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In this episode, we're diving into an exciting list of experience gifts, subscription kits, board games, and more—perfect for adding fun to your homeschool days while sparking new learning adventures! We timed this episode to coincide with the winter holidays, but you'll find ideas for birthdays and other celebrations throughout the year as well. If there's ever been an episode to share with friends and family, this is it! Here are some links to the items we discussed in our episode: Outschool gift cards: https://bit.ly/3UA5mUQ Ancestry: https://www.kiwico.com/ 23&Me: https://www.kiwico.com/ Kiwi Crate: https://www.kiwico.com/ Crunch Labs: https://www.crunchlabs.com/ Schoolhouse Discoveries: https://www.schoolhousediscoveries.com/ Universal Yums: https://www.universalyums.com/ Coin and Current Club: https://www.coinandcurrencyclub.com/ Creation Crate: https://creationcrate.com/ Mel Science: https://melscience.com/US-en/ The Week Junior: https://theweekjunior.com/ OLYA: https://oyla.us/ Letter Tycoon: https://a.co/d/im364oo Code Break: https://a.co/d/5nXQHmn Bananagrams: https://amzn.to/3YL5OlN Scrabble: https://amzn.to/48KhYyJ Trivial Pursuit: https://amzn.to/3BeJTK7 Money Bags: https://amzn.to/3AnDD2P Magna Tiles: https://amzn.to/3ZuowyR Wikki Stix: https://amzn.to/3XFGOM7 ((Hey there! Just a quick note.... sometimes, but not always, we share affiliate links. We only share products we use and love! It doesn't cost you anything extra to order through our link, but it does help support our podcast. We appreciate your help! )) Let's continue the conversation on Patreon! We host live meet-ups 2x/month and can't wait to meet you. Join here: https://bit.ly/3X5R0gIHomeschoolers love a good rabbit hole! Dig in deeper with our helpful links: https://linktr.ee/homeschoolmomsunfiltered Would you like personalized coaching from Meagan or Amanda (or both)???? We offer consultation services. Feel free to take a look at our respective bios and book a time that is convenient for you.https://calendly.com/homeschoolmomsunfilteredCome hang out with us! Join our FB group for fun and support:https://www.facebook.com/groups/homeschoolmomsunfiltered Let's be friends!!! Follow us on social media for giveaways and updates!!IG: https://www.instagram.com/homeschoolmomsunfiltered/TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@homeschoolmomsunfiltered?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pcFB: https://www.facebook.com/homeschoolmomsunfilteredLove Homeschool Moms Unfiltered and want to show your support? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/homeschoolmomsunfiltered

Whether it's a sick day, a snow day, or something else entirely, being stuck at home with kids is a natural opportunity to bend or flex your house rules to keep the kids entertained (and retain your sanity). In today's episode, Meagan and Sarah share our community's genius ideas for getting through long days spent at home. Join us for smart hacks for sick kids (and moms!), easy activities that help full long hours, and ways to make being stuck inside a little less awful. Enjoy!HELPFUL LINKS:Our Mother's Gratitude Journal is out! (affiliate link)Meagan and Sarah mentioned longtime show sponsor Kiwi Crate as a great option for packaged crafts and experiments for various ages. Get 50% off your first month plus FREE shipping on ANY crate line with code THEMOMHOUR.These ideas came from our Facebook Community – answer the membership questions and request to join for more practical tips for making stuck-at-home days with kids less stressful and more fun!Episodes from the archives that pair nicely with this one:House Rules For Sibling Harmony: Episode 314OMG We're Sick AGAIN?!: Episode 389Uggghhh…Sick Days: Episode 75Stuck At Home? Us Too. Here Are Some Ideas: Episode 252Check out the blog post, 8 Activities To Make Spring Break At Home With Little Kids Bearable (And Fun!)OTHER HELPFUL LINKS:Visit our websiteCheck out deals from our partnersFollow us on InstagramJoin our private listener group on Facebook (be sure to answer the membership questions!)Sign up for our newsletterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As a world traveler who loves to learn, Stacey Pool embodies the “growth mindset”. With over twenty years of experience in consumer marketing, she has held a variety of leadership roles across multiple industries and has a strong track record of utilizing guest insights to deliver strong business results.    In this episode, Alan and Stacey discuss the brand refresh she is leading at Noodles & Co. with digital initiatives and data components. Stacy knows it is people that fuel it all and has learned that being a balanced leader requires you to be able to adjust quickly to changing needs.  In this episode, you'll learn:  The importance of broadening your skill set and being an agile leader The way digital and physical engagement intersect  How Noodles & Co. is using data to improve both the guest experience and profit margins  Key Highlights  [03:45] Dow did Stacy end up as CMO at Noodles & Co. [07:00] How lateral moves helped Stacy in her current executive roles [09:00] The importance of agility and cross-training in leadership  [10:45] What Stacy learned from her transition to the food industry [13:20] Noodles & Co. overview and differentiators  [15:20] The new brand positioning Stacy brought to the company [18:25] The 100-day action plan and how it had to be adjusted [21:00] How Noodles & Co. is approaching the digital transformation  [24:00] The data world Noodles is trying to build  [26:50] How data storage and usage have evolved [28:25] How Stacy approaches the people side of the business [32:10] The two experiences that shaped who Stacy is as a person [33:50] Why people should give themselves more grace  [35:15] The importance of CDP's for marketers  [37:22] The work Stacy is doing with Community First and other brands to watch  [40:15] The threat of the unknown and the need to pivot quickly Resources Mentioned:  Stacey Pool  Noodles & Co.  Brand Refresh and positioning – Uncommon Goodness  Digital efforts  CDP – customer data platform  Community First Foundation in Colorado where Stacey is on the board  Brands mentioned: Wingstop, Raising Cane's, Shake Shack, Cava, Kiwi Crate subscription service, Athleta   Follow the podcast:  Listen in iTunes (link: http://apple.co/2dbdAhV)  Listen in Google Podcasts (link: http://bit.ly/2Rc2kVa)  Listen in Spotify (Link: http://spoti.fi/2mCUGnC)   Connect with the Guest:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyjopool/  https://twitter.com/StaceyJo  https://twitter.com/noodlescompany   Connect with Marketing Today and Alan Hart:  Twitter Alan B Hart - http://twitter.com/abhart  LinkedIn Alan  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhart  Twitter Marketing Today - http://twitter.com/themktgtoday  Facebook Marketing Today - https://www.facebook.com/themktgtoday/  LinkedIn Marketing Today - https://www.linkedin.com/company/marketing-today-with-alan-hart/  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/marketingtodaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we're talking about a bunch of fun subscription boxes for kids of all ages. Emma gives reviews of many of the boxes they've used from science to literature to art to history to cooking to outdoors, and we both share some of our favorite magazine subscriptions for kids. This is a great episode for Christmas/birthday gift ideas for your kids, and easy to share with grandparents, relatives, and friends. LINKS TO BOXES: We are an affiliate of Think Outside ! Ivy Kids https://ivy-kids.com/Kiwi Crate, Doodle Crate, Atlas Crate, Tinker Crate, Wonder Crate https://www.kiwico.com/MoxieBox Art https://www.moxieboxart.com/Hands4Building https://hands4building.com/Crafty School Crates https://www.craftyschoolcrates.com/Science Take-Out https://www.sciencetakeout.com/Lit League https://litleagueboxes.com/Terra Create https://terracreate.net/iSprowt https://isprowt.com/Outside the Box Creations https://outsidetheboxcreation.com/Club Bakers https://clubbakers.com/Kid Stir https://kidstir.com/History Unboxed https://www.historyunboxed.com/Hands on History https://www.handsonhistory.no/Open Roads Learning https://www.openroadslearning.com/Write On Workshops https://writeonworkshops.com/Raddish Kids - https://www.raddishkids.com/Eat2Explore https://eat2explore.com/Mel Science https://melscience.com/US-en/Magazines:Ranger Rick MagazineNational Geographic MagazineAmerican Girl Magazine Highlights MagazineSupport the showHelp us cover the cost of producing the podcast by supporting our sponsors or you can donate to us directly by using Patreon or Buy Me a Cup of Coffee. This Week's Sponsor is actually Beth! Find her book on Amazon -Find Your Homeschool Vibe Thank you for supporting the show! Check out our new affiliate Think Outside - Emma shared her review of this subscription box company on episode 25. Special Offer: Ready for turkey day, but forgot the cranberry sauce? Grab last-minute essentials with free delivery on 1st Instacart order. Min $10 req. Terms apply.

