Courses for Front-End Web Developers

<p>Today we are joined by Ali Spittel, a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at dev.to, who speaks with us about:</p><ul><li>The skills she gained from a developer teaching job</li><li>How she kept up on her coding skills without writting production code by doing daily code challenges</li><li>Why she began to blog and how she made a habit out of it</li><li>Blogging on a platform vs having your own website</li><li>Using visual feedback to teach beginners to code</li><li>Involving herself in the local developer community</li></ul><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/2ed84114/transcript">"Developing Yourself While Teaching Others - with Ali Spittel" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://dev.to">dev.to</a></li></ul><h3>Ali Spittel:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/aspittel?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://dev.to/aspittel">Ali on dev.to</a></li><li><a href="https://www.alispit.tel/#/">alispit.tel</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Joel and Ali Spittel discuss her time in a teaching position, code challenges, blogging platforms, teaching beginners, and getting involved in local dev communities.

Developing Yourself While Teaching Others with Ali Spittel

<p>Today we are joined by Chris Biscardi where we discuss:</p><ul><li>Learning in public and him live-streaming open-source development</li><li>Gatsby as a PWA generator and its potential to become the dominant force on the internet</li><li>MDX's power and its potential of replacing markdown as the default content type</li><li>Chris' project, MNTNR, and the assistance it'll provide to open-source maintainers.</li></ul><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/7874d9cd/transcript">"The Changes Gatsby and Mdx Are Making to the Internet - with Chris Biscardi" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/mntnrsystems">MNTNR Systems Twitter</a></li></ul><h3>Chris Biscardi:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/chrisbiscardi">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/">christopherbiscardi.com</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Joel and Chris Biscardi discuss, live-streaming, Gatsby becoming a dominant force, MDX replacing markdown, and building resources for maintainers.

The Changes Gatsby and Mdx Are Making to the Internet with Chris Biscardi 

<p>Lindsey Kopacz, web-developer and accessibility blogger, joins us today to discuss:</p><ul><li>The positives that being authentic and public with your emotional state provides.</li><li>Her blog and the excellent dev.to community</li><li>The business value of accessibility</li><li>Accessibility in a sense that isn't limited to people with physical disabilities</li></ul><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/ca364cc2/transcript">"Championing a11y and Being Authentic - with Lindsey Kopacz" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://dev.to/">dev.to</a></li></ul><h3>Lindsey Kopacz:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/littlekope0903">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.a11ywithlindsey.com/">a11ywithlindsey.com</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

In today's episode, Lindsey Kopacz discusses being authentic about your emotional state, blogging and the dev.to community, and the value of accessibility. 

Championing a11y and Being Authentic with Lindsey Kopacz  

<p>Tae'lur Alexis, self taught programmer and founder of CodeEveryday, talks to us about:</p><ul><li>Figuring out that software was what she wanted to do</li><li>Learning to code from scratch on the modern web.</li><li>How front-end development was appealing as a beginner due to visual feedback and opportunity to be creative</li><li>How social media was key to her success in landing a job as a self-taught developer</li><li>The CodeNewbie and 100DaysOfCode communities on twitter and the roles they play in supporting developers</li><li>Setting up realistic habits and goals to prevent burnout</li><li>What the interview process was like for a new-commer to the industry</li></ul><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/4ece8b44/transcript">"Learning to Code from Scratch on the Modern Web with Tae'lur Alexis" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/">freeCodeCamp</a></li><li><a href="https://www.udemy.com/user/coltsteele/">Colt Steele on Udemy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.codenewbie.org/">CodeNewbie</a></li><li><a href="https://www.100daysofcode.com/">100DaysOfCode Challenge</a></li></ul><h3>Tae'lur Alexis:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/TaelurAlexis">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/CodeEverydayio">CodeEveryday Twitter</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Tae'lur Alexis joins us today to talk about her experience with learning to code from scratch and becoming a professional software developer in 2018.

