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Panel


Chris Ferdinandi
Aimee Knight
Aaron Frost
AJ O’Neal


Joined by special guest: Keith Cirkel

Episode Summary

In 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
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Picks

Aaron 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.