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43: Dive In with Jamon Holmgren. On Career, Consultancy, Conference Organization, Open Source, and Courageous Entrepreneurship Apr 11, 2019

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Jamon Holmgren is CTO and cofounder of Infinite Red, a consultancy that specializes in React Native.

Chantastic asks about Jamon's start in programming and entrepreneurship, why consultancies have an edge in Open Source, and how the Chain React conference plays into their business strategy.

They discuss the team benefits of TypeScript, humble PHP beginnings, and the big differences between consultancy and product.

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Jamon Holmgren — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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Construction Worker & Home Designer Turned Software Engineer and Business Owner — Jamon Holmgren on secondCareerDevs
Home Grown Accountant to Software Engineer — Michael Chan on secondCareerDevs
Infinite Red — Experts in mobile & web technologies. We create beautiful, functional mobile apps and websites
Infinite Red Academy — Engaging, Hands-On React Native Training
Infinite Red on Github — Engaging, Hands-On React Native Training
- Reactotron — A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows
- Gluegun — A delightful toolkit for building Node-powered CLIs
- Ignite — The hottest CLI for React Native, boilerplates, plugins, generators, and more!
- ProMotion — ProMotion is a RubyMotion gem that makes iPhone development less like Objective-C and more like Ruby. Star this repo to keep tabs on our progress
TypeScript
RubyMotion
ember
PhoneGap
Chain React Conf — THE REACT NATIVE CONFERENCE RETURNS TO PORTLAND, July 11-12, 2019
Building Infinite Red — A Podcast About Building Infinite Red

42: Build Dumb Shit with Sara Vieira. On being you, "change the world" bullshit, succeeding against mental illness, and teaching what you know. Apr 04, 2019

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Sara is a developer on the beloved CodeSandbox app.
She's worked for years as a developer advocate, giving brilliant talks across the world, and building some of the wildest sites on the web.

Chantastic asks her about succeeding against mental illness, how she achieved meme status, why we should "build dumb shit", and what the heck a developer advocate does.

They discuss corporate "change the world" bullshit, casual racism, why you should teach what you know, and the shockingly unglamorous lifestyle of a conference speaker.

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Sara Vieira — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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41: Be Super with TypeScript and Jared Palmer. On the when, where, what, why, and how much of TypeScript in React. Mar 28, 2019

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Typescript. What is it? How does it help you write better code? Will it help you sleep better at night?

Jared is a lead engineer at The Palmer Group, a strategy, design, and engineering firm.
There he uses TypeScript every day to keep code sturdy and maintainable.

Chantastic asks Jared what we need to know to get a little TypeScript into our apps.
They discuss the joys and pains of Typescript in 2019 and how it compares to languages like Reason, Ocaml, Fable, and Elm.

Featuring

Jared Palmer — Twitter, Github, Consultancy, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Notes & Links

TypeScript
Moving To React Suspense - Jared Palmer - React Conf 2018
npm and the future of JavaScript - Laurie Voss - JSConf US 2018
The State of the Octoverse: top programming languages of 2018
flow
Build Your Own Formik Using React Hooks with Jared Palmer (*egghead membership required)
@babel/preset-typescript
Realytics/fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin
Adding TypeScript to Create React App
TypeStrong/ts-loader
s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader
rollup-plugin-typescript2
[RFC] Migrate Jest to TypeScript
tsdx — Zero-config TypeScript package development
Deno — A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio
Reason — Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
Ocaml — OCaml is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles
Fable — The compiler that emits JavaScript you can be proud of!
elm — A delightful language for reliable webapps. Generate JavaScript with great performance and no runtime exceptions.
Swagger
Swagger Codegen
Palantir Technologies — All the TypeScript projects
Shopify Polaris — Our design system helps us work together to build a great experience for all of Shopify’s merchants.

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40: Lift as you Climb with Cassidy Williams. On React, Redux, and GraphQL at CodePen, teaching, @smkmeetup, following your dreams (literally), and building your dream network. Mar 21, 2019

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Cassidy Williams is a Senior Software Engineer CodePen in Seattle — using React, Redux, GraphQL, and Apollo Client to build the frontend of CodePen and CodePen Projects.