Learning to Code from Scratch on the Modern Web with Tae'lur Alexis

<p>Josh Doody, the author of Fearless Salary Negotiation, joins us today to discuss:</p><ul><li>What you need to look out for to stay ahead in the industry</li><li>How to find leverage despite the information asymmetry between the employer and the job candidate</li><li>Why questions on what your current salary is or what you'd like it to be boxes you out of opportunities</li><li>The best way to put in the work towards a promotion.</li><li>Tradeoffs of working for a startup versus a big tech company</li><li>Equity in the salary negotiation, and how it weighs in.</li></ul><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/4bc93915/transcript">"Negotiating Your Salary and Advancing Your Career with Josh Doody" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/coach/">Fearless Salary Negotiation Coaching</a></li><li><a href="https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/get-started/">Fearless Salary Negotiation Book</a></li><li><a href="https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/the-dreaded-salary-question/">The Dreaded Salary Question</a></li><li><a href="https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/software-developers-how-to-get-a-raise/">Software Developers: How to get a Raise</a></li><li><a href="https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/salary-negotiation-guide/">Salary Negotiation Guide</a></li><li><a>Salary Negotiation for Software Developers egghead Talk</a></li></ul><h3>Josh Doody:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/JoshDoody">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshdoody/">LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="https://www.joshdoody.com">Website</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Josh Doody, the author of Fearless Salary Negotiation, offers us advice on how to get promoted, fight information asymmetry, not lose out on job and salary opportunities, and how to stay ahead in the industry.

Negotiating Your Salary and Advancing Your Career with Josh Doody

<p>Tania Rascia works as a web developer full time. However, just a few years ago she was working as a professional chef. How and why did she make such a dramatic career switch? It isn't uncommon for culinary professionals to realize that they don't want to spend the rest of their life doing it. It is a very demanding job and isn't sustainable if passion isn't there.</p><p>So, having always been interested in computers and making websites, Tania decided to make the transition into programming as a profession. Starting with one-off small odd jobs on Craigslist, then an internship, and then a full-time web developer! There were a lot of skills and concepts that had to be learned in those three years, especially starting from near zero.</p><p>Sharing what she learned publically played an essential role in Tania's development. It's like writing documentation for herself, but everyone who read her posts got to benefit from it too. Tania also places a lot of importance in creating your own version of something to fully understand it. For instance, she didn't understand how bootstrap worked, so she experimented and worked on creating her own dynamic CSS grid framework to achieve that more in-depth understanding.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/6c13d862/transcript">"Switching Careers and Learning in Public with Tania Rascia" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><p><a href="https://www.taniarascia.com/getting-started-with-react/">Getting Started with React</a><br /><a href="https://sivers.org/">Derek Sivers</a><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Smarter-Way-Learn-JavaScript-technology-ebook/dp/B00H1W9I6C">A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript</a><br /><a href="https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS">You Don't Know JavaScript</a></p><h3>Tania Rascia:</h3><p><a href="https://twitter.com/taniarascia">Twitter</a><br /><a href="https://www.taniarascia.com/">Website</a><br /><a href="https://github.com/taniarascia">Github</a></p><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><p><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a><br /><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></p>

Tania Rascia joins us today to talk about her experiences in transitioning from a professional chef to a web developer and the tools she used to get there. 

Switching Careers and Learning in Public with Tania Rascia

<p>Today Angie Jones, a master inventor and automated testing engineer, speaks with us about what a master inventor is and what it took to receive that title, what testing automation is, having parallel between testers and developers, what developers can be doing to build more testable apps, and finally how modern web development has complicated automated testing.</p><p>Angie talks about some common problems when it comes to testing. The test team is often separate from the developer team, and it leads to communication problems. Testers should be working in parallel with the dev team to ensure that from the get-go they are writing a testable app!</p><p>Another common problem is that 100% test coverage gets pushed. However, that's the wrong idea. Automated testing is expensive to implement, so Angie talks about how she figures out what'll give the most "bang for your buck" when deciding what tests get automated.</p><p>Apps aren't as simple as they used to be, and thicker client-side UIs have made it much harder to implement automated tests. Automated Engineer is a fully fledged development position requiring skill across platforms, which is why Angie says that developers shouldn't be leading automated testing. There is a lot that automated testers have to do and separate skills that they need to develop. There's only so much a person can keep up on at once.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/9109e509/transcript">"Incorporating Testers with Every Development Phase with Angie Jones" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrC3lLlwTM&t=0s&list=PLH36PGKycBeLQk4KAshSjYOSlOqHlvs9u&index=2">Level up: playing the automation game</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types">Bartle taxonomy of player types</a></li><li><a href="http://angiejones.tech/why-developers-should-not-lead-your-automation-efforts/">Why Developers Should Not Lead Your Automation Efforts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-_pnICmGY">Which Tests Should We Automate</a></li></ul><h3>Angie Jones:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/techgirl1908">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/angiejones">Github</a></li><li><a href="http://angiejones.tech/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH36PGKycBeLQk4KAshSjYOSlOqHlvs9u">YouTube</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Angie Jones, master inventor and automated testing engineer, joins us to talk about bridging the gap between the testing team and the rest of the development process, the challenges and limitations of automated testing, and some of the new and state of the art technologies in testing.

