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egghead.io developer chats
by Joel Hooks and John Lindquist
We sit down with developers to talk about the latest and greatest in web development. These conversations will take you deeper into the human side of coding web applications and deliver insight that you might not expect.
Episodes
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Full-Stack Signals in Solid, AI Development, and the Future of Web Frameworks
In this episode of What's Good, Joel Hooks sits down with Dev Agrawal, a member of the SolidJS core team, to discuss the evolving landscape of web development, AI-assisted coding, and modern framework architecture. Episode Highlights SolidJS and Modern Framework Architecture Detailed comparison...
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Local-First Development and Asymmetric Bets: Dax Raad on Web Dev Trends and Career Strategies
Dax Raad, known for his strong opinions on Twitter, sat down for a chat about web dev, career moves, and building cool stuff. He's not afraid to throw some heat at popular tools like Next.js, though he still helps people use it. Dax is particularly excited about local-first development, which he...
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Nitro, Vinxi, and RSCs - What's Good with Dev Agrawal
Dev and Joel discuss React Miami conference, praising its fun atmosphere and location. They chat about React Server Components, with Dev sharing his experience building a mini framework. They talk about Vinxi, Nitro, and the unjs ecosystem as tools for creating custom frameworks. The conversation...
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Alex Reardon on Balancing Work, Life, and Large Side Projects
Alex Reardon explains how he managed to fit in creating a course with a busy home life and a full-time job.
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Ryan Florence Talks About Bringing Web 1.0 Philosophies Back With Remix
Ryan Florence and Joel Hooks chat about what Remix is and what lead to its creation.
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Jacky Alciné on How The Software Field is 75% Code and 25% Presentation
Jacky and Joel Chat about first languages, motivation, good questions, and mentorship.
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Chris Biscardi on Showing Up, Learning, and Doing the Work
Chris and Joel chat about learning to program, mindest, and motivation.
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Shawn Wang Talks About How To Grow Your Reputation As A Developer
Shawn Wang chats about learning in public, being a specialist vs a generalist, and mentorship.
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Kent C. Dodds Chats About How Epic React was Designed for Learner Success
Joel and Kent chat about what led to the successful launch of Epic React.
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What is a Senior Engineer with Tomasz Łakomy
Joel chats with Tomasz Łakomy about what defines a senior developer, Svelte, learning in public, and speaking at conferences.
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How Shirley Wu Built A Career As A Freelance Data Visualizer
Shirley Wu is a freelance data visualization expert. Data visualization, at its core, is when you take lots of data, and it's hard for you to look in Excel. You visualize that into some graph or chart, and the most simple could be a bar chart or some graph so that you can understand trends within...
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How Courtland Allen Grew Indie Hackers with Content, Consistency, and Community
"Indie Hacker" - An entrepreneur that is working to gain some form of independence. Courtland Allen is the founder of indiehackers.com. He didn't take the venture capital approach. He just wanted to make enough money to support what he was trying to do. Courtland was trying to build a community…
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Real Community Can't Be Faked With Rosie Sherry
Rosie Sherry is both an unschooling parent and the founder of the Ministry Of Testing. There's a disproportionate number of bootstrappers who homeschool their kids, and maybe it's for the same reason why they built something themself instead of fitting into the mold, they think they can do it...
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Accessible Design Systems With Sarah Federman
Design systems are your component library, documentation, tools, et cetera. And then there are the operations of it. So like an agile team uses agile methodology, a design system is about making your teams work better. After Bootstrap, we all ended up building our own Bootstraps. We all like to...
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Segun Adebayo is the UX Engineer that built the Chakra UI design system
Segun Adebayo was turned off of web development after struggling with Wordpress' themes and plugins, and so he went straight into UI design entirely using Sketch and Figma for quite some time. It was React that brought him back into the development fold. The way React made it so easy to create...
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Turn a side project into a career with Nick DeJesus
T7 Chicken was where it all began with Nick's journey into development. Nick had no development experience. Still, he wasn't satisfied with the websites and apps available for Tekken framerate data, so he took it upon himself to learn Android development to create his mobile app. Nick had the...
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Personal Growth From Open-Source And Meetups With Monica Powell
Monica Powell didn't have the most straightforward path to her first job as a developer. She took a couple of years of graphic design in college, took a computer science class, joined a student-led web development agency, and then joined a tech startup where she did email marketing and…
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Test Driven Accessibility with Erin Doyle
At first, React looked like it might have been a fad, and JSX seemed weird. But, it didn't take long for people to see the power and beauty of it. React makes reuse easy, which makes accessibility a lot easier. Every time you needed an input, you had to remember all of the accessibility…
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Writing The Book On Data Visualization With Amelia Wattenberger
D3.js is the defacto library that people use to create custom data visualizations on the web today. It's powerful and flexible. You can do whatever you want with it. However, that kind of power and flexibility comes at the cost of complexity. You have to know what you're doing, and it takes a…
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Making A Fulfilling Career Out Of Multiple Interests With Hiro Nishimura
Hiro started coding HTML and CSS back in middle school so she could make internet friends and talk about anime. She never thought of coding as anything more than a hobby, and she stopped when she began college. She got her master's in special education, but due to a traumatic injury, she had to...
