Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that.
Returning guest Mark Erikson joins the React Round Up team to discuss how he found himself in the position of being an open source maintainer for Redux, how he's helped shepherd/author future versions of Redux (and the complete overhauls that happened when React Hooks were introcuded), and the new examples he's written for Redux Toolkit to make Redux easier for devs to get started with
Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.
Charles Max Wood rejoins the show to discuss the things that help people take their careers from a job to a calling. The panel goes into publishing content, how to learn, meeting other people, and working with others. Chuck also advocates for having a plan for your career and taking deliberate steps each day to achieve what you wish for.
This is a repeat episode of the JavaScript Jabber 146.
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485
Software Engineer Andrey Goncharov joins the React Round Up crew to discuss how his company Hazelcast has approached visualizing hundreds of data points on potentially hundreds of computers in a way that makes sense to users. Dust off your math skills - it gets a little technical along the way as they discuss graphs, charts, performance optimizations and bottlenecks, and even handling accessibility of these data-intensive graphs. If you ever have to debug system failures and anomalies, this will be a worthwhile episode to check out.
On this episode of React Round Up we talked to Dragos Bulugean about starting your own business, and managing really big apps. Dragos created Archbee, a service for helping companies manage documentation. We talked about the tech behind Archbee, as well as how he managed to build a business by himself—and how you can do the same.
This week we chatted with James Quick from Auth0 about all things Jamstack. We discussed what the Jamstack is, and walked through a ton of interesting tools and frameworks–including Gatsby, Next.js, Auth0, Sanity, and a whole lot more. Listen for a number of helpful tips & tricks around building sites with the jam stack and more.
Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.
On this episode we chatted with Ben Farrell, author of Web Components in Action, about all things web components. We talked about the status of web components, the best way to get started today, and a whole lot more.
Senior Frontend Engineer Kathryn Grayson Nanz joins the React Round Up team to talk about all things component libraries. Kathryn shares her experiences building not one but two component libraries, as well as tips and tricks on the benefits of shared libraries, how to get buy in from product and developer teams, the best way to set up libraries and keeping them up-to-date. She also shares pitfalls to try and avoid when getting started with building a new library. Definitely a good listen for anyone debating whether an existing library or a brand new, custom one is the way to go for a project.
On this episode of React Round Up we chatted with Joe Karlsson from MongoDB. We talked about all things serverless, from how to get started, to which sort of apps are good fits for serverless services, to how incredibly confusing AWS and Azure’s pricing pages are. It was a fun conversation, and is a great listen if you’re curious about serverless but aren’t sure where to start.