Incorporating Testers with Every Development Phase with Angie Jones

<p>Diana Rodriguez, Worldwide Community Organizer for the Vue Vixens Initiative, joins us today to talk about her early experiences with development as a child, her transition into a becoming a full-time professional and her work with getting women from communities all over the world involved with programming!</p><p>In the days of yore, gathering programming knowledge wasn't easy, the community was exclusive, and the books were expensive. The only ways to learn were through college, expensive books, or a cool friend willing to give you some information. Despite these difficulties Diana managed to be involved with the Java community, she also had the support of her parents who bought her books. Eventually, Diana's skills grew, and she would put herself out there taking programming gigs. However, it wasn't until six years ago that she decided to go full time.</p><p>Eventually, she became jaded with backend work and was craving something new, that's when she discovered Vue and its excellent and welcoming community. This community was much unlike the Java community back in the day, and Diana is working to be a part of that push for inclusivity full-force through Vue Vixens. Diana works to open and grow chapters all over the world.</p><p>Diana talks about her recent work in South America and how the dev community was exploding, it was almost overwhelming! There were women from ages 13-72 at the meetup that the Vue Vixens organized in Argentina, the event even had to be split up over two days because there were so many people. Being careful of tunnel vision and thinking about these communities of people from foreign countries, women, and other underrepresented people in the tech and welcoming them can have a substantial positive impact.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/61bbaf69/transcript">"Opening Programming's Gates to Women's Communities with Diana Rodriguez" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://vuevixens.org/">Vue Vixens</a></li></ul><h3>Diana Rodriguez:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/cotufa82">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://beingadev.rocks">Website</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Today Diana Rodriguez talks to us about her experiences with fostering women's programming communities all over the world, as well as her own experiences with growing as a developer.

Opening Programming's Gates to Women's Communities with Diana Rodriguez

<p>Julia Evans, is a  zine author and software engineer at Stripe. She joins us to talk about teaching specifics as opposed to high-level overviews, using zines to show that things that sound hard aren't hard in practice, the longevity of Julia's zine empire, and the impact that monetizing her zines had on her audience and the way she approaches working on them.</p><p>Julia writes zines, short tutorials in comic form for software developers. She recently starting monetizing them, it had an impact on her audience but not as much as you would think. Monetizing even had the unforeseen side effect of her zines getting taken more seriously, a college professor even made then required reading in his class.</p><p>She tries to keep the zines focused, with the topics breaking down something very particular. High levels talks often have the problem of not imparting anything useful. The specificity respects people's time and also can give greater context than a high-level overview. It's also much easier to be motivated to start a twenty-page zine as opposed to a three-hundred-page book.</p><p>Julia has many ideas for her zine empire. She wants to continue to collaborate with other developers so she can deliver content that isn't entirely in her wheelhouse. She also wants to start getting into some non-programming concepts, statistics in particular at some point. The possibilities with the medium are pretty much endless.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/c201ca9e/transcript">"Exploring Concepts and Teaching Using Focused Zines with Julia Evans" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://wizardzines.com/">Wizard Zines</a></li></ul><h3>Julia Evans:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/b0rk">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/jvns">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://jvns.ca/">Website</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Today Julia Evans talks to us about her zine empire, the advantages of monetizing over staying free, how keeping the topic focused can be a better entry-level lesson than a high-level overview, and how she decides a zine's subject. 

