ScriptCast - A podcast about JavaScript

A small interlude why I recover from a cold. ScriptCast season 3 is in full swing, with four interviews coming up in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, let's have a look at what's in store with the upcoming DevOne conference, taking place on April 11, 2019. Check out the website, check out the CfP and have fun listening to Donovan Brown from Microsoft! Donovan is Principal DevOps Manager at Microsoft, for the now called "Azure DevOps" team, formerly known as VSTS. In his talk you hear how Microsoft embarked on their own DevOps journey reducing a three-year release cycle down to three weeks. This required changes to their people, process and products. Donovan Brown from the League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates will share insights into the agile transformation of Microsoft's Developer Division and showcase newest additions to Azure and how to use Visual Studio Team Services to deploy any language on any platform, including Windows, Linux, mobile and containers. Links: - https://devone.at - https://twitter.com/DonovanBrown - https://fettblog.eu/rock-the-cfp/

Stefan met again with André Staltz, who is known for his excellent contributions to functional reactive programming. This time however, we go a more non-technical route, and chat about how we can build our own internet, and how other people are already doing it. We chat about personal LANs, the on-your-phone Facebook alternative, and many other challenges that we face when we want to put control back to our users. It's like the internet of the 90s, remastered, and exciting. Join us and don't forget to support André on Open Collective! Links for today's episode: - https://www.manyver.se/ - https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ - https://opencollective.com/manyverse - André's Talk at TEDx Geneva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjfWAbGfPh0

I met with Sara Vieira, developer advocate at YLD.io, to talk about how many conferences are too much? Sara is well known in the JavaScript world for her exciting and captivating talks, for being a power house on stage and not shy of a joke. Listen to her about how she learned to slow down the hard way, and what she does to keep a good balance between life and work. Links for this episode: - Sara's original article: https://uxdesign.cc/the-dark-side-of-conferences-4b103143179f - Sara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NikkitaFTW

For the start of season 3 I met with Martin Hochel, a developer from Prague who has a strong affinity for static types. Combining his love for TypeScript and his day to day work as a front-end developer, he started contributing to the React type definitions for TypeScript, used by 1.7 million people. With Martin we find out the biggest challenges when using React along with TypeScript, its benefits, and how it feels to break builds for million of users. Links in today's episode: - https://www.typescriptlang.org - https://flow.org - https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content - https://medium.com/@martin_hotell - https://twitter.com/martin_hotell - https://github.com/Hotell/rex-tils

Before we go into season 3 of ScriptCast, let's bring back one of our favourites from our very first ScriptConf. Chris Heilmann did the opening keynote in 2017, and his talk was an instant classic! Listen to Chris and find out what he means with "JavaScript is a buffet, not the enemy"! And don't forget to visit Chris at https://twitter.com/codepo8 and join us on https://twitter.com/scriptcast

Recording from Script'18 A typical interaction with a device or interface involves touching it. Either you're pressing buttons on a controller, swiping on a touchscreen or clicking on your laptop's trackpad. But what if you could control things without the use of your hands? What if you could use... your thoughts? I have been tinkering with a brain sensor and developed an open source JavaScript framework for it to allow me (or anyone else) to control interfaces or robots using facial expressions and mental commands. ScriptConf is powered by: - Dynatrace (https://dynatrace.com) - Fredmansky (https://fredmansky.at) - Karriere.at (https://karriere.at) - epunkt (https://www.epunkt.com) - Microsoft (https://microsoft.com) - Studio Mitte (https://studiomitte.com) - Presono (https://presono.com) - Travis CI (https://travis-ci.com)

