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Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • March 15, 2021
Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep talks about the OpenTelemetry Framework, which is an observability framework for cloud-native software and a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs.
Listen to episode →Paying Open Source Contributors with Puneet Lath
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • March 9, 2021
Puneet Lath, Director of Research and Development at Expensify, talks about the unique way their company is open-sourcing the front end of their product itself.
Listen to episode →Product Roadmaps and Tooling Planning with Steve Pereira
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • February 1, 2021
Steve Pereira—the founder of Visible—talks about how his unique approach to mapping helps customers get products out of the door fast and efficiently.
Listen to episode →Data, Trust, and Transparency: A COVID-19 Vaccine Story
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • January 19, 2021
Data is at the center of everything we do. Yet, how can we trust it in a world where more "organic" food is consumed than produced? In this episode, Jason Kelley—the Global General Manager for Blockchain Services at IBM—talks about how data trust and transparency are applied to COVID-19 vaccines.
Listen to episode →Type systems with ReasonML London organizer Marcel Cutts and Shane Wilson
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Marcel Cutts, Shane Wilson • July 9, 2020
"Java has done an excellent job at ruining types for everyone for quite a while—explains Marcel after describing the tech pub scene in London—but it's important to know there's more than one kind of type system." Along with Shane, they outline what's exciting about ReasonML and their experience with new languages and tools around types.
Listen to episode →Intro to Rush.js with co-author Pete Gonzales
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski, Shane Wilson • June 25, 2020
Monorepos are the new muse of library maintainers, but what happens when your project grows past 100 packages in the same repo? What about thousands? Rush.js was created for those cases, and Pete—who started the project while working at Microsoft—is here to tell us about it.
Listen to episode →Big Ideas & The Future at The Frontside
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • October 3, 2019
In this episode, Charles and Taras discuss "big ideas" and all the things they hope to accomplish at The Frontside over the next decade.
Listen to episode →Transparent Development
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • September 26, 2019
In this episode, Charles and Taras discuss "transparent development" and why it's not only beneficial to development teams, but to their clients as well.
Listen to episode →Svelte and Reactivity with Rich Harris
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • September 4, 2019
Listen to episode →Security with Philippe De Ryck
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • June 13, 2019
Philippe De Ryck joins the show to talk all things security: the importance and why you should be taking active steps, how to do it in your codebase effectively, and what can happen during a breach.
Listen to episode →An Analysis of NativeScript Mobile Platform
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski, Jeffrey Cherewaty • May 24, 2019
In this internal Frontside Podcast episode, Charles, Taras, and Jeffrey analyze the NativeScript Mobile Platform.
Listen to episode →Deployment with Luke Melia, Aaron Chambers, and Mattia Gheda
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • May 2, 2019
Luke Melia, Aaron Chambers, and Mattia Gheda john Taras and Charles to discuss all things deployment!
Listen to episode →Pull Requests with Joe LeBlanc
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • April 11, 2019
Joe joins the panelists to talk about pull request etiquette.
Listen to episode →Frontend/Backend Team Collaboration with Sam Joseph
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • March 29, 2019
Sam joins the panelists to talk about frontend and backend team collaboration.
Listen to episode →Team Collaboration with Jacob Stoebel
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • March 14, 2019
In this episode, Jacob Stoebel joins Charles and Taras to talk about team collaboration process and practices.
Listen to episode →What’s in a UI platform?
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski, Jeffrey Cherewaty • January 24, 2019
Here it is, folks! The first episode of our newly rebranded "Frontside Platform Podcast". In this episode, we talk about why platform? What is going to come out of these conversations over time? Our goal is to get people thinking on the platform level which includes tooling, internalization, state management, routing, upgrade, and the data layer.
Listen to episode →117: The Frontside Podcast 2019 Reboot Preview
Hosted by Charles Lowell • December 27, 2018
The Frontside is planning on rebooting our podcast in 2019! Listen to this for a short briefing on where we hope to take the show next year!
