Chats with Kent C. Dodds
Episodes
Laurie Barth Chats With Kent About Growing Outside Of Your Comfort Zone
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie has a tough time saying no, and she ends up trying a lot of different things, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Attempting to learn somet...
Eve Porcello Chats With Kent About Sustainably Expanding Skills
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of times, when people are learning something new, they feel, "Oh, I have to learn this fast and my manager's counting on me to learn this," and ...
Ken Wheeler Chats With Kent About Going For Challenging Opportunities
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Almost every demo Ken has done at a conference was wildly out of his league technologically. The deadline for the conference pushes him to grow rapidl...
Erik Rasmussen Chats With Kent About Maintaining Open-Source Libraries
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Erik built the Redux Form library to help manage form states in Redux. He decided to open-source Redux Form, and it exploded and became very, very pop...
Angie Jones Chats With Kent About Automated Visual Testing
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Visual testing is like snapshot testing with images. So when your application is in the state that you want it to be in, you verify this as a human be...
Nader Dabit Chats With Kent About Keeping An Optimistic Mindset
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you stay optimistic when being bombarded with negativity every day? Nader reminds us that, statistically, we are living in the safest and most ...
Kelly Vaughn Chats With Kent About Personal Finance
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly got into personal finance while she was struggling financially in grad school. Your very first step to getting your money under control should b...
Jen Luker Chats With Kent About Finding Inspiration From Anywhere
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jen puts knitting before the fact that she is a senior software engineer when she defines who she is; this doesn't make her a worse engineer than some...
Henry Zhu Chats With Kent About The Responsibilities Of A Maintainer
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Zhu's transition from a programing role to a more managerial role as Babel's maintainer has been hard. As programmers, we tend to value our work...
Jenn Creighton Chats With Kent About Avoiding An "Apropcolypse"
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jenn has been working with React since 0.13. She has a background in creative writing, and it melded well with React.One of her big early mistakes wit...
Bianca Gandolfo Chats With Kent About Lifestyle Design
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're all really busy but we are also ambitious and have goals, but a lot of the time those goals aren't defined so well.It's important that our goals...
Lindsey Kopacz Chats With Kent About A11y
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Lindsey started, she didn't know what accessibility even meant. She would see that there was an "accessibility error" and fix it, but she didn't ...
Lessons Learned From Four Major Projects with Shirley Wu
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shirley Wu has been freelancer since 2016, creating data visualizations for her clients. In this episode, Shirley talks about the four projects that h...
Getting Started With Code Live-Streaming With Suz Hinton
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Suz started streaming because she wanted to show people that hardware coding is just like regular everyday coding, it's just for smaller, dumber compu...
You Can Learn A Lot For The Low Price Of Your Ego With Shawn Wang
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You can learn in private, or you can learn in public. 99% of developers work and learn privately in the shadows, so why shouldn't you? Something magic...
Become Intentional With Your Time With Scott Hanselman
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Getting involved in the world of open-source isn't trivial, especially when we are new to this industry and don't a lot of technical experience. Those...
There Aren't Any Shortcuts To Expertise With Sara Vieira
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When something is easy for us, it more than likely is just familiar to us. It's easy to forget how challenging it was to learn what we know. When we t...
A Few Excellent Reasons For Why Should Give GraphQL A Try With Peggy Rayzis
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peggy Rayzis is the engineering manager at Apollo, where she leads the developer experience team.Peggy talks about how Apollo touches every layer of d...
The State Of WebAssembly With Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit from Mozilla discuss where WebAssembly came from and where it's going. WebAssembly was inspired by asm.js, a subset of...
Funding Open-Source Maintainers Using Ethical Advertising With Eric Berry
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's challenging to sustain open source projects, a lot of time and energy is poured in without any compensation in return. Eric Berry created CodeFun...
Creating Successful Mentor Relationships With Emma Bostian
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Bostian launched codingcoach.io, a free, open-source project that connects mentees with mentors. Emma discusses how she launched Coding Coach bef...
Make Your Apps Resilient UsingFinite State Machines With David Khourshid
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, David Khourshid gives the rundown on how finite state machines can make your app more testable, more resilient to bugs, and easier to...
A Rundown Of What's Next For React With Dan Abramov
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What's next for React? In this second interview with Dan Abramov React's direction is discussed along with overviews of exciting new features.Dan give...
Realigning Your Model of React After Hooks With Dan Abramov
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kent and Dan talk about the ways in which you'll have to reconstruct your mental model of how React works in order to get the hang of...
Establishing Your Personal Brand With Cassidy Williams
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cassidy Williams is an engineer at Codepen. In the last five years, Cassidy has worked for five companies. She had left each on her terms as she learn...
Growing Your Skills And Career Through Teaching with Ali Spittel
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ali Spittel, a software engineer and developer advocate at Dev.to, joins us to talk about how excellent teaching can be for not only ...