Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. They talk to him about where this program came from him, the need for computer science in today's K-12 education programs, how CS Unplugged fits in, and how you can get involved.

A visual explanation on why model objects are not a good practice in object-oriented software. It is explained that a developer's job should be the one of an engineer, instead of the one of a manual worker (I would say even the one of a puppeteer, but I don't like the rhyme); objects should be alive and have behaviour of their own rather than being mere models surrounded by tools, artificial ways of making them act as if they were alive.

KBall and Tim are on location at Fluent/Velocity and had the chance to talk with Brian Douglas about GraphQL and GitHub's recent changes, Aimee Knight about knowing when to use JavaScript over CSS, and Bryan Hughes about his start and robotics with JavaScript.

Derrick Reimer: Slack felt like the much-needed grease in the gears of our budding startup. It brought visibility to conversations that would have otherwise been trapped in an email silo. It lowered the barrier of formality that plagues email correspondence. It increased the velocity of communication. In the beginning, this seemed like an indelible leap ahead. Fast forward five years, and I’m convinced it has become the single greatest threat to developer productivity in the modern workplace. The problem is that today’s chat tools are amplifying the troublesome parts of human nature, rather than minimizing them. My head bobbed in agreement to just about everything he said in this piece, and I'm verrrry interested to see what he comes up with in response.

Gary Katsevman, announcing the next version of the popular html video player: Video.js 7 is the latest major version of Video.js. It adds the other VHS (videojs-http-streaming, a library for playing back HLS and DASH (experimental) in Video.js) and drops support for older browsers like IE8.

Aras Atasaygin created a bunch of logos that he's giving away to open source projects! Find one that fits your project then hop over to his GitHub Issues to stake your claim.

If pub/sub, table inheritance, foreign data wrappers, triggers, or range/array types in Postgres are unfamiliar to you, click through.

KBall, on Vue's ⭐️ count surpassing React's: Don't get me wrong, I love Vue - I've been using it far more than React recently - but github stars are more of a measure of the "hipness" of a project than its actual use. He backs that up by citing the preposterously low number of stars 'earned' by the Apache web server, which powers ~38% of websites. What is a useful metric, then? There is no perfect measure - there are many many ways to install and use any of these projects - but NPM has become the de facto standard for installing JavaScript packages. If we look at download statistics for the core package of each of these frameworks - the vue package and the react package, that should give us a reasonable proxy for actual use. Click through for his detailed findings, but the big takeaway is right there 👆 in the headline.

Uses tf-idf and cosine similarities.

The async nature of the web has its pros and cons. One of the cons is that it's much harder to have truly shared experiences around video content. Vynchronize aims to scratch that con off the list.

The goal of this repository is to document known and unknown methods of doing various tasks using only built-in bash features. Using the snippets from this guide can help to remove unneeded dependencies from your scripts and in most cases make them that little bit faster. I often start out with a bash script, but as soon as things get complicated I ditch it for Ruby. With this collection in hand, perhaps I can get a bit more done without throwing the baby out with the bash water.

Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Jerod Santo talk about their debugging methods, the cool things that JavaScript can do but isn't talked about much, and their opinions on Git history.

ASCII is dead. Long live ASCII 👑

Alex Ward: Ety uses research data that was scraped from Wiktionary so you can discover and visualise the history of words. Just pip install ety and you have easy access to word histories from your command line.

Those of you who've been following along on Twitch know we've been working towards open sourcing our podcast show notes so the community can help improve them. I'm happy to announce that THIS is now a thing!

Kevin Ball — panelist and frequent emcee of JS Party, and Tim Smith — Senior Producer here at Changelog were on location at O'Reilly's Fluent Conference and Velocity Conference for the past few days. Here's a sneak peek of our coverage!

This looks really good: 🚀 Fetch & XHR Support ⚡️️ Simple, Powerful, & Intuitive API 💎 First Class Mocha & QUnit Test Helpers 🔥 Intercept, Pass-Through, and Attach Events 📼 Record to Disk or Local Storage ⏱ Slow Down or Speed Up Time

This project is designed to be a fully-functional, static site implementation of a blog system that is mostly compatible with Ghost and is built on EmberJS with fully working out of the box SEO friendly output. It supports being hosted on AWS S3 or any other static site hosting solution. Check out the demo. It's 100% static and hosted on S3. 🎉

Pia Mancini joined the show for the first episode back from a nearly 5 year hiatus. We talked about her work at DemocracyEarth, being a first time mother, her new role as CEO of Open Collective, their focus, supporting ad-hoc community formation all around the world, their revenue and growth plans, and their path to sustainability.

It's been just shy of 5 years since I've published a new episode to this podcast. The break was planned actually. Long story short, I had to focus. If you want to hear the slightly longer explanation, you should listen.

Go already supports many features that functional programmers might want: closures, first-class functions, errors as values, etc. The main feature (and in fact only feature for now) that Fo adds is type polymorphism via generics. Generics encourage functional programming techniques by making it possible to write flexible higher-order functions and type-agnostic data structures. People have been asking for Generics in Go since the beginning of time. (2009) At this time, Fo should be thought of primarily as an experiment or proof of concept. It shows what Go looks like and feels like with some new language features and allows us to explore how those features interact and what you can build with them. Perhaps Fo's author is hoping that enough traction/excitement around this project will convince the Go team to add Generics to the language.