827: Career Development with Topher Martini

827: Career Development with Topher Martini

Scott and Wes talk with Topher Martini, a former Engineering Program Manager at Apple, about his extensive experience over two decades in the tech industry. Topher shares his journey at Apple, from starting as an intern in 2001 to working on groundbreaking products like iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:40 What it was like working on the first iPhone 04:47 How Topher landed at Apple early in his career 08:40 How Apple’s culture has changed over time 11:03 What makes a great employee? 16:37 Tips for better communication 17:54 Are meetings a good means of communication? 20:05 What makes a bad employee? 22:21 What does it take to get hired at a company like Apple? 26:16 Brought to you by Sentry.io 26:55 The relationship between passion and career 29:08 Topher’s advice for growing in your career 31:50 What is a sabbatical? 33:36 Teaching tech to kids 35:49 Topher’s work on self-driving cars Aurora 39:33 AI’s impact on tech and the future 41:22 What can developers do to stand out and be relevant in a world of AI? 43:30 Topher’s thoughts on career development One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way Paul Copplestone 44:47 What is a light field camera? 46:47 Spatial media and Vision Pro 48:10 The nifty stuff in Topher’s background 49:53 Something wild that happened while Topher was at Apple 51:34 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Topher: Bambu Lab P1S 3D Printer Bento 3D Shameless Plugs Topher: Topher’s YouTube Channel Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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Supper Club × Flightcontrol with Brandon Bayer

Supper Club × Flightcontrol with Brandon Bayer

Can you have a Vercel like experience on your own AWS? Scott and Wes talk with Brandon Bayer about Flightcontrol - what it is, how to use it on your app, pricing, and more. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome...

11 Elo 20231h 3min

Potluck × Is TypeScript Fancy Duct Tape × Back Pain × Cloud Service Rate Limits

Potluck × Is TypeScript Fancy Duct Tape × Back Pain × Cloud Service Rate Limits

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about TypeScript just being fancy duct tape, dealing with back pain while coding, rate limits on cloud services, what to use for ...

9 Elo 20231h 10min

Why is Facebook’s HTML + CSS Such a Mess?

Why is Facebook’s HTML + CSS Such a Mess?

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why Threads, Instagram, and all things Facebook have what seems like really messy HTML and CSS? Show Notes 00:10 Welcome Scott on Threads We...

7 Elo 202329min

Supper Club × Ryan Florence of Remix

Supper Club × Ryan Florence of Remix

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Florence about Remix, working at Shopify, the history of licensing and pricing, quitting Twitter, the state of React Server componen...

4 Elo 20231h 12min

Standard Server JavaScript - Deno, Workers, Bun and More

Standard Server JavaScript - Deno, Workers, Bun and More

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about JavaScript runtimes available to use, what to consider, and packages to use. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:00 Scott’s glasses 03:46 All the run...

2 Elo 20231h 4min

Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs Rust Concepts

Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs Rust Concepts

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Rust, and how the concepts might translate for JavaScript developers looking to try writing in Rust. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:08 Wes’ big beer bot...

31 Heinä 202333min

Supper Club × Email Sending, Spam, DMARC, SPF, Styling, and more with Andris Reinman

Supper Club × Email Sending, Spam, DMARC, SPF, Styling, and more with Andris Reinman

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andris Reinman about his work on all things email - spam, DMARC, SPF, why there’s no good CSS in email, and his current project: Email En...

28 Heinä 20231h 2min

Polyfills, Transpiling and Monkey Patching

Polyfills, Transpiling and Monkey Patching

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what polyfills, transpiling, and monkey patching mean, how and when to do it, and libraries that can help you out. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:...

26 Heinä 202358min

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