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Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the Laravel community.Show linksLaravel 11.26 ReleasedLaravel 11.27 ReleasedThe Inertia.js v2 Beta is HereJoe Tannenbaum's infinite scroll component for Inertia.jsNow you can install PHP and the Laravel installer with a single commandStatamic, Radical Design, and more with Jack McDadeMastering Laravel, No Compromises, and SourceDive with Joel ClermontSupercharge PhpStorm with Laravel IdeaThe Laracon AU schedule is now liveJoin the Open Source PledgeAPI Platform for LaravelScramblePan - A simple, lightweight, and privacy-focused product analytics php packagePest Route Testing Plugin for Laravel ApplicationsOptimize Your SQLite Database with the Laravel Optimize DB PackageComposer Package Executor (CPX) - bring NPX to ComposerPrism is an AI Package for LaravelWireSpy is a Sleek New Debug Bar for Laravel Livewire

Hello listeners! On this week's episode, we had the wonderful Nicholas Pilapil on the show! Nicholas is funny and insightful. We enjoyed the conversation and we hope you will too! His play "God Will Do The Rest" is currently having its World Premiere in Los Angeles. Please check out the link to learn more! GET TICKETS! https://www.latinotheaterco.org/godwilldotherest Nicholas Pilapil is a Filipino American playwright. His plays include "God Will Do The Rest" (world premiere with Artists at Play & Latino Theater Company), "The Bottoming Process" (world premiere with IAMA Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Ignition Festival of New Plays), and "if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets" (winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival). His work has also been developed with Geffen Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, Abingdon Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, Theatre Rhinoceros, and The Workshop Theater, among others. Nicholas is a member of Boston Court Pasadena's Playwrights Group and is an alum of The Writers' Room at the Geffen Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Company's Emerging Playwrights Lab, The Vagrancy Playwrights Group, and artEquity. To learn more about Nicholas' work, check out his NPX! https://newplayexchange.org/users/5530/nicholas-pilapil GLISTENS Cho - Teaching Acting to High School students Sam - Casa Bonita Nicholas - People have been telling him he looks skinny at his shows and he loves it. ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram or Threads: @beckettsbabies As always, we would love to hear from you!  Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠ Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Xtra Xtra! It's the "X" episode! This week, Justin and Erika talk about two very cool and very new playwrights that are killing it. Erika talks about one of the coolest "hot girl" playwrights that was shown to us by Liz, Justin finds a brilliant playwright on NPX, and the two of them finally figure out what plays need to be made into movies. Enjoy the episode!SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, Community Garden and Cabin Chronicles, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, The Scene: Podcast, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out Justin's YouTube channel for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out Justin's website and Erika's website for more cool stuff!Links to our playwrights:Chloe Xtina's WebsiteChloe Xtina's NPXXavier Clark's NPXLiz Gutridge's TikTokIf you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram @justinborak and @actualerikakuhn and Justin on TikTok for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!

New on this week's episode is the incomparable Gwydion Suilebhan. He is an activist, award-winning playwright, and the person behind the New Play Exchange. You may not know his name, but if you are a playwright, chances are you owe him a thank you. Listen to this extraordinary man talk about what he believes is the role of the playwright in today's society, the mission of NPX, and what he sees as the future for us all. This is a must-listen! This episode is brought to you by Point Park University's MFA in writing for stage and screen.

YO! You, oh, you. Yeah, y'all let's yearn for these! It's 'Y"! Justin finds a secret James Ijames play on NPX, Erika gets to talk about a play she has been waiting to deep dive into forever, and all in all, the both of them have so many plays to talk about! Please enjoy this pennultimate episode of Play to Z, Season 1.Special thanks to Broadway Licensing for being a script supplier of the show and U92 for being our recording headquarters!If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram @justinborak and @actualerikakuhn for any news and notes on upcoming episodes!

About This Episode In this episode of Stories Found, we're talking to one of our very favorite playwrights, Bethany Dickens Assaf, and then listening to her ten-minute comedy, Bird Girl and The Hammer. About the Playwright Bethany Dickens Assaf is a freelance playwright, dramaturg, and theatre artist, and a co-founder of Whiskey Theatre Factory and the Fragmented Theatre Festival. As both a writer and producer, she is obsessed with plays that deconstruct and take unusual perspectives on gender and sexuality, challenging audiences and serving untapped artistic voices by creating meaningful roles for women. Other favorite ideas/themes include female separatism, evangelical Christianity, bisexuality particularly in period settings, gender complementarianism, women in male-dominated spaces (gaming, cosplay), and the exploitation of women's bodies for media such as reality television and true crime podcasts. Almost 100 of her plays have been performed or read across the country including her twisty sci-fi play, The Consciousness, which has been performed at over 10 fringe festivals across the country and won Best Play at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival (director: Liz Colvert, stage manager: Meghan Pratt). She's also had the amazing honor of working with organizations that are truly making an impact through storytelling such as Threshold Theatre, Theatre Works, FUSION Theatre, Road Theatre, EMBer Women's Theatre, Central Florida Community Arts, Birdhouse Theatre, the Bechdel Group, and more. You can learn more through Bethany's website: www.BethanyDickens.com. You can also read more of Bethany's work on NPX, The New Play Exchange. About the Cast Kate O'Claire as Bird Girl Kate O'Claire (she/her/hers) is a performer, producer, public speaker, and social justice mage who has been seen on stages throughout Central Florida, Paris, and her home state of Wisconsin. She is passionate about telling unique stories, amplifying historically excluded voices, fighting the patriarchy, riding Revenge of the Mummy at Universal Studios, eating Taco Bell, and reducing shame around difficult topics. Joe Llorens as The Hammer Joe Llorens has been a performer for over twenty years. In that time, he's done things. Some of those things he's liked, even. Joe will keep trying to do things he likes and not be as judgy about the things he doesn't like because he really should cut himself a bit of a break. He loves his wife, children, and pets, though. A lot. About the Crew Engineering by Paul Hanna and ELA Studios. Featured Organization Whiskey Theatre Factory is a theatre collective based in Orlando, FL with the mission to produce meaningful theatrical productions that uplift, develop, and celebrate emerging and untapped voices. We challenge our community through provocative, authentic pieces, examining our culture and revealing the grace of humanity. Interested in reading our Credo or connecting with us? Visit WhiskeyTheatreFactory.com to learn more. Featured Sponsor Magikjaz Creations is a woman, minority, and LGBTQ+ owned business based in Austin, Texas. Jazmyn is a proud Latinx artist who creates jewelry and wearable art and specializes in chainmail and wirework. She offers creative, original pieces that are truly one of a kind. Visit her website at Magikjazcreations.com. Want to see your company name here? Reach out for rates: hello@storiesfound.com Let's be BFFs! Subscribe to our newsletter! storiesfound.substack.com Thanks for listening to Stories Found! We heart you. Want to chat about this episode? We're here for it! Email: hello@storiesfound.com Find us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube! Want to be a featured guest in a future episode? Let's do it. Email: submissions@storiesfound.com Stories Found was recorded at ELA Studios, deep in the heart of Austin, Texas.  

Long time collaborators Daryl and Amber talk about their relationship as playwright and dramaturg; the metaphor of playwright as a baby chicken held in a dramaturgs palm; how being an actor impacts the way Daryl creates her work; the ways moderation can serve the playwright; exploring storytelling through podcast, novel and theatre in non- traditional spaces; Both of their personal medical journeys and Daryl's developing story of women in medicine and women doctors with Autism; developing a deeper audience understanding of new plays and play development; the sacred energetic connection that happens between humans in live spaces; and a shout out to NPX (newplayexchange.org).

About This Episode It's a special Valentine's Day themed Stories Found Micro Monday! Today, we've got the one-minute play, CRIME of PASSION by Ava Love Hanna About the Playwright / Storyteller Ava Love Hanna is a professional writer, published playwright, and award-winning speaker and storyteller. She is continually amazed by how often she is mistaken for a real grown-up. When she's not co-hosting the Stories Found podcast, Ava can be found producing comedies, hanging out reading plays at NPX, or skulking around these other seedy internet joints: Facebook, Instagram, Post, or Mastodon. Ava is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild and ScriptWorks. About the Cast Viv - Ava Love Hanna Patrol-Bot - Paul Hanna   Let's be BFFs! Subscribe to our newsletter! storiesfound.substack.com Thanks for listening to Stories Found! We heart you. Want to chat about this episode? We're here for it! Email: hello@storiesfound.com Find us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube! Want to be a featured guest in a future episode? Let's do it. Email: submissions@storiesfound.com Stories Found was recorded at ELA Studios, deep in the heart of Austin, Texas.  

