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Programming By Stealth

Bart Busschots & Allison Sheridan

A collaborative project between Bart Busschots and Allison Sheridan to sneak up on real programming in small easy steps, using the allure of the web as the carrot to entice people forward.

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All Episodes

86:17

PBS Tibit 4 of Y — Rethinking a Web App – from Web...

Programming By Stealth ·

2022/04/01

Over the past few months, podfeet.com went through a period of really poor performance. My site hadn't been snappy in the last few years with page loads of up to 6 seconds, but it hit a tipping point where it was taking in excess of 40 seconds for pages to load. William Reveal and Bart migrated the services behind podfeet.com that improved performance to where most pages load in less than a quarter of a second. In this Programming By Stealth adjacent episode, Bart wanted to walk through the

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54:56

PBS Tidbit 3 of Y

Programming By Stealth ·

2022/03/20

In this Programming By Stealth adjacent installment labeled Tidbits 3 of Y, Bart Busschots talks to us about the dangers of using other people's code in your code, and the danger of not using other people's code. He explains this seeming dichotomy and gives us ways to approach the problem taking a middle ground. He helps us think about how to choose whether to use other's code and whose code to use, and even how to ensure it's kept up to date with security patches. It's definitely a philosophical

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60:57

PBS 136 of X — More Jesting

Programming By Stealth ·

2022/03/06

Bart Busschots taught us the basics of Jest last time for our Test Driven Development environment. This week we learn to group our tests using the `describe()` function in Jest. Grouping tests with describe does more than eliminate the need to comment our code, it also provides more useful output from our tests and scopes what happens inside. As Bart describes it, we climb "Mount Jest" at one point as he explains how we can also loop our tests (instead of repeating code as we did last time) using

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70:23

PBS 135 of X – Introducing Jest (and re-Introducing...

Programming By Stealth ·

2022/02/20

In this week's installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart takes us down memory lane to 102 episodes ago when he first introduced us to the concept of test-driven development. He explains why back then he taught us how to use QUnit for our TDD work, and why it's no longer in favor with him. It's not just the advancements in technology like ES6, but it's also because QUnit makes it terribly hard to write tests and to interpret what you've written when you've been away from it for a while. He walks

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69:00

PBS 134 of X — Firming up our Foundations (2 of 2)

Programming By Stealth ·

2022/01/23

In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots finishes firming up our foundation on a few more things before we meet Jest, which will be the Test Driven Development (TDD) environment we'll be learning next time. He explains in some adorable examples involving a parrot (named Polly of course) how getters can be used to construct short but powerful syntaxes that seem quite counterintuitive at first glance. These are heavily used by Jest, and without learning about them, they would

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68:53

PBS 133 of X – Firming up our Foundations (1 of 2)

Programming By Stealth ·

2022/01/10

In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes us through some review in order to prepare us to begin our journey into test driven development (TDD) with the tool Jest which he's chosen for our TDD. He clears up some confusion on the difference between `npm install` and `npm ci`, and then he gives us more guidance on when to use which JSDoc tags, especially when documenting plain objects. He gives us a refresher on the different ways of defining functions, and especially arrow

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96:48

PBS 132 of X — Managing JSDoc

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/12/22

In this final Programming By Stealth and final Chit Chat Across the Pond for 2021, Bart teaches us how to manage our documentation in JSDoc. As any good programmer, he insists on automating as much as he possibly can. He starts by showing us each step that we have to do at the command line, and methodically puts together a JSDoc configuration file that runs scripts and helps create documentation directories, and installs plugins. Even better he helps us to configure JSDoc so that it will alert us

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91:25

PBS 131 of X – Introducing JSDoc

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/12/14

In our last installment, Bart explained why good documentation matters to ourselves and to other developers who want to use our code, and he also explained that using an automatic document generator like JSDoc could help make it easier for us to write good documentation and to keep it up to date more easily. In this week's installment, he starts to show us how to actually write JSDoc comments in line with our code. He explains the different elements of JSDoc comments and demonstrates how his own

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71:20

PBS 130 of X – Good Technical Documentation

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/11/28

As we embark on our journey to create a JavaScript module for the strong, memorable password generating service XKPASSWD, Bart explains the importance of creating good documentation. That sounds super annoying and tedious, and it is, so Bart explains why a good documentation generator will be our friend. He outlines the two distinctly different users of our documentation: those of us who will be helping to create the code itself as part of the community project, but also for the people who will be

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83:05

PBS 129 of X - ESLint with Guest Instructor Helma Van...

