Shows
devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software DevelopmentCharles Lowell - Frontside, Effection, and Structured ConcurrencyThis week we talk to Charles Lowell, a developer and consultant who has created a library called Effection. Effection is a library that allows you to write structured concurrency code in JavaScript. What is structured concurrency and how could it be useful for you? Find out in this episode!https://frontside.com/effectionhttps://github.com/thefrontside/effectionhttps://frontside.com/effection/contrib/https://frontside.com/Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the ad-free episode.https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfmhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribehttps://podcasts.apple.com...2025-03-1053 min
Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, NeatAlternatives to Relay, the GraphQL Stack, and Adulthood with Charles Lowell and Taras MankovskiJust because something is widely used doesn't always mean it's your best solution. Frontside Founder Charles Lowell and CEO Taras Mankovski, stumbled into an alt GraphQL stack simply because the nature of a product didn't mesh with Apollo. After happening upon two up-and-coming technologies, GraphQL modules and Envelope, a solution was born, as was a newfound flexibility with GraphQL stacks.
In this episode, Charles and Taras talk with Chuck and Robbie about their accidental developer discovery, the drawbacks of UI libraries, what a Relay alternative looks like, what in the world Pact is, and why adulthood is...2022-03-1759 min
Software Defined TalkKubernetes for developers, with Charles Lowell"I don't care about networking...and load balancing."
There's a lot of new concepts and stuff to learn when it comes to developing applications that will run on kubernetes. In this episode, Coté talks with Charles Lowell about his experience. Also, we imagine measuring the humidity of mayonnaise.
If you need some excellent app coding, check out Charle's company, Frontside! They also have a podcast where they discuss recent programming frameworks and idea, and relating coding cool stuff.
You may recall that Charles was the co-host of Coté's first podcast empire, DrunkAndRetired.co...2020-02-1452 min
The Frontside PodcastBig Ideas & The Future at The FrontsideIn this episode, Charles and Taras discuss "big ideas" and all the things they hope to accomplish at The Frontside over the next decade.
Please join us in these conversations! If you or someone you know would be a perfect guest, please get in touch with us at contact@frontside.io. Our goal is to get people thinking on the platform level which includes tooling, internalization, state management, routing, upgrade, and the data layer.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello and welcome...2019-10-0330 min
The Frontside PodcastTransparent DevelopmentIn this episode, Charles and Taras discuss "transparent development" and why it's not only beneficial to development teams, but to their clients as well.
Please join us in these conversations! If you or someone you know would be a perfect guest, please get in touch with us at contact@frontside.io. Our goal is to get people thinking on the platform level which includes tooling, internalization, state management, routing, upgrade, and the data layer.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello and welcome...2019-09-2647 min
The Frontside PodcastSvelte and Reactivity with Rich HarrisRich Harris talks about Svelte and Reactivity.
Rich Harris: Graphics Editor on The New York Times investigations team.
Resources:
Svelte
Please join us in these conversations! If you or someone you know would be a perfect guest, please get in touch with us at contact@frontside.io. Our goal is to get people thinking on the platform level which includes tooling, internalization, state management, routing, upgrade, and the data layer.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello and welcome...2019-09-0452 min
The Frontside PodcastSecurity with Philippe De RyckPhilippe De Ryck joins the show to talk all things security: the importance and why you should be taking active steps, how to do it in your codebase effectively, and what can happen during a breach.
Philippe De Ryck: Pragmatic Web Security
Resources:
OWASP Top 10
OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls
Please join us in these conversations! If you or someone you know would be a perfect guest, please get in touch with us at contact@frontside.io. Our goal is to get people thinking on the platform level which includes tooling, internalization, state management...2019-06-1349 min
The Frontside PodcastAn Analysis of NativeScript Mobile PlatformIn this internal Frontside Podcast episode, Charles, Taras, and Jeffrey analyze the NativeScript Mobile Platform.
Please join us in these conversations! If you or someone you know would be a perfect guest, please get in touch with us at contact@frontside.io. Our goal is to get people thinking on the platform level which includes tooling, internalization, state management, routing, upgrade, and the data layer.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, a place where we talk...2019-05-2445 min
The Frontside PodcastDeployment with Luke Melia, Aaron Chambers, and Mattia GhedaLuke Melia, Aaron Chambers, and Mattia Gheda john Taras and Charles to discuss all things deployment!
Luke Melia: Luke has been working with Ember since it was under early development as Sproutcore 2.0. Ember.js powers a SaaS company he co-founded, Yapp, and they funded their business for a couple of years doing Ember consulting under the Yapp Labs moniker. They’re full-time on product now, and his engineering team at Yapp (currently 3 people) maintains around 6 Ember apps. Luke helps to maintain a bunch of popular addons, including ember-cli-deploy, ember-modal-dialog, ember-wormhole, ember-tether, and more. He started the Ember NY...2019-05-0348 min
The Frontside PodcastPull Requests with Joe LeBlancJoe joins the panelists to talk about pull request etiquette.
Joe Leblanc: Joe first learned to code on a Zenith computer his dad brought home from work. It had this built in blue LCD monitor and ran on 5 1/4" floppy disks. He used spreadsheets for work and Joe was interested. They spent about an hour going over macros together and he took off from there. Long after the Zenith died, the open-source content management system Joomla! landed in the center of his attention. Joe found himself writing a book about Joomla programming, authoring video tutorials about Joomla for...2019-04-1130 min
The Frontside PodcastFrontend/Backend Team Collaboration with Sam JosephSam joins the panelists to talk about frontend and backend team collaboration.
Resources:
Worse is better
The Tao of Microservices by Richard Rodger
Sam Joseph is a CoFounder of AgileVentures, a charity that helps groups of volunteers gather online to develop open source solutions for other charities all around the world. Sam’s been mucking about with computers since the early 80s and followed the traditional education system through to a PhD in Neural Nets. Next he went all industry, researching mobile agents at Toshiba in Japan, going freelance and then swung back to academia to...2019-03-2949 min
The Frontside PodcastTeam Collaboration with Jacob StoebelJacob joins the panelists to talk about team collaboration based on his RubyConf 2017 talk, Code Reviews: Honesty, Kindness, Inspiration: Pick Three.
Jacob Stoebel is a software developer living in Berea, KY. He spends his days writing web applications in Ruby, JavaScript, and Python, working with data, and leveling up as a software engineer. He works and studies at Berea College. You can find out more about Jacob at jstoebel.com.
Please join us in these conversations! If you or someone you know would be a perfect guest, please get in touch with us at contact...2019-03-1444 min
All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tvMJS 097: Charles LowellSponsors
Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan
Clubhouse
CacheFly
Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Charles Lowell
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Charles Lowell, founder and developer at The Frontside Software based in Austin, TX.
Listen to Charles on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode.
Links
JavaScript Jabber 337: Microstates.js – Composable State Primitives for JavaScript with Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski
Charles Lowell’s...2019-03-0656 min
All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tvMJS 097: Charles LowellSponsors
Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan
Clubhouse
CacheFly
Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Charles Lowell
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Charles Lowell, founder and developer at The Frontside Software based in Austin, TX.
Listen to Charles on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode.
Links
JavaScript Jabber 337: Microstates.js – Composable State Primitives for JavaScript with Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski
Charles Lowell’s...2019-03-0656 min
My JavaScript StoryMJS 097: Charles LowellSponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small planClubhouseCacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Charles Lowell Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Charles Lowell, founder and developer at The Frontside Software based in Austin, TX. Listen to Charles on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. Links JavaScript Jabber 337: Microstates.js – Composable State Primitives for JavaScript with Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski Charles Lowell’s TwitterCharles Lowell’s GitHubCharles Lowell’s Frontside Biohttps://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv Picks Charles Lowell: Yousician App Charles Max Wood: Parade of Homes - St. Georg2019-03-0656 min
My JavaScript StoryMJS 097: Charles LowellSponsors
Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan
Clubhouse
CacheFly
Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Charles Lowell
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Charles Lowell, founder and developer at The Frontside Software based in Austin, TX.