Listen to episode →116: Styled Components and Functional CSS with Kris Van Houten
Hosted by David Keathley, Jeffrey Cherewaty • December 20, 2018
In this episode, we are joined by Kris Van Houten to chat about Functional CSS and Styled Components: pros and cons, the problems that they are trying to solve, and how to choose between one or the other.
Listen to episode →115: Testing Issues and BigTest Solutions
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Wil Wilsman • November 29, 2018
In this internal episode, Charles and Wil talk about testing issues and BigTest solutions.
Listen to episode →114: The Business Case for Experimentation with Elm with Dillon Kearns
Hosted by Charles Lowell, David Keathley • November 8, 2018
In this episode, Dillon Kearns joins the show to talk about techniques for experimentation with Elm, making those experiments safe, the concept of mob programming, why you would want to experiment with Elm in the first place, and how you too can begin to experiment with Elm.
Listen to episode →113: There and Back Again: A Quest For Simplicity with Philip Poots
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski, David Keathley • October 25, 2018
Listen to episode →112: Language Formation with Amanda Hickman and Amberley Romo
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Robert DeLuca • October 11, 2018
In this episode, Amanda Hickman and Amberley Romo talk about how they paired up to get the safety pin, spool of thread, and the knitting yarn and needles emojis approved by the Unicode Committee so that now they are available for use worldwide.
Listen to episode →111: Accessibility in Single Page Applications
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Wil Wilsman, Robert DeLuca • September 20, 2018
In this episode, Robert, Charles, and Wil talk about the whys and hows of accessibility, as well as what makes single page applications special, why they are they harder for accessibility, and frameworks that can do this for you.
Listen to episode →110: Mentorship 3.0 with Saron Yitbarek
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Sam Keathley • September 7, 2018
In this episode, Charles and Sam talk to Saron Yitbarek about her idea of mentorship, ideas for distributed learning for businesses to promote individual and company growth, and why it's important to take "digital sabbaths" on the regular.
Listen to episode →109: What Do You Need in a JavaScript Framework?
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • August 23, 2018
In this episode, former Fronsiders, Brandon Hays and Chris Freeman join Charles and Taras to talk about the difference between a framework and a library, whether or not React + Redux a framework in itself, red flags to signal that you’re actually building a framework, attributes of a good framework, how can you tell if you created a bad framework, and how you can make a bad framework better.
Listen to episode →108: Running an Online-Only, Free Conference on Twitch with Kristian Freeman
Hosted by Robert DeLuca, Wil Wilsman • August 9, 2018
In this episode, Kristian Freeman tells us about ByteConf: why he decided to start the conference, unique challenges of putting an online conference together, what he expects in terms of viewership and his hope for sponsors, and supporting speakers who haven’t recorded videos or maybe haven't ever even given a talk before.
Listen to episode →107: Microstates Part II
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski, David Keathley • August 2, 2018
Listen to episode →106: Microstates
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski, David Keathley • July 20, 2018
In part I of The Frontside's microstates series, Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski, and David Keathley talk about state management that’s easy and fun and transactionality.
Listen to episode →105: Automating GitHub with Probot
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Robert DeLuca • July 5, 2018
In this episode, the panelists talk about automating GitHub with Probot. The origins of Probot are discussed, as well as making GitHub apps with the GitHub API, automating workflows with Probot, must-have Probots for every repo, and GitHub’s V4 GraphQL API.
Listen to episode →104: Blockchain Development with Chris Martin
Hosted by Joe LaSala • June 28, 2018
In this episode, Chris Martin of Type Classes and Joe LaSala of The Frontside talk about blockchain development.
Listen to episode →103: React Components with Michael Jackson
Hosted by Robert DeLuca, Taras Mankovski • June 14, 2018
In this episode, Michael Jackson of React Training and Rob DeLuca and Taras Mankovski of The Frontside talk about what is a component, and what a component is specifically in the context of React.
Listen to episode →102: FOLIO with Harry Kaplanian
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Robert DeLuca • May 31, 2018
In this episode, Harry Kaplanian of EBSCO joins the show to talk about the FOLIO project: a community collaboration to develop an open source Library Services Platform designed for innovation.
