

Front End Happy Hour
Front End Happy Hour
A podcast featuring panelists of engineers from Netflix, Twitch, & Atlassian talking over drinks about all things software engineering.
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Dec 21, 2020 • 1h 6min
Episode 118 - Good manager, bad manager - tasty drink, bland drink
In our last episode, we talked about leaving a job, and one of those reasons for leaving was due to a bad manager. In this episode, we follow up our discussion on what makes a good manager.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Shirley Wu - @sxywu
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - Engineering Manager Resources
Ryan Burgess - Seeking Truth in Networking - Insider Stories from Early Silicon Valley (and Ethernet!) with Bob Metcalfe
Augustus Yuan - SVG Path Editor
Augustus Yuan - The rising of the shield hero
Jem Young - Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Cuddle Down Pillow
Stacy London - Black Trees by Indian Wells
Stacy London - The Upward Spiral - Overlook Remix by Overlook & Nicolas Bougaïeff
Mars Jullian - Trader Joe’s advent calendar for cats
Mars Jullian - Stasher reusable silicone bag
Shirley Wu - The Imagineering Story
Shirley Wu - Going Under
Brian Holt - Vets who code

Nov 29, 2020 • 60min
Episode 117 - Quitting a job - leaving the bar
We’ve all decided at one point or another that it’s time to look for a new job. In this episode, we talk through reasons that lead to us looking for new opportunities in our past jobs.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Shirley Wu - @sxywu
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - The Art of the Protest
Ryan Burgess - Home before dark
Augustus Yuan - In the Dark Podcast
Augustus Yuan - Queen's Gambit
Augustus Yuan - Crater Lake National Park
Jem Young - Cobra Kai
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Luxury Ice
Stacy London - Lamentations by Sufjan Stevens
Stacy London - Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Stacy London - Bookshop.org
Mars Jullian - The Widening Responsibility for Frontend Developers
Mars Jullian - Happy Masks
Shirley Wu - The Good Place
Shirley Wu - Make my vote count

Nov 15, 2020 • 35min
Episode 116 - Live at QCon Plus 2020
In this episode, we were joined by our guests, Ben Ilegbodu and Jason Lengstorf to discuss frontend patterns live at this year's QCon Plus conference. On the panel, we shared our thoughts on various frontend trends and patterns being used. We also took questions from the live QCon Plus audience.
Guests:
Ben Ilegbodu - @benmvp
Jason Lengstorf - @jlengstorf
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Jem Young - @JemYoung

Nov 5, 2020 • 1h 5min
Episode 115 - Imposter Syndrome - Wine connoisseur with a $15 bottle
What’s it like to deal with Imposter Syndrome? In this episode, we are joined by Shirley Wu, to talk through each of our experiences dealing with imposter syndrome and have we’ve overcome it.
Guests:
Shirley Wu - @sxywu
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Shirley Wu - OneAction.today
Shirley Wu - Asian Americans
Shirley Wu - Nintendo Ring Fit
Shirley Wu - Great Pretender
Ryan Burgess - Knives Out
Ryan Burgess - Netflix vs. the World
Mars Jullian - The Great British Baking Show
Augustus Yuan - The Social Dilemma
Augustus Yuan - Rocket League Free to Play!
Jem Young - Fuoripista
Jem Young - Notorious XX
Stacy London - What They Do Is Not Art by Cloudkicker
Stacy London - Ashtabula by Cloudkicker
Stacy London - Answer My Prayer by Eschaton, Ancient Methods, Orphx
Stacy London - Mozilla thread about The Social Dilemma

Oct 18, 2020 • 48min
Episode 114 - Remote interviewing - drinking on video calls
When you can’t interview in person, we are forced to interview over video calls. In this episode, we are joined by Bianca Bortolussi, and Jen Pi to talk with us about what it’s like to interview for a new role during these covid times.
Guests:
Bianca Bortolussi - @biancabmorey
Jen Pi
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Picks:
Bianca Bortolussi - Polymer Clay earrings
Jen Pi - My Octopus Teacher
Jen Pi - Robin Sharma - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Jen Pi - Robin Sharma - The 5am Club
Ryan Burgess - AMPLIFI Alien
Ryan Burgess - The American Barbecue Showdown
Jem Young - It is as if you were doing work
Jem Young - The Boys season 2