Listen to Charles on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode.
Links
JavaScript Jabber 337: Microstates.js – Composable State Primitives for JavaScript with Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski
Charles Lowell’s...2019-03-0600 min
The Frontside PodcastWhat’s in a UI platform?Here it is, folks! The first episode of our newly rebranded "Frontside Platform Podcast". In this episode, we talk about why platform? What is going to come out of these conversations over time? Our goal is to get people thinking on the platform level which includes tooling, internalization, state management, routing, upgrade, and the data layer.
We also want to get people thinking categorically, rather than in the moment:
Planning strategically
Recognizing and knowing obstacles - matching
Don't want the framework, but still have the problems
Virtue is a weakness in different contexts
Laziness is a...2019-01-2424 min
The Frontside Podcast117: The Frontside Podcast 2019 Reboot PreviewWe're rebooting The Frontside podcast with a focus on JavaScript platforms. We'll zero-in on what it takes to build, maintain and grow web applications using popular JavaScript frameworks and tools. Join us for deep architectural conversations, interviews with fascinating speakers and stories from the the trenches of building large platforms.
2018-12-2702 min
The Frontside Podcast116: Styled Components and Functional CSS with Kris Van HoutenSpecial Guest:
Kris Van Houten: @krivaten | krivaten.com
In this episode, we are joined by Kris Van Houten to chat about Functional CSS and Styled Components: pros and cons, the problems that they are trying to solve, and how to choose between one or the other.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
DAVID: Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 116 of The Frontside Podcast. I'm David Keathley, a software developer here at Frontside and I'll be your host for today's episode. Joining me as...2018-12-2032 min
The Frontside Podcast115: Testing Issues and BigTest SolutionsIn this internal episode, Charles and Wil talk about testing issues and BigTest solutions. Pieces of the testing story are discussed, such as the start and launch
application, component setup and teardown, interacting with the application and component, convergent assertions, and network. Then they talk about testing issues: the fact that cross browser and device-simulated browsers are not good enough, maintainability and when and when not to DRY (RYE), slowness and why (acceptance) testing is slow, portability and why tests are coupled to the framework, and reliability. Finally, they talk about BigTest solutions:
@bigtest/cli to start...2018-11-2950 min
The Frontside Podcast114: The Business Case for Experimentation with Elm with Dillon KearnsGuest:
Dillon Kearns: @dillontkearns | GitHub | Incremental Elm
In this episode, Dillon Kearns joins the show to talk about techniques for experimentation with Elm, making those experiments safe, the concept of mob programming, why you would want to experiment with Elm in the first place, and how you too can begin to experiment with Elm.
Resources:
Grant Maki's talk on experimenting in your team
"Types Without Borders" by Dillon Kearns @ Elm Conf 2018
Dillon's Elm GraphQL library
How Elm Code Tends Towards Simplicity by Dillon Kearns
The CSS as ByteCode Talk by Richard Feldman
2018-11-0850 minAll JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tvJSJ 337: Microstates.js – Composable State Primitives for JavaScript with Charles Lowell & Taras MankovskiPanel:
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood
Joe Eames
AJ O’Neil
Chris Ferdinandi
Special Guests: Charles Lowell (New Mexico) & Taras Mankovski (Toronto)
In this episode, the panel talks with two special guests Charles and Taras. Charles Lowell is a principle engineer at Frontside, and he loves to code. Taras works with Charles and joined Frontside, because of Charles’ love for coding. There are great personalities at Frontside, which are quite diverse. Check out this episode to hear about microstates, microstates with react, Redux, and much more!
Show Topics:
2018-10-301h 18All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tvJSJ 337: Microstates.js – Composable State Primitives for JavaScript with Charles Lowell & Taras MankovskiPanel:
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood
Joe Eames
AJ O’Neil
Chris Ferdinandi
Special Guests: Charles Lowell (New Mexico) & Taras Mankovski (Toronto)
In this episode, the panel talks with two special guests Charles and Taras. Charles Lowell is a principle engineer at Frontside, and he loves to code. Taras works with Charles and joined Frontside, because of Charles’ love for coding. There are great personalities at Frontside, which are quite diverse. Check out this episode to hear about microstates, microstates with react, Redux, and much more!
Show Topics:
2018-10-301h 18
JavaScript JabberJSJ 337: Microstates.js – Composable State Primitives for JavaScript with Charles Lowell & Taras MankovskiPanel: Aimee KnightCharles Max WoodJoe EamesAJ O’NeilChris Ferdinandi Special Guests: Charles Lowell (New Mexico) & Taras Mankovski (Toronto)In this episode, the panel talks with two special guests Charles and Taras. Charles Lowell is a principle engineer at Frontside, and he loves to code. Taras works with Charles and joined Frontside, because of Charles’ love for coding. There are great personalities at Frontside, which are quite diverse. Check out this episode to hear about microstates, microstates with react, Redux, and much more!Show Topics:1:20 – Chuck: Let’s talk about microstates – what is that?1:32 – Guest: My mind is focused on the how and not th...2018-10-301h 18
The Frontside Podcast113: There and Back Again: A Quest For Simplicity with Philip PootsGuest:
Philip Poots: GitHub | ClubCollect
Previous Episode: 056: Ember vs. Elm: The Showdown with Philip Poots
In this episode, Philip Poots joins the show again to talk about the beauty of simplicity, the simplicity and similarities between Elm and Ruby programming languages, whether Elixir is a distant cousin of the two, the complexity of Ember and JavaScript ecosystems (Ember helps, but is fighting a losing battle), static vs. dynamic, the ease of Rails (productivity), and the promise of Ember (productivity, convention).
The panel also talks about the definition of "quality", making code...2018-10-2545 min
The Frontside Podcast112: Language Formation with Amanda Hickman and Amberley RomoGuests:
Amanda Hickman: @amandabee | GitHub
Amberley Romo: @amberleyjohanna | GitHub | Blog
In this episode, Amanda Hickman and Amberley Romo talk about how they paired up to get the safety pin, spool of thread, and the knitting yarn and needles emojis approved by the Unicode Committee so that now they are available for use worldwide.
They also talk about how their two path crossed, how you can pitch and get involved in making your own emojis, and detail their quest to get a regular sewing needle approved as well.
Resources:
Unicode Technical Committee
Draft...2018-10-1157 min
The Frontside Podcast111: Accessibility in Single Page ApplicationsIn this episode, Robert, Charles, and Wil talk about the whys and hows of accessibility, as well as what makes single page applications special, why they are they harder for accessibility, and frameworks that can do this for you.
Resources:
#SkyQ app on #iOS from a #VoiceOver user's Perspective
Rob's Routing Doc
Wil's PR
Single Page Apps routers are broken
Greater Than Code Episode #92: A11y Ally with Rob DeLuca
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
ROBERT: Hello everyone. Welcome to The Frontside Podcast...2018-09-2053 min
React Round UpRRU 028: “Microstates.js – Composable State Primitive” with Taras Mankovski & Charles LowellPanel: Charles (Chuck) Max WoodLucas Reis Special Guests: Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski In this episode, the panel talks with two special guests Charles and Taras. Charles Lowell is a principle engineer at Frontside, and he loves to code. Taras works with Charles and joined Frontside, because of Charles’ love for coding. There are great personalities at Frontside, which are quite diverse. Check out this episode to hear about microstates, microstates with react, OM, Redux, and much more! Show Topics: 2:32 – Chuck: Why do we need it (microstates) and why do we need another state library? 2:42 – Charles answers Chuck’s question. Charles goes to...2018-09-1146 min
The Frontside Podcast110: Mentorship 3.0 with Saron YitbarekGuest:
Saron Yitbarek: @saronyitbarek | bloggytoons | CodeNewbie | @CodeNewbies
In this episode, Charles and Sam talk to Saron Yitbarek about her idea of mentorship, ideas for distributed learning for businesses to promote individual and company growth, and why it's important to take "digital sabbaths" on the regular.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
SAM: Hey, everyone. Welcome to Episode 110 of The Frontside Podcast. My name is Sam Keathley. I'm a developer here at the Frontside and I will be your episode host. Today, we're here with...2018-09-0741 min
The Frontside Podcast109: What Do You Need in a JavaScript Framework?Guests:
Brandon Hays: @tehviking | Blog
Chris Freeman: @15lettermax
In this episode, former Fronsiders, Brandon Hays and Chris Freeman join Charles and Taras to talk about the difference between a framework and a library, whether or not React + Redux a framework in itself, red flags to signal that you’re actually building a framework, attributes of a good framework, how can you tell if you created a bad framework, and how you can make a bad framework better.
