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There be a11y dragons

Eric Bailey joins Jerod to discuss everything Dungeons & Dragons taught him about writing alt text, building accessible websites, Primer, the problem with a11y overlays & more. Leave us a commentChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Porkbun – Go to porkbun.com to get .app, .dev, or .foo domain names at Porkbun for only $1 for the first year! 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. Featuring: Eric Bailey – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub Primer Data table | Primer axe: Accessibility Testing Tools and Software ARC Toolkit - Page-Level Testing - TPGi HeadingsMap - Chrome Web Store Home - The A11Y Project Overlay Fact Sheet Midnight Lizard - color schemes for all websites Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Forging Minecraft's scripting API

Raphael Landaverde & Jake Shirley work on Minecraft full-time. How cool is that?! On this episode, they join Jerod to tell us all about the web tech that drives Minecraft’s scripting infrastructure, how they incrementally change a massive / always-moving target, the best / worst parts of the job & much more. Leave us a commentChangelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors: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. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Raphael Landaverde – Twitter, GitHub Jake Shirley – GitHub, Website Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: Hyrum’s Law Introduction to Scripting in Minecraft Minecraft Bedrock Editor Overview microsoft/minecraft-scripting-samples Active community Discords Raph on Discord: MidoriTerra Jake on Discord: DarkNavi Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

A Nick-level emergency

Node.js makes big TypeScript & SQLite moves, ECMAScript 2024 adds some niceties to the language (but not the ones you’re probably excited for) & we review the State of React 2023 results. Emergency?! Nick! Leave us a commentChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes:I’d rather be TypeScripting Node.js adds an experimental feature to strip TypeScript types Node.js adds a built-in SQLite module util.styleText(format, text) What’s New for JavaScript Developers in ECMAScript 2024 Promise.withResolvers made it in “speedrun” style es-toolkit State of React 2023 results websim.ai Jerod’s TS Fan Page J-Rod’s TS Fan Shizzle Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Going flat with ESLint

Josh Goldberg joins Nick & Chris to discuss the latest updates from ESLint, typescript-eslint & the new flat config format. They also discuss creating reusable configs & project generators before pivoting to talk about a new conference focused on developer tooling. Finally, Chris & Josh talk about the past, present & future of Mocha. Leave us a commentChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring: Josh Goldberg – Twitter, GitHub Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: ESLint’s new config system Announcing typescript-eslint v8 Beta dprint Yeoman Squiggle Conf eslint-plugin-eslint-comments JavaScript’s with keyword Mocha eslint-nibble create-typescript-app Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Building LLM agents in JS

KBall and returning guest Tejas Kumar dive into the topic of building LLM agents using JavaScript. What they are, how they can be useful (including how Tejas used home-built agents to double his podcasting productivity) & how to get started building and running your own agents, even all on your own device with local models. Leave us a commentChangelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring: Tejas Kumar – Twitter, GitHub Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Show Notes: Bringing the vibe Andrew Ng on Agentic workflows Ollama Mixtral 8x 22b Stately Agent Vercel AI SDK Tejas’s talk on rebuilding React Hugging Face Jupyter Notebooks Datastax Langflow Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!