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Front-End Hydration - JSJ 567
Jan 31, 2023
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Dan Shappir takes the lead for this week's panelist episode as he talks about hydration. Hydration is the technique of using client-side JavaScript to enhance server-rendered HTML with application state and interaction. In the context of Web performance, he explains why it is regarded as such an issue and its impact.
The second part of this episode is reviewing various ways in which modern frameworks, such as Qwik, Astro, Remix, and NextJS are trying to alleviate the impact of hydration:

Marvels Of Using Svelte and SvelteKit - JSJ 566
Jan 24, 2023
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Tracy Lee is the CEO of This Dot Labs, a JavaScript-focused agency, and Adam L Barrett is a Developer Consultant at This Dot Labs. They join the show to talk about the wonders of Svelte and SvelteKit. It is a tool for creating fast web applications. Additionally, they explain how these allow excellent user and developer experiences.

Runtime Security With Gal Weizman - JSJ 565
Jan 17, 2023
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Gal Weizman has professionally done Browser JavaScript security research for almost a decade and currently works in MetaMask. He joins the show to explain more about his profession as a "Browser Javascript Internals Expert." Moreover, he then talks about his project, "Snow". It is a JavaScript shim that applies an important defense mechanism in the browser to the web app's runtime to allow them to secure their same origin realms.

How To Plan For Success In 2023 - JSJ 564
Jan 10, 2023
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Join Charles Wood as he takes on a solo episode this week! He tackles different strategies on how to achieve your goals and aspirations. He motivates the listeners by sharing his personal story of how he was able to climb back up on his feet after getting lost a few years ago. Moreover, Chuck dives into his plans for Top End Devs this year and how he can help developers take control of their careers.

Qwik Part II With Misko Hevery - JSJ 563
Jan 03, 2023
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Misko Hevery is the Chief Technology Officer at Builder.io. He is also the creator of Angular.io, known for zone.js, and helped co-create karma. He returns to the show to discuss "Qwik" in greater detail alongside AJ and Steve. No matter how complex your website is, Qwik provides the fastest possible page load times. In contrast to other frameworks, Qwik has special features that make it more user-friendly.

WebAuthn With Dan Moore - JSJ 562
Dec 22, 2022
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Dan Moore is the Head of DevRel at FushionAuth. He joins AJ and Chuck to talk about the new API called, “WebAuthn”. Using biometric, secure authentication techniques, WebAuthn is a new approach for confirming your users' identities. He goes into detail about the usage of this API and how this is a good choice for users to validate web applications with ease and convenience.

Astro with Fred K. Schott - JSJ 561
Dec 13, 2022
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Steve and A.J. welcome Fred K. Schott to the show to talk about Fred's latest project, Astro. After initially discussing some of Fred's previous projects (Snowpak, Pika) and the joys of esbuild, they dive into Astro, including how it works, its use cases, and the newly finalized dynamic SSR capability. They finish with some picks going back to the very early web, and, as always, Steve's fabulous dad jokes.

The State of WASM - JSJ 560
Dec 06, 2022
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WebAssembly (WASM) is a core technology of the Web and supported by all browsers as well as various other runtimes. Yet despite this fact most Web devs don't use it and have little or no familiarity with it. This week we are joined by Istvan Szmozsanszky "Flaki" to discuss some of the significant transformations currently taking place with this tech, which could make it much more mainstream.

All Things TypeScript with Maina Wycliffe - JSJ 559
Nov 29, 2022
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Maina Wycliffe is a Full-stack Software Engineer, Google Developer Expert, and Mentor who currently works at Flanksource. He is a Typescript Enthusiast and is the author of All things Typescript. He joins Chuck and Steve as he shares the reason behind starting his newsletter. His main goal is to teach developers to learn more about it and its typing system.

How To Recession Proof Your Job - BONUS
Nov 24, 2022
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Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back?
Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers?
Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basis.
Mani has read 1,000's of productivity books over the last several years and has formulated a methodology for getting more done, but found that he lacked the discipline to follow through on his plans.
The he found the one thing that kept him on track and made him so productive that he is now getting all of his work done and was able to live the life he wants.
Chuck also weighs in on how Mani's technique has worked for him and allows him to spend more time with his wife and kids, run a podcast network, and a nearly full time contract.
Join the episode to learn how Chuck and Mani get into a regular flow state with their work and consistently deliver at work.

Wix Velo with Yoav Abrahami - JSJ 558
Nov 22, 2022
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We are joined by Yoav Abrahami, Chief Architect and Head of Velo to discuss the transformation of Wix from a Website builder to an application development platform. Wix Velo enables developers to implement code that runs either on the client-side or on Wix hosted Node server, while constructing the UI using a WYSIWYG page editor. In this way, Wix provides an interesting alternative to app development frameworks such as NextJS and Nuxt.

What Is Functional Programming and What It's Not With Lane Wagner- JSJ 557
Nov 15, 2022
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Lane Wagner is the founder of a startup company called Boot.dev. He teaches backend development online in Go, Python, and JavaScript. Lane joins Chuck and Steve as they talk all things Functional Programming. They also talk about its importance and share their thoughts about it. Moreover, Lane also shares his experience with creating boot.dev and the different teaching strategies he uses on his online learning platform.

Stories From The Trenches - JSJ 556
Nov 08, 2022
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In this episode the panelists share war stories from their career and the lessons they have learned from them. They discuss things they have done back in their early days in tech, and how they now behave differently given those experiences.

Writing Change-Proof Software with Tests - JSJ 555
Nov 01, 2022
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Shai Yalin is a freelance software architect and mentor. He specializes in teaching organizations and individuals how to use Test Driven Development (TDD) and other development methodologies and best practices. In this episode Shai joins us to explain how to use these methods in order to create software that is resilient to change, and how to refactor existing brittle code in order to clean out the rot.

Remix and EpicWeb.dev with Kent C. Dodds - JSJ 554
Oct 25, 2022
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Kent C. Dodds is a well-known JavaScript developer who has done myriad development courses and training. He's also done outreach for Remix. He's spoken at tons of conferences and his now working on creating EpicWeb.dev which helps developers become epic web developers.
The Jabber crew starts out talking about learning, teaching, and EpicWeb.dev before going into the changes in the web platform and progressive enhancement and eventually Remix.

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