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– Chuck: Hey everyone! Welcome! We are talking today with Gareth McCumseky!

– Gareth: Hi!

– Chuck: Are you from Cape Town, Africa? (Guest: Yes!)

– Gareth and Chuck talk about his name, Gareth, and why it’s popular.

– Chuck: I am in my late 40’s. You were here for JSJ’s Episode 291! It’s still a hot topic and probably should revisit that topic.

– Guest: Yes!

– Chuck: It’s interesting. We had a long talk about it and people should go listen to it!

– Guest: I am a backend developer for the most part.

– Chuck: Yeah I started off as an ops guy. It probably hurt me.

– Guest: Yeah, if you poke it a certain way.

– Chuck: Let’s talk about YOU! How did you get into programming?

– Guest: South Africa is a different culture to grow-up in vs. U.S. and other places. I remember the computer that my father had back in the day. He led me drive his car about 1km away and I was about 11 years old. We would take home the computer from his office – played around with it during the weekend – and put it back into his office Monday morning. This was way before the Internet. I was fiddling with it for sure.

– Chuck: How did you transfer from building BASIC apps to JavaScript apps?

– Guest: Yeah that’s a good story. When I was 19 years old...I went to college and studied geology and tried to run an IT business on the side. I started to build things for HTML and CSS and build things for the Web.

– Chuck: Yeah, jQuery was so awesome!

– Guest: Yeah today I am working on an app that uses jQuery! You get used to it, and it’s pretty powerful (jQuery) for what it is/what it does! It has neat tricks.

– Chuck: I’ve started a site with it b/c it was easy.

– Guest: Sometimes you don’t need the full out thing. Maybe you just need to load a page here and there, and that’s it.

– Chuck: It’s a different world – definitely!

– Guest: Yeah in 2015/2016 is when I picked up JavaScript again. It was b/c around that time we were expecting our first child and that’s where we wanted to be to raise her.

– Chuck talks about Node.js.

– Guest: Even today, I got into AWS Cognito!

– Chuck: You say that your problems are unique – and from the business end I want something that I can resolve quickly. Your solution sounds good. I don’t like messing around with the headaches from Node and others.

– Guest: Yeah that’s the biggest selling point that I’ve had.

– Chuck: How did you get into serverless?

– Guest: Funny experience. I am not the expert and I only write the backend stuff.

– Chuck: What else are you working on?

– Guest: Some local projects – dining service that refunds you. You pay for a subscription, but find a cheaper way to spend money when you are eating out. It’s called: GOING OUT.

– Chuck and Gareth talk about family and their children.

– Chuck: Picks!

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