Welcome to Stories Found Micro Monday -- take a super quick break with us to kickstart your week with a laugh. Today, we've got the one-minute play, Living a Lie by Max Langert   About the playwright Max Langert is a playwright, producer and storyteller living in Austin. His plays have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas and elsewhere. He's told stories for Listen to Your Mother, The Vancouver Story Slam, Testify and Austin Bat Cave, and is a regular performer at FronteraFest. He's produced benefit shows for The Autism Society of Central Texas, The SAFE Alliance, and VELA Families. He's excited to be working with the great team at Stories Found! Read more of Max's work on NPX, The New Play Exchange. Max is a favorite at Stories Found. Listen to his first story in Episode 2: The First Time I Got Naked in Front of a Bunch of People I Didn't Know or his ten-minute play in Episode 6: Personality Test.     About the Cast Liz - Ava Love Hanna Tom - Paul Hanna   Living a Lie was originally written for a ScriptWorks fundraiser. Visit ScriptWorks.org to learn more about their programs and see how they can help you further your writing goals.   At Stories Found we're creating opportunities for emerging voices in comedy writing. Make sure to catch our full length episodes every other week featuring some of the most talented humorists in the country. Want to be a featured playwright or storyteller in a future full length episode or a Micro Monday? We're accepting submissions!   Be our BFF! Be the first to know about new episodes, upcoming shows, submission opportunities, auditions, merch, and more! Join us at storiesfound.substack.com  

Welcome to our very first Micro Monday -- a quick laugh to brighten the start of your week! Every other Monday, we'll be offering up a short play, story, or sketch in under 5 minutes.  Today, we've got the one-minute play, The Murderlators by Ava Love Hanna   About the playwright Ava Love Hanna is a professional writer, published playwright, and award-winning speaker and storyteller. She is continually amazed by how often she is mistaken for a real grown-up. When she's not co-hosting the Stories Found podcast, Ava can be found producing comedies, hanging out reading plays at NPX, or skulking around these other seedy internet joints: Facebook, Instagram, Post, or Mastodon. Ava is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild and ScriptWorks.     About the Cast Flynn - Paul Hanna Fiona - Ava Love Hanna     Want to be a featured playwright or storyteller in a future full length episode or a Micro Monday? We're accepting submissions!  

About This Episode It's time for a special Christmas episode of Stories Found! In this episode, we're talking to the charming playwright, Brian Rust, before hearing his hilarious ten-minute play, Under a Christmas Moon.   About the Playwright Brian Rust (he/him) is a Boston-based actor and writer who makes chocolates and searches for cryptids in his spare time. High points of his career include being killed by a pillow during The Robin Hood Faire, appearing on stage with Le Tigre as a member of the Art School Cheerleaders, and using a plunger and ten pounds of jello to create an unforgettable foley effect for a live radio version of CHICKEN HEART. Most recently he wrote and directed ‘Plan 8 from the Outer Ether' (a steampunk prequel to the infamous Ed Wood film), and directed and produced ‘Strange Tales of Davis Square', an interactive audio tour that took participants on a hunt around a local neighborhood to discover mp3s of stories set in the exact spot they were standing. Read more of Brian's work on NPX, The New Play Exchange. Facebook Twitter   About the Cast Under a Christmas Moon was performed by: Kate O'Claire as Kel Kate O'Claire (she/her/hers) is a performer, producer, public speaker, and social justice mage who has been seen on stages throughout Central Florida, Paris, and her home state of Wisconsin. She is passionate about telling unique stories, amplifying historically excluded voices, fighting the patriarchy, riding Revenge of the Mummy at Universal Studios, eating Taco Bell, and reducing shame around difficult topics. Joe Llorens as Scout Joe Llorens has been a performer for over twenty years. In that time, he's done things. Some of those things he's liked, even. Joe will keep trying to do things he likes and not be as judgy about the things he doesn't like because he really should cut himself a bit of a break. He loves his wife, children, and pets, though. A lot. Facebook Instagram Twitter Paul Hanna as Santa Paul Hanna is an audio engineer, musician, and performer. When he's not playing guitar, showing up in one of Ava's plays, editing this podcast, or hanging out with his super cool teenager, he can be found hitting the ice at his favorite hockey rink or working as lead engineer at ELA Studios.   Featured Organization: The Post-Meridian Radio Players The Post-Meridian Radio Players are a Boston-area group of creatives dedicated to exploring audio theater as a unique art form. They offer live performances and studio productions of both classic tales from the Golden Age of Radio and original works, with a special emphasis on science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. You can find out more about them at https://pmrp.org Featured Sponsor: The Stories Found Newsletter! Get updates from your BFFs at Stories Found. Be the first to know about new episodes, upcoming shows, our submission opportunities, auditions, and more!  Join us at storiesfound.substack.com Want to be a featured playwright or storyteller in a future episode? We're accepting submissions!

About This Episode In this special holiday episode of Stories Found, we hear the hilarious ten-minute play, A Very Special Hanukkah Special by Mark Harvey Levine. About the Playwright Mark Harvey Levine has had over 1900 productions of his short plays everywhere from Bangalore to Bucharest and from Lima to London. His plays have won over 45 awards and been produced in more than ten languages. His work has been published in over two dozen anthologies by Applause, Smith & Kraus, Routledge and Vintage. Full evenings of his ten-minute plays, such as “Cabfare For The Common Man”, “Didn't See That Coming” and “A Very Special Holiday Special” have been shown around the world, including at the Edinburgh Fringe and in a multi-year tour of Brazil. A Spanish-language film of “The Kiss” (“El Beso”) premiered at Cannes and aired on HBO and DTV (Japan). Two of his plays were adapted for Brazilian television. Read more of Mark's work on NPX, The New Play Exchange. Facebook Instagram About the Cast A Very Special Hanukkah Special was performed by: Paul Hanna as The Narrator, Max, Caroler Paul Hanna is an audio engineer, musician, and performer. When he's not playing guitar, showing up in one of Ava's plays, editing this podcast, or hanging out with his super cool teenager, he can be found hitting the ice at his favorite hockey rink or working as lead engineer at ELA Studios. Joe Llorens as Murray Joe Llorens has been a performer for over twenty years. In that time, he's done things. Some of those things he's liked, even. Joe will keep trying to do things he likes and not be as judgy about the things he doesn't like because he really should cut himself a bit of a break. He loves his wife, children, and pets, though. A lot. Liz Bernstein as Kim Liz Bernstein (she/her/hers) is a training facilitator and career coach in Central Florida. Her first loves, however, are acting, singing, performing, and creative writing. In the Central Florida area, she has performed with the Gemini Blvd collegiate a cappella group, Orlando Cringe, Phoenix Tears Productions, Central Florida Community Arts, and Playwrights Roundtable. She has also worked virtually with the Fragmented Festival and is excited to continue working virtually with Stories Found. Liz is a core collective member of Whiskey Theatre Factory, a group dedicated to producing  meaningful theatrical productions that uplift, develop, and celebrate emerging and untapped voices. With Whiskey Theatre Factory, she has helped with new play development and production, including new works in the Orlando Fringe Festival. Most recently, Liz was honored to perform the role of “Amy” in Ava Love Hanna's piece, There Will Be Bears for PRT's production of Launch. Kate O'Claire as Boy and Judy Maccabee Kate O'Claire (she/her/hers) is a performer, producer, public speaker, and social justice mage who has been seen on stages throughout Central Florida, Paris, and her home state of Wisconsin. She is passionate about telling unique stories, amplifying historically excluded voices, fighting the patriarchy, riding Revenge of the Mummy at Universal Studios, eating Taco Bell, and reducing shame around difficult topics. Ava Love Hanna as Caroler Ava Love Hanna is a professional writer, published playwright, and award-winning speaker and storyteller. She is continually amazed by how often she is mistaken for a real grown-up. Kai Hanna as Caroler   Want to be a featured storyteller in a future episode? We're accepting submissions!

The incomparable Nan Barnett graces the podcast this week with her wisdom, storytelling, and the amazing work happening at National New Play Network (NNPN) and the behemoth that is New Play Exchange (NPX).In this episode, we discuss:Her various roles in 24 seasons at Florida Stage and how she built her career thereWhy she considers herself a "connector"What NNPN & NPX are and who they're forWhat playwrights can expect from putting their work on NPX and tips from both Nan and Melissa to make the most of itAnd more!Resources MentionedNational New Play NetworkNew Play ExchangeAbout Our GuestNan Barnett is a new play developer and producer and an advocate for theater-makers and the theater they make. She is the Executive Director of National New Play Network, the country's alliance of theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays. While on NNPN's Executive Committee she worked to create the organization's revolutionary Rolling World Premiere and Residency programs. She came to the Network full-time in 2013 and guided it through the development and launch of its field-altering database, the New Play Exchange ®, now home to more than 40,000 plays by living writers, and its recent planning process, which resulted in the organization's much-lauded new governance and membership structure and plan for leading the field towards a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive new play ecosystem. Nan spent 24 seasons at Florida Stage, a LORT theater producing exclusively new and developing work, was a member of the inaugural Helen Hayes Awards' New Play Panel for the nation's capital region and Coordinating Producer for the 2015 and 2018 iterations of DC's Women's Voices Theater Festival. She serves on the Artistic Council of the O'Neill Theater Center and was inducted into the National Theatre Conference in 2017.Connect with Our GuestNational New Play NetworkConnect with host Melissa Schmitz***Sign up for the 101 Stage Adaptations Newsletter***101 Stage AdaptationsFollow the Podcast on Facebook & InstagramRead Melissa's plays on New Play ExchangeConnect with Melissa on LinkedInWays to support the show:- Buy Me a Coffee- Tell us your thoughts in our Listener Survey!- Give a 5-Star rating- Write a glowing review on Apple Podcasts - Send this episode to a friend- Share on social media (Tag us so we can thank you!)Creators: Host your podcast through Buzzsprout using my affiliate link & get a $20 credit on your paid account. Let your fans directly support you via Buy Me a Coffee (affiliate link).

