My JavaScript Story

My JavaScript Story

Interviews with people, contributors, programmers, authors, and other builders in the JavaScript Community

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September 8, 2020 40 mins
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August 25, 2020 22 mins
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August 11, 2020 43 mins
Dean Radcliffe talks about how he got into programming early in life and the influences that brought him to writing code. He also then explains how he got into programming again in college and his internship at a company that did livestreaming of sports and concerts. He nearly didn't graduate. He finished his degree and then went on to write Ruby and later got deep into JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Gue...
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    July 21, 2020 30 mins
    Kevin Kreuzer, a freelance front end engineer from Switzerland shares his developer’s journey in this episode of the My JavaScript Story. Kevin is also a Google Developer expert, who loves JavaScript, Angular etc and as such writes a lot of blog posts and maintains some open source libraries. And when he is not engrossed in the tech world, he is out snowboarding or playing soccer. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Gues...
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    July 7, 2020 34 mins
    React Native Remote Conf Raúl Jiménez runs a small consultancy focused on Angular out of Barcelona Spain. Raul got into programing in High School. He was working on the equivalent of a USA based Associates Degree. He had a computer when he was 5 and got into copy/paste programming on the Spectrum computer. He started writing on his own at 16. He started with TurboPascal and then got into other languages before graduating to Angu...
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    June 23, 2020 32 mins
    React Native Remote ConfJuly 28th to 31th Loiane Groner is an Angular developer from Brazil currently living the USA. She started out working in Java and has worked in Java for nearly 14 years before moving over to Angular. She did an episode on Adventures in Angular about writing documentation in Portuguese. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Loiane Groner Sponsors
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    June 9, 2020 28 mins
    Andrew Evans is a history major turned designer turned developer. His journey leads through doing development in Java, getting and MBA, and eventually picking up Angular and working at Capital One. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Andrew Evans Sponsors   "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Ama...
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    May 26, 2020 20 mins
    In this week's episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Farzad Yousefzadehr, who was a guest on the React Round Up show. As a Senior Software Engineer, Farzad has the cool job of designing and refactoring existing games at Epic Games. He currently lives in Helsinki, Finland, with his lovely wife and cat. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Farzad Yousefzadehr Sponsors
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    May 12, 2020 33 mins
    JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now! Kay Plößer is an German developer who does front-end and mobile development with React. He primarily focuses on developer relations and will be teaching at a University soon. He got started in programming doing basic scripting and game mods to buy game weapons when the game started. He also build IRC bots and programs that ran in IRC. We dive into his journey through deve...
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    April 28, 2020 42 mins
    JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now! Håkon Krogh is a Norweigan developer who focuses on web performance. We start out discussing working from home in the current pandemic. His current company works in Product Information Management. It's a headless ecommerce system. We dive into his experience learning learning to build applications and learning JavaScript and leading a team. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined...
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    April 14, 2020 28 mins
    JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now! Varya is an expert in design systems. She talks about the process of working in and building design systems. She learned basic Pascal at school. She did programming exercises on paper. She then got into building web pages for groups she was a part of. She then picked up PHP and went professional at that point. On the front-end, she began picking up JavaScript and worked u...
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    April 7, 2020 40 mins
    JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now! Josh Ponelat is Software Architect at SmartBear working on Swagger and OpenAPI. He's from South Africa. Josh's father is a programmer and was heavily influenced by his father. He started with ANSI-C and hacking on shells. He studied graphic design in school. He got back into programming in PHP and MySQL and wound up transitioning to JavaScript. Host: Charles Max Wood Jo...
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    March 31, 2020 44 mins
    JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now! Paige Niedringhaus started her career as a Digital Marketer before making the move to becoming a software developer at the Home Depot. She current works with React and Node building internal apps for them. This episode discusses the ins and outs of making that transition in a semi-recent world and community. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Paige Niedring...
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    March 24, 2020 34 mins
    Daniel Caldas is a Portuguese developer working and living in Singapore. He learned to code in high school programming in Pascal. He moved up to the university and that's where he encountered JavaScript. He wound up doing a bunch of design work, static websites, and jQuery. He explains his journey and learning methods leading to a job working for Zendesk on their CRM. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Daniel Caldas ...
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    March 17, 2020 42 mins
    Jared Palmer has been a guest on 3 different shows on Devchat.tv. He's talked to us about Formik, Razzle, and React. He's taking a break from consulting to build up Formik, Inc and tools for forms. He got started in programming by taking a programming class at Cornell on a lark and quickly transitioned out of Investment Banking after graduating from university. His first apps were custom lock screens for mobile phones. We then move...
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    March 10, 2020 29 mins
    Tommy Hodgins is a developer that typically works on A/B tests figuring out how to get websites the outcomes they want. He got into JavaScript and front-end technologies and then read a paper that led him to realize the capabilities of writing software to solve problems. He maintains a front-end focus with his A/B testing work and CSS in JS and other work. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Tommy Hodgins Sponsors <...
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    March 3, 2020 32 mins
    Rado Stankov is the Head of Engineering at Product Hunt. He's based in Sofia Bulgaria. He walks us through learning Pascal and PHP and Flash. We then dive into Ruby and JavaScript and what he's working on now at Product Hunt. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Radoslav Stankov Sponsors ______________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding ...
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    February 25, 2020 35 mins
    Carl is a developer from Zimbabwe currently living in London. He explains how he started out as a journalist and wound up doing web development to keep track of news stories coming out in his local area. He leveled up by attending meetups and talking to other developers. He currently works for LimeJump, an energy startup which is creating a virtual power plant by connecting together different power assets Host: Charles Max Wood J...
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    February 18, 2020 28 mins
    Florian Rival is a React developer who has built his own game engine. He's been a guest on both React Round Up and React Native Radio. This episode provides you a walkthrough on using gDevelop to build games from scratch and goes into his history as a game developer. Host: Charles Max Wood Joined By Special Guest: Florian Rival Sponsors ______________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Findi...
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