CodingCat.dev Podcast

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-10-creating-a-startup

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-9-safe-is-scrum-on-steriods/

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-8-design-for-developers/

Questions

I noticed you studied Industrial design. How did you find your way to UX or Interaction design?

From the team to the community, are there patterns you see in 

Opinions on education paths...bootcamps vs. institutions vs. workshops.master’s programs

Do you need formal education around UX/UI?

What advice would you give to others coming out of school and how to get started into the design side of a web development practice?

Resources, tools?

If someone not going to school wants to get started, how do you get in the door first?

Networking - reaching out to people you admire 

Soft Skills (importance of consulting and speaking skills) 

Where does your community hang out? Especially after 2020?

Meeting community where they platform

Why do people thrive in communities? What communities exist or are accessible?

Clubhouse

Meet ups (local and online)

AIGA, IxDA

Community events (Code for Good / Givecamp, Global Service Design Jam, Courses / Co-Learning) / Ladies of UX / 

What should a designer learn today?

Attitude & aptitude  - curiosity & willingness to learn

Mentor / find leaders to learn from 

Online, self-driven learning (courses, youtube, google)

Tools

Sketch

Figma

Miro

Adobe Products (Illustrator (SVG), Photoshop)

Designers often work together and collaborate, how did this change in 2020?

At work?

Miro, drawing messy, white board type work.

A developer can do the work, but often they need to be led down the path. Do you see this as a designers role, or more of an architect's role?

Are mobile designers different from web designers? (platform agnostic?) Multi-modal

Physical Design, Interactive Points, how do you manage expectations.

What is hardest about being a designer?

What is hard about getting started.  (Constraint, confidence & expression), non-stop pitching

How can you be creative, but still need to work within a framework?

Constraints are helpful 

Design systems 

What Physical devices are you using?

iPad / Wacom Tablet

Old school - Sticky notes / Whiteboard / sketchbook 

Where can designers get started on the side, for freelance work

Dribbble

Pinterest

Fiverr

Instagram

99designs

Awwwards 

Purrfect Picks

Christy Picks

Books - Essentialism,  Deep Work

Podcast: Peter Merholtz & JessieJames Garret - Finding our way

Zoe Picks

Design Better - Invision Podcast

Headspace Meditation App - Series, Focus Music

Elizabeth Picks

Squads 

https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Brittney Postma

Wireframe Podcast by Adobe

Sackboy

Alex Patterson

https://config.figma.com/

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-7-socialbee-with-ovi-negrean-and-vlad-hosu

https://socialbee.io/

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Bee

Co-Founder and Chief Technical Bee

Social Media Management Tools, Training, and Teams.

https://socialbee.io/about-us/

Blog: Preact and Wordpress

Application: AngularJS 1.5.7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billions_(TV_series)

Place Link Here

https://socialbee.io/concierge/

https://twitter.com/colbyfayock

https://www.youtube.com/colbyfayock

https://www.twitch.tv/colbyfayock

https://github.com/colbyfayock

https://dribbble.com/colbyfayock

https://www.instagram.com/colbyfayock/

Who is Colby Fayock?

Colby helps others learn by doing through articles, videos, and courses about Javascript, React, and the static web. He is a Lead UX & Front End Engineer passionate about tackling challenges that can help save people’s lives and make the world a better place.

Ask Colby some leading questions ;)

https://auth0.com/

Next.js WordPress Starter - Headless WordPress into a static Next.js app

Applitools Eyes GitHub Action - Work in progress, the company I work at

https://www.disneyplus.com/series/wandavision/4SrN28ZjDLwH - WandaVision

https://fauna.com/ - Fauna Database

Colbyashi Maru

Use Shopping Cart - Nick DeJesus @dayhaysoos

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-5-mdx-with-chris-biscardi/

https://twitter.com/chrisbiscardi

github.com/ChristopherBiscardi

http://stackoverflow.com/users/740600/chris-biscardi

Chris teaches people how to write Rust, work with Serverlesss, and take advantage of the Jamstack. He is an independent consultant with two major products (Toast and Sector) whose talks can be viewed at a variety of conferences such as qcon, gophercon, and more. Chris runs the Party Corgi Network, a community of practice and is an MDX maintainer.

