Front End Happy Hour

Our sidebar interview specials interview our panelists individually to learn more about their backgrounds and careers. In this episode, we interview Stacy London, to learn more about her background and career.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/sidebar-interview-with-stacy-london

Have you found debugging asynchronous JavaScript to be hard? You’re not alone. In this episode, we are joined by Jenn Creighton from Netflix to talk with us about a talk she’ll be giving at Reactathon on debugging async JavaScript to help make it a bit easier.

Guests:

Jenn Creighton - @gurlcode

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Jenn Creighton - Blue Star Ferns

Jenn Creighton - Yoga

Ryan Burgess - Dropout

Jem Young - Media Malpractice in the war in Ukraine

Jem Young - Drive to Survive S4

Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/debugging-asynchronous-javascript-awaiting-my-drink

Our sidebar interview specials interview our panelists individually to learn more about their backgrounds and careers. In this episode, we interview Jem Young, to learn more about his background and career.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/sidebar-interview-with-jem-young

What is server-driven UI and what are the advantages to taking this approach? In this episode, we are joined by the Netflix engineer, Cole Turner to talk with us about the advantages and disadvantages of server-driven UI.

Guests:

Cole Turner - @coleturner

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Cole Turner - Netflix Tudum

Cole Turner - Shaker and Spoon

Cole Turner - Advantage Aviation

Ryan Burgess - Pieces of Her

Ryan Burgess - Skate City Game

Jem Young - Rule of 72

Jem Young - Dark patterns in games

Stacy London - Working Title by Walton

Stacy London - Everything by Max Cooper

Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/server-driven-ui-served-from-behind-the-bar

Our sidebar interview specials interview our panelists individually to learn more about their backgrounds and careers. In this episode, we interview Ryan Burgess, the creator of the Front End Happy Hour podcast.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/sidebar-interview-with-ryan-burgess

Software Engineers deal with migrations at some point or another, and there are always a lot of lessons learned afterward. In this episode, we are joined by Sumana Mohan and Joe King from Netflix to talk about their recent migration to TypeScript on the Netflix website signup flow.

Guests:

Sumana Mohan - @sumana_mohan

Joe King

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:

Sumana Mohan - The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

Joe King - Arcane

Joe King - The Book of Boba Fett

Joe King - Tonal

Ryan Burgess - High Res Uber Rap Videos

Ryan Burgess - Tinder Swindler

Jem Young - Alaska Off-road warriors

Jem Young - It’s Always Sunny Podcast

Stacy London - Tristan Arp's mix on Dekmantel Podcast

Stacy London - Sky H1's mix for Resident Advisor

Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/typescript-migration-strict-type-of-cocktails

Recruiting and interviewing isn’t a new topic, it’s one we’ve covered a few times, but this episode focuses on the changes that have happened with the landscape for jobs and interviewing during the pandemic. In this episode, we are joined by Taylor Desseyn, and Jono Grayson to talk with us about ways to stand out and navigate the job search in 2022.

Guests:

Taylor Desseyn - @tdesseyn

Jono Grayson

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Taylor Desseyn - Group Chat Podcast

Taylor Desseyn - Kenu Stance Mini Tripod Stand

Jono Grayson - Ororo heated vest

Jono Grayson - Organic Gatorade

Ryan Burgess - 14 Peaks

Jem Young - A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Bartesian cocktail maker

Happy New Year! We are back with more episodes in 2022 and to start off the year, we want to reflect on changes that happened in 2021. In this episode, we cover technology changes, our lives, and our career changes that happened in 2021.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Shirley Wu - @sxywu

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Rolling Like Thunder

Ryan Burgess - School of Chocolate

Ryan Burgess - log4j memes

Jem Young - Black Sea

Jem Young - Star Trek chairs

Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Gucci Xbox

Stacy London - Sky H1's mix on the Dekmantel Podcast

Shirley Wu - Studio Drift Fragile Future

Shirley Wu - Danny Rozin

Shirley Wu - Shang-Chi

In this episode, we are joined by Loren Sands-Ramshaw to talk with us about education paths for software engineers. There are so many options out there and it's really hard to know what's the right path to take.

Guests:

Loren Sands-Ramshaw - @lorendsr

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:

Loren Sands-Ramshaw - The GraphQL Guide

Loren Sands-Ramshaw - The 5 Personality Patterns (book on developmental psychology)

Ryan Burgess - Dopesick

Ryan Burgess - UGG® Mammoth Tipped Throw Blanket

Jem Young - Anker USB-C hub

Jem Young - Narcos Season 3

There’s no way around, at some point, you will likely be interviewing. Why not be prepared? In this episode, we share our thoughts and experiences interviewing and how we approach preparing for an upcoming interview for a new role.

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - You Season 3

Ryan Burgess - Netlify

Stacy London - Ayekouma by Falle Nioke, Ghost Culture

Stacy London - Rotating In Unison by HAAi

Augustus Yuan - FE Technical Interview Prep

Augustus Yuan - Dune: Scene breakdown of the Gom Jabbar by director Denis Villeneuv