Episode 125 - Non-traditional backgrounds - Old Fashioneds with a twist
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Episode 125 - Non-traditional backgrounds - Old Fashioneds with a twist

Not everyone starts their engineering career with a Computer Science degree, there are a lot of ways to start an engineering career. In this episode, we are joined by David Simmer from Netflix to talk with us about non-traditional backgrounds. Guests: David Simmer - @_simmerer Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: David Simmer - Peter Gregson: Bach - The Cello Suites David Simmer - The Aviary Book David Simmer - Matt Levine Newsletter David Simmer - Reuschelle’s Cheesecakes Ryan Burgess - Change Github repositories from master to main Ryan Burgess - Ryan’s Dad’s In Tech Interview Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Burrito Holder Shirley Wu - Visual Cinnamon Shirley Wu - Visual Cinnamon Resources Shirley Wu - Cinema Therapy

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Episode 058 - User testing - Even a drunk person can do it

Episode 058 - User testing - Even a drunk person can do it

A lot of the work we do impacts the people using the product or application we’ve made and it’s important to understand how our users resonate with the products we create. A great way to better unders...

28 Touko 201847min

Episode 057 - Falcor - Modeling our drinks

Episode 057 - Falcor - Modeling our drinks

In this episode, we’re joined by the Netflix Software Engineer, Anup Bishnoi to talk with us about the Netflix, open source, virtual JSON graph library, Falcor. Guests: Anup Bishnoi - @asyncanup Pan...

14 Touko 201848min

Episode 056 - Drink-a-thon onstage at Reactathon

Episode 056 - Drink-a-thon onstage at Reactathon

In this episode, we were live on stage at Reactathon conference in San Francisco discussing how to scale a React application. We share our thoughts on to best approaches to creating a good structure f...

29 Huhti 201830min

Episode 055 - A mixologist's tools

Episode 055 - A mixologist's tools

In this episode, we discuss how we stay productive in our jobs. To help us with the discussion, we’re joined by Ellen Chisa, CEO, and Cofounder of Dark. We talk about tools and strategies we’ve found ...

17 Huhti 201853min

Episode 054 - Wasted on Elm

Episode 054 - Wasted on Elm

In this episode, we are joined by Richard Feldman to talk about the functional language Elm, which compiles to JavaScript. In the episode, we learn about the benefits to leveraging Elm and how to get ...

1 Huhti 201841min

Episode 053 - Bar-tending to your codebase

Episode 053 - Bar-tending to your codebase

In this episode, we recorded live at SacJS event in Sacramento, California. On stage we discuss the challenges of migrating a codebase and when to make the decision its the right time to refactor. We ...

18 Maalis 201851min

Episode 052 - Looking Forward to a drink

Episode 052 - Looking Forward to a drink

In this episode, we recorded live on stage at Forward JS conference in San Francisco. We were joined by our special guest, Allen Wirfs-Brock to talk about how the web has changed over the years and ho...

4 Maalis 201838min

Episode 051 - Gin and toxic culture

Episode 051 - Gin and toxic culture

In this episode, we’ll be discussing things we’ve noticed in companies that have unhealthy culture, shady business practices, moving business targets and more. We talk about ways to avoid an unhealthy...

19 Helmi 201854min