On this episode I give some quick updates on libraries I'm using in a fresh React Native project and attempt to sell you on the greatness of Mt. Eddy.Simple Shadow View: https://github.com/pinqy520/react-native-shadow-viewReact Native Doctor

Quick Quack: GraphQL Codegen in a monorepo

Feb 9th, 2020 12m 24s

This episode is the quickest of the quackest. Hear about smashing lego trucks from a young Haupenthal, get a pretty high-level overview of an awesome library called Graphql-Codgen and how I use it in a monorepo with Typescript projects, and ge

Week Off

Jan 27th, 2020 3m 50s

See you guys in a week; go practice your 3's.RIP Kobe Bryant

Quick Quacks: Rematch and D-7

Jan 13th, 2020 13m 6s

This week is the introduction of Quick Quacks aka shorter episodes that I can put out while I'm busy with project work. Today I go over and awesome state management library that makes using redux feel like you're not using redux: Rematch! Al

Native Modules and Blockchain with Adem Bilican

Dec 23rd, 2019 34m 17s

Adem Bilican plops into the duck pond this week to share his experience coming from native development with Java and Objective-C to working in React Native. Adem gives his advice (and encouragement!) regarding how to create your own native mod

Code School life with Alex Aranda

Dec 9th, 2019 32m 32s

In this episode, I welcome Alex Aranda into the duck pond to discuss his current enrollment in a coding bootcamp, his motivation for switching careers, and strategies for his job hunt in the tech industry after he finishes the program.Duck Ta

React Native, FastLane, and PWAs with Gant Laborde

Nov 25th, 2019 43m 47s

This week, fan-favorite Gant Laborde comes around to discuss his work at Infinite Red using React Native and Native development, Progressive Web Apps and what they aim to solve, and organizing Chain React Conf in Portland. We also get into our

BONUS EPISODE - James Snell talks QUIC

Nov 18th, 2019 57m 42s

For our first ever BONUS episode, we're bringing you James Snell's recent talk from NodeJS OC. James discusses his involvement with http/3 and QUIC and fields some questions from the audience. It was a great talk about complex topics, present

SVGs with Chris Coyier

Nov 11th, 2019 1h 3m

This week, we talk to Chris Coyier about the image format (language? file extension?) that confuses us all the most (or at least John): SVGs. Chris gives us the skinny on what makes SVGs so great before we talk about how he cofounded his two m

Brackeys Mix

Oct 28th, 2019 1h 2m

This week, we get two guests for the price of one. Asbjørn Thirslund and Andreas Gielov from Brackeys join us to talk about how they ended up running a Game Development YouTube channel with 800k+ subscribers. We had a lot of fun this episode,

The Week Off Mix

Oct 21st, 2019 3m 37s

Bad news, duckheads. The duck pond froze over this week, because your two favorite hosts were so busy with projects they forgot to turn the heat on. Don't fret- we'll be back next week with a huge guest! In the meantime, catch up on our back

Rachel Valentine Mix

Oct 14th, 2019 40m 49s

This week, Rachel Valentine swoops in to discuss her role as Head of People at Vincit California, where your two favorite hosts work! Rachel gives a peek into the HR world as she discusses which resumes stand out from the rest, good and bad in

Jonny Burger Mix

Oct 7th, 2019 46m 8s

Boy, do we have a Whopper© of an episode for you this week! Software hacker (we make the distinction between hacker vs engineer in the episode) Jonny Burger aka the Burger King jumps head first into the duck pond after his 1,342nd consecutive

Laurence Bradford Mix

Sep 30th, 2019 50m 21s

This week, Laurence Bradford flies in from the East Coast for a dip in the cool, calm waters of the duck pond. We talk about her inspiration for creating her online community at Learn To Code With Me, and discuss why she chose to leave her car

Ben Wurth Mix

Sep 23rd, 2019 35m 54s

This week, Ben Wurth plops into the pond to talk about his agency experience working with .NET, C#, F#, G#, and A♭. Some of those are jokes but that's up to you to figure out. We also discuss where web assembly is going, how context works, an

William Strong: Resources and Testing Mix

Sep 16th, 2019 51m 32s

Returning guest William Strong comes in hot in this episode, planning to discuss resources for self-learning before quickly getting sidetracked by his two favorite hosts. Then we talk about when Will utilizes testing before getting into a Lord

William Candillon Mix

Sep 9th, 2019 38m 18s

This week, William Candillon pops in the duck pond to discuss React Native gestures and animations. We talk about the differences between handling the two in vanilla React Native vs using the popular declarative libraries react-native-gesture-

John and Tiffany Mix Vol. 2

Sep 2nd, 2019 45m 20s

No guest this week! Instead, we pick up where we left off in our last John & Tiffany Mix and answer the questions you, the fans, have been begging us to address. We cover the new React DevTools update, because after all this is a tech podcast

Swyx Mix

Aug 26th, 2019 47m 52s

This week, Shawn "Swyx" Wang joins us in the Duck Pond to take a deep dive into his coding philosophy "Learning in Public." We take some time to discuss his role at Netlify, how he got started in coding (after a full career in a different indu

Nader Dabit Mix

Aug 19th, 2019 36m 46s

This week, Nader Dabit jumps on a raft and paddles down the Mississippi to meet us in the Duck Pond. We discuss AWS Amplify, GraphQL, and React Native, before getting into the important stuff like futurism and the Matrix.Follow Nader on Twitt

John & Tiffany Mix Vol. 1

Aug 12th, 2019 35m 43s

No new ducks in the pond this week. Instead, get to know your two favorite hosts, John and Tiffany! Listen to us ramble for 30 minutes and you'll walk away smarter, happier, and with more muscle tone; that's the Duck Tapes Guarantee!Tiffany

Eemeli's Open Source Mix

Aug 5th, 2019 35m 50s

In this episode, Eemeli Aro flaps his wings and flies all the way from Finland to plop in to the duck pond to discuss coding as artistic expression, science fiction fandom, and most importantly, his involvement in the open source community. An

Scott Tolinski Mix

Jul 29th, 2019 40m 22s

This week, Scott Tolinski hops in to the duck pond to discuss break dancing, working for Ford, working for himself, among a variety of other topics. We don't think he will ever run out of stories to share!Level Up Tutorials >> https://www.leve

React Native Mix Vol. 1

Jul 22nd, 2019 24m 41s

This is a big week for the Duck Tapes as we welcome back our first return guest, Storybook phenom Otto Kivikarki. Otto joins us to discuss what you can expect getting started with React Native.Otto Storytelling with Storybook >> https://vinci

Kent C. Dodds Mix

Jul 15th, 2019 28m 14s

In this episode, Kent C. Dodds jumps in to the duck pond to talk teaching, learning, open source, and involvement in the development community in general.Kent Being Kool (newsletter @ bottom) >> https://kentcdodds.com#1 Testing JavaScript Cou