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Another episode with I spent the afternoon with Dylan Schiemann talking about how he is dealing with the Tech Conference Armageddon.We also go detail into the Dojo.js Framework.If you want to go to Virtual Half stack you can go here:https://halfstackconf.com/online/Got feedback for the show? Tweet

Chris is developer I helped to transition from tech recruitment to professional frontend development.Fancy hearing me talk to other guests about non tech related topics? Why not take a stroll over to my other podcast: Influencers Cafe ☕.

Patrick is a Dad, programmer, gamer, roboticist. Helping developers make games with Firebase.You can see him in action here 

Max was the founder of https://spectrum.chat/Now He works at Gatsby. We also talk about the acquisition process he had with Github and about the importance of immediate feedback on start-up ideas.One of his latest startups: https://changefeed.app/

The first conference podcast I have recorded. I talk with industry veterans in the event space about how conferences are moving virtual. Juho Vepsäläinen  runs React Finland and Daniel (known more popularly as DanRam) is an igniter. A 5x TEDx speaker, 3x entrepreneur, prolific speaker, and startup coach.

Alpine is a rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup. I talked to the founder about its use cases and motivation.Caleb is an open-source PHP/JavaScript developer from Buffalo, NY. His main projects are Laravel Livewire and AlpineJS. His mission is to make developers happier and more productive with the tools he makes. He tries really hard to make things as simple as possible and fight the onslaught of complexity that is the modern JS ecosystem. When he is not writing, coding, or podcasting, he is spending time with family or fishing.Check out his podcast: https://noplanstomerge.simplecast.com/

A more bleak than usual episode, but we will afford us this liberty given this pandemic. I talk with Johan Ronsse, who is a UI/UX Designer & Front-end Developer at Mono, about his efforts in building the community for Svelte Routify.We discuss the following example: https://example.routify.dev/example 

Gerry is an industry veteran with a wealth of experience and owns the the website IT Contractor which has been up since 1999.The website is one of the U.K.'s best resources for information regarding the IT contracting profession.Some of the articles we talked about:http://www.itcontractor.com/ir35-18-ways-to-stay-outside-it/

Wallaby.js is a staple of my unit testing in JavaScript land. It integrates with all popular IDEs and allows you to quickly see what code is coveraged. It dramatically increases my speed of workflow when it comes to unit testing.I talk to Simon who is the chief operating officer and a  developer of the software.

Mark Volkmann is a partner at Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) in St. Louis where he has provided software consulting and training since 1996. As a consultant, Mark has assisted many companies with JavaScript, Node.js, Svelte, React, Vue, Angular, and more. Mark has created and taught many courses on topics including React, Vue, AngularJS, Node.js, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Ruby, Java, and XML. Mark is the author of the Manning book "Svelte and Sapper in Action". He is a frequent presenter at St. Louis area user groups. He has presented at the Nordic.js, Jfokus, NDC Oslo, Strange Loop, MidwestJS, No Fluff Just Stuff, and XML DevCon. Mark frequently writes articles on various software development topics. These can be found at https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/mark-volkmann.Mark’s book Svelte and Sapper in Action is published by Manning, an independent publisher of top quality books and videos for software developers. Manning’s books are written by experts like community leaders, distinguish

I discuss with Julien about why Svelte is fit for interactive graphics at Bloomberg.

Canadian composer and programmer, Devin Roth, has contributed to the music for a number of noteworthy films and television shows including Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix series Trollhunters, Hotel Transylvania 2, The Book of Life, Crazy-Ex Girlfriend, and Emmy nominated Elf: Buddy’s Music Christmas (NBC). Devin has collaborated with multi-Oscar winning composer, Gustavo Santaolalla; composer and co-founder of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh; Emmy nominated composer and orchestrator, Christopher Guardino; and Grammy nominated composer and orchestrator Tim Davies. As a programmer Devin is active on Github contributing to open source audio applications and works as a freelance audio programmer. Devin earned a Certificate of Film Scoring from University of California Los Angeles, Masters in Jazz Composition from New England Conservatory and Bachelors in Jazz Piano performance from McGill University. In this show we discuss these toolshttps://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHolehttps://github.com/ExistentialAudio/SwiftOSC

Tracy is the the Program Manager at TinySeed (https://tinyseed.com), a year-long accelerator for bootstrapped businesses.She also self-publishes books through Hello Web Books. Learn design with Hello Web Design (https://hellowebbooks.com/learn-design) or build your first web app with Python/Django with Hello Web App (https://hellowebbooks.com/learn-django).She also speaks and keynotes conferences around the world, specializing in teaching beginning topics to programmers (introductions to design, technical writing, and marketing) and crafting compelling stories and inspiring attendees in my keynotes.She is also the former founder, designer, and developer of WeddingLovely (500 Startups F11 and Designer Fund).

Developments:https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-gohttps://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-php

We discuss how Lumen Research uses Webcams to do research for companies on how well ads draw peoples attention. Lumen was started in 2013 by Michael.The YouTube video we talked about with my cycling in London with my eye gazes tracked.Apologies for my bad audio sometimes due to some interference.

Just a general catchup with a long term friend (Guy Bevington) who founded his own Python recruitment agony called True North Group in 2019. Previously he had been in the in the industry since 2008. We discus the advantages of recruiters meeting actually candidates face face, the pros and cons of technical tests and appealing to candidates. The candidate is the commodity. We also advice Uni grads on finding their first occupation.

So this is the discord link if you want to see this project (MentorCV) development updates live and interact with my community based around it: https://discord.gg/RBxDa7ZSome of my repos I mentioned:https://github.com/QuantumInformation/solar-popuphttps://github.com/quantuminformation/vanilla-typescript My Svelte stuff on youtube:

Key points:How to make the effort to record podcasts enjoyable and efficient.Don't make a podcast just to make money.Make your guests feel relaxed. The conversation should be the same as you would in person, without recording.Be prepared for very low listener counts the first 40 episodes 

Hey all, you gotta try this released font created by Marcus, one of the worlds top font designers. Its 6% wider than your typical Mono-spaced font but the legibility mare than makes up for it.You can follow more about his work here: https://twitter.com/facetype and http://facetype.org/

It is always a blast to talk to Ken. He is doing do well and we have a catchup! Usual banter included.