Resources:
Test Sizes by Simon Stewart
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of De...2018-08-2357 min
The Frontside Podcast108: Running an Online-Only, Free Conference on Twitch with Kristian FreemanIn this episode, Kristian Freeman tells us about ByteConf React: why he decided to start the conference, unique challenges of putting an online conference together, what he expects in terms of viewership and his hope for sponsors, and supporting speakers who haven’t recorded videos or maybe haven't ever even given a talk before.
ByteConf will take place on Friday, August 31, 2018! Grab your ticket!
References:
Twitter
Facebook
Twitch
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
TRANSCRIPT:
ROBERT: Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode #108 of The Fr...2018-08-0956 min
The Frontside Podcast107: Microstates Part IIIn the last episode, we spoke a lot about the "why?" behind microstates. This time we wanted to cover how ideas in Microstates map to different patterns used to build JavaScript applications using frameworks like React, Ember, Vue and Angular. We discussed what you need to know about Microstates if you prefer component state architecture or global store architecture like Redux, as well as how setState in React can be refactored to use Microstates. We closed off with the comments about the trade offs that component heavy frameworks make by overemphasizing the view layer at expense of other aspects...2018-08-0246 min
The Frontside Podcast106: MicrostatesIn part I of The Frontside's microstates series, Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski, and David Keathley talk about state management that’s easy and fun and transactionality.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Upcoming Conference Talks:
Toronto.js - July 30th (Taras)
Manhattan.js - August 8th (Taras)
ReactJS Austin August 6th (Charles)
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 106. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at Frontside and I'm going to be hosting today's episode and we're going to be...2018-07-2055 min
The Frontside Podcast105: Automating GitHub with ProbotSpecial Guests: Brian Douglas and Bex Warner of GitHub.
In this episode, the panelists talk about automating GitHub with Probot. The origins of Probot are discussed, as well as making GitHub apps with the GitHub API, automating workflows with Probot, must-have Probots for every repo, and GitHub’s V4 GraphQL API.
References:
Microstates README
Probot
github.com/integrations/slack
github.com/marketplace/pull-reminders
platform.github.community/c/integrations
probot.github.io/apps/unfurl-links/
probot.github.io/docs/deployment/
probot.github.io/docs/extensions/#scheduler
probot.github.io/community
This show was produced by Ma...2018-07-0547 min
The Frontside Podcast104: Blockchain Development with Chris MartinIn this episode, Chris Martin of Type Classes and Joe LaSala of The Frontside talk about blockchain development.
Do you have opinions on this show? Want to hear about a specific topic in the future? Reach out to us at contact@frontside.io or on Twitter at @thefrontside.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
TRANSCRIPT:
JOE: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Episode 104 of The Frontside Podcast. I'm Joe LaSala. I'm a developer here at the Frontside and I'm going to be hosting today's episode. Today we're...2018-06-2835 min
The Frontside Podcast103: React Components with Michael JacksonIn this episode, Michael Jackson of React Training and Rob DeLuca and Taras Mankovski of The Frontside talk about what is a component, and what a component is specifically in the context of React.
They also discuss when it stops being a component and becomes something larger, how it has changed the way we develop UI, and thoughts on container and presentational components being synonyms for controller and view.
References
The Tweet that started it all
Wil Wilsman: Does my application work in real life?
Do you have opinions on this show? Want...2018-06-1548 min
The Frontside Podcast102: FOLIO with Harry KaplanianIn this episode, Harry Kaplanian of EBSCO joins the show to talk about the FOLIO project: a community collaboration to develop an open source Library Services Platform (LSP) designed for innovation. He discusses the why behind the the decision made to embark on this project, the benefits it brings to the market, and what makes it different from current offerings and other open source projects.
Harry also shares where he sees FOLIO going in the future, challenging and unexpected outcomes of making the choice to go open source, and advice for other businesses that are considering embarking...2018-05-3140 min
The Frontside Podcast101: Fullstack / Backend / Frontend: What’s the Difference?In this episode of The Frontside Podcast, panelists Charles Lowell, Rob DeLuca, and Sam Keathley, discuss how much the distinction between frontend, backend, and fullstack developers matter in both personal and professional senses.
The differences in mindset between these categories are also discussed, for example, how does a fullstack developer solve a problem vs how a backend or frontend developer? And also, how clear (or fuzzy) is the line that separates them? What are the skills a frontend or backend developer needs to consider themselves fully fullstack? And finally, is there any sort of tribal separation between...2018-05-2443 min
The Frontside Podcast100: 100th Episode Celebration with Brandon HaysFrontside alum and original podcast host, Brandon Hays, makes a special guest appearance to talk with Charles about the evolution of The Frontside as a company: where it's been, where it's going, and more hopes, dreams, and goals for the future!
Transcript
CHARLES: Hello everybody. Welcome to The Frontside Podcast Episode 100. Here we are. Episode 100. My name is Charles Lowell. I’m a developer here at The Frontside and I think it’s safe to say, your official podcast host. With me to celebrate the 100th episode, he was also here a few episodes ago but...2018-05-0155 min
The Frontside Podcast099: Funcadelic with Taras MankovskiTaras Mankovski: tarasm
In this episode, Taras and Charles talk about a project that they work on together: Funcadelic - a Functional Programming and Category Theory for Everyday JavaScript Development.
Funcadelic takes the simple idea that a single function can operate on many different data structures (typeclass oriented programming) and brings it to JavaScript. Yes, there are a lot of FP libraries out there, but this one is geared towards unlocking the magical powers of functional programming while always maintaining a tangible and accessible experience for JavaScript developers. Because if you're a JavaScript developer today...2018-04-1243 min
The Frontside Podcast098: Experience First DevelopmentThis Frontsider panel episode explores what virtues go into making quality software, such as having tests, making sure software is performant and accessible, and why you should try to avoid technical debt.
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast Episode 98. My name is Charles Lowell, developer here at The Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me today, we’re going to have a round table, a Frontside round table. With me today is Elrick.
ELRICK: Hey.
CHARLES: Joe.
JOE: How you doing?
CHARLES: And of...2018-03-2931 min
The Frontside Podcast097: Language Server Protocol with Erich Gamma and Dirk BaeumerErich Gamma: @ErichGamme
Dirk Baeumer: @dbktw
Show Notes
01:11 - The Design Patterns Book
02:45 - The Eclipse Project
09:24 - Language Server Protocol: Overview
15:16 - What can you do with a server that implements the LSP? Incremental usage?
20:12 - Keeping the Tools in Sync and Refactoring Support
24:33 - Keeping it Performant
29:41 - What kind of proliferation of codesmart tools are there that implement the LSP?
34:51 - What are the challenges encountered trying to build abstractions that work for 40 different languages?
Resources
Visual Studio Code
Transcript
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The...2018-03-0141 min
The Frontside Podcast096: Outside-In DevelopmentShow Notes:
01:02 - Why outside-in development?
05:50 - Best Practices and Implementation
09:35 - API Iteration and Design
18:31 - Is outside-in development a timeless approach to software development?
24:10 - Outside-in Creation
28:37 - Summarizing Outside-in Development and What it means to the Frontside
Resources:
Sketch
InVision
Balsamiq
pretender
Ember CLI Mirage
bigtest
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast episode 96. My name is Charles, I'm a developer here at the Frontside. And your podcast host in-training with me today is Jeffrey.
JEFFREY: Hello.
