In this episode, I speak with Alvin Bryan, a developer advocate at Contentful. We discuss the role of open-source in education, ethical tech, mentoring, the new challenges early-stage developer face in a changing job market, and how to stay motivated.

Alvin, in their own words

Alvin is a developer advocate at Contentful and a front-end developer. He’s been working in the industry for a while and loves creating beautiful, fun experiences.

Social

• The Mycelium Network Discord


• The Mycelium Network on Twitter

Links

• Alvin on GitHub


• Alvin on Polywork


• Alvin on the web


• Alvin on Twitter


• Contentful


• What is a design system?


• Figma


• Sketch


• Penpot


• React


• What are Web Components?


• What are design tokens?


• Learning to code in a time of crisis


• Cascadiajs


• Netlify


• Vercel


• GitHub


• web://workbook


• MDN Web Docs


• What is ethical tech?


• The rise of Signal


• Signal


• What is Linux?


• Proton Mail


• Our time has come - Penpot


• Hugo static site generator


• NetlifyCMS


• Forestry


• Codebar


• freeCodeCamp

Produced and supported by Mechanical Ink

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