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Kahlil Lechelt & Henning Glatter-Götz


    • Jul 16, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 58m AVG DURATION
    • 101 EPISODES


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    100: "guts" Was A Little Gross

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2018 59:53


    We are back! Henning talks about finally launching the first site with the "unified web platform". It's a Vue.js app talking to multiple APIs. Kahlil wrote about enums and made a small CLI tool for common Git tasks called "belly".

    99:

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2018 56:44


    This is Raquel's farewell episode. Sadly she is leaving the podcast as a co-host. But don't fret, she will join us every once-in-a-while to tell us about her adventures at Slack and quirky animals. Other than that your three fav co-hosts chop it up about what's going on at Slack right now, various conferences they are going to, social media nowadays, the only thing Facebook is actually good for and the arrival of the animal of the week at Slack planning meetings.

    98: It's Tiring Too, But It's Good

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2018 57:57


    Henning and Kahlil chop it up about moving in and out of the bay area, mob programming, building a massive e-commerce system and RSS and Twitter.

    97: A Smoother-ish On-Boarding Process

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2018 43:34


    Henning and Kahlil chop it up about learning the systems at a new company, AWS and Kahlil feels that the Angular platform is just now reaching some kind of maturity.

    96: Without Cheese You Are Nothing

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2018 45:47


    Henning and Raquel talk about, the Poison Dart Frog, moving cheese, when to maintain and when to develop features, a laptop theft ring and the fact that Slack is mostly PHP

    95: Career Pro Tip: Make Yourself Irrelevant

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2018 50:15


    Henning and Raquel talk about The Swamp Hackathon, working at Slack and a book called Punished By Reward.

    94: There Are So Many Channels In The Slack Slack

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2018 49:30


    We're back and talk about Raquel working at Slack, Henning and the hackathon, blockchain, Kahlil's new Electron app and Bootstrap 4.

    93: Why Not Put Everything In The JavaScript?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2017 49:44


    Raquel is off because she just started her new job. Kahlil and Henning discuss overfeatured apps, "portals", Kahlil's job changing news and Web Components for building apps.

    92: I Want Your Ideas, Give Me Your Ideas!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2017 56:50


    Raquel signed up for Amazon Prime. A Japanese man makes paintings with Excel. Henning is wrestling with code reviews. Somebody tweeted you need a CS degree to program. The flying squirrel is the animal of the day!

    91: Alright Kid, I'm Going To Teach You Basic!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2017 46:21


    Kahlil is out but Henning and Raquel chop it up and talk about Raquel's staycation, about Henning dealing with Black Friday traffic and how kids can learn how to code.

    90: npm Will Be Giving All Of Their Public Packages Away FOR FREE!!!

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2017 59:17


    Raquel has BIG news. Kahlil did more performing. Henning is working too much because Black Friday. Raquel had a viral tweet. Firefox Quantum is out. Kahlil is still obsessing about Web Components and the CMD-R workflow.

    89: Compose Those Components

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2017 44:21


    Henning is out hosting Possums. Raquel and Kahlil wonder about US politics. Kahlil thinks Web Components are exciting. Screenhero is now in Slack. ES Modules in Chrome work!

    88: I Have To Get On The Phone With The Racoon

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2017 41:15


    Raquel has been kidnapped by a Racoon. Kahlil is back at work. Henning needs a testing framework for APIs. Should applicants have to do a test? Kahlil is back in Nested Loops meetings. Kahlil is watching Mindhunter.

    87: It Didn't Make Sense When I First Heard About It

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2017 53:53


    Hiring is still hard. Henning is building APIs with AWS Lambda. We have a new logo.

    86: Little Fluffy Fluffballs Of Chaos

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2017 56:56


    Panda facts because of a Henning no-show. Kahlil was in Croatia. React is now MIT. npm 2-factor auth, TURN IT ON! China unblocked npmjs.com. Twitter is testing 280 characters. Anonymous hiring with Limbo.io. Web Components are taking off. Python is the fastest growing programming language because machine learning. Kahlil relaunched his blog with Hugo and Netlify.

    85: I'm In Awe That It Works As Well As It Does

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2017 57:47


    Sea Urchin facts. Henning tells tales of the hurricane. npm released two-factor authentication. Henning has SAAS issues. Zoom.us is cool.

    84: Special Community Edition III With Guest Fredrik Andersson

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2017 58:33


    Henning's power is out. Fredrik Andersson of Reactive Slack fame joined us for this episode! iPhone X is pronounced iPhone ten. Nordic.js was cool. Ex-Googlers try to kill bodegas with a vending machine. Smart phones drive all the web traffic growth in the US.

    83: Maybe The Problem Isn't The Food Part

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2017 58:21


    Henning is awaiting the storm. Software devving while blind. Henning got promoted and is hiring a team lead. Anchor.fm has some cool features. Kahlil is working on a new design for his blog.