About This Episode In this special Halloween edition of Stories Found, we're chatting with the multi-talented playwright, composer, director, and performer, Fred Tacon and then listening to his hilarious and spooky ten-minute play, Rent-a-Stiff. Rent-a-Stiff – Mr. Ut, the proprietor of a human taxidermy rental company, is at risk of losing his livelihood due to aging inventory and new competition. But, he makes shocking discovery that just might save his business. This macabre comedy is well-suited for themed evenings of short plays for Halloween, horror, or simply the strange and unusual. About the Playwright – Fred Tacon Fred Tacon is a playwright, composer, director, and performer from Hebron, Kentucky (just over the river from Cincinnati, Ohio). He recently starred as Nick Bottom in a sold-out run of ‘Something Rotten!' at The Footlighters Inc. in Newport, Kentucky. Fred's writing usually focuses on theatre for young audiences, and his musical, ‘The Jester Prince', and plays, ‘Clara and the Nutcracker' and ‘Swan Pond', have been enjoyed by audiences in Kentucky and Ohio. He has also written several short plays, musicals, and monologues that have been seen and streamed in a variety of ways and places. His 10-minute musical, ‘Puddle Jumpers', will be a part of The Drama Workshop's Homebrew Theatre, January 2023, in Cincinnati. Fred serves as Vice President of the Kentucky Playwrights Workshop, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging the development of new works for the stage by Kentucky playwright Read more of Fred's plays on NPX, The New Play Exchange. About the Cast Rent-a-Stiff was performed for us by: Joe Llorens as Mr. Ut Joe Llorens has been a performer for over twenty years. In that time, he's done things. Some of those things he's liked, even. Joe will keep trying to do things he likes and not be as judgy about the things he doesn't like because he really should cut himself a bit of a break. He loves his wife, children, and pets, though. A lot. Liz Bernstein as Ivan Liz Bernstein (she/her/hers) is a training facilitator and career coach in Central Florida. Her first loves, however, are acting, singing, performing, and creative writing. In the Central Florida area, she has performed with the Gemini Blvd collegiate a cappella group, Orlando Cringe, Phoenix Tears Productions, Central Florida Community Arts, and Playwrights Roundtable. She has also worked virtually with the Fragmented Festival and is excited to continue working virtually with Stories Found. Liz is a core collective member of Whiskey Theatre Factory, a group dedicated to producing  meaningful theatrical productions that uplift, develop, and celebrate emerging and untapped voices. With Whiskey Theatre Factory, she has helped with new play development and production, including new works in the Orlando Fringe Festival. Most recently, Liz was honored to perform the role of “Amy” in Ava Love Hanna's piece, There Will Be Bears for PRT's production of Launch. Kate O'Claire as Fran Kinstein Kate O'Claire (she/her/hers) is a performer, producer, public speaker, and social justice mage who has been seen on stages throughout Central Florida, Paris, and her home state of Wisconsin. She is passionate about telling unique stories, amplifying historically excluded voices, fighting the patriarchy, riding Revenge of the Mummy at Universal Studios, eating Taco Bell, and reducing shame around difficult topics. Danielle Muething as The Grisly Sisters Danielle Muething has twenty plus years of experience in professional acting and singing for the stage, voice over work for local commercials and businesses, and multiple audiobook projects. She has been seen on stages around her hometown of Cincinnati, as well as a five-year stint in Orlando, FL. In her spare time, she loves to hang out with her husband, who built her custom in home studio, and her two dogs, Wally and Willow. Featured Organization: Kentucky Playwrights Workshop Our featured organization this week is the Kentucky Playwrights Workshop, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, encouragement, and support of playwrights who live in the state of Kentucky. Visit them at kyplays.org Featured Sponsor: The Stories Found Newsletter! Get updates from your BFFs at Stories Found. Be the first to know about new episodes, upcoming shows, our submission opportunities, auditions, and more!  Join us at storiesfound.substack.com Want to be a featured storyteller in a future episode? We're accepting submissions!

About This Episode In this special Halloween edition of Stories Found, we're talking to the fantastic playwright and author, Clinton Festa and then listening to his super funny ten-minute play, Picky Zombies. Picky Zombies – Tragedy strikes at the fancy French cooking school when an inept student under cooks the foie gras leading to a mass zombie infection. The extraction team sent to rescue the lone surviving student quickly learns that not all braaaaaains are created equal and even zombies appreciate gourmet cuisine.   About the Playwright – Clinton Festa Clinton Festa began his career as a writer and cartoonist for his campus humor magazine. Since then he's had short plays produced around the U.S. and Canada, comedy sketches that have placed in national competitions, and a novel recently published with CamCat Books (Ancient Canada: a Mythological Tale). During the pandemic, he wrote and directed a seven-episode action-comedy podcast called The Malone Family in the Enchanted Forest (produced by the Cary Playwrights' Forum). Clinton runs an online book drive for inmates in prisons and juvenile detention centers called Sentences Book Donations. He lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife and children. Read more of Clinton's plays on NPX, The New Play Exchange. Order Clinton's book, Ancient Canada: a Mythological Tale at CamCat Books. Facebook Goodreads   About the Cast Picky Zombies was performed for us by: Liz Bernstein Liz Bernstein (she/her/hers) is a training facilitator and career coach in Central Florida. Her first loves, however, are acting, singing, performing, and creative writing. In the Central Florida area, she has performed with the Gemini Blvd collegiate a cappella group, Orlando Cringe, Phoenix Tears Productions, Central Florida Community Arts, and Playwrights Roundtable. She has also worked virtually with the Fragmented Festival and is excited to continue working virtually with Stories Found. Liz is a core collective member of Whiskey Theatre Factory, a group dedicated to producing  meaningful theatrical productions that uplift, develop, and celebrate emerging and untapped voices. With Whiskey Theatre Factory, she has helped with new play development and production, including new works in the Orlando Fringe Festival. Most recently, Liz was honored to perform the role of “Amy” in Ava Love Hanna's piece, There Will Be Bears for PRT's production of Launch. Joe Llorens Joe Llorens has been a performer for over twenty years. In that time, he's done things. Some of those things he's liked, even. Joe will keep trying to do things he likes and not be as judgy about the things he doesn't like because he really should cut himself a bit of a break. He loves his wife, children, and pets, though. A lot. Facebook Instagram Twitter Paul Hanna Paul Hanna is an audio engineer, musician, and performer. When he's not playing guitar, showing up in one of Ava's plays, editing this podcast, or hanging out with his super cool teenager, he can be found hitting the ice at his favorite hockey rink or working as lead engineer at ELA Studios. Ava Love Hanna Ava Love Hanna is a professional writer, published playwright, and award-winning speaker and storyteller. She is continually amazed by how often she is mistaken for a real grown-up. Facebook Instagram Twitter   Featured Organization: Sentences Book Donations Our featured organization this week is Sentences: Book Donations. Their goal is to network readers with prison librarians and juvenile detention centers to determine their needs and donate books for use in their facilities. You can find the group on Facebook or Goodreads. We encourage you to visit them and see how you can donate books and help further their mission.   Featured Sponsor: The Stories Found Newsletter! Get updates from your BFFs at Stories Found. Be the first to know about new episodes, upcoming shows, our submission opportunities, auditions, and more!  Join us at storiesfound.substack.com     Appreciate what we do?  Support the show by buying us a coffee!     Want to be a featured storyteller in a future episode? We're accepting submissions!

NPX welcomes you to the revamped version of Innovation CHATalyst which will focus on candid fireside chats with industry leaders, experts and creative thinkers. This podcast episode features special guests Mark Pocock and Yasmin Abdelazim from Fermi solutions. Fermi is a nuclear start-up that came to life at the onset of the pandemic and has steadily grown to be a strong force within the nuclear industry. NPX's very own Chiraag Shah and Ahsan Syed take you on a vocal journey through Mark and Yasmin's lenses from everything past, present, and future nuclear.

