egghead.io Developer Chats

Alex Reardon explains how he managed to fit in creating a course with a busy home life and a full-time job.

Ryan Florence and Joel Hooks chat about what Remix is and what lead to its creation.

Jacky and Joel Chat about first languages, motivation, good questions, and mentorship.

Chris and Joel chat about learning to program, mindest, and motivation.

Shawn Wang chats about learning in public, being a specialist vs a generalist, and mentorship.

Joel and Kent chat about what led to the successful launch of Epic React.

Joel chats with Tomasz Łakomy about what defines a senior developer, Svelte, learning in public, and speaking at conferences.

Shirley Wu chats about her career as a freelancer, what data visualization is, how to get started with learning data visualization, taking data visualization into the real world, and her tech stack.

Courtland Allen, the founder of indiehackers.com, chats with Joel about what defines an Indie Hacker, how he started his website, community building, the influence of revenue, and the subtle ways that you can lose your independency.

Segun Adebayo talks about how he ended up becoming a UX engineer as well as the Chakra UI design system.

Nick DeJesus talks to Joel Hooks about how he went from a gamer to a developer because of one side-project.

Amelia Wattenberger talks with Joel Hooks about the book she wrote on data visualization with D3.

Erin Doyle talks with Joel Hooks about React and how she takes a test driven approach to accessibility.

Monica Powell talks with Joel Hooks about the journey to her first development job, attending and organizing meetups, contributing to open-source, and time travel with git.

Rosie Sherry talks with Joel Hooks about creating a true community.

Sarah Federman talks with Joel Hooks about accessible design systems

Hiro talks about rediscovering web development, how she went from working help-desk to becoming a freelance consultant, the unexpected challenges of freelance, and how jargon makes it difficult for people without a tech-background to learn and communicate.

Khalal talks about his experience writing the dad jokes SMS bot, how CS curriculums can kill the joy of coding, and the problems with bootcamp marketing.

Tracy Lee talks about the value of learning to code as an entrepreneur, mentorship, code bootcamps, and how to break into the industry.

Molly Struve shares her approach to ensuring that projects are performant, reliable, and well-documented.

Justin Samuels talks switching majors, debugging, asking questions, and representing Atlanta.

Will Larson talks about the moral dilemmas and decisions that managers have to make.

Marisa Morby talks about what she does as a product manager.

Laurie Barth talks about how to retain what you learn and provides solutions to the broken interview process.

Veni Kunche discusses computer science degrees, growth mindsets, and diversity.

Pariss Athena talks about how becoming a developer gave her freedom and the means to help others succeed.

Natalia Tepluhina talks about why Vue has such a great community and gets regarded as the most beginner-friendly framework.

J.C Hiatt talks about what he did to organize the conference MagnoliaJS and why he did it to help his community.

<p>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...

Today we are joined by Janelle Allen, a learning designer, who talks to us about backward design, how she grew into her role, the increase in quality of online courses, the importance of contact with users, and how to grow your audience.

Jen Looper, the founder of Vue Vixens, joins us today to talk about the Vue Vixens community, what makes a great workshop, how she chooses what tools to invest into for her career, and how her Ph.D. in French Literature has empowered her career in software...

Today Maggie Appleton, the course illustrator at egghead.io, discusses how she became an illustrator, researching a technical topic she plans to illustrate, accidentally becoming a web developer, and how she turns technical concepts into digestible...

Stacey Mulcahy joins us today to discuss Arduinos, cute dogs, growing your creativity, organizing a community, and facilitating the success of others.

Today we are joined by Emma Bostian who will speak about self-teaching, creating authentic content, what being a T-shaped developer means, how to ask good questions, and how she manages her work-life balance.

Marcy Sutton is the Head of Learning at GatsbyJS. She discusses the van life, migrating her blog from Wordpress to Gatsby, what she does as the Head of Learning, the potential that Gatsby has as a platform, championing accessibility, static CSS versus inline...

Today we are joined by Sara Vieira, a developer advocate and maker of wacky stuff on the internet. She joins us today to talk about why she makes all of her weird experiments, how being a lazy developer doesn't mean she isn't doing work, the Redux cargo cult,...

Joel and Ali Spittel discuss her time in a teaching position, code challenges, blogging platforms, teaching beginners, and getting involved in local dev communities.

Joel and Chris Biscardi discuss, live-streaming, Gatsby becoming a dominant force, MDX replacing markdown, and building resources for maintainers.

In today's episode, Lindsey Kopacz discusses being authentic about your emotional state, blogging and the dev.to community, and the value of accessibility.

Tae'lur Alexis joins us today to talk about her experience with learning to code from scratch and becoming a professional software developer in 2018.

Josh Doody, the author of Fearless Salary Negotiation, offers us advice on how to get promoted, fight information asymmetry, not lose out on job and salary opportunities, and how to stay ahead in the industry.

Tania Rascia joins us today to talk about her experiences in transitioning from a professional chef to a web developer and the tools she used to get there.

Angie Jones, master inventor and automated testing engineer, joins us to talk about bridging the gap between the testing team and the rest of the development process, the challenges and limitations of automated testing, and some of the new and state of the...

Today Julia Evans talks to us about her zine empire, the advantages of monetizing over staying free, how keeping the topic focused can be a better entry-level lesson than a high-level overview, and how she decides a zine's subject.

Today Diana Rodriguez talks to us about her experiences with fostering women's programming communities all over the world, as well as her own experiences with growing as a developer.

