Front End Happy Hour

A lot of the work we do impacts the people using the product or application we’ve made and it’s important to understand how our users resonate with the products we create. A great way to better understand what works for a user is by doing user testing. In this episode, we’ll be discussing user testing. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Picks: Ryan Burgess - 3M Command Strips Ryan Burgess - Sonos speakers Augustus Yuan - Talk to Books Augustus Yuan - Pocket Developer Dice Jem Young - The Little Prince Jem Young - Slack incubator

In this episode, we’re joined by the Netflix Software Engineer, Anup Bishnoi to talk with us about the Netflix, open source, virtual JSON graph library, Falcor. Guests: Anup Bishnoi - @asyncanup Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Picks: Anup Bishnoi - IPFS Anup Bishnoi - Everything Sucks Anup Bishnoi - The Daily Ryan Burgess - Up Next Ryan Burgess - Electron Jem Young - Comply Ear Plugs Jem Young - Jarv Nmotion ear buds Jem Young - Fastest Car Ryan Anklam - Orphan Master’s Son Ryan Anklam - Barkley Marathons - The Race that Eats its Young

In this episode, we were live on stage at Reactathon conference in San Francisco discussing how to scale a React application. We share our thoughts on to best approaches to creating a good structure for your codebase at scale. We also share our experiences we’ve learned over the years how to scale our React applications. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Stacy London - @stacylondoner

In this episode, we discuss how we stay productive in our jobs. To help us with the discussion, we’re joined by Ellen Chisa, CEO, and Cofounder of Dark. We talk about tools and strategies we’ve found useful to help stay productive. Guests: Ellen Chisa - @ellenchisa Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Ellen Chisa - Dark - Frontend Engineer Ellen Chisa - SkeletonCSS Ellen Chisa - Manual.is Ryan Burgess - Soapbox Ryan Burgess - Tales from the Script Jem Young - NPM Compare Jem Young - Raw Water Mars Jullian - Texture Mars Jullian - PseudoLocalizer Stacy London - Bolt Stacy London - Emerald Rush by Jon Hopkins

In this episode, we are joined by Richard Feldman to talk about the functional language Elm, which compiles to JavaScript. In the episode, we learn about the benefits to leveraging Elm and how to get started. Guests: Richard Fledman - @rtfeldman Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Brian Holt - @holtbt Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Richard Feldman - Predictably Irrational Richard Feldman - Richard Feldman: CSS as Bytecode Richard Feldman - Elm Town Ryan Burgess - Absentia Ryan Burgess - Seven Seconds Augustus Yuan - Workbox Augustus Yuan - Evernote Spaces Brian Holt - Secret of Mana Stacy London - Kubo and the Two Strings Stacy London - Fever Ray’s new album Plunge

In this episode, we recorded live at SacJS event in Sacramento, California. On stage we discuss the challenges of migrating a codebase and when to make the decision its the right time to refactor. We share lessons we’ve learned from past experiences. Panelists: Jem Young - @JemYoung Augustus Yuan - @augburto Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Augustus Yuan - Flavors of Engineering management Augustus Yuan - Thanks (github) Jem Young - Sealab 2021 Jem Young - Four Semesters of CS Part II Jem Young - Petro Derrick Showers - Twenty Thousand Hertz Derrick Showers - Timbuk2 Derrick Showers - Master of None Brian Holt - Luis.ai Brian Holt - Full Stack 2 on Frontend Masters Brian Holt - Second Career Devs w/ Madison Kanna Mars Jullian - Lovesick Mars Jullian - Inside Dev newsletter Stacy London - Unfolding by Rival Consoles Stacy London - Git for Humans by David Demaree

In this episode, we recorded live on stage at Forward JS conference in San Francisco. We were joined by our special guest, Allen Wirfs-Brock to talk about how the web has changed over the years and how JavaScript has been a large influence. Guests: Allen Wirfs-Brock - @awbjs Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Brian Holt - @holtbt Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Stacy London - @stacylondoner

In this episode, we’ll be discussing things we’ve noticed in companies that have unhealthy culture, shady business practices, moving business targets and more. We talk about ways to avoid an unhealthy culture and how to help improve one. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Ryan Burgess - Altered Carbon Ryan Burgess - Framework Summit Augustus Yuan - Year in Pixels Augustus Yuan - Haven Jem Young - Uphill Conf Jem Young - Bitcoin Mars Jullian - The Grand Tour Mars Jullian - The noun project Stacy London - Carbon.now.sh Stacy London - Sunder by Nathan Fake