Get ready to get merry, Awesomes! Your 2021 AWESOME HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE! Join Meg, Kelly, and Rebekah as they share the most unique, unusual, out-of-the-ordinary gifts for all of the kids, teens, and grown-ups on your list! This SUPER-SIZED episode has something for everyone!Wanna get in on that texting fun with Meg and the Sorta Awesome team? Come join the Super Star Awesomes and get the texting perk along with bonus episodes, ad-free episodes, a Super Stars-only Facebook group, and more!THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:EveryPlate: Get started with EveryPlate for just $1.79 per meal by going to EveryPlate.com and entering code awesome179Moink: Go to Moinkbox.com/AWESOME to get FREE bacon for a year Truebill: Don't fall for subscription scams. Start cancelling today at truebill.com/AWESOMESHOW NOTES:KIDSCustom ABC Photo BookHot Wheels Storage Shelf Toddler Scavenger Hunt GameMagical FlamesScratch Off Voucher Root beer chemistry set - $18 Scratch Off Mini Holographic Rainbow Notes - $10Youth gripper slipper - half slipper, half sock - $24 (Reminder: You get 20% off your first order by going to bombas.com/awesome) A single Kiwi Crate - $26-$50 Nature Gear Window Bird FeederChonky seal pillowMake your own stop motion LEGO movieTiny Baking KitTEENSThe Reverse Coloring Book by Kendra NortonDIY Moss Wall Art Kit Neon Signs:game controllercloud and rainbowJust Be YourselfGlowCity Glow In The Dark Sports EquipmentLEGO ArtLEGO ArchitecturePotato Pal - Your face on a real potato- $22Oodie - a one-size fits most hooded wearable blanket - $75Awkward moments card game - $18Tune Out Musical Sleep Mask - $40 Cameo/cameo gift cardSolid cologneAmigurumi kit Monogram pill caseADULTSCharmin Super Roll Go RingBirth Order Candles:Oldest childMiddle childYoungest childMini Photo Album KeychainNature's Dick Pics CalendarHygge gift boxes on Etsy - $24-$60 Ember mug - self-heated smart mugs - $100OXO Pour-over coffee maker - $18Shower steamer spray - $22 Fairy Light Spirit TreePersonal Fondue KitUnder desk foot hammockIlluminidol pop culture prayer candlesPAST SORTA AWESOME HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE EPISODES:20172018 2019You can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!Find Kelly on Twitter , Instagram and on her website!Find Rebekah on her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don't forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kiwi Crate explores STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) topics through engaging, hands-on projects that aim to inspire and celebrate kids’ natural creativity and curiosity. Each crate dives into enriching topics that may cover science experiments, muscles and organs, mechanics and building, art techniques, motion and force, magnetism, and more. Explore these themes through innovative projects, DIY activities, plus games and puzzles in the explore! Magazine. Today, we review Kiwi Crate and give you the ins and outs of this subscription box. $20/mo. or $17/mo. with a 3 month subscription Show Notes Kiwi Crate (ages 5-8) - https://www.kiwico.com/kiwi What are we into this week National Geographic 101 videos https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwSl4pifg_WwWHOScXD-HG-VVEesSPDDU Connect with us Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/homeschooltogetherpodcast/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/homeschooltogetherpodcast Website: https://homeschooltogether.fireside.fm/ Email: homeschooltogetherpodcast@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LHBAmkwPj6N6OUnSmDZZQ

In today's episode we discuss all things Christmas from traditions to gift giving ideas.  Join me and my guests, Grace and Cara, as we give our top gift picks for Christmas 2020! You can find Grace @bleugifts on FB and Instagram. You can find Cara @walenphotography on FB and Instagram. Missi's Gift Guide Gift of Movement: http://www.ridesociety.com Use code "black friday" to get 10 rides for $99 http://www.breathepcola.com/index.html Gift of Good Sleep: Blue light blocking glasses https://www.the-well.com/products/baxter-blue-light-blocking-glasses Yoga Sleep Dohm Phillips Wake Sleep Light Gift of Relaxation: https://www.floridaelderberry.com/ https://www.asherandbee.com/ https://www.calm.com/ Meditation Lessons https://infinite-embers.thinkific.com/courses/shortcut-to-calm Hemingweigh Accupressure Mat Grace's Gift Guide Booty Bands Dr. Teals Bath Salts Apple Watch http://www.apple.com Capri Candle Blue Scent Adidas Leopard Print Shoe Ulta Gifts Dog treats: https://www.boccesbakery.com/ Cara's Gift Guide 1. In the kitchen! Eat2Explore Monthly Cooking kit The monthly themed kits deliver three recipes, some ingredients, and a kitchen tool right to their front door. Kids master valuable cooking skills and even learn to try new foods when they cook by themselves—and parents will enjoy letting someone else do the cooking for once. https://eat2explore.com/ 2.  Book lovers! Encourage your child's love of reading with a book club subscription from Bookroo.  Bookroo delivers hand-picked books right to your door every month for children ages birth thru 10. Choose the appropriate club for your particular kid—board books, picture books, or chapter books—and get ready to explore a whole new world of children's literature. Plans start at $24.95 per box. http://www.bookroo.com 3.  Create! A subscription to Kiwi Crate is the gift that keeps on giving long after the excitement of the Holidays has waned. Whether you have a toddler or a teenager, Kiwi has a box that's designed just for them. While pre-readers will need some adult assistance to follow the directions, the projects included in each box are fun, creative, and educational. M Give the gift of wonder and discovery | KiwiCo 4. For your little scientist We're always partial to toys that teach kids something, especially when they're also fun. Professor Maxwell's VR science lab combines cool at-home science projects with virtual reality lessons and I'm always a fan of learning while having fun. Professor Maxwell's VR Science Lab on Amazon for $49.99 5. Future coders Let's face it - technology isn't going anwhere.  But instead of just consuming it, why not teach kids how to create technology?  Learning to code doesn't have to be complicated, especially if they have the Root coding robot. Download the companion app and they'll quickly master putting together sequences of code to make the Root do things like draw pictures, sing songs, and walk up a wall.   Root Coding Robot on Amazon 6.   Outside Adventures! Anything that gets kids moving and active is always on our list. Does the child need a new bike or bike helmet? What about a new scooter?  Have they taken up a new sport?  Are they adventurers? A set of walkie talkies is always fun. Do they like to explore nature? If so, pair binoculars with a bird watching book and get them closer to the action.  This year, my kiddos have asked for glow in the dark sports stuff to keep the action going past sunset. Glow in the dark sports on Amazon

