Duck Tapes

Bad news, duckheads.  The duck pond froze over this week, because your two favorite hosts were so busy with projects they forgot to turn the heat on.  Don't fret- we'll be back next week with a huge guest!  In the meantime, catch up on our back catalog, give John's new podcast a listen, and watch Tiffany's twitch channel if you are really fiending for some new duckiness.  See you next week!

John's other podcast: https://anchor.fm/triplet

Tiffany's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/teamtalima

This week, Rachel Valentine swoops in to discuss her role as Head of People at Vincit California, where your two favorite hosts work!  Rachel gives a peek into the HR world as she discusses which resumes stand out from the rest, good and bad interviewing techniques, her background as a recruiter, and obvie Vanderpump Rules comes up.  We forgot to ask Rachel what music she listens to when she codes, since she doesn't code, but it's a well-known fact that Rachel is an emo fanatic.

Follow Rachel on Twitter: @rachvalentine

Rachel's favorite song ever: https://youtu.be/_wjFahULCK8

Boy, do we have a Whopper© of an episode for you this week!  Software hacker (we make the distinction between hacker vs engineer in the episode) Jonny Burger aka the Burger King jumps head first into the duck pond after his 1,342nd consecutive run to discuss why he runs every single day (no exaggeration), hackathon strategy and mindset, and his multitude of apps and projects.  We also get to the bottom of the mystery haunting us all:  What does John's last name really mean?

Follow Jonny on Twitter: @JNYBGR

Check out AnySticker

Check out Jonny's portfolio!

John's Weezer playlist

This week, Laurence Bradford flies in from the East Coast for a dip in the cool, calm waters of the duck pond.  We talk about her inspiration for creating her online community at Learn To Code With Me, and discuss why she chose to leave her career in Economic Development in Bangkok to pursue the a life of coding, teaching, and more teaching in New York.  Check out learntocodewith.me, especially if you're nervous about transitioning into the tech field!

Follow Laurence on Instagram and Twitter!

Here is a pretty sad country song: Chris Stapleton - Whiskey And You

This week, Ben Wurth plops into the pond to talk about his agency experience working with .NET, C#, F#, G#, and A♭.  Some of those are jokes but that's up to you to figure out.  We also discuss where web assembly is going, how context works, and the fact that, as per usual with our guests, he doesn't have a favorite band.

SNAKE WARNING:  An anaconda followed Ben into the pond and hissed during the entirety of his interview.  Apologies for the audio quality!

Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenWurth

Ben's favorite composer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masakatsu_Takagi

Mirai soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/6YLLBlOlzRNd4lVkV0zETA

Crash Course: Computer Science: https://youtu.be/tpIctyqH29Q

Returning guest William Strong comes in hot in this episode, planning to discuss resources for self-learning before quickly getting sidetracked by his two favorite hosts.  Then we talk about when Will utilizes testing before getting into a Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter vs Game of Throne debate, some book recommendations, and a little music talk.  Obviously we end up pondering the emotional damage device addiction can have before shaming Tiffany about not knowing Jack White by name.  The Hook King has returned!

Tristan Harris Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/C74amJRp730

Center For Humane Technology: https://humanetech.com/

Will's favorite White Stripes song: https://youtu.be/yqS5T2PgDDo

Will's favorite site: https://www.tolkienestate.com/en/home.html

This week, William Candillon pops in the duck pond to discuss React Native gestures and animations.  We talk about the differences between handling the two in vanilla React Native vs using the popular declarative libraries react-native-gesture-handler and react-native-reanimated.  Will convinces us to go back on our initial denouncing of Expo before discussing his popular YouTube series "Can It Be Done In React Native?"

Follow William on twitter: @wcandillon

Check out his YouTube series: https://www.youtube.com/user/wcandill

Check out his awesome new course for declarative gestures and animations in RN: https://start-react-native.dev/

Will's favorite artist: https://youtu.be/rE7GU7SLguo

4°C = 39.2°F everyone.  Too cold for your average duck I'm afraid.

No guest this week!  Instead, we pick up where we left off in our last John & Tiffany Mix and answer the questions you, the fans, have been begging us to address.  We cover the new React DevTools update, because after all this is a tech podcast, before jumping into the meaty stuff like World of Warcraft, Bon Jovi, chips and salsa, and Rivers Cuomo.  It all ties together seamlessly.

Check out Will Strong's blog at the DevTools update: https://www.vincit.com/blog/the-new-features-in-react-devtools-4

Tweet at Rivers to come on the podcast: https://twitter.com/RiversCuomo

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This week, Shawn "Swyx" Wang joins us in the Duck Pond to take a deep dive into his coding philosophy "Learning in Public."  We take some time to discuss his role at Netlify, how he got started in coding (after a full career in a different industry!), and of course Jack White comes up.

Follow Shawn on twitter: @swyx

Check out his recent React Hooks talk: https://youtu.be/KJP1E-Y-xyo

And his retrospective on his first year at Netlify: https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one

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This week, Nader Dabit jumps on a raft and paddles down the Mississippi to meet us in the Duck Pond.  We discuss AWS Amplify, GraphQL, and React Native, before getting into the important stuff like futurism and the Matrix.

Follow Nader on Twitter @dabit3

Sort and rank Nader's project on GitHub

Check out Jay-Zeezer

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