Experimenting with some new ideas 🔬

Jerod, Nick, KBall, and Chris pre-party for JSConf by testing out some brand new segment ideas: Story of the Week, What the WHAT… WG, and Protip Time. What do you think of these segments? Like ’em? Love ’em? Not sure why we even? Please let us know!

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Story of the Week

• ndb
• Babel 7.0 RC 1
• The Cost of JavaScript in 2018
• Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
• Vue CLI 3.0

What the WHAT… WG

• HTML or HTML5? Who Controls HTML?
• Standards WHATWG works on
• Lazy loading images and iframes
• Add autocapitalize attribute (merged and deployed) (added to MDN)

Protip Time

paste {
 pbpaste > ${1}
}

copy {
 cat ${1} | pbcopy
}

• z
• brain.fm
• Astral
• jscodeshift

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!