Listen to episode →101: Fullstack / Backend / Frontend: What’s the Difference?
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Robert DeLuca, Sam Keathley • May 24, 2018
In this episode of The Frontside Podcast, panelists Charles Lowell, Rob DeLuca, and Sam Keathley, discuss how much the distinction between frontend, backend, and fullstack developers matter in both personal and professional senses.
Listen to episode →100: 100th Episode Celebration with Brandon Hays
Hosted by Charles Lowell • April 30, 2018
Listen to episode →099: Funcadelic with Taras Mankovski
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Taras Mankovski • April 12, 2018
In this episode, Taras and Charles talk about a project that they work on together: Funcadelic - a Functional Programming and Category Theory for Everyday JavaScript Development.
Listen to episode →098: Experience First Development
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan, Joe LaSala, Wil Wilsman • March 29, 2018
Listen to episode →097: Language Server Protocol with Erich Gamma and Dirk Baeumer
Hosted by Charles Lowell • March 1, 2018
Listen to episode →096: Outside-In Development
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty, Arash Zafarnia • February 21, 2018
Listen to episode →095: Connected Coffee with Kevin Nater and Chas Studor of Briggo
Hosted by Arash Zafarnia, Joe LaSala • February 1, 2018
In this episode, we talk to Kevin Nater and Chas Studor about "Connected Coffee".
Listen to episode →094: Machine Learning with Katharine Beaumont
Hosted by Charles Lowell • January 25, 2018
Listen to episode →093: Monoids, Monoids Everywhere! with Julie Moronuki
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • January 11, 2018
Listen to episode →092: Venture Capital and Investing with Sam Cates
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • January 4, 2018
Listen to episode →091: RxJS with Ben Lesh and Tracy Lee
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • December 13, 2017
Listen to episode →090: Big Testing in JavaScript
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Wil Wilsman • November 30, 2017
Listen to episode →089: glimmer-redux with Toran Billups
Hosted by Elrick Ryan, Wil Wilsman • November 16, 2017
Listen to episode →088: The Craft of Developer Experience with Kaylie Kwon
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • November 2, 2017
Listen to episode →087: The JSON API and Orbit.js with Dan Gebhardt
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • October 26, 2017
Listen to episode →086: Routing in Ember with Alex Matchneer
Hosted by Charles Lowell • October 19, 2017
Charles and Alex Matchneer have a great discussion that centers around routing in Ember.js: what they want to see in a router, what problems it solves, what’s wrong with the routing solutions we currently have, and what the ideal future looks like in respect to routing.
Listen to episode →085: WebAssembly with Jay Phelps
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • October 5, 2017
We loved having Jay Phelps on the show so much last week, we invited him back this week to talk about WebAssembly!
Listen to episode →084: redux-observables with Jay Phelps
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • September 28, 2017
Jay Phelps joins the show for a meaty discussion on redux-observables!
Listen to episode →083: Learn Haskell, Think Less
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • September 25, 2017
Listen to episode →082: Peeple with Chris Chuter
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • September 15, 2017
In this episode, we talk to Chris Chuter, Creator and CEO of Peeple: an elegant, compact, and easy-to-use caller ID device for your front door.
Listen to episode →081: Knocki with John Boyd
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • August 31, 2017
We continue our Internet of Things discussions with CTO of Knocki, John Boyd!
Listen to episode →080: Resin.io with Alison Davis and Ronald McCollam
Hosted by Elrick Ryan, Joe LaSala • August 17, 2017
We chat about IoT and specifically Resin.io with Alison Davis and Ronald McCollam.
Listen to episode →079: Web Security and Keeping Developers on the Cutting Edge via Trainings and Workshops with Mike North
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • August 10, 2017
Mike North talks about transitioning from CTO to Independent Trainer, customizing content and developing curriculum, Progressive Web Apps, and security.
