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#228: 2019 Trends

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We're half way through 2019! Marie and Cassidy are here to talk about what's trending on CodePen so far and take a glimpse at the future for the rest of the year.

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Tom’s Tech Notes: How to Innovate Better [Podcast]

Welcome to our latest episode of Tom's Tech Notes! This week, DZone.com's research analyst Tom Smith chats with Dell Boomi CTO Michael Morton about how to innovate better. Learn who to approach about innovating, how to plan for it, and the importance of not just failing fast, but learning and implementing fast.

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#227: Tidying Up

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It's time to clean all the things! Cassidy and Marie talk about how CodePen is cleaning up code, internal docs, and external docs. How does your team do spring cleaning?

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Tom’s Tech Notes: Big Data Advice for Devs [Podcast]

Welcome to our latest episode of Tom's Tech Notes! This week, we'll hear advice from industry experts tailored specifically for developers. From general tips for Big Data app development to the formats and architectures you need to know about, here's what they have to say about the modern Big Data ecosystem.

As a primer and reminder from our initial post, these podcasts are compiled from conversations our analyst Tom Smith has had with experts from around the world as part of his work on our research guides.

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#226: New Export

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Stephen talks with Marie about how we updated and improved our exporting function on CodePen and talks about a possible future Pro feature that could come from the changes we made.

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  • 01:35 What is exporting on CodePen?
  • 03:21 How did you improve the speed of export?
  • 09:27 Sponsor: Dot Tech
  • 10:17 Changing the structure of the export
  • 14:18 Export for talks and presentations
  • 17:51 What's next?
  • 20:42 Did you get to remove any jQuery?

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#225: Learning New Things

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Cassidy and Marie talk about their journey to keep learning new things, while also not stressing about trying to keep up with all the things in web development.

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  • 00:41 Topic introduction
  • 03:23 CodePen challenges
  • 05:23 Fork it!
  • 08:55 Learning at conferences
  • 13:22 Sponsor: Netlify
  • 15:18 Learning by reading vs watching
  • 19:09 The buffet of learning available now
  • 24:35 Life long learning in tech

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#224: Community Roundup

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Cassidy and Marie share some of the fun things CodePen community members are doing around the web including newsletters, Pass the Pen, JSConfEU, and Zdog.

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  • 00:54 Zdog
  • 05:05 Christina Gorton UI Design Course
  • 11:01 Sponsor: Discover.bot
  • 12:00 Taking time to mess around with things
  • 18:21 Andy Bell's newsletter
  • 22:20 JS Conf

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#223: Streaming

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Cassidy and Marie are here to chat about livestreaming for developers. We get into how we've used live streaming to learn and share in the past and how CodePen is planning to use live streaming in the future on our new Twitch channel.

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  • 00:42 Topic introduction
  • 06:53 Pair programming
  • 13:26 Audience participation
  • 15:07 Sponsor: Discover.bot
  • 16:11 Why a company should consider live stream

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Tom’s Tech Notes: Concerns With Containers [Podcast]

Welcome to our latest episode of Tom's Tech Notes! In this episode, we'll hear advice from a host of industry experts about how to secure your containers. Learn what they have to say about security, ease of use, ecosystem maturity, and the talent gap.

As a primer and reminder from our intial post, these podcasts are compiled from conversations our analyst Tom Smith has had with industry experts from around the world as part of his work on our research guides.

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#222: Trash Can

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Marie and Chris are talking trash this week about our newest feature — a restore option for deleted Pens! We get into the whys and hows of this frequently requested feature.

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  • 01:39 What is the "trash can"?
  • 09:10 Planning out the deleted items restore feature
  • 12:36 Sponsor: WooCommerce
  • 14:08 What's the UX flow?
  • 23:02 Building on what we've made

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#221: Responsive Pen Editor

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We've recently updated our Pen editor to be responsive and unified in the process. Cassidy, Klare, Stephen, and Marie are on to talk about the process of updating the Pen editor for 2019.

