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We’re back! This time with Derick Bailey to talk about all sorts of JavaScript goodness. Derick is an entrepreneur, problem solver, software developer, screencaster, writer, blogger, speaker and technology leader in central Texas (north of Austin). He runs WatchMeCode.net where he throws down the JavaScript gauntlets to get you up to speed. He has been a professional software developer since the late 90’s, and has been writing code since the late 80’s.

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Derick’s website
WatchMeCode.net
Derick’s email courses
Derick’s RabbitMQ ebook
SignalLeaf (Perviously Derick’s podcast audio hosting platform)
Trevan’s new WP stack: Timber, Twig.js, Backbone
Airbnb’s article on isomorphic JavaScript
WP REST API
WP REST API merge proposal
Trevan’s blog redesign repo
Paper app
Do ES6 Arrow Functions Really Solve “this” In JavaScript?
Babel
Radium
Watch Star Wars in Terminal: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
A Google Analytics Dashboard for Front-End Developers

Jon and Trevan catch up and talk about the cool things they’ve been developing and technology they’ve been using lately.

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The new faster Flywheel home page
Web Accessibility Checklist
CSS Testing with Phantom
WordCamp Minneapolis
Google Tag Manager

Joel Glovier joins Trevan and Jon this week to talk about his experiences at GitHub, side projects and front-end. Joel is a designer and front-end developer at GitHub. He also makes t-shirts for developers at devtees.com, and contributes to open source projects like Jekyll and HospitalRun. He’s got 3 kids and hails from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania where he works remotely. In his little spare time he enjoys DJing, snowboarding, and making trouble.

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Joel’s website
@jglovier
GitHub
Dev Tees (use code wordbreakshow for 10% off)
HospitalRun
GitHub’s way of deploying: HUBOT!
Lanyrd.com/calls
Rebecca Murphey – Writing Conference Proposals
speaking.io

Jon and Trevan answer questions from Reddit!

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Reddit thread
WAI-ARIA roles
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Tenon.io
Solve this pen! Make it work in IE10 and we’ll give you a shoutout or something
David Walsh’s CSS Flip Animation article
Front-end Job Interview Questions
Why Brad Frost is not a JavaScript developer
Storyland Studios site
Witness Gotham site
Airbnb’s Isomorphic JavaScript article
Oakley’s Moto site
Imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery

With us this week, we have Rachel Baker. Rachel is a web developer living in Chicago, IL. She is a WordPress core contributor and project lead on the WPI API project. Rachel is currently a Senior Web Engineer at 10up, where she creates and grows amazing web experiences with WordPress.

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Rachel’s Blog
WP API
Firebase

With us this week, we have Ben Frain. Ben is a Senior Front-end Developer at bet365.com, an occasional freelancer, and author of both Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 and Sass and Compass for Designers; Ben hails from Cheshire, England.

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Ben’s Blog
Ben on Twitter
CSSTriggers
Enduring CSS: writing style sheets for rapidly changing, long-lived projects
CSS performance revisited: selectors, bloat and expensive styles
Be a better front-end developer: the way of pragmatic coding
Meteor JS
Penthouse – Critical CSS Generator