Listen to episode →078: Kasita with Jeff Wilson and Jason Jaynes
Hosted by Charles Lowell • August 3, 2017
In this episode we talk to Jeff Wilson and Jayson Jaynes of Kasita about building their team and creating the design, integrating devices, and building ecosystems.
Listen to episode →077: The Internet of Things Cometh
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan, Joe LaSala • July 27, 2017
In this episode, we talk about IoT: what’s coming, why we’re intrigued, and how we’ve already started it incorporating it in our office. In the next episodes to come, we will be having guests on the show to take a deeper dive into this technology.
Listen to episode →076: "Devsigners" with Drew Covi
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • July 21, 2017
In this episode we discuss the concept of the "devsigner" with Drew Covi.
Listen to episode →075: Babel with Robert Jackson
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty • July 6, 2017
On this episode we bombard Robert Jackson with questions about all things Babel!!
Listen to episode →074: Mission Driven Businesses with Anissa Willyard
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Ginger Whalen • June 29, 2017
Anissa Willyard of the up and coming app, GiveBack2Schools, talks about mission driven businesses, leaving a legacy, and finding your people.
Listen to episode →073: Summer Interlude
Hosted by Charles Lowell • June 14, 2017
A special announcement from The Frontside.
Listen to episode →072: Single Page Apps with Accessibility in Mind with Kris Van Houten
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Wil Wilsman • June 8, 2017
In this episode, Kris Van Houten talks about creating single page apps with accessibility in mind.
Listen to episode →071: Labor Organizing and Open Source Sustainability with Audrey Eschright
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Joe LaSala • June 1, 2017
In this episode, Audrey Eschright of The Recompiler Mag joins us to talk about labor organizing and open source sustainability.
Listen to episode →070: Kubernetes with Joe Beda
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • May 18, 2017
Joe Beda talks Kubernetes!
Listen to episode →069: Redux Part II with Toran Billups
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Wil Wilsman • May 11, 2017
We invited Toran Billups back to follow up on Episode #55: Redux and Ember.
Listen to episode →068: How We Do UI Testing Here at The Frontside
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty, Elrick Ryan • May 4, 2017
After the cliffhanger left in Episode 62, we follow up on how we specifically do UI Testing at The Frontside in Austin, Texas.
Listen to episode →067: ember-concurrency with Alex Matchneer
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • April 20, 2017
We talked to Alex Matchneer about ember-concurrency, observables, using references, and pipeline use cases.
Listen to episode →066: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack with Michael Coté
Hosted by Charles Lowell • April 13, 2017
In this episode, Charles talks to friend, Michael Coté about being a professional muller and iterative development.
Listen to episode →065: Data Loading Patterns with the JSON API with Balint Erdi
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Elrick Ryan • April 6, 2017
In this episode, we talk to Balint Erdi, author of Rock and Roll with Ember.js, about data loading with the JSON API.
Listen to episode →064: Empathy in Sales with Ginger Whalen
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty, Ginger Whalen • March 30, 2017
In this episode, Ginger Whalen explains the empathetic sales process.
Listen to episode →063: Growing New Developers with Saron Yitbarek
Hosted by Jeffrey Cherewaty, Robert DeLuca • March 23, 2017
In this episode, Saron Yitbarek joins us to talk about the CodeNewbie Community, the upcoming Codeland Conference in New York City, and helping junior developers move up in the programming world.
Listen to episode →062: UI for U and I
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty, Robert DeLuca • March 16, 2017
It's all about UI today: what it is, when it stops, tooling, and how it applies to us here at The Frontside.
Listen to episode →061: Accessibility with Marcy Sutton
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Robert DeLuca • March 9, 2017
In this episode, we talk to Marcy Sutton about accessibility both in the big and small picture.
Listen to episode →060: Ember and Fastboot with Jonathan Jackson
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Robert DeLuca • March 3, 2017
In this episode, we talk to Jonathan Jackson of Ember Weekend about Ember, The Ember Community Survey, and FastBoot.
