Front End Happy Hour

As you build your career, it’s helpful to think about your personal brand and how you promote yourself in the industry. In this episode, we are joined by Alice Lee, to talk with us about how each of us approach branding and self-promotion.

Guests:

Alice Lee - @byalicelee

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Alice Lee - Creative Cuties Discord

Alice Lee - Survivor

Ryan Burgess - Better Allies

Augustus Yuan - Megalobox

Augustus Yuan - Raya and the Last Dragon

Augustus Yuan - Summit1G quit Fortnite and everything change

Jem Young - Formula 1: Drive to Survive

Jem Young - Buttplug.io

Shirley Wu - Alice's mural at the Asian Art Museum

Shirley Wu - Chinese Animation: In Search of a Style

Shirley Wu - WandaVision

Our very own Shirley Wu and her friend, Nadieh Bremer recently wrote a book called, Data Sketches so we wanted to learn more about what it’s like to write a technical book. In this episode, we are joined by Nadieh to talk with us about the process of writing and having a book published.

Guests:

Nadieh Bremer - @NadiehBremer

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Nadieh Bremer - Datasketch.es

Nadieh Bremer - Fab Academy

Ryan Burgess - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

Ryan Burgess - Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family

Shirley Wu - Lullatone

Shirley Wu - Data Sketches Book Launch

Optimizing websites for a quality user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web and Core Web Vitals is an initiative Google has provided as a unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web. Addy Osmani and Kristofer Baxter, from Google, join us to talk more about Core Web Vitals.

Guests:

Addy Osmani - @addyosmani

Kristofer Baxter - @kristoferbaxter

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Addy Osmani - Hackers movie Soundtrack

Addy Osmani - Web.dev Content Visibility

Kristofer Baxter - ESBuild

Kristofer Baxter - Outsmartly

Kristofer Baxter - Soul Soundtrack

Kristofer Baxter - AMP Project

Ryan Burgess - Tell Us Your Secrets

Ryan Burgess - Dave

Augustus Yuan - Excalidraw

Augustus Yuan - Web.dev Defining Core Web Vitals

Stacy London - Gold by Glassjaw

Stacy London - Clipper - Another 5 Years by Overmono

Shirley Wu - Chinese knots earrings by _baomii

Not everyone starts their engineering career with a Computer Science degree, there are a lot of ways to start an engineering career. In this episode, we are joined by David Simmer from Netflix to talk with us about non-traditional backgrounds.

Guests:

David Simmer - @_simmerer

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

David Simmer - Peter Gregson: Bach - The Cello Suites

David Simmer - The Aviary Book

David Simmer - Matt Levine Newsletter

David Simmer - Reuschelle’s Cheesecakes

Ryan Burgess - Change Github repositories from master to main

Ryan Burgess - Ryan’s Dad’s In Tech Interview

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Burrito Holder

Shirley Wu - Visual Cinnamon

Shirley Wu - Visual Cinnamon Resources

Shirley Wu - Cinema Therapy

When it comes to estimating the time it takes to build any software project, it’s never easy. There’s a lot of factors that go into estimating. In this episode, we talk about our experiences with estimating and ways we’ve improved it over the years.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Rebuild Black Business

Ryan Burgess - Good Girls

Augustus Yuan - Amazon Builders Library

Augustus Yuan - Valheim

Augustus Yuan - Agile

Stacy London - Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It

Stacy London - Innergaze by Heidi Sabertooth

Shirley Wu - Lenticular Hologram Rainbow Gradient Puzzle

Shirley Wu - D3 10 Years! Livestream

Shirley Wu - Creative Cuties Discord

How important is documentation? In this episode, we share our thoughts and opinions on how we approach documentation and the tools that have helped us.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Quevos Chips

Ryan Burgess - Oreo ID cookies

Augustus Yuan - Warrior

Augustus Yuan - Slack's Outage on January 4th 2021

Stacy London - Summoning by Hum

Stacy London - River by Octo Octa

Mars Jullian - Frontend focus

Shirley Wu - Bling Empire

Shirley Wu - Accented Cinema

How do developer teams stay productive? In this episode, we are talking with Kathryn Koehler and Andy Glover from the Netflix Productivity Engineering team to learn more about what a Productivity Engineering team does to help improve productivity.

Guests:

Kathryn Koehler - @kejkoehler

Andy Glover - @aglover

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Kathryn Koehler - Accelerate

Kathryn Koehler - Lolita

Andy Glover - Team of Rivals

Andy Glover - Undercover

Ryan Burgess - NetflixEng Spotify playlist

Ryan Burgess - Mother In Law's Tongue Plant

Jem Young - Star Trek Discovery

Jem Young - AirBiotech 360

Stacy London - Colours so Dub by Tiga

Stacy London - Colours so Bright by Tiga

Stacy London - 6000 Ft. Bonobo, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

At some point or another, we’ve all had to move to a new role or a new company. In this episode, we are joined by special guests Tara Ellis and Jared Jordan to help us discuss things we’ve learned to help transition to a new role or job.

Guests:

Tara Ellis - @maverick_mind

Jared Jordan - @jaredjordan

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Picks:

Tara Ellis - A Promising Young Woman

Tara Ellis - Lianne La Havas

Jared Jordan - The Thrill of the Fight VR Boxing

Jared Jordan - Nerf Rival XXI 2000 Gun

Ryan Burgess - The First 90 Days

Ryan Burgess - ThermoPro meat thermometer

Jem Young - The Midnight Sky

Jem Young - Trumps Over - Macklemore

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Zen Egg

Jem Young - Alternative wood Egg

Mars Jullian - css-for-js.dev

Mars Jullian - Happy Masks

In this episode, we are joined by Evan Payne to talk with us about how we each approach side projects. Evan also shares a side project he’s built in Angular.

Guests:

Evan Payne - @evanfuture

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Evan Payne - The Adventure Zone

Evan Payne - CriticalRole

Ryan Burgess - The Undoing

Ryan Burgess - Euphoria

Jem Young - Lupin

Jem Young - Awair Element

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Green Onion Kit

Shirley Wu - Bubblesort Zines

Shirley Wu - Semihandmade

In this episode, we will be reflecting on the past year and how things have drastically changed for how we work and how our companies have had to adapt during a pandemic.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - A Teacher

Ryan Burgess - Big Sky

Augustus Yuan - Alice in Borderland

Augustus Yuan - Building a button

Jem Young - Professional Tag

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Lovesac

Stacy London - Her Revolution by Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke

Stacy London - Dawn Chorus by Jon Hopkins

Stacy London - My favorite tracks from 2020

Mars Jullian - Dermaplus SF

Mars Jullian - Smart Pet Feeder (Feeder Connect)

Shirley Wu - BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky

Shirley Wu - Doodle Therapy