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

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