🎙 About the episode

Meet Ben Hong 🇺🇸! Ben is a Senior Staff Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Vue Core Team member, Google Developer Expert, and teacher. After studying psychology at school, Ben picked up programming in his own time, making him one of the most successful self-taught programmers on the podcast to date! He joins us to share his best advice about learning to code and the many career benefits of getting involved with open source.

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⏰ Timestamps

Introduction (0:00)
Ben’s transition from psychology to programming (01:06)
Developer experience and why it matters more than you think (04:26)
Developer experience as a profession (05:25)
Ben is part of the Vue core team (07:08)
How Ben got involved in one of the biggest JavaScript open source projects in the world (07:53)
How to start with open source yourself (10:38)
Why Ben works so hard (16:21)
Passion vs. discipline as a profesional (18:36)
How Vue compares to React and other front-end tech (20:56)
Should you abandon React to learn Vue?? (23:27)
Ben’s best advice for anyone learning to code (25:27)
Quick-fire questions (29:36)

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