Front End Happy Hour

With the COVID-19 situation, we are all confined to our homes. In this episode, we thought it’d be an excellent opportunity to talk through our experiences working from home during this time.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Bare Bottle

Ryan Burgess - Coffivitity

Augustus Yuan - ncov2019.live

Augustus Yuan - 14-Day Quarantine Workout Plan

Jem Young - Avenue 5

Jem Young - Joe Pera Talks With You

Jem Young - Lazy recruiters

Jem Young - Change/Opportunity

Ryan Anklam - The Mastermind Book

Ryan Anklam - Ace Sweatpants

Ryan Anklam - Reply All: The Case of The Missing Hit

Mars Jullian - Anecdote Candles

Mars Jullian - San Francisco Restaurants That Are Open For Delivery

Stacy London - Check in on your friends & family

Stacy London - Psychic Data by TVAM

Stacy London - Shedding Layers by Rob Clouth

Brian Holt - Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Brian Holt - Gift cards to local restaurants and bars

Brian Holt - Folding@home

In this episode, we recorded live on stage at Root Insurance in Columbus, Ohio. We were joined by Jibran Kutik and Oliver Farshi to talk with about design systems and how engineers and designers collaborate.

Guests:

Jibran Kutik

Oliver Farshi

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

There’s a constant debate on what the preferred work environment is, in office, remote, or work from home. In this episode, we talk about our preferences and some of the pros and cons of each work option.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Logitech Spotlight Presentation Remote

Ryan Burgess - On being wrong - Kathryn Schultz

Augustus Yuan - How to undo (almost) anything with Git

Augustus Yuan - Weathering With You - Makoto Shinkai

Mars Jullian - Open office freakonomics episode

Mars Jullian - “No lyrics - study” spotify playlist

Stacy London - Numeronyms

Stacy London - Gentle Practice by Heathered Pearls

As engineers, we spend a lot of our time coding, but we also spend a lot of time in meetings. A typical meeting we are in is one on one meetings. In this episode, we talk about ways to get the most out of one on one meetings and avoid having bad ones.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - SkyCandy app

Ryan Burgess - 2020 conference list

Augustus Yuan - AWS in plain English

Augustus Yuan - Play Wright

Mars Jullian - Stylex (Facebook CSS in JS framework)

Mars Jullian - Pet Playlist by Spotify

Stacy London - Lara Hogan - Manager handoffs

Stacy London - Illusion of Time by Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini

It’s always great to be able to put our skills to good use. In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Yu to talk with us about civic hacking.

Guests:

Sarah Yu

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Sarah Yu - Code for America

Sarah Yu - Pat McGrath labs

Ryan Burgess - You season 2

Ryan Burgess - Dirty John

Augustus Yuan - Devocion Coffee - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Augustus Yuan - data.gov

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Hidrate Spark

Jem Young - Messiah Season 1

Mars Jullian - Theragun

Stacy London - Code for America

Stacy London - Wild by Tourist

Stacy London - Radical by Amtrac & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

It can be really important to think through what you want in your career. In this episode, we are joined by Michael Gaskill to talk with us about career management.

Guests:

Michael Gaskill

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Michael Gaskill - Code Radio by freecodecamp

Michael Gaskill - Marengo

Ryan Burgess - The Pivot Point

Ryan Burgess - Radical Candor

Augustus Yuan - Uber Go Style Guide

Augustus Yuan - Open Diablo 2

Jem Young - CSS units explained

Jem Young - Theodent Toothpaste

Stacy London - It Should Be Us by Andy Stott

Stacy London - The Center Won't Hold by Sleater-Kinney

Happy Holidays! In this episode, we talk about supporting large applications over the holidays and what the best practices are in order to make sure your customers have 100% availability over the holidays.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Jay-z on Spotify

Ryan Burgess - Nest Hello Doorbell

Ryan Burgess - The Irishman

Jem Young - Pixel 4

Jem Young - The Efficiency destroying the magic of tidying up

Jem Young - TC39

Mars Jullian - Love Island

Mars Jullian - Bay Curious podcast

Stacy London - Dust Circles by Loscil

Stacy London - Luminous Spaces by Jon Hopkins, Kelly Lee Owens

It is really important to make sure our community is an inclusive environment for everyone to feel like they belong. In this episode, we are joined by Cher and Henry Zhu to talk with us about inclusion and diversity.

Guests:

Cher - @cherdotdev

Henry Zhu - @left_pad

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Cher - Stamped from the Beginning

Cher - Magdalene - FKA twigs

Cher - Modern Figures

Cher - Megan Rapinoe

Henry Zhu - Programming as theory building

Henry Zhu - Tools for conviviality

Henry Zhu - Blog post by Henry - Seeking Serendipity

Ryan Burgess - Brene Brown: The Anatomy of Trust

Ryan Burgess - How to build (and rebuild) trust

Ryan Burgess - Better Allies newsletter

Augustus Yuan - Cyclismo cafe

Augustus Yuan - Black Sugar Boba

Jem Young - Arcs of Seniority

Jem Young - The Uncluded

Jem Young - Henry Zhu

Stacy London - Proud by the Nunnery

Stacy London - 16 Psyche by Chelsea Wolfe

In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Drasner and Gift Egwuenu to talk with us about the popular JavaScript framework, VueJS.

Guests:

Sarah Drasner - @sarah_edo

Gift Egwuenu - @lauragift21

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Sarah Drasner - Greensock v3

Gift Egwuenu - Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts Ride

Gift Egwuenu - Nigerian Playlist

Ryan Burgess - Mike Giant podcast

Ryan Burgess - Tombow Dual Brush pens

Augustus Yuan - React adaptive hooks

Augustus Yuan - Trader Joe’s Cauliflower Ravioli

Jem Young - Buffet Lines

Jem Young - Hap and Leonard

Stacy London - Yearning for the Infinite - Max Cooper

Stacy London - Immerse - Alex Banks

In today’s episode, we are going to be talking with Priyankaa Vijayakumar and Lauren Tan about an interesting engineering effort their teams at Netflix are working on. Netflix continues to create its own content and Hollywood is an interesting world with a ton of opportunities for engineering to integrate technology to make things more efficient. Priyankaa and Lauren will be telling us more about those engineering challenges.

Guests:

Priyankaa Vijayakumar - @priyankaavj

Lauren Tan - @_sugarpirate

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Priyankaa Vijayakumar - Living with Yourself

Priyankaa Vijayakumar - Harry Potter the Play

Lauren Tan - TSConf

Lauren Tan - The Meta-conversation

Lauren Tan - El Camino

Ryan Burgess - Watchmen

Jem Young - $100 toothpaste

Jem Young - The Politician