The inside story on React’s all new docs
Rachel Nabors –beloved educator, animator, & documentation engineer at Meta– joins Amal and Amelia for a first look at the brand new React docs!
This massive overhaul to the React website (which supports 2 million+ developers around the world) was no easy feat! We dive into all the behind the scenes coordination, as well as the goals, wins, and intended outcomes of this new way of approaching educational content and API reference material for open source projects.
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Featuring:
Rachel Nabors – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
New React Beta Docs Site
Code Sandbox API
Overreacted - Dan Abramov’s Blog
GitHub discussion and feedback for new blog
What’s the difference between a rounded square and a squircle?
ReactiFlux Discord Community
Mark Erikson aka Aceamake - Beloved React community educator
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
From web comics to React core with Rachel Nabors
You can read our story on Rachel and the work she is doing with the React community here.
Nabors' is the author of Animation at Work, which you can find on A Book Apart.
If you want to get a feel for an animated web project Rachel worked on, check out DevToolsChallenger, an interactive site she helped create for Mozilla.
Nabors has digitized a lot of her work, signal boosting members of the React community at Reactjs.org/stories.
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Interview w/ Rachel Nabors (Part 2)
In today's episode, we talk with Rachel Nabors about her new book, course, and how to respond to rejection.
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Interview w/ Rachel Nabors (Part 1)
In today's episode, we talk with Rachel Nabors about her new book, course, and how to respond to rejection.
Today's episode is sponsored by Dolby. One of the most important things you can do for your users is ensure that the quality of your audio is strong. You already know Dolby and sound quality go hand-in-hand. Check out how Dolby can help you make your web applications better at spec.fm/dolby.
ANTHOLOGY – Hacker stories from OSCON and All Things Open (Interview)
Karen Sandler, Rachel Nabors, and Jono Bacon joined the show by way of some great conversations at OSCON in London, UK and All Things Open in Raleigh, NC. We talked about free software, web animation and motion in user interfaces, and how open source communities organize.
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Featuring:
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Rachel Nabors – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jono Bacon – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Karen Sandler
Karen Sandler is the the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. She has a big heart, literally. Her heart condition requires a pacemaker, but she can’t access the source code that runs it. For this and other reasons, Karen is a passionate advocate for free software. In this interview, Jerod talks with Karen about her convictions, what she’s doing about them, and how this affects her personal life and the lives of those she loves.
“I literally want to hack my heart! But I can’t.” - Karen Sandler
Software Freedom Conservancy — Become a supporter!
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Is software freedom a social justice issue? - this is the talk that Karen Sandler gave at OSCON 2016
IANAL (“I am not a lawyer”) — IAAL (“I am a lawyer”) and TINLA (“This is not legal advice”) also redirect to this page on Wikipedia
Rachel Nabors
Rachel Nabors is a motion design for the web and UI animations expert and she was at All Things Open as a keynote and featured speker. Adam talked to Rachel about discovering repeatable business models, the state of web animation and where we’re heading, the cognitive science behind motion in user interfaces, some great places to start adding motion and animation to your interfaces, and what we might expect to see with animation and motion in Microsoft Edge.
The UI Animation Newsletter: weekly web animation resources & inspiration
What is Vestibular Disorder?
Follow Dan C. Wilson to learn more about motion paths and web animiation
If you haven’t been, check out CSS Dev Conf
Learn with Rachel — You can check out her courses here.
Rachel’s Keynote at All Things Open
Microsoft Edge
Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon is a consultant and leader in community management and strategy. Jono was at All Things Open as a keynote and featured speker. Adam talked with Jono about his talk “Building a Community Exoskeleton” and how open source communities break down into read and write — those with a common interst who get together to consume something (a read community), and those who get together because they want to build something together (a write community).
The Art of Community (Jono’s book)
Bad Voltage (Jono’s podcast)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Part 2 - Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors)
In today’s episode, I interview Rachel Nabors, front-end developer, animator, speaker, and writer.
Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com! If you are looking for a job as a developer or a designer and don't know where to start, head over to http://www.hired.com/developertea now! If you get a job through this special link, you'll receive a $2,000 bonus - that's twice the normal bonus provided by Hired. Thanks again to Hired for sponsoring the show!
Rachel Nabors Online:
http://rachelnabors.com
https://twitter.com/RachelNabors
http://codepen.io/rachelnabors/
https://dribbble.com/rachelthegreat
Web Animation Weekly
Part One of this interview (Developer Tea Episode)
Web Animation API (on GitHub)
SMIL Animation for SVG
jQuery
Timmy Willison (jQuery Core Team Member)
Whiteboard
10 Year Anniversary of jQuery
Greensock
You Might Not Need jQuery
Greensock Ease Visualizer
border-radius
John Lasseter (Pixar) quote
Ray tracing
Ray tracing Disney video
Motionographer
"Looking Ahead and Behind" - Rachel's Blog
Chris Coyier on Developer Tea
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And lastly...
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Part 1 - Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors)
In today’s episode, I interview Rachel Nabors, front-end developer, animator, speaker, and writer.
Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com! If you are looking for a job as a developer or a designer and don't know where to start, head over to http://www.hired.com/developertea now! If you get a job through this special link, you'll receive a $2,000 bonus - that's twice the normal bonus provided by Hired. Thanks again to Hired for sponsoring the show!
Rachel Nabors Online:
http://rachelnabors.com
https://twitter.com/RachelNabors
http://codepen.io/rachelnabors/
https://dribbble.com/rachelthegreat
Opinions: Ally or Enemy? (Developer Tea episode)
Nerdist discussion about eye framerate
HFES (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Explanation on 23.976fps vs 24fps
https://addyosmani.com/
Addy’s Blog
Google Developer Channel on YouTube
Mozilla’s Introduction to the CSS Box Model
CSS-Tricks article about the Box Model
Adobe’s After Effects
Adobe Flash (Animate CC)
Features You Don’t Need (At Least For Now) - Developer Tea
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
CSS Animation (CSS-Tricks)
http://www.rachelthegreat.com/
Mozilla Web Animation API
My Codepen Portfolio (jcutrell)
Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com! If you are looking for a job as a developer or a designer and don't know where to start, head over to Hired now! If you get a job through this special link, you'll receive a $2,000 bonus - that's twice the normal bonus provided by Hired. Thanks again to Hired for sponsoring the show!
And lastly...
Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes.
Ep. 6 - Comics and Code (Rachel Nabors)
Rachel Nabors started as a cartoonist. But when she needed jaw surgery and didn't have the health insurance to get it, she decided it was time to get more lucrative skills. Now a cartoonist, developer, and speaker, she tells us about her transition into programming, how to tell stories with code, and what it means to be an interaction developer.
Show Links
Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
Don't Do What You Love
CodePen
How To Win Friends And Influence People
Understanding Comics
Learn To Program - Chris Pine
CSS Sprite Sheet Animations with steps()
Skrollr.js
Javascript Enlightenment
Codeland Conf
Codeland 2019
Rachel Nabors
Rachel Nabors is an interaction developer and award-winning cartoonist, who deftly blends the art of traditional storytelling with digital media to 'tell better stories through code' at her company Tin Magpie.