Episode 51: MJS 052: Jeremy Likness

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Jeremy Likness

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jeremy Likness. Jeremy works for Microsoft currently and first got into programming when he was kept home while having a sunburn and taught himself how to type in a program into his family’s TI-99 4A computer and then later moved on to the Commodore 64. They stress the fact that you can be a successful programmer, no matter your background and they talk about the pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you first get into programming?
How much Microsoft is in the different programming aspects
Cloud developer advocates
Azure
TI-99 4A and Commodore 64
C and C+
You don’t have to go the traditional route to be a programmer
Having a CS major is not the only way
How did you get into JavaScript?
Discovered the internet in college
Career focused on Web apps
jQuery
Backbone.js
Hands-on career with the code
He did consulting for 10 years
Linux
How has your earning changed?
His biggest fear was getting out of touch with the realities of day-to-day programming
Pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate
Community, Content, and Connection with engineering
And much, much more!