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• JavaScript is being used in robotics because of its accessible community and NodeBots support |
• Blockchain and AI are often overhyped due to excessive venture capital investment and marketing hype |
• Differences in approach to learning between single-page web applications and robotics/JavaScript |
• Importance of tangibility and visualization in understanding complex concepts |
• Performance differences between C and JavaScript in robotics/IoT applications |
• Barrier to entry: comparing C and JavaScript for beginners |
• Advantages of using higher-level languages like JavaScript for rapid prototyping and development |
• The speaker discusses their background as a self-taught programmer who doesn't fully understand data structures. |
• They compare UI programming in the browser to robotics in JavaScript, finding more similarities than differences. |
• Asynchronous programming using events is mentioned as a commonality between UI and robotics development. |
• The Johnny 5 starter kit with a TESL is recommended for beginners due to its ease of use and built-in Node support. |
• Libraries such as Brian Hughes' library for the Raspberry Pi and C libraries for LED matrix control are discussed. |
• The speaker describes building projects, including a gallery using a 32x32 LED matrix and running Node on both the Raspberry Pi and Azure. |
• The speaker has built a Node library for displaying art on an LED matrix |
• The speaker discusses the use of IDEs, specifically Visual Studio Code, which they find to be a good editor with features similar to those found in traditional IDEs |
• The speaker compares their own experience using Sublime Text while working at Microsoft |
• Michael is looking for a new laptop and considering Windows as an option despite some negative comments from others about developing on Windows |
• The speaker defends the use of Windows for development, citing high usage statistics from NPM and Node.js |
• The speaker discusses various extensions they have installed in Visual Studio Code, including linters, IntelliSense, and search functionality. |
• Discussion of a Markdown Preview extension and its usefulness |
• Explanation of how to view installed extensions in the editor |
• Mention of the "Virgin Lens" extension for package.json updates |
• Listing of various extensions currently used by the speaker, including color highlight, Dracula theme, HTML snippets, and more |
• Backstory on the creation of the Dracula theme, including its origins and popularity |
• Discussion of font options for programming, specifically mentioning Operator Mono |
• The speaker thinks that Microsoft has changed and is now more open-source friendly |
• VS Code is an example of this, as it is completely open source and written in TypeScript, making it easy for people to customize |
• Michael agrees and attributes the change to Microsoft's shift from being a platform company to a product company again |
• The speaker and Michael discuss how Microsoft has improved its products, such as Outlook on iOS and Surface Pros |
• They also mention how Microsoft still has a bad reputation, even though it may not be warranted |
• The speaker defends Windows against criticism of the blue screen of death, explaining that it is often caused by software issues rather than problems with the operating system itself |
• The speaker discusses their change of opinion towards Microsoft and its products for developers |
• The company's focus on open-source and developer-centric products is mentioned |
• The speaker shares personal experiences and opinions from other long-time Microsoft employees who have seen the company's shift in priorities |
• System76 Lemur, Linux laptops using Intel Core i7 chipsets, are discussed as an alternative to Windows-based hardware |
• Discussion of server-side rendering and Alex's expertise |
• Random picks for future content: |
+ NodeFest Tokyo conference |
+ Too Loud library for procedural generation |
+ Leaflet.js library for maps and map interactions |
+ Mapzen as an alternative to Mapbox |
• Upcoming episode on Kotlin, a programming language |
• JetBrains and their expertise in creating IDEs |
• Kotlin's development as a third-party language, not a Google-owned language like Swift is to Apple |
• Kotlin's unique features and its impact on the JVM and Android development |
• Upcoming show topic: Kotlin |
• JS Party show wrap-up, including thanks to sponsors and tuning in for next week's episode |
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[79.52 --> 86.14] We're going to do a different show today, which is we had some kerfuffles on scheduling. |
[86.68 --> 90.50] And we don't want to miss the show because we're all busy and we want to keep it rolling. |
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[101.22 --> 106.92] And I'm going to do my best to ask Rachel and Michael some questions about JavaScript, |
[107.18 --> 108.88] the web platform, what we're going, what we're doing. |
[109.56 --> 113.82] And, you know, Michael, maybe we can still talk about the ICO, which is unique. |
[114.44 --> 116.44] Is this the first of its kind, initial coin offering? |
[117.30 --> 117.72] No, no, no. |
[117.74 --> 119.60] There's been other ICOs for other cryptocurrencies. |
[119.96 --> 123.22] This is just, you know, one that's actually kind of related to JavaScript in the web |
[123.22 --> 128.96] because it's an attention token that's going to be in the Brave browser that relates to like your, |
[128.96 --> 133.46] it's like an, it's an alternative to advertising and does micropayments instead. |
[133.96 --> 135.60] How do we, can we mine it now? |
[136.82 --> 137.44] No, you can't. |
[137.46 --> 140.08] I don't, I don't think you can mine it that way. |
[140.08 --> 151.06] See, I didn't read the full thing that the headlines seemed to me as if Brave was generating funding through rather than IPO and ICO. |
[151.50 --> 152.32] Yeah, they did. |
[152.50 --> 153.24] Is that what's happening? |
[153.78 --> 153.92] Yeah. |
[154.00 --> 157.14] So, so what they did was they created a bunch of these coins. |
[157.14 --> 160.98] I'm not sure how many total, but they released some of them. |
[161.24 --> 165.78] And other companies have done a very similar thing where, you know, they want to get a coin onto the market. |
[165.90 --> 171.46] So they mine a bunch of it and then they say, okay, we're going to offer this to the, like this set amount of this coin to the public. |
[172.36 --> 176.14] And then those go like on the open market and people buy them. |
[176.14 --> 182.62] And then now, now that those coins are in the open market, there's additional kind of speculation and trading on top of it. |
[182.78 --> 184.78] So they made 35 million. |
[184.96 --> 190.32] I think that the current market cap on the coins that went out is like a little under a hundred million. |
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