Exploring Concepts and Teaching Using Focused Zines with Julia Evans

<p>Joel and Brian Lonsdorf discuss the pain and growth of learning, math as a source of truth, dispelling that idea that you need to be a wizard to enter the functional programming space, and finally how you can start including functional concepts in your day to day work.</p><p>There's a reason that mathematicians tend to be the best functional programmers. The theories and patterns directly apply, it has truth and purity. It's powerful, almost powerful enough to describe everything, so what makes people turn away from it?</p><p>Traditionally, math gets taught in a dry manner from a young age, tables are memorized, and facts get drilled. It isn't until much later that interesting concepts like set theory get introduced, and at that point, it's too late for many people.</p><p>Material that's "dry" doesn't have to be taught that way. It's been three and a half years since Brian first put Professor's Frisby's guide up on Github and it brought light and friendly perspective to heavy material. It showed that the functional programming paradigm was learnable without requiring a deep dive into Haskell.</p><p>The deep dive doesn't work for everyone. There's merit in starting with something like Gatsby and just getting something out there that you can play with immediately, and then later learn the fundamentals of Javascript. The same thing applies to learning functional programming. You can start composing with Lodash and ease into the deeper patterns and concepts.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/6d66e9e6/transcript">"Math and Functional Programming Aren't Exclusive to Wizards with Brian Lonsdorf" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide-old/content/">Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming</a></li><li><a href="https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-composable-functional-javascript">Professor Frisby Introduces Composable Functional JavaScript</a></li><li><a href="https://hackernoon.com/function-composition-with-lodash-d30eb50153d1">Functional Composition with Lodash</a></li><li><a href="https://egghead.io/courses/state-monad-in-javascript">State Monad in JavaScript</a></li></ul><h3>Brian Lonsdorf:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/DrBoolean">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/drboolean?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/@drboolean">Medium</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Join Brian Lonsdorf in a discussion on the purity of math and how it could be used to advance the greater software community, dispelling the myth that you need to be a wizard to use math and functional programming to do anything, how we can make dry topics more approachable and fun, the daunting wall of jargon, and finally some practical advice on including functional paradigms in your day to day work.  

Math and Functional Programming Aren't Exclusive to Wizards with Brian Lonsdorf

<p>Today we are joined by Jem Young, a senior software engineer over at Netflix. Jem is here to discuss his programming philosophy and how it is an extension of himself, how engineers should have the freedom to have ideas and veto things, the difference passion makes, and being informed about the libraries that you include in your code and if they are actually needed.</p><p>Netflix's homepage got 50% faster when Today Edwards had the idea of <i>not</i> shipping React to the client. All event handling was done with vanilla javascript and React remained on the server side. Finding this balance of developer productivity and performance is important. Jem talks about how you should really examine the reasons why you are including a library in your codebase, and to ask yourself if it could be implemented in a simpler way with what you already have.</p><p>Jem discusses what it means to love the work you do and to have a real passion for creating software. Passion makes a difference in a developer's career path, the devs who are just looking to make a paycheck and don't really care don't end up in the same place that those who really care about their work do. Jem is curious, he experiments with software on his weekends, he'll sometimes wake up at 1am with the solution to a bug he's been thinking about all day, software is an integral part of his life beyond it just being how he puts food on the table.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/63505a4a/transcript">"Being a Passionate and Deliberate Engineer with Jem Young" Transcript</a></p><h3>Topics:</h3><ul><li>Trusting your engineers to know what they are doing</li><li>Weighing the performance costs of included libraries</li><li>The difference that real passion for software makes</li><li>How programming is like solving a puzzle</li><li>How the code you write represents you</li></ul><h3>Jem Young:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/young">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jemyoung?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://jemyoung.com/about/">Website</a></li></ul><h3>John Lindquist:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlindquist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://johnlindquist.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Jem Young talks to us today about being a passionate developer, how the software you write is an extension of you, being deliberate in the libraries you include in your codebase, and trusting engineers to know what they are doing.

Being a Passionate and Deliberate Engineer with Jem Young

<p>Dave Smith is on the Alexa Team at Amazon, he hosts the Soft Skills Engineering podcast and headed up the recent Utah JS Conference.</p><p>Recently Dave asked on Twitter "on a scale of 1 - 10 in difficulty how would you rate the task of writing a function that iterates over a list of strings and returns the top 10?" This sparked up a lot of good, and most people rated it a 2-3 until people started asking "wait, is this question in an interview context? In that case, it's a solid 10." Dave talks about how the external stresses of an interview can turn even a "simple" question into a very stressful and challenging experience.</p><p>The topic of interview "red flags" comes up, and Dave explains how the biggest one is refusing to answer a question. He says that even if you don't have an answer to something try to follow up with more questions and have humility, you are there to present yourself. Dave also says not to make up or guess at something if you don't know the answer, try to ask them to rephrase the question and give the angle of your own understanding.</p><p>Dave has his own excellent podcast with his co-host Jamison Dance called Soft Skills Engineering, check it out in the link below.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/38ee6ad6/transcript">"Success and Failure in the Interview Process with Dave Smith" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://softskills.audio/">Soft Skills Engineering Podcast</a></li><li><a href="https://conf.utahjs.com/">Utah JS Conference</a></li></ul><h3>Dave Smith:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-smith-8895461/">LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/djsmith">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/djsmith42">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/@djsmith42">Medium</a></li></ul><h3>John Lindquist:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlindquist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://johnlindquist.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Dave Smith is on the Alexa Team at Amazon. 
Tune in today to hear about interviewing skills, what Dave looks for in candidates, and some obvious things to avoid when interviewing.

