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	Podcast:		Developer On Fire
	Episode:		Episode 146 \| Basarat Ali Syed - Niche and Fire
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:37:11
	Publish Date:		2016-07-10 19:00:00
	Description:		Guest: Basarat Ali Syed @basarat Basarat Ali Syed talks with Dave Rael about motivations for diving deep on a language, the rewards of open source software, and exciting experiences Basarat (@basarat) is a highly active member of the TypeScript community. Participant in a few OSS github organizations like DefinitelyTyped, TypeStrong, Typings. Creator Atom-TypeScript, grunt-ts and now alm.tools. Authored Apress Beginning NodeJS and self published a free book TypeScript Deep Dive. Top contributor for the TypeScript tag on StackOverflow. Chapters: 0:27 - Dave introduces the show and Basarat Ali Syed 1:51 - Basarat's motivation for becoming focused on TypeScript 3:31 - Basarat's definition of value 4:27 - The tooling Basarat has created for TypeScript 8:16 - ALM tools 10:41 - The things that "light Basarat up" 12:09 - How Basarat got started in software 13:57 - Basarat's story of failure - Betting on the wrong horse 15:33 - Shifting to the web 16:50 - Basarat's success story - Open source projects - getting collaborators and growing into an organization 19:04 - Basarat's thoughts on having "made it" 20:20 - How Basarat stays current with what he needs to know 22:25 - Basarat's book recommendation 23:57 - The things that have Basarat most excited 25:03 - Angular 2 and TypeScript 27:41 - Basarat's motivations for getting into TypeScript and current outlook 29:22 - Basarat's sources of pain and suffering 30:43 - The things about which Basarat likes to geek out 32:41 - Basarat's prediction for the future of software 33:48 - Basarat's top 3 tips for delivering more value 36:07 - Keeping up with Basarat Resources: Basarat's Blog TypeScript ALM Tools for TypeScript atom-typescript The TypeStrong organization on GitHub Angular 2: Built on TypeScript DefinitelyTyped Flow - A static type checker for JavaScript AtScript Edgar Dijkstra: Go To Statement Considered Harmful grunt-ts Anders Hejlsberg - 2015 Build Conference (atom-typescript at 42:30) Basarat's book recommendation: Software Requirements (3rd Edition) (Developer Best Practices) - Karl Wiegers Basarat's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Optimize for your own personal happiness (happy coder -> happy code) Always keep learning and be open to new ideas "You have to write the code" (Basarat attributed to Anders Hejlsberg)
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