In this episode, we discuss:What it's like to adapt a beloved novel for the stage, especially when the author is still alive Questions from Melissa's professor Mark Branner, who directed The Giver at UH Mānoa When a playwright should solve design problemsHow Eric got a gig writing for Disney Theme Parks! And more!About Our GuestEric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and raised on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado. His scripts have been produced on Broadway (Tony-and Pulitzer-nominated The Velocity of Autumn), Off-Broadway (Bright Ideas, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Side Effects May Include…), in Disney Theme Parks (Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple), in all fifty states of the U.S., and on several continents, including productions at Manhattan Class Company, The Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Denver Center Theatre Company, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, Cleveland Play House, Alliance Theatre, New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Habima Theatre (Israel), Pentacion Productions (Spain), Teatr Polski (Poland), Orange Row (Mexico), and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival (U.S.).Awards include two AATE Distinguished Play Awards for Best Adaptation, an Emmy nomination, the Chorpenning Playwriting Award for Body of Work, the AT&T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, a TCG Extended Collaboration Grant, the Cleveland Arts Prize, two Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Fellowships, and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grants. Thirty of Mr. Coble's scripts have been published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Krause and others.Connect with Our Guest Purchase The Giver by Eric Coble at https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/the-giver-gc9000 Learn more about Eric Coble at www.ericcoble.comRead his plays on NPX at https://newplayexchange.org/users/3205/eric-coble Connect with host Melissa Schmitz***Sign up for the 101 Stage Adaptations Newsletter***101 Stage AdaptationsFollow the Podcast on Facebook & InstagramRead Melissa's plays on New Play ExchangeConnect with Melissa on LinkedInWays to support the show:- Buy Me a Coffee- Tell us your thoughts in our Listener Survey!- Give a 5-Star rating- Write a glowing review on Apple Podcasts - Send this episode to a friend- Share on social media (Tag us so we can thank you!)Creators: Host your podcast through Buzzsprout using my affiliate link & get a $20 credit on your paid account. Let your fans directly support you via Buy Me a Coffee (affiliate link).

About This Episode In this episode of Stories Found, we're chatting with Austin-based playwright, Max Langert and hearing his ten-minute comedy, Personality Test. Take a free personality test here! Episode Transcript Here. About the Playwright Max Langert Max Langert is a playwright, producer and storyteller living in Austin. His plays have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas and elsewhere. He's told stories for Listen to Your Mother, The Vancouver Story Slam, Testify and Austin Bat Cave, and is a regular performer at FronteraFest. He's produced benefit shows for The Autism Society of Central Texas, The SAFE Alliance, and VELA Families. He's excited to be working with the great team at Stories Found! Read more of Max's work on NPX, The New Play Exchange. This is Max's second visit to Stories Found! Listen to his first story: The First Time I Got Naked in Front of a Bunch of People I Didn't Know. Twitter   About the Cast Personality Test was performed for us by: Ava Love Hanna Ava Love Hanna is a professional writer, published playwright, and award-winning speaker and storyteller. She is continually amazed by how often she is mistaken for a real grown-up. Facebook Instagram Twitter Paul Hanna Paul Hanna is an audio engineer, musician, and performer in Austin, Texas. He's the principal engineer and owner of ELA Studios and co-host of the Stories Found podcast. Instagram     Featured Organization: Cinnamon Path Theatre Our featured organization for this episode is Cinnamon Path Theatre, a small collective of artists based in Austin, Texas. Scrappy and well-intentioned, they like site-specific work. They've produced a number of new plays by emerging writers, as well as a handful of variety shows featuring a slew of local artists benefiting The Autism Society of Central Texas, Safe Place, Vela Families and more. You can read more about them and what they do at cinnamonpath.com   Featured Sponsor: Team Jemini Designs Team Jemini Designs is the place for bold, fun, pop culture themed items. T-shirts, gifts and more!         Appreciate what we do? Click here to support the show by buying us a coffee!     Want to be a featured storyteller in a future episode? We're accepting submissions!

This episode features an interview with Danny Hwang. Danny is the Founder & CEO of education technology company Point Avenue, and a Partner at NPX Capital.On this episode, Danny shares the major setbacks he overcame at West Point, how mentors like his brother shaped his life, and what you should be striving for instead of work-life balance.-----------------“First is what I call work-life harmony. There's no such thing as work-life balance because that automatically assumes that those are two competing forces. And I always remind people including myself, that if you want to build success, the grinding, the hard work, the sacrifice, that is a must. There are no freebies.” — Danny Hwang-----------------Episode Timestamps:*(2:12) - Danny's four major setbacks while at West Point*(4:55) - Where the Army took Danny after West Point*(6:05) - Post military life for Danny where he wanted to go/do*(8:46) - Danny and his brother's close-knit relationship*(14:06) - Measuring success at NPX Point Avenue*(18:01) - All the different aspects of NPX*(21:15) - Segment: SOP - Standard Operating Procedure*(25:47) - Where Danny got his discipline from and when it began*(27:37) - What Danny's motivation is and how it compared to his past*(32:07) - Giving Back-----------------LinksConnect with Danny on LinkedInFollow Eddie on TwitterConnect with Old Grad Club on LinkedInwww.oldgradclub.com