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Get Comfortable Learning On Your Own With Khalal Walker
Khalal's first language was Java, he learned his it in school. He didn't like coding in school because all they did was learn algorithms and data structures. How many people have completely turned away from this amazing career where you get to build cool things like dad jokes in text messages...
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Out With The 10x Developer And In With The 10x Mentor With Tracy Lee
Making technical decisions for your business when you don't have experience as a developer is difficult. It's scary to make decisions that you don't know the consequences of. Tracy got into development when at one point she had the freetime to take an HTML, CSS, JavaScript course online. Becoming…
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Build Performant And Reliable Applications With Molly Struve
To executives, new features mean more money, but even if you had terrific features, they wouldn't be worth a thing if they only worked half the time. Reliability isn't something you want to put off until later after the project has grown, it will save you a lot of time and money if you factor it…
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Learn To Debug Properly And Ask Better Questions With Justin Samuels
How many of us still almost exclusively use console.log() when trying to debug something? It's okay, plenty of us do it that way, but you could be saving yourself a lot of pain and suffering by using the debugger and stepping through the execution. There are several advantages to using a…
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The Elegant System of Management with Will Larson
Everything is a system, and every system is a box in another larger system. It's up to managers to think in systems to make choices and understand their consequences. The manager has an obligation to their team. The decisions of managers make a tremendous impact on folk's lives. But managers are...
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Putting Emphasis on User Outcomes with Marisa Morby
Marisa Morby is a professional product manager. A common question she gets is "what's the difference between a product manager and a project manager?" There's a lot of overlap, but the difference is a product manager has to understand what needs to get done and why and be able to communicate…
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Escaping the Software Trough of Despair With Laurie Barth
When you are a consultant, you can't just learn a framework and then choose a place to work that uses it. Your clients will have their own needs and constraints that you're going to have to adapt to serve your client well. The constant learning can feel like a freefall. Constantly feeling dumb is...
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Embrace Challenges With A Growth Mindset With Veni Kunche
There are a few options for those trying to start a career in web development, teach yourself, join a bootcamp, or go to college. Veni chose the college route, she got a master's degree in computer science, which is awesome, but it didn't fully prepare her for web development. Computer science is...
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Gaining Freedom and Helping Others Find Success with Pariss Athena
You don't have to be passionate about code to have a successful career as a developer. Pariss Athena talks about how it isn't the code itself that motivates her to get better at understanding it. It's what being good at code provides that drives her. The financial freedom code gives Athena…
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How Vue Earns Its Beginner-Friendly Reputation with Natalia Tepluhina
Vue has a reputation of being the most beginner-friendly framework, but that didn't just happen by accident. The Vue CLI is an excellent example. New developers often struggle with using the terminal and remembering all the commands. The Vue CLI provides a visual interface for the developer to...
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Organizing a Conference to Combat Brain Drain in His Hometown with J.C. Hiatt
J.C. Hiatt put together the conference MagnoliaJS in the town of Jackson, Missouri to help his community and combat the growing problem of brain drain in his state. MagnoliaJS is not only for his community, but it was put together with the help of it too. J.C. put it together, publically by using...
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Figuring Out What's Next after Your Needs are Met with Jason Lengstorf
What do we do when all of our needs are met when we are making seventy-five thousand plus a year, working for a company with some prestige, have a home, and don't have to worry about food. Jason Lengstorf wrestled with this after the company he was contracting with didn't have anything for him to...
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Get out of Your Head and Start with Your Users with Janelle Allen
Teaching provides a learner with more information, but the information isn't the only thing that is required to teach effectively. Doing is almost just as essential as the information itself for the learner to solidify what was taught. Creating an effective learning path is challenging, and we…
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Building Vue Vixens With Education and Inclusiveness With Jen Looper
Jen Looper, developer advocate and the founder of Vue Vixens, didn't study software development in college, she has a Ph.D. in French Literature. Her degree might seem unrelated, but it strengthened her ability to explain complex ideas as well as her overall communication abilities, skills that…
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Turning Technical Concepts into Approachable Illustrated Metaphors with Maggie Appleton
There's a kind of "black box" mystery that surrounds illustrators and programmers, to someone who isn't one their skills seem like a form of magic, but to someone who is these skills are just the tools that they've been learning to use through time and hard work. Maggie is the course logo...