Success and Failure in the Interview Process with Dave Smith

<p>Today we are joined by Eve Porcello, who teaches Javascript, React, and GraphQL with Moon Highway. She is also the author of the books Learning React and Learning GraphQL.</p><p>Eve explains her process in preparing her conference presentations and how she uses techniques she learned in her theatre and improv background to really bring something professional and engaging to the stage.</p><p>Why is GraphQL blowing up recently? Eve says she believes it's because people realize that are a lot of clients that need data and they only need to load the smallest amount of data that's necessary.</p><p>Everyone always says to have a project app to learn something new but what do you even build if you have "no good ideas"? Eve talks about what makes a good learning project. Keep the scope really small. Some variant of a to-do app is a great project.</p><p>Finally, Eve talks about her work with the High Fives Foundation. High Fives works with injured extreme sports athletes to help them pay for the high health care costs of an injury.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/a3df6162/transcript">"Eve Porcello on GraphQL" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.moonhighway.com/contact">Moon Highway</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_M8v6MK0Sc">Eve Porcello - Everything You Need to Know About GraphQL in 3 Components</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/_/dp/1492030716?tag=oreilly20-20">Learning GraphQL</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/">Gatsby</a></li><li><a href="https://highfivesfoundation.org/">High Fives Foundation</a></li></ul><h3>Eve Porcello:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/eveporcello">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/eveporcello">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/@eveporcello">Medium</a></li><li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/6914">O'Reilly</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Eve Porcello joins us today to talk about speaking at conferences, GraphQL, starting a project to learn something with, and web-accessibility with the High Fives Foundation. 

Eve Porcello on GraphQL

<p>Jason Lengstorf is a developer on the GatsbyJS team.</p><p>Jason didn't start his career even remotely in the tech field. He was a musician.<br />Jason's band didn't have much money, so he learned design to make merch, learned some markup to edit their myspace, eventually learned to build a website for them, then learned backend so his bandmates could upload images and post things.</p><p>Jason talks about Gatsby's plans to compete with the more seamless WordPress model. He also talks about gatsby's differences from WordPress and the use cases for each service.<br />One of Gatsby's strengths is how good it is for learning Javascript and React, you can quickly go from the command line to getting stuff on the screen in two minutes, much like create-react-app, the differences is that with Gatsby you get a data layer and a good deployment story.</p><p>Finally, they talk about what it's like to manage a repo that has 964 contributors, 5500 commits, and 936 issues. It was more chaotic in the early days, but they have brought on some people who are helping manage it and are defining better processes.</p><p>If you are interested in learning Gatsby, they have recently put much work into revamping their official tutorials.<br /><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/tutorial/">Check them out here</a></p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/188eecc0/transcript">"Jason Lengstorf on GatsbyJS" Transcript</a></p><h3>Topics:</h3><ul><li>His early musical aspirations that lead to his career as a developer</li><li>Gatsby's goals in creating an agnostic unified data layer.</li><li>The differences between Gatsby and other static site generators</li><li>Gatsby 2 and its many performance upgrades</li><li>Managing a large and active repository</li></ul><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/">Gatsby</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/gatsbyjs">Gatsby on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/tutorial/">Gatsby Tutorials</a></li><li><a href="https://www.netlify.com/">Netlify</a></li></ul><h3>Jason Lengstorf:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://lengstorf.com/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jlengstorf">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/jlengstorf">Github</a></li></ul><h3>John Lindquist:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlindquist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://johnlindquist.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Today’s guest is Jason Lengstorf, a developer on the GatsbyJS team. Today Jason discusses his career path, what Gatsby accomplishes, how Gatsby compares with other static site generators, what's coming up in Gatsby 2, and what it's like to manage a large open source repo. 

