Episodes
Recruiting, interviews, and hiring is always a great topic for us to discuss. In this episode, we are talking with Hillary Mager and Chris Running from Sterling Strand to talk with us about recruiting and how to get the correct level when hiring.
Guests:
Hillary Mager
Chris Running
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Hillary Mager - Overystory NYC
Ryan Burgess - Angel and Z podcast
Chris Running - 1923
Jem Young - Andor
Stacy...
Published 05/14/23
Component libraries continue to be a growing trend for companies. In this episode, we are joined by Kate Wardin to talk with us about Netflix has adopted a component library they have called Hawkins.
Guests:
Kate Wardin - @KateWardin
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Kate Wardin - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Kate Wardin - Half-gallon water bottle
Ryan Burgess - Jay-z Decoded
Ryan Burgess - Rocket Bubble Machine
Stacy London - Head On -...
Published 04/30/23
We all approach learning in different ways. In this episode, we are joined by Madison Kanna to discuss ways we continue to learn as software engineers.
Guests:
Madison Kanna - @Madisonkanna
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Shirley Wu - @sxywu
Picks:
Madison Kanna - CS Primer
Madison Kanna - CodeTutor.ai
Ryan Burgess - Smart Brevity
Jem Young - alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Jem Young - Changing Minds
Jem Young - Woodworking class
Stacy...
Published 04/17/23
We typically don't talk enough about building internal tools. In this episode, we are joined by Jason Palmer to talk with us about Spotify's open-source internal developer portal, Backstage.
Guests:
Jason Palmer - @palmerj3
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Picks:
Jason Palmer - Diablo IV
Jason Palmer - Tidbyt
Ryan Burgess - Lakrids Bulow
Ryan Burgess - Lego Masters
Jem Young - Vestaboard
Episode transcript:...
Published 04/03/23
Estimating software development is a challenging task. In this episode of the podcast, we discuss ways to approach estimating and how to produce more accurate estimates for your work.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - What is ChatGPT doing… and why does it work?
Ryan Burgess - Elgato Mic Arm LP
Jem Young - Physical 100
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Ringo
Stacy London - Bala Rocky by...
Published 03/19/23
What do engineering levels mean at companies in Silicon Valley? In this episode, we discuss our experiences with levels and promotion criteria.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - Levels.fyi
Ryan Burgess - BriteBrush
Jem Young - Insider guide to tech interviews
Jem Young - Promotion driven development
Jem Young - Induction cooking
Stacy London - Wall of Sleep by Daniel Avery, HAAi
Stacy...
Published 03/05/23
August and his team at Twitch were recently awarded a patent for their work. In this episode, we will learn more about what patents are and the process for a software patent in a company.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - You - Season 4
Stacy London - EFF whitepaper “Defend Innovation: How to Fix Our Broken Patent System”
Stacy London - Still Life by ALASKALASKA
Augustus Yuan - Riot Games Tech Blog
Augustus...
Published 02/19/23
There has been a lot of buzz about micro frontends. In this episode, we are joined by Ruben Casas to talk with us about the pros and cons of leveraging micro frontends.
Guests:
Ruben Casas - @Infoxicador
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Picks:
Ruben Casas - Building Microfrontends
Ruben Casas - Micro-frontend dev
Ruben Casas - The Last of Us
Ryan Burgess - The Risks of Micro-Frontends - Ruben Casas
Ryan Burgess - The Pez Outlaw
Ryan Burgess - Beanie Mania
Jem...
Published 02/05/23
It's a new year, a new you. How do you stay productive in 2023? In this episode, we discuss how we are productive and what tools we leverage to help us.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Shirley Wu - @sxywu
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - Ken Block - Ultimate Urban Playground; San Francisco
Ryan Burgess - Engineering Management for the Rest of Us - Sarah Drasner
Stacy London - Stacy’s favorite new songs of 2022
Stacy London - Dreading by...
Published 01/08/23
It has been a while since we've done a live episode on stage at a conference. In this episode, we were on stage at Jamstack in San Francisco with our special guest, Jason Lengstorf, discussing specialization in software engineering.
Guests:
Jason Lengstorf - @jlengstorf
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/drinks-on-stage-live-at-jamstack-2022
Published 12/05/22
It has been a tough few weeks for the tech community to deal with company layoffs. In this episode, we speak about the layoffs and our experiences with past layoffs.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - White fudge covered Oreos
Ryan Burgess - Drink Masters
Jem Young - Jungle
Jem Young - Pointer Instruments
Stacy London - layoffs.fyi
Stacy London - To Feel Again / Trois by Jon Hopkins,...
Published 11/20/22
The Front End Happy Hour podcast is a panel of engineers from silicon valley companies talking about a range of software engineering topics, from technical to career advice. The discussions are very casual and are often had over happy hour beverages. We hope you'll give us a listen and subscribe to catch our latest episodes.
