WebJoy

Shawn Wang joins the show to talk about his origin story, starting in the finance industry and how feeling like just a code monkey in a system drew him to learn front-end engineering and start working on product development and ultimately become a developer advocate.

We discuss what the career path for a developer advocate might look like, as well as podcast listening tools Listen Notes and Listenbox and how they help allow people to look up and listen to podcasts on their own terms rather than being stuck in a corporate garden.

• FreeCodeCamp
• Listen Notes
• Listenbox
• The Coding Career Handbook
• Shawn's Twitter: @swyx
• Shawn's Website

Alex Karp joins the show to talk about his origin story, growing up being fascinated with tech, embracing the iOS development industry before moving into engineering management.

We discuss his passion for helping new engineers break into the industry. We talk about some of the common challenges and fears that can hold people back from applying to and going for the jobs that interest and excite them.

• Twitter Engineering Apprenticeship Program
• About Wayfair Labs
• The Collab Lab
• Alex's Twitter: @AutisticManager
• Running Start

Jessica Wilkins joins the show to talk about her origin story coming from being a musician to building a passion project to promote diversity in classical music and how she got pulled into the tech industry by warm, friendly communities.

We discuss a fun, approachable way to learn technology as we discuss Exercism, an online platform built to teach the joy of programming to everyone.

• Black Excellence Music Project
• Exercism Learning Platform
• FreeCodeCamp
• Jessica's Twitter: @codergirl1991

Jason Lengstorf joins the show to talk about his origin story coming from a screamo band and learning design and development in order to help the band marketing. His somewhat accidental journey through internal developer experience into external developer experience at Netlify.

We discuss his approach to continuous learning and how flow state and enjoying the experience help shape the way we focus and our ability to develop ourselves through learning new skills and abilities.

• Jason's Website: https://jason.af
• Jason's Twitter: @jlengstorf
• Netlify
• Netlify Edge Functions Blog Post
• Learn with Jason