Front End Happy Hour

Working in Silicon Valley is very unique. We work in a bubble, immersed in technology. There are billboards about frameworks, technology, and gadgets. Coffee shops are filled with people on Macbooks covered in stickers. Conversations on the train, coffee shops and on the streets are about programming languages. There’s a unique culture from other places we’ve all lived. In this episode, we share our thoughts and experiences living and working in Silicon Valley.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Silicon Valley, Chelsea Handler Does, Skam, Rover, Sushirrito

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Philz coffee

Ryan Burgess - Allbirds shoes

Ryan Burgess - City and Colour

Augustus Yuan - Tinyletter

Jem Young - ES6 Compatibility table

Jem Young - Music for programming

Jem Young - Rapping, deconstructed

Derrick Showers - Periscope

Derrick Showers - Firebase

Ryan Anklam - Dash app

Ryan Anklam - TypeScript

Ryan Anklam - Bjork - Army of Me

Sarah Federman - Sensel Morph

Sarah Federman - OnHub & IFTTT

In this episode, we have a special guest joining us to talk about digital accessibility, Jennison Asuncion who is a leader in the accessibility community and has a lot of information to help us improve our websites and applications be more accessible for all users. We also talk about Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) coming up on May 19th. Find out how you can participate.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility, AccessLint, axe Core, Tenon, Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools, list of Meetups on accessibility, Apps For All: Coding Accessible Web Applications eBook, International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN Conference), Accessibility Camp Bay Area (Fall 2016), Boston Accessibility Conference (Fall 2016), Accessibility Camp Toronto (Fall 2016)

Guests:

Jennison Asuncion - @Jennison

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman

Picks:

Jennison Asuncion - Square Cash

Jennison Asuncion - The Points Guy

Jennison Asuncion - Jazz FM

Ryan Burgess - React a11y

Ryan Burgess - The Gaslight Anthem

Ryan Burgess - Sweet Jesus Ice Cream

Derrick Showers - A11y Command-line Tools

Derrick Showers - YNAB

Sarah Federman - Wakatime

Sarah Federman - Hackster.io

Sarah Federman - Losant (previously Structure)

We’ve all heard unit testing is good, but how do you get started writing unit tests? In this episode of Front End Happy Hour we share our experiences and advice writing unit tests. We discuss why it’s important and beneficial to have unit tests in your JavaScript. We share how we’ve approached unit tests and what a good unit test looks like. We also talk about the various tools and frameworks available to get your code properly tested.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Selenium, Black-box testing, White-box testing, Ember guides, Mocha, Jasmine, QUnit, Tape, Jest, Webpack, 5 Questions Every Unit Test Must Answer, Ember CLI, React CLI, Karma, What is the difference between a test runner, testing framwork, assertion library, and a testing plugin?, Ember Guides introduction to Unit Testing

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Caffeine for Mac

Ryan Burgess - Odesza

Augustus Yuan - Google Doodles

Augustus Yuan - OSSU Computer Science curriculum

Augustus Yuan - Mura Masa - What If I Go?

Augustus Yuan - teamLab: Living Digital Space and Future Parks

Jem Young - Flume - the mixtape

Jem Young - Programming Sucks

Jem Young - Hype Machine

Derrick Showers - Google Calendar goals

Derrick Showers - $13 bluetooth headset

In order to work professionally as a front end developer, there is always an intense interview process. In this episode, we share our experiences and thoughts on the interviews we’ve done in the past. Not only have we had experience being interviewed, we’ve also had a lot of experience interviewing other engineers for jobs at our companies. We share things we’re looking for when we interview candidates to join our teams.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Eclipse, Othello, Big O notation, FizzBuzz, Ryan Anklams famous t-shirt, War of the Worlds radio broadcast

Panelists:

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Aerial screensaver

Ryan Burgess - Amazon Dash Buttons

Ryan Burgess - Front End Happy Hour Playlist

Ryan Anklam - Escape app

Ryan Anklam - Best of Old Time Radio Podcast

Ryan Anklam - Dusty Kid - Beyond That Hill

Sarah Federman - Lindsey Stirling

Sarah Federman - SizeUp (osx windows management)

Jem Young - EmpireJS

Jem Young - Aphex Swift

Jem Young - Netflix Menus

Derrick Showers - Code Climate

Derrick Showers - Slack themes

Augustus Yuan - Massdrop

Augustus Yuan - Elevator Saga

Augustus Yuan - Pretty Thoughts Alina Baraz & Galimatias

Brian Holt - AtHack!

