Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Ben Coe

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ben Coe. Ben is the co-founder of attachments.me. Currently, work for NPM, and had worked for Freshbooks where he began his professional development career.  Ben talks about his journey into programming and learning JavaScript, and the many experiences into his successful dev career. Ben shares his contributions to the Javascript community and the open source world with technologies like Yargs and InstanbulJS.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Noodling around with old computers from Waterloo
Geo cites
How did you get into Javascript?
Working at Freshbooks
Backend infrastructure at NPM
How did you end up working at NPM?
Operations person at NPM
Dev Ops
What was it like being there in the early days?
Automation
Yargs
InstanbulJS
Product management at NPM
C8
What is next?
and much, much more!

Links: 

https://github.com/bcoe
@BenjaminCoe
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/81600398588/npm-install-ben-coe-g
Yargs
InstanbulJS

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Ben

https://www.hackillinois.org
C8 tool