For our 50th episode, we are on stage live at the 2018 ngATL conference. We are joined by four of the talented speakers, Aimee Knight, Simona Cotin, John Papa, and April Wensel to talk about the state of Angular. Guests: Aimee Knight - @Aimee_Knight Simona Cotin - @simona_cotin John Papa - @John_Papa April Wensel - @aprilwensel Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Picks: Aimee Knight - Zackary Chapple Aimee Knight - What does code readability mean? Aimee Knight - BCAA - Gummy Worm Simona Cotin - Code: Debugging the gender gap Simona Cotin - CodeBar John Papa - Readable Code John Papa - The Greatest Showman April Wensel - The Power of Full Engagement April Wensel - The Beyond Burger April Wensel - Viva La Vegan Ryan Burgess - Dark Ryan Burgess - Ng-Atlanta Jem Young - Harry Wolff - The Console Log Jem Young - Neat Beats - Cosmic Surgery Jem Young - Flamethrower

We are back in 2018, for the first episode of the New Year we have two special guests, Shirley Wu and Amy Wibowo to talk with us about freelancing and running your own business. We discuss how to start freelance work, how to manage clients and how to handle difficult clients. Guests: Shirley Wu - @sxywu Amy Wibowo - @sailorhg Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Shirley Wu - Bubblesort Zines Shirley Wu - Coding like a girl by Amy Wibowo Shirley Wu - OpenVis Conf Shirley Wu - Kimi No Na Wa (Your name) Amy Wibowo - The Hate U Give Ryan Burgess - ConferCal Ryan Burgess - Black Mirror Season 4 Augustus Yuan - Smog Free Tower Augustus Yuan - Speedometer 2.0 Jem Young - Cowarobot Jem Young - Code Problems Jem Young - Babel Time Travel Derrick Showers - Gramercy Tavern Derrick Showers - My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman Brian Holt - Creating a Vue.js

It’s been a great year! With 2017 coming to an end, we’ve decided to talk the highlights, trends, and disappointments of the year. We also talk about what we’re excited about in 2018. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Picks: Ryan Burgess - 2018 Conferences Ryan Burgess - Kevin Marr Augustus Yuan - Mozilla Voice Project Augustus Yuan - Algorithmic Art by Tyler Hobbs Jem Young - Perf Matters Conference Jem Young - Slow TV Jem Young - Surface Book 2 Derrick Showers - Castro Derrick Showers - try! Swift Brian Holt - Babel Brian Holt - Henry Zhu Brian Holt - Webpack Brian Holt - Parcel Brian Holt - SFO

Often times in our careers we’ve wanted to speak at conferences, meetups or even within our companies. It’s been a great way to share ideas and things we’ve learned. Giving a tech talk isn’t always the easiest thing. In this episode, we’ll be discussing what we’ve learned from our experiences and share advice on ways to help improve your next talk. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Ryan Burgess - Obey Giant Documentary Ryan Burgess - Southpaw Augustus Yuan - Seashells.io Augustus Yuan - The Working Man (animation) Jem Young - The Room Jem Young - Firefox Quantum Mars Jullian - HTML5 Meetup Mars Jullian - Dickens Fair Stacy London - Illumina by Lamb Stacy London - Rodent by Burial

In this episode of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, we discuss how as front end engineers we can impact security vulnerabilities in the applications and websites we are creating. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Ryan Burgess - Engineer Manager Resources Ryan Burgess - Netflix JavaScript Talks - Building Performant Signup Flows in React Jem Young - Puppeteer Jem Young - Stranger Things Derrick Showers - Certbot Derrick Showers - Airbnb Experiences Derrick Showers - DripDrop Stacy London - Lisbon, Portugal Stacy London - Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

In a previous episode, we discussed working with a recruiter during a job interview process. In this episode, we’re joined by Netflix recruiter, Bianca Bortolussi to discuss ways to help your engineering profile stand out to recruiters and hiring managers. Guests: Bianca Bortolussi - @biancabmorey Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Picks: Bianca Bortolussi - Apple Watch 3 Bianca Bortolussi - Netflix JS Talks Ryan Burgess - Women in Tech Show Ryan Burgess - Kotlin Conf Jem Young - Firefox Focus Jem Young - Sony MDR 1000x Ryan Anklam - Spotify Time Capsule Playlist Ryan Anklam - Dirty Hacks From The Dark Corners of Front-End Mars Jullian - November 17th HTML5 Meetup Mars Jullian - Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton by Shirley Wu

