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In this week's episode of the DevEd podcast, the panelists talk to Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is an Angular Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, a blogger, and loves to work in her community educating and learning from other developers. The topic for this episode is work-life balance with an emphasis on balancing learning as a programmer. The first thing they discuss is if programmers are good at balancing work-life. The general consensus is that they aren't, but mostly because they love their job, and it is also always fun to learn newer technologies and concepts. They talk about hackations and coding in beautiful environments away from their regular desks. They talk about some strategies to maintain a good work-life balance especially in high-pressure scenarios where the work seems to never get over. They suggest time management, blocking off hours and segregating them into strictly work and non-work periods. Tara mentions working non-traditional hours while having an infant at home, while Brooke explains how to schedule things beforehand so that knowing the tasks ahead of time helps in managing them effectively. Others chip in with their suggestions as well. Tara also speaks on the importance of having a good manager with realistic expectations. They then touch on work-life balance from the perspective of managers too, where they advise them to make sure that their employees work reasonable hours, check in with them regularly and encourage them to take personal time off for their own mental health. They share their experiences related to death marches and the stress associated with it. They mention that while working as a junior developer in a high pressure environment that is hard to keep up with, it can be hard to change jobs. To deal with these kind of situations, they talk about how important it is to like the work being done, and if it is not something enjoyable, it is time to start looking for something completely different or take some time to unwind. Trying to do interesting things such as reading books, listening to music or podcasts at work during lunchtime, or while commuting, can also help in thriving in such environments. The next point discussed is how to deal with the need to learn along with working at a regular job and still manage to maintain a balance. Consuming relevant content in the background while going about our day-to-day chores, not underestimating the learning done on the job, carving out time for self development during work hours, writing regular blog posts of things learned which can eventually lead to an awesome portfolio, are some great recommendations. The last thing the panelists talk about is organizational tools for an awesome work-learn-life balance. They suggest Toggle, Asana, OmniFocus and Calendar. Luis mentions that given that we are constantly bombarded with information, it can be beneficial to sift through that, remove the unnecessary noise and concentrate on what is needed to free up significant amount of time. Joe recommends using a bullet journal, being physical and tactile while organising rather than digital, and Mike suggests switching the airplane mode on, among other things. Tara and Sam talk about meditation and mindfulness. They end the show with picks. The Dev Ed podcast is produced by Thinkster.io and published by DevChat.TV. Panel Joe Eames Brooke Avery Sam Julien Luis Hernandez Mike Dane Joined by special guest: Tara Z. Manicsic Sponsors Thinkster.io Adventures in DevOps - Devchat.tv The Freelancers Show CacheFly Links Tara's Twitter Picks Joe Eames: Beginner's Guide to Bullet Journaling | How to Start a Bullet Journal Boho Berry Bullet Journal introduction Tara Z. Manicsic: Check out the local children's museums JAMstack conf Mike Dane: LingQ Brooke Avery: Sporcle Star Wars Myths & Fables Luis Hernandez: Rework Getting Things Done Sam Julien: The Great British Bake Off How to maintain a great work-life balance, as an employee? Good time management, blocking off hours and segregating them into strictly work and non-work periods, scheduling tasks ahead of time. How to maintain a great work-life balance, as a manager? Making sure that employees work reasonable hours, checking in with them regularly and encouraging them to take personal time off for their own mental health. How to maintain a great work-learn-life balance? Consuming relevant content in the background while going about our day-to-day chores, not underestimating the learning done on the job, carving out time for self development during work hours, writing blog posts of things learned eventually leading to an awesome portfolio. What are some organizational tools to maintain work-life balance? Toggle, Asana, OmniFocus, Calendar, Bullet journals, Meditation
