Episode 20: Brian Vaughn from Replay @ Reactathon
▶️ Today we have Brian Vaughn with us!
We chat with him about the start of his career, from the LAMP stack over to Flash and onto Angular, where he met Kent C Dodds! Ah, the good old days 😄
He progressed through his career to join Google, where he recounts the challenges and intimidations of working with such a talented organization. Spoiler: he said the same about Facebook (now Meta)! 😅
After Google, he worked at Treasure Data where a challenge was displaying lots of information in a list. That's where he started working on react-virtualized, and discovered all of the challenges of building a virtualized list. Thankfully, he took on those challenges and released the tool publicly for the rest of us to use! 📋
Through more open-source work, he got recognized by the team at Facebook and went on to work more on React Native and React Dev Tools. That work has now taken him onto working on the next generation of developer tooling at Replay, which continues to blow our minds to this day 🤯 It's one of those tools that once you see it, you can't stop talking about it. And Brian is one of those folks that's lovely to speak with, so we don't mind at all!
Follow Brian for more! 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/brian_d_vaughn
http://www.briandavidvaughn.com/
https://github.com/bvaughn
Episode 22: Andrew Clark from Meta @ Reactathon
⚛ In this episode, we're joined by Andrew Clark from Meta!
We talk about how he started with software, from creating basic web pages in the 4th/5th grade to moving on to iPhone apps in Objective-C as the transformative part of his career towards more in-depth software development 📲
It was awesome picking his brain about the history of React, how it was initially inspired by XHP at Facebook, and how JSX was introduced to appeal to the internal engineers (while it was boo'ed off stage at JSConf!) 😱
He's part of the React Runtime team, which has ideated and implemented the Fiber architecture 6 years ago to releasing React 18's Concurrent Mode more recently. It's been an incredible journey, and digging into how other runtimes have inspired Andrew and React has been amazing to hear 🙌🏽
Lastly, we talk about how Andrew got involved with React & Meta - co-creating Redux, his first React PR with Sebastian, and starting at Meta. We also talk about the future of React, and how the team is now working together across various organizations 🤝🏽
We really enjoyed sitting down with Andrew and hope you enjoyed the conversation!
Follow him for more 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/acdlite
https://github.com/acdlite
https://andrewclark.io/
Taz Singh
Episode 23: Mark Erikson from Replay.io
⏩ 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 🤯
Make sure to follow Mark for more! 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/acemarke
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/
https://www.replay.io/
Taz Singh
Episode 25: Dan Abramov from Meta
⚛️ In this episode, we have Dan Abramov from Meta!
His work doesn't need an introduction, but the journey to get there is incredible. From learning Visual Basic as an introduction to English, to getting those early formative jobs that shaped his approach & reasoning about problems, to starting with React & getting involved with the community - it's what makes him the person he is today ⭐️
Follow Dan for more 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/dan_abramov
https://github.com/gaearon
Taz Singh
Episode 18: Michael Chan @ Reactathon
👋🏽 Today we're here with Michael Chan!
He went from "being the coolest guy alive to being an accountant", as he tells us the story of how he made his way into web development after the 2008 financial crisis. It wasn't easy, with odd-ball jobs off Craigslist, but it gave Michael a lot of wisdom that he shares with us on how to focus on finding those first gigs 🙌🏽
Today he's passionate about elevating people, particularly within the design system space, through his content 📺
Check him out for more! 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/chantastic
https://www.youtube.com/c/chantastic
https://chan.dev/
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Episode 20: Brian Vaughn from Replay @ Reactathon
▶️ Today we have Brian Vaughn with us!
We chat with him about the start of his career, from the LAMP stack over to Flash and onto Angular, where he met Kent C Dodds! Ah, the good old days 😄
He progressed through his career to join Google, where he recounts the challenges and intimidations of working with such a talented organization. Spoiler: he said the same about Facebook (now Meta)! 😅
After Google, he worked at Treasure Data where a challenge was displaying lots of information in a list. That's where he started working on react-virtualized, and discovered all of the challenges of building a virtualized list. Thankfully, he took on those challenges and released the tool publicly for the rest of us to use! 📋
Through more open-source work, he got recognized by the team at Facebook and went on to work more on React Native and React Dev Tools. That work has now taken him onto working on the next generation of developer tooling at Replay, which continues to blow our minds to this day 🤯 It's one of those tools that once you see it, you can't stop talking about it. And Brian is one of those folks that's lovely to speak with, so we don't mind at all!
Follow Brian for more! 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/brian_d_vaughn
http://www.briandavidvaughn.com/
https://github.com/bvaughn
Episode 22: Andrew Clark from Meta @ Reactathon
⚛ In this episode, we're joined by Andrew Clark from Meta!
We talk about how he started with software, from creating basic web pages in the 4th/5th grade to moving on to iPhone apps in Objective-C as the transformative part of his career towards more in-depth software development 📲
It was awesome picking his brain about the history of React, how it was initially inspired by XHP at Facebook, and how JSX was introduced to appeal to the internal engineers (while it was boo'ed off stage at JSConf!) 😱
He's part of the React Runtime team, which has ideated and implemented the Fiber architecture 6 years ago to releasing React 18's Concurrent Mode more recently. It's been an incredible journey, and digging into how other runtimes have inspired Andrew and React has been amazing to hear 🙌🏽
Lastly, we talk about how Andrew got involved with React & Meta - co-creating Redux, his first React PR with Sebastian, and starting at Meta. We also talk about the future of React, and how the team is now working together across various organizations 🤝🏽
We really enjoyed sitting down with Andrew and hope you enjoyed the conversation!
Follow him for more 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/acdlite
https://github.com/acdlite
https://andrewclark.io/
Taz SinghEpisode 23: Mark Erikson from Replay.io
⏩ 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 🤯
Make sure to follow Mark for more! 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/acemarke
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/
https://www.replay.io/
Taz SinghEpisode 25: Dan Abramov from Meta
⚛️ In this episode, we have Dan Abramov from Meta!
His work doesn't need an introduction, but the journey to get there is incredible. From learning Visual Basic as an introduction to English, to getting those early formative jobs that shaped his approach & reasoning about problems, to starting with React & getting involved with the community - it's what makes him the person he is today ⭐️
Follow Dan for more 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/dan_abramov
https://github.com/gaearon
Taz SinghEpisode 18: Michael Chan @ Reactathon
👋🏽 Today we're here with Michael Chan!
He went from "being the coolest guy alive to being an accountant", as he tells us the story of how he made his way into web development after the 2008 financial crisis. It wasn't easy, with odd-ball jobs off Craigslist, but it gave Michael a lot of wisdom that he shares with us on how to focus on finding those first gigs 🙌🏽
Today he's passionate about elevating people, particularly within the design system space, through his content 📺
Check him out for more! 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/chantastic
https://www.youtube.com/c/chantastic
https://chan.dev/
Taz SinghPlatform Sponsors
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
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