about one person's journey to becoming a staff engineer. We talk about the good traits of senior+ engineers, a bit about how to get there, and some things we think a senior+ shouldn't do. 

Also, Joe shamelessly self-promotes his new Let's Build Tetris! youtube series (jk, he paid me to introduce it "naturally").

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In this episode, we talk about the cost of convenience by surma.dev. We discuss what makes a good abstraction, go off on a few philosophical tangents, and bring it all back together with a staggering quote of heartbreaking genius in the middle (you'll have to listen for it). 

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This week we talk about Hyperscript and HTMX, a new-ish scripting language and its HTML-based cousin. Will it be the language that usurps JavaScript? Only time will tell. We also talk Vim and VSCode, tree structures and Tetris, and bring you some cruise-based news on the Good News Cruise.

The article: Reimagining front-end web development with HTMX and Hyperscript

The sources: HTMX and Hyperscript

Joe's Tetris video series: Let's Build Tetris!

Music by Hina and Kevin MacLeod

In this episode, we have another multi-article adventure. We start by talking about The Collapse of Complex Software, an article about how developers don't know how to delete code, then add depth by getting into a Build Your Own Framework hacker news flame war.

We also apologize to Syntax, Evan compares engineers to farmers (then archeologists), and Joe experiments with terrible sound effects.

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In this episode we read an article about Bun, a new JS runtime that has the community abuzz. We talk about the hype and the downsides of using beta software, and the trap of simple performance tests. We also talk about puppet master hamsters and Evan's part-time job as Reddit Batman. 

Here's the article if you want to follow along: https://techsparx.com/nodejs/bun/1st-trial.html

Fireship's 3 minute intro to Bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMhScnY0dME

The video where ThePrimeagen breaks Bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYFepR4GcE

Bun on GitHub: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun

In this episode, we talk about this article, "The End of Localhost" by Swyx.

We cover what the world will look like in 2030, the challenges of ephemeral dev environments, and how we are both old farts who like coding on our personal machines (for now). Also, Joe refers to the internet as "Internet". 

Joe and Evan talk about hydration with Quik, and some other stuff.  

The article: https://thenewstack.io/javascript-hydration-is-a-workaround-not-a-solution/