Do you know that feeling when you watch a tech talk and you just connect with it? 😍

That's exactly what Elian was able to do at React Brussels, with his talk on... Astro 🚀

The content drew Taz into chatting more with Elian, who had a story that we just had to share with you. Being able to deliver content that connects is one thing, but what's behind the person that can do it? 🤔

Join us as we chat with Elian about Astro, public speaking, and his journey! 🙌🏽

Follow Elian, React Brussels, and BeJS for more 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/ElianCodes
https://www.elian.codes/
https://www.react.brussels/
https://www.bejs.io/

🤩 In this episode we have the epic Tejas Kumar!

We chat about conference travel, connecting with people, and Tejas' history of living with hemophilia 🩸

It's an inspiring story listening that you don't want to miss ❤️

Make sure to follow Tejas for more 👇🏽
https://www.youtube.com/c/TejasKumar
https://twitter.com/TejasKumar_
https://tej.as/
https://github.com/tejasq

Mentions in the video:
Interview with David Khourshid: https://youtu.be/z-qEEMszBIA
Interview with Phil Pluckthun: https://youtu.be/sgMeYKcfBXc

⚛️ 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

⚛ 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/