    82: If There Is A CoC The Rules Are In There For A Reason

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2017 57:26


    This time we needed bear facts to fill in for Henning who was sick unfortunately. Other than that we covered the Node kerfuffle as well as the re-occurance of the React license kerfuffle. Also Kahlil thinks Medium is going down the fugly path (it's just his opinion maaan). Also: Bluetooth door locks and a pretty interesting compiler by Jason Miller of Preact fame.

    81: This Is Supposed To Just Work

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2017 50:56


    Kahlil wrote about managing Git hooks for a team. npm is working on their new website with their own framework. Prettier is moving quickly. The Lean Startup is a cool scientific way to approach product building. SoundCloud might keep on keeping on.

    80: You're Biologically Not Able To Be On This Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2017 59:28


    Kahlil declares his manifesto. Uber's cars a burning down. ServiceWorker will be landing in Safari soon. Meditation as a tool. JavaScript for people who hate JavaScript. Henning's team is moving to sprints.

    79: I Really Enjoy Refactoring For Some Reason

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2017 56:44


    Henning is out on a conflict resolution retreat with Evil Henning this week. Rockbot tells us about how npm deals with security issues. She also went to the Node Summit. We are fangirling and fanboying over Paul Irish and Rebecca Murphy. Kahlil is refactoring something and iterated on Oddstream. npm is hiring again. npm adopted a wombat. What The Health is an interesting documentary.

    78: Look At The Internet While You Are Driving

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2017 61:56


    Henning went on a brewery tour. SoundCloud still might die. Google Glass is back. Teleporting particles. Facebook development practices

    77: npx tool dadadada

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2017 55:02


    Henning thinks Apple Watch is called iWatch. npx has landed! SoundCloud fired lots of people. Overcast in-app ads are very interesting.

    76: Password Or Monkey

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2017 58:45


    75: Extremely Small & Very Focused

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 51:45


    Kahlil has Hoodie working in tinydraft. He also was at the Glastonbury Festival last week. Henning did many interesting and challenging things at work. Microservices might be in Henning's future. How do Functions-as-a-Service even?!

    74: An Entire System In One Person's Head

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2017 48:14


    Kahlil is out rehearsing. Henning and Raquel are back! They talk rolling out humongous projects, single maintainer projects. There is also some news about Uber, some science stuff and self driving cars in this episode.

    73: Special Community Edition II With Guests Alexander Plavinski and Matthew Setter

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2017 72:53


    Raquel and Henning are out doing important things. Kahlil took the opportunity and asked who wanted to stand in for them from the Reactive community. Meet @cilice and @settermjd from the Reactive Slack chat (join via the link below)!

    72: My Understanding Of The Internet Was Like Swiss Cheese

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2017 54:53


    We're all back. Capybara is the animal of the week. Rockbot spoke at Web Rebels. Henning and Rockbot talk mentoring by pairing. Apple released things. Elon Musk is being awesome again. Rockbot gets into static site generating.

    71: Special Community Edition With Guest Felix Jung

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2017 79:37


    Rockbot is in Norway webrebelling. Henning has job emergencies. Kahlil decided to ask the Reactive Podcast Community Members™ if anybody would like to help out as a co-host. So meet Felix Jung! Reactive Podcast Community Member™! He talks about how he got to programming, what he does on SumUp and discusses Angular, React, tinydraft.net, micro.blog and other interesting things with Kahlil.

    70: Frameworks Are Becoming Compilers

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2017 60:02


    The band is back together! Henning watched Moana 100 times. Rockbot had a Twitter break and a 10 year college reunion. Kahlil is porting tinydraft.net to Preact. preact-cli is out. Tom Dales says Frameworks are becoming compilers. Ben Schwarz makes CalibreApp. CSS-in-JS is a huge thing.

    69: What Is This Lockfile Business?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2017 58:18


    Henning is out battling EvilHenning once again. Snail facts! JSConf EU happened and Kahlil did stuff there. Rockbot will be at WebRebels. npm@5 is coming. Merry

    68: It's Enough For Me To Know The Gist

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2017 62:51


    Henning is out so we have Mosquito facts! Glitch is a place where you can learn how to dev even. CodePen launched Projects. VPN for Americans. Kahlil shipped tinydraft. Instagram is eating everything.

    67: It Lets You Get In At The 10th Or 15th Floor

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2017 69:13


    You can find out if you have been pwned. LastPass had a breach. The Manager's Path is a cool book. Mastodon is a thing. So is Scuttlebutt. Windows 10 is ugly. There is npm news! Twitter made a PWA. Is Magic™ good or bad?

    66: Our Commits Really Do Matter

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2017 58:27


    Raquel and Henning have Manager Problems™. Kahlil writes bad commit messages. Henning is starting Brown Bag Talks at work. Raquel is kinda obsessed with the iPad Pro. Ember releases Glimmer.js. React is ruling framework-land. Node 6 had an issue. npm launched free Orgs!

