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NOTE: RECORDED April 13th.

Description

This week we sit down with Wasita and Eshin at the Cosanlab at Darthmouth to talk about how they use Svelte in their research as well as the intersection between research and web development and the possibilities that it opens up.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Guests:
  • Wasita:
    • Twitter
    • Website
  • Eshin:
    • Twitter
    • Website
• Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
• https://github.com/wasita/svelte-vid-sync-chat-app -> The "Netflix party" experiment we mentioned, written with Svelte, socket.io, firebase 
• https://github.com/cosanlab/trust-game -> Interactive 2-player trust game experiment written in Svelte and client-synchronization powered by Firebase
• https://github.com/ejolly/create-svelte-experiment -> A starter Svelte SPA template for experiments powered by Firebase
• https://maxfarrens.github.io/continuous-rater-book/Intro.html -> An interface for collecting continuous time-series emotion ratings from people watching videos
• https://github.com/ejolly/thought_tagger -> An interface for segmenting audio-files of people's memories. Built on top of the BBC's peaks.js.
• https://eshinjolly.com/svelteturk/#/ -> The "missing GUI" for Amazon's Mechanical Turk labor market. An electron desktop app that helps manage data collection and administration.

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Click bait twitter
• Antony: Helium

Picks

• Kev: Cold Plunges
• Antony: Same
• Eshin: Raised by Wolves
• Wasita: Beef
• Brittney: Shadow and Bone (TV Show)