

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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Jul 18, 2017 • 57min
Episode 038 - Plotting our drinks
In this episode, we’re joined by Shirley Wu, a Freelance Software Engineer who focuses on Data Visualization. Shirley shares a lot of knowledge about Data Visualization using JavaScript.
Guests:
Shirley Wu - @sxywu
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Shirley Wu - Domestic Data Streamers
Shirley Wu - Openviz
Shirley Wu - D3 Unconf
Shirley Wu - Data Stories Podcast
Ryan Burgess - Shop Talk Show - React with Netflix
Ryan Burgess - Amplifi
Stacy London - svgomg
Stacy London - Ellen Allien’s new album Nost
Augustus Yuan - Pokemon Terminal
Augustus Yuan - How Selections Work
Augustus Yuan - D3-Annotation
Jem Young - Web Typography for Non-Designers
Jem Young - The Story of O.J.

Jul 5, 2017 • 58min
Episode 037 - Amazing Manhattans Anywhere
We’ve received a lot of great questions from our listeners and wanted to take the time to answer them as an AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode. Thank you all for the great questions, we had a lot of fun answering them.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - Breaker app
Ryan Burgess - PhoneSoap
Augustus Yuan - Front End Guide
Augustus Yuan - Summer sale on Steam
Jem Young - A crash course in memory management
Jem Young - The Discovery
Derrick Showers - The Obesity Code
Derrick Showers - Headspace
Ryan Anklam - Children of Time Book
Ryan Anklam - Darigold Old Fashioned Chocolate Milk
Brian Holt - Bing
Brian Holt - OneNote
Brian Holt - Regina LC Tattoo
Brian Holt - City Pups SF
Mars Jullian - Clif nut butter filled bars
Mars Jullian - iShows app
Stacy London - Green Machine rolls at Bamboo in Portland
Stacy London - Hands Down (feat. jennylee) by Trentemøller

Jun 18, 2017 • 45min
Episode 036 - First drink in a new bar
Starting a new job is never easy, but a good onboarding process can make all the difference. In this episode, we talk about our experiences with onboarding at companies we’ve worked at and share our thoughts on what makes a good experience when starting a new job.
Items mentioned in the episode
Evernote, MySQL, Brew, Tomcat, Atlassian, Docker, Reed Hastings, Java, Struts, Stash, Gulp, npm, Bitbucket, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Django, Python, Accidently destroyed production database
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - Masters of Scale
Ryan Burgess - Mr. Chilly
Augustus Yuan - Stockstream
Augustus Yuan - Scrimba
Ryan Anklam - Sam Felt’s House Party Playlist
Ryan Anklam - Yarn determinism
Stacy London - A Unified Styling Language
Stacy London - Outgoing Society by Shed

Jun 4, 2017 • 60min
Episode 035 - Top shelf style guides
In this episode, we’re joined by Jyri Tuulos and Josh London to help discuss reusable components and building style guides. Jyri is a Staff Engineer at AdRoll and Josh is a Senior Designer at Netflix. We discuss best practices companies are leveraging style guides and reusable components. We also share the positives and negatives to having a style guide.
Items mentioned in the episode:
AdRoll, Netflix, JavaScript, CSS, CSS Preprocessor, PHP, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Learning, Jennison Asuncion, Accessibility episode, Atlassian, Bitbucket, Evernote, Storybook, npm, Slack, Laurie Voss, React, Angular, React plus X: Best Practices for Reusable UI Components, Forward JS, React Style Guide Generator, Pattern Lab, Brad Frost, Dave Olson, Atomic Design, JQuery, JQuery Widgets, Sketch, SASS, Bootstrap, React Bootstrap, Starbucks Style Guide, Styleguides.io
Guests:
Jyri Tuulos - @jtuulos
Josh London - @joshualondon
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Jyri Tuulos - AdRoll style guide
Jyri Tuulos - Reasonably Sound
Josh London - InspiRock
Josh London - React Sketch App
Ryan Burgess - XLR8 Connect Diaper Backpack
Ryan Burgess - Bosch
Augustus Yuan - Quick Draw! Google Dataset
Augustus Yuan - Style Guides
Augustus Yuan - Google I/O videos
Jem Young - Why did the chicken cross the road
Jem Young - ES6 Proxies and Reflection
Derrick Showers - Instacart
Derrick Showers - Blue Apron
Mars Jullian - Single Div
Mars Jullian - Detour
Stacy London - AtlasKit
Stacy London - Actually Smiling by Geotic