CHARLES: Hello, Jeffrey. And Arash.
2018-02-2133 min
The Frontside Podcast094: Machine Learning with Katharine BeaumontKatharine Beaumont: @katharinecodes
Show Notes:
In this episode, we hit the topic of machine learning from a 101 perspective: what it is, why it is important for us to know about it, and what it can be used for.
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 94. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at The Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. Today I’m going to be flying it alone, but that’s okay because we have a fantastic guest who’s going to talk about a subject that I...2018-01-2540 min
The Frontside Podcast093: Monoids, Monoids Everywhere! with Julie MoronukiJulie Moronuki: @argumatronic | argumatronic.com
Show Notes:
This episode is a follow-up episode to the one we did with Julie in September: Learn Haskell, Think Less. We talk a whole lot about monoids, and learning programming languages untraditionally.
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 93. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at The Frontside and I am your podcast host-in-training. With me today from The Frontside is Elrick also. Hello, Elrick.
ELRICK: Hey.
CHARLES: How are you doing?
ELRICK...2018-01-1147 min
The Frontside Podcast092: Venture Capital and Investing with Sam CatesSam Cates: @SamCates | GE Ventures
Show Notes:
02:01 - What Corporate Investing Looks Like
03:48 - Presenting Ideas For Funding
09:01 - Democratizing Venture Capital
10:17 - ICOs and Cryptocurrency
13:53 - Evaluating Companies to Fund
21:09 - Investing in Potential Competitors
24:42 - Looking For Funding as a Company
28:04 - “Mentoring” Ideas/Companies
30:07 - Monitoring/Evaluating Company Metrics
32:47 - Putting Together a Basic Business Plan
36:05 - Making Choices: Investor and Company-wise
Resources:
Resin.io
Series A, B, C Funding
Angel Investor
Seed Money
Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
AngelList
Crunchbase
Fred Wilson’s Blog: (AVC.com)
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello...2018-01-0440 min
The Frontside Podcast091: RxJS with Ben Lesh and Tracy LeeTracy Lee: @ladyleet | ladyleet.com
Ben Lesh: @benlesh | medium.com/@benlesh
Show Notes:
00:50 - What is This Dot?
03:26 - The RxJS 5.5.4 Release and Characterizing RxJS
05:14 - Observable
07:06 - Operators
09:52 - Learning RxJS
11:10 - Making RxJS Functional Programming Friendly
12:52 - Lettable Operators
15:14 - Pipeline Operators
21:33 - The Concept of Mappable
23:58 - Struggles While Learning RxJS
33:09 - Documentation
36:52 - Surprising Uses of Observables
40:27 - Weird Uses of RxJS
45:25 - Announcements: WHATWG to Include Observables and RxJS 6
Resources:
this.media
RxJS
RX Workshop
Ben Lesh: Hot vs Cold Observables
learnrxjs.io
RxMarbles
Jewelbots
Transcript:2017-12-1349 min
The Frontside Podcast090: Big Testing in JavaScriptHow do we ensure a high level of quality and maximize the refactorability of our code? Frontsiders, Wil and Charles, talk about their battle tested techniques for testing web applications, not only in React JS, but in any JavaScript framework.
Links
Acceptance Testing
Integration Testing
jest
Cypress.io
Assertion
Ember CLI Mirage
mirage-server
react-trigger-change
Transcript
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 90. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at The Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. And with me today is Mr. Wil Wilsman. Wil, who just got back...2017-11-3035 min
The Frontside Podcast089: glimmer-redux with Toran BillupsToran Billups: @toranb | GitHub | Blog
Toran Billips joined us for an insightful conversation regarding glimmer-redux: Predictable state management for Glimmer apps.
Resources:
Glimmer Redux Demystified
Talk from Tom Dale on glimmer internals (contrast with Preact made in this talk)
ember-redux
Glimmer progress report that mentions the migration to Glimmer 0.8 (Big Changes)
Blog post following EmberConf 2017 that announced GlimmerJS (for the Ember dev)
The Frontside Podcast 086: Routing in Ember with Alex Matchneer
An ember-rideshare Blog Post
A Rollup plugin for glimmer-redux
RollupJS
Transcript
ELRICK: Hello and welcome to another Frontside Podcast, Episode 89...2017-11-1639 min
The Frontside Podcast088: The Craft of Developer Experience with Kaylie KwonKaylie Kwon: kaylieEB | kayliekwon@gmail.com
Show Notes:
02:14 - Kaylie’s Journey Into Software Development
09:25 - Implementing a Design System and Attacking Higher-level Workflows
15:43 - EDS Collaboration and Public Availability
19:07 - Getting Involved with The Yarn Project
20:57 - Selective Resolution
23:37 - The Warmth of the Yarn Community
27:11 - Handling Issue Communication and Tracking
Resources:
Eventbrite
britecharts
Eventbrite Spectrum
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast. My name is Charles Lowell, I'm a software developer here at the Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me today is Elrick Ryan. He...2017-11-0234 min
The Frontside Podcast087: The JSON API and Orbit.js with Dan GebhardtDan Gebhardt: @dgeb | Cerebris
Show Notes:
01:33 - The JSON API Spec and Pain Points it Solves
08:40 - Tradeoffs Between GraphQL and JSON API
19:33 - Orbit.js
26:30 - Orbit and Redux
32:22 - Using Orbit
37:24 - What’s coming in Orbit?
Resources:
orbitjs.com (Guide Site)
ember-orbit
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 87. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at the Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. Joining me today in hosting the podcast is Elrick Ryan. Hello, Elrick.
ELRICK: Hey, what's up, Charles?
...2017-10-2645 min
The Frontside Podcast086: Routing in Ember with Alex MatchneerAlex Matchneer: @machty | FutureProof Retail
Show Notes:
Charles and Alex Matchneer have a great discussion that centers around routing in Ember.js: what they want to see in a router, what problems it solves, what’s wrong with the routing solutions we currently have, and what the ideal future looks like in respect to routing.
Resources:
Episode 067: ember-concurrency with Alex Matchneer
Cordova
ember-rideshare
react-router
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode #86. My name is Charles Lowell, your developer here at the Frontside and podcast host-in-training. I...2017-10-191h 00
The Frontside Podcast084: redux-observables with Jay PhelpsJay Phelps: @_jayphelps | jayphelps.com
Show Notes:
01:25 - RxJS
10:09 - Observers
17:49 - Back Pressure
22:11 - Async Iterators and Generators
31:30 - Mapping
Resources:
The Observer Pattern
Hot vs Cold Observables
IxJS
redux-observable
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode #84. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at the Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me today is Elrick Ryan. Hello, Elrick.
ELRICK: Howdy.
CHARLES: You and I have actually been on a roll lately, podcasting the hell out of these podcast.
...2017-09-2854 min
The Frontside Podcast083: Learn Haskell, Think LessJulie Moronuki: @argumatronic | argumatronic.com
Show Notes:
00:57 - Julie’s Unique Origin Story Into Programming
03:47 - Good Resources vs Bad Resources for Learning Haskell
11:18 - Areas to Look at Before Taking on Haskell and Functional Programming
15:56 - Terminology
17:50 - The Haskell Pyramid
25:51 - Learning Haskell Vocabulary
28:20 - Monoid and Functor
42:06 - Advice for Someone Who May Not Be Interested in Programming
Resources:
Haskell Programming From First Principles (Haskell Book)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton
Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming by Simon Th...2017-09-2548 min
The Frontside Podcast082: Peeple with Chris ChuterChris Chuter: @Chris_Chuter
Show Notes:
00:47 - Peeple: What is it? Why?
02:59 - Iterations and User Testing
13:32 - Complexity of Installation
17:26 - Device Integration
22:15 - Setup and Installation
25:35 - Laws and Building Codes
26:39 - Getting Started in this Space
31:29 - Ensuring Quality, Integration Testing, and Deployment Pipelines
33:18 - The Manufacturing Process
Resources:
If This Then That (IFTTT)
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 82. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at the Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me is Elrick Ryan. Hello Elrick.