There's no need to get into any Black Friday lines this year. EdTech Loop already has you covered with the best gifts for the holiday season!Podcast TranscriptLarry Burden 0:03 No, that will not do.Larry Burden 0:11 double check we're recording here.Larry Burden 0:13 I'm very happy somebody prepped for this pod.Stephie Luyt 0:15 I know.Larry Burden 0:16 Not this guy.Danelle Brostrom 0:16 Let's just scrap this one.Stephie Luyt 0:18 Almost 40 is not old.Larry Burden 0:19 Bada Boom Bada BingLarry Burden 0:26 It's Episode 98 of the EdTech Loop podcast My name is Larry Burden and she's planning to virtually camp out in Amazon's Black Friday line as soon as this podcast ends. it's Danelle Brostrom. And we are also joined by one of our favorite things Stephie Luyt. I've dug deep into the bargain bin for this week's moment of Zen.Moment of Zen 0:46 Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.Larry Burden 0:51 This pod might be a little late, as we wait to thaw this week's meat the show: the Annual Loop Holiday Gift Giving Guide. So guys, it's almost that time of the year. Next week, this blew me away by the way, you know, you start to see some Black Friday stuff, you know, coming in the mail and here and there and I'm like oh my gosh. So early this year. And then it hit me, it's next week.Danelle Brostrom 1:19 Crazy.Stephie Luyt 1:19 Yeah,Larry Burden 1:20 So, help, help me out. We were talking before the pod, I am completely unprepared for the holiday season this year so enlighten me as to what, what are some wonderful things we can get for our people that we love.Danelle Brostrom 1:33 Do you want to go first?Stephie Luyt 1:34 I will, and I have a major theme because all of what I brought are, I brought book ideas. And part of that is because I just came back from a conference. So I was at the American Association of School Librarians conference and there were many authors and illustrators there. And, you know, you can't go wrong with a book. And so what I have is a range of books from our, for our littles up to our high school kiddos. Some you may have heard about because some have gotten some press and some are, were new to me. Let me start with the littles, and this book, it's called "Another," by Christian Robinson, and it is a sci-fi fantasy picture book that is wordless. So that's a lot. If you think about all that in all of those elements in a picture book without words for littles, preschool. The art is beautiful and there's an alternate universe that the kiddo and the animal take a little journey in. And I just, I'm so intrigued by this concept, and already there are multiple accolades rolling in for this book. So as we're getting close to my favorite time with the Caldicot, Newbery awards, I think we'll hear a lot more about, "Another." But put that one on your list if you have littles.Larry Burden 2:53 What a great way to introduce our littlest ones to narrative.Stephie Luyt 2:58 Yes,Larry Burden 2:59 Get them understanding the concept of storytelling and story. So that when we're introducing them to words and vocabulary and reading, they already have an understanding of the structure...Stephie Luyt 3:13 AbsolutelyLarry Burden 3:14 of the story. Did you bring it?Stephie Luyt 3:16 I didn't bring that one.Larry Burden 3:20 The ultimate picture book and it's not here.Stephie Luyt 3:22 It's not here but,Larry Burden 3:23 because you recognized it's an audio podcast so why would you bring it.Stephie Luyt 3:27 Well, partially because it's so popular right now I don't have a copy available, but I also, you know I come here and then I hold it up and you guys make fun of me.Larry Burden 3:36 I would, I'm hurt, I would never.Stephie Luyt 3:39 In the nicest way possible. So, maybe I'll give you a couple more of the littles and then we can go back and forth.Danelle Brostrom 3:45 Deal.Stephie Luyt 3:45 Okay, there's a book called, "The Undefeated," by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and if you're familiar with those names you probably have seen them in a number of other books. But this is a love letter to the experience of African Americans, and it actually was connected to an ESPN special called, "The Undefeated." But it is a poem, and the artwork by Kadir Nelson is photorealistic so his, his illustrations are as gorgeous as you can imagine. And topic wise, you know that's, there's some heavy stuff in there, and it's tells just a beautiful narrative of the experience of African Americans, touching on a lot of issues. But there's a lot of meat in this book and it's just gorgeous. So, I don't have it, but I can, I can, I can picture it in my mind.Larry Burden 4:37 We trust you. We trust you.Stephie Luyt 4:39 I've seen it and have, I highly recommend it. We do have it in a couple of libraries.Larry Burden 4:44 What age group would that be?Stephie Luyt 4:45 Well, you know I would call it for mid to upper elementary. I think the, the depth of some of the history would be more meaningful to older elementary and up, and older even kiddos. But in terms of the story, kids will understand it.Larry Burden 5:02 And as we said before picture books aren't just for our,Stephie Luyt 5:06 Correct.Larry Burden 5:07 Lower El.,Stephie Luyt 5:08 The book, "Another," by Christian Robinson, could be used at all levels. A wordless picture book, I mean kids of all ages and adults would tell a different story as they're looking through it, as you know all ages, it would, it appeals for everyone.Larry Burden 5:20 It'd be perfect for a podcast studio. Oh that's right.Stephie Luyt 5:25 Oh sorry guys.Danelle Brostrom 5:26 Love it.Stephie Luyt 5:26 And then another book that is, it was written by Sonia Sotomayor, from the Supreme Court, you may have heard of her, and Raphael Lopez is the illustrator. And it's called, "Just Ask." And it's all about kids who have any kind of, I would say, lack of a better word, difference. So kids who, it was written because Sonia Sotomayor was diagnosed with diabetes when she was a child, and she always felt like when she'd be having medication, or getting a shot, that kids were always curious and wondering, but people wouldn't ask. And so the book is all about how everybody has something that is on their plate that they're dealing with. And so it touches on ADHD, allergies, learning differences of all types, different types of disabilities, and the whole focus is, everybody has differences, let's, let's ask, let's be curious and it's, l et's talk about, and embrace, and celebrate these things that are, everybody has that are different. So beautiful illustrations again. Raphael Lopez has done a number of books and it's, it's a really neat partnership.Danelle Brostrom 6:34 Amazing books. Thank you.Stephie Luyt 6:36 You're welcome.Danelle Brostrom 6:36 Well, I feel like I'm struggling to follow those because I brought all, like, fun tech things.Stephie Luyt 6:44 I think that sounds perfect.Danelle Brostrom 6:45 I feel like you need the balance which is why you should do both,Stephie Luyt 6:47 Absolutely.Danelle Brostrom 6:48 So talking about the things for the littles. I'll talk about my stuff for littles first. I want to remind everyone about Kiwi Crate. That is one of my favorite things. I think it's a great, holiday season is a great time to think about starting a Kiwi Crate because it's a gift that would last the entire year. It is either a simple, single kit, or you can set up with a subscription. So they would get one every single month. And they have crates all the way down to 0 to 2, 2 to 4, all the way up to 14 and up. And the crates are focused on making, they're focused on creativity, there's one that's focused on art, one is focused on tinkering. And it gives the kids all the things that they need to do this project. And it's pretty cool because when it comes, the kids, they smile, my own kids they make the project that's there. And it's pretty cool and it keeps us intrigued and entertained for a little while. And then I watch it kind of evolve, like I watch that project will change into something else and they'll try to figure out how they can change it and make it better. So I see them playing with it longer than just that first session, and I like that it brings new ideas into my house every month.Stephie Luyt 7:55 Yep. And I think they've expanded one that's for, as you mentioned older kids and that that's newer. That is on my list of possibilities for my kiddos because we've never had it but my niece's do and they've loved it. And I always think to myself, you know I could gather all these materials and do this project.Danelle Brostrom 8:13 But I won't.Stephie Luyt 8:15 So, it's really nice that Kiwi Crate does that for you, if you might be like me and have plans but they might not always pan out.Danelle Brostrom 8:24 I also hate buying all of this stuff. Like you know, my kid wanted to take this little basketball thing with pom poms, okay but we needed 2 pom poms. Pom Poms come in a bagStephie Luyt 8:33 Of 100.Danelle Brostrom 8:33 Yes. So now I have 400 pom poms around my house that are ridiculous.Larry Burden 8:39 You mocked me years ago, when I, when I was, we were talking about Makers, Makerspace and, and collecting the stuff and I pointed out, like, I get that, it's really cool, but the organize, organizing of it can be a little bit cumbersome so you really want to be thinking about that when you're getting all that stuff. and look how look how it comes back around.Danelle Brostrom 8:59 It does come back around.Stephie Luyt 9:01 The Wise One.Danelle Brostrom 9:03 Thanks, Larry.Larry Burden 9:04 Though, I will say, with that, I'm listening to these suggestions and my kids are a little bit older and I'm like, I wonder if that'd be appropriate for me? Maybe I can ask them to give that to me? Maybe I want a Kiwi Crate.Danelle Brostrom 9:17 The ones for older kids are really, really cool. For 14 and up they offer two options. One is a Maker kit. And then this eureka kit, which is all about engineering and science. And, like the one example that they make, you make a desk lamp. They show you how to make a desk lamp that uses pulleys and springs to make an adjustable lamp with an LED bulb. It's so cool. I know, we should get them here for the, the pod. Ukulele, and electric pencil sharpener, like. Okay, my next option is going to be for like that elementary school age kiddo. I have a Fitbit, and I love my fitness tracker and my child wanted one, and I started looking online and I was kind of frustrated with the options that were available. They were all from other countries. I didn't know about the tracking. You know I'm a little crazy about privacy, I'm just sayin'.Larry Burden 10:10 Thank you for that actually. Somebody needs to.Stephie Luyt 10:12 Obsesively intentional.Danelle Brostrom 10:13 I do, I do worry about things like that, but I know that she really wanted a fitness tracker. So I was so excited to,Larry Burden 10:20 Not the worst thing for a child to be obsessed about,Danelle Brostrom 10:22 I know, she wants to count her steps. Fitbit came out with a new one recently called the ACE2. And it's made specifically for kids so it has special swim proof protection. It has some kid friendly graphics that you can put on the front, some kid friendly stats and goals celebrations. But it also has a parent component. I like that you can set it up under a family sharing plan and then your kids because they're under 13 they're given the special protections with their data that should happen for an under 13 year old. And it also, you get to kind of decide what features they get. Like if they want to have step challenges with their friends, they can only do with people you approve. Like, it kind of helps give me some of the control back which I really, really like. And they're running about $70 which doesn't feel crazy expensive for this kind of a fitness tracker. But there are some other features that I think are really, really smart that are on here. There is a timer, which the kids can set from the device. Why do I love that? Because I think of ADHD kids when they're sitting in classroom, and they need things broken up, and they need to be able to stand and go walk around, they need to be able to set themselves a timer. So, in a classroom setting, having a timer go off, well all of a sudden that makes you the one that everyone's looking at. But to have it on your watch that just vibrates a little bit, that you can set yourself, I think, gives a little bit of independence. It just recognizes that kids like, kids might need that. So, I'm a huge fan of the Fitbit Ace2.Stephie Luyt 11:49 Sounds like a really thoughtful tool to. Well designed with kids in mind.Larry Burden 11:52 Awesome. Like I said, my kids are,Danelle Brostrom 11:55 I'm looking at you waiting for your gifts Larry. What do you have?Larry Burden 11:57 I have a piece of paper with some stuff on it, and some really, really, really, smart friends.Stephie Luyt 12:02 I have this book with me. Now our listeners cannot see it but, "Astronaut, Aquanaut," so it is a nonfiction National Geographic Kids book by Jennifer Swanson and she had consultation by Fabian Cousteau. So Jacque Cousteau's, I believe, grandson. if you've, if you have a kiddo who, our you have ever wondered like what would it really be like to be an astronaut, and what would it be like to be an aquanaut, and all those questions that might be forming in your mind right now are answered in this book. And the kid kind of questions, like the nitty gritty of what you do when you are living under water or in space. How does, how did the basic things happen? And I love the amount of research that went into the book, and the detail. And just really providing like a typical day in space, a typical day in the deep sea. Really well researched, lots of primary sources. And this is for kind of your, again, upper elementary, just with the reading level and the amount of information. But if you have a kid who's curious about any of these areas, I would highly recommend this one. And then I have two graphic novels. Ridley Pearson is writing a series about the Super Sons. So it's the sons of Batman, and the sons of Superman, and their backstory and their narrative. So, looking at a whole 'nother part of the superheroes, from the point of view of their sons. And I love, love, love this. Meg Cabot, who wrote The Princess Diaries as well as another, a number of other books is also jumping into graphic novels. They actually, at a session I attended at the conference, a group of writers and illustrators were talking about how, you know as we've talked about on the pod, the graphic novels are very popular in comics. And so a number of kid lit authors and illustrators went to basically, comic boot camp. They brought a bunch of popular authors and illustrators together to learn more about the genre. So Meg Cabot's jumped into writing, this is more of a comic format. But it's a character, Black Canary, and this is called, "Ignite." And Black Canary is a teenager who wants to follow in her dad's footsteps, and be a detective in Gotham City, and doesn't have, doesn't believe she has any superpowers, but then discovers that she does. And, great coming of age story, great female empowerment, what she can do, what she can't do by, what society's letting her do. Loved it, it's going to be, there'll be a sequel, if not more. So, and this I have to say out of all the books, all the new books I brought back from the conference, two of my three kids have read this multiple times and loved it. So this one got high recommendations from my small sample at home, and I loved it too, and Black Canary's power is that she can,Larry Burden 14:49 Do we want toStephie Luyt 14:50 Okay, maybe not.Larry Burden 14:50 No spoilers. No spoilers.Danelle Brostrom 14:52 Um, let me do one and then I'll bump it back to you. So thinking about your middle and high school students, or even your adults because I'm thinking I might want one of these to. I'm really excited by the Dribble Up Ball. Dribble up.com, they're offering three different options: a smart soccer ball, a smart basketball and a smart medicine ball. Now what I think is kind of interesting is that it started as Kickstarter in 2017, but really mainstream within the last couple months. I've seen a lot of people talking about them. And essentially, there's a little stand a little tripod that you put your smartphone in, and then you stand back with your smart ball, like your soccer ball, and you can practice toe tapping drills and it will show you exactly where the ball needs to be, and you get points when it hits there. The medicine ball one is kind of for adults. There's a six pound and a 10 pound and you can do the workout. And when you lift the ball up and you get it in the right spot, the smartphone can sense where it is and it gives you a point for that. So you get points by being accurate, you get points by doing it faster. There's a lot of professional soccer teams that are actually using this to improve their accuracy and speed with some of these drills to build muscle memory. I think it's really, really cool to think of how you could improve your ball control skills with these virtual coaches. I think it's really, really cool for kids. I think that this is going to be big this Christmas. Check out DribbleUp.com.Larry Burden 16:16 I love that, that's so cool.Danelle Brostrom 16:16 I know, I want one.Danelle Brostrom 16:18 There's a REMC person downstate, her name is Ann Smart, and she is bringing this PD using the dribble a ball and math. And she's going and talking to teachers about how they can use this in the classroom to help kids build their math skills. I'm really intrigued with the work that she's doing around it, so keep an eye out for them.Larry Burden 16:39 You know some of our physical education teachers in elementary have used, or incorporated literature and some language arts into their, their classes and their lessons. What a great way to incorporate math for some cross curricular activities. I mean so, so cool.Danelle Brostrom 16:57 Yeah, and it gets kids movingStephie Luyt 16:57 Really cool.Danelle Brostrom 16:59 Yeah.Stephie Luyt 16:59 A couple for middle school in particular. "Song for a Whale," so this book is about a deaf student who learns about a whale who's unable to communicate with other whales, and feels that she wants to help this whale. So she goes on this journey with the support of some characters. One thing I found really interesting is the author, Lynn Kelly, is a sign language interpreter herself. So she has a lot of experience working with people with hearing differences. And this is, you know, a kiddo who isn't feeling like she fits in and wants to reach out and help another creature that isn't fitting in. And it's this really exciting journey. And so kiddos, middle grade readers who love animals would be really drawn to this book and the power of this story is what recommends it to. A book called, "Other Words for Home," by Jasmine Warga, is a book told in verse, a novel in verse. And this is the story of a family who comes into Cincinnati from Syria and their experiences. They assimilate, and then as other relatives join her family seeing how she's come and changed, and her experiences and in her new area. What home means, what family means. I love that its in verse. It's another form for kids to really enjoy, and similar to "The Undefeated," being told as a poem form. So, "Other Words for Home," it's that one.Danelle Brostrom 18:24 I only have one more. The last thing I'm going to mention is, so thinking about the holidays, it's a great time to add board games into your collection. Board games are great way to get the family together, and get them talking. One of my all time favorite board games is called Prime Climb.Larry Burden 18:41 We've seen this, yeah.Danelle Brostrom 18:42 I feel like I need to mention it every time because it's so good. Math for Love is the company that makes it, and it makes some other games for kids. Little Pok-a-Dot it out is another good one. But Prime Climb is, it's beautiful first of all, but then the mathematics involved, it's funny because I play it with my older child, and we change the rules a little bit because typically what you have to do, you roll the dice and then you can choose either to add, subtract, multiply or divide the number on your pawn by the number you roll. Like there's a lot of different computational thinking that's happening when kids are playing this game. But we changed the rules a little bit because division is still tricky for her, so I told her you can either add or multiply, we just kind of changed that a little bit. And then it was funny because then she played with my husband and he made a play by the rules which was a very different game for her. But then he came to me afterward, and he's a grown adult, and he was like that game was really fun. Like yeah it is, though it's really fun for adults, it's really fun for kids. There's a lot of thinking, and I kind of like that you get to control what you do. You have two pawns you can choose to move which one, you can choose which one you want to move, you can choose whether you want to bump somebody, there's just a lot of different choices you can make, and a lot of computational thinking and math that happens, and a lot of talking and fun. So, I would put Prime Climb on the list every time.Stephie Luyt 20:00 I just added that to my shopping list. I have just one more book that I want to talk about, it's called, "Beauty Queens," by Libba Bray, it's a read alike for Lord of the Flies. So, there's an airplane crash with a group of girls who are headed to a beauty pageant. It is a story of what they do and the society that they form, and how they survive. And knocking out stereotypes, and looking at societal expectations. A fast moving, very creative take if you remember how the Lord of the Flies plays out. I highly recommend this one.Larry Burden 20:38 In my attempts, my vain attempts to do some research I came across the Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit.Danelle Brostrom 20:46 Oh Kano.Stephie Luyt 20:47 Oh yeah.Larry Burden 20:48 And you actually get a wandDanelle Brostrom 20:49 There's a Harry Potter one now?Larry Burden 20:51 You get a wand and you actually cast spells in code.Danelle Brostrom 20:56 Larry.Larry Burden 20:57 So, I don't know if it's good. I don't know if it's, you know, it's Harry Potter so like, kids aren't going to like it. Everybody's all over...I got one!Danelle Brostrom 21:06 Well it's the Kano Kit to which has a good reputation.Larry Burden 21:11 I was just kind of going through like Harry Potter and coding? That sounds okay.Stephie Luyt 21:15 Yeah! Build a wand, learn to code, make magic.Larry Burden 21:18 If somebody has that, please let us know what they think of it. What age groups would be appropriate for that. It's six and up, I saw but, right, it's Harry Potter so.Danelle Brostrom 21:28 I would play it. Yet another thing we need to get for the Loop.Stephie Luyt 21:33 We might need to test that on the pod.Danelle Brostrom 21:34 I think we should.Larry Burden 21:35 Are we all set.Danelle Brostrom 21:36 We're set.Techtool of the Week 21:36 TechTool of the Week.Danelle Brostrom 21:41 TechTool of the Week. Purdue University, this is where I get my ideas from frankly. Every single year they put out an Engineering Gift Guide, and their gifts that they choose are tested by their engineering students, and they're looking for things that have good gameplay, that are quality, that have those open ended experiences that families can play together. And the quality of items that come out of there are just fantastic. They do include some books Stephie, but the books are things like, "Baby Learns to be a Structural Engineer." It sounds fantastic! But there are things for littles that they can do, all the way up to things that you would really be buying for your high school or older students. So the Purdue Engineering Gift Guide is phenomenal every single year. So check that out. It's great books, there's great stuff on there to. They also talked about Kiwi, they also talked about the Osmo which we talked about before that offers some hands on things with the, with the device. The Sphero, I think made that as well, which is a little coding robot. There's some good stuff on there.Stephie Luyt 22:44 This is going to be very helpful for shopping at my house.Larry Burden 22:48 And she's just basically gonna go down that list, check, check. Somebody already made my list, fabulous.Stephie Luyt 22:54 Thank you.Larry Burden 22:55 Tutorials and updates, I was just gonna say that, look for some new stuff, some additional content that's going to be on our podcast site upcoming. Danelle, and David, send out these great emails, tech resource emails, throughout the week and asked them, I didn't here back from Danelle...Danelle Brostrom 23:13 You'd like to steal them.Larry Burden 23:14 I want to steal them.Danelle Brostrom 23:15 You may.Larry Burden 23:15 Well you know, great, it's great content, and it'd be nice to get more people looking at that. More people can look at it, the more successful they will be with technology in the classroom. So, in closing, follow us on Facebook and Twitter @TCAPSLoop,Danelle Brostrom 23:29 @brostromda.Stephie Luyt 23:31 @StephieLuytLarry Burden 23:32 Subscribe to the podcast on podbean, iTunes, Stitcher, Tune-in, Downcast, Overcast, Spotify, the Google Play Store or wherever else you get your ear candy, leave a review, we love the feedback. Thanks for listening, and inspiring.Stephie Luyt 23:47 Is the downcast, up... like all those things, are those real?Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nadia Odunayo This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Nadia Odunayo. Nadia was previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 264 and she used to have her own podcast called Ruby Book Club. She first got into programming because when she was in college she launched a creative writing publication and she was frustrated that she had to keep asking others for help. This was when she started researching coding and how it all worked so that she could put her ideas into action. They talk about Ruby being the first programming language she learned, the importance of learning both the frontend and the backend, her desire to run her own thing, her need to find a company that would support her learning, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby Rogues Episode 264 Ruby Book Club How did you first get into programming? Hated having to ask other for help Studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University Code First: Girls Have you done much with your degree? Her first talk as a junior Ruby developer Economics is about how people behave Was Ruby your first programming language? Learning HTML, CSS and the Ruby and Rails Frontend VS backend How long was the program? Learning Ruby first and the pros to that Sinatra Do you feel like the boot camp prepared you to be a full-time Ruby developer? Wanting to run her own thing Doing these courses only scratches the surface How did you find a company that supported your learning? Pivotal Labs TDD and pairing When she joined Pivotal VS now What are you doing currently? And much, much more! Links: Ruby Rogues Episode 264 Ruby Book Club Code First: Girls Ruby Rails Sinatra Pivotal Labs @nodunayo nadiaodunayo.com Nadia’s GitHub Sponsors: FreshBooks Loot Crate Picks: Charles Being willing to get some help Kiwi Crate Nadia Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg The Evolution of Trust Work Life Podcast

