
We’re back! This time with Derick Bailey to talk about all sorts of JavaScript goodness. Derick is an entrepreneur, problem solver, software developer, screencaster, writer, blogger, speaker and technology leader in central Texas (north of Austin). He runs WatchMeCode.net where he throws down the JavaScript gauntlets to get you up to speed. He has been a professional software developer since the late 90’s, and has been writing code since the late 80’s.
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Derick’s website
WatchMeCode.net
Derick’s email courses
Derick’s RabbitMQ ebook
SignalLeaf (Perviously Derick’s podcast audio hosting platform)
Trevan’s new WP stack: Timber, Twig.js, Backbone
Airbnb’s article on isomorphic JavaScript
WP REST API
WP REST API merge proposal
Trevan’s blog redesign repo
Paper app
Do ES6 Arrow Functions Really Solve “this” In JavaScript?
Babel
Radium
Watch Star Wars in Terminal: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
A Google Analytics Dashboard for Front-End Developers
Oct 8, 2015
59 min

Jon and Trevan catch up and talk about the cool things they’ve been developing and technology they’ve been using lately.
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The new faster Flywheel home page
Web Accessibility Checklist
CSS Testing with Phantom
WordCamp Minneapolis
Google Tag Manager
Apr 17, 2015

Joel Glovier joins Trevan and Jon this week to talk about his experiences at GitHub, side projects and front-end. Joel is a designer and front-end developer at GitHub. He also makes t-shirts for developers at devtees.com, and contributes to open source projects like Jekyll and HospitalRun. He’s got 3 kids and hails from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania where he works remotely. In his little spare time he enjoys DJing, snowboarding, and making trouble.
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Joel’s website
@jglovier
GitHub
Dev Tees (use code wordbreakshow for 10% off)
HospitalRun
GitHub’s way of deploying: HUBOT!
Lanyrd.com/calls
Rebecca Murphey – Writing Conference Proposals
speaking.io
Feb 19, 2015
1 hr 1 min

Jon and Trevan answer questions from Reddit!
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Reddit thread
WAI-ARIA roles
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Tenon.io
Solve this pen! Make it work in IE10 and we’ll give you a shoutout or something
David Walsh’s CSS Flip Animation article
Front-end Job Interview Questions
Why Brad Frost is not a JavaScript developer
Storyland Studios site
Witness Gotham site
Airbnb’s Isomorphic JavaScript article
Oakley’s Moto site
Imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery
Feb 5, 2015
1 hr 1 min

With us this week, we have Rachel Baker. Rachel is a web developer living in Chicago, IL. She is a WordPress core contributor and project lead on the WPI API project. Rachel is currently a Senior Web Engineer at 10up, where she creates and grows amazing web experiences with WordPress.
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Rachel’s Blog
WP API
Firebase
Jan 28, 2015
56 min

With us this week, we have Ben Frain. Ben is a Senior Front-end Developer at bet365.com, an occasional freelancer, and author of both Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 and Sass and Compass for Designers; Ben hails from Cheshire, England.
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Ben’s Blog
Ben on Twitter
CSSTriggers
Enduring CSS: writing style sheets for rapidly changing, long-lived projects
CSS performance revisited: selectors, bloat and expensive styles
Be a better front-end developer: the way of pragmatic coding
Meteor JS
Penthouse – Critical CSS Generator
Jan 22, 2015
54 min

A lot of WordPress talk this week! Jon and Trevan chat about the Word-Break redesign, building WordPress themes, using the JSON REST API with front-end frameworks on WordPress, personal style guides and more.
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J.D. Reeves
Jon’s new Origin starter theme
Seriously Simple Podcasting
Shop Talk Show Special: One on One with a Hacker
Flywheel
WP REST API project
WP API plugin
Jan 14, 2015
56 min

This week, Jon and Trevan sit down to talk all about front-end web performance.
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Pingdom
PageSpeed Insights
How to Make a Performance Budget
The Performance Golden Rule
Different CSS Techniques and Their Performance
Grunt Critical CSS
Jan 7, 2015
53 min

With us this week, we have Ryan Sullivan and Rob Neu to talk all about WordPress (and WordPress business). Together they run WP Site Care (of which Ryan is the Founder), Flagship WP (where they’re both Co-Founders), and they also organize the new developer-centric WordPress conference, LoopConf.
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WP Site Care
Flagship
LoopConf
Hybrid Core
Compass Starter Theme
Leveling Up on WordPress Accessibility
Do You Really Want to Start a WordPress Support Company?
Dec 10, 2014
59 min

With us this week, we have Mina Markham. She is a front-end developer at Parago, where she helps build applications for corporate clients and their consumers. She is one of the chapter leaders for Girl Develop It DFW and she travels all over the country talking Sass and kicking ass. You can find her blog at mina.is.
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Mina’s Blog
Girl Develop It DFW
SMACSS
Snap SVG
Bootstrap
Bourbon
Susy
Dec 3, 2014
42 min
