Recently, four pillars of the JavaScript community (James Snell, Natalia Venditto, Michael Dawson & Matteo Collina) teamed up to create a resource that lays out nine principles for doing Node.js right in enterprise environments. On this episode, Natalia & Matteo join Jerod to discuss all nine.

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• Natalia Venditto – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Matteo Collina – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Nine Node Pillars
• close-with-grace
• TypeSpec

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Carmen Huidobro joins Amy, KBall & Nick on the show to talk about her work, the importance of writing docs, and her upcoming conference talk at React Summit US!

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Featuring:

• Carmen Huidobro – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Amy Dutton – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Divio
• Docs for Developers
• Intuitive Tooling
• Martin Fowler - if it hurts, do it often
• Declutter your JavaScript & TypeScript projects | Knip
• React Summit
• F*cking Block Syntax
• Bad Website Club
• The Annoying Site

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Vercel CPO, Tom Occhino, joins Jerod for a one-on-one covering React & Next’s past, present & future. We discuss the birth of React, Tom’s move to Vercel, deploying Next apps to non-Vercel hosts, React as the next jQuery, the viability of Web Components, Vercel customers getting surprise bills & so much more.

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• WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
• Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.

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• Tom Occhino – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• React.js: The Documentary - YouTube
• React, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL (Changelog Interviews #149)
• Next.js Conf by Vercel
• v0 by Vercel

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Jerod & the gang play “Twenty” Questions to get to know Amy, review the big Svelte 5 release, discuss commercial open source & get Nick’s report from SquiggleConf!

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• WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com

Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amy Dutton – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Svelte 5 is alive
• Join us at React Summit US (10% off)
• Join us at JSNation US (10% off)

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KBall interviews Jerod about the tools he uses in development, podcasting & business. We start with text editors & terminal tools, move to podcast recording & editing tools, discuss the open source podcasting platform Jerod built in Elixir, then finish with tools to run a small business & our approaches to genAI. Oh, and you don’t want to miss Jerod’s Big Confession!

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• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Nick’s tool box
• Zed Editor
• tmux
• Smug
• thechangelog/changelog.com
• Elixir
• Phoenix
• Atuin
• Riverside
• Adobe Audition
• Transistor
• Harvest
• Freshbooks
• Gusto
• Ollama
• Enchanted
• Cursor

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Jerod & KBall discuss a trio of goings on in/around the web dev world: Evan You’s new startup, Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress mess & Ryan Carniato’s WebComponents debate.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Join us at React Summit US (10% off)
• Join us at JSNation US (10% off)
• Evan You announces VoidZero
• Automattic Alignment
• Web Components Are Not the Future

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Tomek Sułkowski from TutorialKit joins Jerod to tell him all about the open source toolkit for creating awesome, interactive tutorials without having to code up the hard parts.

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• WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
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• Tomek Sułkowski – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Running Node natively in the browser with Eric Simons from StackBlitz
• TutorialKit
• TutorialKit on GitHub

TutorialKit in the wild

• Welcome to the Vite Plugin API tutorial
• Welcome to the Remult tutorial
• Welcome to Next Patterns

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Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what’s new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan’s open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused “JavaScript” trademark from the giant’s clutches.

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• Node.js: The Documentary - YouTube
• From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began - YouTube
• 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - YouTube
• JSR: the JavaScript Registry
• rusty_v8: Rust bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine
• JavaScript™ (Dear Oracle)

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Nick is joined by Josh Goldberg & Dimitri Mitropoulos to discuss SquiggleConf, a new conference focused on web dev tooling. We explore the motivations behind creating a conference dedicated to developer tools, the challenges of organizing both conferences and local meetups, and strategies for building engaged tech communities.

We also discuss the importance of developer tooling, the pandemic’s impact on tech events, and share insights on encouraging new speakers and creating inclusive environments & more!

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• Dimitri Mitropoulos – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Josh Goldberg – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• SquiggleConf
• ESLint
• TypeScript ESLint
• Mocha
• Learning TypeScript book
• Michigan TypeScript
• Boston TS Club
• NebraskaJS
• Oh My Zsh (tool by Robbie Russell)
• React
• Vue
• Go programming language
• TypeScript
• New England Aquarium conference venue
• Squiggle Conf Discord

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Chris Shank has been on sabbatical since January, so he’s had a lot of time to think deeply about the web platform. On this episode, Jerod & KBall pick Chris’ brain to answer questions like, what does a post-component paradigm look like? What would it look like if the browser had primitives for building spatial canvases? How can we make it easier to make “folk interfaces” on the web?

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• Chris Shank – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• ChrisShank/progressive-element: A set of patterns for a behavioral paradigm of building web UIs
• Little-Languages/quiver: Your quiver of declarative arrows for the web. ⤵
• ChrisShank/folc: Utilities to more easily make folk web pages

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Jerod, Nick & Chris discuss a next-gen JavaScript bundler, Node getting even tighter with TypeScript, the top programming languages according to IEEE Spectrum, Chris’ feelings on Node’s built-in test runner & more!

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Announcing Rspack 1.0
• Node.js — Node v22.7.0 (Current)
• Top Programming Languages 2024
• MoonScript, a language that compiles to Lua
• TypeScriptToLua
• Home - Satisfactory Game
• Nest ’dem loops featuring NESTED LOOPS
• Song Encoder: $STDOUT
• The TC39 song

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