
โฉ We have Mark Erikson from Replay.io with us today!
Happy to confirm that he does look somewhat like his Simpsons avatar ๐
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 ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
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 ๐๐ฝ
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 ๐คฏ
Make sure to follow Mark for more! ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/acemarke
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/
https://www.replay.io/

โ๏ธ 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 โญ๏ธ
Follow Dan for more ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/dan_abramov
https://github.com/gaearon
Taz Singh
โ 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 ๐ฒ
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!) ๐ฑ
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 ๐๐ฝ
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 ๐ค๐ฝ
We really enjoyed sitting down with Andrew and hope you enjoyed the conversation!
Follow him for more ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/acdlite
https://github.com/acdlite
https://andrewclark.io/
Taz Singh
โถ๏ธ 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 ๐
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)! ๐
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! ๐
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 ๐คฏ 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! ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/brian_d_vaughn
http://www.briandavidvaughn.com/
https://github.com/bvaughn
Taz Singh
๐น In this episode, we chat with David!
Our original introduction to David involved the magic of a piano back at React Finland in 2019 ๐ซ๐ฎ
This time he shares the magic behind state machines, where they add value, and what they can do to make your applications more predictable โจ
He's a constant source of inspiration and we can't wait until we see him again!
Follow David & Stately for more ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano
https://twitter.com/statelyai
https://stately.ai/
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โฉ We have Mark Erikson from Replay.io with us today!
Happy to confirm that he does look somewhat like his Simpsons avatar ๐
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 ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
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 ๐๐ฝ
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 ๐คฏ
Make sure to follow Mark for more! ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/acemarke
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/
https://www.replay.io/

โ๏ธ 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 โญ๏ธ
Follow Dan for more ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/dan_abramov
https://github.com/gaearon
Taz Singh
โ 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 ๐ฒ
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!) ๐ฑ
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 ๐๐ฝ
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 ๐ค๐ฝ
We really enjoyed sitting down with Andrew and hope you enjoyed the conversation!
Follow him for more ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/acdlite
https://github.com/acdlite
https://andrewclark.io/
Taz Singh
โถ๏ธ 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 ๐
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)! ๐
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! ๐
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 ๐คฏ 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! ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/brian_d_vaughn
http://www.briandavidvaughn.com/
https://github.com/bvaughn
Taz Singh
๐น In this episode, we chat with David!
Our original introduction to David involved the magic of a piano back at React Finland in 2019 ๐ซ๐ฎ
This time he shares the magic behind state machines, where they add value, and what they can do to make your applications more predictable โจ
He's a constant source of inspiration and we can't wait until we see him again!
Follow David & Stately for more ๐๐ฝ
https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano
https://twitter.com/statelyai
https://stately.ai/
Taz SinghPlatform Sponsors

Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network thatโs all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move โ together.
Join our community today!

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 โnot badโ when it comes to application monitoring. Use code โguildโ for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
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