Fixate on Code | Weekly interviews on how to write better code, for frontend developers

Episodes

1. 25

   25 - Season 1 Finale

   Over the past 6 months Larry Botha has had the privilege of chatting with some of the best devs in the industry, learning what makes them tick, how they’ve gotten to where they are, and how they develop their skills. Here's a summary of the some of the biggest takeaways from Season 1.

   Mar 28, 2018

   11m
2. 24

   24 - Chris Coyier

   Chris is the creator of CSS-Tricks, a co-founder of Codepen, and a host on the popular dev podcast, ShopTalk. With Chris’s involvement in making CSS, Javascript, and SVG more accessible to developers, Chris has had a profound impact on both everyone using the web, and everyone building for the web.

   Mar 21, 2018

   31m
3. 23

   23 - John Allsopp

   John has been building for the web since the early 90’s. With his timeless article, The Dao of Web Design, his book, Developing with Web Standards, and as co-founder of the Web Directions conference series, John has made a massive impact on the lives of designers and developers the world over.

   Mar 14, 2018

   31m
4. 22

   22 - Rachel Nabors

   Rachel is an award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist who now cuts her teeth as an expert on web animations. With her webanimationweekly.com newsletter and slack.animationatwork channel, courses on Lynda.com and Frontend Masters, and her latest book, Animation At Work, Rachel is an authority...

   Mar 7, 2018

   27m
5. 21

   21 - Ada Rose Cannon

   Ada is a developer advocate and senior developer at Samsung. Previously a PlayStation developer, Ada now dedicates her time to pushing the limits of WebVR, and experimenting with client-side APIs.

   Feb 28, 2018

   28m
6. 20

   20 - Aimee Knight

   Before becoming a full-stack Javascript developer, Aimee spent 15 years as a competitive figure skater. The grit and hard work required for her former career has made Aimee a force in the web development world. With her work on the JsJabber podcast, creating developer meetups, and speaking on...

   Feb 21, 2018

   22m
7. 19

   19 - David Khourshid

   David works on Microsoft's Visual Studio Live Share, a service that enables developers from anywhere in the world to collaboratively code, debug, and more from the comfort of their own Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code editors.

   Feb 14, 2018

   22m
8. 18

   18 - Jeremy Keith

   Jeremy is the founder of ClearLeft - a passionate group of UX and digital strategists based in the UK - where Jeremy now heads research and development. He is the author of a number of books on web development, including his latest book, Resilient Web Design, has been seen on stages like An Event...

   Feb 7, 2018

   48m
9. 17

   17 - Jake Archibald

   Jake is a developer advocate for Google Chrome where he speaks regularly about Service Worker, application performance, and offline-first apps. Before joining the team at Google, Jake worked at Lanyrd honing his performance skills, and before that worked at the BBC creating an inclusive…

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   Jan 31, 2018

   47m
10. 16

    16 - Kent C Dodds

    Kent is a one-man JavaScript task force! While working at PayPal, Kent creates a lot of open source projects like Downshift and Glamorous, and makes contributions to Webpack, Babel, and ReactJS, to name just a few. In addition to his open source work, Kent created the Angular Air and JavaScript…

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    Jan 24, 2018

    29m
11. 15

    15 - Luke Westby

    Luke, a serial open-source contributor, and partner at HumbleSpark in Chicago, has a burning passion for Elm. Luke is also the creator of Ellie - The In-Browser Live Editor for Elm! When not speaking at conferences around the world, and producing audio and video, Luke can be found discussing Elm...

    Jan 17, 2018

    18m
12. 14

    14 - Juho Vepsalainen

    Juho is the creator of SurviveJS - a project that promises to take you from apprentice to master in both ReactJS and Webpack. On top of that, Juho is also a core contributor to Webpack! When not writing books or code, Juho can be found on stage at conferences around Europe, having already added...

    Jan 10, 2018

    14m
13. 13

    13 - Tereza Sokol

    Tereza is a front-end developer obsessed with the Elm language. NoRedInk, a platform helping millions of students learn how to write, nabbed her after spotting her skills. Tereza is also the creator of Elm Plot - a graph plotting library built in Elm.