May 22, 2017 • 53min
Episode 034 - npm install beer --save-in-mouth
In this episode, we are joined by Laurie Voss, the COO and former CTO at npm. Npm, also known as Node Package Manager has been an important tool in the JavaScript community and has helped engineers share their code. In today’s episode, we’ll be discussing how we leverage npm and find out what we can expect from npm 5. Laurie also teaches us some cool tricks that exist in the npm cli.
Items mentioned in the episode:
Node, npm, Ruby, Python, Java, Back End Happy Hour, CommonJS, CocoaPods, Stack Overflow, Github, Babel, Webpack, Closure Compiler, Rollup, Browserify, Yarn, npm Enterprise, Left-pad, Express, Google, Monster Cable, Gold Apple Watch, I am rich, Semver.org
Guests:
Laurie Voss - @seldo
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Picks:
Laurie Voss - npm 5
Laurie Voss - Slides.com
Laurie Voss - Next.js
Ryan Burgess - Moment Lens
Ryan Burgess - Lin Clark - A Cartoon into Fiber - React Conf 2017
Ryan Burgess - The Founder
Augustus Yuan - Deco IDE
Augustus Yuan - Mocktails Mixer by Deeplocal
Jem Young - Aviation
Jem Young - Music to Draw To: Satellite
Derrick Showers - How I built this podcast
Derrick Showers - Containers podcast
Derrick Showers - Jackbox TV
Mars Jullian - Spotify Mood playlists
Mars Jullian - SkyGuru

May 8, 2017 • 48min
Episode 033 - One part beer, three parts web components. Add lemon to taste
In this episode, we are joined by Trey Shugart who is a front-end developer (Principal Developer) at Atlassian, proponent of web components, and author of SkateJS to talk about Web Components.
Items mentioned in the episode:
Fast and the Furious 8, Skate JS, Preact, React, Chrome browser, Rust episode, Polymer, X-Tag, jQuery, Flux, Functional Programming, Safari, Firefox, Web Assembly, W3C, Progressive Web Apps, Ken Wheeler, Service Workers, Lighthouse, TypeScript, Flow, nwb, Nest, React, Angular, Ember, Jason Miller, Knockout, Dart
Guests:
Trey Shugart - @treshugart
Panelists:
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Trey Shugart - Flow Type
Trey Shugart - Line 6 helix
Trey Shugart - Skate Maintainers
Trey Shugart - Jason Miller
Jem Young - Ryan Anklam
Jem Young - The Wee Baby Burgess - Austin Ryan Burgess
Jem Young - Iron Fist
Ryan Anklam - Spotify Discover Weekly Playlist
Ryan Anklam - Ancillary Justice
Brian Holt - Flow Type
Brian Holt - Babel Preset Env
Brian Holt - Planned Parenthood
Stacy London - Web Developer Roadmap
Stacy London - Broken Social Scene - Halfway Home

Apr 23, 2017 • 45min
Episode 032 - Imposter Syndrome - These are not the drinks you're looking for
What’s it like to deal with Imposter Syndrome? In this episode, we are joined by Jessica Grist, a Software Engineer at Adroll to discuss how we’ve all experience Imposter Syndrome in our careers and share ways to help deal with it.
Guests:
Jessica Grist - @thehackstress
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Picks:
Jessica Grist - Stuff You Missed in History Class
Ryan Burgess - React Conf 2017 videos
Ryan Burgess - Iron Fist
Derrick Showers - Ember Conf 2017
Derrick Showers - Codepen Projects
Derrick Showers - Alamo Drafthouse
Brian Holt - Full Stack for Front End Engineers
Mars Jullian - Nordic JS
Mars Jullian - How I Built This
Stacy London - Glitch
Stacy London - Empty Promise by Butane

