287 – 🧠 Learning in Public with SWYX

from Thunder Nerds · host Frederick Philip Von Weiss, and Brian Hinton

In this episode, we talk with SWYX, author, speaker, podcaster, and learning in public evangelist. We dive into his career...

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In this episode, we talk with SWYX, author, speaker, podcaster, and learning in public evangelist. We dive into his career history in finance and how he transitioned into development. We also discuss the challenges of Developer Experience, the advantages of learning in public, and lessons learned from podcasting. Additionally, we get a musical performance from SWYX himself. Bonus: We have Software Engineer, Arit Amana as a guest co-host. ✨ Episode Sponsor * Auth0: https://auth0.com* Auth0 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/auth0* Auth0 on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/auth0* Auth0 Avocado Labs online meetup events: https://avocadolabs.dev/ 🔗 Episode Links * Twitter: https://twitter.com/swyx* Author: Coding Career Handbook: https://www.learninpublic.org/* Website: https://www.swyx.io/* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/swyxTV* The Swyx Mixtape: https://swyx.transistor.fm/* Swyx on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/swyx* Build Invincible Apps: https://temporal.io/* Guest co-host: Arit Amana* Twitter: https://twitter.com/aritdeveloper* Website: https://arit.dev/* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritamana/* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AritDeveloper* Github: https://github.com/msarit* Arit Amana on Thunder Nerds: https://youtu.be/i74Swu8Us-A* Hosts: Frederick Weiss: https://twitter.com/FrederickWeiss 📜 Transcript [00:00:00] Frederick Weiss: Welcome, I’m Frederick Weiss. And, thank you for consuming the Thunder Nerds. A conversation with the people behind the technology that love what they do, and do tech good. And our sponsor Auth0 is helping us do that all year long. Auth0 makes it easy for developers to build a custom secure and standard-based unified log-in by providing authentication and authorization as a service. [00:01:08] Frederick Weiss: Try them out now by going to Auth0.com. Also, check them out at youtube.com/Auth0, Twitch.tv/Auth0, and Avocadolabs.dev for their online meetup events. Thanks again, Auth0. And let's go ahead and welcome our guests, you know, speaking of the guests, we actually have a co-host on the show today,

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