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Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development. He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled in JavaScript and Python before returning to PHP. In one of the /dev/hell podcast episodes he reviled that he has suffered from mental illness for most of his life and this gave rise to the Open Sourcing Mental Illness project he is currently involved in.

Highlights

• [00:00:00] Pre Show
• [00:03:50] Henning introduces Ed Finkler
• [00:04:22] Space Invaders and Pong
• [00:10:36] C64, Basic
• [00:18:15] College, HTML
• [00:25:40] PHP
• [00:40:28] Desktop applications
• [00:45:58] Spaz Twitter client
• [01:08:26] Python
• [01:20:24] The MicroPHP Manifesto
• [01:23:15] /dev/hell
• [01:26:55] Mental Health Issues
• [01:43:44] Picks

Links

• Ed Finkler is @funkatron on Twitter
• RealBasic Xojo
• Spaz
• Graph Story
• The MicroPHP Manifesto
• /dev/hell
• OSMI
• Open Sourcing Mental Illness: Stronger Than Fear
• mhprompt.org

Picks

• Ed's picks:
  • Vern's Reviews
  • Candyman
  • Arch Enemy - Burning Angel
• Henning's picks:
  • Exercise by Raquel Valez
• Kahlil's picks:
  • cycle.js

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Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one!

This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyone else to many "failures" and victories to finally creating Falcor at Netflix which brings together all the lessons he learned along the way.

Highlights

• [00:00:00] Pre-show
• [00:03:50] Kahlil introduces Jafar Husain
• [00:04:09] Batch programming to run Doom on 486SX
• [00:05:11] Turing the programming language
• [00:08:58] First contact with JavaScript
• [00:15:57] Writing JavaScript on the server
• [00:20:46] Meta programming in JavaScript
• [00:22:27] .NET
• [00:24:36] Learning non-programming skills
• [00:34:10] Microsoft Office Platform for Software Development
• [00:41:48] A programming language is yet another tool
• [00:44:27] Getting into the web at Blast Radius
• [00:45:54] Paradigm shifts - Data is Code and Code is Data
• [01:07:00] Getting on the Silverlight team
• [01:17:26] What is the difference between an Event and a Stream?
• [01:28:19] Bringing RX to Netflix
• [01:31:18] Falcor
• [01:49:19] You need to be a triple threat as a developer
• [01:58:48] Go find a great manager
• [01:59:37] How to externalize passion
• [02:05:02] Picks

Links

• Jafar Husain is @jhusain on Twitter
• Turing, the programming language)
• Rich Hickey - "Simple Made Easy"
• Transcript of "Simple Made Easy"
• F#
• Erik Meijer
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video series
• Programming with Circles, Triangles and Rectangles
• ReactiveX
• Falcor
• Reactive programming on Frontend Masters

Picks

• Jafar's picks:
  • React
  • Clojure
  • ClojureScript
  • node.js
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video series
  • Programming with Circles, Triangles and Rectangles
  • Rich Hickey - "Simple Made Easy"
• Henning's picks:
  • Amazon Prime Music
• Kahlil's picks:
  • Angular 2
  • Angular Connect

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Kahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architecture and where her interest in teaching comes from. She becomes the lead instructor at Flatiron School after being rejected as a student, which leads to many different teaching and speaking engagements. Before taking a position at npm, Inc. she also worked at Mozilla and Bocoup.

Highlights

• [00:00:00] Kahlil welcomes Ashley Williams to the show
• [00:00:58] Logo
• [00:01:42] HyperCard
• [00:06:35] Philosophy and Neuroscience
• [00:22:02] Where @ag_dubs comes from
• [00:23:46] Teaching
• [00:35:24] From rejected student to lead instructor
• [00:42:27] NYC Web Development Fellowship
• [00:49:44] bocoup
• [00:51:19] endpoints
• [00:59:32] APIs and API driven development
• [01:01:56] Ashley's personal website
• [01:07:26] Mozilla
• [01:08:56] Low Cost Education
• [01:12:02] Conference Talks
• [01:14:56] npm, Inc.
• [01:25:18] Writing documentation
• [01:34:33] Picks

