In this episode, I welcome Alex Aranda into the duck pond to discuss his current enrollment in a coding bootcamp, his motivation for switching careers, and strategies for his job hunt in the tech industry after he finishes the program. Duck Tapes Spotify Playlist Drummers are smart article Follow Alex on LinkedIn because he has no other online pres…

This week, fan-favorite Gant Laborde comes around to discuss his work at Infinite Red using React Native and Native development, Progressive Web Apps and what they aim to solve, and organizing Chain React Conf in Portland. We also get into our Cocoa pods gripes, how Fastlane is amazing after you go through the pains of it's setup, and how to effect…

For our first ever BONUS episode, we're bringing you James Snell's recent talk from NodeJS OC. James discusses his involvement with http/3 and QUIC and fields some questions from the audience. It was a great talk about complex topics, presented in a way that was easily digestible and interesting. Even John understood it (well, most of it)! Follow J…

This week, we talk to Chris Coyier about the image format (language? file extension?) that confuses us all the most (or at least John): SVGs. Chris gives us the skinny on what makes SVGs so great before we talk about how he cofounded his two most popular projects: CSS-Tricks and Codepen.io. We also talk IE and how it "encourages" online CSS researc…

This week, we get two guests for the price of one. Asbjørn Thirslund and Andreas Gielov from Brackeys join us to talk about how they ended up running a Game Development YouTube channel with 800k+ subscribers. We had a lot of fun this episode, and for the first time in Duck Tapes history the guest takes us to task on our duck knowledge; turns out ou…

Bad news, duckheads. The duck pond froze over this week, because your two favorite hosts were so busy with projects they forgot to turn the heat on. Don't fret- we'll be back next week with a huge guest! In the meantime, catch up on our back catalog, give John's new podcast a listen, and watch Tiffany's twitch channel if you are really fiending for…

This week, Rachel Valentine swoops in to discuss her role as Head of People at Vincit California, where your two favorite hosts work! Rachel gives a peek into the HR world as she discusses which resumes stand out from the rest, good and bad interviewing techniques, her background as a recruiter, and obvie Vanderpump Rules comes up. We forgot to ask…

Boy, do we have a Whopper© of an episode for you this week! Software hacker (we make the distinction between hacker vs engineer in the episode) Jonny Burger aka the Burger King jumps head first into the duck pond after his 1,342nd consecutive run to discuss why he runs every single day (no exaggeration), hackathon strategy and mindset, and his mult…

This week, Laurence Bradford flies in from the East Coast for a dip in the cool, calm waters of the duck pond. We talk about her inspiration for creating her online community at Learn To Code With Me, and discuss why she chose to leave her career in Economic Development in Bangkok to pursue the a life of coding, teaching, and more teaching in New Y…

This week, Ben Wurth plops into the pond to talk about his agency experience working with .NET, C#, F#, G#, and A♭. Some of those are jokes but that's up to you to figure out. We also discuss where web assembly is going, how context works, and the fact that, as per usual with our guests, he doesn't have a favorite band. SNAKE WARNING: An anaconda f…

Returning guest William Strong comes in hot in this episode, planning to discuss resources for self-learning before quickly getting sidetracked by his two favorite hosts. Then we talk about when Will utilizes testing before getting into a Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter vs Game of Throne debate, some book recommendations, and a little music talk.…

This week, William Candillon pops in the duck pond to discuss React Native gestures and animations. We talk about the differences between handling the two in vanilla React Native vs using the popular declarative libraries react-native-gesture-handler and react-native-reanimated. Will convinces us to go back on our initial denouncing of Expo before …

No guest this week! Instead, we pick up where we left off in our last John & Tiffany Mix and answer the questions you, the fans, have been begging us to address. We cover the new React DevTools update, because after all this is a tech podcast, before jumping into the meaty stuff like World of Warcraft, Bon Jovi, chips and salsa, and Rivers Cuomo. I…

This week, Shawn "Swyx" Wang joins us in the Duck Pond to take a deep dive into his coding philosophy "Learning in Public." We take some time to discuss his role at Netlify, how he got started in coding (after a full career in a different industry!), and of course Jack White comes up. Follow Shawn on twitter: @swyx Check out his recent React Hooks …

