60 | The Developer Experience with Brittney Postma

In this episode, our guest, Brittney Postma talks about the Developer Experience (DX) and how it important it is to the work that we do and the frameworks that use.

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Show Notes

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:34 Introducing Brittney Postma
  • Grainger
  • codingcat.dev
  • SvelteSirens
• 2:10 Quick Rants, Hot Takes, and Parenting Tips
• 6:22 Developer Experience
  • Sarah Drasner on the Developer Experience
• 10:21 Sponsor: Hashnode
• 11:10 Developer Experience through Documentation
• 13:34 Tools around the Developer Experience
• 16:54 The Developer Experience when Working on Client Projects
  • Episode 5: Starting a New Project
• 21:18 Developer Experience with Education
• 22:36 Sponsor: Daily.dev - http://daily.dev
• 23:36 Developer Experience when Onboarding
• 28:23 Things to Take into Account when Creating Content
• 33:50 What Advice do you have a Student that's Trying to make Career Choices?
  • Episode 43: New Beginnings for New Developers
  • Episode 35: Crossover Episode with Brittney and Alex
  • Freecodecamp.com
• 35:38 My Vanilla JavaScript is alight and not great, my company wants me to work with Vue JS already. They say I'll learn JavaScript also in a good way while working with the framework right away. What do you guys think?
  • Beginner JavaScript
  • Wes Bos's Courses
• 38:46 Is the dev industry saturated?
• 41:57 Closing Thoughts