Welcome to Cannabis Daily - Your daily guide to cannabis news, industry trends and trade ideas in under 5 mins.Episode Summary:A recent survey found that 60% of consumers said they would consume cannabis with their grandparents. Actor Seth Rogen,comedian Sarah Silverman, kickstart cannabis in common campaign.Public companies discussed in the podcast today:Intercure(NASDAQ:INCR)Village Farms Intl (NASDAQ:VFF)TerrAscend(OTCQX:TRSSF)Sundial Growers(NASDAQ:SNDL)Hydrofarm Holdings Group(NASDAQ:HYFM)Akerna (NASDAQ:KERN)NewLake Capital Partners(OTCQX:NLCP)Tilray(NASDAQ:TLRY)Hosted & Produced By:Elliot LaneAaron Thomas Contact us at: cannabishour@benzinga.comFollow Benzinga Cannabis On Social MediaInstagramTwitterYouTubeLinkedInSubscribe to all Benzinga Podcasts at https://www.benzinga.com/podcastsSubscribe to the Cannabis Insider Newsletter to get more cannabis news and trending links delivered to your inbox.Tune in weekly to Cannabis Hour at 4 pm ET every Thursday for Cannabis News & Executive Interviews at bzcannabishour.comHit us up at https://www.benzinga.com/cannabis/ for more news today, tomorrow, and everyday.Access All The Cannabis Daily Episodes HereFor Top Gainers & Losers Cannabis stocks of the day check out https://www.benzinga.com/cannabis/stocksNOT FINANCIAL ADVICEThe Information Contained on this Podcast is not intended as, and shall not be understood or construed as, financial adviceUnedited Transcript:Investors welcome to feel good Friday at cannabis daily. This is Elliot lane bringing in New York cannabis news and insights on the market. Uh, every week, day around 10:00 AM, you know, maybe 10 0 5, maybe 9 55. We haven't gotten into an exact science yet, but we are there for you every day. Uh, today's Friday.We're going to get Aaron Thomas on a little bit later, chat through some fun little items, but my gosh, the amount of news I have for you today, earnings is in full swing. Um, some funny things happening, some awesome things happening, and some companies that'll have some things to prove next quarter. So let's do that.Right in inner care, I NCR, uh, known as can dock around Israel. Um, really great, uh, management team behind them, great investors behind them. They moved on the announcement that they were having earnings. I just found this hilarious, uh, Inc. Uh, I think there are a lot of firm believers in this company, including myself.I think insecure is going to be a powerhouse internationally. Uh, but I, I don't see why they made the jump to be quite honest. So, um, keep an eye on them and I look forward to their earnings, maybe something coming out. Yeah. I had a couple articles that came out recently. I want to, I want to bring attention to investor place, publishes articles saying sundial that's S and D L could be a goodbye for reversal.We'll touch more on them later. Obviously mainly citing the years happenings plus the market opportunities. So nothing really. Super insightful in the article in terms of specifics or details that most cannabis enthusiasts don't already know. Um, but overall, I, I share a similar sentiment. Stock place says drops on dial and by village farms, uh, Corona, organic gram, and Greenlane while I agree with half of that sentiment.Um, I think diversification is great. I think sundial has its own benefits. Again, we'll touch on them. Shortly village farms is an incredible company. A Corona is one of the leading software compliance providers in the industry. If not the leading one organic gram for me is interesting because of the tobacco entrance there, uh, in Greenland, obviously being one of the major anciliary companies and, um, and accessory brands, uh, out there.Hexo, this is a little bit of old news, but I did want to touch on it. That's hex. So on the NASDAQ closes three recently acquired facilities laying off 155 workers, and they claim this as a part of an integration plan. You know, it may be, and I think remains to be seen, but I, I, I want to be fully behind tech.So. Um, and it's just not positive news coming out of there right now. And I hope they can continue to release some positive reasons that sustainability, uh, was great about little less than a month ago or about a month ago. Um, but I like to see more news like that coming out. H C Wainwright cuts price target for current that's NASDAQ listed K E R N from $7 to $5.Um, I do not read into this very heavily. I think a Corona is one of those. Leading service providers in this industry. They're obviously not thriving. Uh, like the, I would say the hydroponics companies are right now. And I think for obvious reasons there, I don't think their services are quite as expensive.Um, but at the same time, I think a current grows as this industry grows because there is no major competition to them as. Current moment, in my opinion, terrorists and TRS SF shareholders overwhelmingly approved gauge acquisition and the amendment. Uh, so that should continue to move forward relatively rapidly.Uh, after this. Now we dive into the first bit of sundial news, that's S and D L and the NASDAQ again, announces share repurchase program of up to a hundred million Canadian. So that is huge. Um, a lot of discussion and it really the biggest negative about them this year was the stock dilution. Um, I think this is the step to counter that counter.Um, the claims that their shares are not worth as much as they should be. I think this is a step toward rectifying that for them, or at least to make it appear. So, uh, all right. Y'all earnings, earnings, earnings, earnings. We are keeping rolling on that train. Plenty more to get to today. Hydro farm is where we're starting.H Y F M revenue declined 7% year over year to $128 million. Um, I believe that is still the leading. Um, public, at least the leading public company in terms of revenue, quarterly revenue for a hydroponics company that I can think of that being said, you know, you obviously want to see positive trends if you're invested in them.Um, but to call out both sides, hydro farm, obviously doing well, but not trending in the right direction as is . Urban grow, but similar to grow generation. So an interesting correlation there, Columbia care, CCH WF record, quarterly revenue of 132.3 million up 144% year over year and 22% quarter over quarter, California is still being the company's, uh, highest revenue by state with Colorado.Uh, they've really focused on expanding there over the last few quarters, uh, and they've done a great job at really controlling that market, in my opinion. Jumping to glass house group. That's G L a S F on the OTC net revenue up 29% year over year to 17.2 million. But unfortunately down 8% quarter over quarter, they are still the number one brain ranked brand in sales in California.So that is something I have a lot of faith in glass house. I think Kyle and Graham are doing great things over there. No, I, I think, um, there's a lot to prove still, you know, I think there's a lot of companies that could still enter California and just take over that market. Um, and I think as corporate and culture mix, I think glass house is really well positioned to tackle both sides.I love their sustainability, uh, activations. I love a lot about. Um, but you know, we obviously want to see that sequential revenue, uh, increase right now and not decrease as the market emerges maps. That is Weedmaps or WM holdings on the NASDAQ, M a P S revenue of 50.9 million us revenue up 46% year over year and overall revenue up 9% year over year, Q4 revenue supposed to be between 50 and 52 million.So not anticipating the large growth, uh, by the end of the fiscal. Uh, CIN wellness holdings, that's AWL H revenue up 13.2% quarter over quarter to 94.4 million. Interesting factoid nine months 2021 revenue is up a hundred million over the same nine months in 2020. So, you know, as sin, wellness is one that has just blasted in the tier one territory.In my opinion, I love, uh, what Abner and team is doing over there. They're backed by Poseidon and the, and Emily. Emily Paxio, uh, and several others. And I just, I love ascend wellness, uh, pretty much all the way around. Uh, we will dive into the REIT section really quick, new lake capital partners. That's in LCP revenue up 22% quarter over quarter and up 135% year over year to 8.1 million.Of course, they closed their IPO with proceeds of 102 million in August. I think new lake is poised to be one of them. Three to four leaders in the real estate investment trust landscape in cannabis, and a lot of faith in them. And if you're looking for an interesting ciliary play, uh, I, I, I would definitely keep an LCP on your watch list.All right, I'll wrapping it up with sundial on my end, S N D L income of 11.3 million Canadian, as opposed to last year at the same time was a loss of 71.4 million, a massive turnaround for the. They are still, um, working off the success of their meme, stock status and the Reddit user craze, a S and D L I believe is still the number one cannabis stock, of course, on the Reddit boards.Um, and S and D L is, um, they're working hard to make it worthwhile. They obviously, they diluted a lot. They, they raised a lot off that, uh, that volume that. Um, they, they created a massive investment vehicle with sun, sun stream bank Corp, and they invested in Endiva. They, they purchased a leading retail brand in, in Canada.They've um, they they've invested in acquired multiple companies, uh, across the, the last few quarters. And I just have massive respect for what Zach has done this year and, and turned that company around. Um, so that is the reason S and D L right now is up some 25, 30%. Uh, in the pre-market session. Uh, so if you are invested in SMD L you should be having a great.Uh, again, cannabis stocks are volatile. Uh, just look at MSO S uh, they are overall having a good last seven day swing. Um, but their volume of course, massively decreased from that huge spike we saw on Friday from the Republican bill. That being said, y'all, I'm going to call it quits for my thing. My Lord Elliot stop being so long winded and get to Aaron.Thomas. What? Everybody's here for? Aaron? Are you there? My friend, I am here. What's going on? Elliot. How are you? I'm good, man. I need some water after that earnings get me. Yeah. I mean, it's a longer earning seasons. There's a lot to talk about. So it's completely understandable. Yeah. You know, Erin, do you have any, like, you've listened to me give like earnings reports, big earnings reports, the last three days straight, anything pop out to you?Um,you know, for me, it's, it's got to be the tier ones continue to just. Move forward and leave everybody else in the dust. Uh, and I think it's, it was less, less of that earlier this year. Um, you know, I would say, and this is in the operator space. I think the opposite is happening in the ancillary space. Um, but you know, that's kind of where I'm at so far.I don't think we've had a lot of the tier two Domestos, uh, report yet, and I'll be interested to see that and maybe they will, uh, change the narrative of this season a little bit, but to me, tier one and tier three, there's more separation now than there was a week and a half. Hmm. That's interesting. Why do you think that is?Um, I think that is because market share is going to dear ones. I think tier ones have more resources. They they're, um, massive inorganic expansion, uh, opportunities right now for them. Um, you know, and I think some tier former tier ones, like a goodness growth. You know, I, I think their earnings next quarter are that much more important because of this quarter, a little bit gray area, uh, in, in their reportings, but companies like curely and green thumb industries, it was like, here's my earnings.We're frigging great. Like they, they there's just no hesitancy. I think glass house group has the, the ability to become a major player in this. Um, you know, obviously you want to see that sequential increase, but I think they're poised for success. Um, but because their sequential decrease this quarter, it makes Q4 that much more important for them.Interesting. We'll have to keep our eyes peeled and our, you know, keep up on benzinga.com/cannabis for all the news. And, uh, up to date. If I had a soundboard, I would've done the air horn right there. Anyways, do Eric give us some news, man, what's going on? Let's get into it. Let's get into this Friday fund.Uh, let's start it off with some light fun news. A study, 60% of cannabis consumers would get high with their grandparents. A recent survey found that 60% of consumers said they would consume cannabis with their grandparent. That recent survey conducted by cannabis edibles brand a Zucca 60% of respondents.Uh, The same thing. So I said they would consume cannabis with a grandparent, according to the company, press release. If you don't know, Zucca not to interrupt you and keep your thought, but as Zucca is really cool, like science-based animals brand, I would imagine, um, you know, I think it's Kim over there who leads that, and I really like their brand.And I imagine they're probably poised for an exit at some point after they grow a little bit. Um, but I really think. Uh, if anybody was going to put that who's not wanna, or in diva or bang, uh, Zucca is a pretty cool operator to put that on. And what an interesting question. I wonder if it's because they all smoke with their grandparents over there, they get that wisdom from them, you know?My grandparents would look at me with a not so pleased. Look out. No, my grandparents would not be pleased as well, so we'll keep it. We'll keep it moving. The Americans and cannabis consumption survey was conducted online and it had 1,089 participants. The results were weighted. Reflect gender and age distribution across the 18 to 16 year old demographic, over half of the respondents were cannabis, cannabis, consumers.Um, so basically it goes on, um, and it lists a bunch of statistics that they found from the, uh, from the survey itself. But the overall sentiment sentiment is that the survey reveals. That there is still a need to educate Americans about cannabis while consumer demand is growing exponentially. Now is the time to bring sophisticated and approachable products to market that people can trust.That is a quote from Kim Sanchez rail, uh, via press release. So she's, uh, she's doing well. She's smart. Yeah. Yes. Uh, yeah, Kim. Absolutely. So, I mean, I don't really have much more to add to this, but I will say. What an interesting fact, man, I don't know who thinks about these questions, but like props or that person gives them today off.Exactly. That was a great question. And uh, brought a little fun in my Friday for sure. So moving right along, I know you touched on it earlier this week, but actor, Seth Rogen, uh, comedians, Sarah Silverman, kickstart cannabis in common campaign. I know you touched on the federal side of it, but, um, They came together to help kickstart cannabis in common, a public education campaign aimed at getting cannabis consumers, the broader public air and the broader public to contact their legislators about passing, meaningful, meaningful cannabis reform at the federal level.Nice. Yeah. I mean, it's really great for them to get involved. I think, um, this is, this is the type of industry where having a platinum. Could help. I mean, not, I'm not at all going to get political, but obviously you're always going to have discourse if you choose a side politically, but the vast majority of American people don't understand why this is illegal.So, you know, for them to get on board with this and, and push just common sense legislation through and utilize their platform to do so, puts pressure on politicians. Um, you know, so. You know, and more and more people get on board. Obviously, Seth Rogan been in the cannabis industry for a long time, Sarah Silverman, uh, for a time as well.Um, you know, and Willie Nelson and, and Jim Belushi and all these other celebrities that are in, um, you know, they're being as loud as they can, but there are others out there who could jump in, you know, and they don't have to be major smokers. To understand that this new industry would provide a lot back to this country.Right? I mean, there's always going to be like the Willie Nelson's and then the Seth Rogan's, there's always going to be a face and a voice of the general cannabis consumer. And I think it's, it's great for people with their stature to, you know, really push for these kinds of initiatives and, you know, Nudge Congress, uh, along because without them, you know, irregular people, excuse me, us regular people would definitely, our voices would get passed along for sure.Uh, generally, so definitely having a more prominent voice as the, uh, As the voice of the people in a sense, right? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Leo DiCaprio with his environmental work. I mean, he brings a huge spotlight to it and has become very well-known for it. So, um, I, you know, ideally, you know, if you have a platform you're using it for good would be the through line there and maybe an obvious one, but I don't think everybody, uh, everybody that has a platform.Maybe, maybe things like that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have a platform yet, but that's what we're working on with cannabis daily in order to push cannabis through right. Cannabis daily is going to be the deciding factor for federal legalization. Absolutely. That was an absolute joke. Um, anyways, you got one more, man.Right? I got one more, some good news for Malaysia. Some international news let's end it off here. Uh, so you can get the full story here on benzinga.com/cannabis. I'm me give you a little teaser, Elliot, you know, so medical cannabis in Malaysia, importation and consumption. Is now allowed, uh, Malaysian health minister, Kyrie Gemo Loudin, uh, reported that ju Southeast Asian country will allow the importation and use of cannabis.For medical medicinal purposes. A prescription will be required to purchase medical marijuana. Prescriptions may only be issued by a registered physician or. Uh, as Bloomberg reported as well. So a good news for Malaysia. It's, it's great to see, uh, you know, cannabis coming in a more regulated sense, uh, to those countries, um, east island countries.Yeah, yeah. Southeast, right? Yep. That's awesome, man. I mean, this is huge. Asia is long considered just such a massive opportunity for this industry, but very few companies are taking. Um, the, the step toward it, I will say maybe like NPX out of Canada, maybe audacious brands out of the U S or two that I can think of publicly off the top of my head.But, um, Asia is, is that going to be a tough market overall, but any inches that are moved there? Um, so keep an eye on these international companies as well. You know, I know Tilray is focused on Europe. Um, inner cure is probably focused more on Canada, Israel, and probably some European activations as well.Obviously if you're a Latin American companies, but, um, Uh, Southeast Asia could bring a whole new aspect of this ball game. So, uh, that's very cool, man. Awesome. Aaron preciate you man. Always good to get you on. Sounds like you're fighting a little cold or allergies or something. So just a little bit, just a little bit, but we'll where are we going to bounce back?Come back, even stronger. My man, my man. Get that. C double dose today. All right, y'all appreciate you paying it. Beta dungeon for 20 minutes. I think this might take the cake for our longest episode yet, but I blame earnings. It is not our fault. It is the fact that you all decide to have all these people report earnings at the same time.Um, no, but really this is a blast. Please review as rate us on any podcasting network. Um, you can give us one star or five. Obviously we prefer five. Um, but you know, in anything. Making us known as, uh, one of the ways to start your morning for cannabis news. Thanks all we look forward to doing this again Monday.Have a great weekend. 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Rachael is a new and devised-work focused director, deviser, playwright, and producer.  Currently based in Manhattan, she is originally from Virginia, has ties to Tennessee, and also spent several years working in the DC Metro area.  She is drawn to work that centers humanity in unpacking complex issues, and work that utilizes comedy as both a powerful medicine and the sugar that helps it go down. Her play, Better Angels, has been produced in festivals around New York and virtually, and was published in Best New Ten Minute Plays, 2020. Directing credits include: The Desk Set (Director, Fordham University); Better Angels (New Ambassadors); #MomVlogLyfe ( The Tank/Naked Theatre Co.);  Polar/15 Minutes of Infamy (Elemental Women); Jumping from Rooftops and Other Ways to Cure Depression (The Tank); Sioux Falls (Director, Mead Theatre Lab); ClickB@it (Naked Theatre Co./CapFringe) and R.U.R. (Naked Theatre Co./CapFringe).She is a Founding Company Member of Naked Theatre Company. Website:  rachaelwithanamurray.com  NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/2729/rachael-murray To get in contact and support Rachael you can find her on Instagram, her website. Host: Broghanne Jessamine Produced by Elemental Women Productions LLC Elemental Women Productions is a women focused production company based in NYC. We produce film, theatre, podcasts and more all with the mission to empower and amplify women's voices through the arts. To find out more about what we do visit our website at https://www.elementalwomenproductions.com and support our work by joining our Patreon community ( https://www.patreon.com/elementalwomenproductions )

