From voice devices to mobile, you just can't escape JS

KBall and Nick catch up with Nara Kaspergen and Jen Looper for a pair of conversations covering Voice UI Devices, using NativeScript for mobile development, and Jen’s work with Vue Vixens helping make the Vue.js community welcoming to women and non-binary people.

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Featuring:

• Nara Kasbergen – Twitter, GitHub
• Jen Looper – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Nara Kaspergen

• NPR
• NPR One

Voice UI Devices

• Apple Home Pods
• Google Home
• Amazon Echo

SDKs and Tooling

• Alexa Voice Service SDK
• Google Assistant SDK
• SiriKit
• DialogFlow

Other Concepts

• Serverless
• Serverless episode on JS Party
• Lambda
• Natural Language Processing(NLP)
• Koa

Jen Looper

• NativeScript
• NativeScript-Vue
• Vue Vixens
• NativeScript slack signup
• NativeScript core components
• NativeScript Market
• Dojo
• TypeScript
• Chris Fritz
• Dart
• Vim in WebAssembly
• Article: The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch
• Case studies on icon design
• Info on the Node + JS Foundation Merger
• Progress

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!