Supper Club × Developer Experience with Shawn Wang

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Shawn Wang about his thoughts on developer experience, why DX is important, and the importance of learning in public.

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Show Notes

00:32 Welcome
01:56 Guest introduction
swyx.io
Why Temporal?
06:09 What is Developer Experience?
Sarah Drasner
08:35 Is VS Code considered DX?
09:28 Why is internal DX important?
Vercel
NextJS
11:44 Is DX helpful to small organizations as well?
15:27 Parsimony
Parsimony
16:43 Is productivity the main focus?
21:09 Sponsor: Hasura
22:48 What are your thoughts on React?
27:31 Designing for API success
30:44 Sponsor: LogRocket
32:07 What is external developer experience?
36:05 Learning in public
40:46 Supper Club questions
dx.tips
Retreon VS Code Theme
Agnoster ZSH Theme
freeCodeCamp
Frontend Masters
QConf
Learn in Public

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