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  • 00:53 The history of the editor
  • 03:07 Pulling code out of the old editor
  • 08:38 Native app vs mobile app
  • 11:15 Sponsor: WooCommerce
  • 12:44 How to plan for a mobile editor
  • 20:21 Cassidy's Mechanical Keyboard Corner

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A Bootiful Podcast: Interview With Kotlin Team Engineer

Hi, Spring fans! In today’s installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) sits down with JetBrain’s Roman Elizarov (@relizarov). Roman works on the Kotlin team and, among other things, focuses on asynchronous programming with things like coroutines. This interview was a very detailed dive into the opportunities for asynchronous programming for Spring developers using Kotlin, especially in light of the new coroutine support coming in Spring Framework 5.2.

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#219: Topics

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Our topic for this episode is Topics - a new feature on CodePen. Stephen, Klare, Cassidy, and Marie are on to talk about what Topics are, the design approach, how we built the feature, and how you can suggest new Topics.

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  • 00:42 What's the Topics section?
  • 02:53 Some of the coolest stuff is inside of Posts
  • 03:49 What was the design approach to Topics?
  • 04:53 New feature highlighter
  • 08:07 Sponsor: Netlify
  • 08:55 How did we build Topics?
  • 12:40 Starter templates in Topics
  • 16:02 Other Topics ideas
  • 21:36 Taking suggestions

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Tom’s Tech Notes: What You Need to Know About Big Data [Podcast]

Welcome to our latest episode of Tom's Tech Notes! In this episode, we'll hear advice from a host of industry experts on the most important things you need to know about big data. Learn some tips around data quality, big data app development, data governance, and more.

The Tom's Tech Notes podcast features conversations that our research analyst Tom Smith has had with software industry experts from around the world as part of his work on our research guides. We put out new episodes every Sunday at 11 AM EST.

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This Week in Spring: Releases, Podcasts, Cloud, and Spring Security

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I’m in sunny California, then it’s off to Istanbul, Turkey, for the epic SpringOne Tour event. Then, I'm off again to Chicago, Illinois, for the better-and-better GOTO Chicago show. I hope to see you there!

We’ve got a busy week in Spring, so without further ado, let’s get to it!

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Henry Zhu Launches New Maintainers Anonymous Podcast

Maintainers Anonymous is a new podcast created by Henry Zhu, who has been the primary maintainer of Babel for the past two years. Babel is a JavaScript compiler used by Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, and millions of others. It is downloaded over 18 million times per month and used by more than 1.8 million repositories on GitHub. Zhu recently left his job at Adobe to work on Babel and open source full-time.

In his new podcast, Zhu is talking with other maintainers to unearth their valuable perspectives and share similar struggles. By presenting them as regular people, rather than faceless code projects, Zhu is aiming to encourage empathy for maintainers.

Maintainers Anonymous is centered around the “how” of maintenance and Zhu is open to having guests from a variety of fields and disciplines, such as a librarian, gardener, or moderator. In an episode titled “Speedrunning with Omnigamer,” Zhu and his first guest, Eric Koziel, discuss the intricacies of “speedrunning,” playing a video game with the goal of beating it as fast as possible. Koziel describes it as a medium for doing an optimization challenge. Since the games are just software, he and Zhu explored how speedrunning intersects with coding and talked about some of the parallels with maintaining open source software.

The next two episodes are a series with guest Stephanie Hurlburt, a graphics engineer and owner of the company that makes Basis, an image/texture compression product. They delve deeper into how business development is relevant to open source, setting healthy boundaries, inherent vs. perceived value, marketing, and more.

If you’re looking for a new podcast to add to your subscriptions, Zhu’s Maintainers Anonymous offers a wide variety of topics and perspectives that touch on open source, maintainership, and other aspects of life and business in the world of technology. New episodes are available on the podcast’s website, and listeners can also subscribe via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. Follow @MaintainersAnono on Twitter for all the latest.

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Tom’s Tech Notes: IoT Fails [Podcast]

Welcome to our latest episode of Tom's Tech Notes! In this episode, we'll hear advice from a host of industry experts about where organizations go wrong when implementing IoT so you don't make the same mistakes.

As a primer and reminder from our initial post, these podcasts are compiled from conversations our analyst Tom Smith has had with industry experts from around the world as part of his work on our research guides.