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Modern Web

72 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings

Modern Web is a podcast that explores next generation frameworks, standards, and techniques. Visit http://modern-web.org for more.

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S06E12 Modern Web Podcast - Vue 3, Code Education, & the Vue Community

October 29, 2019 22:11 - 53 minutes - 100 MB

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, join our our host, Rob Ocel (@robocell), as he sits down with special guests, Adam Jahr (@AdamJahr) and Gregg Pollack (@greggpollack) from Vue Mastery.   Guests: Adam Jahr (@AdamJahr) - Instructor at Vue Mastery Gregg Pollack (@greggpollack) - Instructor at Vue Mastery   This episode is sponsored by NativeScript & This Dot Labs.    

S06E11 Modern Web Podcast - Mentorship with Ray Gesualdo

September 17, 2019 19:48 - 52 minutes - 96.5 MB

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, our host, Rob Ocel (@robocell), discusses mentorship with Ray Gesualdo (@RayGesualdo). Guests: Ray Gesualdo (@RayGesualdo) - Staff UI Engineer, SalesLoft Topics discussed: - What has mentorship meant to our careers - What is mentorship and how does it differ from things like sponsorship or instruction? - Is it really that hard to start mentorship at your company? What does it take to start a mentorship culture? - Why the ability to be open, vulne...

S06E10 Modern Web Podcast - NeuroJavaScript

September 05, 2019 15:07 - 46 minutes - 86.2 MB

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, our host, Rob Ocel, speaks with Alex Castillo about NeuroJavaScript. Guests: Alex Castillo (@castillo__io) - Co-founder @ Neurosity Topics discussed: - What is Neural JavaScript, neuroimaging, and how do they relate? - How can this technology help with increase the accessibility of our sites/technology? - What is the Notion device that Neurosity created? How does it work? - How does the Notion device separate intentional thoughts to operate inte...

S06E9 Modern Web Podcast - Web Platform Standards Fireside Chat

August 20, 2019 22:08 - 43 minutes - 80.2 MB

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, our host, Tracy Lee, speaks with Amal Hussein and Jory Burson about the web platform.     Our Guests: Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie) - Software engineer at Bocoup Jory Burson (@jorydotcom) -Open Source & Standards Liaison at Bocoup Education   This episode is sponsored by NativeScript & This Dot Labs.  

S06E8 Modern Web Podcast - Utility-First CSS with Adam Wathan, Sarah Dayan, Jake Dohm, & Rob Ocel

July 24, 2019 15:55 - 1 hour - 113 MB

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, our hosts Rob Ocel & Jake Dohm speak with Adam Wathan and Sarah Dayan about Utility-First CSS.   Our Guests: Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) - Working on Tailwind CSS Sarah Dayan (@frontstuff_io) - Sr. Software Engineer @ Algolia    This episode is sponsored by NativeScript & This Dot Labs.

S06E7 Modern Web Podcast - Animations with Lisi Linhart, Matias Niemelä, Jake Dohm, & Rob Ocel

May 15, 2019 15:20 - 50 minutes - 93.2 MB

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, our hosts Rob Ocel & Jake Dohm speak with Lisi Linhart and Matias Niemelä about animations.   Our Guests: Lisi Linhart (@lisi_linhart) - Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg in the Multimedia Technology course Matias Niemelä (@yearofmoo) - Angular Core Team @ Google   Topics covered: Types of Animations (CSS/JS/etc.) Web Animation API Houdini Animation Workout Framework APIs (Vue/Angular) Tools for building animations ...