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/11/14

Bart Busschots had a vision that certain things we would learn in Phase 2 of Programming By Stealth would be taught by guest lecturers. I thought he was bananas that this would work, but Helma Van der Linden, also known as Helma from the Netherlands stepped up to teach us about coding linters, and specifically ESLint. In this installment she explains what linters are, and why they're useful. Even though she's not technically fond of them, she believes in linters because of what they can do for a

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PBS 128 of X – JavaScript Module Basics

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/11/03

This installment of Programming By Stealth could probably have been two segments but all of us are itching to get moving quickly so we decided to power through. In the first part of the installment, Bart introduces us to JavaScript modules by giving us a bit of a history lesson on how they've evolved. If you're brand new to modules, this will be interesting but not essential. If you have history with them though, you'll definitely need to pay close attention to understand what's changed. Then Bart

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61:29

PBS 127 of X – Introducing NPM (and Node)

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/10/16

As we launch full steam into Phase 2 of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots introduces us to the Node Package Manager and Node itself. Unlike our mini-series within a series for Git and Chezmoi, Bart isn't going to do an exhaustive walk through NPM and Node. Instead he's going to teach use what we need as we go along. In order for that to make any sense at all, in this installment, he explain to us at a high level Node and NPM are, and what problems they solve. This lesson isn't all theory

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64:25

PBS 126 of X - Introducing Phase 2

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/10/03

At episode 700! of Chit Chat Across the Pond we take Programming By Stealth into what Bart is calling Phase 2. We've learned a great deal about the client side of programming and we're now going to move to the server side of the web. As Bart described Phase 2, I realized that it's as though we've finished out undergraduate work in computer science, and we're entering graduate school. That observation is not based on the concepts being harder, but rather because we are going to work as a

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50:02

PBS 125 of X – Chezmoi on Multiple Computers

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/09/18

In this final episode of Programming By Stealth before we launch into the back end of web development with PHP, Bart finishes his miniseries on Chezmoi to manage dot files. In this installment he teaches us how to effectively manage our dot files on multiple computers using templating to ensure that the correct settings end up on every computer. You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at pbs.bartificer.net/...

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78:36

PBS 124 of X – Chezmoi Templates

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/09/05

Bart has been really excited to teach this next installment of Programming By Stealth where we really dig into learning about Chezmoi templates, including learning functions and arguments, how to declare variables, looping over arrays, and learning the `sprig` utility functions to extend Chezmoi. I thought he was going to jump out of his chair he was so happy to teach pipelines which are a grand way of embedding function statements in a way that is very human-readable. This is our penultimate

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69:47

PBS 123 of X — Backing up and Syncing Dot Files with...

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/08/23

In this week's episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots continues his instruction on how to use the open source tool Chezmoi to manage our dot files, those hidden configuration files on our Macs. In this installment, Bart teaches us how nearly effortless it is to sync our Chezmoi-managed dot files up to a private repo on GitHub. Seriously, it's like 2 steps. Bart then teaches us how Chezmoi supports templating. When Bart started to describe it, I said, "Oh! It's just like mail merge in

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68:47

PBS 122 of X – Managing Dot Files with Chezmoi

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/08/08

In our previous installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart introduced us to Chezmoi, an open source tool to help us manage dot files, those hidden configuration files that get created on our Macs. Configuration files contain information about how we like our Macs configured, including where to access our ssh keys and our preferred command line editor and more. If we move between computers it would be nice to have the same configuration, or if we do a clean install it would be great to be able to

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40:13

PBS 121 of X — Managing Dot Files and an Introduction...

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/07/24

As we've become nerdier while learning from Bart, we had started to add hidden configuration files to our Macs and PCs. On the Mac, these configuration files hidden by default by putting a dot in front of them, and hence they are called dot files. Maybe you've stored your ssh keys, or in our Git series you created a user-level gitconfig file, or perhaps you've installed VS Code or Sourcetree which also add hidden configuration files. In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart explains the

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73:57

PBS 120 – Ignoring Files in Git

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/07/11

A few weeks ago I told Bart off the air that when he was done with his mini-series within a series all about the version control system Git, I'd like a few minutes with him offline so he could explain how to ignore files in Git. I knew there was a way to do it but he hadn't covered it so I assumed it was just something quick he could explain to me. His reaction surprised me, he said, "D'oh!" because he realized that this is a _very_ important part of using Git and that he would definitely dedicate

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59:16

PBS 119 of X — Open Source on GitHub

Programming By Stealth ·

2021/06/27

As promised, Bart takes us through the final step in our GitHub journey - learning how to contribute to an open source project. He explains three open source scenarios: using someone's code exactly as-is, using their code with a few customizations of your own, and finally the most interesting scenario, customizing the code and contributing your customizations back to the project. When he gets to the final scenario, he gives us a way to practice these newly-acquired skills, and it's something he's

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