Links

• Ashley Williams is @ag_dubs on Twitter
• Logo (programming language))
• hypercard.org
• HyperCard
• HyperCard player
• "ashley's hypers"
• "The Server"
• Flatiron School
• NYC WEB DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP
• bocoup
• endpoints
• json-api
• ember-data
• sails
• sinatra
• Ashley's personal site
• Mozilla Foundation
• JSConf - If you wish to learn ES6/2015 from scratch, you must first invent the universe
• npm
• Trek Glowacki - early documentation on Ember

Picks

• Ashley's picks:
  • Inside Jokes by Daniel Dennet
  • greenkeeper.io
  • Squatconf
  • MUSIC PICK: Chvrches - Empty Threat
• Henning's picks:
  • Ember Global meetup
  • Nested Loops
  • No, Really... Robots and JavaScript?!
  • Music: Jamiroquai - Alright
• Kahlil's picks:
  • React on Web Components
  • JSConf EU 2015 videos
  • CSSConf EU 2015 videos
  • Metalsmith
  • MUSIC PICK: Boris Lechelt

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Henning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go & Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his current job at Docker and his numerous speaking engagemens on a large variety of topics.

Highlights

• [00:00:26] Henning welcomes Steve Francia to the show
• [00:01:40] First programming experience with Texas Instruments calculators
• [00:04:30] C, Pascal, Prolog
• [00:16:45] Swiched from CS degree to Philosophy
• [00:20:00] Developed software for Toyota
• [00:21:16] Zoop Framework
• [00:28:40] OpenSky
• [00:37:00] Blogging
• [00:38:36] MongoDB
• [00:43:34] Vim Distribution detour
• [01:00:40] More MongoDB
• [01:02:49] Go
• [01:03:47] Hugo
• [01:16:20] The Go community and OSS communities in general
• [01:19:28] Docker
• [01:35:25] MongoDB's large number of programming languages
• [01:28:50] The Pitch for Docker containers
• [01:51:48] Picks

Links

• Steve Francia is @spf13 on Twitter
• Zoop Framework
• OpenSky
• Blogging
• MongoDB
• spf13-vim
• Go
• Hugo
• Cobra
• Docker
• Steve's picks:
  • Badman Under the Red Hood
    • Based on the graphic novel of the same name
  • I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • MUSIC PICK: Less than Jake
    • The Science Of Selling Yourself Short
    • From the album Anthem Album
• Henning's picks:
  • Google inbox
  • EmberWeekend
  • KarlsruheJS/BeerJS
  • MUSIC PICK: Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
• Kahlil's picks:
  • AngularJS.de
  • People from KarlsruheJS
  • This Week in Startups
  • MUSIC PICK: Sickick Who Needs Keyboards anyway?

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Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be.

Highlights

• [00:00:25] Henning welcomes Robin Ward to the show
• [00:01:20] Introduced to computers via IBM's first PC
• [00:02:32] Kings Quest
• [00:06:40] First job as a web developer at $15/h
• [00:15:16] Discovered Ruby on Rails
• [00:16:06] Forumwarz
• [00:32:20] Jeff Atwood talks about Forumwarz ...
• [00:33:28] Discourse
• [00:47:20] Ember forums - first user of Discourse
• [00:53:43] Ember.js mobile performance of Discourse
• [01:05:44] Gamification/trust levels in Discourse
• [01:09:42] The "Evil Trout" alias
• [01:14:02] Picks

Links

• Robin Ward is @eviltrout on Twitter
• Forumwarz
• Discourse
• Robin's picks:
  • Amy Schumer
  • It follows
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • MUSIC PICK: In Colour by Jamie XX
• Henning's picks:
  • The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse
  • PHPStorm by JetBRAINS
  • MUSIC PICK: Nelly Furtado - Say it Right
• Kahlil's picks:
  • Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015
  • RxJS - The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
  • Reactive Podcast
  • MUSIC PICK: Lethal Bizzle Fester Skank Remix ft Stormzy, Fuse ODG & Wretch 32

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Henning and Kahlil have an interesting and amusing conversation with Steve Klabnik about his origins as a programmer and how he got involved in Ruby, JSON API and Rust.

