Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development.He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled

23: One is Just the Other in Reverse with Jafar Husain

Nov 4th, 2015 2h 10m

Show Notes & LinksKahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one! This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing Jav

22: Building Abstractions That Aren't Ahistorical with Ashley Williams

Oct 13th, 2015 2h 4m

Show Notes & LinksKahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architectur

21: I Will Not Get in the Way of My Projects Success with Steve Francia

Aug 18th, 2015 2h 8m

Show Notes & LinksHenning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go & Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his

20: I've Always Been Interested in Really Rich Experiences with Robin Ward

Aug 4th, 2015 1h 25m

Show Notes & LinksHenning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a colla

19: I Don't Own Stuff Exactly with Steve Klabnik

Jun 29th, 2015 1h 59m

Show Notes & LinksHenning and Kahlil have an interesting and amusing conversation with Steve Klabnik about his origins as a programmer and how he got involved in Ruby, JSON API and Rust.Highlights[00:01:30] Henning welcomes Steve Klabnik

18: Hilariously, Isaac Emailed Me with Raquel Vélez

May 15th, 2015 1h 36m

Show Notes & LinksRaquel talked to Kahlil about getting into robots, transitioning to web development, working at several startups and landing at npm inc. as employee #1. Raquel also goes into what it was like to rebuild npm's website and the

17: What's Going On With Angular? with Pascal Precht

May 7th, 2015 1h 36m

Show Notes & LinksHenning and Kahlil talk to Pascal about what's going on with Angular, how internationalisation works it's way into core and what he and his business partner are doing with Thoughtram.CorrectionsJust after we recorded thi

16: Feel Free to Argue About Services with Rachel Myers

Apr 15th, 2015 1h 46m

Show Notes & LinksRachel talked to Kahlil about how she got interested in programming after her philosophy major, how she ended up at GitHub, what RailsBridge and the Passions Projects are and what her talk at SoCoded Conf will be about.Ra

15: The Angular 2 Rendering Architecture Document

Apr 10th, 2015 53m 10s

Show Notes & LinksHenning and Kahlil talk about a document and Angular 2's architecture that was floating around on the internet recently.Angular 2 Rendering ArchitectureAngular 2 Built on TypeScriptHenning's picks: LammilyUnlocatorTM

14: Discussing the EmberConf 2015 Opening Keynote

Apr 2nd, 2015 1h 31m

Show notes & linksHenning and Kahlil talk about the EmberConf 2015 Opening Keynote video.Henning is @hglattergotz on TwitterKahlil is @distilledhype on TwitterEmberConf 2015 Opening KeynoteKahlil's picks:WorkingDraft episode 213Is Emb

13: Introducing Henning Glatter-Götz

Mar 18th, 2015 1h 55m

Show Notes & LinksKahlil talks to Henning about his career as a programmer and about how he ended up with EmberJS as his JavaScript framework of choice. They also talk about Henning joining DESCRIPTIVE as a co-host and express their awe abo

12: We've Never Had This Many Active Contributors to Core Before with Mikeal Rogers

Mar 10th, 2015 1h 17m

Show Notes & LinksMikeal talks to Kahlil about his long career as a programmer, his work as a JavaScript community organiser and io.js.Mikeal is @mikeal on Twittermikealrogers.comNodeConfJSFestio.jsio.js Github Org (get involved!)Nod

11: I Probably Wrote 70 Tests Today or Something with Sean Devine

Feb 16th, 2015 1h 50m

Show Notes & LinksSean talks to Kahlil about his career as a programmer, TDD, DHH, API-first development, JSON API, Ruby on Rails and EmberJS.Sean Devine is @barelyknown on TwitterEmberJSRuby on RailsJSON APIDHH on TDDSean's picks:NB

10: All These Components Do is Fetch Things and Render Them, Essentially with Tiffany Conroy

Feb 11th, 2015 2h 55m

Show Notes & LinksTiffany talks to Kahlil about her work at SoundCloud, @weareallawesome and JSConf.eu.Tiffany on TwitterTiffany works at SoundCloud and they are hiring ;)Tiffany co-curates JSConf.euTiffany runs BerlinJSTiffany's speak

9: What Comes Out of the Box Will Be Dependable with Elise Huard

Jan 19th, 2015 1h 2m

Show Notes & LinksElise Huard talks to Kahlil about how she got started with programming and explains what Haskell is and some of the principles in functional programming. Elise has worked with many languages throughout her career: C, JAVA,

8: If You Want to Keep Making Money off of It, You Have To Make it Easy to Work On with Jamison Dance

Dec 5th, 2014 1h 44m

Show Notes & LinksJamison Dance talks to Kahlil about working at iTV and Kualico, ReactJS and ImmutableJS and about how this whole JavaScript Jabber thing started.Jamison is @jergason on Twitterjamisondance.comPICK: Local State, Global C

7: I Don't Know, Why Don't You Write A BitTorrent Client? with Mathias Buus

Nov 22nd, 2014 1h 47m

Show Notes & LinksKahlil talks to Mathias Buus about working with Node early on, application structure, LevelDB, distributed infrastructure and his JSConf.eu talk on streaming anything with BitTorrent and Node. Mathias is @mafintosh on Twi

6: Everyone Who Has Root Also Does On Call with Ole Michaelis

Nov 11th, 2014 1h 44m

Show Notes & LinksKahlil talks to Ole about his history in programming, working at Jimdo, speaking at conferences and making slidr.io.Ole is @codestars on TwitterOle's article on speaking: Finding Your VoiceJimdodev.jimdo.comyolodevs.jimdo.coms

5: We Should Make This its Own Thing with Gregor Martynus

Nov 5th, 2014 1h 32m

Show Notes & LinksKahlil talks to Gregor Martynus about how he got started in programming, the Africa Hack Trip & Hoodie.Gregor is @gr2m on TwitterHoodienoBackendAfrica Hack TripOffline FirstPICK: Made in AfricaPICK: Raise the RoofM

4: I Want to Keep it Simple, I Want to Keep it Focused with Bastian Allgeier

Oct 28th, 2014 1h

Show Notes & LinksKahlil talks to Bastian Allgeier about how he got into programming and design, why and how he built Zootool and Kirby, the release of Kirby 2 and keeping it simple.Bastian is @bastianallgeier on TwitterZootool shut down

3: On the Fly You Can Sound Like You're a Robot with Jan Monschke

Oct 21st, 2014 1h 13m

Show Notes & LinksKahlil talks to Jan Monschke about how he got into JavaScript and his work with the Web Audio API.jan is @thedeftone on TwitterJan's iPad DemoDifferential Sync Google Tech TalkReally good E-Book on Web AudioIntro tutorial to W

2: I Can Parachute into Anybody's Project with Brandon Hays

Oct 14th, 2014 1h 6m

Show Notes & LinksBrandon Hays talks to Kahlil about Frontside, why Frameworks are awesome and refactoring legacy jQuery code into EmberJS components.FrontsideBrandon Hays is @tehviking on TwitterBring Fun Back to JS: Step-by-Step Refactoring T

1: A Little Bit of Everything with Philip Roberts

Oct 5th, 2014 1h 2m

Show Notes & LinksI talked to Philip Roberts about his JSConf.eu talk, the event loop, how he got started with JavaScript, his current working place &yet and AmpersandJS.Philip Roberts at ScottlandJS: "Help, I'm stuck in an event-loop."Philip R

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