Listen to episode →059: Build Useless Stuff
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty, Robert DeLuca • February 23, 2017
A Frontsider's-only episode on why it's good to build useless stuff for creativity, accomplishment, and learning purposes.
Listen to episode →058: Rust and Going Into Business with Carol Goulding
Hosted by Stephanie Riera, Chris Freeman • February 16, 2017
We talk to Carol Goulding, co-author of The Rust Programming Language Book, about going into business in Rust, Crates.io, and organizing the Rust Belt Rust Conference.
Listen to episode →057: Demystifying Software with Liz Baillie
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Stephanie Riera • February 9, 2017
In this episode, we talk to Liz Baillie, of Tilde Inc., about demystifying software: understanding programming, coming to peace with ignorance, math and programming, and getting involved in Open Source.
Listen to episode →056: Ember vs. Elm: The Showdown with Philip Poots
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Jeffrey Cherewaty • February 3, 2017
A fascinating conversation on The Elm Programming Language with Philip Poots.
Listen to episode →055: Redux and Ember with Toran Billups
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Robert DeLuca • January 26, 2017
In this episode we chat with Toran Billups about Redux and Ember.
Listen to episode →054: The Ember Ecosystem & ember-try with Katie Gengler
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Alex Ford • January 20, 2017
Katie Gengler of Code All Day talks about the Ember Ecosystem & ember-try.
Listen to episode →053: Glimmer 2 with Godfrey Chan
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Chris Freeman, Jeffrey Cherewaty • January 13, 2017
In this episode, we talk to Godfrey Chan about Glimmer 2: the challenges faced and what it will bring in the future.
Listen to episode →052: Emberitas with Lydia Guarino and Shannon Byrne
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Stephanie Riera • January 6, 2017
Lydia Guarino and Shannon Byrne join the show to talk about Emberitas: a free one-day event to teach women to code ambitious web applications with Ember.js.
Listen to episode →051: Rust and APIs with Steve Klabnik
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Chris Freeman • December 16, 2016
In this episode, we talk to Steve Klabnik, author of The Rust Book, about Rust and APIs.
Listen to episode →050: Learning to Program with Kyle Simpson
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Stephanie Riera • December 8, 2016
Kyle Simpson, the author of the You Don't Know JS book series, talks about education and learning and teaching programming to new developers.
Listen to episode →049: Learning Elm For Better JavaScript with Jamison Dance
Hosted by Alex Ford, Chris Freeman • December 2, 2016
In this episode, we talk to Jamison Dance, the host of the Soft Skills Engineering Podcast, about learning Elm for writing better JavaScript.
Listen to episode →048: Farewell, Brandon
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • December 1, 2016
We say goodbye to our friend and co-host of The Frontside Podcast, Brandon Hays.
Listen to episode →047: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin
Hosted by Charles Lowell • November 22, 2016
In this episode, Noel Rappin, developer at Table XI, talks about his new book, Take My Money: Accepting Payment on the Web.
Listen to episode →046: What's in store for Ember? with Yehuda Katz
Hosted by Alex Ford, Chris Freeman, Robert Deluca • November 9, 2016
In this episode, Yehuda Katz, co-founder of [Tilde](http://www.tilde.io/), OSS enthusiast, and world traveler, talks about what's in store for Ember.
Listen to episode →045: The New Theory of Teams with Sarah Mei
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Robert Deluca • November 3, 2016
In this episode, Sarah Mei, founder of RailsBridge, Director of Ruby Central, and Chief Consultant of DevMynd Software, talks about the way we write software: What’s right? What’s wrong? How can we do better?
Listen to episode →044: Women in Tech and SheNomads with LaToya Allen
Hosted by Brandon Hays, Stephanie Riera • October 20, 2016
In this episode, LaToya Allen, developer at Big Cartel and founder of SheNomads talks about apprenticeship and mentoring, finding community while working remotely, how companies can be more inclusive for hiring women and people of diverse backgrounds in technology, and avoiding burnout and maintaining balance.
