Episode 57: Who's This Guy ft. Alex Riviere

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Key Points From This Episode:

• An introduction to Alex, the brand-new panel member.
• Why traditional education did not suit Alex, and his introduction to programming.
• Alex’s 15-year stint in the theater space and what led him back to development.
• The moment that Alex started to think of himself as a developer.
• How reframing his resume made people in the development world take notice of Alex.
• Learnings that Alex had in his first job as purely a developer, and his first experience with Vue.
• Alex’s childhood dreams, and what he discovered later on in life that he really wanted to do.
• How Alex became the organizer of two Vue meetups in the space of one month.
• Benefits of web development, compared to more traditional programming jobs.
• A major difference between theater and other art forms and how this links to the programming world.
• “Debugging” in the world of theater.
• The value in reading other peoples’ code.
• Picks of the week from the whole cast; reaction videos, video games and series included.

Tweetables:

• “In a week, I'm having to cram enough information to understand how to write JavaScript to make these things. The interesting feedback I got in that interview was, ‘Well, you're doing things, but with an older style.’” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:17:25]
• “Instead, I fell in love with Vue. Vue is the thing that made me stop hating JavaScript. Because of Vue, it actually made me a better developer.” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:20:15]
• “I had been working for years and years trying to figure out what it was that I wanted. I really wanted to be able to help people and solve problems.” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:23:15]
• “If web has proven anything, is that if this is something you want to do and you want to be in, there's room for you.” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:28:03]
• “The only stupid questions are the ones that you don't ask.” — @EnjoyTheVueCast [0:28:31]

Resources mentioned:

• Vuex 4.0.0 official release
• Unrailed (Steam)
• Jessica Kobeissi Reacts to America's Next Top Model (YouTube)
• PowerPoint, Microsoft
• 비밀의 숲 (Stranger), tvN (Netflix)
• Manhunt: Unabomber, Netflix
• My Time at Portia (game)
• Raspberry Pi
• Katamari Damacy
• Magento
• Because of You, Kelly Clarkson
• Godot

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