2017-09-1539 min
The Frontside Podcast081: Knocki with John BoydJohn Boyd: LinkedIn
Show Notes:
01:27 - Knocki
03:20 - The Device
06:19 - Complexity
08:44 - Software Distribution
14:01 - Allocating Memory
18:27 - Finding Hardware Hacking Libraries
22:01 - Updating and Diffing
24:06 - Migrations
26:51 - Decentralization of IoT
35:39 - Managing the Knocki Ecosystem
40:17 - Communication Standardization
Resources:
Malloc
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode #81. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer and your podcast host-in-training here at the Frontside. With me today is Elrick Ryan. Hello, Elrick.
ELRICK: Hey, how are you doing Charles. Welcome back.
...2017-08-3144 min
The Frontside Podcast080: Resin.io with Alison Davis and Ronald McCollamAlison Davis: LinkedIn
Ronald McCollam: @ronaldmccollam | ronaldmccollam.com
Show Notes:
01:19 - The Future of IoT
04:57 - Where does Resin.io fit in?
07:04 - Founding Resin and The Unicorn
11:26 - How Resin Works
15:16 - Diffing
17:58 - Tooling and Workflow
23:02 - Resin is Open Sourced!
24:05 - Case Studies
30:04 - Security
34:47 - Scaling Up and Improving User Experience
Resources:
OpenROV Underwater Drones
Etcher
resinOS
Transcript:
ELRICK: Hello and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 80. We have a wonderful podcast today. My name is Elrick Ryan, a developer here at the Frontside and...2017-08-1740 min
The Frontside Podcast079: Web Security and Keeping Developers on the Cutting Edge via Trainings and Workshops with Mike NorthMike North: @michaellnorth | mike.works
Show Notes:
00:51 - Transitioning from CTO to Independent Trainer
03:37 - Customizing Content and Developing Curriculum
06:37 - Bringing a Developer Into the JavaScript Ecosystem
12:47 - Training Developers with Non-Traditional Backgrounds
16:56 - Keeping Up with “Fifth Gear”
19:27 - Developing Frontend Masters Courses
22:40 - “Progressive Web Apps”
34:37 - Web Security
Resources:
LinkedIn's REACH Program
IndexedDB
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 79. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer at the Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me today is Elrick, also at the Frontside. Hello, E...2017-08-1041 min
The Frontside Podcast078: Kasita with Jeff Wilson and Jason JaynesJason Jaynes: @jasoncjaynes
Jeff Wilson: @ProfDumpster
Show Notes:
00:53 - “Professor Dumpster” and Founding Kasita
05:33 - The Startup Industry
07:45 - Building the Kasita Team and Creating the Design
12:25 - Integrating Devices
16:33 - Challenges of Building These Ecosystems
24:36 - Controlling the Ecosystem: Will there be third-party developers and applications?
30:16 - Device Cohesion and User Experience
33:23 - Privacy
Resources:
Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You by Andreas Weigend
Kasita is hiring!
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 78. My name is Char...2017-08-0341 min
The Frontside Podcast077: The Internet of Things ComethIn this episode, we talk about IoT: what’s coming, why we’re intrigued, and how we’ve already started it incorporating it in our office. In the next episodes to come, we will be having guests on the show to take a deeper dive into this technology. If you have any suggestions or know people we should reach out to, please get in touch!
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode #77. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at The Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. Today, I have with me two...2017-07-2729 min
The Frontside Podcast076: "Devsigners" with Drew CoviDrew Covi: @drewcovi | about.me
Show Notes:
01:04 - Honeywell User Experience (HUE)
05:00 - Deliverables
06:55 - Being a “Devsigner”
17:26 - Flash and Leading to Unique Skills
30:00 - Advice for People Straddling Roles
35:27 - Leveraging Design and Development Skills Together
39:41 - Embracing the Hardware Element
42:05 - Why the “Devsigner”?
Resources:
AOLpress
CSS Beauty
CSS Zen Garden
Contribute
Crave
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode #76. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer here at The Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me is Elrick Ryan, also a developer at The F...2017-07-2153 min
The Frontside Podcast075: Babel with Robert JacksonRobert Jackson: @rwjblue | rwjblue.com
Show Notes:
01:00 - Build Tooling in JavaScript
02:19 - Ember and Babel
07:14 - Deciding on Features
11:46 - Class
13:29 - Workflow
14:39 - Payload Size
15:24 - Config Targets
17:18 - Source Maps
25:05 - Ember Decorators, Objects and ES6 Classes
36:07 - What’s next and when can we get it?!
Resources:
Babel.js
esperanto
Ember CLI Targets 🎯
Enabling Ergonomics 🚐 and Performance
EmberCamp London
One Helpful Way to Think About JavaScript Decorators
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 75. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at The Fron...2017-07-0642 min
The Frontside Podcast074: Mission Driven Businesses with Anissa WillyardAnissa Willyard: @team_giveback | GiveBack2Schools
Show Notes:
01:28 - The Mission of Mission Driven Businesses
05:05 - Defining Moments and Leaving a Legacy
11:30 - PPG (Plan, People, Go)
13:20 - Finding Your People
16:22 - Choosing a Mission
22:30 - Defining a Problem
34:19 - About GiveBack2Schools
Resources:
Boston: Peace of Mind Lyrics
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 74. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at The Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me from The Frontside also is Ginger Whalen, our head of business development...2017-06-2941 min
The Frontside Podcast072: Single Page Apps with Accessibility in Mind with Kris Van HoutenKris Van Houten: @krivaten | krivaten.com | Q2
Show Notes:
00:55 - Kris’ Interest and Passion for Accessibility
06:07 - Using Ember for Accessibility: Pattern Adoption
10:13 - Context Switch Awareness and Managing Focus
12:08 - Asynchrony and Desired Interaction
14:04 - Building a Form Input Component
19:05 - Things That Are Hard to Catch
22:41 - Assistive Browsers?
28:17 - Making Things Accessible From the Start
Resources:
Building for Accessibility by Nathan Hammond @ Wicked Good Ember 2015
The A11y Project: Web Accessibility Checklist
WCAG 2.0 checklists
Why Don’t Screen Readers Always Read What’s on the Screen? Part 1: Punctuation and Typographic Symbols
Mozill...2017-06-0833 min
The Frontside Podcast071: Labor Organizing and Open Source Sustainability with Audrey EschrightAudrey Eschright: @ameschright | The Recompiler
Show Notes:
00:50 - Background in Publishing and Open Source
06:53 - The Contributor Pool
12:37 - Open Source Bridge
15:29 - Mistakes Open Source Contributors Make
17:21 - Tools for Maintaining an Open Source Project
19:09 - Roles
23:33 - Open Source Bridge (Cont’d)
27:47 - Governance and Decision-Making
36:20 - Making Open Source Accessible, Safe, and Welcoming
Resources:
Free Geek
Calagator
PDX Activist
Dreamwidth
Safety First PDX
Open Source Bridge: Enter the coupon code PODCAST to get $50 off a ticket! The conference will be held June 20-23, 2017 at The Eliot Center in downtown Portland, Or...2017-06-0143 min
The Frontside Podcast070: Kubernetes with Joe BedaKubernetes
Joe Beda @jbeda | Heptio | eightypercent.net
Show Notes:
00:51 - What is Kubernetes? Why does it exist?
07:32 - Kubernetes Cluster; Cluster Autoscaling
11:43 - Application Abstraction
14:44 - Services That Implement Kubernetes
16:08 - Starting Heptio
17:58 - Kubernetes vs Services Like Cloud Foundry and OpenShift
22:39 - Getting Started with Kubernetes
27:37 - Working on the Original Internet Explorer Team
Resources:
Google Compute Engine
Google Container Engine
Minikube
Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, and Joe Beda
Joe Beda: Kubecon Berlin Keynote: Scaling Kubernetes: How do we grow...2017-05-1840 min
The Frontside Podcast069: Redux Part II with Toran BillupsToran Billups @toranb | GitHub | Blog
Show Notes:
01:44 - New Developments in ember-redux
04:23 - New Developments in the Wider Redux Community
06:26 - Using Redux in Ember
09:40 - Omit
10:45 - Reducers
25:42 - Fulfilling the Role of Middleware in Ember
28:12 - Ember Data in Redux-land
31:24 - What does Toran do with this stuff??