S06E6 Modern Web Podcast - A Look into Node's Mentor Program with Ahmad Bamieh, Benjamin Coe, Jennifer Bland, Princiya Sequeira, and Tracy Lee

April 17, 2019 16:10 - 32 minutes - 60.2 MB

In this episode, we speak to Node mentors and mentees about the Node mentor program, an ongoing program focused on helping get more contributors into the Node ecosystem.   Our Guests: Ahmad Bamieh (@ahmadbamieh), Software Engineer at Elastic who leads the mentor program Benjamin Coe (@benjamincoe), Developer Programs Engineer Google and Node Collaborator Jennifer Bland (@ratracegrad), SSR at Stanley Black & Decker Princiya Sequeira (@princi_ya), Lead front end engineer at smartHelios ...

S06E5 Modern Web Podcast - The Latest Updates in ReactJS with Nate Hunzaker and Philipp Spiess

April 08, 2019 21:42 - 46 minutes - 87.4 MB

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, Tracy Lee speaks with Nate Hunzaker and Philipp Spiess, two members of the React DOM team. Topics covered: REACT HOOKS What is hooks? Should you use it? Is it critical to your upgrade path for react? Are developers starting to refactor their applications to use hooks? Are hooks easier to learn than the class API? How does this change people learning react for the first time? COMMUNITY Rachel Nabors joins the react core team REACT LAZY AND REACT ...

S06E4 Modern Web Podcast - Vue Updates with Chris Fitz, Jake Dohm, and Rob Ocel

April 05, 2019 17:45 - 46 minutes - 94 MB

In this Modern Web podcast, Rob Ocel and Jake Dohm speak about the Vue.js latest updates with Chris Fritz, a Vue Core Team member. Topics Covered: - What's new in Vue 2.6? - The new V-slot directive - The news Dynamic Directive arguments. Now we can have Dynamic event name and dynamic attribute bindings. - Why the core team prefers to write templates. - Backwards compatibility in Vue. - Differences between big releases like the upcomoing 3.0 version and 2.x versions. - Migration to newest ...

S06E3 Modern Web Podcast - All About Compilers with Minko Gechev, Kristofer Baxter, Radoslav Kirov, Jake Dohm, and Rob Ocel

April 05, 2019 16:14 - 43 minutes - 81.2 MB

In this modern web podcast, Rob Ocel and Jake Dohm speak about compilers with Minko Gechev (Angular Team at Google), Kristofer Baxter (Performance expert, a Software engineer at Google) and Radoslav Kirov (TypeScript support team at Google). Topics Covered: - What is a compiler? - WASM - UX - CSS - Accessibility - Node: Libraries: Express, nest, Ecosystem. - GraphQ - Angular Ivy - TypeScript - Parcel 2 - Animation - Utility First CSS - Performance - CSS Grid This episode is sponsored by Na...

S06E2 Modern Web Podcast - What's Up With GraphQL 2019 with Tracy Lee, Rob Ocel, Tanmai Gopal, and Uri Goldshtein

February 04, 2019 15:40 - 17 minutes - 103 MB

In this modern web podcast, Rob Ocel and Tracy Lee speak to Tanmai Gopal and Uri Goldshtein about GraphQL. Uri Goldshtein - Founder The Guild -@UriGoldshtein Tanmai Gopal - Founder @Hasura - @tanmaigo Tracy Lee - @ladyleet Rob Ocel - @robocell Topics covered: Why is GraphQL exploding in popularity Why GraphQL isn't a fad How to get started with GraphQL What are the full-stack benefits of GraphQL How to sell GraphQL to your team How to migrate to GraphQL What happens to clients that still u...

S06E1 What is AMP and why you should care with Tracy Lee, Rob Ocel, Ben Morss, Prateek Bhatnagar, and Kristofer Baxter

January 25, 2019 21:13 - 43 minutes - 81.7 MB

Welcome to another Modern Web podcast! In this episode, Tracy Lee and Rob Ocel will be talking with the AMP team about Accelerate Mobile Pages, an open-source library created by Google that to make publishing websites easier than ever. Ben Morss, Prateek Bhatnagar, and Kristofer Baxter will be our guests in this discussion. We talk about PWA, a11y, performance, AMP with frameworks, AMP Script and upcoming releases. Notes: - The AMP Project is an open-source initiative aiming to make web ...