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nadia Odunayo This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Nadia Odunayo. Nadia was previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 264 and she used to have her own podcast called Ruby Book Club. She first got into programming because when she was in college she launched a creative writing publication and she was frustrated that she had to keep asking others for help. This was when she started researching coding and how it all worked so that she could put her ideas into action. They talk about Ruby being the first programming language she learned, the importance of learning both the frontend and the backend, her desire to run her own thing, her need to find a company that would support her learning, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby Rogues Episode 264 Ruby Book Club How did you first get into programming? Hated having to ask other for help Studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University Code First: Girls Have you done much with your degree? Her first talk as a junior Ruby developer Economics is about how people behave Was Ruby your first programming language? Learning HTML, CSS and the Ruby and Rails Frontend VS backend How long was the program? Learning Ruby first and the pros to that Sinatra Do you feel like the boot camp prepared you to be a full-time Ruby developer? Wanting to run her own thing Doing these courses only scratches the surface How did you find a company that supported your learning? Pivotal Labs TDD and pairing When she joined Pivotal VS now What are you doing currently? And much, much more! Links: Ruby Rogues Episode 264 Ruby Book Club Code First: Girls Ruby Rails Sinatra Pivotal Labs @nodunayo nadiaodunayo.com Nadia’s GitHub Sponsors: FreshBooks Loot Crate Picks: Charles Being willing to get some help Kiwi Crate Nadia Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg The Evolution of Trust Work Life Podcast