Links:
The Frontside Podcast Episode 55: Redux and Ember with Toran Billups
The Frontside Podcast Episode 18: Back-End Devs and Bridging the Stack with Toran Billups
redux-offline
ember-redux-yelp
create-react-app
"Mega Simple redux” Twiddle
ember-concurrency
Thomas Chen: ember-redux
The Frontside Podcast Episode 067: ember-concurrency with Alex Matchneer
normalizr
Ri...2017-05-1140 min
The Frontside Podcast068: How We Do UI Testing Here at The FrontsideAfter the cliffhanger left in Episode 62: UI for U and I, we follow up with a short discussion about how we specifically do UI Testing at The Frontside in Austin, Texas.
Resources:
Tweet that led to this discussion
Unit Testing
Acceptance Testing
Ember CLI Mirage
Percy
Test-Driven Development
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode #68. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer here at The Frontside and podcast host-in-training. I'm here today with Jeffrey and Elrick, two other developers here at The Frontside. We are going to carry...2017-05-0424 min
The Frontside Podcast067: ember-concurrency with Alex MatchneerAlex Matchneer: @machty | FutureProof Retail
Show Notes:
01:07 - The Introduction of ember-concurrency
02:15 - What is ember-concurrency? What are the problems it solves?
05:37 - Why not use observables or other alternatives?
09:49 - Could observables be used in conjunction with ember-concurrency?
12:16 - Simple Made Easy
14:23 - Coming Soon to ember-concurrency
16:04 - Communicating Changes in State; Glimmer Reference Primitives
23:09 - Using References
29:31 - Submitting RFCs; Adding Pipelines
32:10 - Pipeline Use Cases
Resources:
ember-concurrency
The Frontside Podcast Episode 007: The Ember Router with Alex Matchneer
The Frontside Podcast Episode 019: Origin Stories with Tom Dale and Alex Matchneer
Introduction to...2017-04-2038 min
The Frontside Podcast066: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack with Michael CotéMichael Coté: @cote | cote.io | Pivotal | Software Defined Talk
Show Notes:
00:54 - Pivotal
04:39 - Being a Professional Muller aka Analyst
11:08 - Iterative Development
32:54 - Getting a Job as a Professional Muller aka Analyst
Resources:
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
GemFire
Greenplum
Pivotal Labs
Wardley Maps
Software Defined Talk Episode #79: From a vegan, clothing optional co-op to working with banks and oil companies - Coté’s professional life, part 1
Software Defined Talk Episode #85: Being an analyst without being an asshole - Coté’s professional life, part 2
RedMonk
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Fro...2017-04-1353 min
The Frontside Podcast065: Data Loading Patterns with the JSON API with Balint ErdiBalint Erdi: @baaz | balinterdi.com | Rock and Roll with Ember.js
Show Notes:
01:58 - What is JSON API? Advantages
03:22 - Tooling and Libraries
05:49 - Relationship Loading
07:51 - Designing a Data Loading Strategy
11:23 - Pitfalls of Not Designing a Data Loading Strategy
13:53 - Ember Data
16:37 - Pagination & Sorting
23:06 - Writing a Book
25:48 - Implementing Searches with Filters
31:08 - What’s next for Balint?
Resources:
Balint Erdi: Data Loading Patterns with JSON API @ EmberConf 2017 (Talk)
Balint Erdi: Data Loading Patterns @ EmberConf 2017 (Slides)
jsonapi-resources
GraphQL
JSON API By Example by Adolfo Builes
ember-cli 101 by Adolfo Builes
33 Page Mi...2017-04-0733 min
The Frontside Podcast064: Empathy in Sales with Ginger WhalenGinger Whalen: @gingerwhalen
Show Notes:
01:28 - Everyone Does Sales
02:11 - Sales is an Exchange: Understanding and Solving Others’ Problems
05:58 - “Personas”; Empathy vs Sympathy
11:47 - Empathy Requires Introspection
15:12 - Persona Example
20:33 - Making Incremental Improvements
23:15 - Challenges in the UI Business Space
29:25 - TL;DR on the Business Development Process
Resources:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 64. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer here at The Frontside. I'm here with Jeffrey Cherewaty. Hello, Jeffery.
JEFFREY: Hey, t...2017-03-3030 min
The Frontside Podcast063: Growing New Developers with Saron YitbarekSaron Yitbarek: @saronyitbarek | CodeNewbie | Codeland Conference
Show Notes:
00:32 - Codeland Conference and The Conference Experience
08:06 - Impostor Syndrome
15:32 - The CodeNewbie Community and Growing Junior Developers
20:06 - Dev Job Red Flags and Should-be Basic Requirements
Resources:
Codeland Volunteer Form
The CodeNewbie Podcast Episode 60: Impostor Syndrome with Alicia Liu
Alicia Liu: Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Coding
Alicia Liu: Impostor Syndrome Is Not Just a Confidence Problem: The dangers of becoming a buzz word
CodeNewbie TwitterChat
Transcript:
JEFFREY: Hello everyone. This is Episode 63 of The...2017-03-2327 min
The Frontside Podcast062: UI for U and IShow Notes:
00:56 - What does UI mean? UI = User Interface
02:26 - Software Interfacing with Software vs Human Beings
03:57 - At what point does UI stop?
05:55 - Responsive and Stateful UI
10:10 - Tooling: Past, Present, and Future
16:00 - Planting Business in UI Engineering
19:26 - How The Frontside Brands Itself; JavaScript Portability
Resources:
Linguistic Intelligence
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 62. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer here at The Frontside and I'm here today with Jeffrey Cherewaty and Robert De Luca, also developers here at...2017-03-1631 min
The Frontside Podcast061: Accessibility with Marcy SuttonMarcy Sutton: @marcysutton | marcysutton.com | Deque Systems
Show Notes:
01:07 - Deque Systems
01:54 - Accessibility Tool Integration and Testing
05:26 - Configuration and Success Criteria
07:04 - What is accessibility? WCAG
09:22 - Spurring Adoption of Accessibility
12:09 - The Accessibility Matrix
16:56 - Accessibility-First Development
18:12 - WCAG and ARIA Roles
24:57 - Test Automation vs Human Interaction
28:56 - Empathy Building
30:45 - Porting to the Web
35:57 - Accessibility in Single-page Apps and Focus Management
Resources:
axe-core
aXe
aXe Developer Tools
WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
Web Accessibility for Designers
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1
First rule of ARIA use
Access Works: Usability and...2017-03-0946 min
The Frontside Podcast060: Ember and Fastboot with Jonathan JacksonJonathan Jackson: @rondale_sc | Ember Weekend | 201 Created
Show Notes:
01:01 - 201 Created
03:09 - 2017 Ember Community Survey
14:06 - Handling Changes and Churn
27:53 - FastBoot
Resources:
Boots and Shoeboxes [SlideShare]
Typeform
EmberConf
JSX
Isomorphic JavaScript
Ember Weekend Episode #66: Bug Integrat (with Charles Lowell)
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Frontside Podcast Episode 60. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer here at The Frontside. With me is Robert De Luca, also a developer. Hello, Robert.
ROBERT: Hello, hello.
CHARLES: Today, we actually have a meeting of the podcast minds...2017-03-0338 min
The Frontside Podcast059: Build Useless StuffShow Notes:
01:11 - Doing Dumb Stuff aka “Throwaway Projects”
06:06 - Combatting Burnout
10:01 - Dumb Projects That Pay You Back
17:00 - Brainstorming and Abstraction
25:19 - chillestmonkey.com
20:19 - “The Iron Triangle”: Creativity, Accomplishment, and Learning
Resources:
React Native and Chill: A tale of stupid made fast by Charles Lowell
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 59. We're getting up there, 59. That's like, I don't know, it's not a milestone but it's something.
