The Importance of Developer Tools and Retention in Tech

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Shawn Wang about his thoughts on developer experience, why DX is important, and the importance of learning in public.

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Show Notes

• 00:32 Welcome
• 01:56 Guest introduction
• swyx.io
• Why Temporal?
• 06:09 What is Developer Experience?
• Sarah Drasner
• 08:35 Is VS Code considered DX?
• 09:28 Why is internal DX important?
• Vercel
• NextJS
• 11:44 Is DX helpful to small organizations as well?
• 15:27 Parsimony
• Parsimony
• 16:43 Is productivity the main focus?
• 21:09 Sponsor: Hasura
• 22:48 What are your thoughts on React?
• 27:31 Designing for API success
• 30:44 Sponsor: LogRocket
• 32:07 What is external developer experience?
• 36:05 Learning in public
• 40:46 Supper Club questions
• dx.tips
• Retreon VS Code Theme
• Agnoster ZSH Theme
• freeCodeCamp
• Frontend Masters
• QConf
• Learn in Public

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