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A podcast where we talk about JavaScript and everything under the hood with TC39 delegates.
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Robin Ricard

tc39er.usAug 09, 2022

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Robin Ricard

Robin Ricard

In this episode we shall be talking with Robin Ricard from Bloomberg! Robin is working on Javascript Infra & Tooling Eng and is indeed a TC39 delegate.

In this episode we discussed:

  • How did Robin get into tech?
  • What does he do at Bloomberg?
  • How did he get into TC39?
  • Motivation behind Record and Tuples!
  • His favorite proposal and why!

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Aug 09, 202229:50
Luca Casonato

Luca Casonato

Welcome to tc39er.us a podcast where we will be discussing JavaScript and everything under the hood with the TC39 delegates!

In this episode we shall be talking toLuca Casonatofrom the deno land (core team) and indeed is a TC39 delegate.

We discussed:

  • What brought you into the tech world?
  • We talked about Deno land!
  • What got them into TC39?
  • What is something that you learnt during the meeting (like a pattern?)?
  • Some proposals that they are working on.
  • Their fav proposal and why?

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P.S: This is a community effort and not an offical TC39 podcast.

Jul 26, 202221:36
Justin Ridgewell
Jan 04, 202231:44
Jack Works

Jack Works

In this episode we shall we talking to Jack Works, a Front-end Engineer from Sujitech, passionate about the expressiveness and security of the programming languages. TC39er working on the TypeScript/React ecosystem.

In this episode we shall be talking about:

  • Their story, what brought them to the tech world!
  • Lessons learnt from TC39
  • SES (Securing JavaScript) in detail
  • Favorite TC39 proposals and whys
Nov 18, 202125:53
Nicolò Ribaudo

Nicolò Ribaudo

In this episode we shall be talking to Nicolò Ribaudo: one of the core maintainers of Babel (for the past four years), who loves working on JavaScript language features. Nicolò contributed to different proposal such as "Records and Tuples", and just started studying for a master's degree in pure math!

In this episode we shall be talking about:

  • What brought them to the programming?
  • Their experience with Babel as a core maintainer
  • Intersection between pure math and programming
  • Records and Tuples
  • His favorite TC39 proposals and whys.
Nov 02, 202121:04
J. S. Choi, MD

J. S. Choi, MD

Welcome to tc39er.us a podcast where we will be discussing about JavaScript and everything under the hood with the TC39 delegates!

In this episode we shall be talking to J. S. Choi, MD a physician of internal medicine and clinical informatics, has a double major in Physiology double minor in Computer Science and Chemistry and preserving his Clinical Informatics Fellowship at Indiana University

Choi is an independent contributor to discussions of several standards bodies including the WHATWG (HTML5), ECMA Technical Committee 39 (JavaScript / ECMAScript), the W3C (CSS, Web Annotations), and the Unicode Consortium. Also interested in health-informatics standards such as HL7.

In this episode we shall be talking about:

  • Choi's story: How he got into tech and TC39!
  • Commonality between medical and computer science.
  • Proposal for body-part emoji
  • Choi's proposals and The Hack pipes proposal.
  • His favorite TC39 proposals and whys.

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P.S: This is a community effort and not an official TC39 podcast.

Oct 21, 202131:32
Yulia Startsev

Yulia Startsev

In this episode we shall be talking to Yulia Startsev Staff Engineer from Mozilla, who is indeed a TC39er works majorly on implementing new features on spidermonkey also runs Compiler Compiler a Twitch series about working on a JavaScript engine.

Listen to us as we discuss about her journey into the software industry, art, science, human psychology, women in tech and of course about TC39!

Jul 13, 202126:55
Tab Atkins-Bittner

Tab Atkins-Bittner

In this episode we shall be talking to Tab Atkins-Bittner works as a spec hacker for Google on the Chrome team, working on CSS and other assorted web tech, indeed a TC39er and is the author of the Bikeshed spec-processing tool. Is a queer, a gamer (board and video) and love animals. Tab coined the term Shadow DOM! Don't miss to read their food recipes!

Jun 17, 202122:33
Tierney Cyren

Tierney Cyren

In this episode we shall be hearing to Tierney Cyren  who has made amazing contributions in @nodejs, ⬡.js, @electronjs, @openjsf  and of course is a TC39er,  we shall be talking about his journey into the software industry, his contributions in the Node.js community, learnings he gained from free and opensource, `Object.hasOwn` proposal and his favorite proposal.

Jun 08, 202122:02
Daniel Ehrenberg

Daniel Ehrenberg

In this show we talk to Daniel Ehrenberg who is a Cooperativista at Igalia interested in efficient, expressive programming languages. Work on TC39, improving JavaScript.

Listen to us as we speak about Daniel's journey into the software industry, TC39 stages, decorators, pipeline operators, Decimals, operator overloading and more!

May 28, 202139:40
Episode 11 - Mike Samuel

Episode 11 - Mike Samuel

Welcome to tc39er.us a podcast where we will be discussing about Javascript and everything under the hood with the TC39 delegates!

In this episode we shall be talking to Mike Samuel after Gmail, Google Calendar was Google’s second large JavaScript project, and he learned JavaScript so he could work on it, he wrote large chunks of gCal’s first JavaScript client and the web frontend. Mike got into standards from there as he was briefly involved with the iCal standard / RFC 2445, etc.

