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The event Alex is talking about was NodeConf 2012, and we actually did two different food trucks, one of which was very good at that, and everybody ate and got out of there in time, and the other one didn't process the line for an hour and a half, and we had to push everything back. |
**Rachel White:** \[40:04\] I'd like to circle back really quick to people that are interested and wanting to speak at conferences... So I know that in New York there's this really great thing that Tracy Hinds and Justin put out called Right To Speak, where people get together and they have abstract ideas, or just mayb... |
I would suggest if you are interested in speaking, don't do it unless you're super passionate -- not "Don't do it...", "Don't do it unless you're like..." |
**Alex Sexton:** \[unintelligible 00:40:43.16\] Don't! |
**Rachel White:** Don't do it unless you're actually really legitimately passionate about what it is that you're talking about, because there's nothing worse than somebody that's there obviously just because they wanted to go to a conference and they thought that they could speak because everybody else was doing it, an... |
Aside from that, I would also suggest reading a lot of abstracts. Go on past few years of conference sites, see what the talks look like that people have written, see the tone that they use, tell the story that you're trying to tell... Don't just tell me what it is that you're going to teach me; I wanna know why you wa... |
I did some proposal reviews for Empire, and you would be so surprised -- well, you two wouldn't be so surprised, but everybody out there that thinks that they can't write an abstract... Let's say you get a conference that has 300 applications and there's maybe only 30 speaking slots; I guarantee you two-thirds of all o... |
The people that actually put in effort are the ones that have a way better chance than people that are just throwing their hat in the ring for the sake of it. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Yeah... Before I kind of stopped organizing conferences (because I was kind of burning out on it), the main advice that I put in the CFP every time was "Tell me a story." It should have a beginning, a middle and an end. I don't need to know about the technology, I can read the docs for that... And a ... |
The job of a speaker is not to teach everybody in 20 minutes how to use something, it's actually to teach them why it's compelling enough that they would go home and continue to learn it. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, I think that's exactly what I was gonna say... As a speaker and as someone who chooses speakers, I absolutely would be fine if everyone walked away having learned nothing, except from being inspired to go learn more. "I saw the value proposition in X, and now I want to go read the docs. I gained ... |
Anyone reading documentation to you for 20 minutes is not going to be compelling, and it's a waste of money for the most part. So I totally agree - definitely inspire people, give them the -- and I don't mean like slimy-wimy, "everybody is great, everyone is a special unicorn type inspiration." Those talks can be very ... |
**Rachel White:** \[44:17\] I wanna hear about the journey, not the steps. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** That's a good way to put it. |
**Rachel White:** Cool. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** On that note, I think we can take a break now. When we come back, we'll get into the project of the week. |
**Break:** \[44:33\] |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Alright, this week's project of the week is p5.js. Why don't you tell us about this, Rachel? |
**Rachel White:** Sure, so p5.js is a JavaScript (I'm gonna say) omage, because it's not a direct port of processing. I guess I have to start by telling you what processing is. Processing is this open source thing and an IDE that's super old - it's about 14-15 years old, I think - and it was made explicitly for people ... |
It's built on top of Java, it uses simplified syntax, and basically what it does is it lets you export your projects as desktop apps for either Windows, Mac or Linux. So you can't really show it on the web, though... It's like a standalone thing. |
The power behind it is really great; it has great FPS, you can build some really robust things, but you can't do things on the web. So somebody build another port of it, which was actually John Resig and some other students, to make Processing.js. |
Processing.js is a more true port of processing to JavaScript. You don't have to totally rewrite your code, you use Processing.js to take your processing files and be able to run it in HTML5. It uses regular expressions to convert the Java into JavaScript, and it lets you have some pretty mingled JavaScript that's not ... |
So in comes p5! P5 is a really awesome, accessible library made my Lauren McCarthy, who was at NYU ITP and the Processing Foundation, which deals with Processing.js and a lot of other ports of processing to other languages. What they wanted to do is they wanted to make it so that people could do the same kind of things... |
\[48:19\] There's a bunch of other plugins that you can get for it. There's the p5 library, which is just the regular access to the shapes and stuff, but there's also p5.dom, which lets you interact with HTML5 objects outside of the canvas. You can do video/audio/webcam input, text... I was messing around with the vide... |
