The CSS expertise kerfuffle
Suz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it’s often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get started with it.
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Featuring:
Aimee Knight – Website, GitHub, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
CSS dismissal is about exclusion, not technology
9 CSS in JS Libraries You Should Know in 2018 – Bits and Pieces
CSS Blocks
Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You’ve Never Heard Of — Smashing Magazine
Is Houdini Ready Yet?
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
GraphQL, when to use JavaScript, JS robotics
KBall and Tim are on location at Fluent/Velocity and had the chance to talk with Brian Douglas about GraphQL and GitHub’s recent changes, Aimee Knight about knowing when to use JavaScript over CSS, and Bryan Hughes about his start and robotics with JavaScript.
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Featuring:
Brian Douglas – Website, GitHub, X
Aimee Knight – Website, GitHub, X
Bryan Hughes – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
GraphQL | A query language for your API
👋 Hello, GitHub | @natfriedman
JavaScript Jabber Archive | Devchat.tv
Johnny-Five: The JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform
TypeScript - JavaScript that scales.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Ep. 37 - From Skates To Code (Aimee Knight)
She used to be a professional figure skater. And a few years ago, she decided to hang up her skates and trade them in for some code. Software developer Aimee Knight tells us what it was like to transition into tech, how she got her first dev job, and how being a professional athlete has affected her coding journey.
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Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight is a figure skater turned software developer, and a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber, and Angular Air podcasts. After teaching herself the basics and attending a six month bootcamp, she now works at Message Systems in Baltimore Maryland building out email infrastructure in Node.js and Angular.js for companies like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.
