Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. This show records LIVE on Thursdays at 1pm US/Eastern time. Panelists include Jerod Santo, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Kevin Ball, Amelia Wattenberger, Nick Nisi, Divya Sasidharan, Mikeal Rogers, Chris Hiller, and Amal Hussein. Topics discussed include the web platform (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, etc), front-end frameworks (React, Ember, Angular, Vue, etc), Node.js, web animation, SVG, robotics, IoT, and much more. If JavaScript and/or the web touch your life, this show’s for you. Some people search for JSParty and can’t find the show, so now the string JSParty is in our description too.
An intimate conversation about careers
KBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transitions like Senior->Staff and Engineer->Manager.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) - It's party time, y'all
(00:40) - Helloooooo!
(02:18) - KBall's career journey
(10:44) - Hiding the ugly bits
(12:56) - Work-life balance
(17:30) - Amal's career journey
(36:18) - Sponsor: Changelog News
(38:19) - Transitions
(41:12) - Leadership duties
(47:36) - Going beyond senior
(50:27) - The 3 things a staff eng does
(52:41) - When is it time?
(58:42) - Driving impact
(1:00:28) - Take care, y'all
(1:00:54) - Next up on the pod