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JS Party JS Party #60

You might want to read up on PAW Patrol

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2019-01-25T12:00:00Z #javascript 🎧 7,694

Your 3 intrepid hosts try to explain JS concepts (bind/apply, thunks, and ReasonML) to each other as if we’re five year olds. Hilarity and/or confusion ensues. During Pro Tip Time, Suz tells a story of woe, KBall motivates himself, and Jerod tries to keep you in the flow. Finally, we point our project spotlight at Fly CDN and talk edge applications and IoT.

JS Party JS Party #56

We're dependent. See?

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2018-12-14T12:00:00Z #javascript +1 🎧 7,588

KBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify and validate dependencies, and how to support the ecosystem of open source libraries.

JS Party JS Party #54

trust.js but verify

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2018-11-30T16:59:33Z #javascript 🎧 7,065

KBall, Jerod, and Nick break down some recent events in the JavaScript world. Take a dive into the recent event-stream malware attack, breaking down the State of JavaScript 2018 survey, and sharing pro tips to make your life better.

JS Party JS Party #53

VisBug is like DevTools for designers

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2018-11-23T12:00:00Z #javascript +2 🎧 7,016

Google UX Engineer Adam Argyle joins Jerod and KBall to share all the details on VisBug, his just-released Chrome Extension that “makes any webpage feel like an artboard.” Adam is passionate about doing for designers what Firebug (and later DevTools) did for developers. In this episode, he shares that passion and how it’s driven him to create and open source VisBug.

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