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I told her I don't know React... I kind of know what it does. And then Jen Schiffer was like "Wes has that React course that's super affordable, and there's 30 videos". She recommended it to me and I bought it, and it's great. I hope I don't butcher his last name - Wes Bos? |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yes, I believe so. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah. They're so good! I think I'm at 15 out of 30 videos now. He went over states in React, and props and stuff, and I was like, "Holy shit, wait a second! Why didn't anyone tell me React was this easy, instead of... Well, maybe they did and I wasn't paying attention." I don't know, it's my way of le... |
Now that I'm going through these and I'm actually seeing how all the pieces are put together, I'm like "Wow, this is really helpful", especially for cool, frontend type things, and I'm pumped. So maybe I should pay attention more at conferences. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** There you go. |
**Rachel White:** That's one thing that I'm actually excited about being a part of this podcast, too - it's going to force me to have to pay attention to what's going on, more than just hearing about things offhand or hearing it when I walk past conference talks and not pay attention. Now I'll force myself to stay on t... |
**Jerod Santo:** I think that's one of the virtues of podcasts, whether you're on the show or you're in the live chat, or you listen much later... Even if it's not something that you particularly are deep into. |
We have another show that's all about the Go programming language called GoTime. Our tagline for that is "If you're a Go programmer or you aspire to, this is the show for you." And I'm neither of those things. I'm not a Go developer, I don't even aspire to, but I enjoy listening to that show because it just keeps you a... |
From your perspective, Rachel, when you're on the podcast yourself, you're gonna have to be more on point, because you have Mikeal and Alex right there talking to you. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah. |
**Jerod Santo:** But it's such a great thing... That's why we love to bring conversations together around technologies and the people that are using them, because it's kind of one of these rising tides - we all have a shared conversation, we are all leveling up together as we discuss and argue and debate, so that's rea... |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, I'm hoping that I can be the one that asks questions that people might not otherwise necessarily ask, because of being worried that dumb question might be dumb, or something like that... Even though there are no dumb questions, but people are still afraid to ask things. |
I guess now if you have a technical for Mikeal or Alex and you're afraid to ask, my DMs are open. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I'm glad you mentioned that, because we actually have a soundboard now, and what we're gonna do -- we don't have a formal way to do this yet, so if you're listening to this, simply subscribe to the show or subscribe to our weekly email, Changelog Weekly... You can find that by going to changelog.com... |
\[00:20:19.18\\\] So if you're taking Rachel's advice and you DM her, you can simply just record it and share an audio URL and she'll pass it along, or something like that. That's something that we have found time for in the future. If we're in the middle of the show and so-and-so has this question, we play their quest... |
**Jerod Santo:** Real quick, because we get towards the tail end of this conversation... We wanna hit up a few things. First of all, two sides of the same coin - I want you to tell us what's your favorite thing about JavaScript and the web, and then on the other side of the coin, what's your least favorite thing, or wh... |
**Rachel White:** I think that my favorite thing about JavaScript is how accessible and readily information is available to people that are getting started, especially self-learners. I feel like other than maybe Python or whatever else they teach in CS (I don't know, I didn't go to school for Computer Science), I hear ... |
There's just so much research that's already been done at your fingertips that it makes it really easy to learn. And I just think there's so many different things that can be done with JavaScript, and now that browsers are implementing new things, like WebVR and some other web audio specs... It's ridiculous how much yo... |
The thing that I dislike about JavaScript is probably the egos around people that maybe have a traditional CS background and write JavaScript and are just not nice to people when they ask questions. That can probably go for any language really, so... I guess that's it. |
I feel like JavaScript has changed so much, and it's just changing faster and faster, the more web stuff gets better. It's hard to keep up with, but I think that with all the changes, you get a lot of different viewpoints and a lot of different ways that people can tackle the same problem. When one way becomes better t... |