Listen to episode →043: Growing Communities and Businesses with Leah Silber
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • October 4, 2016
In this episode, Leah Silber, CEO of Tilde, Inc. and Ember.js core team member talks about what she's learned building communities, organizing events, and running a business. We talk about how people can move from "observer" to "participant" and grow their own healthy communities and companies.
Listen to episode →042: Apprenticeship in Real Life with Taras Mankovski and Lennex Zinyando
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • September 22, 2016
In this episode we cover how to handle apprenticeship, share with listeners how they can start participating in mentoring and apprenticeship in their companies and communities, and help them to understand the impact apprenticeship and mentoring can have on everybody involved.
Listen to episode →041: The Technical Skills of a Senior Dev
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • September 9, 2016
Recently, there was a flurry of activity around one of Brandon's posts about defining the term "senior developer". But he left the purely technical aspects of the role for later discussion, which left a lot of lingering questions. In this episode, Charles and Brandon dive into the technical side of identifying, hiring, and growing senior developers, and explain The Frontside's somewhat unconventional standards.
Listen to episode →040: How We're Refactoring Our Business
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • July 6, 2016
After a "perfect storm" of events rocked The Frontside, Charles and Brandon were faced with the prospect of what kind of future they saw, if any, for the business. In this episode, Brandon and Charles discuss what happened and why, what they are doing to avoid another "perfect storm", and how finding mentors and friends at OpsConf completely changed how they think about running The Frontside.
Listen to episode →039: How to Integrate Jr. Developers Into Your Company
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Alex Ford, Stephanie Riera, Lydia Guarino • June 13, 2016
There's a huge shortage of senior developers, and one (often overlooked) way to fill those positions is by training up some junior developers. But how do you mentor junior devs when you have so much work to do? How can you make sure that your new hires get the support they need? This week, Charles Lowell is joined by Stephanie Riera, Lydia Guarino, and Alex Ford to talk about the challenges companies face when hiring junior devs, what steps you can take to make sure the on-boarding and training process goes smoothly, and how keep new developers productive and frustration-free.
Listen to episode →038: EmberConf 2016 - Recap and Highlights
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • April 27, 2016
The Frontside crew recaps the EmberConf 2016 experience and share their biggest takeaways and lessons learned.
Listen to episode →037: Ember CLI Mirage with Sam Selikoff
Hosted by Brandon Hays, Lydia Guarino, Alex Ford • March 24, 2016
This week, we talk with Sam Selikoff, the mastermind behind Ember CLI Mirage. He shares how he got started with programming, some tips for avoiding burnout, why he created CLI Mirage, some tips for using it, why it's important to write great documentation, and more.
Listen to episode →036: Composable UI with Trek Glowacki
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays, Stanley Stuart • March 10, 2016
This week we have Trek Glowacki (@trek) back to talk about the challenges of choosing frameworks, building reusable components, and why “thought leader driven development” (TLDD) might actually be the right way to go.
Listen to episode →035: How We Hire
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • February 4, 2016
Brandon and Charles discuss their slightly unusual approach to hiring, why they focus on creating success for their candidates, the hidden value of mentoring, the vision that led them to start The Frontside, the value of exit interviews, and more.
Listen to episode →034: What We Learned in 2015
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • December 21, 2015
Brandon and Charles discuss what they learned in 2015.
Listen to episode →033: Immutability
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Lydia Guarino, Alex Ford • December 14, 2015
This week, Charles, Lydia and Alex go on a deep dive into immutability and the importance of literate programming.
Listen to episode →032: Working Remotely with Allison McMillan
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • October 19, 2015
Allison McMillan (from General Assembly) joins us this week to talk about working remotely. She shares great tips for finding your first remote development job, how to be a more effective remote employee, how to overcome the fear of asking questions, why working remotely might not be right for everyone, and more.
Listen to episode →031: Family and Programming Life Balance with Mando Escamilla
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • October 5, 2015
Mando Escamilla joins us this week to talk about balancing work and family life, how being a better parent can make you a better programmer, why staying up late is a false economy, and more.
