Listen to “Javascript vs Typescript! Teacher to Software Developer! Commit Your Code EP 8!”
Episode synopsis
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I am your host, Danny Thompson!
Today's guests:
Special Guest Host
- Shane Walker
Software Engineer
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Technical Guest
- Austin Akers
Senior Software Engineer
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Speaking From The Junior Perspective
- Kyla Gregory
Software Developer
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- 1 Technical Guest
- 1 Junior Developer who has landed a job in tech within the last 18 months!
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Beginning
1:05 Introductions
2:21 Benefits of shift to typescript
7:56 drawbacks of migration to typescript
9:44 Challenges in migration
11:02 Laugh In Types
12:30 Go fo complexity or ease of onboarding new devs?
14:06 Code Readability
15:49 Best practices And React Query
16:45 React Query
18:36 Message for Tanner Linsley and TKDodo
20:48 Migration creating a loss of resources?
22:56 Pulling too many threads
25:45 Kyla Gregory Joins Us!
26:02 Question "I don't know what"s going on here?"
28:43 What tools did you use when landing your first job as a software developer?
29:59 Tools used before entering tech vs tools used now
32:50 locator.js
33:53 React dev tool and redux tools
34:40 What processes with your job changed switching into tech?
37:50 What was scary about switching careers? How did you overcome it?
39:50 Joined Twitter and found a community
40:45 Technical problem you have solved in the past
42:46 What do you know NOW that you wish you knew before starting your first job in tech?
44:15 "MAMA I MADE IT!" moment
45:50 Applying to jobs with rejection
46:30 Closing remarks and Commit Your Code!