    Jan 3, 2018

    25m
14. 12

    12 - Peter Müller

    Peter is a Corporate Entrepreneur at MobileLife, the innovation hub of Danske Bank in Copenhagen. Peter helps maintain Assetgraph, an optimisation framework for web pages and applications, and is also a core contributor to MochaJS. On top of that, Peter was also involved in organising…

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    Dec 27, 2017

    20m
15. 11

    11 - Ruth John

    Ruth loves creating art with code, and spreading the love for MIDI! She’s also a serial conference speaker, a skilled wielder of the Web Audio API, and leverages her skills as a developer for VJing. If you haven’t visited Ruth’s codepen and experienced her awesome audio visual pens, what are you...

    Dec 20, 2017

    21m
16. 10

    10 - Kyle Simpson

    Kyle has a simple recipe for developer success: understand the problem before you try to fix it. With Kyle's widely read "You Don't Know JS" book series, learning JavaScript more deeply is something every developer can and should take on as a challenge. Not only is Kyle an author, but also a...

    Dec 13, 2017

    52m
17. 9

    9 - Anjana Vakil

    Anjana is a philosophy major and English teacher turned computational linguistics aficionado. After completing graduate studies in speech technology, machine learning, and computer assisted language learning, Anjana joined the engineering team at UberResearch in Germany, where she is implementing…

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    Dec 6, 2017

    28m
18. 8

    8 - Jonathan Snook

    Jonathan is the creator of the influential SMACSS methodology for writing scalable and modular C-S-S. He has worked his magic at Xero, Yahoo!, and Shopify, and has appeared on stage at conferences such as Generate, CSSConf, and the Smashing Conference. With 3 highly-acclaimed books, Jonathan has…

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    Nov 29, 2017

    22m
19. 7

    7 - Harry Roberts

    Harry Roberts is a heavy-weight in the world of front-end architecture. While working at Sky, Harry began developing approaches to writing manageable and scalable CSS, revolutionising the way people think about front-ends. Harry now consults for a long list of companies like Google, The UN, The...

    Nov 22, 2017

    28m
20. 6

    6 - Sara Soueidan

    Sara is a freelance front-end web developer, author, and speaker from Lebanon. She was named Developer of the Year in the 2015 .net magazine awards, and awarded a Web Platform Award from O’Reilly. Sara is the author of Codrops CSS Reference, and is the co-author of Real-Life Responsive Web…

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    Nov 15, 2017

    27m
21. 5

    5 - Amjad Masad

    Amjad is the CEO and founder of repl.it, a simple and reliable cloud coding interface supporting more than 30 languages; built to assist teachers in the classroom, and make prototyping painless for software engineers. Amjad was also tech lead on the Javacript infrastructure team at Facebook…

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    Nov 9, 2017

    48m
22. 4

    4 - Christian Heilmann

    Chris works at Microsoft on the Edge team, heading developer experience and evangelism. Prior to Microsoft, Chris helped push HTML5 support forward at Mozilla, and before that was a front-end architect at Yahoo! where he helped build products and train other Yahoo!ers. Beyond that, Chris has been...

    Nov 2, 2017

    38m
23. 3

    3 - Safia Abdalla

    Safia works independently, making an impact on businesses with her skills in data analysis, front-end development, and technical writing. Safia is a serial open source contributor, and is the creator of Legit - a command line tool to make adding licenses to projects and files a cinch. On top of...

    Oct 24, 2017

    34m
24. 2

    2 - Brian Lonsdorf

    Brian is the lead user experience engineer at Salesforce. More importantly, Brian is the first person in history to leverage highly educated stop-motion hedgehogs to make functional programming accessible to javascript developers! He is a regular speaker at conferences, an author, a podcast host,...

    Oct 24, 2017

    31m
25. 1

    1 - Garth Braithwaite

    Garth is a designer and developer with a passion for all things open source. He is a front-end developer on Adobe’s PhoneGap team and has appeared as a speaker on conference stages across the world. When he’s not busy at Adobe, he spends his time discussing the power of design and how to improve...

    Oct 17, 2017

    26m