It's all about the squiggles

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Nick is joined by Josh Goldberg & Dimitri Mitropoulos to discuss SquiggleConf, a new conference focused on web dev tooling. We explore the motivations behind creating a conference dedicated to developer tools, the challenges of organizing both conferences and local meetups, and strategies for building engaged tech communities.

We also discuss the importance of developer tooling, the pandemic’s impact on tech events, and share insights on encouraging new speakers and creating inclusive environments & more!

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Sponsors:

• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.
• Wix – Wix Sudio is for devs who build websites, sell apps, go headless, or manage clients. Integrate, extend and write custom scripts in a VS code-based IDE. Leverage zero set up dev, test and production environments. Ship faster with an AI code assistant. And work with Wix headless API’s on any tech stack.
• Jam.dev – One click bug reports developers love — Never explain another bug report again. Jam auto-captures all the info engineers need to debug and repro.

Featuring:

• Dimitri Mitropoulos – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Josh Goldberg – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• SquiggleConf
• ESLint
• TypeScript ESLint
• Mocha
• Learning TypeScript book
• Michigan TypeScript
• Boston TS Club
• NebraskaJS
• Oh My Zsh (tool by Robbie Russell)
• React
• Vue
• Go programming language
• TypeScript
• New England Aquarium conference venue
• Squiggle Conf Discord

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:00:39)

https://fly.io/

3. A hoy hoy! (00:03:45)

4. Getting to know Dimitri (00:04:48)

5. Getting to know Josh (00:06:12)

6. Why dev tools (00:07:29)

7. The conference scene (00:14:11)

8. Teaching is 10xing (00:18:37)

9. Sponsor: Wix (00:21:17)

https://www.wix.com/studio

10. The stress of it all (00:22:10)

11. MC Nicky Nick (00:29:30)

12. The perfect name (00:32:00)

13. A killer lineup (00:34:01)

14. Sponsor: Jam.dev (00:39:12)

https://jam.dev

15. A brief brag (00:41:24)

16. Meetups! (00:42:17)

17. A horror story (00:49:43)

18. On senior devs (00:55:34)

19. On finding speakers (00:57:51)

20. Join us at SquiggleConf! (01:07:43)

21. Closing time (01:10:14)

22. Next up on the pod (01:10:49)