The Code Review

KPIs, APIs and FYIs this week in the office as we discuss the awkward nature of being measured as a developer, a new Node.js Infusionsoft REST API library developed by Dylan and building your GitHub portfolio. We give tips and examples of each topic and try like hell to illustrate how all three can be revelant to a dev at the same time.

What is a KPI:  https://www.klipfolio.com/resources/articles/what-is-a-key-performance-indicator 

Node Infusionsoft REST API SDK:  https://github.com/knowareco/infusionsoft-rest 

Midfix for Foundation 5:  https://github.com/dylantmarsh/foundation-midfix

Send us a link to your portfolio and we will spread the love and even feature some cool projects we find on future episodes.

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 We are back in the office and this week we are giving you a quick update on the Supreme Court decision to allow an antitrust lawsuit to proceed against Apple over appstore commissions and Netflix's love of Python. Opinions and facts on this edition of Nowadays and we hope you enjoy it. See you in a few days for our next full episode.

As always, subcribe and share! We need your support to continue producing content and to convice guests to hang out in our office for an hour. :)

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WE ARE BACK and Dylan's sister Emily is joining us in the office this week because she is learning to code! We thought it would be a great opportuninty to discuss learning code in 2019 with someone who is just beginning the journey. We also explore the topic of going to college or learning solo and the importance of networking either way.

Brandon's Medium Article - Getting Started As A Self-Taught Developer:  https://medium.com/knoware/getting-started-as-a-self-taught-developer-4d5796fa5f7d

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We renamed our short segment to NOWADAYS! We are back in the office and this week we are giving you a quick update on Electron 5 and a new package manager for Web Assembly WAPM. We say WASM WAPM one too many times and break down some of the key notes of these two new releases.

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Back with our full episode on our new twice a week schedule! This week we discuss our opinions on Vue.js, the May 2nd 2019 Microsoft Azure outage, the relatable pains of data/systems migration, and the Open Platform fintech API by BBVA.

Vue.js:  https://vuejs.org/ 

More information on the Azure outage:  https://www.zdnet.com/article/azure-global-outage-our-dns-update-mangled-domain-records-says-microsoft/ 

BBVA Open Platform:  https://bbvaopenplatform.com 

Cambr:  https://cambr.com/ 

StoneCastle:  https://stonecastle.com/ 

Q2:  https://www.q2ebanking.com/ 

Stripe Issuing:  https://stripe.com/issuing 

Plaid:  https://plaid.com/ 

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It's Twosday! We are back in the office and this week we are doing things differently. The Code Review will now release episodes twice a week with a short news highlight episode on Tuesday and our full weekly episode on Friday. On our very first Twosday episode we discuss:

Facebook F8 conference

Vue 3

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"Squeaky clean!" - Brandon Thimmesch

HAPPY EASTER! We are back in the office and this week we discuss how to stay healthy at your desk job, being a contractor vs a salaried employee, and marketing yourself/your app. Some hot tips in this episode involving tax benefits, specific tips to execute influencer marketing, and more so don't miss out. If everyone likes the format of this show in comparison to some of the other topics we have discussed so far, please let us know @codereviewpod on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram or email us at [email protected]

Intuit on S-Corp distributions

If you organize your business as an S-corporation, you can classify some of your income as salary and some as a distribution. You'll still be liable for self-employment taxes on the salary portion of your income, but you'll just pay ordinary income tax on the distribution portion. Depending on how you divide your income, you could save a substantial amount of self-employment taxes just by converting to an S-corporation.

 https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/small-business-taxes/how-an-s-corp-can-reduce-your-self-employment-taxes/L4abUcaRn 

Deeper dive into Influencer Marketing

 At its most basic, Influencer Marketing is like a hybrid of old and new marketing tools, taking the idea of the celebrity endorsement and placing it into a modern day content-driven marketing campaign. The main difference is that the results of the campaign are usually collaborations between brands and influencers. 

 https://influencermarketinghub.com/what-is-influencer-marketing/ 

Welcome back everyone! This week we have Jason Dufair in the office, a senior developer for Purdue University and all around programming OG. We talk about live coding music (programming music in real-time for an audience), Lisp, and cryptocurrency.

Special thanks to Jason for being on the podcast and enlightening us on some seriously cool stuff. Warning: this episode will greatly expand your list of hobbies.

You can check out some of Jason's code on Github at https://github.com/jkdufair

Notes from Jason for our listeners:

Sam Aaron Ted talk about Sonic Pi: https://youtu.be/TK1mBqKvIyU

Andrew Sorensen: https://youtu.be/yY1FSsUV-8c

Beating the Averages (my red pill entry to lisp): http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

More specifically about lisp, also Paul graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html

SICP (the mit book on how to build lisp from the ground up): https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html

kazkylheku on reddit: If you know Lisp very well, you kind of have a key to any language. Python, Ruby and Java are just collections of awkward syntactic sugar to some mutilated subset of Lisp semantics.

Paul Graham: Lisp looks strange not so much because it has a strange syntax as because it has no syntax; you express programs directly in the parse trees that get built behind the scenes when other languages are parsed, and these trees are made of lists, which are Lisp data structures.

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This week we have guest Chad Q. Brown in the office who is the President and Founder of Profile, a behavioral profiling company that specializes in workplace personalities. We talk about tips for dev intereviews that goes beyond the whiteboard, surviving the dev team as a newbie and imposter syndrome.

Special thanks to Chad for being on the podcast and we hope to have you back soon! If you liked this episode and would like to hear more guests like Chad, please reach out to us and let us know!

Learn more about Profile: http://profile.team/

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This week we talk about a great way to supercharge your CSS workflow with Sass, wrapping your head around the mystery of node_modules, and alternative browsers for Chrome users.

App of the Week: https://tinypng.com/ (its just rad)

Special thanks to David G. for requesting the Sass topic. Follow him on Twitter @davygxyz

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LINKS:

Sass: https://sass-lang.com/ 

Brave: https://brave.com/ 

Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com/ 

Ahrefs: https://ahrefs.com/ 

TinyPNG: https://tinypng.com/