Jason Lengstorf on GatsbyJS

<p>On this episode, I get the chance to speak with Lynne Tye, the creator of Key Values, a place for Software Developers to find a company that fits their values beyond just what tech stack they use or salary they provide.</p><p>Lynn has had a diverse career and only started coding in 2015. Once she cut her teeth freelancing, she realized it was hard to find the right company to work with. When job listings and recruiters proved unhelpful, the idea for Key Values was born.</p><p>Tune in to hear us talk about finding the right company culture, work/life balance and why it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone, and the value of hands-on involvement.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/a8c84eea/transcript">"Lynne Tye, founder of keyvalues.com" Transcript</a></p><h3>Topics:</h3><ul><li>Weighing the importance of your time</li><li>What does work/life balance mean to <i>you</i></li><li>What it takes to launch your project</li><li>Why loving what you do is so important</li><li>Taking investment money</li><li>Ambition and expectations with yourself</li><li>Lynne’s previous career path vs. her current one</li><li>Figuring out what works for you in your education</li><li>Starting a business when you just started to program</li></ul><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.keyvalues.com/">Key Values</a></li><li><a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/">Indie Hackers</a></li><li><a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596518387.do">Apprenticeship Patterns</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer-ebook/dp/B0026OR2NQ">Hackers and Painters</a></li><li><a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/">freeCodeCamp</a></li><li><a href="http://nathanbarry.com/authority/">Nathan Barry - Authority</a></li><li><a href="https://30x500.com/academy/">30x500</a></li></ul><h3>Lynne Tye</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/lynnetye">Personal Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/keyvaluesio">Key Values Twitter</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

This episode is a chat with Lynne Tye, the founder and developer of keyvalues.com, a place for Software Developers to find the team and company that is right for them. 

Lynne Tye, founder of keyvalues.com

<p>Jen Luker is a software engineer at Formidable Labs Inc. She has worked as a full-stack developer using PHP, Javascript, and CSS, but has a particular fondness for frontend technologies.</p><p>Today, we discuss the issue of accessibility and how focusing on making websites and software more accessible should be a constant consideration, particularly since it taps into an underserved market. Tune in to hear on discussion on this vital and fascinating topic.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/6191c97e/transcript">"Jen Luker, a11y champion" Transcript</a></p><h3>Topics:</h3><ul><li>The Internet and accessibility</li><li>How loading times affect accessibility</li><li>How accessibility helps everyone</li><li>Missing out on business by not being accessible</li><li>The importance of making accessibility a regular part of the conversation</li></ul><h3>Quotes:</h3><blockquote><p>“One of the benefits of incorporating a lot of these accessibility features is that they end up helping everyone.” -Jen Luker</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>“Only about one in ten websites, according to an audit that DQ did, is accessible.” -Jen Luker</p></blockquote><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://formidable.com/">Formidable Labs Inc.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.deque.com/axe/">Deque aXe</a></li></ul><h3>Jen Luker:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.jenluker.com/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/knitcodemonkey?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/knitcodemonkey">Github</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Jen Luker, a11y champion

<p>Shawn "swyx" Wang is an infinite builder, dual-class CFA, and Developer. Shawn currently works for Netlify.</p><p>Tune in to hear Shawn talk about what it means to be an infinite learner and builder and how he uses this approach to further his career.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/b62a331c/transcript">"swyx (Shawn Wang) on infinite building" Transcript</a></p><h3>Topics:</h3><ul><li>Infinite learning</li><li>Infinite building</li><li>Javascript fatigue</li><li>Engagement</li><li>Fighting feelings of inadequacy</li></ul><h3>Quotes:</h3><blockquote><p>“I changed myself from a financial career...I thought that was a stable thing...I realized that I needed to move on from that…” -Shawn Wang</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>“You should learn just in time, not just in case.” -Shawn Wang</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>“If you actively write stuff and put stuff out...that you are interested in, guess what? People come and engage with you…” -Shawn Wang</p></blockquote><h3>Shawn Wang:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://egghead.io/instructors/shawn-wang">egghead</a></li><li><a href="https://www.swyx.io/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/swyx">Twitter</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Tune in to hear Shawn talk about what it means to be an infinite learner and builder and how he uses this approach to further his career. 