In this week's episode of the DevEd podcast, the panelists talk to Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is an Angular Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, a blogger, and loves to work in her community educating and learning from other developers. The topic for this episode is work-life balance with an emphasis on balancing learning as a programmer. The first thing they discuss is if programmers are good at balancing work-life. The general consensus is that they aren't, but mostly because they love their job, and it is also always fun to learn newer technologies and concepts. They talk about hackations and coding in beautiful environments away from their regular desks. They talk about some strategies to maintain a good work-life balance especially in high-pressure scenarios where the work seems to never get over. They suggest time management, blocking off hours and segregating them into strictly work and non-work periods. Tara mentions working non-traditional hours while having an infant at home, while Brooke explains how to schedule things beforehand so that knowing the tasks ahead of time helps in managing them effectively. Others chip in with their suggestions as well. Tara also speaks on the importance of having a good manager with realistic expectations. They then touch on work-life balance from the perspective of managers too, where they advise them to make sure that their employees work reasonable hours, check in with them regularly and encourage them to take personal time off for their own mental health. They share their experiences related to death marches and the stress associated with it. They mention that while working as a junior developer in a high pressure environment that is hard to keep up with, it can be hard to change jobs. To deal with these kind of situations, they talk about how important it is to like the work being done, and if it is not something enjoyable, it is time to start looking for something completely different or take some time to unwind. Trying to do interesting things such as reading books, listening to music or podcasts at work during lunchtime, or while commuting, can also help in thriving in such environments. The next point discussed is how to deal with the need to learn along with working at a regular job and still manage to maintain a balance. Consuming relevant content in the background while going about our day-to-day chores, not underestimating the learning done on the job, carving out time for self development during work hours, writing regular blog posts of things learned which can eventually lead to an awesome portfolio, are some great recommendations. The last thing the panelists talk about is organizational tools for an awesome work-learn-life balance. They suggest Toggle, Asana, OmniFocus and Calendar. Luis mentions that given that we are constantly bombarded with information, it can be beneficial to sift through that, remove the unnecessary noise and concentrate on what is needed to free up significant amount of time. Joe recommends using a bullet journal, being physical and tactile while organising rather than digital, and Mike suggests switching the airplane mode on, among other things. Tara and Sam talk about meditation and mindfulness. They end the show with picks. The Dev Ed podcast is produced by Thinkster.io and published by DevChat.TV. Panel Joe Eames Brooke Avery Sam Julien Luis Hernandez Mike Dane Joined by special guest: Tara Z. Manicsic Sponsors Thinkster.io Adventures in DevOps - Devchat.tv The Freelancers Show CacheFly Links Tara's Twitter Picks Joe Eames: Beginner's Guide to Bullet Journaling | How to Start a Bullet Journal Boho Berry Bullet Journal introduction Tara Z. Manicsic: Check out the local children's museums JAMstack conf Mike Dane: LingQ Brooke Avery: Sporcle Star Wars Myths & Fables Luis Hernandez: Rework Getting Things Done Sam Julien: The Great British Bake Off How to maintain a great work-life balance, as an employee? Good time management, blocking off hours and segregating them into strictly work and non-work periods, scheduling tasks ahead of time. How to maintain a great work-life balance, as a manager? Making sure that employees work reasonable hours, checking in with them regularly and encouraging them to take personal time off for their own mental health. How to maintain a great work-learn-life balance? Consuming relevant content in the background while going about our day-to-day chores, not underestimating the learning done on the job, carving out time for self development during work hours, writing blog posts of things learned eventually leading to an awesome portfolio. What are some organizational tools to maintain work-life balance? Toggle, Asana, OmniFocus, Calendar, Bullet journals, Meditation
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tara intro Very excited and fascinated with the web Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist Her experience as a developer Started out as a business school dropout How did you first get into programming? Learned Logo in the second grade Loved the ability to help people and create change Crystal Reports at Harvard Law CS courses with tuition assistance Getting back into CS Being a non-traditional student Finding Women Who Code First job as a Node software engineer How did Women Who Code help you? OpenHatch Being familiar with open source software The importance of having support How did you first get into JavaScript? Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Her intro to the Angular community in person And much, much more! Links: Progress React Round Up Crystal Reports Women Who Code Node OpenHatch JavaScript Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Angular @Tzmanics tzmanics.com Tara’s GitHub Sponsors: Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks Charles Get a Coder Job Course Golf Clash Tara Connect.Tech DevFest Atlanta Cedar Point