Listen to episode →030: Building Great Communities with Jamie White
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • September 17, 2015
Jamie White joins us this week to talk about how to prepare for your conference talk, organizing meetups, tips for starting conversations with strangers at meetups, how to design a community, and more.
Listen to episode →029: Ember & "Big OSS" with Robert Jackson
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • September 3, 2015
Robert Jackson works at Aptible and is a member of the Ember core team. In this episode, we discuss how he got into Ember, his past experience with running a business, how he manages his OSS workflow at Ember's scale, working remotely, work/life balance, and more.
Listen to episode →028: Open Source, UX, and Ember with Trek Glowacki
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • August 28, 2015
We're joined this week by special guest Trek Glowacki. Trek is a member of the Ember core team and maintains Pretender.js. We discuss how Trek got started with programming, Ember (of course), getting pigeonholed, how to get started contributing to open source projects, the curse of knowledge, and more.
Listen to episode →027: Communication at Work
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • July 26, 2015
This week, Brandon and Charles sit down to talk about communication at work, the importance of being honest with your employees even when it's painful, how to build trust in work relationships, why checking in with employees regularly has become a core value at Frontside, and more.
Listen to episode →026: What is a Senior Developer?
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • July 16, 2015
What separates a senior developer from a junior developer? With Charles back from sunny Finland, the guys are back to podcasting! This week, they're talking about what makes someone a senior developer, when stop thinking like a developer, and why some problems require a different skillset and mindset.
Listen to episode →025: Getting to Ember 2.0 with Matthew Beale
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • June 3, 2015
This week we're joined by Matthew Beale to talk about Ember 2.0 and more. Matthew shares his path to programming and getting involved with Ember, why the core team is focusing on making Ember 2.0 future friendly, Glimmer, add-on authors, how to prep for the switch to 2.0, and more.
Listen to episode →024: Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • May 13, 2015
This week, Brandon and Charles discuss feeling like a phony (imposter syndrome), and why “get over it” is not an appropriate response to the problem.
Listen to episode →023: Ember Islands with Mitch Lloyd
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • April 6, 2015
We're joined this week by Mitch Lloyd to talk about Ember Islands, the difficulties of making great training materials and screencasts, and more.
Listen to episode →022: Deploy to the Future with Luke Melia
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • March 30, 2015
Charles, Brandon and Stanley are joined by Luke Melia to discuss being early adopters of Ember, uniting the "five families" to create Ember CLI Deploy, and growing the Ember community.
Listen to episode →021: Best of EmberConf 2015 (part 2)
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays, Stanley Stuart • March 19, 2015
Charles, Brandon and Stanley wrap up part two of their discussion about their favorite talks and technologies from EmberConf 2015. Stanley sings a Staind song, and proposes to the entire internet.
Listen to episode →020: Best of EmberConf 2015 (part 1)
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • March 16, 2015
Charles and Brandon share their weekend foodie experiences, then discuss attending EmberConf 2015, the standout talks, and what they learned.
Listen to episode →019: Origin Stories with Tom Dale and Alex Matchneer
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays, Stanley Stuart • February 28, 2015
This week, Charles, Brandon and Stanley were joined by Tom Dale and Alex Matchneer. They took a trip in the way-back machine to discuss how they got started in programming and web development.
Listen to episode →018: Back-End Devs and Bridging the Stack with Toran Billups
Hosted by Brandon Hays • February 5, 2015
Toran Billups joins us for this week's Frontside podcast. We had a great conversation about test driven development, code rot, the challenges of bringing back-end programmers into front end testing, why Toran loves pair programming, and more.
Listen to episode →017: Hiring Junior Developers: The Ukelele Method
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • January 28, 2015
This week, Charles shares an experience he had at a group Ukulele lesson with his son, and applies the lessons he learned there towards hiring and creating roles to utilize junior level talent in software development.
Listen to episode →016: Ember 2.0 and the Indie Web with Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • December 23, 2014
Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale join us to talk about the road to Ember 2.0 and "Fast Boot". They share insight about why they stick to a 6 week release cycle, and why they think JS frameworks might be the future of all web apps (especially content sites). We also chat about what "indie open source" means, and exactly how much design goes into the Ember project and community.
