[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Svelte — CodingCat Podcast
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZm0tPUxjE
Site: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/1-15-whats-up-with-svelte
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Shawn or perhaps more popularly known as, Swyx, is a frequent writer and speaker best known for the Learn in Public movement and recently published The Coding Career Handbook with more advice for engineers going from Junior to Senior. He has worked for Netlify and AWS and is also the co-host of the Svelte Radio podcast.
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Shawn Wang
Brittney Postma
Alex Patterson
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Alex Patterson: [00:00:00] Welcome back. Perfect peeps to perfect ad dev today on the show we have Shawn Wang also known as Swyx. Hey Shawn, how's it going?
swyx: [00:00:11] Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah, happy to be here.
Alex Patterson: [00:00:15] Thanks. Thanks for coming on. A little bit about Shawn, or perhaps popular known as Swyx is a frequent writer and speaker best known for the learning public movement. And recently published the coding career handbook with more advice for engineers going from junior to senior, he has worked for Netlify AWS and is also the co-host of felt radio podcasts. That was quite a bit of stuff.
swyx: [00:00:39] Yeah. Is that too long of a bio? I've been thinking about cutting it down?
Alex Patterson: [00:00:42] I don't think so. I think it's perfect.
Honestly, I really like busy.
Brittney Postma: [00:00:47] That's really cool. We like
swyx: [00:00:48] all the content. Okay. Making up for lost time. I was a career changer, so from 2011 to 2017, I was finance. And now I'm trying to make up for it.
Alex Patterson: [00:00:59] I think you're doing a great job. You've probably leaped over a lot of us. So I probably varied deleted as I always tend to do, because I'm just so excited about the guests. Usually not as much, well equally as the sidle and subjects. So, today we're talking about what's up with felt. And possibly some things there.
Brittany will probably lead a lot of this conversation today. Folks, you probably hear too much from me, but Brittany loves fell. And so, I'm going to let her take charge on this one quite a bit. The only things that I want to know before we dive in is felt where are you these days? Are you at home or where are you?
swyx: [00:01:32] Not for those watching on video. This is clearly not daylight. It is 3:00 AM my time in Singapore. And basically this is where I was born and raised and where my family lives. Normally I live in New York but. You know exactly a year ago, I fled New York because I wasn't sure if the healthcare system could take me if I got COVID.
So I came back to the only place I knew, which is here. And I've been here. It was supposed to be like, I actually packed for like two months and I left all my stuff in my apartment and I was like, it's a short trip. It's fine. And now I'm still here. Repeatedly. It's
Brittney Postma: [00:02:06] crazy. That's exactly how we all felt like it's going to be over in a couple months.
Like, let's just do this for now and then no, we're still here a year later that you got to go back to the family.
swyx: [00:02:19] I've lived through this I've lived through SARS which actually shut down schools here in Asia for a while. And I think Americans don't know how it is. So maybe, I do think that you ha you don't take it as seriously if you haven't been exposed to it.
But like everyone everyone of us in Asia knew exactly what to do. And we just did, follow the playbook. But it was over in two, three months. It wasn't like, We were scared. I was scared for ...
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