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**Alex Sexton:** Cool. I think they'd get more traction if they didn't name it Abstract Blob Store. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Probably true. |
**Alex Sexton:** I'm thinking like UltraStore... That's pretty good. \[laughter\] Honestly... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Yeah... The thing that really gets traction is the thing that's built right on top of this. LevelUP got a ton of traction, and because of that traction, a lot of people implemented abstract LevelDOWN stores, even though it was called Abstract LevelDOWN. |
**Alex Sexton:** Abstract LevelDOWN... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Well, LevelDOWN in itself is actually a pretty clever name, right? |
**Alex Sexton:** Sure. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Anyway... That was quick. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, sure. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** That was good. Now we can really spend I think a lot of time on our individual picks, so why don't we get into our individual picks for the week? |
**Alex Sexton:** I'll start, since I think Rachel might be having some connectivity issues. Mine isn't super long, since I've already kind of talked about it... Mine's gonna be the flow-typed - it's a repo that lets people commit to, and it has the Flow type definitions for maybe a-hundred-something open source project... |
This allows you to immediately jump into Flow in your code, even though you might not have done any of it on your own. So you can literally just pull in Flow, not type anything of yours, and then use an editor that can handle this stuff - Atom Plus... There's some Flow integrations in Atom that are pretty good. And the... |
This project alone could get you better editor experience for things that you know the least, because, like, there's something you didn't write, and then maybe it'll save you some time, like looking up documentation. I assume Lodash is in here; let me check to make sure... Yeah, Lodash 3.x-4 is in here. So if you, like... |
Also, a fun fact that I forgot to mention earlier is that Flow, the actual thing that runs to check your code and find the different types and find the bugs in your type is written in OCaml, which is my vote for what Stanford should use as their default language that they teach. \[laughter\] |
One of the guys on my team found a bug in the invitation of Flow, and he wanted to fix it, so he had to learn how to run OCaml and get an environment set up and submit a patch that way, and I just thought it was very funny, because I didn't know people liked OCaml until very recently. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] Rarely people that are really into typing. I'm looking at the Request definition in here, and it's really funny because so many of the Request functions take dynamic arguments... They'll take different types and then do different \[unintelligible 00:48:04.24\] |
**Alex Sexton:** \[48:06\] Massively overloaded... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Right, so there's all of these "declare any", "declare any" types... It's pretty funny. |
**Alex Sexton:** At least you would still get the name in your autocomplete stuff. So even though it wouldn't give you like, "This must be an array", but it'll still give you useful things, even just with any-s, so it's not the end of the world. |
**Rachel White:** I'm here. You go first, though... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Okay, I'm gonna bring up Offline Camp, actually. There's this great little community; it's called Offline First, but they're really handling a lot more than just offline web use cases. It's a lot of the people from the Hoodie community, and PouchDB and stuff like that... But they're really digging in... |
There's this new community; the organizers of the community have just been phenomenal. They've been doing a great, great job organizing, and documentation, and getting people involved, and that's included these offline camp events which are really small, really intimate, and you kind of go off and stay in some house or... |
**Alex Sexton:** Does that bump up against any of the JSConf EU stuff? I don't know when those dates. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, it's right before JSConf EU. |
**Alex Sexton:** Okay. Do it all. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Well, not right before... It's like the weekend before. |
**Alex Sexton:** But Berlin is pretty fun. |
**Rachel White:** Also during Eurovision... Oh, but you'll all be offline, so you won't be able to know who wins... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** No, I mean, there is internet at the camp. \[laughs\] |
**Alex Sexton:** If you need something to do in that week in Berlin, there's this really good Vietnamese noodle place called Monsieur Vuong that I would suggest you go to. That's my actual project of the week. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** They throw star anise in their pho, and it's really good. That's a good spot. There's also an amazing dumpling place that has this dish called Stripes of Beef, which are just these thin slices of beef with -- I don't know what they're doing with some kind of... It's like Sichuan pepper and a few othe... |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah... I actually think that's a translation error; it's actually tripes of beef, and those are intestines. \[laughter\] |
**Mikeal Rogers:** I think they meant strips of beef, and they put an 'e' in there because they actually did mess up the translation a little bit... |
**Rachel White:** I actually don't remember anything special that I ate when I was in Berlin last time, so I'll have to listen to your advice this time. |
**Alex Sexton:** Eat Döner Kebab at four in the morning. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Yeah, I guess you didn't hang out with me enough if you didn't have any amazing food, because that's pretty much all I do there. |
**Rachel White:** I've never been in Berlin while you were there, so... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Right... There we go. Are all three of us gonna be at JSConf EU, actually? |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, I'll be there. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Did you say yes or no, Alex? |
**Alex Sexton:** I have a human child to take care of now... It might be another year before I get out there. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Okay, so you're bringing the child with you, is what you're saying. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, that's the plan. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Okay, awesome. Also, JSConf EU I guess is a good pick; it's a great conference. Awesome kind of tent pole event. Rachel? |
**Rachel White:** \[51:53\] Yes. Okay, I do have a pick. If you're interested in data vizualization with D3 and other really cool stuff, there's two women... One lives in San Francisco, the other lives in Amsterdam, and they have this project called Data Sketches, where each month they are taking different topics and e... |
It's just really interesting to see all the different ways that you can take data and have it be informational. They have seven months so far, and they each have the same topic for each month, except they take it in totally different directions. One month they picked books, and what one of the women did versus what the... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Awesome. There have been so many good sketches and drawings of rad stuff lately. Mariko killed that again with some sketches about SHA1; those were great. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, I'm a fan of this trend. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** It's definitely positive. |
**Rachel White:** There's so many people that are more like visual learners, so I think it's... It's more interesting than just looking at a pie chart, or a bar graph, especially when you are utilizing D3 and you're able to make that information interactive so you can see data sets changing over time, or how certain in... |
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