Oct 4, 2020 • 39min
Episode 113 - Severless - serving(less) drinks
Do you remember the days of FTP? In this episode, we are joined by Jerome Hardaway to talk with us about the changes made to hosting websites and how serverless has improved the ways we serve up websites and applications.
Guests:
Jerome Hardaway - @JeromeHardaway
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Jerome Hardaway - Serverless - CSS Tricks
Jerome Hardaway - Lucifer
Jerome Hardaway - The Boys Season 2
Ryan Burgess - Chef's Table BBQ
Ryan Burgess - Mixel cocktail app
Stacy London - Sukhe Phool - Max Cooper Firefly Remix by Yorkston/Thorne/Khan, Max Cooper
Stacy London - Back to the Sky by Ólafur Arnalds
Augustus Yuan - Fall Guys
Augustus Yuan - Intro to AWS Lambda and Serverless Apps
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Fake window
Jem Young - World's toughest race

Sep 20, 2020 • 48min
Episode 112 - SEO - Searching for our drinks
Build it and they will come, right? Wrong. Search Engine Optimization is a key component of how people will discover your website or application. In this episode, we are joined by Netflix engineer, Cole Turner to talk with us about the importance of SEO and ways to improve your ranking in search engines.
Guests:
Cole Turner - @coleturner
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Picks:
Cole Turner - Awake
Cole Turner - Goldbelly
Ryan Burgess - Coola sunscreen
Ryan Burgess - Bose 700 headphones
Jem Young - Drivey.js
Jem Young - The Titan Games
Stacy London - The Difference - Jon Hopkins Remix by Flume, Toro y Moi, Jon Hopkins
Stacy London - Puzzle - Trentemøller Remix by TOM And His Computer

Sep 6, 2020 • 58min
Episode 111 - Patron, Palomas, and programmatic problem solving
When we are writing code as engineers, no matter what programming language, we are doing some form of planning and problem solving. In this episode, we are talking about programmatic problem solving with Nicole Archambault.
Guests:
Nicole Archambault - @lavie_encode
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Picks:
Nicole Archambault - Taco Bell Cheese Burrito
Nicole Archambault - Battlestar Galactica
Nicole Archambault - Think Like a Programmer
Ryan Burgess - Twenty Thousand Hertz - Ta-dum! It’s Netflix
Ryan Burgess - Ugly Delicious
Augustus Yuan - Jem
Augustus Yuan - Why Interviewing is Terrible - Jem Young
Augustus Yuan - James Hoffman
Jem Young - Product management templates
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Wave roller
Jem Young - Cole Turner: AMA

Aug 23, 2020 • 46min
Episode 110 - Bartending to everyone - Inclusive language
Alongside the Black Lives Matter movement, we’ve started to see a lot of positive discussions on how the tech community can be more inclusive with its language. In this episode, we will be discussing our thoughts on making tech language more inclusive.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - All Nighter playlist
Ryan Burgess - Backwoods Chubby 3400 Smoker
Augustus Yuan - Night Shift - KCET
Augustus Yuan - Trader Joe’s Mango & Cream Bars
Augustus Yuan - Seattle bans words “Brown Bag”
Jem Young - I’m no longer here
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Balmuda - THE Toaster
Mars Jullian - Progressive style guide
Mars Jullian - Dolly Chugh -- how to let go of being a good person
Stacy London - Part II by Spotlights
Stacy London - All I Need (Radiohead Cover) by Spotlights
Stacy London - Alexjs.com

Aug 10, 2020 • 1h 7min
Episode 109 - Quick pour - Web Performance
Web performance continues to be an input factor to prioritize when building web applications. In this episode, we speak with Google engineers, Kristofer Baxtor, and Jason Miller about the latest best practices in web performance.
Guests:
Kristofer Baxter - @kristoferbaxter
Jason Miller - @_developit
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Kristofer Baxter - Vets who code
Kristofer Baxter - Core web vitals
Jason Miller - You and me - meute
Jason Miller - AST Explorer
Jason Miller - Fyrtur blackout blinds from IKEA
Jason Miller - When They See Us
Ryan Burgess - Pink Panther Jewelry heist in a mall in Dubai
Ryan Burgess - Gardner Bender EFT-15 Mini Cable
Stacy London - How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stacy London - The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks by Tim Kadlec
Mars Jullian - User-centric performance metrics
Mars Jullian - Storybook performance addon
Brian Holt - Mutt's Sauce
Brian Holt - Vets who code
Brian Holt - Black Visions Minnesota