swyx (Shawn Wang) on infinite building

<p>Henry Zhu is currently a steward for Babel, and today he'll be discussing the management and lifestyle side of working on an open source project full-time.</p><p>The financial side to open source is interesting. Henry talks about where he gets his money and how he can be financially independent while still working on open source full time. Most of the money comes from donations through Open Collective and Patreon. A lot of the donations come from users, but corporations do donate as well. Henry also discusses the stability of it, and how the NPR model of asking for donations can lead to uncertainty about the next month.</p><p>Henry says he's enjoying the management and marketing side of being a steward about as much as he enjoys coding. It's a side that people don't often think about with open source. This side of it includes a lot of marketing and interacting with the greater community, as well as the other maintainers and contributors to babel.</p><p>How does Henry handle all this responsibility when there is no one above him telling him when to take a break, or when to go on vacation? Henry and Joel talk about having a positive "selfishness", and taking care of yourself so that the project can prosper. If you want to be doing it for years you have to make sure that you don't burn out.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/henry-zhu/transcript">"Henry Zhu, Maintainer of Babel" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://babeljs.io/">Babel</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X">The Power of Habit</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-What-Love-Spiritual/dp/158743380X">You Are What You Love</a></li><li><a href="https://www.tinyhabits.com/">Tiny Habits</a></li><li><a href="https://kaidavis.com/articles/">Kai Davis</a></li></ul><h3>Henry Zhu:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/left_pad?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.henryzoo.com/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/hzoo">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/henryzhu">Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://opencollective.com/babel#">Open Collective</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>


Today, Henry Zhu, the lead maintainer of Babel, discusses what it's like to work on a large and important open source project. Henry gets into how Babel receives funding, how corporations are involved in open source, stewardship of an open source project, mental and physical health, and not compromising his values.  

Henry Zhu, Maintainer of Babel

<p>Today we are joined by Phil Pluchthun, creator of the programming font Dank Mono and core contributor to the styled-components library. Phil will be talking about his work in design and programming, styled components, the process of making a font, and finally some advice to anyone who wants to make a font of their own.</p><p>So what are styled components? It's a new component-based CSS and Jest library. It's all about using these small styled components that you put in instead of HTML. It's nice because you don't have to create a whole new component that renders for some simple styling.</p><p>Phil talks about as a developer he's always been in a role where he's had to work closely with designers and provide feedback for them. Over time he started to work more with design projects, and as he worked for small startups without a lead design, he found himself filling that role.</p><p>Dank Mono is Phil's first font, He's always enjoyed typography, and as he's gone along it starting turning out better than he thought. When he started, he just wanted to make some ligatures for Operator Mono, but there were some terms in there that would prevent him from ever being able to share it.</p><p>In the beginning, Phil was doing every letter from scratch. He started with an h because it has an excellent shape that can be reused with many letters. Halfway through he learned that Glyphs app supports components, so he had to start over after a week!</p><p>Phil encourages anyone who is not entirely satisfied with the fonts available to think about what they'd want to change. He recommends to start with Glyphs app and watch and read its related talks and tutorials and to start with a single letter to see how you like it!</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/phil-pluckthun/transcript">"Phil Pluckthun, Creator of Dank Mono" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://dank.sh/">Dank Mono</a></li><li><a href="https://glyphsapp.com/">Glyphs</a></li></ul><h3>Phil Pluckthun:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/_philpl?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/kitten">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/@philpl">Medium Blog</a></li></ul><h3>John Lindquist:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlindquist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://johnlindquist.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Phil Pluckthun is the creator of Dank Mono, a new monospaced programming font with ligatures. He is also a core contributor to Styled Components, a component-based CSS Library.

Tune in to hear a discussion on how Phil got involved with design, how he become a core contributor to the styled-components library, and how and why he started working on Dank Mono.