A recording from Script'18 (https://scriptconf.org) Next wave infrastructure - do far more with much less - Phil Hawksworth(https://twitter.com/philhawksworth) Recent years have seen a shift in technical architectures. Building complex services for the web used to be just that – complex. Projects might have demanded a broad range of specialist skills which could stretch even the fullest of full-stack developers. These days we have a growing number of options for how we design, build and maintain the systems which keep our web sites and applications alive. This talk will look at ways to make use of emerging tools and services which can deliver surprisingly rich features and capabilities without maintaining expensive and complex infrastructure. We’ll talk about the benefits in keeping your stack simple, in using the expertise of others, and we'll examine the performance and security benefits of JAMstack and microservices. ScriptConf is powered by: - Dynatrace (https://dynatrace.com) - Fredmansky (https://fredmansky.at) - Karriere.at (https://karriere.at) - epunkt (https://www.epunkt.com) - Microsoft (https://microsoft.com) - Studio Mitte (https://studiomitte.com) - Presono (https://presono.com) - Travis CI (https://travis-ci.com) Photo by bebraw: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebraw/sets/72157669068490399

A recording from Script'18 (https://scriptconf.org) Cycle.js on pen and paper - Andre Staltz (https://twitter.com/andrestaltz) Let's learn the Cycle.js framework from paper sketches and diagrams that make it look easy and obvious. Then, let's see how you can use it in the real world. ScriptConf is powered by: - Dynatrace (https://dynatrace.com) - Fredmansky (https://fredmansky.at) - Karriere.at (https://karriere.at) - epunkt (https://www.epunkt.com) - Microsoft (https://microsoft.com) - Studio Mitte (https://studiomitte.com) - Presono (https://presono.com) - Travis CI (https://travis-ci.com)

A recording from Script'18 (https://scriptconf.org) Creating Augmented Reality Apps with Web Technology - Michaela Lehr (https://twitter.com/fischaelameer) If 2017 was the year of Virtual Reality, 2018 may become the year of Augmented Reality. With Apple's ARKit for iOS and Google's ARCore for Android, we should not forget that actually the open web and Augmented Reality are the perfect couple. But how do we create AR apps with web technology? In my talk you will learn how to write your own AR app that runs in the browser. You will see how Augmented Reality works, what markers are for, and how to create them. And you'll get an overview about the devices you can use to test your AR projects. We are just at the beginning of the rise of Augmented Reality. This is why lots of UX design questions are still unanswered. But there are patterns and best practises, and you will learn how to use them to get a great user experience in your AR application. ScriptConf is powered by: - Dynatrace (https://dynatrace.com) - Fredmansky (https://fredmansky.at) - Karriere.at (https://karriere.at) - epunkt (https://www.epunkt.com) - Microsoft (https://microsoft.com) - Studio Mitte (https://studiomitte.com) - Presono (https://presono.com) - Travis CI (https://travis-ci.com)

A recording from Script'18 (https://scriptconf.org) Hop on the serverless adventure with Node.js - Simona Cotin (https://twitter.com/simona_cotin) Serverless is the new black - I can deploy my application to the cloud without ever worrying about infrastructure. We all remember the days when we had to spend hours and hours configuring and debugging web servers when all we wanted was to just code and test our app. Those days are long gone and it’s time for us to unlearn how to provision and manage infrastructure while focusing on building and scaling applications. ScriptConf is powered by: - Dynatrace (https://dynatrace.com) - Fredmansky (https://fredmansky.at) - Karriere.at (https://karriere.at) - epunkt (https://www.epunkt.com) - Microsoft (https://microsoft.com) - Studio Mitte (https://studiomitte.com) - Presono (https://presono.com) - Travis CI (https://travis-ci.com) Photo by bebraw: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebraw/sets/72157669068490399

A recording from Script'18 (https://scriptconf.org) Radically Accessible Internet Applications

