Keeping Up with the Codeashians. Dealing with our fast paced industry.

Scott and Wes talk about how to deal with being overwhelmed with our fast paced industry. How do you keep you and your team's skills up to date? Wes' Note: Scott came up with the title for this one. I know. Netlify — Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. They are also hiring! netlify.com/careers Freshbooks - Sponsor If you are a small business or freelancer check out Freshbooks.com Cloud Accountingand get 30 days free. Make sure to enter SYNTAX into the "How did you hear about us" section. Show Notes 1:00 • WELCOME • Scott is 32! Happy Birthday • Wes Relaunched his React for Beginners • course! 4:00 • That feeling • Being okay with not knowing everything 9:00 • How to wait it out • When you should jump into a library • 1.0 of libraries • Dogfooding 13:00 • Just In Time learning • Doubling down on the fundamentals 21:00 • What is JAM Stack? 22:00 • Why do you need to stay up to date? • Moving or Losing Jobs • Comfy Chairs 25:00 • Hipster Web Developers 27:00 • Someone think of the customers! • Technical Debt • Falling in love with web development again • Constantly challenging yourself 30:00 • Complacency in Web Devleopment • Motivating Comfortable Web Developers • You have to stay up to date 32:00 • Working on the weekends • Real Talk: part of your job is staying up to date • How to find time to learn on the clock 36:00 • Adding new tech to projects as a way to learn 39:00 • What if your senior developer is holding back progress? • How to convince your team or boss that you aren't just a hipster and this new tech is worth it • Show them the why! 47:00 • Okay, I want to stay up to date. How? • Strong handle on fundamentals Twitter Twitter WebDev Reddit NodeJS is Cancer Kitze's LOL Tweet JavaScript Weekly • Lunch and Learns • Meetups Siiiiiiiick Pixxxx • Scott: Never Split The Difference • Wes: Containers Podcast Shameless Plugz • Scott: Pro Gatsby • Wes: React For Beginners Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter • Make sure to include @SyntaxFM • in your tweets