DESCRIPTIVE

Kahlil Lechelt
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DESCRIPTIVE

DESCRIPTIVE is a weekly technical interview podcast with people from the JavaScript and web development world.

  1. 12/09/2015

    24: I have been Looking for an Excuse to Exercise my Confessional Personality with Ed Finkler

    Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development. He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled in JavaScript and Python before returning to PHP. In one of the /dev/hell podcast episodes he reviled that he has suffered from mental illness for most of his life and this gave rise to the Open Sourcing Mental Illness project he is currently involved in. Highlights [00:00:00] Pre Show [00:03:50] Henning introduces Ed Finkler [00:04:22] Space Invaders and Pong [00:10:36] C64, Basic [00:18:15] College, HTML [00:25:40] PHP [00:40:28] Desktop applications [00:45:58] Spaz Twitter client [01:08:26] Python [01:20:24] The MicroPHP Manifesto [01:23:15] /dev/hell [01:26:55] Mental Health Issues [01:43:44] Picks Links Ed Finkler is @funkatron on Twitter RealBasic Xojo Spaz Graph Story The MicroPHP Manifesto /dev/hell OSMI Open Sourcing Mental Illness: Stronger Than Fear mhprompt.org Picks Ed's picks: Vern's Reviews Candyman Arch Enemy - Burning Angel Henning's picks: Exercise by Raquel Valez Kahlil's picks: cycle.js Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us! descriptive.audio @descriptivepod Descriptive on Slack Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz

    1h 53m

  2. 11/04/2015

    23: One is Just the Other in Reverse with Jafar Husain

    Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one! This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyone else to many "failures" and victories to finally creating Falcor at Netflix which brings together all the lessons he learned along the way.

    2h 10m

  3. 10/13/2015

    22: Building Abstractions That Aren't Ahistorical with Ashley Williams

    Kahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architecture and where her interest in teaching comes from. She becomes the lead instructor at Flatiron School after being rejected as a student, which leads to many different teaching and speaking engagements. Before taking a position at npm, Inc. she also worked at Mozilla and bocoup.

    2h 4m

  4. 08/18/2015

    21: I Will Not Get in the Way of My Projects Success with Steve Francia

    Show Notes & Links Henning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go & Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his current job at Docker and his numerous speaking engagemens on a large variety of topics. Highlights [00:00:26] Henning welcomes Steve Francia to the show [00:01:40] First programming experience with Texas Instruments calculators [00:04:30] C, Pascal, Prolog [00:16:45] Swiched from CS degree to Philosophy [00:20:00] Developed software for Toyota [00:21:16] Zoop Framework [00:28:40] OpenSky [00:37:00] Blogging [00:38:36] MongoDB [00:43:34] Vim Distribution detour [01:00:40] More MongoDB [01:02:49] Go [01:03:47] Hugo [01:16:20] The Go community and OSS communities in general [01:19:28] Docker [01:35:25] MongoDB's large number of programming languages [01:28:50] The Pitch for Docker containers [01:51:48] Picks Links Steve Francia is @spf13 on Twitter Zoop Framework OpenSky Blogging MongoDB spf13-vim Go Hugo Cobra Docker Steve's picks: Badman Under the Red Hood Based on the graphic novel of the same name I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short The Legend of Zelda MUSIC PICK: Less than Jake The Science Of Selling Yourself Short From the album Anthem Album Henning's picks: Google inbox EmberWeekend KarlsruheJS/BeerJS MUSIC PICK: Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode Kahlil's picks: AngularJS.de People from KarlsruheJS This Week in Startups MUSIC PICK: Sickick Who Needs Keyboards anyway? Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us! descriptive.audio @descriptivepod Descriptive on Slack Kahlil Lechelt - @distilledhype Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz

    2h 8m

  5. 08/04/2015

    20: I've Always Been Interested in Really Rich Experiences with Robin Ward

    Show Notes & Links Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be. Highlights [00:00:25] Henning welcomes Robin Ward to the show [00:01:20] Introduced to computers via IBM's first PC [00:02:32] Kings Quest [00:06:40] First job as a web developer at $15/h [00:15:16] Discovered Ruby on Rails [00:16:06] Forumwarz [00:32:20] Jeff Atwood talks about Forumwarz ... [00:33:28] Discourse [00:47:20] Ember forums - first user of Discourse [00:53:43] Ember.js mobile performance of Discourse [01:05:44] Gamification/trust levels in Discourse [01:09:42] The "Evil Trout" alias [01:14:02] Picks Links Robin Ward is @eviltrout on Twitter Forumwarz Discourse Robin's picks: Amy Schumer It follows Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy MUSIC PICK: In Colour by Jamie XX Henning's picks: The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse PHPStorm by JetBRAINS MUSIC PICK: Nelly Furtado - Say it Right Kahlil's picks: Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015 RxJS - The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Reactive Podcast MUSIC PICK: Lethal Bizzle Fester Skank Remix ft Stormzy, Fuse ODG & Wretch 32 Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us! descriptive.audio @descriptivepod Descriptive on Slack Kahlil Lechelt - @distilledhype Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz

    1h 26m

  6. 06/29/2015

    19: I Don't Own Stuff Exactly with Steve Klabnik

    Steve talks to us about his career, Ruby, Rust and speaking at tons of conferenes.

    1h 60m

  7. 05/15/2015

    18: Hilariously, Isaac Emailed Me with Raquel Vélez

    Raquel talked to Kahlil about getting into robots, transitioning to web development, working at several startups and landing at npm inc. as employee #1. Raquel also goes into what it was like to rebuild npm's website and the different challenges they are facing at npm because of the explosive growth.

    1h 37m

  8. 05/07/2015

    17: What's Going On With Angular? with Pascal Precht

    Henning and Kahlil talk to Pascal about what's going on with Angular, how internationalisation works it's way into core and what he and his business partner are doing with Thoughtram.

    1h 37m
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DESCRIPTIVE is a weekly technical interview podcast with people from the JavaScript and web development world.

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    Kahlil Lechelt
  • Episodes
    24
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