S05E20 Browser Standards with Tracy Lee, Rob Ocel, and Dominic Farolino

December 04, 2018 20:26 - 37 minutes - 69.3 MB

In this Modern Web podcast, Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) and Rob Ocel (@robocell) interview Dominic Farolino (@domfarolino) about his adventures in getting involved in browser standards and how others can get involved too. Dominic Farolino is a WHATWG Standards Editor, Chrome Committer, Student and Software Engineer. Topics covered: - Actually getting involved - how do you do that? What is the process? - What is the difference between the different standards bodies? - How do you get started and...

S05E19 Angular Updates with Tracy Lee, Rob Ocel, and Core Team Members Hans Larsen and Ben Lesh

December 04, 2018 20:22 - 29 minutes - 54 MB

In this modern web podcast, Tracy Lee speaks with 2 core team members of the Angular team - Hans Larsen who leads the CLI team and Ben Lesh, author of RxJS. Notes: - Ivy is the biggest focus on the Angular team currently. Ivy is almost done and will make things smaller and tree shakeable. - Hans is focused on schematics - a library to help you build and generate work flows. - CLI - Bazel support is a focus right now to make the CLI faster - Ng update is a smarter way to update dependencies...

S05E18 Webint with Tracy Lee, Rob Ocel, Stephanie Drescher, and Anton Molleda Quintana

December 04, 2018 20:16 - 37 minutes - 70.2 MB

In this Modern Web podcast we will be having Stephanie Drescher and Anton Molleda Quintana talk about webhint with our hosts, Tracy Lee and Rob Ocel. - What is webhint and how can you use it? - What are some use cases for webhint? - What hints does webhint give you that are helpful? - Webhint is cross browser and cross platform, but it can be used without browsers too - Contributing to webhint - you can too! - Webhint is a JS Foundation project - How to use webhint in the community - What i...

S05E17 Houdini with Tracy Lee, Rob Ocel, Surma, Aimee Knight, and Vitalii Bobrov

October 17, 2018 15:59 - 42 minutes - 80.1 MB

Join us for the Modern Web podcast featuring one of our favorite topics: Houdini. Featuring: Surma @dassurma Aimee Knight @aimee_knight Vitalii Bobrov @bobrov1989 Your Cohosts: Tracy Lee @ladyleet Rob Ocel @robocell Houdini is a project that has been around for a few years, but advancements have made this project increasingly interesting this year. Topics covered: * What is houdini? * What are worklets? * How is the houdini API structured? * How does houdini work under the hood? * Where ...

S05E16 RxJS with Tracy Lee, Rob Ocel, OJ Kwon, and Ben Lesh

September 27, 2018 01:55 - 49 minutes - 91.5 MB

In this Modern Web podcast OJ Kwon & Ben Lesh from the RxJS core team will discuss what's new in RxJS with Tracy Lee and Robert Ocel. Some topics covered: - What's new in the RxJS latest release - RxJS testing - what’s available today and coming for tomorrow - Support for async generators - RxJS staying framework agnostic - RxJS and Node - is there support for Node developers? - RxJS docs - A marketplace for operators? - Come contribute to RxJS If you need RxJS help, visit https://www.thi...

S05E15 NativeScript with Tracy Lee, Nathan Walker, TJ VanToll, and Stanimira Vlaeva

September 05, 2018 16:10 - 42 minutes - 78.3 MB

Host: Tracy Lee, Co-Founder, This Dot Labs, RxJS Core Team, Google Developer Expert Guests: Nathan Walker, Co-Founder, nStudio TJ VanToll, Developer Relations at Progress Stanimira Vlaeva, NativeScript Core Team Description: In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, we discuss with 3 different NativeScript people about NativeScript! We talk about: What NativeScript is. How it compares to technologies like React Native. Integration with Angular, Vue, and other technologies. NativeScrip...

