Dank Memes and JS Dreams with Stripe's Jordan Scales
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04/20/19 • 60 min
Jordan Scales is a Software Engineer at Stripe and notorious Twitter memelord. He joins us on The Undefined to talk about dank memes, his origin story, and Stripe's React component library and frontend developer experience.
Featuring
- Jordan Scales - Twitter, Github, Website
- Ken Wheeler – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Jared Palmer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Links
- @fat (creator of Twitter Bootstrap)
- 3Blue1Brown YouTube
- Video: "This one time at Bandcamp" from American Pie (1999)
- Animate Plus by Benjamin De Cock (Twitter, Github)
- Aphrodite
- BEM (i.e. "Block Element Modifier" CSS naming convention)
- PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript
- Palantir Blueprint
- Segment Evergreen
- A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
- Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Yoshi's Crafted World for Switch
- Dog Blood (Skrillex & Boys Noize) - Turn Off The Lights
- Billie Eilish
Picks
- Rome toolchain (Twitter Thread, Undefined Episode 1 with Seb)
- Casamigos
- Miller Lite
- Malika Favre
- Patagonia Vests! (Article, React Amsterdam Video)
- Keystone Light Keystalope
Jordan Scales is a Software Engineer at Stripe and notorious Twitter memelord. He joins us on The Undefined to talk about dank memes, his origin story, and Stripe's React component library and frontend developer experience.
Featuring
- Jordan Scales - Twitter, Github, Website
- Ken Wheeler – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Jared Palmer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Links
- @fat (creator of Twitter Bootstrap)
- 3Blue1Brown YouTube
- Video: "This one time at Bandcamp" from American Pie (1999)
- Animate Plus by Benjamin De Cock (Twitter, Github)
- Aphrodite
- BEM (i.e. "Block Element Modifier" CSS naming convention)
- PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript
- Palantir Blueprint
- Segment Evergreen
- A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
- Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Yoshi's Crafted World for Switch
- Dog Blood (Skrillex & Boys Noize) - Turn Off The Lights
- Billie Eilish
Picks
- Rome toolchain (Twitter Thread, Undefined Episode 1 with Seb)
- Casamigos
- Miller Lite
- Malika Favre
- Patagonia Vests! (Article, React Amsterdam Video)
- Keystone Light Keystalope
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Ali Spittel is a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at Dev.to. Prior to her new gig, she was a Lead Instructor of Web Development at General Assembly. She joins us on The Undefined to talk about her new role, the reality of coding bootcamps, and the ups and downs of remote work.
Featuring
- Ali Spittel - Twitter, Github, Website
- Ken Wheeler – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Jared Palmer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Links
- Dev.to - Website, GitHub, Twitter
- MDX Deck: MDX-based presentation decks
- Spectacle: ReactJS based Presentation Library
- ImpressJS presentation framework
- Spectacle Code Slide
- General Assembly
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Revolution Conf
- FlyWheel
- SoulCycle
- Texas Blind Salamander (it's a troglobite)
- Cornell bit from The Office
- Hamilton College
- Ken's most popular tweet
- Napster
Picks
- Ken's Fly Shotgun
- Casamigos Blanco Tequila
- React Loops by Lee Byron
- 90s Hits on Spotify
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Smoosh with Formidable's Jani Eväkallio
Jani Eväkallio is the VP of Engineering at Formidable Labs and the creator of @Smoosh_Comedy. He joins hosts Jared Palmer and Ken Wheeler on The Undefined to talk about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything...JavaScript.
Featuring
- Jani Eväkallio - Twitter, Github
- Ken Wheeler – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Jared Palmer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Links
- "It should eat ass instead"
- Kent C. Dodds fight scene
- "Mormon Kombat"
- "Ass is the titties of the legs"
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