Highlights

• [00:01:30] Henning welcomes Steve Klabnik to the show
• [00:04:30] Learning C at age 12-ish
• [00:13:03] Dropped out of college and joined a startup
• [00:41:50] Taking over the Hackety Hack project
• [00:47:50] First conference talk
• [00:50:10] Teaching Ruby at Jumpstart Labs
• [01:04:01] Starting at Mozilla and working on Rust
• [01:12:05] arewewebyet.com
• [01:13:00] The story of JSON API
• [01:22:35] Hold on! How does that Mozilla gig work?
• [01:26:40] The Servo Parallel Browser Project
• [01:29:47] Why Rubyists should use Rust
• [01:36:45] Picks
• [01:57:00] I will be unlocking my Twitter in the near future

Links

• Steve Klabnik is @steveklabnik on Twitter
• JSON API
• Rust
• Are We Web Yet?
• Steve's picks:
  • Tropical Ruby 2015 - Keynote: The Soul of Software by Avdi Grimm
  • Netrunner
  • House of Leaves
  • MUSIC PICK: Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose
• Henning's picks
  • JSON Server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)
  • Mystery Show Podcast
  • Shohin Bonsai by Morten Albek (currently out of print) (One of my trees (about 15cm tall))
  • MUSIC PICK: Pharrell Williams - Happy
• Kahlil's picks:
  • Jake Archibald's perf video
  • Polymer 1.0
  • Dgeni
  • MUSIC PICK: On the Bible feat. TI and Zuse

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Raquel talked to Kahlil about getting into robots, transitioning to web development, working at several startups and landing at npm inc. as employee #1. Raquel also goes into what it was like to rebuild npm's website and the different challenges they are facing at npm because of the explosive growth.

• Raquel is @rockbot on Twitter
• Raquel's website
• npmjs.com
• npm private modules (get 1 month free with coupon code "rockbot-descriptive", valid till June 1st)
• Raquel's talk from JSConf.eu 2014: Evolution of a Developer
• Raquel's picks:
  • Peepresearch
  • JavaScript For Cats
  • Slack
  • MUSIC PICK: Tainted Love radio station on Pandora
• Kahlil's picks:
  • Building a Simple Command Line Tool With npm
  • Clove Essential Oil
  • First Aid Git
  • MUSIC PICK: Daler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun
  • super weird Tunak Tunak Tun Vine video

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Henning and Kahlil talk to Pascal about what's going on with Angular, how internationalisation works it's way into core and what he and his business partner are doing with Thoughtram.

Corrections

Just after we recorded this episode parts of the Angular 2 API, that we talked about, have changed as you can see here and here.

There are no terms like 'Decorator' and 'Viewport' directives anymore. As mentioned in this episode, the framework provides ES7 decorators formerly known as AtScript Annotations.

If you want to find out more about the difference between Annotations and Decorators, read Pascal's corresponding article.

Links

• Pascal is @pascalprecht on Twitter
• Thoughtram
• Angular and i18n - The New World
• Pascal's picks
  • Lee Byron, Facebook on Immutable Data and React
  • Angular Gitter Chat
  • Microsoft Edge
• Henning's picks
  • Startup Podcast
  • Goose Island Burbon County Stout
  • Overcast Podcast App
• Kahlil's picks
  • Elevator.js
  • Daredevil
  • Tomorrow

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Rachel talked to Kahlil about how she got interested in programming after her philosophy major, how she ended up at GitHub, what RailsBridge and the Passions Projects are and what her talk at SoCoded Conf will be about.