Brian Holt - Annie Cannons

Brian Holt - Scroobius Pip

Brian Holt - Baths

Brian Holt - M83

ECMAScript 6 was a major release for the JavaScript language. There’s a lot of great new features that have been added. In this episode we discuss how you can start using ES6 today and what we’ll start seeing in the next year for the latest update to ECMAScript. We share our favorite features and the best ways to learn and stay up to date with new features.

Items mentioned in the episode:

ESNext, Ben Lesh - Netflix JavaScript Talks - RxJS Version 5, Ponyfoo blog, 5 Minutes of JavaScript, Compat Table ES6, Facebook Codemod

Panelists:

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman

Picks:

Ryan Anklam - 1Password

Ryan Anklam - Vim Tabular

Ryan Anklam - 90s Hip Hop

Ryan Burgess - Elegant React with ES6 (and a bit of ES7) - React Rally

Ryan Burgess - Lot 40 Whiskey

Sarah Federman - HTML5 Please

Sarah Federman - Death Medieval

Sarah Federman - Microsoft AI Bot

Jem Young - ES6 Cheatsheet

Jem Young - Cult of the Party Parrot

Derrick Showers - Babel’s “try it out”

Derrick Showers - Latest greatest webapp

Derrick Showers - Trello

Augustus Yuan - Tilt Brush

Augustus Yuan - Cotton Bureau

Augustus Yuan - Spacemacs

Brian Holt - The little Schemer

Brian Holt - Frontend Masters

Brian Holt - Ellee

In this ever changing industry of front end development, developers are constantly learning. In this episode of Front End Happy Hour we discuss everything from our school backgrounds and what lead us to front end development. We also share ways we stay up to date with the ever-changing landscape of new technologies. Along with our usual panelists, we are joined by guest Sarah Showers, a front end developer from Apple.

Guests:

Sarah Showers - @sarahlshowers

Panelists:

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Picks:

Sarah Showers - Hamilton

Ryan Anklam - Massive Attack- Angel

Derrick Showers - Apple Music

Jem Young - Scotland JS

Jem Young - Explosions in the Sky

Ryan Burgess - Tycho

Ryan Burgess - Comeback Kid

In the second episode of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, our special guest, Ben Lesh joins us to talk about all the great things in RxJS 5.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Rx Marbles

Guests:

Ben Lesh - @BenLesh

Panelists:

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Picks:

Ben Lesh - Egghead.io

Ben Lesh - Egghead.io - RxJS Creating Observables from Scratch

Ryan Burgess - Netflix UIE YouTube Channel

Ryan Burgess - Amazon Echo

Augustus Yuan - Tilt Brush

Jem Young - EcmaScript Proposals

Ryan Anklam - VimCasts

Ryan Anklam - Ready Player One Audibook

Brian Holt - Factorio

For our very first episode of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, we have our panelists (Augustus Yuan, Derrick Showers, Jem Young, Ryan Anklam and Ryan Burgess) discuss their opinions on the Medium article posted in early January, titled "The Sad State of Web Development", written by Drew Hamlett. The panel shares their thoughts on front end tools and how they view the current state of web development.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Gulp, Grunt, Broccoli JS, npm, Babel, Sass, PostCSS, React, Ember, Angular

Panelists:

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Viking & Lumberjack Series

Ryan Burgess - O’Reilly Fluent Conference

Ryan Anklam - frinkiac.com

Ryan Anklam - Red Rising Trilogy

Jem Young - Syntax Con

Jem Young - Planet Money

Jem Young - MacBook Selfie Stick

Derrick Showers - Let’s Encrypt

Derrick Showers - Product Hunt

Augustus Yuan - Github Scientist