TalkScript

It’s that time of year where we find ourselves in a season of gratitude with no shortage of things to be thankful for. Bryan, Nick, Paul, and Neil each take turns sharing, covering a range of topics like static site generators, new TypeScript language features, vim stuff, and improved debugging. Speakers Bryan Forbes on Twitter […]

On this week’s episode, we reminisce about a gentler time in which we would have a fun idea, create a new directory, and immediately start coding. To this end, Paul has started working on an open source web server environment, webserv, to handle some path mapping and CRUD operations through patterns and simple configuration. As […]

Our main topic this week revolves around the tradeoffs within the two of the biggest patterns in modern programming — classical and functional. Why are so many frameworks that launched with a functional approach adding classes while those with a classical approach are introducing functional equivalents? We examine some of the popular middleware used when […]

Our final episode from JSConf US features interviews with Daniel Cousineau and Charlie Gerard around the theme of using JavaScript beyond the typical web site. Daniel’s talk pulled back the curtain on the problems inherent in using timezones that can’t be fixed just by using a library. We dig deeper into the issues of knowing […]

The fifth episode of our 6-part series from JSConf US 2019 features interviews with David Whittaker and Suzie Grange around the theme of growth. Go watch David’s talk — it defines and deals with imposter syndrome quickly and without judgment in a way that illustrates it’s not the moral weakness it’s often portrayed as in […]

In the fourth episode of our 6-part series recorded at JSConf US 2019, the team interviews Alexandra Sunderland, Sara Fecadu, and Florian Rival around the theme of backend services. Alexandra started out writing a chatbot but it grew into a phone app that can browse the web without a data plan. We talk about the […]

In the third episode of our 6-part series recorded at JSConf US 2019, the team chats with Patricia Realini and Theodore Vorillas around the theme of access. Patricia pushed us to empathize with those who need to use libraries to access online necessities. We explore reasons people depend on libraries to perform online tasks, the […]

Our second episode in the 6-part series from JSConf US 2019 features interviews with Lara Schenck, Adam Giese, and Luke Herrington around the theme of declarative code. Lara’s talk made the compelling argument that CSS is a domain-specific declarative language where its input is classes and nodes and its output is visual presentation. We talk […]

In the first episode of our 6-part series from JSConf US 2019, we talk with Tierney Cyren and Peter Aitken around the theme of community. We chat with Tierney about how communities often grow best organically, almost by accident. That some of the things we try to impose on communities are things like trying to […]

Members of the TalkScript team were onsite at NEJS Conf 2019 where we did a series of interviews with the conference speakers. We had a great time meeting these thought leaders and learning more about each of them and their talks. We’ve compiled the interviews into a four-part series to help share the essence of […]

Members of the TalkScript team were onsite at NEJS Conf 2019 where we did a series of interviews with the conference speakers. We had a great time meeting these thought leaders and learning more about each of them and their talks. We’ve compiled the interviews into a four-part series to help share the essence of […]

Members of the TalkScript team were onsite at NEJS Conf 2019 where we did a series of interviews with the conference speakers. We had a great time meeting these thought leaders and learning more about each of them and their talks. We’ve compiled the interviews into a four-part series to help share the essence of […]

Members of the TalkScript team were onsite at NEJS Conf 2019 where we did a series of interviews with the conference speakers. We had a great time meeting these thought leaders and learning more about each of them and their talks. We’ve compiled the interviews into a four-part series to help share the essence of […]

On this week’s show, Bryan, Paul, and Nick chat with Karl Guertin about all things WebAssembly. They start with an introduction to what WASM is, it’s history, and why it’s useful over other technologies and plugins that have come before. Then, they dive deep into its relationship with JavaScript and the underlying implementation details, including […]

We’re joined this week by Max Heiber who is part of a team at Bloomberg implementing #private fields in TypeScript, Daniel Rosenwasser who is the program manager for the TypeScript team at Microsoft, and Ryan Cavanaugh who is a developer on the TypeScript team at Microsoft. Naturally, we’ll be talking about the ECMAScript #private field […]