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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