A recording from Script'18 (https://scriptconf.org) The Journey to Full Time Open Source Working on open source has changed my life. I am self-employed and work on open source full-time. I don't have a boss. I only work on projects that I enjoy working on, and I can work whenever and wherever I want. I also let people use all the code I write for free. This is all made possible thanks to the amazing support from the community made up of the users of my open source projects. I think I'm incredibly lucky to be in this position today. Yet there are still many open source maintainers struggling on the verge of burnout while their software is being used by millions. So in this talk I will share with you my journey of open source - in particular how I made it my full-time job - in the hope of shedding some insights on open source sustainability. ScriptConf is powered by: - Dynatrace (https://dynatrace.com) - Fredmansky (https://fredmansky.at) - Karriere.at (https://karriere.at) - epunkt (https://www.epunkt.com) - Microsoft (https://microsoft.com) - Studio Mitte (https://studiomitte.com) - Presono (https://presono.com) - Travis CI (https://travis-ci.com)

Public service announcement: Script'18 is happening. We have just a couple of tickets left. Check out https://scriptconf.org for more information. I had the pleasure of meeting the one and only Mathias Bynens (https://twitter.com/mathias) in Munich at JSKongress (https://twitter.com/JSkongress). We had a little chat over tea and Club Mate and spoke about Mathias' career and life. How he started as a developer, came to Opera and ended up with Google's V8 team (https://twitter.com/v8js). We also spoke about regular expressions and recent advancements in that area. They are evolving, and Mathias is actively contributing to the standards. I had a ton of fun, and I'm sure Mathias will cross paths with the ScriptConf crowd sometime in the future! Links: - Mathias' blog: https://mathiasbynens.be/ - Regular expression proposals: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/es-regexp-proposals - Using CSS without HTML: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-without-html - Parsing HTML with regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/96656 - Script'18: https://scriptconf.org

Reminder! Script'18 is happening. Check out the program at https://scriptconf.org and see speakers like Evan You, Marcy Sutton and Andre Staltz. I met with my buddy Daniel Khan (https://twitter.com/dkhan) for "Coffee", or a hoppy equivalent you have at around 5pm on a sunny afternoon. Daniel and I know each other for a long time, and somehow we ended up at the same company roughly the same month. Albeit in totally different teams, our paths keep crossing. Mostly because we share the same passion for Node.js. Daniel and I also share similar views in how we view our skills. And more importantly: The lack thereof. The Dunning-Kruger effect or the more friendly Socratic paradox helps us to lead a more humble and pragmatic way of doing things. We also chat about how we viewed the mysterious event loop wrong for way too long, and how understanding it helped us becoming a better Node.js developer (spoiler: it didn't). So enjoy our fun chat and check out Daniel's work: - Daniel's Node.js course on Lynda: https://www.lynda.com/Daniel-Khan/7382040-1.html - What you should know to really understand the Node.js event loop: https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/what-you-should-know-to-really-understand-the-node-js-event-loop-and-its-metrics-c4907b19da4c - I've been a web developer for 17 years and this is what I learned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sYi_66qb-w - Script'18: https://scriptconf.org

I was in Warsaw at Frontend-Con where I had the chance to meet Ruth John (https://twitter.com/Rumyra). Together with Karolina Wasielewska from Girls Gone Tech (http://www.girlsgonetech.pl) I did an interview about Ruth's passion: Audio/Video art on the web. We chat about the new APIs and the best way of using them. We also share stories about sound on the web gone right and wrong. Last, but not least, we learn more about live:js (http://livejs.network/, live audio/video shows based on web technologies. Ruth is joined by a bunch of web creatives like Martin (controls light via CSS), Tim (moving from Nerd Disco to Vision Lord), Sam (a musician and composer for live:js) and Matt (musician and creator of "Loop Drop"). Their next gig is a complete show at JSConf Budapest. If you are around, make sure to check it out. I had a lot of fun talking to Ruth and enjoying a good cup of tea together! (and some occassional beers in the evening, ScriptCast tradition, I hear you say) If you want more Script goodness, go to https://scriptconf.org and check out our upcoming event in January. Have fun! Links: - Ruth's website at http://rumyrashead.com - Future Library at https://www.futurelibrary.no/ - A good example of audio, video and the web combined - The Live.js Network at http://livejs.network - Live.js performance in Singapore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3fsRnFfyuo - Ruth's talk "How to be a Web A/V artist" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby6fk5gC4k