Chantastic asks about building a startup on a plane, maximizing side hustle effort, the importance of networking, and what it's like to meet your heroes.

They discuss tips for getting great advice from smart people, building passive income, finding safe workplaces, and what it looks like to lift as you climb.

Featuring

Cassidy Williams — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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39: Take Your Time with Kyle Shevlin. On healing from burnout, interviewing as a senior dev, building your brand, knowing your worth, and overcoming the desire for more. Mar 14, 2019

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Kyle is a JavaScript engineer at webflow, speaker, educator, and Twitch streamer.

Chantastic asks Kyle about his experience healing from burnout, identifying his value, interviewing as a senior developer, and evaluating team fit.

They discuss the importance of networking, brand building, managing your energy, fighting the desire for more, and weaving it all together.

Featuring

Kyle Shevlin — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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Linode : Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.

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38: Learn to Learn with Kyle Shevlin. Building a great career, finding your tribe, learning how to learn, and shipping your side projects. Mar 07, 2019

Show notes

Kyle is a JavaScript engineer at webflow, speaker, educator, and Twitch streamer.

Chantastic asks Kyle about his experience breaking into web development, how he navigated the early portion of his career, and the inspiration behind his show secondCareerDevs.

They discuss the importance of finding your community, learning how to learn, and how to make progress on your side projects by live streaming your work.

Featuring

Kyle Shevlin — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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37: Decide with Your Human Brain, with Brian Vaughn. On the new React profiler, windowing, and intelligent performance tuning. Feb 28, 2019

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Brian Vaughn is a member of the React Core team and creator of libraries like react-virtualized and react-window. He's a wealth of knowledge in React performance and application profiling.

Chantastic asks Brian about the new profiler tools he's been working on (available to React v16.5 apps), React Core team dynamics, and the future of windowing in React and browsers.

They discuss a handful of practical performance tips, Concurrent rendering in React, React.memo and the useMemo Hook, and how to decide with your human brain when performance tuning is necessary.

Featuring

Brian Vaughn — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Sponsors

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36: Be Wrong with Shawn Swyx Wang. On what's new in React, how best to learn, and what's going on in r/reactjs Feb 21, 2019

Show notes

Sean Swyx Wang moderates and organizes r/reactjs on Reddit.
He also works on developer experience at Netlify.
Sean is a voracious learner and loves to share what he's learning and believes that everyone — regardless of experience — should "learn in public".

Chantastic asks him about what's new in React and how r/reactjs is helping developers learn React, get connected in the community, and find jobs.

They discuss strategies for being a lifelong learner, how to get started in React, the growth of React's API surface area, Hooks, Suspense, Concurrent Mode, designing APIs, and the future of React.

Featuring

Shawn Swyx Wang — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Links

React Conf 2018
JAMstack_conf_nyc
Netlify
Popmotion and Pose
React Podcast Interview with Matt Perry on Popmotion
React Hooks
React Suspense
scheduler
react-cache
r/reactjs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Book
freeCodeCamp React curriculum
Crazy React Asians
Swyx and Chantastic talking Suspense on YouTube

35: Make the Web Look Great with Matt Perry. On declarative animation, open source management, and importance of the open web Jan 17, 2019

Show notes

Matt Perry is the developer behind PopMotion, a declarative animation library for the web. Chantastic asks his inspiration for PopMotion, the difficulties of maintaining a low-level open source library, what he things declarative APIs might look like in the future. They’re discussion goes all over the place. You kinda just have to listen…

Featuring

Matt Perry — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Links

Popmotion — Simple libraries for delightful interfaces
Pose — A truly simple animation library for React, React Native, and Vue
The Path To A Declaratively Animated Future - Matt Perry - React Conf 2018

34: Just Use a Button with Jen Luker Jan 09, 2019

Show notes

Jen Luker is a lead software engineer at Formidable Labs, keynote speaker, host of @BookBytesFM, and expert knitter. Chantastic asks her about the Fiber Arts Corner at React Conf, the history that textiles and programming share, and how we can make our apps more accessible.

Featuring

Jen Luker — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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