There's also p5.sound, which uses web audio stuff, and you can do playback and effect a lot of the stuff on the canvas that you would build art with there. There's p5.serial, which lets you do serial communications with stuff and lets you interact with it with p5... There's so many. There's also bots, which was made by... |
There's speech, there's geolocation... There's just so much stuff that you can do, and the best thing for me is you don't necessarily even need to understand JavaScript to jump in and use it. I've seen a lot of people that are just starting out as game devs who are used to Unity and some C\# stuff and they heard that y... |
The reference material on the site is awesome, the examples are awesome... It's just really neat, especially for people that are interested in doing some more creative coding and finding out what they can do with Canvas. |
There's another person who teaches at ITP named Daniel Shiffman who has a really amazing YouTube channel called The Coding Train, and they make video tutorials every week that goes from the beginning of basic p5 stuff to super advanced things like Perlin Noise, which is an algorithm that allows you to create true rando... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** ITP is so cool... Everything ITP ever does is just rad. Clay Shirky is still a teacher there... I've known a few people that have gone through there and done their program, and it's just this amazing mashup of code and art and thinking about social good... It's pretty rad. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah. It's also very expensive, so if you don't wanna go to ITP but you wanna mess with the tools that people there use, p5 is a good start, three.js is a good start... Those are all good places. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Awesome. I'm gonna play with this later today, actually... I've been meaning to poke around with some art stuff. |
**Alex Sexton:** The music notes on the back of the web page are pretty fun, too. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah... People that are super -- this is like a challenge that I'm going to give... If you have never really tried to do anything artsy or you're just a JavaScript dev and you build web stuff all the time, I would love if you tried to make something neat with p5. Because if you know JavaScript in and ... |
\[52:11\] Please make something with it and tweet it at me, because I just wanna see what other cool things that people can use to do this. I also think it's a really good accessible library for people that are trying to try something new, and wanna try and make something every day... Because you could make something w... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Sweet. Alright, are we ready for picks? Do you have your picks ready? |
**Alex Sexton:** Totally. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** I hope you all do. I'll go first - mine is kind of a shameless plug, actually... I stopped organizing events a little while ago, because it was too much work, but I did now kind of take on this new event that we're trying out, called Slideless (Slideless.com). The idea is that no slides, it's a 15-mi... |
If you're interested in attending, it will be in San Francisco in July. Tickets are out now, and I'm still looking for a few talks, as well... If you have an idea for a talk on that team, get a hold of me. |
**Alex Sexton:** My super power is calling Mikeal Rogers' bullshit. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] That's a really limited power. That requires me being around... |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, it is unfortunate... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Very portable... |
**Alex Sexton:** \[laughs\] My pick is a person, it's Mike West. Mike West is not that visible outside of the web app security world, but has a massive impact on the security of the web. I don't know if he's an official - I assume he is - of the Web Application Security Working Group, which is a W3C group... He kind of... |
I would encourage you to both follow Mike West on Twitter, as well as follow the web app sec mailing lists, because they're not actually that crazy. I think they're somewhat followable, and that's pretty fun and cool. |
**Rachel White:** Cool. My pick this week is a person and a book. Sarah Drasner released this book on O'Reilly - since I said so many nice things about O'Reilly conferences earlier, I wanna say nice things about this book, actually. I also apologize if I said her last name incorrectly... |
She released this really cool book on SVG animations. I know that we briefly touched on SVG stuff on one of the other picks, which was like DataSketches... But if you were wondering "How do I make SVG animations really pretty? I want better UX implementations." Her book was released within the past week, and I think sh... |
**Alex Sexton:** Awesome. |
**Rachel White:** Now I'm gonna go eat a horse. \[laughter\] |
**Mikeal Rogers:** And with that, we're all done for the week. Thank you all for tuning in. Rate us on iTunes, check us out live every week on Fridays. You can go to changelog.com... |
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