Before we jump back into Arthur's world, we want to give you this interview with playwright Becca Musser! Becca is an actor-combatant, playwright, opera singer, and so much more. Their new Cassandra-inspired play was featured in several of the "Tool Boudoir" episodes from Season One, and Becca's here today talking about how music and movement influences their writing in verse. Please note: This interview was recorded in the winter of 2020. Learn more about Becca: https://www.instagram.com/platypusinspace/ Photo: Becca Musser and Laurel Andersen in a scene from The Lifted Instants Before the Fall: A Tale of Troy. TURN TO FLESH PRODUCTIONS 2019 gala. Photo courtesy of Lisa LaGrande. Referencing: “In the Forest She Grew Fangs” by Stephen Spotswood on NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/plays/1299/forest-she-grew-fang Spit and Vigor Theatre: https://www.spitnvigor.com/* BOOK: “What We See When We Read” by Peter Mendelsund Colin’s Published Poems: https://macrinamagazine.com/issue-6-general/guest/2021/01/30/visitation-thank-you-note-how-what-if-love/

Written By Judy Klass Music & Lyrics by Judy Klass A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender. Directed by Lori Muhlstein Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players Cast Sara Lucchini as Kay Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange Michale L. Young as Eytan Trevor Butler as Curtis Available on our Youtube Page and on your Amazon Fire Device Watch our performances on your smart TV with our new Amazon Fire App Say so long to huddling around the computer. If you don't have Amazon Fire Stick or Amazon enabled device, you can still watch all of our great performances and interviews on our Youtube channel. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w About Judy Klass Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021. Website: http://www.judy-klass.com NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass About the Quarantine Players Website: https://quarantineplayers.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Podcast: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/qplayers/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/qplayers/support

Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender. Directed by Lori Muhlstein | Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players| Musical Director Mikayla Trimpey Cast Sara Lucchini as Kay Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange Michale L. Young as Eytan Trevor Butler as Curtis About Judy Klass Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021. Website: http://www.judy-klass.com | NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass About the Quarantine Players website: https://quarantineplayers.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Podcast: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers Amazon Fire TV App: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. We are your source for new plays from amazing playwrights. Each week we choose a new play to read for you. We are different because we involve the playwright in every step of the process. Most of our writers will attend all the rehearsals and provide feedback along the way. We don't just honor playwrights by waiting till their work goes into the Public domain so we don't have to pay them. We prefer our playwrights to still have their pulse. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/qplayers/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/qplayers/support

Written By Judy Klass Music & Lyrics by Judy Klass A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender. Directed by Lori Muhlstein Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players Musical Director Mikayla Trimpey Cast Sara Lucchini as Kay Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange Michale L. Young as Eytan Trevor Butler as Curtis Available on our Youtube Page and on your Amazon Fire Device Watch our performances on your smart TV with our new Amazon Fire App Say so long to huddling around the computer. If you don't have Amazon Fire Stick or Amazon enabled device, you can still watch all of our great performances and interviews on our Youtube channel. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w About Judy Klass Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021. Website: http://www.judy-klass.com NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass About the Quarantine Players Website: https://quarantineplayers.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Podcast: https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/qplayers/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/qplayers/support

About This Episode In this episode of Stories Found, we hear the humorous ten-minute play, sixteen17 by Jason Rainey. sixteen17 is a funny play about the quirky relationship between a mother and her daughter as the daughter turns 17 -- a birthday that's an important milestone for the mother. Jason wrote this play as part of the ScriptWorks Weekend Fling. The Weekend Fling is ScriptWorks' annual 48-hour playwriting event in which writers are tasked with creating a ten-minute play in 48 hours. There are three ingredients provided that MUST appear in the play. In our interview with Jason we discuss the ingredients that he had to weave into his play, how those ingredients influenced his script, and why we think writing exercises with rigid constraints can often help writers produce work they might otherwise not have created. About the Storyteller Jason Rainey is a member of ScriptWorks in Austin. His work has been commissioned, presented, or produced by ScriptWorks, Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Valdez, AK), Penobscot Theatre (Bangor, ME), Daedalus Theatre (Columbus), Freshwater Theatre (Minneapolis), Mildred's Umbrella (Houston), Sound Plays, Texas Dramatist Playwriting Series, and Punchkin Rep in Austin. He has directed several of his own short plays at Austin's FronteraFest, receiving a Best of Fest citation in 2011. You can find more of Jason's plays on NPX, the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/50068/jason-rainey About ScriptWorks ScriptWorks is a playwriting organization based in Austin, Texas, but it's membership is open to playwrights across the country. Every year, ScriptWorks hosts the Weekend Fling. Writers have 48 hours to write a ten-minute play including three required ingredients. The event culminates with a super fun cold reading Salon on Sunday and all scripts submitted are then reviewed by a selection committee for the Out of Ink Festival. If you'd like to learn more about ScriptWorks membership or how you can join us for the upcoming Weekend Fling in November (11/20 - 11/22/2020) feel free to visit ScriptWorks.org or contact us and we'll connect you. ----- Want to be a featured storyteller in a future episode? We're accepting submissions!

