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Working with CSS can be frustrating, and sometimes just plain painful. But if you listen to Jen Simmons talk about CSS, her passion for it might rub off on you. She gives tips on how to make your next CSS adventure more enjoyable, explains how the CSS working group determines new features, and shares the honest ups and downs of her own coding journey. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Peter Griffin CSS gif CSS Working Group The Web Ahead UC Browser for Android Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Jen SimmonsJen is a Designer and Developer Advocate at Mozilla, where she advocates for web standards and researches the coming revolution in graphic design on the web. She’s spoken at events including SXSW, An Event Apart, Fluent, Generate, Future of Web Design, and Respond. Her talk, Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts, was awarded Best Conference Presentation at CSS Dev Conf 2014.

You put on a headset in a real life beauty salon in real life, and, in seconds, you’re transported to a virtual one. It’s full of colors, shapes, music, and the soothing voice of a narrator. She explains that you’re in a different world now, and you’re about to contribute to the “synaptic lineage.” The setting is intriguing and futuristic, the story is unique, and every detail so carefully laid out. We talk to Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, one of the creators of the NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism, a virtual reality experience that’s appeared at Sundance, Tribeca, and a number of other film festivals. She shares how she and her team at Hyphen Labs created this artistic and deeply technical exhibit. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Hyphen Labs NSAF (NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism) School for Poetic Computation Processing Grasshopper (programming language) Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Carmen Aguilar y WedgeAguilar y Wedge is a Latinx engineer, artist and researcher. In 2014, she co-founded Hyphen-Labs, an international team of women with backgrounds in engineering, science, architecture, turned designers synthesizing art and technology to create meaningful experiences. Emphasizing experimentation through worldbuilding, the team finds creative solutions and applications to complex problems using new media, emerging technology, robotics, and computation.

This is the last week to submit a talk to Codeland, our annual tech conference, so we wanted to give you some insight on what makes a good talk, a good speaker, and a good proposal. You'll hear from Lara Hogan, who literally wrote the book on public speaking, and Kelsey Hightower, speaker and chair of many tech conferences. They share their personal speaking stories (and nightmares!), how they prepare their talks, and the common mistakes they see first-time speakers make. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Demystifying Public Speaking (code: NEWBIE for 10% off) OSCON Codeland CFP (submit by Nov 26) Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Lara HoganLara is the former VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, co-founder of Wherewithall, a company that coaches and levels up managers, and author of the new bestselling book, Resilient Management. Kelsey HightowerKelsey is an open source advocate and toolsmith and spends most of his time working with people and solving their problems.

Applying to your first technical role (or your second!) can be a long and intimidating process, especially when you're not sure how to stand out. What do tech companies really care about? What should you put on your resume? What should you leave out? We talk to in-house recruiter, Eddie Washington, to give you the scoop on how companies evaluate your application and what you can do to increase your chances of getting that first interview. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Genius General Assembly Jamal O'Garro on EP3: "Code Couple" LinkedIn Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Eddie WashingtonEddie Washington is the recruiting lead at Genius.

You use the browser all the time, but how much do you really know about it? Lin Clark walks us through all the steps a browser takes to translate your html into pixels on the screen. She also makes these wonderful coding cartoons. She shares her techniques and her process, and how you can apply them to your next technical blog post. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Code Cartoons Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (aka Stylo) The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank Code Cartoon Articles on Mozilla Base.cs Podcast Quincy's Codeland talk on technical blogging Quincy's Codeland talk podcast episode Web Performance episode with Lara Hogan What WebAssembly means for React (video) Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Lin ClarkLin makes coding cartoons, and works on the Emerging Technologies group at Mozilla.

Alicia Carr grew up surrounded by domestic violence. So when she learned about coding, she decided to build a mobile app to help women escape domestic abuse. Her app, Pevo, got the attention of Apple, who featured her in their WWDC promo video. She shares the technical challenges of building this app, the personal challenge of learning to believe in herself, and how she learned the skills to bring this app to life. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Pevo Alicia Carr in Apple WWDC promo (video) Big Nerd Ranch book Swift Objective C Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Alicia CarrAlicia V. Carr, is director of Women Who Code and a self taught mobile developer that create a domestic violence app dedicated to helping victims escape abuse. She knew she had to utilize her acquired skills as a developer to make a difference.

