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Kevin Ball

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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 🎧 7,480

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 🎧 7,382

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 🎧 6,832

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 🎧 6,804

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.

JS Party JS Party #48

LIVE from Node + JS Interactive

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2018-10-19T17:00:00Z #javascript 🎧 6,703

KBall, Nick, and Suz MC’d a live show at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver with Tierney Cyren (Node Foundation) and Dave Methvin (JS Foundation) to discuss the proposed merger between the JS Foundation and the Node Foundation. What’s happening with the merger? What does this merger mean for everyday JavaScript developers and the ecosystem?

JS Party JS Party #46

Fantastic bugs and how to squash them

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2018-10-05T17:00:00Z #javascript 🎧 7,378

Safia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you’re scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you prevent some of the common ones, what tools you can use to reduce bugs in your code, and a panel group therapy session where they discuss the most difficult bug they’ve had to fix.

JS Party JS Party #43

Interviews from JSConf

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2018-09-14T17:00:00Z #javascript +2 🎧 6,248

KBall interviews with Michael Chan, Juan Pablo Buriticá and Julián David Duque, and Tim Doherty at JSConf.US. Conversations about the importance of DRY code, the metaphors we use for software, JavaScript communities across Latin America, how to advocate for modern tech stacks in large companies, and fostering mentorship.

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