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Being Curious and Facilitating the Success of Others with Stacey Mulcahy
JavaScript fatigue is a topic that has been trending for a while now. It's easy to get overwhelmed with the constant influx of new technology, but it's also thrilling to learn the latest cool new thing! Stacey Mulcahy discusses how she embraces this deluge of technology by being a generalist,...
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Creating Authentic Content and Developing Yourself with Emma Bostian
Web development is a fantastic field where people, for little to no money, can self-teach everything you need to make a career, and it's amazing, right? That doesn't mean that there isn't a time cost though, it isn't easy, but the internet has an overwhelming amount of information that you can…
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Heading Gatsby's Learning Experience and Bridging Gaps with Marcy Sutton
Marcy Sutton is the Head of Learning at GatsbyJS, but what does that mean? One of Gatsby's core focuses is the community, and a part of that is making the experience with Gatsby as friendly as possible. A large part of making Gatsby friendly is having excellent documentation, so that learning and...
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Making Dumb Stuff That Makes Strangers on the Internet Smile with Sara Vieira
Sara Vieira, developer advocate and professional maker of dumb shit, talks through why she does her weird experiments on the internet. Sometimes it is out of need, but honestly a lot of the time it is a random thing that she thinks of or something that someone says that brings up the idea, and…
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Developing Yourself While Teaching Others with Ali Spittel
Today we are joined by Ali Spittel, a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at dev.to, who speaks with us about: The skills she gained from a developer teaching job How she kept up on her coding skills without writting production code by doing daily code challenges Why she began to blog and…
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The Changes Gatsby and Mdx Are Making to the Internet with Chris Biscardi
Today we are joined by Chris Biscardi where we discuss: Learning in public and him live-streaming open-source development Gatsby as a PWA generator and its potential to become the dominant force on the internet MDX's power and its potential of replacing markdown as the default content type Chris'...
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Championing a11y and Being Authentic with Lindsey Kopacz
Lindsey Kopacz, web-developer and accessibility blogger, joins us today to discuss: The positives that being authentic and public with your emotional state provides. Her blog and the excellent dev.to community The business value of accessibility Accessibility in a sense that isn't limited to…
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Learning to Code from Scratch on the Modern Web with Tae'lur Alexis
Tae'lur Alexis, self taught programmer and founder of CodeEveryday, talks to us about: Figuring out that software was what she wanted to do Learning to code from scratch on the modern web. How front-end development was appealing as a beginner due to visual feedback and opportunity to be creative...
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Negotiating Your Salary and Advancing Your Career with Josh Doody
Josh Doody, the author of Fearless Salary Negotiation, joins us today to discuss: What you need to look out for to stay ahead in the industry How to find leverage despite the information asymmetry between the employer and the job candidate Why questions on what your current salary is or what…
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Switching Careers and Learning in Public with Tania Rascia
Tania Rascia works as a web developer full time. However, just a few years ago she was working as a professional chef. How and why did she make such a dramatic career switch? It isn't uncommon for culinary professionals to realize that they don't want to spend the rest of their life doing it. It…
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Incorporating Testers with Every Development Phase with Angie Jones
Today Angie Jones, a master inventor and automated testing engineer, speaks with us about what a master inventor is and what it took to receive that title, what testing automation is, having parallel between testers and developers, what developers can be doing to build more testable apps, and...
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Opening Programming's Gates to Women's Communities with Diana Rodriguez
Diana Rodriguez, Worldwide Community Organizer for the Vue Vixens Initiative, joins us today to talk about her early experiences with development as a child, her transition into a becoming a full-time professional and her work with getting women from communities all over the world involved with...
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Exploring Concepts and Teaching Using Focused Zines with Julia Evans
Julia Evans, is a zine author and software engineer at Stripe. She joins us to talk about teaching specifics as opposed to high-level overviews, using zines to show that things that sound hard aren't hard in practice, the longevity of Julia's zine empire, and the impact that monetizing her zines...
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Math and Functional Programming Aren't Exclusive to Wizards with Brian Lonsdorf
Joel and Brian Lonsdorf discuss the pain and growth of learning, math as a source of truth, dispelling that idea that you need to be a wizard to enter the functional programming space, and finally how you can start including functional concepts in your day to day work. There's a reason that...
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Being a Passionate and Deliberate Engineer with Jem Young
Today we are joined by Jem Young, a senior software engineer over at Netflix. Jem is here to discuss his programming philosophy and how it is an extension of himself, how engineers should have the freedom to have ideas and veto things, the difference passion makes, and being informed about the...
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We sit down with developers to talk about the latest and greatest in web development. These conversations will take you deeper into the human side of coding web applications and deliver insight that you might not expect.
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Joel Hooks and John Lindquist
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