Web animation can be creative and fun, but what does it have to do with building a website? How do you use it in a form or a basic landing page in a way that's actually helpful and not just cute? Rachel Nabors helps us understand what web animation looks like and how to use it to create powerful user experiences. She also shares her own inspiring journey of going from cartoonist to coder. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Don’t Do What You Love React Motion Foundation Bootstrap Animation At Work Slack Web Animation Weekly Animation At Work from A List Apart (Rachel's book) - use promo code NEWBIE Firefox Dev Tools Challenger Animista Airbnb's Lottie Rachel Nabor's blog post on storyboarding Frontend Masters Rachel Nabor's Courses GreenSock Barba.js AJAX Rachel Nabor's site Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Rachel Lee NaborsRachel Nabors lives to teach the world to code so others may create a future we can all believe in. They spearheaded the new React and React Native docs at react.dev and reactnative.dev and are consulting in this space after leading developer education at AWS Amplify.

You've got an amazing website. It's beautiful, functional, but it takes forever to load. What do you do? Where do you even begin to debug that? Lara Hogan, VP of Engineering at Kickstarter and author of the book, Designing for Performance, breaks down common web performance issues, tools you can use to diagnose the problem, and how to use AB testing to measure your results. We also have another episode of the Coding Corner, where we unpack three common mistakes newbies make when trying to speed things up! Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Which Test Won New Relic PageSpeed Insights My Fonts Font Squirrel Font Face Generator Web Page Test Skylight ImageOptim Designing for Performance (Lara's book) Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Lara HoganLara is the former VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, co-founder of Wherewithall, a company that coaches and levels up managers, and author of the new bestselling book, Resilient Management.

Technical interviews are the worst. They’re hard, they’re scary, and they often feel like they’re designed to make you feel stupid. But no worries! We’re here to help. We take a behind-the-scenes look at the interview process at two very prestigious companies, Etsy and the New York Times. Developers La Vesha Parker and Tiffany Peon break down each part of the interview process, giving you examples and explanations of exactly what they’re looking for, and share their own stories of how they got their roles. We also have a second edition of our Coding Corner where we share more interview tips and dissect how to solve a popular interview question, FizzBuzz. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Go (programming language) CoffeeScript Recurse Center CSS Grids Geeks for Geeks Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Tiffany PeonTiffany is a Software Engineer for cooking.nytimes.com. She lives in Manhattan with her fiancé and guinea pig, Zardulu. La Vesha ParkerLa Vesha (she/her) is a NYC-based engineer at Etsy and an organizer of Progressive HackNight. When not at work, she splits her time between her two passions: tech activism and pottery.

Kim’s a designer and developer who’s always had a side project. But her latest project was a bit different. Not only did she have to learn a new framework (React), she had to learn it and build her app in a few weeks to make her very public deadline. She shares her process for learning a new javascript framework, and the frustrations she experienced even as a seasoned developer. We also hear from Brent Vatne on how to get started with React and React Native. And for a mini technical deep dive, we unpack the virtual dom, a key feature in React, in our new segment, the Coding Corner. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) React Europe workshop playlist Swift PhoneGap No Questions Asked (NQA) Kim's Webby Award #MentorMonday React Native Express React Express Prettier JSX The Virtual DOM Objective C SCAD Episode with Vaidehi Joshi Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Brent VatneBrent is a developer at Expo, core contributor to React Native.Kim GoulbourneKim Goulbourne is a Jamaican, award-winning designer and chronic creator, creating a variety of projects under her alias Bourn. She's worked as a design consultant at thoughtbot helping small and big companies create and validate digital products. Throughout her tenure at previous agencies, Ogilvy, Wondersauce and R/GA, she worked on various brand projects from large companies such as IBM, Verizon and Foursquare to newer startups like Vialoure, Master & Dynamic and treStique.