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nadia Odunayo This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Nadia Odunayo. Nadia was previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 264 and she used to have her own podcast called Ruby Book Club. She first got into programming because when she was in college she launched a creative writing publication and she was frustrated that she had to keep asking others for help. This was when she started researching coding and how it all worked so that she could put her ideas into action. They talk about Ruby being the first programming language she learned, the importance of learning both the frontend and the backend, her desire to run her own thing, her need to find a company that would support her learning, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby Rogues Episode 264 Ruby Book Club How did you first get into programming? Hated having to ask other for help Studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University Code First: Girls Have you done much with your degree? Her first talk as a junior Ruby developer Economics is about how people behave Was Ruby your first programming language? Learning HTML, CSS and the Ruby and Rails Frontend VS backend How long was the program? Learning Ruby first and the pros to that Sinatra Do you feel like the boot camp prepared you to be a full-time Ruby developer? Wanting to run her own thing Doing these courses only scratches the surface How did you find a company that supported your learning? Pivotal Labs TDD and pairing When she joined Pivotal VS now What are you doing currently? And much, much more! Links: Ruby Rogues Episode 264 Ruby Book Club Code First: Girls Ruby Rails Sinatra Pivotal Labs @nodunayo nadiaodunayo.com Nadia’s GitHub Sponsors: FreshBooks Loot Crate Picks: Charles Being willing to get some help Kiwi Crate Nadia Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg The Evolution of Trust Work Life Podcast