S05E14 CSS with Tracy Lee, Jake Dohm, Aimee Knight, and Chris DeMars

August 30, 2018 00:45 - 43 minutes - 80.8 MB

Modern Web Podcast on CSS Hosts: Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - This Dot Co-founder, RxJS Core Team, Google Developer Expert Jake Dohm (@jakedohm) - Web Developer, Triangle Javascript Organizer Guests: Aimee Knight (@Aimee_Knight) - Software Engineer @ Built Technology, GDE Chris DeMars (@saltnburnem) - Senior UI Developer, Google Developer Expert Topics: In this podcast, we discuss the latest features in CSS, CSS careers, and what our guests are excited about in upcoming standards. You can fo...

S05E13 Neurotech and Machine Learning in JavaScript with Tracy Lee, Alex Castillo, Robert Plummer, and Jeff Mahoney

August 08, 2018 16:22 - 42 minutes - 78.7 MB

Tracy Lee and Jeff Mahoney co-host this podcast and speak to Alex Castillo and Robert Plummer about Neurotech and Machine Learning. Alex Castillo is the co-founder of Neurosity, a new neurotech startup. You can follow him on Twitter at @castillo__io. Robert Plummer is the lead developer of Brain.js, a library that allows you to explore machine learning with JavaScript. This podcast discusses: - What is neurotech? - What is machine learning? - How can one get involved in any of these proje...

S05E12 Testing with Jay Phelps, Kent C Dodds and Gil Tayar

July 25, 2018 15:04 - 1 hour - 115 MB

Modern Web Podcast on Testing with host Jay Phelps and guests Kent C Dodds and Gil Tayar. Jay Phelps (@_jayphelps) - Lead Software Architect at This Dot, GDE Kent C Dodds (@kentcdodds) - Javascript Engineer at Paypal Gil Tayar (@giltayar) - Sr Software Architect at Applitools Topics: - React testing utilities by Kent - How many tests should we have? - Terminology: Unit vs. Integration vs. Acceptance etc - Improving test stability - Snapshot testing - Cypress vs. Selenium - Visual testing ...

S05E11 Preact with Ben Lesh, Tracy Lee, Prateek Bhatnagar, Jason Miller, and Zouhir Chahoud

July 18, 2018 13:50 - 55 minutes - 104 MB

Tracy and Ben meet with three Preact Core team members to talk about the preact-cli, upcoming releases, and the general direction of this popular library. Hosts: Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - This Dot Co-founder, GDE, RxJS Core team Ben Lesh (@benlesh) - Engineer at Google, Co-founder This Dot, RxJS Core team Guests: Jason Miller (@_developit) - Creator of @preactjs. Web DevRel at Google. Zouhir Chahoud (@_zouhir) - Technical Program Manager for Edge at Microsoft Prateek Bhatnagar (@_prateekbh)...

S05E10 V8 with Jay Phelps, Benedikt Meurer, Mathias Bynens, and Jaroslav Sevcik

June 20, 2018 20:31 - 1 hour - 125 MB

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   Follow @v8js and @moderndotweb on Twitter!   Mentioned Article: https://developers.google.com/web/...

S05E09 Tech Diversity with Tara Manicsic, Sarah Federman, and Deanna Leavitt

May 23, 2018 20:49 - 49 minutes - 92.5 MB

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   Don't forget to buy your Fluent Conference tickets with our 20% discount code on gold, silver, and bronze passes! https://conferences.oreilly.com/fluent/fl-ca Code: MODERN   Topics: - Representation at Conferences - Calling for...

S05E08 Blockchain with Preethi Kasireddy, Kyle Simpson, Nik Kalyani, Fred Schott and Tracy Lee

May 09, 2018 20:35 - 46 minutes - 86.5 MB

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   ...

