🎉 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! 😊

Follow Lee for more 👇🏽
https://leerob.io
https://twitter.com/leeerob
https://github.com/leerob
https://youtube.com/c/LeeRobinsonDev

Today we chat with Medhat Dawoud!

He was just about to give his first talk in front of an audience at React Live Amsterdam, and asked Taz what he was doing with all the camera equipment. So Taz sat down and showed him! 😄

Medhat went on to give a talk on Cheap Performance Wins in React, and wrote about the experience on his blog as well 👉🏽 https://medhatdawoud.net/blog/first-time-on-stage

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https://twitter.com/Med7atDawoud
https://www.youtube.com/c/MedhatDawoud

🇿🇦 The best part of attending events is meeting people and re-discovering things you thought you knew

Lucky demonstrated the power of the modern browser, by controlling a drone with bananas. Yes, you heard that correctly - bananas. We had no idea this was even possible and his demo was insane 🤯🍌 Check out the full talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vg1tlvETt0&list=PL37ZVnwpeshGuMZrOZzEo8QLBjjpbtBGm&index=11

Taz was born in South Africa, but he hasn't been back since moving to Canada since he was 5 years old. Learning about the country of his birth, through Lucky, was amazing and we're so happy to share the good and the bad with all of you 🙏🏽

Today, Lucky is actively supporting the community through his efforts at Jozi.js and Soweto.js. Make sure to check out one of their events if you're in the area! ❤️

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https://twitter.com/NLucky_Nkosi

🙌🏽 We're in Amsterdam for React Summit and who do we find but our friend Ives from CodeSandbox!

We talk about his journey starting CodeSandbox, where it is today, and all the lessons learnt along the way 👨‍🏫

Check it out, and follow Ives for more! 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/CompuIves
https://github.com/CompuIves
https://codesandbox.io/