On today’s episode of JavaScript Jabber, Charles Max Wood and panelist Joe Eames chat with Rebecca Turner, tech lead for NPM, a popular Javascript package manager with the worlds largest software registry. Learn about the newly released NPM 5 including a few of the updated features. Stay tuned! [1:58] Was the release of node JS 8 tied to NPM5? Features in NPM5 have been in planning for 2 years now. Planned on getting it out earlier this year. Node 8 was coming out and got pushed out a month. Putting NPM5 into Node 8 became doable. Pushed really hard to get NPM5 into Node 8 so that users would get NPM5 and updates to NPM5. [2:58] Why would it matter? NPM doesn’t care right? Right you can use NPM5 with any version of node. Most people don’t update NPM, but upgrade Node. So releasing them together allowed for when people updated Node they would get NPM 5. [3:29] How does the upgrade process work if you’re using NVM or some node version manager? Depends. Different approaches for each NVM gets a fresh copy of Node with new globals. NVM5 and Node 8 are bundled. For some, If you manually upgrade NVM you’ll always have to manually. It will keep the one you manually upgraded to. [4:16] Why NPM 5? It’s night and day faster. 3 to 5 times speed up is not uncommon. Most package managers are slow. NPM 5 is still growing. Will get even faster. [5:18] How did you make it faster? The NPM’s cache is old. It’s very slow. Appalling slow. Rewrote cache Saw huge performance gains [5:49] What is the function of the cache? Cache makes it so you don’t have to reinstall modules from the internet. It has registry information too. It will now obey http headers for timing out cache. [6:50] Other things that made it faster? Had a log file for a long time. It was called shrinkwrap. NPM 5 makes it default. Renamed it to packagelog.json Exactly like shrinkwrap package file seen before In combo with cache, it makes it really fast. Stores information about what the tree should look like and it’s general structure. It doesn’t have to go back and learn versions of packages. [7:50] Can you turn the default Packagelog.json off? Yes. Just: Set packagelog=false in the npmrc [8:01] Why make it default? Why wasn’t it default before? It Didn’t have it before. Shrinkwrap was added as a separate project enfolded in NPM and wasn’t core to the design of NPM. Most people would now benefit from it. Not many scenarios where you wouldn’t want one. Teams not using the same tools causes headaches and issues. [9:38] Where does not having a lock show up as a problem? It records the versions of the packages installed and where NPM put them so that when you clone a project down you will have exactly the same versions across machines. Collaborators have the exact same version. Protects from issues after people introduce changes and patch releases. NPM being faster is just a bonus. Store the sha512 of the package that was installed in the glock file so that we can verify it when you install. It’s Bit for bit what you had previously. [11:12] Could you solve that by setting the package version as the same version as the .Json file? No. That will lock down the versions of the modules that you install personally, not the dependancies, or transitive dependancies. Package log allows you to look into the head of the installer. This is what the install looks like. [12:16] Defaulting the log file speed things up? How? It doesn’t have to figure out dependences or the tree which makes it faster. Shrinkwrap command is still there, it renames it to shrinkwrap but shrinkwrap cannot be published. For application level things or big libraries, using shrinkwrap to lock down versions is popular. [13:42] You’ve Adopted specifications in a ROC process. When did you guys do that? Did it in January Have been using them internally for years. Inviting people into the process. Specifications Written in the form of “Here is the problem and here are the solutions.” Spec folder in NPM docs, things being added to that as they specify how things work. Spec tests have been great. [14:59] The update adds new tools. Will there be new things in registry as well? Yes. Information about a package from registry, it returns document that has info about every version and package json data and full readme for every version. It gets very large. New API to request smaller version of that document. Reduces bandwidth, lower download size, makes it substantially faster. Used to be hashed with sha1, With this update it will be hashed with sha512 as well as sha1 for older clients. [16:20] Will you be stopping support for older versions? LTS version of NPM was a thing for a while. They stopped doing that. Two models, people either use whatever version came with Node or they update to the latest. The NPM team is really small. Hard to maintain old NPM branches. Supports current versions and that’s pretty much it. If there are big problems they will fix old versions. Patches , etc. [17:36] Will there ever be problems with that? Older versions should continue to work. Shouldn’t break any of that. Can’t upgrade from 0.8. It does break with different Node version Does not support Node versions 0.10 or 0.12. [18:47] How do you upgrade to NPM? sudo npm install -gmpm Yes, you may not need sudo. depend on what you’re on. [19:07] How long has it been since version 4? Last October is when it came out. [19:24] Do you already have plans for version 6? Yes! More releases than before coming up. Finally deprecating old features that are only used in a few packages out of the whole registry. Running tests on getting rid of things. [20:50] Self healing cache. What is it and why do we want it? Users are sometimes showing up where installs are broken and tarbols are corrupted. This happens sometimes with complicated containerization setups makes it more likely. It’s unclear where the problem actually is. CaCache - content addressable cache. Take the hash of your package and use it to look up address to look it up in the cache. Compares the Tarbol using an address to look it up in the cache. Compares to see if it’s old. Trashes old and downloads updated one. Came out with the cache. Free side effect of the new cache. [23:14] New information output as part of the update? NPM has always gave back you the tree from what you just installed. Now, trees can be larger and displaying that much information is not useful. User patch - gives you specifically what you asked for. Information it shows will be something like: “I installed 50 items, updated 7, deleted 2.” [24:23] Did you personally put that together? Yes, threw it together and then got feedback from users and went with it. Often unplanned features will get made and will be thrown out to get feedback. Another new things ls output now shows you modules that were deduped. Shows logical tree and it’s relationships and what was deduped. [25:27] You came up to node 4 syntax. Why not go to node 8? To allow people with just node 4 be able to use NPM. Many projects still run Node 4. Once a project has been deployed, people generally don’t touch it. [26:20] Other new features? What about the File Specifier? File specifier is new. File paths can be in package json, usually put inside pointing to something inside your package. It will copy from there to your node modules. Just a node module symlink. Much faster. Verifiable that what’s in your node modules matches the source. If it’s pointing at the right place it’s correct. If not, then it’s not. Earlier, sometimes it was hard to tell. [27:38] Anything else as part of the NPM 5 release? Who do you think will be most affected by it? For the most part, people notice three things: 1st. no giant tree at the end 2nd. Much faster 3rd. Package lock. [28:14] If it’s locked, how do you update it? Run npm installer and then npm update Used to be scary, but works well now. Updates to latest semver, matches semver to package json to all node modules. Updates package lock at the same time Summary in Git shows what’s changed. [28:59] Did Yarn come into play with your decisions with this release? The plans have been in play for a long time for this update. Yarn’s inclusion of similar features and the feedback was an indicator that some of the features were valuable. [29:53] Other plans to incorporate features similar to yarn? Features are already pretty close. There are other alternative package managers out there. PMPM interesting because when it installs it doesn’t copy all the files. It creates hard links. [30:28] Does PMPM and Yarn use NPM registry? Yes! Other than CNPM. The NPM client used in China. CNPM Registry mirror behind firewall. Have their own client to their registry. Their registry is a copy of ours. [31:15] What about RNPM? I wouldn’t be surprised. [31:45] “Won’t you come and say something controversial about your competitor?” We all want it to be collaborative. When we were writing our new cache, we also helped Yarn with their cache and sped things up tremendously. Picks Charles Rush Limbaugh’s children’s books Tinker Crate Kiwi Crate NPM Episodes on My JS Story. Joe Gravity Falls Board Games Rebecca NPX Funstream Links to keep up with NPM and Rebecca Twitter @rebeccaorg NPMjS on Twitter blog.npmjs.com