ROBERT: It's like one away from 60.
CHARLES: Yeah, it is. It’s past middl...2017-02-2340 min
The Frontside Podcast058: Rust and Going Into Business with Carol GouldingCarol Goulding: @Carols10cents | GitHub | Blog | Integer 32
Show Notes:
00:58 - Going Into Business Using Rust
03:42 - Getting Paid to do Open Source
05:31 - Prototyping Projects in Rust
06:21 - Why Rust? (Benefits)
09:58 - The Language Server
14:52 - Error Messages
19:46 - The Rust Programming Language Book
23:35 - Crates.io
27:41 - The Backend
31:11 - Working with Rust and Ember Together
33:31 - Rust Belt Rust Conference
35:59 - Integer 32
Resources:
The Rust Programming Language Book
The Frontside Podcast Episode 51: Rust and APIs with Steve Klabnik
Rust For Rubyists
Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
Clippy
Cargo
rustlings
...2017-02-1737 min
The Frontside Podcast057: Demystifying Software with Liz BaillieLiz Baillie @_lbaillie | GitHub | Blog | Tilde Inc.
Show Notes:
01:32 - Becoming a Developer
07:54 - Website Building
12:03 - Understanding Programming
17:34 - Coming to Peace with Ignorance
22:25 - Systems Programming
26:46 - Making Goals for Yourself
28:57 - Math and Programming
38:08 - Open Source
Resources:
Wicked Good Ember
Liz Baillie: Journey to the Center of Ember Test Helpers
Fibonacci Number
Freewheel: Volume One by Liz Baillie
The Flatiron School
Skylight
Impostor Syndrome
Twilio
Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
Hello, Con!
OSCON
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast Episode 57. My name...2017-02-1047 min
The Frontside Podcast056: Ember vs. Elm: The Showdown with Philip PootsPhilip Poots @pootsbook | GitHub
Show Notes:
00:53 - What is Elm?
03:45 - The Essence of User Interface
07:59 - “Messages”
08:31 - Scalability
14:04 - Error Handling
18:47 - The Business Case
22:35 - Where is Elm on the curve of scalability?
28:36 - Learning From Elm
32:32 - “Whole Meal Solutions”
Resources:
Philip Poots: Elmber @ Wicked Good Ember 2016
Cycle.js
Functional Reactive Programming
Evan Czaplicki
Test-driven Development (TDD)
NoRedInk
The Elm Mailing List
Try Elm
Elm Guide
elmtutorial.org
Elm For Beginners by James Moore
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Frontside Podcast Episode 56. I am Charles Lowell...2017-02-0339 min
The Frontside Podcast055: Redux and Ember with Toran BillupsToran Billups @toranb | GitHub | Blog
Show Notes:
02:23 - Ember 2.0; Data Down, Actions Up
08:28 - redux and State
16:39 - Dispatching Actions/Patterns
24:00 - Components and Routing
31:00 - ember-redux and Cloning the react-redux API
35:22 - Hot Reloading
41:22 - Audience
47:02 - Motivation
50:25 - Building Component Trees
Resources:
Toran Billups: Test-Driven Development By Example @ EmberConf 2015
Dan Abramov: Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel @ react-europe 2015
react-redux
Charles Lowell: Immutability is for UI, You and I @ EmberConf 2016
redux-thunk
Ryan Toronto: Safety of the herd
EmberMap: Component side effects
Functional Programming
Browserify
More Toran Billups Talks
Transcript:
...2017-01-2656 min
The Frontside Podcast054: The Ember Ecosystem & ember-try with Katie GenglerKatie Gengler
@katiegengler | GitHub | Code All Day
Show Notes:
01:23 - Testing
06:20 - ember-try
14:11 - Add-ons; Ember Observer
17:43 - Scoring and Rating Add-ons
25:25 - Contribution and Funding
27:41 - Code Search
30:59 - Data Visualization
32:27 - Change in the Ember Ecosystem Since Last EmberConf?
34:35 - Code All Day
35:39 - What’s Next?
Resources:
ember-qunit
liquid-fire
capybara
Selenium
appraisal
emberCLI
Bower
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast Episode 54. I am your host, Charles Lowell, with me is Alex Ford. Today, we're going to be interviewing Katie Gengler. I remember very di...2017-01-2037 min
The Frontside Podcast053: Glimmer 2 with Godfrey ChanGodfrey Chan
@chancancode | GitHub | Tilde Inc.
Show Notes:
02:27 - What is Glimmer 2?
11:24 - Key Changes for Glimmer 2
12:54 - How do these libraries (i.e. handlebars.js; htmlbars) work together?
18:02 - Maintaining Compatibility
24:38 - Components
27:55 - Looking Forward to Non-Performance-Related Features
34:43 - Animations and Visualizations
39:09 - Glimmer 2 For an End User
41:33 - Stand-alone Glimmer?
46:12 - What are the performance gains on mobile? How does it better position Ember for mobile devs?
49:23 - Bubble Tea
50:37 - Contributing to Glimmer 2
Resources:
Godfrey Chan: Hijacking Hacker News with Ember.js @ EmberConf 2015
Announcing The Glimmer 2 Alpha
Isemberfastyet
The...2017-01-1353 min
The Frontside Podcast052: Emberitas with Lydia Guarino and Shannon ByrneLydia Guarino @lydiaguarino | data.world | GitHub
Shannon Byrne @s_byrne | Blog | GitHub | shannon@emberitas.com
Stephanie Riera @stefriera | The Frontside | GitHub
Show Notes:
01:23 - Emberitas
02:50 - Developing Curriculum For Women By Women
10:16 - Pairing People Together
12:14 - The Volunteers and Support
18:42 - Getting Women to Attend Meetups
23:20 - Icebreaking Exercises
27:42 - Takeaways From the Event
33:35 - The Future of Emberitas
36:10 - Favorite Parts of the Event
Resources:
@iheartemberitas
Ember ATX
Women Who Code
The Iron Yard
Tilde
Women Who Code Austin Slack Community
We Speak Too
ember-women
Transcript:
2017-01-0638 min
The Frontside Podcast051: Rust and APIs with Steve KlabnikSteve Klabnik
@steveklabnik | Blog | GitHub
Show Notes:
02:56 - Getting Into Rust
05:51 - Working on Rust for Mozilla
07:01 - Writing Documentation and Preventing Burnout
13:24 - The Rust Programming Language
18:45 - Rewriting Firefox in Rust
21:20 - High-level Functions
25:23 - Typesystem and Concurrency
36:35 - Rust and Web Developers; Digging Into Rust on a Deeper Level
43:46 - The Rust Ecosystem and Using Rust on a Day-to-Day Basis
48:38 - The Rust Book
Resources:
Rust For Rubyists
Cargo
Servo
Application Binary Interface (ABI)
MetaLanguage (ML)
Tokio
Systems Programming
intermezzOS
Steve Klabnik: Exploring Ruby Through Rust
What’s new with “The...2016-12-1653 min
The Frontside Podcast050: Learning to Program with Kyle SimpsonKyle Simpson:
@getify | Blog | GitHub | getify@gmail.com
Show Notes:
04:19 - Styles for Learning as a Newcomer
08:41 - The Structure of the Journey
“If you’re waiting until you’re already an expert on a thing to share it with somebody else, you’ve waited far too long because we missed out on the most important part which was the journey.”
12:52 - Understanding a Problem vs Solving One
"I want to inspire people to be uncommonly curious."
29:02 - How do you know when to stop?
35:02 - Knowing Math and Learning Programming
43:40 - The Impo...2016-12-091h 02
The Frontside Podcast049: Learning Elm For Better JavaScript with Jamison DanceJamison Dance:
@jergason | Blog | GitHub | Fivestack | Soft Skills Engineering Podcast | React Rally
Show Notes:
00:58 - The Elm Programming Language
01:36 - Who should try Elm? What is the attraction?
