Front End Happy Hour

As you build your career, it’s helpful to think about your personal brand and how you promote yourself in the industry. In this episode, we are joined by Alice Lee, to talk with us about how each of us approach branding and self-promotion. Guests: Alice Lee - @byalicelee Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: Alice Lee - Creative Cuties Discord Alice Lee - Survivor Ryan Burgess - Better Allies Augustus Yuan - Megalobox Augustus Yuan - Raya and the Last Dragon Augustus Yuan - Summit1G quit Fortnite and everything change Jem Young - Formula 1: Drive to Survive Jem Young - Buttplug.io Shirley Wu - Alice's mural at the Asian Art Museum Shirley Wu - Chinese Animation: In Search of a Style Shirley Wu - WandaVision

Our very own Shirley Wu and her friend, Nadieh Bremer recently wrote a book called, Data Sketches so we wanted to learn more about what it’s like to write a technical book. In this episode, we are joined by Nadieh to talk with us about the process of writing and having a book published. Guests: Nadieh Bremer - @NadiehBremer Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: Nadieh Bremer - Datasketch.es Nadieh Bremer - Fab Academy Ryan Burgess - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell Ryan Burgess - Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family Shirley Wu - Lullatone Shirley Wu - Data Sketches Book Launch

Optimizing websites for a quality user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web and Core Web Vitals is an initiative Google has provided as a unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web. Addy Osmani and Kristofer Baxter, from Google, join us to talk more about Core Web Vitals. Guests: Addy Osmani - @addyosmani Kristofer Baxter - @kristoferbaxter Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Stacy London - @stacylondoner Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: Addy Osmani - Hackers movie Soundtrack Addy Osmani - Web.dev Content Visibility Kristofer Baxter - ESBuild Kristofer Baxter - Outsmartly Kristofer Baxter - Soul Soundtrack Kristofer Baxter - AMP Project Ryan Burgess - Tell Us Your Secrets Ryan Burgess - Dave Augustus Yuan - Excalidraw Augustus Yuan - Web.dev Defining Core Web Vitals Stacy London - Gold by Glassjaw Stacy London - Clipper - Another 5 Years by Overmono Shirley Wu - Chinese knots earrings by _baomii

Not everyone starts their engineering career with a Computer Science degree, there are a lot of ways to start an engineering career. In this episode, we are joined by David Simmer from Netflix to talk with us about non-traditional backgrounds. Guests: David Simmer - @_simmerer Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: David Simmer - Peter Gregson: Bach - The Cello Suites David Simmer - The Aviary Book David Simmer - Matt Levine Newsletter David Simmer - Reuschelle’s Cheesecakes Ryan Burgess - Change Github repositories from master to main Ryan Burgess - Ryan’s Dad’s In Tech Interview Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Burrito Holder Shirley Wu - Visual Cinnamon Shirley Wu - Visual Cinnamon Resources Shirley Wu - Cinema Therapy

When it comes to estimating the time it takes to build any software project, it’s never easy. There’s a lot of factors that go into estimating. In this episode, we talk about our experiences with estimating and ways we’ve improved it over the years. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Stacy London - @stacylondoner Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: Ryan Burgess - Rebuild Black Business Ryan Burgess - Good Girls Augustus Yuan - Amazon Builders Library Augustus Yuan - Valheim Augustus Yuan - Agile Stacy London - Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It Stacy London - Innergaze by Heidi Sabertooth Shirley Wu - Lenticular Hologram Rainbow Gradient Puzzle Shirley Wu - D3 10 Years! Livestream Shirley Wu - Creative Cuties Discord

How important is documentation? In this episode, we share our thoughts and opinions on how we approach documentation and the tools that have helped us. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Stacy London - @stacylondoner Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: Ryan Burgess - Quevos Chips Ryan Burgess - Oreo ID cookies Augustus Yuan - Warrior Augustus Yuan - Slack's Outage on January 4th 2021 Stacy London - Summoning by Hum Stacy London - River by Octo Octa Mars Jullian - Frontend focus Shirley Wu - Bling Empire Shirley Wu - Accented Cinema

How do developer teams stay productive? In this episode, we are talking with Kathryn Koehler and Andy Glover from the Netflix Productivity Engineering team to learn more about what a Productivity Engineering team does to help improve productivity. Guests: Kathryn Koehler - @kejkoehler Andy Glover - @aglover Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Kathryn Koehler - Accelerate Kathryn Koehler - Lolita Andy Glover - Team of Rivals Andy Glover - Undercover Ryan Burgess - NetflixEng Spotify playlist Ryan Burgess - Mother In Law's Tongue Plant Jem Young - Star Trek Discovery Jem Young - AirBiotech 360 Stacy London - Colours so Dub by Tiga Stacy London - Colours so Bright by Tiga Stacy London - 6000 Ft. Bonobo, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

At some point or another, we’ve all had to move to a new role or a new company. In this episode, we are joined by special guests Tara Ellis and Jared Jordan to help us discuss things we’ve learned to help transition to a new role or job. Guests: Tara Ellis - @maverick_mind Jared Jordan - @jaredjordan Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Picks: Tara Ellis - A Promising Young Woman Tara Ellis - Lianne La Havas Jared Jordan - The Thrill of the Fight VR Boxing Jared Jordan - Nerf Rival XXI 2000 Gun Ryan Burgess - The First 90 Days Ryan Burgess - ThermoPro meat thermometer Jem Young - The Midnight Sky Jem Young - Trumps Over - Macklemore Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Zen Egg Jem Young - Alternative wood Egg Mars Jullian - css-for-js.dev Mars Jullian - Happy Masks

In this episode, we are joined by Evan Payne to talk with us about how we each approach side projects. Evan also shares a side project he’s built in Angular. Guests: Evan Payne - @evanfuture Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: Evan Payne - The Adventure Zone Evan Payne - CriticalRole Ryan Burgess - The Undoing Ryan Burgess - Euphoria Jem Young - Lupin Jem Young - Awair Element Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Green Onion Kit Shirley Wu - Bubblesort Zines Shirley Wu - Semihandmade

In this episode, we will be reflecting on the past year and how things have drastically changed for how we work and how our companies have had to adapt during a pandemic. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Stacy London - @stacylondoner Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Shirley Wu - @sxywu Picks: Ryan Burgess - A Teacher Ryan Burgess - Big Sky Augustus Yuan - Alice in Borderland Augustus Yuan - Building a button Jem Young - Professional Tag Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Lovesac Stacy London - Her Revolution by Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke Stacy London - Dawn Chorus by Jon Hopkins Stacy London - My favorite tracks from 2020 Mars Jullian - Dermaplus SF Mars Jullian - Smart Pet Feeder (Feeder Connect) Shirley Wu - BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky Shirley Wu - Doodle Therapy