Apr 10, 2017 • 47min
Episode 031 - A flaming shot of burnout
Burnout is not a rare phenomenon that engineers deal with. In this episode, we talk about the ways we’ve been affected by burnout and how we’ve dealt with it. We discuss past experiences that have created burnout for us and ways we can prevent it from happening in the future.
Items mentioned in the episode:
Twitter, Trello, Headspace, Fitbit, Apple Watch, Slack, Netflix
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - Rove
Ryan Burgess - Charles Proxy
Ryan Burgess - React Native
Augustus Yuan - Periscopic.com
Augustus Yuan - System Design Primer
Ryan Anklam - Hacking Node Seralize
Ryan Anklam - Rocket
Brian Holt - Horizon Zero Dawn
Stacy London - Spindrift by Colin Stetson
Stacy London - It's not how many hours of sleep you get...

Mar 24, 2017 • 56min
Episode 030 - Static site generators and dynamic drink drinkers
Websites have gotten a lot more complicated over the years. What happened to static HTML? In this episode we’re joined by Harry Wolff, the creator of Reptar, to talk about leveraging build tools to create static generated sites. We talk about the pros and cons of leveraging a static site generator for a website. We also discuss some of the tools available to help you get started.
Items mentioned in the episode:
Reptar, MongoDB, Github, Jekyll, Dropbox, Wordpress, Markdown, Atom, AWS, Express, Restify, FTP, React, Webpack, Medium, Gist, Highlight JS, Prisim, Yarn, npm, Facebook, Rugrats, Ghost, Metalsmith, Segment, Hugo, Go, Hexo, Markdown-it, YAML, Joi, Redux, StaticGen, Gatsby JS, Nunjucks, Browserify, Less, Sass, Babel, ES2015, Async await, Graph QL, Relay, Closure, Handlebars
Guests:
Harry Wolff - @hswolff
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Harry Wolff - Node 7.6
Harry Wolff - Legion
Harry Wolff - Calvin Harris - Slide
Harry Wolff - Reptar
Ryan Burgess - CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
Ryan Burgess - ZippGo
Augustus Yuan - Metasmoke
Augustus Yuan - Open Source Guides
Jem Young - Ultimate Beast Master
Jem Young - Shibesbot
Derrick Showers - Distiller
Derrick Showers - Pac-man Multiplayer
Brian Holt - Home Brewing Beer
Stacy London - Webpackbin
Stacy London - Arthur Russell - Home Away From Home (Andy Stott Refix)

Mar 13, 2017 • 54min
Episode 029 - Alcoholic Angular
In this episode, we’re joined by our special guest, Ayşegül Yönet, a Software Engineer Autodesk, who will help us discuss the popular Google JavaScript framework Angular. In the episode, we discuss the benefits of leveraging Angular and what the major differences are from Angular 1 and Angular 2.
Items mentioned in the episode:
Angular, Autodesk, Reddit, React, Scope, Knockout, Igor Minar, ASP.Net, Vue JS, Laravel, PHP, Visual Studio, Google Wave, Google Reader, Zone JS, Ember, TypeScript, Forward JS, RxJS, Frontend Masters, Angular.io, Pluralsight, John Papa, Angular Style Guide, Angular CLI, Closure
Guests:
Ayşegül Yönet - @AysSomething
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Ayşegül Yönet - Yoga Trapeze Swing
Ayşegül Yönet - Google Home
Ayşegül Yönet - Girl Develop It
Ayşegül Yönet - Annie Cannons
Ryan Burgess - NG-Cruise
Ryan Burgess - Astral
Jem Young - Private Internet Access
Jem Young - Elcomsoft
Derrick Showers - Omni
Derrick Showers - Fernet
Brian Holt - Aysegul's Twitter
Brian Holt - Southern Poverty Law Center
Brian Holt - Todd Motto
Stacy London - Lighthouse
Stacy London - Peak Magnetic by Clark