Front End Happy Hour

In this episode, we’re joined by Shirley Wu, a Freelance Software Engineer who focuses on Data Visualization. Shirley shares a lot of knowledge about Data Visualization using JavaScript.

Guests:

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Shirley Wu - Domestic Data Streamers

Shirley Wu - Openviz

Shirley Wu - D3 Unconf

Shirley Wu - Data Stories Podcast

Ryan Burgess - Shop Talk Show - React with Netflix

Ryan Burgess - Amplifi

Stacy London - svgomg

Stacy London - Ellen Allien’s new album Nost

Augustus Yuan - Pokemon Terminal

Augustus Yuan - How Selections Work

Augustus Yuan - D3-Annotation

Jem Young - Web Typography for Non-Designers

Jem Young - The Story of O.J.

We’ve received a lot of great questions from our listeners and wanted to take the time to answer them as an AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode. Thank you all for the great questions, we had a lot of fun answering them.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Breaker app

Ryan Burgess - PhoneSoap

Augustus Yuan - Front End Guide

Augustus Yuan - Summer sale on Steam

Jem Young - A crash course in memory management

Jem Young - The Discovery

Derrick Showers - The Obesity Code

Derrick Showers - Headspace

Ryan Anklam - Children of Time Book

Ryan Anklam - Darigold Old Fashioned Chocolate Milk

Brian Holt - Bing

Brian Holt - OneNote

Brian Holt - Regina LC Tattoo

Brian Holt - City Pups SF

Mars Jullian - Clif nut butter filled bars

Mars Jullian - iShows app

Stacy London - Green Machine rolls at Bamboo in Portland

Stacy London - Hands Down (feat. jennylee) by Trentemøller

Starting a new job is never easy, but a good onboarding process can make all the difference. In this episode, we talk about our experiences with onboarding at companies we’ve worked at and share our thoughts on what makes a good experience when starting a new job.

Items mentioned in the episode

Evernote, MySQL, Brew, Tomcat, Atlassian, Docker, Reed Hastings, Java, Struts, Stash, Gulp, npm, Bitbucket, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Django, Python, Accidently destroyed production database

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Masters of Scale

Ryan Burgess - Mr. Chilly

Augustus Yuan - Stockstream

Augustus Yuan - Scrimba

Ryan Anklam - Sam Felt’s House Party Playlist

Ryan Anklam - Yarn determinism

Stacy London - A Unified Styling Language

Stacy London - Outgoing Society by Shed

In this episode, we’re joined by Jyri Tuulos and Josh London to help discuss reusable components and building style guides. Jyri is a Staff Engineer at AdRoll and Josh is a Senior Designer at Netflix. We discuss best practices companies are leveraging style guides and reusable components. We also share the positives and negatives to having a style guide.

Items mentioned in the episode:

AdRoll, Netflix, JavaScript, CSS, CSS Preprocessor, PHP, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Learning, Jennison Asuncion, Accessibility episode, Atlassian, Bitbucket, Evernote, Storybook, npm, Slack, Laurie Voss, React, Angular, React plus X: Best Practices for Reusable UI Components, Forward JS, React Style Guide Generator, Pattern Lab, Brad Frost, Dave Olson, Atomic Design, JQuery, JQuery Widgets, Sketch, SASS, Bootstrap, React Bootstrap, Starbucks Style Guide, Styleguides.io

Guests:

Jyri Tuulos - @jtuulos

Josh London - @joshualondon

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Jyri Tuulos - AdRoll style guide

Jyri Tuulos - Reasonably Sound

Josh London - InspiRock

Josh London - React Sketch App

Ryan Burgess - XLR8 Connect Diaper Backpack

Ryan Burgess - Bosch

Augustus Yuan - Quick Draw! Google Dataset

Augustus Yuan - Style Guides

Augustus Yuan - Google I/O videos

Jem Young - Why did the chicken cross the road

Jem Young - ES6 Proxies and Reflection

Derrick Showers - Instacart

Derrick Showers - Blue Apron

Mars Jullian - Single Div

Mars Jullian - Detour

Stacy London - AtlasKit

Stacy London - Actually Smiling by Geotic

In this episode, we are joined by Laurie Voss, the COO and former CTO at npm. Npm, also known as Node Package Manager has been an important tool in the JavaScript community and has helped engineers share their code. In today’s episode, we’ll be discussing how we leverage npm and find out what we can expect from npm 5. Laurie also teaches us some cool tricks that exist in the npm cli.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Node, npm, Ruby, Python, Java, Back End Happy Hour, CommonJS, CocoaPods, Stack Overflow, Github, Babel, Webpack, Closure Compiler, Rollup, Browserify, Yarn, npm Enterprise, Left-pad, Express, Google, Monster Cable, Gold Apple Watch, I am rich, Semver.org

Guests:

Laurie Voss - @seldo

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Picks:

Laurie Voss - npm 5

Laurie Voss - Slides.com

Laurie Voss - Next.js

Ryan Burgess - Moment Lens

Ryan Burgess - Lin Clark - A Cartoon into Fiber - React Conf 2017

Ryan Burgess - The Founder

Augustus Yuan - Deco IDE

Augustus Yuan - Mocktails Mixer by Deeplocal

Jem Young - Aviation

Jem Young - Music to Draw To: Satellite

Derrick Showers - How I built this podcast

Derrick Showers - Containers podcast

Derrick Showers - Jackbox TV

Mars Jullian - Spotify Mood playlists

Mars Jullian - SkyGuru

In this episode, we are joined by Trey Shugart who is a front-end developer (Principal Developer) at Atlassian, proponent of web components, and author of SkateJS to talk about Web Components.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Fast and the Furious 8, Skate JS, Preact, React, Chrome browser, Rust episode, Polymer, X-Tag, jQuery, Flux, Functional Programming, Safari, Firefox, Web Assembly, W3C, Progressive Web Apps, Ken Wheeler, Service Workers, Lighthouse, TypeScript, Flow, nwb, Nest, React, Angular, Ember, Jason Miller, Knockout, Dart