Published 11/18/22
There are many differences between the public and private sectors. What is it like for engineering roles? In this episode, we are joined by Jasmine Robinson from Netflix to hear about her experience moving from the public sector to a corporate career.
Guests:
Jasmine Robinson
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Jasmine Robinson - Super-glueing airtags to remotes
Jasmine Robinson - Andrew Hubberman
Ryan Burgess - The Bear
Ryan...
Published 10/17/22
Our sidebar interview specials interview our panelists individually to learn more about their backgrounds and careers. In this episode, we interview Brian Holt, to learn more about his background and career.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/sidebar-interview-with-brian-holt
Published 10/02/22
In this episode, we are joined by Janaki Ramachandran and Benoit Fontaine to talk about how Netflix has approached automated testing at a large scale.
Guests:
Janaki Ramachandran
Benoit Fontaine
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Picks:
Janaki Ramachandran - Hidden Brain
Janaki Ramachandran - Junior Bake Off
Benoit Fontaine - The Sandman
Benoit Fontaine - Hero Ranch Kitchen
Ryan Burgess - Black Bird
Ryan Burgess - Nix Color Sensor Mini 2
Episode transcript:...
Published 09/18/22
Our sidebar interview specials interview our panelists individually to learn more about their backgrounds and careers. In this episode, we interview Mars Jullian, to learn more about her background and career.
Published 09/04/22
Have you been hearing about the new framework Remix? In this episode, we are joined by Shaundai Person, a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix to talk with us about what Remix is and what are the benefits.
Guests:
Shaundai Person - @shaundai
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Shaundai Person - Hooked on Phonics
Shaundai Person - The Boys
Ryan Burgess - Ultimate Bar Book the comprehensive guide
Ryan Burgess - The Hill Bombing...
Published 07/18/22
Our sidebar interview specials interview our panelists individually to learn more about their backgrounds and careers. In this episode, we interview Shirley Wu, to learn more about her background and career.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Shirley Wu - @sxywu
Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/sidebar-interview-with-shirley-wu
Published 06/19/22
With this ever-changing landscape of technologies, we spend this episode talking with Rhian van Esch and Carlos Castro about the current trends of web development in 2022.
Guests:
Rhian van Esch - @rhianvanesch
Carlos Castro - @carloscastrodev
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Rhian van Esch - patterns.dev
Rhian van Esch - Google Home
Rhian van Esch - Critical Role
Carlos Castro - Smashing Magazine
Carlos Castro - CSS...
Published 06/05/22
An organization going through a reorg is a normal evaluation to meet the needs of the business, but it can be a lot of change. In this episode, we talk about our experiences with reorgs.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Picks:
Ryan Burgess - The Ultimatum
Ryan Burgess - Lutron Light Switches
Jem Young - Severance
Jem Young - Sorry to bother you
Stacy London - War by Brutus
Stacy London - Beings of Light by...
Published 05/22/22
The tech industry relies a lot on open source software. In this episode, we are joined by Jesse Tomchak to talk with us about open source.
Guests:
Jesse Tomchak - @jtomchak
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Picks:
Jesse Tomchak - micro.blog
Jesse Tomchak - Killing Eve
Ryan Burgess - Tony Hawk - Until the wheels fall off
Ryan Burgess - Snak the Ripper - Let It Rip
Jem Young - MotoGP Unlimited S1
Episode transcript:...
Published 05/08/22
Our sidebar interview specials interview our panelists individually to learn more about their backgrounds and careers. In this episode, we interview Stacy London, to learn more about her background and career.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/sidebar-interview-with-stacy-london
Published 04/24/22
Have you found debugging asynchronous JavaScript to be hard? You’re not alone. In this episode, we are joined by Jenn Creighton from Netflix to talk with us about a talk she’ll be giving at Reactathon on debugging async JavaScript to help make it a bit easier.
Guests:
Jenn Creighton - @gurlcode
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Picks:
Jenn Creighton - Blue Star Ferns
Jenn Creighton - Yoga
Ryan Burgess - Dropout
Jem Young - Media Malpractice in the war in...
Published 04/07/22
Our sidebar interview specials interview our panelists individually to learn more about their backgrounds and careers. In this episode, we interview Jem Young, to learn more about his background and career.
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Episode transcript: https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/sidebar-interview-with-jem-young
Published 03/20/22
What is server-driven UI and what are the advantages to taking this approach? In this episode, we are joined by the Netflix engineer, Cole Turner to talk with us about the advantages and disadvantages of server-driven UI.
Guests:
Cole Turner - @coleturner
Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Picks:
Cole Turner - Netflix Tudum
Cole Turner - Shaker and Spoon
Cole Turner - Advantage Aviation
Ryan Burgess - Pieces of Her
Ryan Burgess -...
Published 03/06/22