Front End Happy Hour

A lot of the work we do impacts the people using the product or application we’ve made and it’s important to understand how our users resonate with the products we create. A great way to better understand what works for a user is by doing user testing. In this episode, we’ll be discussing user testing.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - 3M Command Strips

Ryan Burgess - Sonos speakers

Augustus Yuan - Talk to Books

Augustus Yuan - Pocket Developer Dice

Jem Young - The Little Prince

Jem Young - Slack incubator

In this episode, we’re joined by the Netflix Software Engineer, Anup Bishnoi to talk with us about the Netflix, open source, virtual JSON graph library, Falcor.

Guests:

Anup Bishnoi - @asyncanup

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Picks:

Anup Bishnoi - IPFS

Anup Bishnoi - Everything Sucks

Anup Bishnoi - The Daily

Ryan Burgess - Up Next

Ryan Burgess - Electron

Jem Young - Comply Ear Plugs

Jem Young - Jarv Nmotion ear buds

Jem Young - Fastest Car

Ryan Anklam - Orphan Master’s Son

Ryan Anklam - Barkley Marathons - The Race that Eats its Young

In this episode, we were live on stage at Reactathon conference in San Francisco discussing how to scale a React application. We share our thoughts on to best approaches to creating a good structure for your codebase at scale. We also share our experiences we’ve learned over the years how to scale our React applications.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

In this episode, we discuss how we stay productive in our jobs. To help us with the discussion, we’re joined by Ellen Chisa, CEO, and Cofounder of Dark. We talk about tools and strategies we’ve found useful to help stay productive.

Guests:

Ellen Chisa - @ellenchisa

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ellen Chisa - Dark - Frontend Engineer

Ellen Chisa - SkeletonCSS

Ellen Chisa - Manual.is

Ryan Burgess - Soapbox

Ryan Burgess - Tales from the Script

Jem Young - NPM Compare

Jem Young - Raw Water

Mars Jullian - Texture

Mars Jullian - PseudoLocalizer

Stacy London - Bolt

Stacy London - Emerald Rush by Jon Hopkins

In this episode, we are joined by Richard Feldman to talk about the functional language Elm, which compiles to JavaScript. In the episode, we learn about the benefits to leveraging Elm and how to get started.

Guests:

Richard Fledman - @rtfeldman

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Richard Feldman - Predictably Irrational

Richard Feldman - Richard Feldman: CSS as Bytecode

Richard Feldman - Elm Town

Ryan Burgess - Absentia

Ryan Burgess - Seven Seconds

Augustus Yuan - Workbox

Augustus Yuan - Evernote Spaces

Brian Holt - Secret of Mana

Stacy London - Kubo and the Two Strings

Stacy London - Fever Ray’s new album Plunge

In this episode, we recorded live at SacJS event in Sacramento, California. On stage we discuss the challenges of migrating a codebase and when to make the decision its the right time to refactor. We share lessons we’ve learned from past experiences.

Panelists:

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Augustus Yuan - Flavors of Engineering management

Augustus Yuan - Thanks (github)

Jem Young - Sealab 2021

Jem Young - Four Semesters of CS Part II

Jem Young - Petro

Derrick Showers - Twenty Thousand Hertz

Derrick Showers - Timbuk2

Derrick Showers - Master of None

Brian Holt - Luis.ai

Brian Holt - Full Stack 2 on Frontend Masters

Brian Holt - Second Career Devs w/ Madison Kanna

Mars Jullian - Lovesick

Mars Jullian - Inside Dev newsletter

Stacy London - Unfolding by Rival Consoles

Stacy London - Git for Humans by David Demaree

In this episode, we recorded live on stage at Forward JS conference in San Francisco. We were joined by our special guest, Allen Wirfs-Brock to talk about how the web has changed over the years and how JavaScript has been a large influence.

Guests:

Allen Wirfs-Brock - @awbjs

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

In this episode, we’ll be discussing things we’ve noticed in companies that have unhealthy culture, shady business practices, moving business targets and more. We talk about ways to avoid an unhealthy culture and how to help improve one.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Altered Carbon

Ryan Burgess - Framework Summit

Augustus Yuan - Year in Pixels

Augustus Yuan - Haven

Jem Young - Uphill Conf

Jem Young - Bitcoin

Mars Jullian - The Grand Tour

Mars Jullian - The noun project

Stacy London - Carbon.now.sh

Stacy London - Sunder by Nathan Fake

For our 50th episode, we are on stage live at the 2018 ngATL conference. We are joined by four of the talented speakers, Aimee Knight, Simona Cotin, John Papa, and April Wensel to talk about the state of Angular.

Guests:

Aimee Knight - @Aimee_Knight

Simona Cotin - @simona_cotin

John Papa - @John_Papa

April Wensel - @aprilwensel

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Aimee Knight - Zackary Chapple

Aimee Knight - What does code readability mean?

Aimee Knight - BCAA - Gummy Worm

Simona Cotin - Code: Debugging the gender gap

Simona Cotin - CodeBar

John Papa - Readable Code

John Papa - The Greatest Showman

April Wensel - The Power of Full Engagement

April Wensel - The Beyond Burger

April Wensel - Viva La Vegan

Ryan Burgess - Dark

Ryan Burgess - Ng-Atlanta

Jem Young - Harry Wolff - The Console Log

Jem Young - Neat Beats - Cosmic Surgery

Jem Young - Flamethrower

We are back in 2018, for the first episode of the New Year we have two special guests, Shirley Wu and Amy Wibowo to talk with us about freelancing and running your own business. We discuss how to start freelance work, how to manage clients and how to handle difficult clients.

Guests:

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Amy Wibowo - @sailorhg

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Shirley Wu - Bubblesort Zines

Shirley Wu - Coding like a girl by Amy Wibowo

Shirley Wu - OpenVis Conf

Shirley Wu - Kimi No Na Wa (Your name)

Amy Wibowo - The Hate U Give

Ryan Burgess - ConferCal

Ryan Burgess - Black Mirror Season 4

Augustus Yuan - Smog Free Tower

Augustus Yuan - Speedometer 2.0

Jem Young - Cowarobot

Jem Young - Code Problems

Jem Young - Babel Time Travel

Derrick Showers - Gramercy Tavern

Derrick Showers - My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman

Brian Holt - Creating a Vue.js Serverless Checkout Form: Setup and Testing

Brian Holt - Bussed out - How America moves its homeless

Brian Holt - 5 Things Episode 1: Five Things About Create React App

Stacy London - Git it gurl from BubbleSort Zines from Amy!

Stacy London - Change the Paradigm by Austra

Stacy London - World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts by Don Hertzfeldt