• Rachel is @rachelmyers on Twitter and on GitHub
• SoCoded Conf 2015
• Starfish organisation blog post
• RailsBridge
• RailsBridge Curriculum
• Passion Projects
• Rachel's picks:
  • Jetboil – Flash Cooking System – SAPPHIRE
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, second edition
  • Feminism is for Everybody
  • MUSIC PICK: Tayler Swift – Shake it Off
• Kahlil's picks:
  • Good sound engineers
  • @horse_js
  • Git (10 years!)
  • MUSIC PICK: Major Lazer – Roll The Bass (lyrics video)

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Henning and Kahlil talk about a document and Angular 2's architecture that was floating around on the internet recently.

• Angular 2 Rendering Architecture
• Angular 2 Built on TypeScript
• Henning's picks:
  • Lammily
  • Unlocator
  • TMUX

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Henning and Kahlil talk about the EmberConf 2015 Opening Keynote video.

• Henning is @hglattergotz on Twitter
• Kahlil is @distilledhype on Twitter
• EmberConf 2015 Opening Keynote
• Kahlil's picks:
  • WorkingDraft episode 213
  • Is Ember Fast Yet?
  • Web Development Reading List
• Henning's picks:
  • 1Password
  • Workflowy
  • Big Hero 6

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Kahlil talks to Henning about his career as a programmer and about how he ended up with EmberJS as his JavaScript framework of choice.

They also talk about Henning joining DESCRIPTIVE as a co-host and express their awe about the EmberConf Opening Keynote.

• Henning is @hglattergotz on Twitter
• Throne of JS Panel: Shogun Showdown (Yehuda in 2012)
• Blog post and slides to Henning's talk about why you should (really) have a look at Ember (again)
• Beer:
  • Bison Honey Basil Ale
  • Rogue Chocolate Stout
• spf13 - The Ultimate Vim Distribution
• Apigility:
  • apigility - API creator
  • Git repo for apigility Angular admin UI
• Henning's picks:
  • Vimium
  • Keynote Rails Conf Chicago 2014: 10 years! by Yehuda Katz
  • untappd.com
  • MUSIC PICK: Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
• Kahlil's picks:
  • The Frontside Podcast epi 19
  • Mort by Terry Pratchett
  • EmberConf Keynote
  • MUSIC PICK: Armon Warren & Trey Traylor covering 7 seconds of Clarity by Zedd

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Mikeal talks to Kahlil about his long career as a programmer, his work as a JavaScript community organiser and io.js.

• Mikeal is @mikeal on Twitter
• mikealrogers.com
• NodeConf
• JSFest
• io.js
• io.js Github Org (get involved!)
• Node.js
• Mikeal's picks:
  • Twyla Tharp: Creative Habit & Collaborative Habit
  • Blue Bottle At Home
  • Jenn's other blog
  • MUSIK PICK: The Origin of Love - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (video)
• Kahlil's picks:
  • Awesomeplete
  • load-grunt-config
  • Futuristic Routing in Angular
  • MUSIC PICK: Ich rolle mit meim besten - Haftbefehl feat. Marteria (video)

Intro and outro music by Boris Lechelt.

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Sean talks to Kahlil about his career as a programmer, TDD, DHH, API-first development, JSON API, Ruby on Rails and EmberJS.

• Sean Devine is @barelyknown on Twitter
• EmberJS
• Ruby on Rails
• JSON API
• DHH on TDD
• Sean's picks:
  • NBA
  • NBA League Pass
  • NPR’s Invisibilia
  • Cross Country Skiing Gear from EMS
  • MUSIC PICK: Duncan Sheik
    • Duncan Sheik’s “Half a Room”
• Kahlil's picks:
  • Download progress bar on Dribbble
  • Signal v. Noise Post on Podcasts
  • The Ruby on Rails Podcast
  • MUSIC PICK: Limb by Limb – Fireworkz feat. Bounty Killa, Ghetts, Shystie, Trilla, 3.2.1, English Frank

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Tiffany talks to Kahlil about her work at SoundCloud, @weareallawesome and JSConf.eu.

