June 20, 2018
Modern Web "V8" Podcast
Host:
Jay Phelps (@_jayphelps) - Support, training, pairing, mentoring, software architecting @ThisDotLabs
Guests:
Benedikt Meurer (@bmeurer) - @NodeJS Performance TL @Google, in @GoogleChrome / @v8js
Mathias Bynens (@mathias) - work on @v8js at Google and on ECMAScript through TC39
Jaroslav Sevcik - Senior Software Engineer @ Google, V8 Compiler Engineer
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Mentioned Article:
https://developers.google.com/web/upd...
Topics:
What is V8?
How V8 has evolved over the years?
How should we write performant code for Ignition/Turbofan?
How much does Node.js influence decisions?
What cool platform/JS language features are in the pipeline?
What’s your take on WebAssembly?
What are some other uses of V8 outside of the browsers/node?
What else should everyone know?
May 23, 2018
Hosts:
Tara Manicsic @tzmanics - Developer advocate at Progress/Kendo UI, GDE
Deanna Leavitt @DeannaLeavitt - This Dot labs member, WTM lead, GDG Triangle co-organizer
Sarah Federman @sarah_federman - Design Engineer, working on Spectrum design system at Adobe
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Code: MODERN
Topics:
- Representation at Conferences
- Calling for conference speakers
- Hiring diversely
- Implicit bias testing
- Ageism
- Meetups
- Small things that create inclusion/exclusion
- Textio
May 9, 2018
Modern Web Podcast on Blockchain with Preethi Kasireddy, Nik Kalyani, Fred Schott, Kyle Simpson and Tracy Lee.
Kyle Simpson @getify - Open Web Evangelist, Founder/Owner DevGo, Inc.
Preethi Kasireddy @iam_preethi - Blockchain Engineer + Founder & CEO at Schelling
Nik Kalyani @techbubble - CTO/Founder of Whenhub + Web/Blockchain Architect
Fred Schott @FredKSchott - Frontend Engineer at Ripple, previously Google Polymer
Tracy Lee @Ladyleet - CTO of This Dot, Google Developer Expert
Topics:
- How to get started in blockchain and the main concepts
- What use cases are there for blockchain
- What tools can you use?
- Why are some people skeptical about blockchain?
- Cool projects and the future of blockchain technology
May 2, 2018
Tracy Lee (@Ladyleet, Co-founder of This Dot, GDE, RxJS core team) and
Ben Lesh (@benlesh, RxJS core team, Angular core team, Co-founder of This Dot)
discuss Async React and the context API with...
Michael Jackson (@mjackson, Founder of React Training, creator of unpkg)
and Jay Phelps (@_jayphelps, RxJS core team, GDE, Chief Software Architect @ This Dot)
To learn more visit thisdot.co
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April 18, 2018
Modern Web Podcast on React Native with Jay Phelps @_jayphelps
Guests:
Bent Vatne @notbrent - Front-end web/mobile developer working on Expo (https://expo.io ) and React Native
Mike Grabowski @grabbou - React Native @callstackio, member of @reactnative core team.
Eric Vicenti @EricVicenti - Open Source Entrepreneur, creator of Aven_Cloud and ReactNavigation. Formerly Facebook OpenSource ReactNative
Ken Wheeler @ken_wheeler - Director of OSS at FormidableLabs
Topics:
- What is React Native?
- When you should (or shouldn't) use it
- What is Expo?
- Gesture support on Native vs web
- What is Flutter and Dart?
- How Flutter/Dart compare to React Native
April 11, 2018
In this Modern Web Podcast Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) & Ben Lesh (@benlesh) ask questions regarding “What’s going on in VR?” with guests Aysegul Yonet (@AysSomething) and Martin Splitt (@g33konaut).
Hosts:
Tracy (@ladyleet) - RxJS core team, Google Developer Expert, co-founder This Dot Labs
Ben (@benlesh) - RxJS core team, engineer at Google, RxWorkshop
Guests:
Aysegul Yonet (@AysSomething) - Senior Angular Engineer at Narwhal Technologies Inc, GDE
Martin Splitt (@g33konaut) - Senior software engineer @ Archilogic3D
Topics/Questions:
- How to get started in VR.
- Equipment you need to get started.
- Practical applications of VR.
- Where is VR used now?
- Difference between Unity and VR
- VR standards
Places you can get started:
vizor.io
play.autodesk.com
aws.amazon.com/sumerian
Where to find 3D content -
poly.google.com
vr.google.com/blocks
Art installation in Zurich - Birdly - http://iad.zhdk.ch/en/projects/birdly/
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March 29, 2018
In this Modern Web Podcast Jennifer Luker and Necoline Hubner discuss CSS Grid with Rachel Andrew.
Hosts:
Jen Luker @knitcodemonkey - Lead software engineer with Deseret Digital Media
Necoline Hubner @Necolinesan - Software Developer at Google Fiber (Adecco)
Guest:
Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew - Web Dev, Co-founder of CMS Perch, CSS Working Group Invited Expert. Smashing Mag Editor in Chief.
Topics Discussed:
- History of CSS Grid
- Benefits of using CSS grid
- Browser compatibility and overcoming pain points of transitioning to CSS grid
- Accessibility in grid layout
- Future of grid
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/11/css-grid-supporting-browsers-without-grid/
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/css/cheatsheets/grid-fallbacks
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_Layout/CSS_Grid_Layout_and_Accessibility
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February 28, 2018
In this Modern Web Podcast Tierney Cyren (NodeSource), Tara Manicsic (Progress Developer Advocate for KendoUI, GDE), and Simona Cotin (Developer Advocate at Microsoft) discuss developer relations with Tracy Lee (GDE, This Dot Co-founder).
Topics covered:
What is developer relations?
What are some of the different types of developer relations?
How do you balance all the tasks as devrel people?
Is Developer Relations an easy job?
How are you effectively measured in your job?
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February 23, 2018
In this Modern Web Podcast Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) and Ben Lesh (@benlesh) speak with guests Jake Archibald (@jaffathecake) and Jay Phelps (@_jayphelps) to talk about upcoming proposals in TC39 and WHATWG.
Proposals discussed:
EventTarget Observable Proposal in WHATWG
Observable Proposal in TC39
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-observable
BigInt Proposal in TC39
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint
Structure Cloning in WHATWG
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/793
Pipeline operator in TC39
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
Other topics:
How to get involved if you care about a proposal
What Ben looks like with yogurt on his nose
Tracy’s BF said “let’s git committed!"
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February 8, 2018
In this Modern Web Podcast This Dot Labs CTO, Taras Mankovski @tarasm, discusses State Management with guests...
Charles Lowell @cowboyd (Frontside),
Michel Weststrate @mweststrate (Mobx),
and Tim Dorr @timdorr (React, Redux Router)
Topics covered:
- MobX tracking changes in objects
- Redux changes to accommodate async rendering in React
- Best practices around batch operations in Redux
- Immer.js
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