S05E07 Topics in React with Michael Jackson, Ben Lesh, Jay Phelps, and Tracy Lee

May 02, 2018 21:33 - 55 minutes - 104 MB

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 Follow us on Twitter @moderndotweb

S05E06 React Native with Jay Phelps, Brent Vatne, Eric Vicenti, and Ken Wheeler

April 18, 2018 16:14 - 57 minutes - 107 MB

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...

S05E05 What's Going on in VR? with Ben Lesh, Tracy Lee, Aysegul Yonet, and Martin Splitt

April 11, 2018 22:02 - 39 minutes - 72.9 MB

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 ...

S05E04 CSS Grid with Rachel Andrew, Jennifer Luker, and Necoline Hubner

March 29, 2018 22:04 - 33 minutes - 62.2 MB

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 ov...

S05E03 The Truth About Developer Relations with Simona Cotin, Tara Manicsic, Tierney Cyren, and Tracy Lee

February 28, 2018 03:51 - 57 minutes - 107 MB

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?     To...

S05E02 Proposals Coming to your Browser with Ben Lesh, Tracy Lee, Jake Archibald, and Jay Phelps

February 23, 2018 15:20 - 54 minutes - 102 MB

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 operat...

S05E01 State Management with Taras Mankovski, Tim Dorr, Michel Weststrate, and Charles Lowell

February 08, 2018 20:05 - 1 hour - 121 MB

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   To learn more visit www.thisdot.co Follow us on Twitter @moderndotweb

S04E12 - Web A11y with Jen Luker and Necoline Hubner

January 04, 2018 15:46 - 29 minutes - 53.8 MB

In this Modern Web podcast Necoline Hubner discusses the web accessibility with Jen Luker.   Topics covered: -What is accessibility -How to write more accessible code Follow Necoline and Jen on Twitter @necolinesan and @knitcodemonkey Listen to more podcasts at http://moderndotweb.com   ESPN a11y guide: http://www.espn.com/core/toolkit/page/webAccessibilityGuide checklist: https://a11yproject.com/checklist.html a11y es-lint plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-jsx-a...

S04E14 Current State of WebAssembly with Sean Larkin, Jay Phelps, Ben Lesh, and Tracy Lee

January 03, 2018 16:03 - 44 minutes - 81.5 MB

In this Modern Web podcast 4 JavaScripters discuss WebAssembly. Sean Larkin (@thelarkinn), core team member webpack Jay Phelps (@_jayphelps), co-author redux-observable, wasm enthusiast, compiler freak Tracy Lee (@ladyleet), RxJS core team, Google Developer Expert, co-founder This Dot Labs Ben Lesh (@benlesh), RxJS core team, engineer at Google, RxWorkshop Topics covered: - Should you care about WebAssembly? - How is webpack involved with WebAssembly? - What can you do now with wasm? -...

S04E11 - The Future of RxJS 6 & 7 - Roadmapping Operators with Ben Lesh and Tracy Lee

July 18, 2017 20:51 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MB

In this Modern Web podcast Ben Lesh discusses the future of RxJS with Tracy Lee. Topics covered: - Decreasing the bundle size of RxJS - Implementing new operators - Lettable operators - A more functional RxJS - Using RxJS in frameworks To learn RxJS, visit http://reactivex.io/rxjs. Follow Ben and Tracy on Twitter @benlesh and @ladyleet Listen to more podcasts at http://moderndotweb.com

S04E10 - The New Payment Request API with Molly Dalton, Zach Koch, and Ray Shan

July 18, 2017 20:49 - 45 minutes - 21.1 MB

Making and accepting payments on the web is quite cumbersome. Thankfully, the new Payment Request API and vendors like Apple and Stripe make the implementation simple and secure. Molly Dalton and Zach Koch, who work closely with Edge, Chrome and the Payment Request API, join us to discuss how to use this new standard for seamless payments on the web.   Panelists Molly Dalton @mollyadalton Zach Koch @zachk   Host Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io   Links   W3C Payment Request API...

