Podcasts by Epic React Podcast

Kent's Career Path Through Web-Development from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.925457

Kent wasn't one of those who wrote their first HTML page when they were three years old. He didn't think he would be a developer. He wanted to be a video editor!

Writing code for eight hou...

What Epic React Is And How It Came To Be from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.920424

When Kent was first looking into React, it was like it was what he was trying to make Angular do with Angular Formly, just without all of the framework getting in the way. React allowed Kent to ...

Taking Control Over Your Career from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.916617

One of the biggest myths is that being a 10x Developer is all you need to have a successful career. You can't just be good at coding, put in insane hours to achieve senior status, and be set for...

Healthy Boundaries For Open-Source Maintainers from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.912960

Open-source projects are great. You have complete control of the project, or so you think. It's very easy to find yourself losing control of the amount of time that you spend working on the proj...

Increasing The Impact Of Your Value from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.909843

Kent amplified the impact of his work by making stuff he'd do on the job public. Instead of sending an email to engineers he would write a blog post and link them to it. He made a closed-source ...

Techniques For Writing Maintainable Code from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.906026

The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user. And, even though the user will never see your code, the quality of it actually affects them indirectly.  The reason that th...

Transitioning From Employee To Independent from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.902240

Kent attributes a lot of his success in becoming independent to building his personal brand. He double dipped with the value he produced while employed by creating content to share publicly. Ken...

Effective Communication Through Content Creation from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.897083

People learn in different ways. By recording your content in multiple mediums you are enabling a larger portion of your audience to learn more effectively.

But, creating content isn't just...

Learn By Consuming, Building, And Teaching from 2023-12-12T18:48:07.891895

Kent consumes as much information as he can about the thing that he's interested in, then he builds stuff with the things that he's consumed. The consumption process involves glancing over any r...