Mike Samuel is a language designer from a static, typed languages background with a lot of appreciation for dynamic languages is into computer security and programming languages, TC39er, Former Googler and does not understand sarcasm!

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May 21, 202121:33
Guy Bedford

Guy Bedford

In this episode you shall we hearing to Guy Bedford, an independent open source developer, creator of jspm, SystemJS and es-module-shims, core contributor to node and rollup, Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor and indeed a TC39 delegate!

In this podcast we discuss the below:

  • What brought him into software and journey.
  • Challenges and benefits of being an independent open source developer.
  • We discuss about jspm and SystemJS
  • His journey with TC39.
  • His fav TC39 proposal and why?
Apr 24, 202118:45
Ujjwal Sharma

Ujjwal Sharma

In this episode we shall be talking to Ujjwal Sharma!

Ujjwal Sharma is Compilers Hacker at Igalia, TC39 Delegate and a Node.js Core Collaborator

In this episode we shall be talking about:

  • What brought you into tech?
  • More about Igalia and what do you work on?
  • What are your contributions in node.js?
  • Opinions on Rust?
  • What's your favorite TC39 proposal and why?
Jan 15, 202122:17
Dave Herman

Dave Herman

In this episode we shall be talking to Dave Herman!

Dave is building dev tools at LinkedIn as a Principal Staff Engineer. 

He founded Mozilla Research. 

Authored the book Effective JavaScript

He also has a PhD in programming languages!

In this episode we shall be discussing about:

  • What got Dave interested in tech?
  • Mozilla Research and ES4.
  • His experiences with TC39 committee.
  • Whys of Effective JavaScript.
  • Future of JavaScript?
  • Fav proposal and why?
Aug 18, 202028:45
Episode 7 - Allen Wirfs-Brock

Episode 7 - Allen Wirfs-Brock

In this episode of TC39er.us we have Allen Wirfs-Brock!

Dreaming  the future of software; Project Editor  ECMAScript 2015; Reformed Smalltalker; JavaScript historian!

We shall be talking about:

  • What brought him to tech?
  • How was tech when Allen started programming in the mid 1960s!
  • His journey in the TC39 committee.
  • What happened there with ES4?
  • JavaScript historian, what future holds for us?
  • ECMA Fellow and ACM Distinguished Engineer?
  • What's your fav proposal and why?

P.S: Don't forget to read JavaScript: the first 20 years a paper by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich!

Aug 11, 202035:57
Episode 6 - Ross Kirsling

Episode 6 - Ross Kirsling

In this episode we shall be talking to Ross Kirsling Lover of languages, programming and natural. Software engineer engaged in JavaScript implementation (WebKit) and standardization (TC39). Japanese speaker skilled in communicating across linguistic and organizational boundaries. SSE at PlayStation's WebKit team.

We shall be discussing about:

  • His journey into the tech world.
  • What his job at PlayStation's Webkit team look like?
  • Features implementation and spec-conformance fixes.
  • Talk more about spec reviewer role.
  • What's his fav proposal(s) and why?
Jul 24, 202022:50
Chip Morningstar

Chip Morningstar

In this episode, we shall be talking to Chip Morningstar an author, developer, software programmer, and designer of software systems from the University of Michigan in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering.

We shall be discussing:

  • His journey into the tech world.
  • What is that he has seen which is constant in the tech world over the years?
  • First Penguin award and the word Avatar.
  • His perspective and insights on TC39.
  • His favorite flavor of proposals.
Jun 09, 202039:39
Episode 4 -  Shu-yu

Episode 4 - Shu-yu

In this episode we shall be talking to @_shu from the V8 team at Google, is also a TC39 editor!

  • His journey into the tech world? Preview of his job at V8.
  • Exotic objects in JS!
  • One thing that he finds to be very challenging at TC39 as an editor.
  • What's your fav proposal and more!
May 26, 202039:29
Episode 3 - Myles Borins

Episode 3 - Myles Borins

In this show, we shall be talking to @MylesBorins who is :

  • Artist, musician, developer, and maker
  • Part Technical Steering Committee @nodejs
  • Director Of Open JS foundation.
  • Co-Chair @tc39
  • Developer Avocado @google.

We shall be discussing:

  • What brought him into the tech world?
  • More about node TSC.
  • Whys of OpenJS Foundation?
  • What are the most challenging aspects of being a co-chair @TC39?
  • Can you tell us about your fav (top-level await) proposal?
  • is-promise hiccups.
  • CAT gif in your slides!
Apr 28, 202049:42
Interview with Jordan Harband one of the TC39 editors.

Interview with Jordan Harband one of the TC39 editors.

In this episode, we talk with Jordan Harband one of the editors at TC39 about:

* His journey as a software engineer.

* How did he get into TC39?

* Roles and responsibilities of an editor, becoming an editor.

* T39 stages in one-liners.

* What's keeping him busy apart from tech.

* What's your favorite proposal and why?

Feb 29, 202030:12
Episode-1 with Aki

Episode-1 with Aki

In this episode, we talk to Aki the co-chair of TC39!

  • Tell us more about your journey.
  • How would you explain TC39 to a five-year-old?
  • How did you become a Co-Chair? What are the responsibilities?
  • What's keeping you busy right now?
  • What's the pro tip you would give to someone who is starting on standards?
  • What's your favorite proposal and why?
Jan 22, 202019:13
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Welcome to tc39er.us a podcast where we talk about JavaScript and everything under the hood with the TC39 delegates.

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