How do you define joy?

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Jerod & the gang analyze the State of JS 2022 survey results, play a wicked game of HeadLIES & share some Pro Tips to help you live your best dev life.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• The 2022 State of JS survey
• Amazon is now accepting your applications for its home surveillance drone
• ProseLint
• mason.nvim
• Store app state in the url
• Graphite
• Graphite on The Changelog

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Introducing the panel (00:00:59)

3. The State of JS 2022 results are in (00:02:27)

https://2022.stateofjs.com

4. The most important category, duh (00:03:33)

5. Digging in to the framework wars (00:05:26)

6. Using survey results & defining joy (00:10:37)

7. Chris on getting Selenium right (00:13:54)

8. What is WMR? (Sorry, Jason!) (00:19:36)

9. Don't use W3Schools (00:21:00)

10. It's time for HEADLIES! (00:22:33)

11. KBall with the smoking gun (00:23:52)

12. Round 1: Funeral flashmob (00:25:09)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/12/dancers-flashmob-funeral-with-another-one-bites-the-dust

13. Round 2: Roomba leaks intimate photos (00:26:18)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuum-beta-product-testers-consent-agreement-misled/

14. s/smart/surveillance/g (00:27:24)

15. Round 3: Microsoft combat goggles (00:28:50)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-12/microsoft-combat-goggles-falter-as-congress-says-no-to-buying-more-this-year

16. Round 4: Adobe's Katy Perry concert (00:30:32)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-buzz-is-gone-tech-companies-with-a-few-exceptions-are-reining-in-once-legendary-holiday-parties

17. Round 5: Boston Dynamics + OpenAI (00:33:39)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

18. And the winner is.... (00:36:49)

19. It's Pro Tip Time! (00:38:27)

20. Nick's pro tip: LSPs (00:38:54)

21. Kball's pro tip: habits (00:42:20)

22. Jerod's pro tip: URLs (00:43:58)

https://www.scottantipa.com/store-app-state-in-urls

23. Chris's pro tip: Graphite (00:46:22)

https://graphite.dev

24. Wrapping up (00:49:23)

25. Outro (changelog.fm/491) (00:50:11)

https://changelog.fm/491