Hello listeners! We are so excited for you to listen to this new episode of Beckett's Babies! We had an amazing conversation discussing all-things theater and directing new work with the one and only MARINA J. BERGENSTOCK! Marina J. Bergenstock (she/her) is a director, dramaturg, performer, and educator. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Iowa. She formerly was on faculty at Beloit College in Wisconsin. She starts her Ph.D. studies at Stanford University in Theatre and Performance Studies, specializing in Arab Theatre. To learn more about Marina and her work, be sure to check out her website at www.marinabergenstock.com GLISTENS: Sarah - Netflix's Julie and the Anthems / Plays on NPX: beth by Alex Lin, WYWH by Tom Moran, A Murder of Crows by France Beck Sam - Nina Morrison's reading of Hearts on Fire / Gabrielle Calvocoressi reading with Grinnell/Prairie Lights Marina - Netflix's The Babysitter's Club / Google Map Add-On Stanford Gleaning Project / Helpful Advice from Ph.D. Orientation ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! We are so excited for you to listen to this new episode of Beckett's Babies! We had an amazing conversation discussing all-things theater and directing new work with the one and only MARINA J. BERGENSTOCK! Marina J. Bergenstock (she/her) is a director, dramaturg, performer, and educator. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Iowa. She formerly was on faculty at Beloit College in Wisconsin. She starts her Ph.D. studies at Stanford University in Theatre and Performance Studies, specializing in Arab Theatre. To learn more about Marina and her work, be sure to check out her website at www.marinabergenstock.com GLISTENS: Sarah - Netflix's Julie and the Anthems / Plays on NPX: beth by Alex Lin, WYWH by Tom Moran, A Murder of Crows by France Beck Sam - Nina Morrison's reading of Hearts on Fire / Gabrielle Calvocoressi reading with Grinnell/Prairie Lights Marina - Netflix's The Babysitter's Club / Google Map Add-On Stanford Gleaning Project / Helpful Advice from her Ph.D. Orientation ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com

This week on the podcast I speak with NPX 8 René van den Bedem and we talk about education and certification. In this four-part series, We discuss certifications in general, tactics, career growth and what to do on the day of the exam. Now is a great time to restart your certification journey. Quick plug here checkout Nutanix.com/certifications for special deals and offers. Let me know on twitter if we helped inspired you to get certified this year! Follow us on Twitter René van den Bedem - https://twitter.com/vcdx133 Dwayne Lessner - twitter.com/dlink7 Angelo Luciani - twitter.com/AngeloLuciani Nutanix Nation - twitter.com/NutanixNation Nutanix Education - https://twitter.com/nutanixedu Resources Nutanix Online Community - bit.ly/1zJ4aAK Nutanix Community Blog - bit.ly/2ECb14M Nutanix Customer XTribe - bit.ly/3ey4cSs Nutanix User Groups - bit.ly/NutanixUserGroup

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes do a part 2 about Serverless — databases, files, secrets, auth, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 2:47 - Wes tried Cloudflare Workers Also this is so cool: Hey Wes, just listened to the latest Syntax episode on the serverless setup. Not sure if it’s an episode idea or not, but if you wanna do a bit of a dive on Cloudflare’s service workers, I’m currently leading an “invisible infrastructure migration” right now from a legacy WordPress setup to a new Storyblok/Netlify setup. We’re using Cloudflare’s service workers to basically “stitch” the headers/menus/footers from the old WordPress site into our new Netlify pages, but serving the page back as if it was part of the normal domain. This means we can migrate from the old to the new slowly without massively disrupting SEO, doing a lengthy/costly rebuild, etc. A word on Digital Ocean Kubernetes + FAAS allows you to scale up/down 13:54 - Secret management Some have a great UI Some have a CLI Some only have production Some have dev/staging/prod 16:24 - Vendor lock-in Two kinds of vendor lock-in Lock into a low-level provider (Like AWS, or MongoDB) Lock into a framework Questions to ask: Can I go, take my app as-is, and host it on another provider? Can I refactor the config and run my code as-is? Do I need to refactor my code for it to run on other platforms? Next.js will only run on Now There is a community package Begin all runs on Arc.codes Firebase is locked in? 25:12 - Sharing dependencies Each function will have its own package.json, which can be a pain Publish utils a private module AWS Layers Import/export Bundle and tree shake 30:26 - Local development Now dev NPX sandbox Wrangler for Cloudflare workers 36:40 - Existing applications Difficult to move with many routes, but easy to move a Graphql API that has one single route Maybe do piece by piece instead of all at once Begin has http express method 45:21 - Data Any DB you want Dynamo DB integrated into many Firebase KV Storage for Cloudflare workers Fauna 48:14 - File storage Generally files go in the associated file place like Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudinary Many also have this integrated as well 52:18 - Auth Serverless is ephemeral and stateless JWT likely as sessions will work, but doesn’t really make sense Links Cloudflare Workers Akamai MongoDB Stitch Hitler uses Kubernetes Digital Ocean Kubernetes Firebase Google Cloud Architect Next.js Now.sh Begin Netlify Now Wrangler Apollo Federation Monaco Postman Codesandbox DynamoDB Amazon S3 Backblaze B2 Cloudinary ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Power of Bad by John Tierney Wes: Socket Organizer Shameless Plugs Scott: Animating React with Framer Motion - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Our final episode, Inclusive Ecosystems features Rodney Sampson from Opportunity Hub, Dell Gines from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Caterina Schwabb from NPX, and Ben Hect from Living Cities. Listen to learn how racial equity can be embedded into the process of creating a network of support for founders of color and the role that both private and institutional investors can play to accelerate this process. Opportunity Hub (OHUB) is the leading future of work, startup entrepreneurship, early stage investment and multi-generational wealth creation for everyone, everywhere. OHUB is an official diversity, equity & inclusion partner of South by Southwest (SXSW). This March, we joined OHUB in Austin for their signature program, HBCU@SXSW, where African American, Pan Asian, and Latinx students are sponsored to gain immersive exposure, interactive learning opportunities and direct access to paid summer internships and early career roles.

Izzy Salant, one of Mr. Thrive's most spontaneous and prosperous friendships, describes his motivations to literature, theater, and how family effects them. | Email: IzzySalant@gmail.com | Facebook: Izzy Salant | "Izzy Salant" on NPX.com SPONSORED BY ELI G. ANDERSON, FITNESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY SPECIALIST. TEXT "THRIVE50" 860.576.1815 FOR HALF OFF ON 4 SESSIONS

Imagine losing money for getting better at your job. That’s the insane reality for many nonprofits. Lindsay Beck and Catarina Schwab want to change it.

Recording date: 2019-02-12 John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Victor Savkin @VictorSavkin Resources: Narwhal Technologies Viktor on Medium Conway’s Law Angular React Vue Yarn npm npm vs yarn npx Typescript The Typescript Tax How Webstorm Works with Javascript Libraries VS Code Typescript Someone to follow Secret Women of Coding Igor Minar Monk on IMDB On Liberty Timejumps 00:45 What Ward's been up to 02:49 Guest introduction 03:32 What is a large app? 07:05 Conway's Law 08:15 How do you promote knowledge? 11:26 Similar patterns in CLI 15:09 Sponsor: Dev Interersection 16:02 Yarn and NPM 18:37 What about NPX? 19:48 Number of teams vs size of teams 21:57 How do you manage multiple teams on multiple sprints? 35:38 Tooling for Angular Developers 45:26 Sponsor: IdeaBlade 46:25 What's the best way to get familair with a new project 50:30 What would help shipping multiple versions of an app? 54:59 The Typescript tax 02:55 Someone to follow

De TechCast On-Tour caravaan strijkt neer op de allereerste Nutanix User Group van het land. Georganiseerd door- en voor de community, aangevoerd door Nutanix Technology Champions Wolter Kuster en Sibo Attema, kon de NUG rekenen op een mooie opkomst en de meest uiteenlopende sessies. Sander Noordijk en Eric van Klaveren spreken de organisatie, Nutanix medewerkers en natuurlijk de sprekers van de dag over het organiseren van User Group, hoe Nutanix hier naar kijkt en wat er komt kijken bij een NPX-certificering. Luisteren dus!

