DejaVue

This episode of DejaVue includes not only knowledge but also a certain degree of magic, as Alex and Michael meet up with the one and only TypeScript Wizard Matt Pocock. Together, they talk about how he became a full-time educator and what the pros and cons are, then of course discussing everything around TypeScript - from Types vs. Interfaces, any vs. unknown, Matt's ts-reset library, Flappy Bird in TypeScript and more amazing nuggets

Enjoy the episode!

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Our Guest

* Matt Pocock
* Web - https://www.totaltypescript.com/
* Twitter - https://x.com/mattpocockuk/
* YouTube - ‪@mattpocockuk‬
* TikTok -   / mattpocockuk  
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Your Hosts

* Michael Thiessen
* Twitter -   / michaelthiessen  
* YouTube - ‪@michaelnthiessen‬
* Web - https://michaelnthiessen.com/

* Alexander Lichter
* YouTube - ‪@TheAlexLichter‬
* Twitter -   / thealexlichter  
* Web - https://www.lichter.io/

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Chaptermarks:

00:00 Welcome to DejaVue
02:08 How Matt came to join DejaVue
03:03 Becoming a full time TypeScript educator
05:10 What do you miss when doing full time content creation?
08:16 Being an employee vs. self-employed
14:42 Why using TypeScript?
19:59 TypeScript only for libraries?
22:40 Migrating JS to TS
28:08 The build/compile step
33:20 Types vs. Interfaces
37:19 Declaration Merging pitfalls
41:35 TS Reset and TS 5.5 improvements
48:25 TypeScript enforcing a way of programming
51:18 any vs. unknown
54:25 Wrapping up

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Links and Resources

▶ Matt's Truck stream    • Coding ROAD TRIP  
▶ Badass.dev https://badass.dev/
▶ NeverThrow https://github.com/supermacro/neverthrow
▶ Sentry migrating to TS https://blog.sentry.io/slow-and-stead...
▶ Stripe migrating to TS https://stripe.com/blog/migrating-to-...
▶ TS Reset https://github.com/total-typescript/t...
▶ TS Flappy Bird https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/flap...

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