Front End Happy Hour

It’s been a great year! With 2017 coming to an end, we’ve decided to talk the highlights, trends, and disappointments of the year. We also talk about what we’re excited about in 2018. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Picks: Ryan Burgess - 2018 Conferences Ryan Burgess - Kevin Marr Augustus Yuan - Mozilla Voice Project Augustus Yuan - Algorithmic Art by Tyler Hobbs Jem Young - Perf Matters Conference Jem Young - Slow TV Jem Young - Surface Book 2 Derrick Showers - Castro Derrick Showers - try! Swift Brian Holt - Babel Brian Holt - Henry Zhu Brian Holt - Webpack Brian Holt - Parcel Brian Holt - SFO

Often times in our careers we’ve wanted to speak at conferences, meetups or even within our companies. It’s been a great way to share ideas and things we’ve learned. Giving a tech talk isn’t always the easiest thing. In this episode, we’ll be discussing what we’ve learned from our experiences and share advice on ways to help improve your next talk. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Ryan Burgess - Obey Giant Documentary Ryan Burgess - Southpaw Augustus Yuan - Seashells.io Augustus Yuan - The Working Man (animation) Jem Young - The Room Jem Young - Firefox Quantum Mars Jullian - HTML5 Meetup Mars Jullian - Dickens Fair Stacy London - Illumina by Lamb Stacy London - Rodent by Burial

In this episode of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, we discuss how as front end engineers we can impact security vulnerabilities in the applications and websites we are creating. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Ryan Burgess - Engineer Manager Resources Ryan Burgess - Netflix JavaScript Talks - Building Performant Signup Flows in React Jem Young - Puppeteer Jem Young - Stranger Things Derrick Showers - Certbot Derrick Showers - Airbnb Experiences Derrick Showers - DripDrop Stacy London - Lisbon, Portugal Stacy London - Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

In a previous episode, we discussed working with a recruiter during a job interview process. In this episode, we’re joined by Netflix recruiter, Bianca Bortolussi to discuss ways to help your engineering profile stand out to recruiters and hiring managers. Guests: Bianca Bortolussi - @biancabmorey Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Picks: Bianca Bortolussi - Apple Watch 3 Bianca Bortolussi - Netflix JS Talks Ryan Burgess - Women in Tech Show Ryan Burgess - Kotlin Conf Jem Young - Firefox Focus Jem Young - Sony MDR 1000x Ryan Anklam - Spotify Time Capsule Playlist Ryan Anklam - Dirty Hacks From The Dark Corners of Front-End Mars Jullian - November 17th HTML5 Meetup Mars Jullian - Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton by Shirley Wu

Writing great code isn’t always the only part of our jobs. In order to impact changes on our teams or the business, we need to be able to persuade others to buy into your ideas. This could be in the form of migrating to a new technology, process or even adding a new feature to a product. In this episode, we are joined by Shirley Wu to help us discuss how we can best sell our ideas and make an impact on our teams or clients. Guests: Shirley Wu - @sxywu Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Brian Holt - @holtbt Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Shirley Wu - D3 Unconf Shirley Wu - The Stormlight Archive Ryan Burgess - Social Network soundtrack Ryan Burgess - American Vandal Augustus Yuan - Essential Image Optimization Augustus Yuan - LeetCode Articles Brian Holt - size-limit Brian Holt - Choir of the Mind by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton Stacy London - Vallis Alps - Oceans Stacy London - Beeple

We all had to start somewhere. In this episode, we are joined by Preethi Kasireddy to talk with us about her and our experiences of being a beginner to coding. Guests: Preethi Kasireddy - @iam_preethi Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Preethi Kasireddy - Front End Happy Hour Preethi Kasireddy - Changelog Preethi Kasireddy - Software Engineering Daily Preethi Kasireddy - Twitter Preethi Kasireddy - freeCodeCamp Ryan Burgess - We All Started Somewhere - Preethi Kasireddy - React Rally Ryan Burgess - Fed Up Derrick Showers - CS50 Derrick Showers - Pocket Casts Derrick Showers - Fatal Error Stacy London - Frontend Masters Stacy London - Nordic.js Stacy London - Fjords near Flåm in Norway

There’s always a lot to be done, but having a good work life balance is extremely important. In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Showers from LinkedIn, to talk with us about work life balance. We share our thoughts on what work life balance means to us and how our companies help foster a healthy work life balance. Guests: Sarah Showers - @sarahlshowers Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Picks: Sarah Showers - Best Self Journal Ryan Burgess - Movo Photo MTP-11 Ryan Burgess - SVG Animations - Sarah Drasner Augustus Yuan - How to fix a toilet Augustus Yuan - Sketch 2 After Effects Derrick Showers - One World Observatory Derrick Showers - Shake Shack Derrick Showers - JetBlue Brian Holt - Focus app Brian Holt - Todoist

Maintaining and scaling code is an important aspect of our careers. In this episode, we discuss and share ideas to help keep a healthy code base that will scale with your company. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Stacy London - @stacylondoner Jem Young - @JemYoung Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Picks: Ryan Burgess - Brazil JS - Jem’s talk on code maintenance Ryan Burgess - Senior UI Engineer at Netflix Augustus Yuan - Ali Wong Augustus Yuan - AI with DeepMind and Blizzard Stacy London - Blurred by Kiasmos Stacy London - Particles by Ólafur Arnalds Jem Young - Stacy’s haircut Jem Young - The Defenders - Episode 3 Jem Young - Best Practices for Reusable Components Mars Jullian - Plant nanny Mars Jullian - MindNode

In this episode, we’re joined by Naoufal Kadhom, a Software Engineer from Netflix who’s also just released a payment library for React Native. In the episode, we’ll be discussing React Native and what it’s like to leverage it for Android and iOS applications. Guests: Naoufal Kadhom - @naoufal Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Augustus Yuan - @augburto Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Naoufal Kadhom - Detour Naoufal Kadhom - React Native Europe Ryan Burgess - React Native Payments Ryan Burgess - Robinhood Augustus Yuan - Lottie Augustus Yuan - Pismo Beach ATV sand dunes Derrick Showers - Realm Academy Derrick Showers - Py App Brian Holt - Hackages Brian Holt - Prettier + eslint-config-airbnb + Flowtype is the ultimate workflow for writing JS Stacy London - CodeSandbox Stacy London - Slow Motion by Lusine

In this episode, we’re joined by Stefan Stumpfl, a mobile software engineer at LinkedIn working on LinkedIn Learning. During the past 5 years as an iOS developer, he has experience ranging from building his own app on a small 2-person team to larger teams like his current role at LinkedIn. In this episode, we will discuss the Swift programming language – how it compares to languages like Javascript and some of the advantages and disadvantages to writing and learning it. Guests: Stefan Stumpfl - @sust86 Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Stefan Stumpfl - Natasha the Robot Stefan Stumpfl - Turner’s Kitchen Ryan Burgess - The Pitch Ryan Burgess - Ng-Atlanta Ryan Burgess - Moment Jem Young - Plume Wifi Jem Young - Injury Reserve - ttktv Jem Young - Gullivers Travels Derrick Showers - Swift Playgrounds Derrick Showers - Swift Unwrapped Derrick Showers - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Derrick Showers - Watermelon Funk Stacy London - Linting styled-components Stacy London - Weak by Maya Jane Coles