    65: The Principle Of Least Astonishment

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2017 55:48


    Animal of the week ... Kea. Raquel is back from nz.js. Wikileaks happened. Uber just can't help it. Lots of JS news from Kahlil: webpack, cycle.js, Rails loves JS, Hoodie.js and Quokka.js. Jenn Schiffer has a new job!

    64: 100.000.000.000 packages

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2017 55:45


    Raquel is heading to NZ. Cloudflare had some really bad days last week. AWS had a meltdown. npm has served up a HUGE number of packages. Goat facts. What happens to your digital assets when you depart this planet? Giving notice and some design changes at Stackoverflow, Github and Overcast.

    63: Crazy Stuff At Uber

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2017 62:07


    Kahlil is in a music video. Raquel is out. Disney has some cool tech at Magic Kingdom. Henning talks about work stuff. A mini jsonapi update. Crazy disturbing things at Uber. DHH tweets.

    62: Using Facts Instead Of Emotion

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2017 60:57


    Henning was at Sunshine PHP. Henning bought his son a Lego Mindstorm Set. Raquel switched to Visual Studio Code. Node might be in Hennings future. Next.js v2 is coming. Henning shipped JSON API endpoints. We talk about bringing work laptops home. What is a real web dev? Raquel drops the knowledge on salary negotiations.

    61: The Only Way Forward Is Write Something, Anything

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2017 51:11


    Henning is out being a super-bat-dad. We have bat facts! npm is hiring. regexr.com is a cool tool. How do we remember useful things? Helium is also a cool tool. GitLab had a fiasco. How to keep up writing regularly as a developer?

    60: How To Refactor, When To Refactor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2017 62:27


    Henning is out on mission once again. Rockbot is back from ScriptConf in Austria. Kahlil works on a big Angular Reactive form. We like refactoring. More React code will come to npmjs.com. Unsplash has a cool story. Facebook Stories are coming. ES2017 has been released and we got Manatee facts!

    59: Altaba Is Basically Yahoo's Zombie Name

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2017 59:59


    While Henning is out fighting the sinister doings of Evil-Henning, Kahlil and Raquel talk about tech stuff! The Basilisk Lizard is the animal of the week. Trello has been sold to Atlassian. Rockbot is off to Austria next week. Medium fired 50 people. Yahoo is now a zombie. Tom Dale joined LinkedIn. Why did RethinkDB fail? Prettier makes all JavaScript code pretty. Raquel test drove a Tesla.

    58: Job Title: Owner Advisor

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2016 59:37


    There are panthers in Florida. Raquel got a new MacBook Pro. Tesla is doing radar magic. The uber comedy continues. npm has a NEW search. The GOP is doing sad stuff. A new markdown editor called Typora.

    57: How Delicious Was The T-Rex?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2016 53:40


    We are down a(n) Henning and that's why we have chicken facts!!! Kahlil has problems believing anything any officials say about hacking elections. Slack now has video calls. Skype does not care about security. Kahlil wrote a thing on his blog. npm are playing around with Next.js.

    56: Things Going The Way Of The Dodo

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2016 45:29


    Kahlil caught something. Some duck facts. Storage space problems. Google gives up on self-driving cars. Pebble went away. Uber is testing self-driving cars. You should use 2-factor authentication.

    55: I've Been Up To ... Stuff

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2016 63:39


    Raquel is back from Singapore where Monitor Lizards roam. Amazon is building a new kind of store. Thoughts on open source maintainer burnout. Standing desks. A new really good podcast.

    54: There Was An Election

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2016 58:56


    All together again - finally! The election happened and we cannot help but vent. Raquel is going on some exciting trips. JSConf EU was announced. How to teach programming to kids. Next.js is pretty cool and butterfly feet.

    53: It's About Removing Cognitive Load

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2016 67:41


    Grizzly bear facts. Baby talk. Henning is team-lead now. JSON API + Swagger =

    52: Keep The Fuzzies Going

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2016 54:42


    This week's animal facts are about the European Hedgehog. Facebook released Yarn - a new npm CLI client. Florida has hurricanes, California has earthquakes. The sad state of people securing their sensitive data. How to get developers to agree on stuff. Remote working is hard.

    51: This Is Not Necessarily My Favorite Subject Ever

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2016 53:32


    Kahlil is a dad! Twitter is for sale. Babel, Seti, Mars and other small news items. Homebrew hit 1.0.0. Raquel and Henning still don't like Snap Chat. Interviewing is hard. Raquel's upcoming talks.

    50: Big Up Alligator Moms

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2016 57:21


    Alligators are awesome. Raquel was in Iceland. Electron continues to be awesome. Aliens are signaling us. Pokémon GO may be over. Some follow-up on Functors. Uber is experimenting with autonomous cars. Jenn Schiffer has a new Medium article out. André Staltz explains pure functions in JavaScript.

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