Front End Happy Hour

It’s been a great year! With 2017 coming to an end, we’ve decided to talk the highlights, trends, and disappointments of the year. We also talk about what we’re excited about in 2018.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - 2018 Conferences

Ryan Burgess - Kevin Marr

Augustus Yuan - Mozilla Voice Project

Augustus Yuan - Algorithmic Art by Tyler Hobbs

Jem Young - Perf Matters Conference

Jem Young - Slow TV

Jem Young - Surface Book 2

Derrick Showers - Castro

Derrick Showers - try! Swift

Brian Holt - Babel

Brian Holt - Henry Zhu

Brian Holt - Webpack

Brian Holt - Parcel

Brian Holt - SFO

Often times in our careers we’ve wanted to speak at conferences, meetups or even within our companies. It’s been a great way to share ideas and things we’ve learned. Giving a tech talk isn’t always the easiest thing. In this episode, we’ll be discussing what we’ve learned from our experiences and share advice on ways to help improve your next talk.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Obey Giant Documentary

Ryan Burgess - Southpaw

Augustus Yuan - Seashells.io

Augustus Yuan - The Working Man (animation)

Jem Young - The Room

Jem Young - Firefox Quantum

Mars Jullian - HTML5 Meetup

Mars Jullian - Dickens Fair

Stacy London - Illumina by Lamb

Stacy London - Rodent by Burial

In this episode of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, we discuss how as front end engineers we can impact security vulnerabilities in the applications and websites we are creating.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Engineer Manager Resources

Ryan Burgess - Netflix JavaScript Talks - Building Performant Signup Flows in React

Jem Young - Puppeteer

Jem Young - Stranger Things

Derrick Showers - Certbot

Derrick Showers - Airbnb Experiences

Derrick Showers - DripDrop

Stacy London - Lisbon, Portugal

Stacy London - Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

In a previous episode, we discussed working with a recruiter during a job interview process. In this episode, we’re joined by Netflix recruiter, Bianca Bortolussi to discuss ways to help your engineering profile stand out to recruiters and hiring managers.

Guests:

Bianca Bortolussi - @biancabmorey

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Picks:

Bianca Bortolussi - Apple Watch 3

Bianca Bortolussi - Netflix JS Talks

Ryan Burgess - Women in Tech Show

Ryan Burgess - Kotlin Conf

Jem Young - Firefox Focus

Jem Young - Sony MDR 1000x

Ryan Anklam - Spotify Time Capsule Playlist

Ryan Anklam - Dirty Hacks From The Dark Corners of Front-End

Mars Jullian - November 17th HTML5 Meetup

Mars Jullian - Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton by Shirley Wu

Writing great code isn’t always the only part of our jobs. In order to impact changes on our teams or the business, we need to be able to persuade others to buy into your ideas. This could be in the form of migrating to a new technology, process or even adding a new feature to a product. In this episode, we are joined by Shirley Wu to help us discuss how we can best sell our ideas and make an impact on our teams or clients.

Guests:

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Shirley Wu - D3 Unconf

Shirley Wu - The Stormlight Archive

Ryan Burgess - Social Network soundtrack

Ryan Burgess - American Vandal

Augustus Yuan - Essential Image Optimization

Augustus Yuan - LeetCode Articles

Brian Holt - size-limit

Brian Holt - Choir of the Mind by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

Stacy London - Vallis Alps - Oceans

Stacy London - Beeple

We all had to start somewhere. In this episode, we are joined by Preethi Kasireddy to talk with us about her and our experiences of being a beginner to coding.

Guests:

Preethi Kasireddy - @iam_preethi

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Preethi Kasireddy - Front End Happy Hour

Preethi Kasireddy - Changelog

Preethi Kasireddy - Software Engineering Daily

Preethi Kasireddy - Twitter

Preethi Kasireddy - freeCodeCamp

Ryan Burgess - We All Started Somewhere - Preethi Kasireddy - React Rally

Ryan Burgess - Fed Up

Derrick Showers - CS50

Derrick Showers - Pocket Casts

Derrick Showers - Fatal Error

Stacy London - Frontend Masters

Stacy London - Nordic.js

Stacy London - Fjords near Flåm in Norway

There’s always a lot to be done, but having a good work life balance is extremely important. In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Showers from LinkedIn, to talk with us about work life balance. We share our thoughts on what work life balance means to us and how our companies help foster a healthy work life balance.

Guests:

Sarah Showers - @sarahlshowers

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Picks:

Sarah Showers - Best Self Journal

Ryan Burgess - Movo Photo MTP-11

Ryan Burgess - SVG Animations - Sarah Drasner

Augustus Yuan - How to fix a toilet

Augustus Yuan - Sketch 2 After Effects

Derrick Showers - One World Observatory

Derrick Showers - Shake Shack

Derrick Showers - JetBlue

Brian Holt - Focus app

Brian Holt - Todoist

Maintaining and scaling code is an important aspect of our careers. In this episode, we discuss and share ideas to help keep a healthy code base that will scale with your company.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Brazil JS - Jem’s talk on code maintenance

Ryan Burgess - Senior UI Engineer at Netflix

Augustus Yuan - Ali Wong

Augustus Yuan - AI with DeepMind and Blizzard

Stacy London - Blurred by Kiasmos

Stacy London - Particles by Ólafur Arnalds

Jem Young - Stacy’s haircut

Jem Young - The Defenders - Episode 3

Jem Young - Best Practices for Reusable Components

Mars Jullian - Plant nanny

Mars Jullian - MindNode

In this episode, we’re joined by Naoufal Kadhom, a Software Engineer from Netflix who’s also just released a payment library for React Native. In the episode, we’ll be discussing React Native and what it’s like to leverage it for Android and iOS applications.

Guests:

Naoufal Kadhom - @naoufal

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Naoufal Kadhom - Detour

Naoufal Kadhom - React Native Europe

Ryan Burgess - React Native Payments

Ryan Burgess - Robinhood

Augustus Yuan - Lottie

Augustus Yuan - Pismo Beach ATV sand dunes

Derrick Showers - Realm Academy

Derrick Showers - Py App

Brian Holt - Hackages

Brian Holt - Prettier + eslint-config-airbnb + Flowtype is the ultimate workflow for writing JS

Stacy London - CodeSandbox

Stacy London - Slow Motion by Lusine

In this episode, we’re joined by Stefan Stumpfl, a mobile software engineer at LinkedIn working on LinkedIn Learning. During the past 5 years as an iOS developer, he has experience ranging from building his own app on a small 2-person team to larger teams like his current role at LinkedIn. In this episode, we will discuss the Swift programming language – how it compares to languages like Javascript and some of the advantages and disadvantages to writing and learning it.

Guests:

Stefan Stumpfl - @sust86

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Stefan Stumpfl - Natasha the Robot

Stefan Stumpfl - Turner’s Kitchen

Ryan Burgess - The Pitch

Ryan Burgess - Ng-Atlanta

Ryan Burgess - Moment

Jem Young - Plume Wifi

Jem Young - Injury Reserve - ttktv

Jem Young - Gullivers Travels

Derrick Showers - Swift Playgrounds

Derrick Showers - Swift Unwrapped

Derrick Showers - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Derrick Showers - Watermelon Funk

Stacy London - Linting styled-components

Stacy London - Weak by Maya Jane Coles