Today we’re talking about everyone’s favorite programming language: HTML! Hypertext Markup Language is the structure of a web page and while it’s not necessarily the hardest syntax to learn, it’s vital to your web applications.

Show Notes

• 01:20 What is HTML?
• 06:44 How did we learn HTML?
• 09:54 Elements
• 12:10 Attributes
• 21:59 Formatting
• 27:17 Semantic elements
• 33:04 Styles
• 38:28 CORS
• 44:57 Shoutouts

Resources

• CSS episode
• CORS
• HTML & CSS Book
• Egghead

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Have you ever dreamed about selling everything you owned and moving across the world to begin a new life? In this episode we’re chatting with Rachel Nabors, an American abroad on the React Core team in London. We’ll chat about the pros and cons of moving abroad as well as the logistics. Let’s get started!

Show Notes

• 01:25 Our experiences moving
• 06:44 Immigrant vs. Expat vs. Digital Nomad
• 11:04 Pros of moving abroad
• 35:21 Cons of moving abroad
• 53:57 Logistics of moving abroad
• 01:02:39 Questions to ask
• 01:07:48 Shoutouts

Resources

• Rachel's Twitter
• Animation at Work
• Lingoda
• Deepl.com
• Rosetta Stone
• DuoLingo
• Babbel
• The Culture Map
• Ali's Accountant
• LinkedIn
• XING

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There’s a classic interview question: what happens when you type a URL into the browser? To answer this question, we need to explore how the internet works. In this episode, our first of season 4, we’ll dive into URLs, DNS, basic networking, and how the browser works.

Show Notes

• 02:08 Life updates!
• 04:19 How much do we know about the internet?
• 06:11 Servers
• 12:08 DNS lookup
• 19:04 Request/Response Cycle
• 27:48 TCP/IP
• 28:46 The browser
• 33:13 Internet history
• 36:09 Shoutouts

Resources

• How the internet works
• Systems Design Episode
• Put vs. Post
• How the Browser Works

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Systems design interviews are becoming more and more prevalent and can indicate your ability to work with complex systems. Many engineers struggle with the systems design interviews as a result of their inexperience developing large-scale systems.

Today we’ll teach you some of the foundational elements of systems design so you can nail your next interview.

Show Notes

• 01:30 What is systems design
• 07:20 Key characteristics of a distributed system
• 13:24 Load balancing
• 17:48 Caching
• 31:05 Data partitioning
• 35:24 SQL vs. NoSQL
• 46:50 How to learn systems design
• 48:00 Shoutouts

Resources

• Educative.io course
• Free Code Camp article
• Algo Expert Course
• Tobias VanSchneider
• Dev April Fools
• How Stack Overflow Caches

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Have you ever written code to add a new feature that ended up breaking an existing feature? Or, have you ever written code that works in one scenario but breaks in a bunch of others? I think we can all admit to this as developers!

Well, this is where testing shines -- we write code to test our other code so we immediately get warned if our code breaks something else! OR doesn’t work in every scenario. In this episode, we’ll talk about a bunch of types of testing and why they’re helpful. Let’s dive in.

Show Notes

• 01:39 What is our experience with testing?
• 05:12 What types of code do you write tests for normally?
• 06:38 What different types of testing are there?
• 14:26 Why is testing important?
• 18:50 TDD vs adding tests after
• 23:33 What types of tools can you use?

Resources

• Angie Jones
• Test Automation University
• Kent C. Dodds
• Testing JavaScript
• Knowing what to test
• Types of Testing

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One niche in development that we have no experience with is building mobile apps. Luckily, today we have an expert to teach us all about it: Timirah James who is the founder of TechniGal LA and a developer evangelist.

Show Notes

• 02:00 - Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
• 05:20 - What was your path to becoming a developer?
• 18:00 - What’s your day-to-day like?
• 21:00 - What technologies does an iOS dev work with?
• 33:19 - How do you get your app accepted into the App Store?
• 40:22 - What is the interview process like for an iOS developer?
• 50:50 - Shoutouts

Resources

• Timirah's Twitter
• TechniGal_LA
• Timirah's Website
• Timirah's LinkedIn
• Stanford free 101 mobile dev course
• React Native
• Flutter
• Dart
• Objective C
• Swift
• XCode
• Sublime Text
• Apple Developer Program
• Apple Design Guidelines
• The Courage To Be Disliked
• Web monetization API

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Micro-interactions are small animations that delight our users and they are changing the way we design and build our applications. Micro-interactions have many benefits like enhancing perceived performance, indicating state change, and drawing users’ attention to something on the page. Today we’ll dive into micro-interactions and the animation libraries you can use to build them.

Show Notes

02:25 - What are micro-interactions? 05:48 - Why are they important? 10:55 - How do we build one? 29:07 - Animation libraries 33:16 - Shoutouts

Resources

• CSS Animation Libraries
• Eli Fitch’s Perceived Performance
• UI Movement
• Bad UI
• Ladybug Performance
• Scott Tolinski React Spring Course
• Sarah Drasner
• Hover.css
• Greensock
• React Spring
• Framer Motion
• Anime.js
• Velocity
• Three.js
• Mo.js
• Humble PI
• Bon Appetit Test Kitchen

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We’ve talked a lot about interviewing and getting hired in tech from the engineering perspective, and today we’re going to build on that. We have a special guest, Hilliary Turnipseed, the founder of Hill Street Strategies to talk about hiring from the recruiting perspective. She specializes in hiring and maintaining diverse teams.

We also want to give a big shoutout to Black Girls Code, if you're able to, please donate!

Show Notes

01:13 - Tell us about yourself! 08:37 - Tell us about Hill Street Strategies 23:12 - What advice would you give to someone who is looking to get their first role in tech? 35:09 - You focus a lot on hiring a diverse tech workforce, what advice would you give to a company trying to diversify their hiring? 42:42 - You are super involved with the DC tech community, why is that involvement so important to you? 48:48 - Where can people find you online? 50:06 - Shoutouts

Resources from Hilliary

Mental Health

Rise by Jasmin Pierre & Jonathan Thompson Aweh Support Founder Mental Wealth

Workplace Culture

Work Bravely Empower Work

Allyship Reads

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

Support Black-Owned Businesses

In Common

Job Boards

Diversify Tech Women2

Books

The Memo Resilient Management

Hilliary's Contact Info

Hilliary's website Hilliary's LinkedIn Hilliary's Twitter

Mentioned in the Episode

Human Design Chart Basic Concepts Explained of 4 Types

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