• Tiffany on Twitter
• Tiffany works at SoundCloud and they are hiring ;)
• Tiffany co-curates JSConf.eu
• Tiffany runs BerlinJS
• Tiffany's speaker resource site We Are All Awesome
• Cocktail bars in Berlin:
  • Redwood
  • The Antlered Bunny
  • Bryk Bar
• Tiffany's picks:
  • Floraison gin from G’Vine
  • Falke tights and socks
  • Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  • MUSIC PICK: You Are The Blood, a cover by Sufjan Stevens, found on the compilation album, Dark Was the Night
    • iTunes link
    • Music video on YouTube
• Kahlil's picks:
  • JSCS
  • Exploding Kittens
  • Twitter Flight
  • MUSIC PICK: Lethal Bizzle – Rari Workout ft. JME & Tempa T
    • iTunes link
    • Epic live performance video at BBC 1Xtra studios

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Elise Huard talks to Kahlil about how she got started with programming and explains what Haskell is and some of the principles in functional programming.

Elise has worked with many languages throughout her career: C, JAVA, Ruby, JavaScript among others. Two years ago she started teaching herself Haskell and is now working as a Haskell freelancer in Berlin. She is also writing a book on writing games in Haskell.

• Elise is @elise_huard on Twitter
• Elise's blog: jabberwocky.eu
• Elise's book on writing games in Haskell
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good - a beginners guide
• PICK: The Rhesus Chart - Charles Stross
• PICK: Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell - Simo Marlow
• PICK: DEC2 gene
• MUSIC PICK: Buckeye Jim - Burl Ives
• PICK: How to Use npm As a Build Tool
• PICK: The AppCache-Nanny by Gregor Martynus
• PICK: Should I Buy A Selfie-Stick?
• MUSIC PICK: Marten Hørger - BADUKA

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Jamison Dance talks to Kahlil about working at iTV and Kualico, ReactJS and ImmutableJS and about how this whole JavaScript Jabber thing started.

• Jamison is @jergason on Twitter
• jamisondance.com
• PICK: Local State, Global Concerns
• PICK: Networks Without Networks
• MUSIC PICK: The Weeknd - Wicked Games (Until The Ribbon Breaks Reimagination)
• PICK: Signal vs. Noise
• PICK: Inquisitive 14: Building Monument Valley, with Daniel Gray
• PICK: JSFMT
• MUSIC PICK: M.I.A. & The Partysquad - Double Bubble Trouble
• Flux
• React
• The Changelog 131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz

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Kahlil talks to Mathias Buus about working with Node early on, application structure, LevelDB, distributed infrastructure and his JSConf.eu talk on streaming anything with BitTorrent and Node.

• Mathias is @mafintosh on Twitter
• Leveldb for Node

Database experiments Mathias has been doing:

• multi-master-merge
• merkle-dag

BitTorrent stuff:

• torrent stream
• peeflix
• peerwiki
• Mathias' JSConf.eu talk: Javascript... Torrents... and Mad Science!

Distributed infrastructure:

• IPFS
• Secure scuttlebutt
• dat

Picks

• PICK: F8 Flux & React talk
• PICK: Adventures in Angular 16: 1.3 and 2.0 with Brad Green, Igor Minar, and Miško Hevery
• PICK: 9 Basic Principles Of RWD
• MUSIC PICK: Differentology by Bunji Garlin
• MUSIC PICK: We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Satan's Power

Mathias' Music Picksatan's power by nick reinhart

Kahlil's Music Pick

Intro and outro music by Boris Lechelt.

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Kahlil talks to Ole about his history in programming, working at Jimdo, speaking at conferences and making slidr.io.

• Ole is @codestars on Twitter
• Ole's article on speaking: Finding Your Voice
• Jimdo
• dev.jimdo.com
• yolodevs.jimdo.com
• slidr.io
• slidr.io Stickers: male & female
• slidr.io Tees
• Codepalousa
• Ole's Codepalousa Slidedeck
• Catch Ole on one of his speaking gigs
• GratiPay
• Patreon
• MUSIC PICK: Umse – Feiert Das (iTunes)
• PICK: lolcommits (Ole's lolcommit)
• PICK: Deckset
• PICK: #AskGaryVee Show (audio podcast)
• PICK: StartUp Podcast
• MUSIC PICK: The Affair Main Title Sequence with Original Music by Fiona Apple

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Kahlil talks to Gregor Martynus about how he got started in programming, the Africa Hack Trip & Hoodie.

