Charles Max Wood explains the default path that developers seem to follow in their career and why that doesn't give developers the fulfillment they're looking for.

He then walks through some of the options to change the direction of your career.

Jeffrey asked Chuck before the episode what he was planning for Devchat.tv. Chuck started answering and since the guest had answered, Chuck answers with the overall direction for Devchat.tv. If you want to join in, email [email protected].

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Michael Hladky rejoins the Adventure to have more discussions around performance and the push pipe. He jumps in and explains the let directive and leads into the other ways of managing changes in your Angular apps.

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Takashi Kokubun joins the Rogues to dive into Just in Time compiling, Ruby 3.0 and all the goodness that comes with it.

He explains how it relates not only to Ruby performance, but Rails performance and what it means to different kinds of loads that come across the Ruby virtual machine.

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Florian Rappl joins the Round Up to discuss React internals and how to make sense of how React works. He leads the panel through the process of understanding what React is doing when you write your JSX.

He also deviates into Microframeworks a bit.

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Charles Max Wood takes the lead this week. He and Adi Iyengar discuss what Top End Devs are and what people should be doing to become Top End Devs.

They start out discussing the default trajectory of a developer's career and then talk about how to get boosts off that line and into higher levels of achievement and fulfillment.

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Lindsay, Steve, Luke, and Solomon talk with Ariel from Maison Futari about using Vue without building a full single-page application. We talk about using Vue with Wordpress and other backend frameworks to build widgets, as well as using Vue to build web components. We also explore libraries like Livewire and Inertia to integrate with a Laravel backend.

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Sam Sycamore joins the podcast to tell his story of transitioning into programming after listening to the podcast episode we recorded with Danny Thompson.

Danny told his story about how he went from gas station attendant to programmer in a very short timeframe.

Sam has now made a similar journey from landscape construction to programming and what inspired him to make the switch.

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The Bald Bearded Builder, Michael Jolley, returns to talk about VS Code extensions and learning while live streaming. To start off we talk about using C# in VS Code and then Michael tells us about some of his favorite VS Code extensions. The panel adds a few of our favorite extensions while discussing how Michael has created extensions while live streaming on Twitch.

Then the discussion moves towards live streaming, what you need to get started, how community is important and how to get the most out of a live stream as a viewer. You even get to hear Caleb put his foot in his mouth at least once. You don't want to miss it so listen in and let us know what you think on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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Yishai Beeri joins the Adventure to talk about ways that we can communicate and coordinate to deliver great software.

This holds both within development teams and between development teams and DevOps teams.

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