**Jerod Santo:** I think it's interesting that if you abstract both of your answers, it's people. The thing that you love the most is the resources and the teachings and the answers on StackOverflow, and all these resources that people create. On the other side, the thing that you dislike the most is also people, but o... |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, actually there's a new talk that I'm gonna be giving this year called, "Keep the internet weird." It's a community talk and it's about when I was learning JavaScript in the early 2000s through making personal websites, and the community that was around other people that would have their domain n... |
\[00:24:17.03\\\] I feel like there's communities that have been opening up recently, that are encouraging that kind of nice, collaborative way to make coding exciting again, and not just part of your job. Or if it is part of your job, a less aggressive way to help out. I think that places like Slack - closed communiti... |
I don't know, I'm excited... I'm really excited for 2017 and to see what other groups pop up to help people do more cool stuff. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Well, on the note of community, one thing that you can do as a (future) listener of this show is go to changelog.com/community. One thing that makes this show different and unique is that it's live, and that we also have a live Slack channel called JSParty inside of our community, that you can parti... |
Let's close with this, Rachel... I could ask this question one way, but I think I wanna ask it slightly different, which is rather than saying "Who should listen to this show?", who do you HOPE listens to this show? Because it sounds like you've got a lot of perspective over your journey, your own experiences and the w... |
**Rachel White:** I hope everyone listens to the show, obviously... But if I had to be more specific, I guess people that aren't that just, you know, "I'm gonna come in and do my job and leave" - which obviously is important; there's nothing wrong with that if that's how you enjoy to work. But hopefully there's people ... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** \[00:27:26.26\\\] Well, hopefully the music we've chosen to represent this show gets people in that mood. We're hoping to play the theme song during the live show, so that it gets everyone in the mood. I don't know if you've heard it yet, Rachel... Have you heard it yet? |
**Rachel White:** I think so. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Okay. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, there were a couple different versions, and I listened to it. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** About three weeks ago I think it was, Jerod, that we finalized the final version of it, so I'm pretty sure we've shared it with everyone involved... So that's pretty much it. We're trying to make this fun, we're trying to make it a celebration about JavaScript and the web platform, so we want nothin... |
**Rachel White:** Yay! Thank you. |
• Overview of React framework and its core concept |
• Introduction to React VR, a library for building virtual reality experiences with React |
• Comparison between React and other frameworks such as Ember |
• Discussion on the extensibility model of React and its potential for cross-platform development |
• Mention of Facebook's interest in VR technology and its implications for React VR |
• Integration of Facebook React with AR and VR apps |
• Concerns about data sharing and privacy in VR experiences |
• The potential for VR to integrate with existing online platforms, including social media and gaming |
• Comparison between current VR and previous attempts at immersive technologies (e.g. Google Glass) |
• Social aspects of video games and the desire to avoid real-life identity conflicts within them |
• Decentralized P2P web movement |
• WebRTC as a P2P protocol in browsers |
• File sharing and data distribution challenges |
• Blockchain technology and its potential for distributed databases |
• Comparison of blockchain with other decentralized systems (e.g. BitTorrent) |
• Operational transforms on top of decentralized blockchains |
• Decentralization vs pseudo-decentralization |
• Centralized web services and their impact on user data and privacy |
• Homomorphic encryption as a potential solution to trust cases in decentralized systems |
• Challenges of building offline applications with decentralized networks |
• State of current web standards, cryptography libraries, and usability issues |
• Discussion on WebRTC and its limitations in real-world applications |
• P2P networks and their potential for improved video streaming |
• Node.js and its role in implementing P2P protocols like WebTorrent |
• Popcorn Time and its use of P2P technology to stream videos directly from peers |
• Potential for a YouTube competitor using WebTorrent to reduce bandwidth costs |
• Concerns about the stability and incentives for participating in P2P networks |
• Discussion of network performance issues with real-time content sharing |
• Methods for overcoming performance issues, including establishing a direct connection and optimizing file downloads |
• Use of P2P technology to quickly download initial content |
• Introduction to the project PouchDB and its unique data replication model |
• Comparison of PouchDB to other local storage options like IndexDB and WebSQL |
• History of PouchDB development, including its origins as a proof-of-concept and evolution into an open-source project |
• Hoodie project uses PouchDB and has implemented it in various big projects |
• Example of a successful project using PouchDB: eHealth Africa app for cataloging symptoms and syncing data offline |
• Importance of community engagement and contribution to open-source projects, with Hoodie as an example of best practices |
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