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tara intro Very excited and fascinated with the web Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist Her experience as a developer Started out as a business school dropout How did you first get into programming? Learned Logo in the second grade Loved the ability to help people and create change Crystal Reports at Harvard Law CS courses with tuition assistance Getting back into CS Being a non-traditional student Finding Women Who Code First job as a Node software engineer How did Women Who Code help you? OpenHatch Being familiar with open source software The importance of having support How did you first get into JavaScript? Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Her intro to the Angular community in person And much, much more! Links: Progress React Round Up Crystal Reports Women Who Code Node OpenHatch JavaScript Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Angular @Tzmanics tzmanics.com Tara’s GitHub Sponsors: Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks Charles Get a Coder Job Course Golf Clash Tara Connect.Tech DevFest Atlanta Cedar Point
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tara intro Very excited and fascinated with the web Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist Her experience as a developer Started out as a business school dropout How did you first get into programming? Learned Logo in the second grade Loved the ability to help people and create change Crystal Reports at Harvard Law CS courses with tuition assistance Getting back into CS Being a non-traditional student Finding Women Who Code First job as a Node software engineer How did Women Who Code help you? OpenHatch Being familiar with open source software The importance of having support How did you first get into JavaScript? Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Her intro to the Angular community in person And much, much more! Links: Progress React Round Up Crystal Reports Women Who Code Node OpenHatch JavaScript Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Angular @Tzmanics tzmanics.com Tara’s GitHub Sponsors: Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks Charles Get a Coder Job Course Golf Clash Tara Connect.Tech DevFest Atlanta Cedar Point
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tara intro Very excited and fascinated with the web Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist Her experience as a developer Started out as a business school dropout How did you first get into programming? Learned Logo in the second grade Loved the ability to help people and create change Crystal Reports at Harvard Law CS courses with tuition assistance Getting back into CS Being a non-traditional student Finding Women Who Code First job as a Node software engineer How did Women Who Code help you? OpenHatch Being familiar with open source software The importance of having support How did you first get into JavaScript? Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Her intro to the Angular community in person And much, much more! Links: Progress React Round Up Crystal Reports Women Who Code Node OpenHatch JavaScript Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Angular @Tzmanics tzmanics.com Tara’s GitHub Sponsors: Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks Charles Get a Coder Job Course Golf Clash Tara Connect.Tech DevFest Atlanta Cedar Point
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tara intro Very excited and fascinated with the web Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist Her experience as a developer Started out as a business school dropout How did you first get into programming? Learned Logo in the second grade Loved the ability to help people and create change Crystal Reports at Harvard Law CS courses with tuition assistance Getting back into CS Being a non-traditional student Finding Women Who Code First job as a Node software engineer How did Women Who Code help you? OpenHatch Being familiar with open source software The importance of having support How did you first get into JavaScript? Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Her intro to the Angular community in person And much, much more! Links: Progress React Round Up Crystal Reports Women Who Code Node OpenHatch JavaScript Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Angular @Tzmanics tzmanics.com Tara’s GitHub Sponsors: Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks Charles Get a Coder Job Course Golf Clash Tara Connect.Tech DevFest Atlanta Cedar Point
Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tara intro Very excited and fascinated with the web Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist Her experience as a developer Started out as a business school dropout How did you first get into programming? Learned Logo in the second grade Loved the ability to help people and create change Crystal Reports at Harvard Law CS courses with tuition assistance Getting back into CS Being a non-traditional student Finding Women Who Code First job as a Node software engineer How did Women Who Code help you? OpenHatch Being familiar with open source software The importance of having support How did you first get into JavaScript? Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Her intro to the Angular community in person And much, much more! Links: Progress React Round Up Crystal Reports Women Who Code Node OpenHatch JavaScript Ruby on Rails Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber NG conf Angular @Tzmanics tzmanics.com Tara’s GitHub Sponsors: Loot Crate FreshBooks Picks Charles Get a Coder Job Course Golf Clash Tara Connect.Tech DevFest Atlanta Cedar Point
Panel: Charles Max Wood Tara Manicsic Nader Dabit Kent C. Dodds Cory House Special Guests: None In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses how they each got into React and they provide some great resources for people who want to learn more about React and what it’s all about. They emphasize the fact that React is a very straightforward language and can be used relatively painlessly with a little bit of learning before jumping in. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How each of the panelists got into React Angular beginnings React Native React Native Training React JS Consulting Node developer beginnings Backbone to React Ruby background How to get into React yourself Learn things in the right order React-Howto Beginners Guide to ReactJS You Don’t Know JS, ES6, and Beyond by Kyle Simpson CodeSandbox.io ES6 Get comfortable with JavaScript first Biggest mistake people make when learning about react ES6 and Beyond Workshop React Community How did the panel learn ES6? And much, much more! Links: React Native Training React JS Consulting React-Howto Beginners Guide to ReactJS You Don’t Know JS, ES6, and Beyond by Kyle Simpson CodeSandbox.io ES6 and Beyond Workshop Tara’s Twitter and GitHub Cory’s Twitter, Medium Blog, and BitNative Blog Nader’s Twitter, Medium, GitHub, React Native Training Blog, React Native Training YouTube Kent’s Twitter and GitHub Charles’ Twitter and DevChat.tv Picks: Charles React Course on Pluralsite React Dev Summit 2018 Ready Player One Tara JazzCon #toshmagosh Nader Viro Media AWS AppSync Kent Dogs Nitin Tulswani Cory Node Tip React: The Big Picture React Rally
Panel: Charles Max Wood Tara Manicsic Nader Dabit Kent C. Dodds Cory House Special Guests: None In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses how they each got into React and they provide some great resources for people who want to learn more about React and what it’s all about. They emphasize the fact that React is a very straightforward language and can be used relatively painlessly with a little bit of learning before jumping in. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How each of the panelists got into React Angular beginnings React Native React Native Training React JS Consulting Node developer beginnings Backbone to React Ruby background How to get into React yourself Learn things in the right order React-Howto Beginners Guide to ReactJS You Don’t Know JS, ES6, and Beyond by Kyle Simpson CodeSandbox.io ES6 Get comfortable with JavaScript first Biggest mistake people make when learning about react ES6 and Beyond Workshop React Community How did the panel learn ES6? And much, much more! Links: React Native Training React JS Consulting React-Howto Beginners Guide to ReactJS You Don’t Know JS, ES6, and Beyond by Kyle Simpson CodeSandbox.io ES6 and Beyond Workshop Tara’s Twitter and GitHub Cory’s Twitter, Medium Blog, and BitNative Blog Nader’s Twitter, Medium, GitHub, React Native Training Blog, React Native Training YouTube Kent’s Twitter and GitHub Charles’ Twitter and DevChat.tv Picks: Charles React Course on Pluralsite React Dev Summit 2018 Ready Player One Tara JazzCon #toshmagosh Nader Viro Media AWS AppSync Kent Dogs Nitin Tulswani Cory Node Tip React: The Big Picture React Rally
In this Modern Web Podcast Tierney Cyren (NodeSource), Tara Manicsic (Progress Developer Advocate for KendoUI, GDE), and Simona Cotin (Developer Advocate at Microsoft) discuss developer relations with Tracy Lee (GDE, This Dot Co-founder). Topics covered: What is developer relations? What are some of the different types of developer relations? How do you balance all the tasks as devrel people? Is Developer Relations an easy job? How are you effectively measured in your job? To learn more visit www.thisdot.co Follow @bitandbang, @TZMANICS, @simona_cotin, @ladyleet & @moderndotweb on Twitter! Listen to more podcasts at http://moderndotweb.com