Kent C. Dodds talks with Dave Rael about teaching and learning, being lit up, podcasting, and optimizing your efforts
Kent C. Dodds works at PayPal as a full stack JavaScript engineer. He represents PayPal on the TC39. He’s actively involved in the open source community as a creator and contributor. He's an Egghead.io instructor, Frontend Masters instructor, and Google Developer Expert. He's happily married and the father of three kids. He likes code. He cares about craft, design, tools, and architecture. He likes to talk about it. Come chat with him :-)
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Kent C. Dodds
- - Kent's involvement with TC39
- - Kent's interest in teaching
- - Ken'ts attitude of sharing what he's doing and avoiding attachment to code
- - Kent's podcasting experience
- - Kent's path to JavaScript and becoming lit up
- - Kent's story of failure - reproducing a XSS vulnerability in production; contracting interview performances
- - Kent's success story - leaving behind a maintainable infrastructure
- - Ken'ts motivations for switching from Angular to React
- - How Kent stays current with what he needs to know
- - Kent's book recommendations
- - The things that have Kent most excited
- - Kent's top 4 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Kent
Resources:
- Kent's Blog
- Kent's Content at Egghead.io
- Frontend Masters
- GenieJS
- Not Your Grandma's Cookies
- JSON Web Tokens
- John Lindquist
- The Changelog - First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance with Kent C. Dodds
- Angular Air
- JavaScript Air
- Angular Air Episode 0 with the Angular Team
- Todd Motto
- JavaScript Air Episode 0 with Brendan Eich
- The Changelog - JavaScript and Robots with Raquel Vélez, a.k.a. rockbot
- slice-js
- Glamor
- Glamorous
- Zero to 60 in Software Development: How to Jumpstart Your Career - Forward 4 Web Summit
- Kent's response on Twitter to which newsletters he recommends
Kent's book recommendation:
Kent's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Consume as much information as you can and make clear decisions about what you want to dive deep on
- Build stuff with your chosen pieces
- Take your learning and teach it to others
- Be nice and be inclusive