60 | The Developer Experience with Brittney Postma
03/31/22 • 43 min
In this episode, our guest, Brittney Postma talks about the Developer Experience (DX) and how it important it is to the work that we do and the frameworks that use.
Sponsors
daily.dev
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Show Notes
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:34 Introducing Brittney Postma
- 2:10 Quick Rants, Hot Takes, and Parenting Tips
- 6:22 Developer Experience
- 10:21 Sponsor: Hashnode
- 11:10 Developer Experience through Documentation
- 13:34 Tools around the Developer Experience
- 16:54 The Developer Experience when Working on Client Projects
- 21:18 Developer Experience with Education
- 22:36 Sponsor: Daily.dev - http://daily.dev
- 23:36 Developer Experience when Onboarding
- 28:23 Things to Take into Account when Creating Content
- 33:50 What Advice do you have a Student that's Trying to make Career Choices?
- 35:38 My Vanilla JavaScript is alight and not great, my company wants me to work with Vue JS already. They say I'll learn JavaScript also in a good way while working with the framework right away. What do you guys think?
- 38:46 Is the dev industry saturated?
- 41:57 Closing Thoughts
In this episode, our guest, Brittney Postma talks about the Developer Experience (DX) and how it important it is to the work that we do and the frameworks that use.
Sponsors
daily.dev
daily.dev is where developers grow together. It provides a community-based feed of the best developer news, helping you stay up-to-date. daily.dev aggregates hundreds of sources every few minutes and creates a personal feed for you according to your interests, whether it’s web dev, data science, or Elixir. Anything you might be interested in, it has the content for you.
Check out daily.dev
Hashnode
Creating a developer blog is crucial in creating an online presence for yourself. It’s proof of work for your future employer. Hashnode makes it easy to start a blog in seconds on your custom domain for free. It’s fully optimized for developers and supports writing in Markdown, rich embeds, publishing from GitHub repository, syntax highlighting, and edge caching with Next.js blogs deployed on Vercel. On top of these, Hashnode is free from paywall, ads, and sign-up prompts.
Hashnode is a community of developers, engineers, and people in tech. Your article gets instant readership from their growing community.
Check out Hashnode, and join the community.
Show Notes
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:34 Introducing Brittney Postma
- 2:10 Quick Rants, Hot Takes, and Parenting Tips
- 6:22 Developer Experience
- 10:21 Sponsor: Hashnode
- 11:10 Developer Experience through Documentation
- 13:34 Tools around the Developer Experience
- 16:54 The Developer Experience when Working on Client Projects
- 21:18 Developer Experience with Education
- 22:36 Sponsor: Daily.dev - http://daily.dev
- 23:36 Developer Experience when Onboarding
- 28:23 Things to Take into Account when Creating Content
- 33:50 What Advice do you have a Student that's Trying to make Career Choices?
- 35:38 My Vanilla JavaScript is alight and not great, my company wants me to work with Vue JS already. They say I'll learn JavaScript also in a good way while working with the framework right away. What do you guys think?
- 38:46 Is the dev industry saturated?
- 41:57 Closing Thoughts
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59 | Let's Be Animated
In this episode, Amy and James talk about adding CSS and JavaScript animations to your project: things to consider, the best properties, methods, and libraries to use.
Sponsors
Vercel
Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.
For more information, visit Vercel.com
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For more information visit softwareresidency.com/careers
DatoCMS
DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."
For more information, visit datocms.com
Show Notes
- 0:00 Introduction
- 2:48 Parenting Tip
- 4:04 Rant: Learning Multiple Languages
- 6:37 Our Fantastic Sponsors
- 6:51 What We've Been Up To
- 9:59 Why use animations?
- 12:27 Adding Context for Users
- 14:34 Games and Animation
- 16:28 Speed of Animation
- 17:33 Sponsor: Vercel
- 18:40 Transitions vs Animations
- 23:06 Animations in CSS
- 28:02 Transition Property
- 32:16 Sponsor: DatoCMS
- 33:10 Green Sock
- YouTube Video on Tweening SVGs with GreenSock
- 35:45 Framer Motion
- 39:10 React Spring
- 39:52 Remotion
- 41:15 Sponsor: ZEAL
- 42:08 Built into SvelteKit
- Swortle
- Wand Selector
- 45:09 Grab Bag Question
- 45:21 Grab Bag Question #1: What would you prefer? CSS Animations? Vanilla CSS? JS? Or an animation library like GSAP or Framer Motion?
- 46:59 Grab Bag Questions 2: What are the cheapest and most expensive (performance) types of animation?
- 48:24 Picks and Plugs
- 48:37 Amys Pick: Camo Studio
- 50:07 Amy's Plug: SelfTeachMe on YouTube
- 52:25 James's Pick: Logitech Lights
- 53:59 James's Plug: James Q Quick on YouTube
Next Episode
61 | 61 of Our Favorite Apps
In this episode, Amy and James share 61 of their favorite apps for web design, development, and boosting productivity.
Sponsors
Vercel
Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.
For more information, visit Vercel.com
ZEAL is hiring!
ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.
ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.
For more information visit softwareresidency.com/careers
DatoCMS
DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."
For more information, visit datocms.com
Show Notes
- 0:00 Introduction
- 3:23 1Password
- 4:10 Adobe Creative Cloud
- 5:11 Alfred
- 6:40 AstroPad Studio
- 7:12 Arctype
- 7:49 Backblaze
- 9:32 Bartender
- 10:04 Bearded Spice
- 10:48 Sponsor: Vercel
- 11:55 Better Touch Tool
- 12:28 Caffeine
- 13:10 Carbon Copy Cloner
- 13:54 CleanShot X
- 15:21 Contrast
- 15:36 Default Folder X
- 16:40 Descript
- 17:19 Dropbox
- 17:47 Discord
- 18:05 Elgato Control Center
- 18:37 Fantastical
- 19:14 fig.io
- 19:45 Figma
- 20:30 Sponsor: DatoCMS
- 21:23 Fly Cut
- 23:00 Glyph Finder
- 23:32 Grammarly
- 24:13 Harvest
- 25:30 Hazel
- 26:44 Hyper
- 27:20 IconJar
- 27:53 iStat
- 28:34 Karabiner Elements
- 29:49 Keyboard Maestro
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