MJS 038: Peter Cooper

MJS 038: Peter Cooper

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Peter Cooper

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Peter Cooper. Peter was one the original panelist on Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber. Currently, Peter runs several weekly new letters on JS, Ruby, Go, React, etc. Peter talks about his journey as a programmer, which started at an early age tinkering with his father’s computer at home. Peter describes the beginning as a hobby until he learned the skills to being programming on many platforms. Peter talks about how he learn Ruby and JavaScript, and in early stages of noodling or learning code. Lastly, Peter talks about his contributions to the community and giving back.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Playing with computers at an early age
Computers were a hobby, rather than a career builder then
Being heavily into to anything can become your career, age does not matter
Finding the skill or passion in programming
Natural ability to see and make sense of code
UseNet
AJax
Directness
Blogging 
New Letters
rubyflow.com
What is the ultimate goal of the new letters?
Contributions
Helping host podcasts
Current work?
and much, much more!

Links: 

http://peterc.org
https://rubyweekly.com
https://github.com/peterc/
Cooper Press

Picks

Peter

Litmus
Cheap Gaming consoles on eBay
Jason Scott of archive.org

Charles

Hyper Drive
J5
Dash Pro In-Ear Headphones