• Gregor is @gr2m on Twitter
• Hoodie
• noBackend
• Africa Hack Trip
• Offline First
• PICK: Made in Africa
• PICK: Raise the Roof
• MUSIC PICK: Khona by Mafikozolo
• PICK: Can AngularJS Maintain its Dominance
• PICK: The Road to Ember 2.0 RFC
• PICK: Headspace App
• PICK: The Muse
• MUSIC PICK: The System by Popcaan

Gregor's Music Pick

Kahlil's Music Pick

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Kahlil talks to Bastian Allgeier about how he got into programming and design, why and how he built Zootool and Kirby, the release of Kirby 2 and keeping it simple.

• Bastian is @bastianallgeier on Twitter
• Zootool shut down notice & newsletter
• Kirby
• Bastian's blog
• PICK: Fastmail
• PICK: Protonet
• PICK: John Oliver
• PICK: IndieWeb Stuff
• MUSIC PICK: The Winery Dogs - Time Machine (Buy it on iTunes)
• PICK: GIFs vs Web Components by Glen Maddern
• PICK: Styling and Animating Scalable Vector Graphics with CSS by Sara Soueidan
• PICK: Javascript... Torrents... and Mad Science! by Mathias Buus Madsen
• MUSIC PICK: Tomsize & Bishu - Mystic (Buy it on Beatport)

Intro and outro music by Boris Lechelt.

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Kahlil talks to Jan Monschke about how he got into JavaScript and his work with the Web Audio API.

• jan is @thedeftone on Twitter
• Jan's iPad Demo
• Differential Sync Google Tech Talk
• Really good E-Book on Web Audio
• Intro tutorial to Web Audio API
• The Spec (a really good read!)
• Jan's thesis (PDF)
• PICK: Solved by Flexbox
• PICK: Humble Mozilla Bundle, powered by asm.js
• MUSIC PICK: Phazz - Lionheart
• PICK: Unsplash
• PICK: Addy Osmani: CSS Performance Tooling
• PICK: Jan Monschke: Using the web for music production and for live performances
• MUSIC PICK: Boeboe - Drift

Intro and outro music by Boris Lechelt.

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Brandon Hays talks to Kahlil about Frontside, why Frameworks are awesome and refactoring legacy jQuery code into EmberJS components.

• Frontside
• Brandon Hays is @tehviking on Twitter
• Bring Fun Back to JS: Step-by-Step Refactoring Toward Ember by Brandon Hays
• JavaScript Jabber 112: Refactoring JavaScript Apps Into a Framework with Brandon Hays
• PICK: Practical Cartooning for Technical Folk: Training from Rachel Nabors
• PICK: BrickPi && GoPiGo: Raspberry Pi robots
• PICK: Pikaday, datepicker with an actually-not-terrible API && Ember-Pikaday
• MUSIC PICK: Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright in the End
• PICK: Frontside the Podcast
• PICK: Random Trek
• MUSIC PICK: AGENT LEXIE X SYMBIZ – #GORILLA

Intro and outro music by Boris Lechelt.

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I talked to Philip Roberts about his JSConf.eu talk, the event loop, how he got started with JavaScript, his current working place &yet and AmpersandJS.

• Philip Roberts at ScottlandJS: "Help, I'm stuck in an event-loop."
• Philip Roberts at JSConf.eu: "What the heck is the event loop anyway?"
• &yet
• talky.io
• ReactJS
• PICK: Sleepy Hollow
• PICK: The Iron Druid Chronicles
• PICK: Human JavaScript
• latentflip.com
• @philip_roberts

Music Picks

Philip's music pick was "The Wheel" by S O H N. Watch the video below and if you like the track I'd encourage you to support the artist by buying their music!

Kahlil's music pick is "#caribbean" by Agent Lexie. Watch the video below and if you like the track I'd encourage you to support the artist by buying their music!

Intro and outro music is by Boris Lechelt.