| • Nick Nisi's current status as "funemployed" and plans for upcoming conferences | |
| • Shaundai Person's career transition from sales to engineering and her keynote talk on leveraging transferable skills | |
| • React Paris conference: single-track event, March 22nd, 2024, speakers including Shaundai and others, and a discount code for JS Party listeners (jspartyaris) | |
| • Shaundai Person's experience at the Be.js team conferences in Belgium and upcoming trip to React Paris in Paris | |
| • Benefits of single-track conferences | |
| • Career switch from sales to engineering | |
| • Soft skills learned in sales applied to engineering career | |
| • Initial stereotypes and misconceptions about engineers | |
| • Personal story of starting an online business and transition to coding as a hobby | |
| • Discovery of Codecademy and self-taught web development options | |
| • Decision to pursue a new career path in engineering | |
| • Career transition from sales to software engineer | |
| • Importance of networking and community building in finding opportunities | |
| • Balancing personal life with career goals as a single mom | |
| • Using sales skills to leverage advantage in job search | |
| • Warning against trying to duplicate someone else's success exactly, but instead finding one's own path | |
| • Building skills on a strong foundation | |
| • Importance of soft skills in job interviews and career advancement | |
| • Using networking and social media to stand out as human | |
| • Leverage company resources (e.g. Slack donuts) for connections and opportunities | |
| • Creating videos to communicate with others and showcase skills | |
| • Confidence and self-assurance are developed through practice and experience | |
| • Practicing sales techniques through role-playing and preparation | |
| • Overcoming self-doubt and shyness in a sales or public speaking setting | |
| • Anticipating and preparing for potential objections and questions from customers | |
| • The benefits of "putting yourself out there" and taking risks in a personal or professional context | |
| • The use of humor and self-deprecation as a way to build confidence and connect with others | |
| • Karaoke as a means of building stage presence and confidence | |
| • The importance of adapting and being open to new ideas and experiences | |
| • Discussion of a potential karaoke duet at a conference | |
| • TypeScript compiler issues and how to convince it to accept types | |
| • Shaundai Person shares her experience with TypeScript, from initial dislike to appreciation for its benefits in maintainable and scalable code | |
| • Jerod Santo's reluctance to use TypeScript due to his preference for dynamic languages and concerns about runtime errors | |
| • Nick Nisi's enthusiasm for TypeScript and its ability to help catch issues before they reach production | |
| • Discussion of TypeScript limitations and benefits in handling third-party data | |
| • Importance of having a formalized contract with APIs or microservices for type checking | |
| • Use of GraphQL schema to automatically generate types | |
| • Writing test files in TypeScript, with opinions on its strictness and relevance | |
| • Shaundai Person's experience working with large enterprises and solo development environments | |
| • Upcoming episode schedule |