Sebastian and I met Peter Marton (https://twitter.com/slashdotpeter) from Rising Stack (https://www.risingstack.com) a day before the great #devone conference in Linz (https://devone.at). In good Scriptcast tradition we went to a beer garden, had Käsekrainer with potato salad and the occasional Hefeweizen. Mostly to convince Peter that there are in fact good Hefeweizen. Of course we spoke about JavaScript, mostly on the server side this time. Peter's company is well known for their Node.js expertise and their consulting work, so we spoke about all things structuring, maintenance, leftpadding and "Hauptversionsnummernerhöhungsangst" (aka the fear of updating the major version number, it exists!) Thanks again to our friends from Donau Tech Radio (https://www.dtr.fm) for providing the recording equipment. Have fun!

ScriptCast No. 3 is here! Sebastian and I met Nadieh Bremer during our trip to Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf. We took Nadieh out for sushi and had a chat about her life, work, and career in data visualisation. So join us and listen how Nadieh started out as an astronomer and became a JavaScript-savvy data-viz-ard. Also, find out how Dragonball Z can be used for interactive and engaging visualizations, and why the hexagon is the best shape of them all (https://scriptconf.org approves). With Nadieh being a remarkable source of knowledge, she provides us with tons of books and resources for you to start your own journey: - Nadieh's personal web site: http://www.visualcinnamon.com - Nadieh and Shirley's http://www.datasketch.es/ - Nadieh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nadiehbremer - Nadieh's wonderful vizualisations on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadiehbremer/ - Nadieh's D3 bl.ocks: https://bl.ocks.org/nbremer - Mike Bostock's D3 bl.ocks: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock - A search for all the D3 bl.ocks: http://blockbuilder.org/search - "Interactive Data Visualization for the Web" - a free eBook: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.html - "The functional art", a book on dataviz: http://www.thefunctionalart.com/p/about-book.html Again, thanks go out to Sebastian (twitter.com/sebgie) and Tom (twitter.com/Haroldchen) for joining me and to the magnificent Schepp (twitter.com/derSchepp )for providing his awesome recording equipment. Have fun!

Welcome to ScriptCast No. 2! We met with Phil Hawksworth at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf and went out for some Kebap. With Phil our topics were pretty clear: Styleguides, static site generators, content management systems and microservices. The new JAM stack if you will, though nobody of us can remember what each initial stands for. So enjoy our lovely little chat and try to ignore the sound of some cutlery clinging in the background. And if you like, pay our brand new Script'18 website a visit: https://scriptconf.org -- Tickets are available now and the first speakers will be announced in September. Also big thanks to Sebastian (https://twitter.com/sebgie) and Tom (https://twitter.com/Haroldchen) for joining me and to the magnificent Schepp (https://twitter.com/derSchepp )for providing some recording equipment. Have fun! Links: - Phil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/philhawksworth - Beyond Tellerrand: https://beyondtellerrand.com/ - Script'18: https://scriptconf.org

Welcome to the first edition of ScriptCast, a podcast about JavaScript. While waiting for the next iteration of ScriptConf, we want to produce new content for you and meet interesting people of the JavaScript world! For the first edition our organiser Stefan meets with no other than Harry Roberts and has a wonderful talk about web performance and the beer garden culture of Vienna. Also, we do a short shoutout to the next iteration of ScriptConf, which will take place January 19, 2018 in Linz! Enjoy! Big thanks to Donau Tech Radio (https://dtr.fm) for letting us borrow their recording equipment. Also huge thanks to Schepp (http://workingdraft.de) for doing so much magic in post-production! Links: - Harry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/csswizardry - Webpagetest: http://www.webpagetest.org/ - Script'18: https://scriptconf.org