Friday, 24 May, 2019 UTC


Summary

Our initial impressions of GitHub’s recently announced package registry, what JS skills are trending in job listings, and shout outs!
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Featuring
  • Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website
  • Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
  • Divya Sasidharan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
  • Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Notes and Links

GitHub’s package registry

  • Our “coverage” of GitHub’s Friday afternoon announcement
  • GitHub’s official package registry feature page
  • Remember when we had Jeff Lembeck on JS Party?
  • Something strange is going on at npm
  • Nobody Predicted Microsoft 😬
  • FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

JS job trends

  • Game of Frameworks: JavaScript trends of 2019
  • Engineering & design progression maps: progression.fyi
  • KBall’s megatrends post

Shout outs

  • Stefan Kaltenegger
  • Ryan Singer
  • Halfstack Conf
  • NEJS Conf
  • All Things Open
  • Quokka.js
  • Blotter.js
  • The Recurse Center
  • Rene Rubalcava
  • Learn Dojo
  • Vim Fugitive (tpope!)
  • Go Time is back!
  • Hardware hacking with TinyGo and Gopherbot