This week, Nader Dabit jumps on a raft and paddles down the Mississippi to meet us in the Duck Pond. We discuss AWS Amplify, GraphQL, and React Native, before getting into the important stuff like futurism and the Matrix. Follow Nader on Twitter @dabit3 Sort and rank Nader's project on GitHub Check out Jay-Zeezer Powered by Vincit…

No new ducks in the pond this week. Instead, get to know your two favorite hosts, John and Tiffany! Listen to us ramble for 30 minutes and you'll walk away smarter, happier, and with more muscle tone; that's the Duck Tapes Guarantee! Tiffany's favorite song: https://open.spotify.com/track/74My82t6r6j68L3RPg18qL?si=Ibu7wZxtQK-8sf-uOhtKVA John's favo…

In this episode, Eemeli Aro flaps his wings and flies all the way from Finland to plop in to the duck pond to discuss coding as artistic expression, science fiction fandom, and most importantly, his involvement in the open source community. And of course we find out his favorite band (you haven't heard of them). Eemeli's Github: https://github.com/…

This week, Scott Tolinski hops in to the duck pond to discuss break dancing, working for Ford, working for himself, among a variety of other topics. We don't think he will ever run out of stories to share! Level Up Tutorials >> https://www.leveluptutorials.com Scott Tolinksi Breakdancing >> https://www.scotttolinski.com Scott's 90s playlist >> http…

This is a big week for the Duck Tapes as we welcome back our first return guest, Storybook phenom Otto Kivikarki. Otto joins us to discuss what you can expect getting started with React Native. Otto Storytelling with Storybook >> https://vincit.com/blog/getting-started-with-storybook-js-with-react React Native Itself >> https://facebook.github.io/r…

In this episode, Kent C. Dodds jumps in to the duck pond to talk teaching, learning, open source, and involvement in the development community in general. Kent Being Kool (newsletter @ bottom) >> https://kentcdodds.com #1 Testing JavaScript Course >> https://testingjavascript.com 0 to 60 Software Development >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qPh6…

We're coming back hot with an interview with the great Wes Bos! We talked to Wes about his coding journey, from customizing his friends' Myspace profiles to the javascript guru he is today. We also got his thoughts on how to stay up to date with changes in the industry and forced him to recommend a VSCode extension on the spot. Take Wes Bos Courses…

Hello dedicated fanbase! After an impromptu hiatus during which Scott flew off and Tiffany flew in, we're back in your feed with the same high-quality content you duckheads have come to know and love. We'll be returning with weekly episodes starting Monday, July 8th. Our first episode back will feature an interview with javascript guru and all-arou…

In this episode, CSS Wizard Mark Youssef trades his cloak in for some swim trunks and takes a dip in the Duck Pond to teach us a few things about styling in web development. He tells us what potions he had to drink and spells he had to cast to defeat his greatest of foes, the Voldemort to his Harry: The Button. He drops some hot tips about animatin…

In this episode, we recount a tale of social engineering that we recently unwittingly took part in. Leaning heavily on the "tangentially related" portion of the phrase "tangentially related to software development," we leave no stone unturned and go into painful detail in the retelling of an incident that walks the thin line between irrelevant and …

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In this episode, storybook extraordinaire Otto Kivikärki jumps in to the duck pond. After a fierce debate about public transportation and what we can do to improve driver-to-user communication, Otto teaches us a few things about what storybooks are and how we can use them in our projects. Check out Otto's blog on getting started with Storybooks. Em…

In this episode, the King of Hooks, William Strong, stops by the duck pond to give us the rundown on what hooks are, when to use them, and when not to. We also look back at Hook and discuss Dustin Hoffman's overall influence on the javascript ecosystem (it's big). Check out William's blog about hooks here. There were a few audio drops in this episo…

In this episode, the Duck Boys welcome all-star developer Mikko Salokangas into the Duck Pond to talk about their favorite topic: refactoring. Turn on your AC, because things get heated. Brought to you by Vincit