Just wanted to say that you're my number one JavaScript show. I love everything about your talks and hope you don't change a thing. The cast and guests are great and I get lots of tips and ideas from your topics. Please continue as-is.

I’ve listened for years … it started off really well with knowledgeable hosts and interesting topics, then waded into framework/tool of the week, then into Wix and Wix adjacent commercialization, then web3 with one of the hosts playing the ultimate grift of “there is no goo crypto use case except mine” .. a nice con he played for about 6 months to then shill his stuff for months after that to whatever is next… I’m getting off this train, however, because of just horrible takes, asinine and offensive comments, and just often-incorrect information. I kept hoping guests would call the hosts out but unfortunately that never happens. I’m getting to the point of not wanting to use the tools because of the guests’ inability or lack of desire to actually disagree. There are better podcasts out there. Don’t waste your time on this one.

I love the episodes with Dan and AJ, as they talk about issues encountered by JS and/or software developers frequently. Charles (host) and the dad jokes guy are just self-promoting and/or distracting noise (stop saying “dad jokes”, even worse than the jokes themselves). Again, Dan’s comments are especially insightful and address common coding problems and decisions. Dan and AJ really bring substance to the podcast, episodes without them are a waste of time (shameless self promotion episodes, somewhat preying on the insecurities of less experienced developers to sell consultation services).

“Being the nitpicky one that cares about the way words are used, I don’t think anyone here ever had Covid…” In the intro to the Front End Architecture episode, AJ feels it’s necessary to tell a guest recovering from Covid that what he actually has is SARS-Cov-2, not Covid-19. I’m sure his guest appreciates the exceptionally unnecessary medical nuance in this web development podcast. AJ is every engineer I’ve ever hated to work with. And for all his bluster, how often is he offering half-hearted apologies and corrections for ridiculously hard stances he’s taken that proved to be wrong? This show is 1,000,000% better when he’s not on. I love the content and conversations, but his personality drives me away every time I try to give it a chance. TLDR: came for an architecture discussion, left because a host is a serial jerk who hides behind the facade of “Being the nitpicky one that cares about the way words are used”.

Like other reviews say, the actual tech content on these is really hit or miss. This latest episode with AJ raging rather than trying to have an actual conversation killed it for me, let alone the pseudoscientific book pick at the end. Dan Shappir is an incredibly patient man.

I want to give this five stars, but Dan’s “sorry to interrupt”, “in my opinion”, overall confrontational attitude, and making the show all about him, prevent me from doing so. The other members are great and I usually go to episodes that either lack Dan or the rare ones where he is there but doesn’t take over the show.

The episodes are hit or miss (sometimes they go in depth, other times they stay at a high level) but overall I’ve been able to learn lots of relevant tidbits that help keep me up to speed on the JS ecosystem.

I like this podcast. It CAN be quite informative and often dives into specific subjects for an entire episode where other shows might just touch these subjects as they come up, as one part of a group of subjects, etc. The problem is, though an entire show might be based around a concept, you’ll listen to the whole show and not really feel any more informed on it. Most episodes turn into a series of “well ACTUALLYYYY”’s. Secondly, discussion happens on an extremely macro level. It’s tough to translate code to audio, but they can definitely be better about discussing real life scenarios you might use whatever. Part of this is on the guest, admittedly, but if the guest isn’t getting into the weeds, I think the panelists should try to get them there. I think as a listener, most people would prefer that to a game of “stump the other panelists/guests”. Panelists: no one cares about the random irrelevant environment that x doesn’t ACTUALLY work in. There is nothing wrong with discussing a side topic if it comes up naturally and is “danger zone listeners need to know this for real”. But I’m sure around a quarter of the content of every episode is irrelevant information. Sorry if this review is harsh, I do like the show, I just want it to be better. I’m tired of seeing a subject in an episode title, getting excited, then an hour later feeling like it was a waste.

Who found this guy?

It's sad but not surprising how JSJ has suffered in quality since expanding to twice a week.

In October I decided I would listen to every episode of this podcast and just this week (December) finally caught up. It was really interesting seeing the discussions move from Backbone, Knockout, Angular.js, and Ember to mostly React essentially overnight in 2015. It was also interesting to listen to predictions about how es6 would be adopted and how some people correctly predicted that this would lead to build systems and JavaScript becoming a compilation target. Also it was interesting to me that the web component spec was discussed in 2012 and in almost 2019 it had yet to see wide adoption. I really love the personal touch this podcast, with things like AJ ONeils reoccurring intro gag, the bacon convention, all of the board games, and the picks section. It’s also nice to see a lot of less popular libraries and frameworks covered rather than just the same old stuff. The breadth of topics leads to a large variety of things to add to the “maybe ill check that out” list. Also most importantly all of the people in the panel seem to be really sincere and that matters. I’ll definitely continue listening to this podcast and would definitely recommend it to anyone’s interested in what’s going on in JavaScript.

I’ve learned a ton listening to this podcast. The host is really involved and engaged in web development and it shows. It is easy to follow while out for a walk or something n a drive. Thank you for keeping this going.

Very disappointed and finally gave up with this podcast. The host is absolutely terrible (not knowledgable about JS at all and at times pretty rude to guests) and most of the panel sounds very awkward. As someone in the industry of teaching JS, I recognize how difficult it can be to do something like this so I tried to stick it out, however when guests come on and the host admits he not only knows nothing about what they are there for, but also that he did not study up on it and prefers Ruby, it makes it hard to stay with it. I do feel bad for the guests and all the people who put work into this, but unfortunately its not for me.