Episodes
Alex Reardon explains how he managed to fit in creating a course with a busy home life and a full-time job.
Published 06/02/21
Published 06/02/21
Ryan Florence and Joel Hooks chat about what Remix is and what lead to its creation.
Published 12/19/20
Jacky and Joel Chat about first languages, motivation, good questions, and mentorship.
Published 12/07/20
Chris and Joel chat about learning to program, mindest, and motivation.
Published 11/21/20
Shawn Wang chats about learning in public, being a specialist vs a generalist, and mentorship.
Published 11/10/20
Joel and Kent chat about what led to the successful launch of Epic React.
Published 10/07/20
Joel chats with Tomasz Łakomy about what defines a senior developer, Svelte, learning in public, and speaking at conferences.
Published 05/08/20
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.
Published 03/13/20
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.
Published 02/28/20
Rosie Sherry talks with Joel Hooks about creating a true community.
Published 02/07/20
Sarah Federman talks with Joel Hooks about accessible design systems
Published 01/24/20
Segun Adebayo talks about how he ended up becoming a UX engineer as well as the Chakra UI design system.
Published 01/10/20
Nick DeJesus talks to Joel Hooks about how he went from a gamer to a developer because of one side-project.
Published 01/03/20
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.
Published 12/19/19
Erin Doyle talks with Joel Hooks about React and how she takes a test driven approach to accessibility.
Published 12/17/19
Amelia Wattenberger talks with Joel Hooks about the book she wrote on data visualization with D3.
Published 12/11/19
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.
Published 11/01/19
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.
Published 10/11/19
Tracy Lee talks about the value of learning to code as an entrepreneur, mentorship, code bootcamps, and how to break into the industry.
Published 09/17/19
Molly Struve shares her approach to ensuring that projects are performant, reliable, and well-documented.
Published 09/06/19
Justin Samuels talks switching majors, debugging, asking questions, and representing Atlanta.
Published 08/30/19
Will Larson talks about the moral dilemmas and decisions that managers have to make.
Published 08/27/19
Marisa Morby talks about what she does as a product manager.
Published 08/17/19
Laurie Barth talks about how to retain what you learn and provides solutions to the broken interview process.
Published 08/14/19