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When you can’t interview in person, we are forced to interview over video calls. In this episode, we are joined by Bianca Bortolussi, and Jen Pi to talk with us about what it’s like to interview for a new role during these covid times.

Guests:
Bianca Bortolussi - @biancabmorey
Jen Pi

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:
Bianca Bortolussi - Polymer Clay earrings
Jen Pi - My Octopus Teacher
Jen Pi - Robin Sharma - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Jen Pi - Robin Sharma - The 5am Club
Ryan Burgess - AMPLIFI Alien
Ryan Burgess - The American Barbecue Showdown
Jem Young - It is as if you were doing work
Jem Young - The Boys season 2

Do you remember the days of FTP? In this episode, we are joined by Jerome Hardaway to talk with us about the changes made to hosting websites and how serverless has improved the ways we serve up websites and applications.

Guests:
Jerome Hardaway - @JeromeHardaway

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:
Jerome Hardaway - Serverless - CSS Tricks
Jerome Hardaway - Lucifer
Jerome Hardaway - The Boys Season 2
Ryan Burgess - Chef's Table BBQ
Ryan Burgess - Mixel cocktail app
Stacy London - Sukhe Phool - Max Cooper Firefly Remix by Yorkston/Thorne/Khan, Max Cooper
Stacy London - Back to the Sky by Ólafur Arnalds
Augustus Yuan - Fall Guys
Augustus Yuan - Intro to AWS Lambda and Serverless Apps
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Fake window
Jem Young - World's toughest race

Build it and they will come, right? Wrong. Search Engine Optimization is a key component of how people will discover your website or application. In this episode, we are joined by Netflix engineer, Cole Turner to talk with us about the importance of SEO and ways to improve your ranking in search engines.

Guests:
Cole Turner - @coleturner

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Stacy London - @stacylondoner
Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:
Cole Turner - Awake
Cole Turner - Goldbelly
Ryan Burgess - Coola sunscreen
Ryan Burgess - Bose 700 headphones
Jem Young - Drivey.js
Jem Young - The Titan Games
Stacy London - The Difference - Jon Hopkins Remix by Flume, Toro y Moi, Jon Hopkins
Stacy London - Puzzle - Trentemøller Remix by TOM And His Computer

When we are writing code as engineers, no matter what programming language, we are doing some form of planning and problem solving. In this episode, we are talking about programmatic problem solving with Nicole Archambault.

Guests:
Nicole Archambault - @lavie_encode

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung

Picks:
Nicole Archambault - Taco Bell Cheese Burrito
Nicole Archambault - Battlestar Galactica
Nicole Archambault - Think Like a Programmer
Ryan Burgess - Twenty Thousand Hertz - Ta-dum! It’s Netflix
Ryan Burgess - Ugly Delicious
Augustus Yuan - Jem
Augustus Yuan - Why Interviewing is Terrible - Jem Young
Augustus Yuan - James Hoffman
Jem Young - Product management templates
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Wave roller
Jem Young - Cole Turner: AMA

Alongside the Black Lives Matter movement, we’ve started to see a lot of positive discussions on how the tech community can be more inclusive with its language. In this episode, we will be discussing our thoughts on making tech language more inclusive.

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:
Ryan Burgess - All Nighter playlist
Ryan Burgess - Backwoods Chubby 3400 Smoker
Augustus Yuan - Night Shift - KCET
Augustus Yuan - Trader Joe’s Mango & Cream Bars
Augustus Yuan - Seattle bans words “Brown Bag”
Jem Young - I’m no longer here
Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Balmuda - THE Toaster
Mars Jullian - Progressive style guide
Mars Jullian - Dolly Chugh -- how to let go of being a good person
Stacy London - Part II by Spotlights
Stacy London - All I Need (Radiohead Cover) by Spotlights
Stacy London - Alexjs.com

Web performance continues to be an input factor to prioritize when building web applications. In this episode, we speak with Google engineers, Kristofer Baxtor, and Jason Miller about the latest best practices in web performance.

Guests:
Kristofer Baxter - @kristoferbaxter
Jason Miller - @_developit

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Brian Holt - @holtbt
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:
Kristofer Baxter - Vets who code
Kristofer Baxter - Core web vitals
Jason Miller - You and me - meute
Jason Miller - AST Explorer
Jason Miller - Fyrtur blackout blinds from IKEA
Jason Miller - When They See Us
Ryan Burgess - Pink Panther Jewelry heist in a mall in Dubai
Ryan Burgess - Gardner Bender EFT-15 Mini Cable
Stacy London - How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stacy London - The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks by Tim Kadlec
Mars Jullian - User-centric performance metrics
Mars Jullian - Storybook performance addon
Brian Holt - Mutt's Sauce
Brian Holt - Vets who code
Brian Holt - Black Visions Minnesota