I consult in two main areas:

* Building teams around specific initiatives (such as building a Design System team).

* Applying modern and emerging technologies (GraphQL, CSS-in-JS, K8s/Containerization, JAMStack/GatsbyJS, React) using mainly Golang and JavaScript.

https://mdxjs.com/

Markdown for the component era

MDX is an authorable format that lets you seamlessly write JSX in your Markdown documents. You can import components, such as interactive charts or alerts, and embed them within your content. This makes writing long-form content with components a blast 🚀.

Ask Chris some leading questions ;)

We are currently using @mdx-js/runtime directly to convert our blog posts from MDX over to output.

https://bevyengine.org/

https://github.com/swc-project/swc

https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa

https://circle.so/

https://spline.design/

https://www.2021.ng-conf.org/

Build a Toast Site with MDX and Tailwind - Learn with Jason

Party Corgi Network https://partycorgi.com/

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-4-next-js-10-with-guillermo-rauch/

Talking with Guillermo Rauch about Next.js 10 and Vercel. Including plans for 2021.

Purrfect.dev on CodingCat.dev

(Alex Intro)

Welcome back Purrfect Peeps!

The Amplify Admin UI is a visual interface for frontend web and mobile developers to develop app backends and manage app content outside the AWS Management Console. Teams can use the Admin UI to create and manage enterprise-ready, scalable, and secure cloud backends for their apps.

René is a Senior Product Manager with Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is currently on the AWS Amplify project.

The blog: New AWS Amplify Admin UI Helps You Develop App Backends, No Cloud Experience Required | Amazon Web Services

The actual UI: Admin UI basics - Introduction - Amplify Docs

**Content May Contain Affiliate Links

What got you started with Amplify?

What would you recommend for a person to get started with Amplify?

Amplify Admin UI

What's the Amplify Admin UI? Is this something new?

Do you need an AWS account to get started?

What's so special about the new visual data modeler?

GSI’s are always difficult, does this help? (In relation to the data modeler)

What are some other major features you can have with the Admin UI? (we can talk about auth)

Access outside the AWS Management Console

This is amazing but could we talk a little bit about how it works? Is it running on Java somehow, like Firebase emulator?

Non-technical users - how do they use it?

How does this new Amplify Admin UI work with existing customers?

(These are fun picks for the week)

Re:invent Sessions:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/the-aws-reinvent-2020-guide-to-front-end-web-and-mobile/

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/824360476 - Feature Launch on Twitch

(Alex Intro)

Brian Li, Website Content Manager at Kinsta®

Kinsta is a managed WordPress hosting provider that helps take care of all your needs regarding your website. We run our services on cutting-edge technology and take support seriously.

brianli.com

linkedin.com/in/bwhli

**Content May Contain Affiliate Links

https://codingcat.dev/kinsta-saved-codingcatdevs-lms-dream-after-3-others-failed/

What is the difference between shared hosting, VPS, or dedicated hosting?

Why did Kinsta decide to use the shared container approach?

Is this mainly for security, or speed or reliability?

With CodingCatDev we have LearnDash LMS as well as Buddy Boss, both of these use heavy transactional data, would it be possible to use something faster for the database?

What is the real difference between Kinsta and someone else?

Brian

https://workers.cloudflare.com/sites

Kinsta’s Blog is a wealth of information!

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

Today we are going to talk with Lee Briggs from Pulumi. Pulumi allows you to create modern Infrastructure as Code, using any cloud using familiar programming languages and tools.

The BEST part is that Pulumi is 100% open source.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/briggsl/

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Why would you want to adopt IaC?

Does IaC document your infrastructure?

Does IaC allow for solid Dev Ops?

What is Pulumi?

Will IaC take longer?

Is Pulumi good for single code shops that know only a single language?

How big is the learning curve of IaC?

Pulumi support “ecosystems”

Great examples

https://github.com/pulumi/examples

https://www.pulumi.com/resources/introduction-to-pulumi?utm_source=codingcat

Queen’s Gambit

FUN Stuff

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/