03:09 - Scaling an App Across a Team; Conventions
06:19 - Routing
07:48 - Writing Tests
09:38 - Jumping Into Elm from a Component-based Framework
12:20 - Tooling
17:28 - Productivity
19:21 - The Elm Community
25:13 - Could Elm Replace JavaScript?
28:28 - Lessons Learned from Elm to Write Better JavaScript
33:45 - The Elm Syntax
35:49 - Checking Out New Languages and Communities
37:31 - Data Modeling
Resources:
Elm Packages
elm-format
Evan Czaplicki: Let's Be...2016-12-0246 min
The Frontside Podcast048: Farewell, BrandonWe say goodbye to our friend and co-host of The Frontside Podcast, Brandon Hays.
Brandon Hays:
@tehviking | blog
Transcript:
BRANDON: Hello, everybody and welcome to Frontside Podcast Episode 48. It is a podcast, as you can tell from the intro music, about woodworking and dads and dads working with wood.
CHARLES: And power washing wood.
BRANDON: Yes and power washing, sanding decks. Today, we'll be talking about the difference between mortise and tenon joints and dovetail joints and when it's worth going through the extra effort for that dovetail...2016-12-0145 min
The Frontside Podcast047: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel RappinIn this episode, Noel Rappin, developer at Table XI, comes on the show to talk about his new book, Take My Money: Accepting Payment on the Web.
Noel Rappin:
@noelrap | blog | GitHub
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to the Frontside Podcast Episode 47. I'm Charles Lowell and with me today is Noel Rappin.
Before we get into who you are, because I know that a lot of people know you already and you need no introduction, you're actually calling in from Chicago today, right?
NOEL: That’s true, ye...2016-11-2234 min
The Frontside Podcast046: What's in store for Ember? with Yehuda KatzIn this episode, Yehuda Katz, co-founder of Tilde, OSS enthusiast, and world traveler, talks about what's in store for Ember.
Yehuda Katz:
@wycats | blog | GitHub
Transcript:
ALEX: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Frontside Podcast, Episode 46. My name is Alex Ford, subbing in for our usual hosts, Brandon and Charles, today. We have an awesome episode. We have a really special treat for you. Co-creator of Ember, Yehuda Katz is joining us today. Hello, Yehuda.
YEHUDA: Heyo!
ALEX: We also have a first time Frontside podcaster, Chris Freeman. Chris...2016-11-0950 min
The Frontside Podcast045: The New Theory of Teams with Sarah MeiIn this episode, Sarah Mei, founder of RailsBridge, Director of Ruby Central, and Chief Consultant of DevMynd Software, talks about the way we write software: What’s right? What’s wrong? How can we do better?
The conversation examines changing code and reassessing needs. i.e.: "Does it bring me joy? Should I get rid of this thing? Do I understand this code?" She also talks about what these needs mean for others on a team.
Sarah Mei:
@sarahmei
Links:
Sarah Mei: How We Make Software: A New Theory of Teams @ Brig...2016-11-0341 min
The Frontside Podcast044: Women in Tech and SheNomads with LaToya AllenIn this episode, LaToya Allen, developer at Big Cartel and founder of SheNomads talks about apprenticeship and mentoring, finding community while working remotely, how companies can be more inclusive for hiring women and people of diverse backgrounds in technology, and avoiding burnout and maintaining balance.
LaToya Allen:
@HashtagLaToya | latoya@shenomads.com
Links:
CodeNewbie Ep. 34: Newbie Story: LaToya Allen
The SheNomads Podcast
Garage Cowork (Polanco)
Dear Tech Companies: Focus on Diversity, Not Foosball
The SheNomads Job Board
Women in Tech Wellness: Chicago
Resources:
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
Exercism...2016-10-2040 min
The Frontside Podcast043: Growing Communities and Businesses with Leah SilberIn this episode, Leah Silber, CEO of Tilde, Inc. and Ember.js core team member talks about what she's learned building communities, organizing events, and running a business. We talk about how people can move from "observer" to "participant" and grow their own healthy communities and companies.
Links:
Leah Silber: EmberConf 2016: The Morning-After Post-Mortem
Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to the Frontside Podcast, Episode 43. I am Charles Lowell. I'm here with Brandon Hays, and a very, very special guest. Brandon, do you want to...2016-10-0449 min
The Frontside Podcast042: Apprenticeship in Real Life with Taras Mankovski and Lennex ZinyandoIn this episode we cover how to handle apprenticeship, share with listeners how they can start participating in mentoring and apprenticeship in their companies and communities, and help people to understand the impact apprenticeship and mentoring can have on everybody involved.
Links:
open-source-ember-apps: A list of open source Ember apps
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to the Frontside Podcast, Episode 42. I am Charles Lowell and with me is Brandon Hays, as well as some other really, really, really, really special guests, which I'm really excited to have on the show...2016-09-2239 min
The Frontside Podcast041: The Technical Skills of a Senior DevRecently, there was a flurry of activity around one of Brandon's posts about defining the term "senior developer". But he left the purely technical aspects of the role for later discussion, which left a lot of lingering questions.
In this episode, Charles and Brandon dive into the technical side of identifying, hiring, and growing senior developers, and explain The Frontside's somewhat unconventional standards.
Links:
The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development
Don't use animal names as an insult
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to the Frontside Podcast, Episode 41. I am your...2016-09-0930 min
The Frontside Podcast040: How We're Refactoring Our BusinessAfter a "perfect storm" of events rocked The Frontside, Charles and Brandon were faced with the prospect of what kind of future they saw, if any, for the business.
In this episode, Brandon and Charles discuss what happened and why, what they are doing to avoid another "perfect storm", and how finding mentors and friends at OpsConf completely changed how they think about running The Frontside.
Links:
Ops Conf
Charles Rocking out at karaoke
What is a KPI?
2016-07-0634 min
The Frontside Podcast039: How to Integrate Jr. Developers Into Your CompanyThere's a huge shortage of senior developers, and one (often overlooked) way to fill those positions is by bringing up some junior developers. But how do you mentor junior devs when you have so much work to do? How can you make sure that your new hires get the support they need?
This week, Charles Lowell is joined by Stephanie Riera, Lydia Guarino, and Alex Ford to talk about the challenges companies face when hiring junior devs, what steps you can take to make sure the on-boarding and training process goes smoothly, and how keep new developers...2016-06-1345 min
The Frontside Podcast016: Ember 2.0 and the Indie Web with Yehuda Katz and Tom DaleYehuda Katz and Tom Dale join us to talk about the road to Ember 2.0 and "Fast Boot". They share insight about why they stick to a 6 week release cycle, and why they think JS frameworks might be the future of all web apps (especially content sites). We also chat about what "indie open source" means, and exactly how much design goes into the Ember project and community.
Yehuda Katz (Twitter)
Tom Dale (Twitter)
Tom Dale's Klout score is 66
Tilde.io
Erik Bryn
Yehuda at Hack Summit: "Indie OSS"
HTMLBars
FastBoot: Ember's Server-Side Rendering solution
Tom on Shop Talk...2014-12-2356 min
The Frontside Podcast014: Literally everything we learned in 2014We're back! Today on the Frontside, we're going to be talking about what we've learned about software consulting over the past year.
The subjects we're discussing include:
Choosing the right partner for your business
How to start and run a software consultancy
How to craft a healthy work culture
Some of the tradeoffs we made, which ones worked out, and which ones just plain sucked
The pros and cons of fixed-bid pricing
Why you should focus on being great at one thing
How to avoid fear-based decision making
And of course, so much more. Tune...2014-12-0839 min
The Frontside Podcast010: Reactive Modeling with EmberToday, it’s Frontside’s 10th podcast! We’re talking primarily about Reactive Modeling with Ember.
On today’s episode, we’re diving further into Charles's blog post, and into seeing this as a new way of thinking about programming — each relationship as a network, and the values floating around within them. We also share an update on Brandon’s robot project and talk about speaking at RubyConf (even though we’re Javascript guys).
Show Links:
Charles’ blog post on Reactive Modeling with Ember
Raspberry Pi
RubyConf 2014
Ember
2014-10-1731 min