The Gospel According to Blake Watson

Kenny Wilson, Cassidy Williams, Mike Seiler, and Mike M. join together in an interactive discussion about finding jobs in tech - what to look for, what to look out for, and other questions from the audience! Read or listen along to the transcript here: https://share.descript.com/view/Mhawkqk1Mdp This was recorded live! in the /r/webdev+web_design Discord server: https://discord.gg/web

Discord members introduce themselves and we begin to design an open source project!

Jagz creates a youtube video tutorial series focused on webdevelopment and has several great tutorials focused specifically on the VUE.js framework Quasar https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNpa6WDH4i2lEznoju1lMg https://codeguru.io/ https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar

Julian from pagecheck.app talks with Mike about distributed systems, postqueue and phore. He has been working on pagecheck.app for the past three months and is looking for feedback and free beta users using the code webdevtrial! We talk about the distributed architecture that underlies his new app. His postgres server that uses a new framework he built because bull jobs was too slow, and timescaledb - a column oriented automatically partitioned extension to Postgres, and next.js the "next" react framework! https://github.com/meyer9/postqueue - postqueue was written by Julian and is open source. Julian is the lead developer of the Phore cryptocurrency: http://phore.io/ All this while still being a Sophomore at University of California, Santa Cruz!

Blake Watson is a web designer and developer living outside Jackson, MS. He is a member of the web team at Mad Genius. You can see some of his work over on the Mad Genius portfolio. When not pushing pixels or creating bugs, Blake is probably listening to music, writing a novel, gaming, or enjoying a movie or TV show.  Blake has a disability called spinal muscular atrophy, and he is a monthly supporter of NMD United, a non-profit run by adults with nueromuscular conditions for adults with neuromuscular conditions. http://blakewatson.com/  https://practicaltypography.com/font-recommendations.html  https://afinestart.me/

Justin interviews Gabriel "gmem" Simmer, one of the /r/webdev Discord admins and subreddit moderator, about how he got this way, opinions on CMS platforms, and the future of the web. gmem's GitHub: https://github.com/gmemstr?tab=repositories&type=source gmem on Drupal.org: https://www.drupal.org/u/gmem

Justin interviews Dayvi Schuster AKA @Frosty and his site is https://www.arctek.dev join the discord and say hi https://discord.gg/keD8rZp

 it's late smart humidifiers ethereum hackathon NPM  mid episode craig hiccup devlids.com  making fun of Alexa Pomodoro technique and more 

Show notes for our new episode: Wildbuddha / Justin joined us for the first time No Endgame spoilers but we talk about it a little along with other comic book movies All about how to use checklists professionally to make sure you do all your easy things and give you the freedom to think creatively - book review of https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000 We almost talked about user onboarding We talked a lot about Imports in javascript and node js How package.json works, what is it, what's wrong with it and Mike is going to do some reading about NPM's documentation  deno.land - the new node from ryan dahl creator of node.js Thanks for listening, from Gmem/Gabe, Shadowpath, Mike, and Justin Join the discord if you'd like to join an episode https://discord.gg/keD8rZp

Lumen a php microframework by the creators of laravel: https://lumen.laravel.com/ <?php $app->get('user/{id}', function($id) {    return User::findOrFail($id); }); https://tutorialedge.net/golang/creating-simple-web-server-with-golang/ func main() {    http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {        fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello, %q", html.EscapeString(r.URL.Path))    })    http.HandleFunc("/hi", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request){        fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hi")    })    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8081", nil)) }