JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Alex and Pavel from the Angular Signals team discuss the adoption of signals, the new mental model, migration paths, community integrations, and the future roadmap for Angular.

Shaundai Person, a former salesperson who became a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, joins the hosts to discuss her career transition. They touch on sales as a superpower, building confidence, and even sneak in some TypeScript talk.

The hosts talk about CSS as a programming language, Apple's walled garden, choosing tech, and the community's shift on GraphQL. The discussion also includes web browser preferences and frustrations, reflections on Twitter, exploring new social networks, and exclusive conversations on Changelog++.

Guests Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers James & Brad from CompressedFM. Topics include guessing creators of popular libraries, CSS properties, and protocols in a game show format. The hosts also discuss Vercel's front end cloud and invite listeners to check out more episodes.

Carson Gross and Alex Russell join Amal to discuss web architectures, rendering patterns, advantages of hypermedia and htmx, limitations of Angular and React, and the importance of open web advocacy.

The JS Party podcast hosts celebrate the new year, reflect on past predictions, and discuss making resolutions and being accountable. They also discuss Twitter's past and future, competition and innovation in the development community, predictions for 2024, Sockit security tool, and their plans for the upcoming year.

Daniel Ehrenberg, a software engineer at Bloomberg and VP of ECMA International, talks about new features in JavaScript such as Promises, Maps & Sets, Records, Tuples & Temporal. He also discusses cross-project standardization efforts, open source sustainability, and how Bloomberg gives back to the web ecosystem.

Gregg Tavares, author of WebGL/WebGPU Fundamentals, joins Jerod & Amal to discuss low-level technologies like WebGL and WebGPU that are propelling the web into the realm of video games and machine learning. They explore the differences between higher level libraries and low-level programming, the computational power of WebGPU, user consent for heavy compute tasks, and the tools available for game developers to bring their games to the web. They also highlight the gpufundamentals.org website and emphasize the value of podcasting in introducing new ideas, like web GPU.

Guest Laura Kalbeg talks about the growth and evolution of the XState project. She also introduces Stately.ai, a SaaS platform for seamless state management solutions compatible with XState, Redux & zustand.

Una Kravets, developer advocate at Google & web platform ambassador, discusses recent advancements in CSS including expanded color spaces and matching backgrounds with photos. Updates in CSS architecture, components, animations, transitions, and responsive design are explored. The complexity of CSS, updates to browser components, and the introduction of new features in the rendering engine are discussed. The podcast highlights the benefits of CSS in simplifying web development and touches on interactivity and the future of CSS. The effectiveness of Tailwind CSS is debated and the importance of CSS knowledge is emphasized.