JSJ 356: Build Websites Like It's 2005 with Keith Cirkel

Sponsors

• Triplebyte
• Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit
• Clubhouse
• CacheFly

Panel

• Chris Ferdinandi
• Aimee Knight
• Aaron Frost
• AJ O’Neal

Joined by special guest: Keith CirkelEpisode SummaryIn this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Keith Cirkel, Senior Application Engineer at GitHub, briefly explains the projects he is working with and moves on to the recent changes done by GitHub to their website, including the decision to remove jQuery, and not choosing a popular framework such as React or Vue. He talks about some problems in using Internet Explorer 11, how these GitHub changes can help with certain browser compatibility issues, and a few challenges the team had to face during the redesigning process.The panelists then discuss event delegation, performance considerations, Polyfill.io and web components. Keith gives some insight into accessibility and they talk about related user concerns.Links

• Keith’s website
• Keith’s GitHub
• Keith’s Twitter
• GitHub Engineering blog
• Financial Times – Polyfill service
• Include fragment - element

PicksAaron Frost:

• Bag Man
• What It’s Like to Be A Woman on the Internet

Aimee Knight:

• Smooth Sailing with Kubernetes

Joe Eames:

• GitHub Free users get free unlimited private repositories
• Swig
• Things I don’t know as of 2018

AJ O’Neal:

• Isopropyl alcohol
• Bang good electronics
• Soldering Iron – Hakko, X-Tronic

Keith Cirkel:

• GitHub careers
• Heston’s Pod & Chips
• Brexit

Chris Ferdinandi:

• 52 things I learned in 2018
• Learn Vanilla JS

Special Guest: Keith Cirkel.

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