Supper Club × Sarah Drasner on Engineering Management
Jan. 6, 2023, 11 a.m. (1 year, 10 months ago)
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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Sarah Drasner about her new book, Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, what it’s like moving from management to coding and back, the book writing process, and her Fortnite VS Code theme.
Show Notes
- 00:36 Welcome
- 01:59 Who is Sarah Drasner?
- @Sarah_Edo on Twitter
- @Sarah_Edo on Mastodon
- @Sdras on CodePen
- @SDras on GitHub
- SarahDrasnerDesign.com
- Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
- Amazon: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
- Netlify
- 05:25 How did you figure out what to do in management?
- 07:20 How do you get out of engineer’s way?
- The Engineer Manager pendulum
- 09:39 Do you spend time on making the person happy in the job?
- 15:51 Should managers code?
- 19:16 Was it difficult to step out of coding?
- 21:07 Why do people leave jobs?
- 24:04 Dealing with conflict and reorgs
- 28:36 What makes a good retro?
- 31:25 What was your process for writing a book?
- SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation
- Scrivener
- Egghead
- Mayfly Design
- Sarah Drasner’s articles on CSS Tricks
- Sarah Drasner’s articles on Smashing Magazine
- 43:44 Supper Club questions
- Sarah Drasner’s VS Code snippets and themes
- Creating a VS Code theme
- Wes Bos Cobalt 2 VS Code theme
- Partytown beta
- 53:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
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