On today’s episode of JavaScript Jabber, Charles Max Wood and panelist Joe Eames chat with Rebecca Turner, tech lead for NPM, a popular Javascript package manager with the worlds largest software registry. Learn about the newly released NPM 5 including a few of the updated features. Stay tuned! [1:58] Was the release of node JS 8 tied to NPM5? Features in NPM5 have been in planning for 2 years now. Planned on getting it out earlier this year. Node 8 was coming out and got pushed out a month. Putting NPM5 into Node 8 became doable. Pushed really hard to get NPM5 into Node 8 so that users would get NPM5 and updates to NPM5. [2:58] Why would it matter? NPM doesn’t care right? Right you can use NPM5 with any version of node. Most people don’t update NPM, but upgrade Node. So releasing them together allowed for when people updated Node they would get NPM 5. [3:29] How does the upgrade process work if you’re using NVM or some node version manager? Depends. Different approaches for each NVM gets a fresh copy of Node with new globals. NVM5 and Node 8 are bundled. For some, If you manually upgrade NVM you’ll always have to manually. It will keep the one you manually upgraded to. [4:16] Why NPM 5? It’s night and day faster. 3 to 5 times speed up is not uncommon. Most package managers are slow. NPM 5 is still growing. Will get even faster. [5:18] How did you make it faster? The NPM’s cache is old. It’s very slow. Appalling slow. Rewrote cache Saw huge performance gains [5:49] What is the function of the cache? Cache makes it so you don’t have to reinstall modules from the internet. It has registry information too. It will now obey http headers for timing out cache. [6:50] Other things that made it faster? Had a log file for a long time. It was called shrinkwrap. NPM 5 makes it default. Renamed it to packagelog.json Exactly like shrinkwrap package file seen before In combo with cache, it makes it really fast. Stores information about what the tree should look like and it’s general structure. It doesn’t have to go back and learn versions of packages. [7:50] Can you turn the default Packagelog.json off? Yes. Just: Set packagelog=false in the npmrc [8:01] Why make it default? Why wasn’t it default before? It Didn’t have it before. Shrinkwrap was added as a separate project enfolded in NPM and wasn’t core to the design of NPM. Most people would now benefit from it. Not many scenarios where you wouldn’t want one. Teams not using the same tools causes headaches and issues. [9:38] Where does not having a lock show up as a problem? It records the versions of the packages installed and where NPM put them so that when you clone a project down you will have exactly the same versions across machines. Collaborators have the exact same version. Protects from issues after people introduce changes and patch releases. NPM being faster is just a bonus. Store the sha512 of the package that was installed in the glock file so that we can verify it when you install. It’s Bit for bit what you had previously. [11:12] Could you solve that by setting the package version as the same version as the .Json file? No. That will lock down the versions of the modules that you install personally, not the dependancies, or transitive dependancies. Package log allows you to look into the head of the installer. This is what the install looks like. [12:16] Defaulting the log file speed things up? How? It doesn’t have to figure out dependences or the tree which makes it faster. Shrinkwrap command is still there, it renames it to shrinkwrap but shrinkwrap cannot be published. For application level things or big libraries, using shrinkwrap to lock down versions is popular. [13:42] You’ve Adopted specifications in a ROC process. When did you guys do that? Did it in January Have been using them internally for years. Inviting people into the process. Specifications Written in the form of “Here is the problem and here are the solutions.” Spec folder in NPM docs, things being added to that as they specify how things work. Spec tests have been great. [14:59] The update adds new tools. Will there be new things in registry as well? Yes. Information about a package from registry, it returns document that has info about every version and package json data and full readme for every version. It gets very large. New API to request smaller version of that document. Reduces bandwidth, lower download size, makes it substantially faster. Used to be hashed with sha1, With this update it will be hashed with sha512 as well as sha1 for older clients. [16:20] Will you be stopping support for older versions? LTS version of NPM was a thing for a while. They stopped doing that. Two models, people either use whatever version came with Node or they update to the latest. The NPM team is really small. Hard to maintain old NPM branches. Supports current versions and that’s pretty much it. If there are big problems they will fix old versions. Patches , etc. [17:36] Will there ever be problems with that? Older versions should continue to work. Shouldn’t break any of that. Can’t upgrade from 0.8. It does break with different Node version Does not support Node versions 0.10 or 0.12. [18:47] How do you upgrade to NPM? sudo npm install -gmpm Yes, you may not need sudo. depend on what you’re on. [19:07] How long has it been since version 4? Last October is when it came out. [19:24] Do you already have plans for version 6? Yes! More releases than before coming up. Finally deprecating old features that are only used in a few packages out of the whole registry. Running tests on getting rid of things. [20:50] Self healing cache. What is it and why do we want it? Users are sometimes showing up where installs are broken and tarbols are corrupted. This happens sometimes with complicated containerization setups makes it more likely. It’s unclear where the problem actually is. CaCache - content addressable cache. Take the hash of your package and use it to look up address to look it up in the cache. Compares the Tarbol using an address to look it up in the cache. Compares to see if it’s old. Trashes old and downloads updated one. Came out with the cache. Free side effect of the new cache. [23:14] New information output as part of the update? NPM has always gave back you the tree from what you just installed. Now, trees can be larger and displaying that much information is not useful. User patch - gives you specifically what you asked for. Information it shows will be something like: “I installed 50 items, updated 7, deleted 2.” [24:23] Did you personally put that together? Yes, threw it together and then got feedback from users and went with it. Often unplanned features will get made and will be thrown out to get feedback. Another new things ls output now shows you modules that were deduped. Shows logical tree and it’s relationships and what was deduped. [25:27] You came up to node 4 syntax. Why not go to node 8? To allow people with just node 4 be able to use NPM. Many projects still run Node 4. Once a project has been deployed, people generally don’t touch it. [26:20] Other new features? What about the File Specifier? File specifier is new. File paths can be in package json, usually put inside pointing to something inside your package. It will copy from there to your node modules. Just a node module symlink. Much faster. Verifiable that what’s in your node modules matches the source. If it’s pointing at the right place it’s correct. If not, then it’s not. Earlier, sometimes it was hard to tell. [27:38] Anything else as part of the NPM 5 release? Who do you think will be most affected by it? For the most part, people notice three things: 1st. no giant tree at the end 2nd. Much faster 3rd. Package lock. [28:14] If it’s locked, how do you update it? Run npm installer and then npm update Used to be scary, but works well now. Updates to latest semver, matches semver to package json to all node modules. Updates package lock at the same time Summary in Git shows what’s changed. [28:59] Did Yarn come into play with your decisions with this release? The plans have been in play for a long time for this update. Yarn’s inclusion of similar features and the feedback was an indicator that some of the features were valuable. [29:53] Other plans to incorporate features similar to yarn? Features are already pretty close. There are other alternative package managers out there. PMPM interesting because when it installs it doesn’t copy all the files. It creates hard links. [30:28] Does PMPM and Yarn use NPM registry? Yes! Other than CNPM. The NPM client used in China. CNPM Registry mirror behind firewall. Have their own client to their registry. Their registry is a copy of ours. [31:15] What about RNPM? I wouldn’t be surprised. [31:45] “Won’t you come and say something controversial about your competitor?” We all want it to be collaborative. When we were writing our new cache, we also helped Yarn with their cache and sped things up tremendously. Picks Charles Rush Limbaugh’s children’s books Tinker Crate Kiwi Crate NPM Episodes on My JS Story. Joe Gravity Falls Board Games Rebecca NPX Funstream Links to keep up with NPM and Rebecca Twitter @rebeccaorg NPMjS on Twitter blog.npmjs.com

