How do you define joy?

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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's party time, y'all
(00:59) - Introducing the panel
(02:27) - The State of JS 2022 results are in
(03:33) - The most important category, duh
(05:26) - Digging in to the framework wars
(10:37) - Using survey results & defining joy
(13:54) - Chris on getting Selenium right
(19:36) - What is WMR? (Sorry, Jason!)
(21:00) - Don't use W3Schools
(22:33) - It's time for HEADLIES!
(23:52) - KBall with the smoking gun
(25:09) - Round 1: Funeral flashmob
(26:18) - Round 2: Roomba leaks intimate photos
(27:24) - s/smart/surveillance/g
(28:50) - Round 3: Microsoft combat goggles
(30:32) - Round 4: Adobe's Katy Perry concert
(33:39) - Round 5: Boston Dynamics + OpenAI
(36:49) - And the winner is....
(38:27) - It's Pro Tip Time!
(38:54) - Nick's pro tip: LSPs
(42:20) - Kball's pro tip: habits
(43:58) - Jerod's pro tip: URLs
(46:22) - Chris's pro tip: Graphite
(49:23) - Wrapping up
(50:11) - Outro (changelog.fm/491)