Playing it close to the Vest (JS Party #213)

Holla! This week we’re playing Story of the Week and Today I Learned before turning our focus to Vest – a very cool validations framework created by Evyatar Alush.

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Featuring:

• Evyatar – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Holla!

• 👋 Ember.js Europe!

Story of the Week

Ali

• fetch() In Node.js Core: Why You Should Care
• The HN thread

KBall

• Gergely Orosz tweet about remote hiring
• The Trimodal Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe

Amelia

• Serving fonts from Google Fonts CDN violates GDPR
• AlphaCode is in the top 54% in programming competitions

Jerod

• A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases

Today I Learned

Ali

• Learning is Optimized When We Fail 15% of the Time
  
• Huberman Lab podcast

Amelia

• CSS Cascade Layers: Article by Bramus Van Damme
• Feature Rollout

Jerod

• Laurie Voss tweet about CDN caching
• Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains

KBall

• The React.Node type is a black hole

Project Focus

• Vest Validations Framework

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!