Guests:

Trey Shugart - @treshugart

Panelists:

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Trey Shugart - Flow Type

Trey Shugart - Line 6 helix

Trey Shugart - Skate Maintainers

Trey Shugart - Jason Miller

Jem Young - Ryan Anklam

Jem Young - The Wee Baby Burgess - Austin Ryan Burgess

Jem Young - Iron Fist

Ryan Anklam - Spotify Discover Weekly Playlist

Ryan Anklam - Ancillary Justice

Brian Holt - Flow Type

Brian Holt - Babel Preset Env

Brian Holt - Planned Parenthood

Stacy London - Web Developer Roadmap

Stacy London - Broken Social Scene - Halfway Home

What’s it like to deal with Imposter Syndrome? In this episode, we are joined by Jessica Grist, a Software Engineer at Adroll to discuss how we’ve all experience Imposter Syndrome in our careers and share ways to help deal with it.

Guests:

Jessica Grist - @thehackstress

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Picks:

Jessica Grist - Stuff You Missed in History Class

Ryan Burgess - React Conf 2017 videos

Ryan Burgess - Iron Fist

Derrick Showers - Ember Conf 2017

Derrick Showers - Codepen Projects

Derrick Showers - Alamo Drafthouse

Brian Holt - Full Stack for Front End Engineers

Mars Jullian - Nordic JS

Mars Jullian - How I Built This

Stacy London - Glitch

Stacy London - Empty Promise by Butane

Burnout is not a rare phenomenon that engineers deal with. In this episode, we talk about the ways we’ve been affected by burnout and how we’ve dealt with it. We discuss past experiences that have created burnout for us and ways we can prevent it from happening in the future.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Twitter, Trello, Headspace, Fitbit, Apple Watch, Slack, Netflix

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Rove

Ryan Burgess - Charles Proxy

Ryan Burgess - React Native

Augustus Yuan - Periscopic.com

Augustus Yuan - System Design Primer

Ryan Anklam - Hacking Node Seralize

Ryan Anklam - Rocket

Brian Holt - Horizon Zero Dawn

Stacy London - Spindrift by Colin Stetson

Stacy London - It's not how many hours of sleep you get...

Websites have gotten a lot more complicated over the years. What happened to static HTML? In this episode we’re joined by Harry Wolff, the creator of Reptar, to talk about leveraging build tools to create static generated sites. We talk about the pros and cons of leveraging a static site generator for a website. We also discuss some of the tools available to help you get started.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Reptar, MongoDB, Github, Jekyll, Dropbox, Wordpress, Markdown, Atom, AWS, Express, Restify, FTP, React, Webpack, Medium, Gist, Highlight JS, Prisim, Yarn, npm, Facebook, Rugrats, Ghost, Metalsmith, Segment, Hugo, Go, Hexo, Markdown-it, YAML, Joi, Redux, StaticGen, Gatsby JS, Nunjucks, Browserify, Less, Sass, Babel, ES2015, Async await, Graph QL, Relay, Closure, Handlebars

Guests:

Harry Wolff - @hswolff

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Harry Wolff - Node 7.6

Harry Wolff - Legion

Harry Wolff - Calvin Harris - Slide

Harry Wolff - Reptar

Ryan Burgess - CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

Ryan Burgess - ZippGo

Augustus Yuan - Metasmoke

Augustus Yuan - Open Source Guides

Jem Young - Ultimate Beast Master

Jem Young - Shibesbot

Derrick Showers - Distiller

Derrick Showers - Pac-man Multiplayer

Brian Holt - Home Brewing Beer

Stacy London - Webpackbin

Stacy London - Arthur Russell - Home Away From Home (Andy Stott Refix)

In this episode, we’re joined by our special guest, Ayşegül Yönet, a Software Engineer Autodesk, who will help us discuss the popular Google JavaScript framework Angular. In the episode, we discuss the benefits of leveraging Angular and what the major differences are from Angular 1 and Angular 2.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Angular, Autodesk, Reddit, React, Scope, Knockout, Igor Minar, ASP.Net, Vue JS, Laravel, PHP, Visual Studio, Google Wave, Google Reader, Zone JS, Ember, TypeScript, Forward JS, RxJS, Frontend Masters, Angular.io, Pluralsight, John Papa, Angular Style Guide, Angular CLI, Closure

Guests:

Ayşegül Yönet - @AysSomething

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Ayşegül Yönet - Yoga Trapeze Swing

Ayşegül Yönet - Google Home

Ayşegül Yönet - Girl Develop It

Ayşegül Yönet - Annie Cannons

Ryan Burgess - NG-Cruise

Ryan Burgess - Astral

Jem Young - Private Internet Access

Jem Young - Elcomsoft

Derrick Showers - Omni

Derrick Showers - Fernet

Brian Holt - Aysegul's Twitter

Brian Holt - Southern Poverty Law Center

Brian Holt - Todd Motto

Stacy London - Lighthouse

Stacy London - Peak Magnetic by Clark