S04E09 - Promoting Diversity in TC39 with Leo Balter and Tracy Lee

June 12, 2017 01:18 - 50 minutes - 23 MB

Leo Balter is a software engineer at Bocoup and an active member of the TC39 technical committee. If you are unfamiliar with TC39, it is the governing body for Javascript standards. TC39 members include individuals from Google, Netflix, Facebook, Yahoo and many others. Leo is among these individuals and attends committee meetings as a representative of the JS Foundation. Leo and Tracy discuss topics of societal barriers, exclusion of minorities, and sexism. Many of these topics surface as...

S04E08 - Vue.js with Evan You and Sarah Drasner

April 27, 2017 17:51 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MB

Topic Vue.js with creator Evan You and Sarah Drasner Summary Vue.js is a JavaScript UI framework built to be approachable, versatile and performant. Its creator Evan You and the award winning writer of CSS-Tricks Sarah Drasner join us to discuss the creation of Vue.js, the beginner learning curve, how it handles data and animations, and how it differs from Angular and React. Panelists Evan You @youyuxi http://evanyou.me/ Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/ Host R...

S04E07 - Accessibility with Rob Dodson and Alice Boxhall

March 27, 2017 14:49 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB

Topic Accessibility on the Web Summary This episode is all about web accessibility. We’re joined by Rob Dodson, developer advocate at Google, and Alice Boxhall, software engineer at Google. We talk about why accessibility matters to everyone, even beyond people with disabilities. We dive into the implementation details, such as navigation, semantics and styling, based on Rob and Alice’s Web Accessibility course. We explore various guidelines and learning resources to improve your design a...

S04E06 - Web Analytics with Andy Elliott (Google) and Calvin French-Owen (Segment)

February 21, 2017 17:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB

Topic The What, Why and How of Web Analytics   Summary Calvin French-Owen, CTO of Segment, and Andy Elliott, business analyst at Google, join us to discuss analytics. We talk about what business metrics to measure and how to select analytics vendors for businesses large and small. We also discuss the technical challenges of analytics instrumentation, such as measuring web apps vs. websites, automation and data schema design.   Panelists Calvin French-Owen @calvinfo http://calv.info A...

S04E05 - NeuroJavaScript + Angular of Things with Stephen Fluin, Alex Castillo, and Uri Shaked

February 01, 2017 00:35 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

In this episode, Stephen Fluin (@stephenfluin), Angular core team member and Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) interview Alex Castillo (@castillo__io) and Uri Shaked (@urishaked) on unique and interesting projects utilizing Angular (2). With these two pushing the edge on what is possible with JavaScript and as speakers on the upcoming ngcruise, listen in to hear about IoT, neurojavascript, and Angular. Guests Alex Castillo (@castillo__io) Uri Shaked (@urishaked) Hosts Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) Stephe...

S04E04 - Firefox Developer Tools with James Long

January 17, 2017 01:39 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB

Summary James Long, Mozilla, speaks to us about developer tooling in this podcast. What is the state of firefox tooling? How was the migration of firefox developer tools to react? What are some upcoming features in firefox like reverse debugging? We discuss other topics such as browsers standardizing on the chrome debugging protocol, redux-observable, redux middleware, error trapping issues with promises, and implications in the observable spec. Panelists James Long @jlongster Ben Lesh ...

S04E03 - UI Components - Challenges and Best Practices Across Web and Native

December 29, 2016 04:52 - 1 hour - 59 MB

Summary Benoit Marchant, create of the Montage Framework, and Andy Matuschak, UIKit engineer, researcher and head of mobile engineering at Khan Academy, join us to discuss UI components. We reminisce Benoit and Andy’s extensive history of web and native engineering at Apple. We debate various challenges and best practices of component reusability, encapsulation, gestures, data binding, and collaboration between engineers and designers. Panelists Benoit Marchant @benoitmarchant Andy Matus...

