In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Shawn Wang about his thoughts on developer experience, why DX is important, and the importance of learning in public.

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Show Notes

• 00:32 Welcome
• 01:56 Guest introduction
• swyx.io

Why Temporal?

06:09 What is Developer Experience?

Sarah Drasner

08:35 Is VS Code considered DX?

09:28 Why is internal DX important?

Vercel

NextJS

11:44 Is DX helpful to small organizations as well?

15:27 Parsimony

Parsimony

16:43 Is productivity the main focus?

21:09 Sponsor: Hasura

22:48 What are your thoughts on React?

27:31 Designing for API success

30:44 Sponsor: LogRocket

32:07 What is external developer experience?

36:05 Learning in public

40:46 Supper Club questions

dx.tips

Retreon VS Code Theme

Agnoster ZSH Theme

freeCodeCamp

Frontend Masters

QConf

Learn in Public

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