In this episode, we speak with Nader Dabit!

Nader is a long time veteran of the tech world and has elevated the careers of countless individuals. He's an inspiration for many, including Taz, who's always excited to speak with him.

We speak about Web3 communities (ok, maybe Taz gets a bit too excited about this topic 😄), Developer DAO, NFTs, the Web3 Stack, the Graph Protocol, and stablecoins.

🎉 Today we’re joined by Lee Robinson from Vercel! Lee is the Director of Developer Relations at Vercel, and is involved with communities everywhere.

Taz chats with him while attending the React Miami conference, where Lee spoke about the latest improvements to the Vercel platform. We chat with him about that, growing up in Iowa, videography & photography, and how he’s combined all of those passions for developer relations as Vercel has grown from 34 employees to over 300 today.

We hope you enjoy! 😊

🌅 We talk to our old friend, Peter Kieltyka from Horizon Games!

He has an inventor's mind, where his curiousity with technologies breeds innovation and pushes the industry forward. From hosting the Toronto Ruby community way back in 2009 to hosting the Go community and releasing open source libraries, it's part of Peter's DNA to think outside the box 🧠

Today he's the CEO of Horizon Games, where the team are working on open source blockchain infrastructure (Sequence) as well as Skyweaver Game on top of that. When he had the idea for this in 2017, most (including Taz) didn't quite realize the direction he was going. Thanks to his dedication to the community, he met folks that understood his concept and enabled him to follow his vision ✨

What happened next is awesome, and we hope you enjoy listening to his journey 🙌🏽

⏩ We have Mark Erikson from Replay.io with us today!

Happy to confirm that he does look somewhat like his Simpsons avatar 😄

We talk about how he started in software, which has an origin story from China! Sadly, that's a part of the video that we weren't able to translate 🤷🏽‍♂️

He went from working on government projects in GWT to Backbone eventually to React where things just started to make sense as a representation of UI from state. As a participant in the Flux wars, he went on to work with the Redux community, eventually becoming a core maintainer of the project 🙌🏽

Listening to Mark's journey is inspiring, and it's awesome to hear how he's inspired to work on the next generation of developer tooling at Replay.io, which happened to blow Taz's mind just moments before this interview was shot 🤯