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**Rachel White:** Humble brag. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah. \[laughter\] |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Really? Going to Europe is bragging? Okay... |
**Rachel White:** No, the cheapness of it... \[laughter\] |
**Alex Sexton:** "I've never gone to Europe this cheaply before..." \[laughter\] |
**Rachel White:** I already booked my flight... I should have waited. I could have had all that extra money to spend on caviar. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] With that in mind, everybody, definitely go to our GitHub repository - github.com/thechangelog/jsparty and give us topics. You can even suggest potential co-hosts, because like I just said, we're gonna be in Europe pretty soon, so some of us will not be available as panelists and we would ... |
• The growth of the JavaScript community in Latin America, with multiple conferences and meetups across the region. |
• The challenges of finding high-quality content in Spanish for software development and JavaScript specifically. |
• The trust issue in Latin America, where people tend to assume English content is better quality than Spanish content. |
• The need for more translated content, particularly on the bleeding edge of technology. |
• Efforts by platforms like Platzi to create high-quality Spanish content for programming and software development. |
• Organizing JSConf Colombia conferences to provide access to quality educational content in Spanish |
• Highlighting local talent and avoiding the "colonial approach" of educating others |
• Creating opportunities for Latin American attendees to speak at international events |
• Challenges faced by community organizing in Latin America, including: |
• Finding people with expertise to share content |
• Language barriers (language of instruction vs. interpretation needs) |
• Securing sponsorships and resources from local companies |
• The JSConf Colombia conference is looking for speakers and workshop presenters |
• Travel, accommodation, and childcare expenses will be covered by the organizers |
• A call for proposals (CFP) can be submitted through cfp.jsconf.co until June 11th or 12th |
• Juan Pablo Buritica is returning to organize the conference after retiring from it previously |
• Julian and Catherine will co-direct the conference this year, with a plan to pass on responsibilities to junior organizers in the future |
• Mikeal Rogers discusses the explosion of JavaScript tooling and how it can be overwhelming for developers |
• A conversation ensues about whether supporting older versions of Node is necessary or detrimental to community progress |
• npm version compatibility issues |
• Security vulnerabilities and upgrades |
• Tooling complexity for newcomers to JavaScript development |
• Trade-offs between ease of use and long-term benefits |
• Return on investment for learning complex tools like Babel and Flow |
• Importance of starter kits and instant setup for beginners |
• Adapting to new tooling and its potential benefits |
• Standardizing build chains and workflows for popular projects |
• Importance of separating concerns between building and authoring |
• Need for one-click install or configuration tools |
• Comparison of different frameworks and their approaches (e.g. Create React App, EmberCLI) |
• Benefits of having a standardized toolchain and community support |
• Discussion of compatibility issues with third-party libraries and dependencies |
• Defining company culture through open source principles |
• Challenging remote work myths and lazy communication habits |
• Benefits of distributed teams, including cultural diversity and flexibility for non-traditional schedules |
• Importance of asynchronous work and breaking down tasks into manageable steps |
• CSS Grid specification as a pick of the week |
• Discussion of CSS Grid and its benefits over Flexbox |
• Bcrypt security UI and browser vendors' increased emphasis on secure page indicators |
• Removal of Symantec trust certificate by Google Chrome due to 30,000 improper certificates issued |
• Mention of Tavis Ormandy's work in finding security vulnerabilities |
• Introduction to NextJS as a React-based isomorphic frontend framework with server-side capabilities |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Welcome to JS Party, where it's a party every week with JavaScript. I'm Mikeal Rogers. We've also got Alex Sexton, and Rachel's internet went out this week right before we were about to record, so luckily we were able to get a guest host in right away. Say hello, Juan Pablo Buritica. |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** Hello! Do I have to repeat my name, too? Hello, Juan Pablo Buritica. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** There you go, yeah! \[laughter\] |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** How's everyone? |
**Alex Sexton:** Awesome! |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Alright, so let's just jump into it today. Because we've got you on, we're taking the opportunity to talk about a topic that we wouldn't have had the expertise to talk about if you weren't on... We really wanna get into JavaScript in Latin America and what the whole scene looks like. Why don't we sta... |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** Sure. I am now an engineering manager, I live in New York City and I work for a company called Splice. It's basically like GitHub for music producers, and that where we're gonna leave it; it's pretty cool. |
In parallel, in my free time I've been very involved with the JavaScript communities for the past seven years, mostly in the spirit of paying open source forward. I never saw myself as someone who would have enough time to maintain open source software, so I chose to paint and create open source software communities, e... |
**Alex Sexton:** Juan, I have a question for you... Who has been to more conferences for JavaScript - you or me? |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** You have. I think you've been in Brazil, you've been in Uruguay, you've been in Argentina and you've been in Colombia, so you have the four -- you've spoken at the four existing JavaScript conferences in Latin America. I've only been to Colombia. |
**Alex Sexton:** Oh, really? |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** Yeah, that's it. I've only been to Colombia. I meant to go to Argentina, I meant to go to Uruguay... I think I may end up going to Uruguay at the end of this year, and in Brazil I haven't. |
**Alex Sexton:** Well, now I feel like a jerk because I thought the answer was you, and I was trying to set you up, but now I just... |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** It's okay. I've been to more JSConf Colombias than you. |
**Alex Sexton:** That's for sure. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** So how did there get to be so many awesome JavaScript events in Latin America? I don't know that every language community has that. |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** It's been pretty cool... I think some of it started in parallel from different groups. The biggest challenges that we always have is it's really hard to get access to high-quality content in Spanish. Before JSConf Colombia we started boa.conf, which was just a general software development confe... |
\[03:56\] I think it was actually the second even to pop up, or the third one, other than JSConf Europe. He hosted that one, it went pretty well, and then once we saw that there were enough people interested in JavaScript in Colombia - I think we had at the time probably six meetups, so it meant that we could at least ... |
**Alex Sexton:** I think it was 2013. It only lasted a year, but there was also BrazilJS, which was huge. |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** Yeah. I think Google has organized JSConference once or twice, and then BrazilJS was just gigantic. Brazil is like a continent on its own. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah. I don't know if it still maintains, but at the time it was the most people who had ever come together for a JavaScript conference that anyone could think of. |
**Juan Pablo Buritica:** Yeah, they were aiming -- I think they actually made the purpose of hosting the largest JavaScript conference in the world. |
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