S04E02 - Polymer and Web Components vs Frameworks (Jerry Springer Edition)

December 22, 2016 01:19 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast - Ben Lesh stars as the Jerry Springer of JavaScript stirs things up with the Polymer team Monica Dinculescu and Fred Schott with hard questions about louder voices representing Polymer on twitter and the reasoning behind perceived abrasiveness. Thankfully, no one gets pregnant in this episode and hard conversations are all in jest. The meat of this podcast is centered around the difference between Polymer and web components, composable components n...

S04E01 - Data Visualization on the Web with DataSketches

December 01, 2016 03:52 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MB

We talk to Shirley Wu and Nadieh Bremer, long-time members of the D3 and data visualization communities, about their latest collaboration DataSketches and building data visualization using web technologies.   Panelists Shirley Wu @sxywu http://sxywu.com/ Nadieh Bremer @NadiehBremer http://www.visualcinnamon.com/   Hosts Tracy Lee @ladyleet Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io   Links Data Sketches http://www.datasketch.es/ Bay Area d3 User Group http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-d3-Use...

S03E06 - React Router, HistoryJS, State Management, Webpack vs Rollup, and more (React Rally Edition)

September 10, 2016 02:22 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MB

Michael Jackson, Stephen Rivas Jr, and Jay Phelps discuss React and other front end frameworks at React Rally.  Topics covered:  - Create-react-app - How using ember prior to react has affected the thinking behind working on react - React trainings - Building complex react apps - Webpack vs Rollup  - HistoryJS (react history) - How you should approach open source projects - React Router v4 - Early mistakes in the early router - Previews some of the changes happening with react rout...

S03E07 - React, Node, TC39, Cancellable Promises, and Observables, Oh My! (React Rally Edition)

September 05, 2016 23:47 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MB

Tracy Lee interviews Ben Lesh at React Rally. They discuss the React community compared to other JavaScript communities, which they boil down to being very similar to a “choose-your-own-adventure”. Important things to note in this podcast: The benefits and costs of new ES2015 features, Node’s position in the JavaScript ecosystem and how TC39 standards are affecting the node ecosystem, senior developers mentoring and making junior developers feel comfortable, the promises spec and cancellat...

S03E05 - Open Sourcery and The React Community (React Rally Edition)

September 05, 2016 18:30 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MB

Modern Web sits down with Devon Lindsey (@devonbl), Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo), James Kyle (@thejameskyle), and Katherine Poulter (@katpoulter) at React Rally (@reactrally).  Our main goal was to put them in power ranger outfits, but you’ll have to watch that on Youtube. Listen as they discuss the benefits of being an individual technical contributor versus taking the management route. The four share their views on the excitement of being a JavaScript developer, learning new technologies and...

S03E04 - The Truth Behind The Practical Dev

September 05, 2016 17:18 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MB

Ben Lesh and Tracy Lee interview Ben Halpern, the "voice" behind the famous twitter handle, @ThePracticalDev.  Did you know you can tweet The Practical Dev about your javascript homework? This podcast gives us a fun and quick view into what it's like behind the scenes as The Practical Dev. Learn about the organization and its the future.  Hear stories about run-ins with Tim O'Reilly, the JavaScript community, and how why Sebastian McKenzie once blocked Jay Phelps on Twitter. Hint: It was Sa...

S03E03 - Authorization vs Authentication in Ember with Rock 'n Roll Ember

July 25, 2016 20:59 - 43 minutes - 57 MB

In this podcast episode, Taras Mankovski, aka EmberSherpa, interviews Balint Erdi, the author of Rock and Roll with Ember about authentication and authorization in Ember applications. They discuss common authentication strategies and how to implement them with addons like Ember Simple Auth and Torii. Find more podcasts, videos, trainings and online conferences at http://modern-web.org or follow us on Twitter @modernweb_.

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