On today’s episode of JavaScript Jabber, Charles Max Wood and panelist Joe Eames chat with Rebecca Turner, tech lead for NPM, a popular Javascript package manager with the worlds largest software registry. Learn about the newly released NPM 5 including a few of the updated features. Stay tuned! [1:58] Was the release of node JS 8 tied to NPM5? Features in NPM5 have been in planning for 2 years now. Planned on getting it out earlier this year. Node 8 was coming out and got pushed out a month. Putting NPM5 into Node 8 became doable. Pushed really hard to get NPM5 into Node 8 so that users would get NPM5 and updates to NPM5. [2:58] Why would it matter? NPM doesn’t care right? Right you can use NPM5 with any version of node. Most people don’t update NPM, but upgrade Node. So releasing them together allowed for when people updated Node they would get NPM 5. [3:29] How does the upgrade process work if you’re using NVM or some node version manager? Depends. Different approaches for each NVM gets a fresh copy of Node with new globals. NVM5 and Node 8 are bundled. For some, If you manually upgrade NVM you’ll always have to manually. It will keep the one you manually upgraded to. [4:16] Why NPM 5? It’s night and day faster. 3 to 5 times speed up is not uncommon. Most package managers are slow. NPM 5 is still growing. Will get even faster. [5:18] How did you make it faster? The NPM’s cache is old. It’s very slow. Appalling slow. Rewrote cache Saw huge performance gains [5:49] What is the function of the cache? Cache makes it so you don’t have to reinstall modules from the internet. It has registry information too. It will now obey http headers for timing out cache. [6:50] Other things that made it faster? Had a log file for a long time. It was called shrinkwrap. NPM 5 makes it default. Renamed it to packagelog.json Exactly like shrinkwrap package file seen before In combo with cache, it makes it really fast. Stores information about what the tree should look like and it’s general structure. It doesn’t have to go back and learn versions of packages. [7:50] Can you turn the default Packagelog.json off? Yes. Just: Set packagelog=false in the npmrc [8:01] Why make it default? Why wasn’t it default before? It Didn’t have it before. Shrinkwrap was added as a separate project enfolded in NPM and wasn’t core to the design of NPM. Most people would now benefit from it. Not many scenarios where you wouldn’t want one. Teams not using the same tools causes headaches and issues. [9:38] Where does not having a lock show up as a problem? It records the versions of the packages installed and where NPM put them so that when you clone a project down you will have exactly the same versions across machines. Collaborators have the exact same version. Protects from issues after people introduce changes and patch releases. NPM being faster is just a bonus. Store the sha512 of the package that was installed in the glock file so that we can verify it when you install. It’s Bit for bit what you had previously. [11:12] Could you solve that by setting the package version as the same version as the .Json file? No. That will lock down the versions of the modules that you install personally, not the dependancies, or transitive dependancies. Package log allows you to look into the head of the installer. This is what the install looks like. [12:16] Defaulting the log file speed things up? How? It doesn’t have to figure out dependences or the tree which makes it faster. Shrinkwrap command is still there, it renames it to shrinkwrap but shrinkwrap cannot be published. For application level things or big libraries, using shrinkwrap to lock down versions is popular. [13:42] You’ve Adopted specifications in a ROC process. When did you guys do that? Did it in January Have been using them internally for years. Inviting people into the process. Specifications Written in the form of “Here is the problem and here are the solutions.” Spec folder in NPM docs, things being added to that as they specify how things work. Spec tests have been great. [14:59] The update adds new tools. Will there be new things in registry as well? Yes. Information about a package from registry, it returns document that has info about every version and package json data and full readme for every version. It gets very large. New API to request smaller version of that document. Reduces bandwidth, lower download size, makes it substantially faster. Used to be hashed with sha1, With this update it will be hashed with sha512 as well as sha1 for older clients. [16:20] Will you be stopping support for older versions? LTS version of NPM was a thing for a while. They stopped doing that. Two models, people either use whatever version came with Node or they update to the latest. The NPM team is really small. Hard to maintain old NPM branches. Supports current versions and that’s pretty much it. If there are big problems they will fix old versions. Patches , etc. [17:36] Will there ever be problems with that? Older versions should continue to work. Shouldn’t break any of that. Can’t upgrade from 0.8. It does break with different Node version Does not support Node versions 0.10 or 0.12. [18:47] How do you upgrade to NPM? sudo npm install -gmpm Yes, you may not need sudo. depend on what you’re on. [19:07] How long has it been since version 4? Last October is when it came out. [19:24] Do you already have plans for version 6? Yes! More releases than before coming up. Finally deprecating old features that are only used in a few packages out of the whole registry. Running tests on getting rid of things. [20:50] Self healing cache. What is it and why do we want it? Users are sometimes showing up where installs are broken and tarbols are corrupted. This happens sometimes with complicated containerization setups makes it more likely. It’s unclear where the problem actually is. CaCache - content addressable cache. Take the hash of your package and use it to look up address to look it up in the cache. Compares the Tarbol using an address to look it up in the cache. Compares to see if it’s old. Trashes old and downloads updated one. Came out with the cache. Free side effect of the new cache. [23:14] New information output as part of the update? NPM has always gave back you the tree from what you just installed. Now, trees can be larger and displaying that much information is not useful. User patch - gives you specifically what you asked for. Information it shows will be something like: “I installed 50 items, updated 7, deleted 2.” [24:23] Did you personally put that together? Yes, threw it together and then got feedback from users and went with it. Often unplanned features will get made and will be thrown out to get feedback. Another new things ls output now shows you modules that were deduped. Shows logical tree and it’s relationships and what was deduped. [25:27] You came up to node 4 syntax. Why not go to node 8? To allow people with just node 4 be able to use NPM. Many projects still run Node 4. Once a project has been deployed, people generally don’t touch it. [26:20] Other new features? What about the File Specifier? File specifier is new. File paths can be in package json, usually put inside pointing to something inside your package. It will copy from there to your node modules. Just a node module symlink. Much faster. Verifiable that what’s in your node modules matches the source. If it’s pointing at the right place it’s correct. If not, then it’s not. Earlier, sometimes it was hard to tell. [27:38] Anything else as part of the NPM 5 release? Who do you think will be most affected by it? For the most part, people notice three things: 1st. no giant tree at the end 2nd. Much faster 3rd. Package lock. [28:14] If it’s locked, how do you update it? Run npm installer and then npm update Used to be scary, but works well now. Updates to latest semver, matches semver to package json to all node modules. Updates package lock at the same time Summary in Git shows what’s changed. [28:59] Did Yarn come into play with your decisions with this release? The plans have been in play for a long time for this update. Yarn’s inclusion of similar features and the feedback was an indicator that some of the features were valuable. [29:53] Other plans to incorporate features similar to yarn? Features are already pretty close. There are other alternative package managers out there. PMPM interesting because when it installs it doesn’t copy all the files. It creates hard links. [30:28] Does PMPM and Yarn use NPM registry? Yes! Other than CNPM. The NPM client used in China. CNPM Registry mirror behind firewall. Have their own client to their registry. Their registry is a copy of ours. [31:15] What about RNPM? I wouldn’t be surprised. [31:45] “Won’t you come and say something controversial about your competitor?” We all want it to be collaborative. When we were writing our new cache, we also helped Yarn with their cache and sped things up tremendously. Picks Charles Rush Limbaugh’s children’s books Tinker Crate Kiwi Crate NPM Episodes on My JS Story. Joe Gravity Falls Board Games Rebecca NPX Funstream Links to keep up with NPM and Rebecca Twitter @rebeccaorg NPMjS on Twitter blog.npmjs.com

It's time for our favorite summer ritual - the awesome summer list episode! Megan is joined this week by fellow summer-lover Kelly, and they have put together a list of ten ideas to make this summer a little bit more amazing. From flip-flops that are good to your feet to what your skin needs to be protected from the sun to really cool ways to keep your kids engaged with learning over the summer, there is something for everyone on this list of summer do's! Episode 103 of Sorta Awesome is sponsored by LOLA. LOLA is the woman-owned company that ships monthly period products right to your door, and all of LOLA's tampons, pads, and liners are made from 100% cotton. To find out more about LOLA and get 60% off of your first order with LOLA, go to mylola.com and use promo code "awesome" at check-out! SHOW NOTES Target Beauty Box zeroUV on Amazon Kelly's Reef flip-flops recipes for smoothie bowls Get $10 off of your first order at Kiwi Crate using Kelly's link: http://www.kiwicrate.com/Refer?i=KellyG181 Jam.com Half-Price Books summer reading program Summer Lovin' S'mores Bars at Love Well Blog Megan's reading light Chi Silk Infusion IT Cosmetics CC cream Alba Botanica Hawaiian Sunscreen Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunblock Find Kelly on her blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! Find Megan on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook , @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter!

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In this episode of the Art and Science Punks, Kate and Rob discuss a new surprise question about the holidays, and our main topic about different subscription crates we've tried, encountered, and considered. Related links and resources: Kiwi Crate (http://www.kiwicrate.com/) Koala Crate (http://www.kiwicrate.com/koala) Plated (https://www.plated.com/) Nerd Block (https://www.nerdblock.com/) Stitch Fix (https://www.stitchfix.com/) Kate Stenzinger on Twitter (https://twitter.com/katestenzinger) Rob Stenzinger on Twitter (https://twitter.com/robstenzinger) Art and Science Punks on Twitter (https://twitter.com/artsciencepunks)

Judah is 12. He makes a mean beef wellington. Hear how he became a child chef, and how his mom had him when she was just a kid herself. To join the conversation, go to: www.longestshortesttime.com! This episode is sponsored by Kiwi Crate, The Great Courses Plus, Chatbooks, Thirdlove and Horizon Organics.

Marlo Mack from the wonderful "How to Be a Girl" podcast joins us to talk about raising a girl who seems to have the body of a boy ... and what a girl even is in the first place. To join the conversation, go to: www.longestshortesttime.com! This episode is sponsored by Kiwi Crate, Hooked on Phonics, Chatbooks, Thirdlove and Horizon Organics.

When you're lucky enough to have a best friend, you'd do anything for them. To join the conversation about this episode, go to longestshortesttime.com! This episode is sponsored by Horizon Organic, Hooked on Phonics, Kiwi Crate, The Great Courses Plus, and Thirdlove.

Thanksgiving is next week, yikes! So let's talk gifts. This week, we're talking non-digital gifts – board games, card games, and non-electronic toys. But first, what we played this week! Power Grid Santa's Little Helpers and the Ice Cube Jam Fallout 4 Fallout Shelter (iOS or Android) We are big fans of Kiwi Crate! With 4 different subscriptions and dozens The post 12 – The Family Gamers Podcast – The “Crate-y” Holiday Season appeared first on The Family Gamers.