Front End Happy Hour

In our last episode, we talked about leaving a job, and one of those reasons for leaving was due to a bad manager. In this episode, we follow up our discussion on what makes a good manager.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Engineering Manager Resources

Ryan Burgess - Seeking Truth in Networking - Insider Stories from Early Silicon Valley (and Ethernet!) with Bob Metcalfe

Augustus Yuan - SVG Path Editor

Augustus Yuan - The rising of the shield hero

Jem Young - Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Cuddle Down Pillow

Stacy London - Black Trees by Indian Wells

Stacy London - The Upward Spiral - Overlook Remix by Overlook & Nicolas Bougaïeff

Mars Jullian - Trader Joe’s advent calendar for cats

Mars Jullian - Stasher reusable silicone bag

Shirley Wu - The Imagineering Story

Shirley Wu - Going Under

Brian Holt - Vets who code

We’ve all decided at one point or another that it’s time to look for a new job. In this episode, we talk through reasons that lead to us looking for new opportunities in our past jobs.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - The Art of the Protest

Ryan Burgess - Home before dark

Augustus Yuan - In the Dark Podcast

Augustus Yuan - Queen's Gambit

Augustus Yuan - Crater Lake National Park

Jem Young - Cobra Kai

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Luxury Ice

Stacy London - Lamentations by Sufjan Stevens

Stacy London - Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

Stacy London - Bookshop.org

Mars Jullian - The Widening Responsibility for Frontend Developers

Mars Jullian - Happy Masks

Shirley Wu - The Good Place

Shirley Wu - Make my vote count

In this episode, we were joined by our guests, Ben Ilegbodu and Jason Lengstorf to discuss frontend patterns live at this year's QCon Plus conference. On the panel, we shared our thoughts on various frontend trends and patterns being used. We also took questions from the live QCon Plus audience.

Guests:

Ben Ilegbodu - @benmvp

Jason Lengstorf - @jlengstorf

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Jem Young - @JemYoung

What’s it like to deal with Imposter Syndrome? In this episode, we are joined by Shirley Wu, to talk through each of our experiences dealing with imposter syndrome and have we’ve overcome it.

Guests:

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Shirley Wu - OneAction.today

Shirley Wu - Asian Americans

Shirley Wu - Nintendo Ring Fit

Shirley Wu - Great Pretender

Ryan Burgess - Knives Out

Ryan Burgess - Netflix vs. the World

Mars Jullian - The Great British Baking Show

Augustus Yuan - The Social Dilemma

Augustus Yuan - Rocket League Free to Play!

Jem Young - Fuoripista

Jem Young - Notorious XX

Stacy London - What They Do Is Not Art by Cloudkicker

Stacy London - Ashtabula by Cloudkicker

Stacy London - Answer My Prayer by Eschaton, Ancient Methods, Orphx

Stacy London - Mozilla thread about The Social Dilemma

When you can’t interview in person, we are forced to interview over video calls. In this episode, we are joined by Bianca Bortolussi, and Jen Pi to talk with us about what it’s like to interview for a new role during these covid times.

Guests:

Bianca Bortolussi - @biancabmorey

Jen Pi

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Bianca Bortolussi - Polymer Clay earrings

Jen Pi - My Octopus Teacher

Jen Pi - Robin Sharma - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Jen Pi - Robin Sharma - The 5am Club

Ryan Burgess - AMPLIFI Alien

Ryan Burgess - The American Barbecue Showdown

Jem Young - It is as if you were doing work

Jem Young - The Boys season 2

Do you remember the days of FTP? In this episode, we are joined by Jerome Hardaway to talk with us about the changes made to hosting websites and how serverless has improved the ways we serve up websites and applications.

Guests:

Jerome Hardaway - @JeromeHardaway

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Jerome Hardaway - Serverless - CSS Tricks

Jerome Hardaway - Lucifer

Jerome Hardaway - The Boys Season 2

Ryan Burgess - Chef's Table BBQ

Ryan Burgess - Mixel cocktail app

Stacy London - Sukhe Phool - Max Cooper Firefly Remix by Yorkston/Thorne/Khan, Max Cooper

Stacy London - Back to the Sky by Ólafur Arnalds

Augustus Yuan - Fall Guys

Augustus Yuan - Intro to AWS Lambda and Serverless Apps

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Fake window

Jem Young - World's toughest race

Build it and they will come, right? Wrong. Search Engine Optimization is a key component of how people will discover your website or application. In this episode, we are joined by Netflix engineer, Cole Turner to talk with us about the importance of SEO and ways to improve your ranking in search engines.

Guests:

Cole Turner - @coleturner

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Cole Turner - Awake

Cole Turner - Goldbelly

Ryan Burgess - Coola sunscreen

Ryan Burgess - Bose 700 headphones

Jem Young - Drivey.js

Jem Young - The Titan Games

Stacy London - The Difference - Jon Hopkins Remix by Flume, Toro y Moi, Jon Hopkins

Stacy London - Puzzle - Trentemøller Remix by TOM And His Computer

When we are writing code as engineers, no matter what programming language, we are doing some form of planning and problem solving. In this episode, we are talking about programmatic problem solving with Nicole Archambault.

Guests:

Nicole Archambault - @lavie_encode

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Nicole Archambault - Taco Bell Cheese Burrito

Nicole Archambault - Battlestar Galactica

Nicole Archambault - Think Like a Programmer

Ryan Burgess - Twenty Thousand Hertz - Ta-dum! It’s Netflix

Ryan Burgess - Ugly Delicious

Augustus Yuan - Jem

Augustus Yuan - Why Interviewing is Terrible - Jem Young

Augustus Yuan - James Hoffman

Jem Young - Product management templates

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Wave roller

Jem Young - Cole Turner: AMA

Alongside the Black Lives Matter movement, we’ve started to see a lot of positive discussions on how the tech community can be more inclusive with its language. In this episode, we will be discussing our thoughts on making tech language more inclusive.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - All Nighter playlist

Ryan Burgess - Backwoods Chubby 3400 Smoker

Augustus Yuan - Night Shift - KCET

Augustus Yuan - Trader Joe’s Mango & Cream Bars

Augustus Yuan - Seattle bans words “Brown Bag”

Jem Young - I’m no longer here

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Balmuda - THE Toaster

Mars Jullian - Progressive style guide

Mars Jullian - Dolly Chugh -- how to let go of being a good person

Stacy London - Part II by Spotlights

Stacy London - All I Need (Radiohead Cover) by Spotlights

Stacy London - Alexjs.com

Web performance continues to be an input factor to prioritize when building web applications. In this episode, we speak with Google engineers, Kristofer Baxtor, and Jason Miller about the latest best practices in web performance.

Guests:

Kristofer Baxter - @kristoferbaxter

Jason Miller - @_developit

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Kristofer Baxter - Vets who code

Kristofer Baxter - Core web vitals

Jason Miller - You and me - meute

Jason Miller - AST Explorer

Jason Miller - Fyrtur blackout blinds from IKEA

Jason Miller - When They See Us

Ryan Burgess - Pink Panther Jewelry heist in a mall in Dubai

Ryan Burgess - Gardner Bender EFT-15 Mini Cable

Stacy London - How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Stacy London - The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks by Tim Kadlec

Mars Jullian - User-centric performance metrics

Mars Jullian - Storybook performance addon

Brian Holt - Mutt's Sauce

Brian Holt - Vets who code

Brian Holt - Black Visions Minnesota