This Month in React

Tejas has worked in developer relations for years at companies like Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and G2i, and is now an independent educator and content creator. He's a mentor, keynote speaker, and angel investor, and we're exited to talk tech! He's super interested in edge computing, Qwik, and React. 
He and Carl talked about why he's starting a company, not letting fear of failure stop you from trying, investing, and about keeping the focus in devrel on relationships.

Why are you starting a company [00:00:35]
DevRel and community are immeasurable [00:03:30]
Extractive relationships in DevRel and community [05:58]
Swag and broken trust [00:06:50]
Transactional relationships [00:09:07]
Fear about trying something new [00:11:28]
Trying something new; an exercise in empathy [00:17:13]
Carl's past failed company [00:18:25]
New web technologies you're excited for [00:21:34]
Zod and tRPC, type safety on network calls [00:22:27]
Chronological Snobbery and jQuery [00:24:18]
React as a middle aged man [00:26:02]
React compared with Qwik's design goals [00:28:27]

Show Notes

Tejas has worked in developer relations for years at companies like Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and G2i, and is now an independent educator and content creator. He's a mentor, keynote speaker, and angel investor, and we're exited to talk tech! He's super interested in edge computing, Qwik, and React. 
He and Carl talked about why he's starting a company, not letting fear of failure stop you from trying, investing, and about keeping the focus in devrel on relationships.
  • Why are you starting a company [00:00:35]
  • DevRel and community are immeasurable [00:03:30]
  • Extractive relationships in DevRel and community [05:58]
  • Swag and broken trust [00:06:50]
  • Transactional relationships [00:09:07]
  • Fear about trying something new [00:11:28]
  • Trying something new; an exercise in empathy [00:17:13]
  • Carl's past failed company [00:18:25]
  • New web technologies you're excited for [00:21:34]
  • Zod and tRPC, type safety on network calls [00:22:27]
  • Chronological Snobbery and jQuery [00:24:18]
  • React as a middle aged man [00:26:02]
  • React compared with Qwik's design goals [00:28:27]

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (00:35) - Why are you starting a company
  • (03:30) - DevRel and community are immeasurable
  • (05:58) - Extractive relationships in DevRel and community
  • (06:50) - Swag and broken trust
  • (09:07) - Transactional relationships
  • (11:28) - Fear about trying something new
  • (17:13) - Trying something new; an exercise in empathy
  • (18:25) - Carl's past failed company
  • (21:34) - New web technologies you're excited for
  • (22:27) - Zod and tRPC, type safety on network calls
  • (24:18) - Chronological Snobbery and jQuery
  • (26:02) - React as a middle aged man
  • (28:27) - React compared with Qwik's design goalsc
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Producer
Carl Vitullo
Solopreneur just vibing, posts are probably bullshit. Community lead at Reactiflux, the largest chat community of React professionals.

What is This Month in React?

How busy professionals stay on top of the React ecosystem. We give you a 1 hour recap of the latest news and nuance in React's development and ecosystem, upcoming conferences, and open source releases. New episodes the first week of every month, with live recordings on the last Wednesday of every month in the Reactiflux stage.

Hosted Mark Erikson (Redux maintainer), Carl Vitullo (startup veteran), and Mo Khazali (head of mobile at Theodo). See something for us? Post to #tech-reads-and-news