Recording date: 2019-01-17 John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Kat Marchán @MaybeKatz Resources: NPX Kat Introduces NPX Tenderfoot Awesome NPX Tink John Papa Business Card Bit and Bang npm CI npm Enterprise npm orgs Someone to follow @ShaniseBarona Shanise Barona on #CauseAScene @BrandonTRoberts @AshleyMcnamara Timejumps 02:16 Guest introduction 04:01 What is NPX? 07:18 Do you have favorite things you run with NPX? 08:47 How did you go from concept to NPX? 10:47 What is Tink? 13:29 Sponsor: Native Script 14:03 Unexploding Ward's brain about Tink 17:40 Making solutions to problems people already have 19:20 How do you go from conception to realization? 21:25 The importance of UX for CLI 25:22 Is the a discoverability issue? 29:54 What kind of team do you work with? 30:51 Sponsor: DevIntersection 31:38 Where did the name Tink come from? 32:57 What is NPM CI? 37:35 How do companies get their own npm server? 43:47 Someone to follow Sponsored by: NativeScript

The jokes come flying as the guys make their week 15 picks in the NFL. Live from NPX. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ksrn/message

When they see a need in the world, they take action. Lindsay Beck survived cancer and founded a non-profit to help others with similar needs. Catarina Schwab has thrived through six careers (so far) from investment banking to a retail startup. The two have combined forces to form NPX Advisors, a for-profit organization tackling major inefficiencies in the ways money is raised by non-profits. Their work has already captured the attention of Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group; Pierre M. Omidyar, the founder of eBay; and Duncan Niederauer, the former chief executive of The New York Stock Exchange.

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2L5eMSn Last December, I reported here that NPX, Inc., had developed a new concept for financing nonprofits called an “impact security.” In May, the nonprofit The Last Mile closed on $800,000 of financing using the new instrument. How it works: According to Princeton educated Catarina Schwab, 43, NPX’s co-founder, “The Impact Security allows a nonprofit to issue performance-based debt to investors and make required payments on the debt over time with donations from the established donor fund.” The funds came from a group of investors who hope to get their money back with interest. Having an impact priority in mind, they don’t have an interest in financial outcomes. Instead, they want their return to be entirely dependent on achieving a measurable outcome. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2L5eMSn. Check out my free webinar where I share the secrets of successful nonprofit crowdfunding at http://crowdfundingforsocialgood.org.

Alex talks to Paris about fear, creating your "yes," defying expectations, being a different type of rebel, and overcoming abuse. Paris reads from his play Spare the Rod, or By My Mother's Hand.   Website: http://www.pariscrayton3.com/ NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/18841/paris-crayton-iii

Panel:  Charles Max Wood AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Special Guests: Adam Baldwin In this episode, JavaScript Jabber panelist speak with Adam Baldwin. Adam is a return guest and has many years of application security experience. Currently, Adam runs the Node Security Project/Node Security Platform, and Lift Security. Adam discusses the latest of security of Node Security with Charles and AJ. Discussion topics cover security in other platforms, dependencies, security habits, breaches, tokens, bit rot or digital atrophy, and adding security to your development. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What is  the Node Security Project/Node Security Platform Dependency trees NPM Tokens and internal data What does Node Security do for me? NPX and NSP Command Line CIL Bit Rot or Digital Atrophy How often should you check repos. Advisories If I NPM install? Circle CI or Travis NSP Check What else could I add to the securities? Incorporate security as you build things How do you find the vulnerabilities in the NPM packages Two Factor authentication for NPM Weak Passwords OL Dash? Install Scripts Favorite Security Story? And much more! Links: Node Security  Lift Security https://github.com/evilpacket @nodesecurity @liftsecurity @adam_baldwin Picks: Adam Key Base Have I been Pwned? Charles Nettie Pot  convo.com AJ This Episode with Adam Baldwin Free the Future of Radical Price Made In America Sam Walton Sonic - VGM Album Joe Pych - Movie NG Conf Why We Don’t Suck

Panel:  Charles Max Wood AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Special Guests: Adam Baldwin In this episode, JavaScript Jabber panelist speak with Adam Baldwin. Adam is a return guest and has many years of application security experience. Currently, Adam runs the Node Security Project/Node Security Platform, and Lift Security. Adam discusses the latest of security of Node Security with Charles and AJ. Discussion topics cover security in other platforms, dependencies, security habits, breaches, tokens, bit rot or digital atrophy, and adding security to your development. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What is  the Node Security Project/Node Security Platform Dependency trees NPM Tokens and internal data What does Node Security do for me? NPX and NSP Command Line CIL Bit Rot or Digital Atrophy How often should you check repos. Advisories If I NPM install? Circle CI or Travis NSP Check What else could I add to the securities? Incorporate security as you build things How do you find the vulnerabilities in the NPM packages Two Factor authentication for NPM Weak Passwords OL Dash? Install Scripts Favorite Security Story? And much more! Links: Node Security  Lift Security https://github.com/evilpacket @nodesecurity @liftsecurity @adam_baldwin Picks: Adam Key Base Have I been Pwned? Charles Nettie Pot  convo.com AJ This Episode with Adam Baldwin Free the Future of Radical Price Made In America Sam Walton Sonic - VGM Album Joe Pych - Movie NG Conf Why We Don’t Suck

Panel:  Charles Max Wood AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Special Guests: Adam Baldwin In this episode, JavaScript Jabber panelist speak with Adam Baldwin. Adam is a return guest and has many years of application security experience. Currently, Adam runs the Node Security Project/Node Security Platform, and Lift Security. Adam discusses the latest of security of Node Security with Charles and AJ. Discussion topics cover security in other platforms, dependencies, security habits, breaches, tokens, bit rot or digital atrophy, and adding security to your development. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What is  the Node Security Project/Node Security Platform Dependency trees NPM Tokens and internal data What does Node Security do for me? NPX and NSP Command Line CIL Bit Rot or Digital Atrophy How often should you check repos. Advisories If I NPM install? Circle CI or Travis NSP Check What else could I add to the securities? Incorporate security as you build things How do you find the vulnerabilities in the NPM packages Two Factor authentication for NPM Weak Passwords OL Dash? Install Scripts Favorite Security Story? And much more! Links: Node Security  Lift Security https://github.com/evilpacket @nodesecurity @liftsecurity @adam_baldwin Picks: Adam Key Base Have I been Pwned? Charles Nettie Pot  convo.com AJ This Episode with Adam Baldwin Free the Future of Radical Price Made In America Sam Walton Sonic - VGM Album Joe Pych - Movie NG Conf Why We Don’t Suck

Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2BBApJw. Catarina Schwab, 43, and Lindsay Beck have set out to completely revolutionize philanthropy. Their firm, NPX, Inc., has introduced a new security to Wall Street called the “Impact security,” which they hope will end the practice of funding nonprofits without impact. Problems in philanthropy Ted Williams, Managing Partner at Springbok Partners and an advisor to NPX, explained the problems in philanthropy today. “The nonprofit sector is woefully lacking creative destruction. Mediocre and weak organizations are still attracting funding and the best organizations are not accessing the funding they need to achieve real impact. The only way to get to a more efficient and robust nonprofit market is to reward good organizations and penalize bad ones. This will only occur when there are economic consequences tied to impact.” For her part, Schwab says, “The nonprofit capital market is opaque and inefficient. It is a trillion-dollar industry and the money is being wasted. And it's being wasted at the expense of human lives and the environment.” Watch the interview with Schwab in the video player above.” Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2BBApJw. Check out my free webinar where I share the secrets of successful nonprofit crowdfunding at http://crowdfundingforsocialgood.org.

This week we talk with the awesome Kat Marchán about her new tool NPX and how it can improve your NPM workflow.

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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

Join the conversation as we discuss how to think like an architect with Rene Van Den Bedem (@vcdx133).  Having achieved his VCDX and NPX certifications, Rene is a phenomenal example of elevating ourselves through community and learning.  The chat touches on the key points to progress from admin to architect and how community opens the doors to a broad group of peers and mentors. Learn about Virtual Design Master and how Rene thinks we can all make the jump to architectural thinking in IT. 

Amy Marquis, Co-Director & Founder As a writer, editor, photo editor and film director with nearly 15 years of editorial experience, including nine years atNational Parks Magazine – Amy is uniquely poised to access and produce the most compelling stories about the national parks today. Her award winning Yosemite film, “The Way Home,” inspired the NPX series. She is the editor of The Digital Naturalist, a blog dedicated to improving advocacy video storytelling, teaches a filmmaking class at Boulder Digital Arts, and recently produced a short film for The New York Times. Dana Romanoff, Co-Director & Digital Photographer Dana is a visual storyteller whose images grace the pages of National Geographic, The New York Times and publications worldwide. While working at The Charlotte Observer, Dana was among the team recognized as a runner-up to the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. She’s received international awards and recognition including the Anthropographia Multimedia and Human Rights Award, which brought her film, “No Man’s Land” to worldwide human-rights gatherings. Dana has directed and shot advocacy films appearing at live-events from packed stadiums to film festivals around the globe.