Join Brian Lonsdorf in a discussion on the purity of math and how it could be used to advance the greater software community, dispelling the myth that you need to be a wizard to use math and functional programming to do anything, how we can make dry topics...

Jem Young talks to us today about being a passionate developer, how the software you write is an extension of you, being deliberate in the libraries you include in your codebase, and trusting engineers to know what they are doing.

Today Keith Peters walks us through his experiences with getting books published, experimenting with code and math for the last two decades, and his time spent working in physical mediums like woodworking and blacksmithing.

Dave Smith is on the Alexa Team at Amazon. Tune in today to hear about interviewing skills, what Dave looks for in candidates, and some obvious things to avoid when interviewing.

Eve Porcello joins us today to talk about speaking at conferences, GraphQL, starting a project to learn something with, and web-accessibility with the High Fives Foundation.

Today’s guest is Jason Lengstorf, a developer on the GatsbyJS team. Today Jason discusses his career path, what Gatsby accomplishes, how Gatsby compares with other static site generators, what's coming up in Gatsby 2, and what it's like to manage a large open...

This episode is a chat with Lynne Tye, the founder and developer of keyvalues.com, a place for Software Developers to find the team and company that is right for them.

<p>Jen Luker is a software engineer at Formidable Labs Inc. She has worked as a full-stack developer using PHP, Javascript, and CSS, but has a particular fondness for frontend technologies.</p><p>Today, we discuss the issue of accessibility and how focusing...

Tune in to hear Shawn talk about what it means to be an infinite learner and builder and how he uses this approach to further his career.

Today, Henry Zhu, the lead maintainer of Babel, discusses what it's like to work on a large and important open source project. Henry gets into how Babel receives funding, how corporations are involved in open source, stewardship of an open source project,...

Phil Pluckthun is the creator of Dank Mono, a new monospaced programming font with ligatures. He is also a core contributor to Styled Components, a component-based CSS Library. Tune in to hear a discussion on how Phil got involved with design, how he become a...

Ives Van Hoorne is a developer who built Code Sandbox, a fantastic online editor (we use it a lot at egghead). Today, Ives talks about a childhood interest that would lay the groundwork for his future career path. Tune in to hear how he got his start, what...

Our guests all began in similar situations. They were all almost 300 pounds or more and decided they needed to make a permanent change. John Lindquist, Leonard Souza, and Taylor Bell discuss what caused them to have a wakeup call, and what they did to get...

Brian Vaughn speaks about his transition from graphic design to programming, his building of react-virtualized, him landing his job on the React core-team, and finally, React's goals with 17.

John Lindquist interviews Evan You, the creator of Vue.js. They discuss what made Evan want to become a developer, how he landed his first job, why he created Vue, and finally proxies and why they're powerful.

Today Joel catches up with Iheanyi Ekechukwu. Iheanyi is a Product Engineer currently working at DigitalOcean. He previously worked at IBM on Watson. They also talk about Iheanyi's education, stack, and side projects

Joel interviews Michel Weststrate, author of Mobx and his new library, Immer. Today they get into the power of Immer, its early success on Github, common mistakes in state management, and what is next for Mobx.

John Lindquist speaks with Jack Doyle, the creator of Greensock. They discuss a number of things including the motivation behind the creation of Greensock, managing GSAP forums, and how he transitioned from Flash to Javascript.

John Lindquist interviews Sarah Drasner, a senior cloud developer over at Microsoft and a Vue core team member. She is also known for making super cool animations. Today they discuss what got her from an art background to a full-time developer, resistance to...

Joel Hooks interviews Andre Staltz, an open-source hacker, and creator of Cycle.js. Andre quit his job to become an open-source hacker and now spends 30% of his time on open-source development and 40% on the Scuttlebutt project. Today they discuss the current...

John Lindquist, co-founder of egghead.io, interviews Michael Jackson, co-creator of react-router and co-founder of React Training. Michael talks about his experience with running a massively popular repo with a relatively small code-base, pioneering of new...

John Lindquist interviews Ben Clinkinbeard, a veteran developer and egghead instructor. He currently works as a consultant, focusing on data visualization. Ben discusses his career path, the benefits of having a mentor, and the importance of Data Driven...

John Lindquist has a conversation with the Mark Shust, an expert with Git and Docker. They talk about the 12-factor style of building an application and why devs should have a standard method.

John talks with Juri Strumpflohner, an industry expert and angular trainer; and Rob Wormald, a developer on the Angular core team, getting into how Angular has evolved with the 2.0 release, powerful new features, their favorite libraries, and where the future...

Kent C. Dodds, a leading React expert, speaks with John Lindquist and Joel Hooks, the co-founders of egghead, about how React is a fantastic technology to learn for both newcomers to programming and Javascript grey-beards alike.

Joel Hooks co-founder of egghead.io, interviews Dan Abramov, co-author of Redux. They discuss the "Redux phenomenon" and the notion of improving the developer experience.

Will Button and Miller Hooks, two experienced Python developers, have a conversation about the differences between Python and Javascript, and what that means to a new programmer.

John sits down with Paul Frend and Brian Lonsdorf (aka Dr Boolean) to talk about functional programming concepts like transducers.

Two leading TypeScript experts, Marius Schulz and Basarat Ali Syed, discuss their initial reactions and excitement for TypeScript and how it has evolved and earned their trust over the years. TypeScript has been the main focus of many of their products and...