Writing great code isn’t always the only part of our jobs. In order to impact changes on our teams or the business, we need to be able to persuade others to buy into your ideas. This could be in the form of migrating to a new technology, process or even adding a new feature to a product. In this episode, we are joined by Shirley Wu to help us discuss how we can best sell our ideas and make an impact on our teams or clients. Guests: Shirley Wu - @sxywu Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Brian Holt - @holtbt Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Shirley Wu - D3 Unconf Shirley Wu - The Stormlight Archive Ryan Burgess - Social Network soundtrack Ryan Burgess - American Vandal Augustus Yuan - Essential Image Optimization Augustus Yuan - LeetCode Articles Brian Holt - size-limit Brian Holt - Choir of the Mind by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton Stacy London - Vallis Alps - Oceans Stacy London - Beeple

We all had to start somewhere. In this episode, we are joined by Preethi Kasireddy to talk with us about her and our experiences of being a beginner to coding. Guests: Preethi Kasireddy - @iam_preethi Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Preethi Kasireddy - Front End Happy Hour Preethi Kasireddy - Changelog Preethi Kasireddy - Software Engineering Daily Preethi Kasireddy - Twitter Preethi Kasireddy - freeCodeCamp Ryan Burgess - We All Started Somewhere - Preethi Kasireddy - React Rally Ryan Burgess - Fed Up Derrick Showers - CS50 Derrick Showers - Pocket Casts Derrick Showers - Fatal Error Stacy London - Frontend Masters Stacy London - Nordic.js Stacy London - Fjords near Flåm in Norway

There’s always a lot to be done, but having a good work life balance is extremely important. In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Showers from LinkedIn, to talk with us about work life balance. We share our thoughts on what work life balance means to us and how our companies help foster a healthy work life balance. Guests: Sarah Showers - @sarahlshowers Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Picks: Sarah Showers - Best Self Journal Ryan Burgess - Movo Photo MTP-11 Ryan Burgess - SVG Animations - Sarah Drasner Augustus Yuan - How to fix a toilet Augustus Yuan - Sketch 2 After Effects Derrick Showers - One World Observatory Derrick Showers - Shake Shack Derrick Showers - JetBlue Brian Holt - Focus app Brian Holt - Todoist

Maintaining and scaling code is an important aspect of our careers. In this episode, we discuss and share ideas to help keep a healthy code base that will scale with your company. Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Stacy London - @stacylondoner Jem Young - @JemYoung Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Picks: Ryan Burgess - Brazil JS - Jem’s talk on code maintenance Ryan Burgess - Senior UI Engineer at Netflix Augustus Yuan - Ali Wong Augustus Yuan - AI with DeepMind and Blizzard Stacy London - Blurred by Kiasmos Stacy London - Particles by Ólafur Arnalds Jem Young - Stacy’s haircut Jem Young - The Defenders - Episode 3 Jem Young - Best Practices for Reusable Components Mars Jullian - Plant nanny Mars Jullian - MindNode

In this episode, we’re joined by Naoufal Kadhom, a Software Engineer from Netflix who’s also just released a payment library for React Native. In the episode, we’ll be discussing React Native and what it’s like to leverage it for Android and iOS applications. Guests: Naoufal Kadhom - @naoufal Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Augustus Yuan - @augburto Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Brian Holt - @holtbt Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Naoufal Kadhom - Detour Naoufal Kadhom - React Native Europe Ryan Burgess - React Native Payments Ryan Burgess - Robinhood Augustus Yuan - Lottie Augustus Yuan - Pismo Beach ATV sand dunes Derrick Showers - Realm Academy Derrick Showers - Py App Brian Holt - Hackages Brian Holt - Prettier + eslint-config-airbnb + Flowtype is the ultimate workflow for writing JS Stacy London - CodeSandbox Stacy London - Slow Motion by Lusine

In this episode, we’re joined by Stefan Stumpfl, a mobile software engineer at LinkedIn working on LinkedIn Learning. During the past 5 years as an iOS developer, he has experience ranging from building his own app on a small 2-person team to larger teams like his current role at LinkedIn. In this episode, we will discuss the Swift programming language – how it compares to languages like Javascript and some of the advantages and disadvantages to writing and learning it. Guests: Stefan Stumpfl - @sust86 Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Jem Young - @JemYoung Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Stefan Stumpfl - Natasha the Robot Stefan Stumpfl - Turner’s Kitchen Ryan Burgess - The Pitch Ryan Burgess - Ng-Atlanta Ryan Burgess - Moment Jem Young - Plume Wifi Jem Young - Injury Reserve - ttktv Jem Young - Gullivers Travels Derrick Showers - Swift Playgrounds Derrick Showers - Swift Unwrapped Derrick Showers - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Derrick Showers -