Front End Happy Hour

We often talk a lot about growth path as engineers. One of those growth paths could be a tech lead engineer. In this episode, we are joined by Tony Edwards to help talk with us about what the role and responsibilities of a lead engineer are.

Guests:

Tony Edwards - @tedwards947

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Tony Edwards - Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell

Tony Edwards - The Indicator from Planet Money

Tony Edwards - Steve1989MREInfo

Ryan Burgess - Everybody Matters

Ryan Burgess - Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Ryan Burgess - Abstract Season 2

Jem Young - Great British Baking Show

Jem Young - Duer Jeans

Jem Young - Frontend Masters - Full Stack

Mars Jullian - Airbnb open homes program

Mars Jullian - catalogchoice.org

Stacy London - Fear Inoculum by Tool

Stacy London - Blood Year by Russian Circles

Stacy London - Unending by Cloudkicker

As engineers we have a lot of excellent tools and resources to help us do our jobs well, one of those resources is open source code. In this episode, we will be talking about all things open source.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Hyperdrive

Ryan Burgess - Unbelievable

Jem Young - The Boys

Jem Young - Hamilton

Mars Jullian - Queer Eye - Japan

Mars Jullian - Blue Star Donuts Portland

We’ve all faced some form of code migration in the past and wanted to share some of the things we’ve learned. In this episode, we’re joined by Micah Ransdell, a Software Engineering Manager at Netflix to talk with us about migrating a codebase.

Guests:

Micah Ransdell - @micahransdell

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Picks:

Micah Ransdell - React Rally

Ryan Burgess - Wemo light switches

Jem Young - How Brokerages Make Money

Jem Young - Managing Yourself

Jem Young - Forge

Ryan Anklam - Conditional types in TypeScript

Ryan Anklam - Roomba

In this episode, we are joined by a returning guest, Shirley Wu to talk with us about the combination of code and art.

Guests:

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Shirley Wu - Team lab Tokyo crystal universe

Shirley Wu - Misaki Nakano

Shirley Wu - Matt DesLauriers

Shirley Wu - Tyler Halves

Shirley Wu - Matt’s Frontend Masters creative coding

Ryan Burgess - Joshua Davis

Ryan Burgess - Nikka Coffey Grain Whiskey

Ryan Burgess - Like-so app

Augustus Yuan - @beesandbombs

Augustus Yuan - Zdog

Mars Jullian - A Single Div

Mars Jullian - Aphantasia

Stacy London - Simon Stålenhag

Stacy London - make8bitart.com by Jenn Schiffer

Stacy London - Once Upon a Forest by Maruto (aka Joshua Davis)

There are quite a few ways to organize a team to build out a new feature. Two of the most talked-about are Waterfall and Agile. In this episode, we’ll be talking through the pros and cons of some of the development processes we’ve encountered.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Lacasa De Papel (Money Heist)

Ryan Burgess - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Augustus Yuan - Karat

Augustus Yuan - FoodieLand Night Market

Jem Young - This toaster

Jem Young - Dark season 2

Jem Young - Pock

Stacy London - Anima - Thom Yorke

Stacy London - Anima

Stacy London - Holly H

In this episode, we are joined by Ujjwal Tyagi and Eric Eiswerth to talk with us about how Backend and Frontend engineers can be most effective collaborating.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Growth Engineering at Netflix — Accelerating Innovation

Guests:

Ujjwal Tyagi - @urstyagi

Eric Eiswerth - @eeiswerth

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Ujjwal Tyagi - Chicago

Ujjwal Tyagi - Spicy chicken at Peri Peri

Eric Eiswerth - Free Solo

Eric Eiswerth - Montana M28 Guitar

Eric Eiswerth - Expack

Ryan Burgess - Google Home Hub

Ryan Burgess - Hawkins Cheezies

Ryan Burgess - Bad Blood Season 2

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Toaster

Jem Young - Mechanical movements

Jem Young - It’s Bruno

In this episode, we’re joined by product managers, Michael Spiegelman, Cathy Conk, and Eddy Wu from Netflix to talk with us about the relationship between engineers and product managers.

Guests:

Michael Spiegelman - @mspiegelman

Cathy Conk - @CathyConk

Eddy Wu

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Cathy Conk - Everybody Matters

Cathy Conk - Severance

Cathy Conk - The OA

Eddy Wu - Gully Boy

Eddy Wu - Campfire Stout

Eddy Wu - Rust: the longest war

Michael Spiegelman - Thinking Fast and Slow

Michael Spiegelman - Predictably Rational

Michael Spiegelman - Sapiens

Michael Spiegelman - The world until yesterday

Ryan Burgess - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Ryan Burgess - React Day New York

Jem Young - Fast Fourier Transform

Jem Young - Vite Ramen

Jem Young - Chewie IPO

In this episode, we are joined by Tyler Childs, a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix to talk with us about building out scalable CSS and share some of the exciting new features in the latest version of CSS.

Guests:

Tyler Childs - @TylerChilds

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Picks:

Tyler Childs - Fantasy Survivor Game.com

Tyler Childs - Laphroaig Triple Wood Whisky

Tyler Childs - Marvel 1602

Tyler Childs - Batman Hush

Tyler Childs - The Wake

Ryan Burgess - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Jem Young - Pathfinding with A*

Jem Young - Writing a game loop

Ryan Anklam - Hooka Speedgoat

Ryan Anklam - Milwaukee Bucks

In this episode, we are joined by Randall Koutnik, a Senior Software Engineer at Slack to talk with us about how we should be thinking about ways to build better user experiences.

Guests:

Randall Koutnik

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Randall Koutnik - Swords on Amazon

Randall Koutnik - Factorio game

Ryan Burgess - The Highwaymen

Ryan Burgess - Santa Clarita Diet Season 3

Augustus Yuan - Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity

Augustus Yuan - Parable of the blender - Randall Koutnik

Augustus Yuan - Personas and Jobs-to-be-Done

Jem Young - Build Reactive Websites with RXJS

Jem Young - The Dream Podcast

Mars Jullian - 2019 Front-end developer handbook

Mars Jullian - Litter robot

Mars Jullian - Xkcd comic

Stacy London - Schitt’s Creek

Stacy London - May Day by Mike Slott

In this episode, we are joined by Katie Sylor-Miller, a Staff Software Engineer from Etsy, to talk with us about ways to help build and foster a frontend culture within your companies.

Guests:

Katie Sylor-Miller - @ksylor

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Katie Sylor-Miller - The Fascinating Chimera Project

Katie Sylor-Miller - Karbon.now.sh

Katie Sylor-Miller - Tiki bar - Pagan Idol

Katie Sylor-Miller - Tiki bar - Tonga room

Katie Sylor-Miller - Tiki bar - Smugglers Cove

Katie Sylor-Miller - Tiki bar - Last Rites

Katie Sylor-Miller - Tiki bar - Frankie’s Tiki room

Ryan Burgess - Skywalk.er

Ryan Burgess - Humza Deas

Jem Young - Spiderman: Into the spider-verse

Jem Young - Deadpool 2

Jem Young - Plus codes

Mars Jullian - Inside deals

Mars Jullian - Routing with React hooks

Stacy London - Stimulation by Ellen Allien

Stacy London - Pour by Recondite