Listen to episode →015: DOMStep with Jamison Dance
Hosted by Brandon Hays, Stanley Stuart • December 16, 2014
Jamison Dance joins Brandon and Stanley to talk about how to make music with your browser, hosting JS Jabber, and the direction of the JavaScript community.
Listen to episode →014: Literally everything we learned in 2014
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • December 8, 2014
Charles and Brandon reflect on the lessons from software consulting over the past year. No subject is safe: Work culture, money, bad decisions, and how fear really is the mind-killer.
Listen to episode →013: Ember-Metal, HTMLbars, and the death of script tags
Hosted by Stanley Stuart • November 6, 2014
Stanley Stuart hosts a Canadian edition with Ember contributors mixonic (Matthew Beale) and mmun (Martin Muñoz). They talk about what’s up with Ember 1.8, Handlebars, HTMLbars, Metal Views, the differences between them, and why you won’t see script tags in Ember markup anymore.
Listen to episode →012: Is it OK to not love programming? (with Sarah Mei)
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • October 31, 2014
Sara Mei joins us this week to discuss passion and whether it's a job requirement that you "love programming".
Listen to episode →011: Hype Cycles and Reprogramming Your Brain
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • October 27, 2014
Michael Coté joins in a quasi-Drunk and Retired reunion to talk about Gartner's Hype Cycle, how it affects developers, and how they can actually benefit from understanding it.
Listen to episode →010: Reactive Modeling with Ember
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • October 17, 2014
Today, it’s Frontside’s 10th podcast! We dive further into Charles's blog post about Reactive Modeling as a new way of thinking about building front-end web applications, and a quick robot update.
Listen to episode →009: How to tell if a jQuery plugin is about to stab you
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • September 8, 2014
In the episode, we discuss our Raspberry Pi projects, and dive into the problems inherent in adapting old-school jQuery plugins to modern client-side web applications.
Listen to episode →008: The Brandon Hays Advice Dispensary
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • July 23, 2014
This week, Brandon and Charles discuss how to become indispensable to your business, why writing less code is better in the long run, and more.
Listen to episode →007: The Ember Router (with Alex Matchneer)
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • June 26, 2014
This week the Frontside nerds are joined by "Mr. Router" himself, Alex Matchneer. We discuss the benefits & pain of routing in client-side applications, using the Ember router without Ember, how Alex got into working on Ember core, and some OSS projects to keep an eye on.
Listen to episode →006: Myth of the Lone Genius Programmer
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • June 15, 2014
This week Brandon and Charles discuss Brandon's perhaps-controversial appearance on JS Jabber, the dangers of being a solitary genius (the Good Will Hunting myth), and why you aren't a special snowflake (the Luke Skywalker myth).
Listen to episode →005: Backbone, Ember, and the "build your own Voltron" bias
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • May 27, 2014
We're back! After a brief, unexplainable disappearance, Brian and Charles have retuned to discuss their talks at RailsConf 2014, designing models, why writing a framework sucks, the library-author bias, and more.
Listen to episode →004: EmberConf Recap
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • May 13, 2014
The least timely wrap-up ever, Brandon and Charles talk about what struck them at EmberConf.
Listen to episode →003: Refactoring toward Ember
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • March 10, 2014
Charles and Brandon discuss how they refactor existing apps toward Ember without a big-bang rewrite.
Listen to episode →002: Devil's Advocate
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • February 26, 2014
Client-side apps are great, but they're not perfect for every situation. Charles and Brandon discuss times single-page apps might not make sense. Also, they discuss how Jim Weirich affected their lives.
Listen to episode →001: Hit me baby one more time
Hosted by Charles Lowell, Brandon Hays • February 19, 2014
Charles and Brandon argue about what to name the podcast. They talk about how "one more feature"-itis sinks many projects and startups, and patterns they've used to avoid it.
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