Phil Pluckthun, Creator of Dank Mono

<p>We are joined by Ives Hoorne, a developer at Catawiki and creator of code sandbox. Today he talks about how he began writing code, how Minecraft modding made him love it, his interest in the company Catawiki and how he taught himself web development to work there, and finally the future for his projects.</p><p>Ives began coding at 11 years old. He was fascinated by secret languages, so he and his friend made a program in Visual Basic that would jumble text and another that would decipher the text. They would send these to each other as public facebook messages. It fell off after this project for awhile. After a few years, Ives got back into it when Minecraft came around, and he started writing mods for it.</p><p>The success and popularity of Code Sandbox made Ives happy. He enjoys how it became popular and how some of the bigger names such as Dan Abramov started talking about it. Though Ives discussions about how this positive feedback caused him to attach his self-worth to the project, and how he had to let that go so he wouldn't be hurt by snarky feedback and other forms of negativity related to his project.</p><p>There were a couple of surprises in the development of Code Sandbox. Code Sandbox stores all files and directories in their Postgres database. When they fork Code Sandbox, they copy all the files, directories, and sandboxes over. Ives thought this wouldn't scale but somehow they now have 400k sandboxes, and the database is only four gigabytes! One of the negative surprises was when there was an error in the sandbox when someone tries to share their sandbox, the preview service would try over and over again to take a snapshot. The following month their hosting bill was a dozen times the price as it usually was!</p><p>Ives' first experience speaking at a conference was much better than he expected. When he was presenting, he noticed that he was talking with a bunch of people who were willing to listen to him. It was such a cool experience for him that he now loves speaking at conferences for him. Ives says he wants to start talking about things besides Code Sandbox, such as UI driven development for example. He says that it can be greatly improved, npm installing is still manually typing npm install package-name. He says that this can be made much better by being able to search for dependencies and directly add them with a single click.</p><p>Finally, Ives talks about his plans for Code Sandbox. He plans on adding a dashboard because currently, it's very cumbersome to navigate to your sandbox. The dashboard will give you the ability to put sandboxes in directories organizing them that way. They are also managing offline support. Finally, they are adding team support so multiple people can all work on a sandbox at once.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/ives-van-hoorne/transcript">"Ives Van Hoorne, creator of CodeSandbox" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://codesandbox.io/">Code Sandbox</a></li><li><a href="https://www.catawiki.com/">catawiki</a></li></ul><h3>Ives Van Hoorne:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/CompuIves">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://ivesvh.com/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/compuives?lang=en&lang=en">Twitter</a></li></ul><h3>John Lindquist:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlindquist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://johnlindquist.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Ives Van Hoorne is a developer who built Code Sandbox, a fantastic online editor (we use it a lot at egghead).

Today, Ives talks about a childhood interest that would lay the groundwork for his future career path. Tune in to hear how he got his start, what led to Code Sandbox, and where he would like to see things go in the future.

Ives Van Hoorne, creator of CodeSandbox

<p>Today our guests and host talk about what pushed them to start living healthier lifestyles and what they are doing to maintain it. Leonard was 280 pounds when he was 23 at his heaviest, Taylor was 19 and 287 pounds, and John was 320 pounds.</p><p>Leonard made a change due to having health issues with his heart, he got on P90x and after a year of it moved on to much better things, this got him to a muscular 190. John began because he failed a breathing test and only had 50% lung capacity, he got it into his head that he was a healthy person now and started using the elliptical and not eating junk food. Taylor was turning 20 as a milestone and decided to make a change by kicking soda, going vegetarian, riding his bike, and walking around more. His goal was never to get a six pack but just to live a healthier life.</p><p>It has been five years since Leonard's initial push to get fit. He says that the most significant thing has been finding a sustainable diet and exercise program that he can do for the rest of his life, well into his 80s. P90x is not sustainable, he followed it precisely for six months, but he was physically burning out and felt terrible.</p><p>Reading a book called the Primal Blueprint changed everything for Leonard. It teaches that manipulating your body composition is all about finding that balance of macronutrients and lifting heavy things while getting plenty of rest. Since he hated gyms and alpha attitudes, Leonard purchased a barbel, a squat cage, and some weights allowing him to take his body to the next level lifting heavy things three days a week. He blew through his weight stalls, cut down to sub 10% bodyfat, and developed significant musculature! Being a remote developer was the ideal environment for achieving these things due to the flexible schedule and ease of access to his home gym.</p><p>Finally, things are wrapped up with Leonard explaining how having a healthy body and exercising have given him mental health benefits. The depression and anxiety he used to struggle with have been helped by the changes he has made. Taylor leaves us with the advice to do this for yourself, not for anyone else, and to take your time and not get into a big hurry with it. It takes time.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/the-health-episode/transcript">"Health and Wellness for Developers" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Blueprint-Reprogram-effortless-boundless/dp/0982207786">The Primal Blueprint</a></li><li><a href="https://leangains.com/the-leangains-guide/">Leangains</a></li><li><a href="https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/">The 7 Minute Workout</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Body-Uncommon-Incredible-Superhuman-ebook/dp/B003EI2EH2">The 4 Hour Body</a></li></ul><h3>Taylor Bell:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/taylorbell">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/tayiorbeii/">Github</a></li></ul><h3>Leonard Souza:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://leonardsouza.com/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jslauthor?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/jslauthor">Github</a></li></ul><h3>John Lindquist</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlindquist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://egghead.io/instructors/john-lindquist">egghead.io</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/johnlindquist">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://johnlindquist.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Our guests all began in similar situations. They were all almost 300 pounds or more and decided they needed to make a permanent change. John Lindquist, Leonard Souza, and Taylor Bell discuss what caused them to have a wakeup call, and what they did to get healthy and stay healthy.


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