Front End Happy Hour

In this episode, Jem and Ryan each toss out frontend terms, languages, technologies, and patterns to debate if they are underrated or overrated.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Martha & Bros. Coffee

Ryan Burgess - True Detective Season 3

Jem Young - Losers

In past episodes we’ve shared our thoughts on helping others grow or how to help interns in your company, but we haven’t discussed our thoughts on our own career growth. In this episode, we’ll share our thoughts and opinions on career growth.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Photos with iCloud

Ryan Burgess - Workin’ Moms

Ryan Burgess - The OA season 2

Augustus Yuan - Silicon Valley Smash

Augustus Yuan - Chrome 73 update (installing PWAs via Chrome in Mac!)

Augustus Yuan - three.js/editor

Jem Young - Casper Glow

Jem Young - Oakley Prizm

Jem Young - Love, Death, and Robots

Stacy London - Screenshots in Chrome (Cmd+Shift+P with DevTools open then type ‘screenshot’)

Stacy London - Daniel Avery’s Song for Alpha album

Bandersnatch is an exciting Netflix interactive film that’s not only an amazing story, it has seamless experience that Netflix engineering teams have created. In this episode, we are joined by engineering managers, Maria Kazandjieva, Maxine Cheung, and Courtney Kennedy to talk about the work their teams have done to make Bandersnatch possible.

Guests:

Maria Kazandjieva - @stranger_quark

Maxine Cheung

Courtney Kennedy

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Maxine Cheung - Tidying Up with Marie Kondo

Maria Kazandjieva - Sour Beer - Alvarado Street Brewing

Maria Kazandjieva - Autotune Cats

Maria Kazandjieva - Amusing Ourselves to Death

Maria Kazandjieva - Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Maria Kazandjieva - Scott Manley

Courtney Kennedy - Quincy Documentary

Courtney Kennedy - The Upside of Stress

Ryan Burgess - Foam Back Roller

Jem Young - The Umbrella Academy

Jem Young - Young Blood

In this episode, we are joined by Jeeyun Linn, and Cole Turner to talk with us about building and using component libraries in a company.

Guests:

Jeeyun Linn - @jeeyunit

Cole Turner - @coleturner

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Picks:

Jeeyun Linn - Learn Git Branching

Jeeyun Linn - Flexbox Froggy

Cole Turner - Russian Doll

Ryan Burgess - FYRE

Ryan Burgess - Atomic design

Jem Young - Good UI Blog

Jem Young - It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Ryan Anklam - Counterrpart

Ryan Anklam - Elevate for Strava

We’ve talked about interviewing for engineering jobs, but once you have an offer, how do you negotiate the salary? In this episode, we’re joined by Matthew Gerstman, an engineer from Dropbox to talk with us about salaries, and stock.

Guests:

Matthew Gerstman - @MatthewGerstman

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Matthew Gerstman - Be More Chill Musical

Matthew Gerstman - Puffs the play

Ryan Burgess - Double your salary with this one simple trick - Matthew Gerstman

Ryan Burgess - Engineering Management: The Pendulum or the ladder

Augustus Yuan - Fearless Salary Negotiation

Augustus Yuan - Project Alias

Jem Young - 2018 Logo Trends

Jem Young - Hired

Stacy London - 2nd World by HVOB

Stacy London - Phaedra - 1995 Remaster by Tangerine Dream

There are a lot of great solutions available to support a native mobile experience for your application, but what’s the best option? In this episode we are joined by Jordanna Kwok from Netflix, to talk with us about some of the solutions and how to think through the best solution.

Guests:

Jordanna Kwok - @jordeewok

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Jordanna Kwok - Veronica Lewis Birdbox Tweet

Ryan Burgess - You

Ryan Burgess - Black Mirror Bandersnatch

Ryan Burgess - Netflix UIE JavaScript Talk Bandersnatch

Jem Young - The Gymkhana Files

Jem Young - ForwardJS

Creating performant websites and applications continues to be really important, but what about engineering performance. How do we make sure we are improving our productivity as engineers. In this episode, we are joined Jacques Favreau and Michael Paulson from Netflix to hear more about their thoughts on being more productive.

Creating performant websites and applications continue to be more and more important. In this episode, we are joined by Addy Osmani to talk with us about web performance and some future web platform APIs that help improve performance.

Guests:

Addy Osmani - @addyosmani

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Addy Osmani - The Great British Baking Show

Addy Osmani - Chrome User Experience Report

Ryan Burgess - Addy’s Netflix Case study

Ryan Burgess - PhotoPills

Ryan Burgess - Final Table

Jem Young - Yoshi App

Jem Young - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Ryan Anklam - All Systems Red

Ryan Anklam - Android Call Screening

Mars Jullian - Guides by Lonely Planet

Stacy London - React Profiler

Stacy London - Daydream by Shelf Nunny

We are often asked, what makes you a Senior Software Engineer. It’s not an easy answer, there are a lot of interesting thoughts and responses. In this episode, we are joined by Lauren Tan to help discuss our thoughts on what makes someone be a Senior Software Engineer over a Software Engineer.

Guests:

Lauren Tan - @sugarpirate_

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Picks:

Lauren Tan - DotJS

Ryan Burgess - React JS Hooks - Harry Wolff

Ryan Burgess - Joy Buolamwini: How I'm fighting bias in algorithms

Jem Young - Haunting of Hill House

Jem Young - El Mal Querer

Jem Young - The Fifth Season

Ryan Anklam - Code Runner plugin for VSCode

Ryan Anklam - Redux Sagas

Starting your career is a daunting task. You’ve learned these brand new skills, but how do you apply them and get experience? In this episode, we are joined by Moira Huang, to help us talk about internships and how best leverage an internship into a full time job.

Guests:

Moira Huang - @MoiraHuang_

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Picks:

Moira Huang - Chihuly Garden

Moira Huang - Priscilla Chan

Ryan Burgess - Tales by Light

Ryan Burgess - Github Actions

Augustus Yuan - Code Black

Augustus Yuan - The Mentorship

Ryan Anklam - Recovery - August Bell

Ryan Anklam - Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 35

Mars Jullian - Spotify workday lounge playlist

Mars Jullian - Moleskine Voyageur notebook