She wrote code you use every day [freeCodeCamp Podcast

In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Lord, AKA JLord. She's worked as a software engineer for more than a decade at companies like GitHub and Glitch.
Among her many accomplishments, Jessica created the Electon team at GitHub. Electron is a library for building desktop apps using browser technologies. If you've used the desktop version of Slack, Figma, or VS Code, you've used Electron.
I recorded this podcast live and I haven't edited it at all. I want to capture the feel of a real live conversation, with all the human quirks that entails. As with all my podcast episodes, I start by performing a classic bass line. Can you guess what song this bass line is from? It's a "cult" hit from 1990.
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Links we talk about during the interview:
Git-It, Jessica's interactive Git course on Node School: github.com/jlord/git-it
Jessica's old craft blog (you may get an HTTPS warning from your browser but the site is just an old Blogspot site): www.ecabonline.com/
JSBin founder Remy Sharp's blog about JSBin and how he "lost his love of his side project": remysharp.com/2015/09/14/jsbi...
Subdivisions song by Rush that Quincy mentions. Great early morning listening: • Rush - Subdivisions

[@USER-A566]

I didn't know there was an official podcast. Even more respect for this organization

[@user-xu7tb3tq1v]

This is so cool i just saw that u guys also do podcasts also 😅

[@VinSilverstone]

These videos are not boring kinda really good to watch and listen too
Please make more of these freeCodeCamp team.

[@abhijeetdhumal7385]

Please make tutorial video on OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing

[@TANCEUS]

Hello freecodecamp .. can you please upload Computer graphics course

[@Shadowless_Kick]

It would be nice if you can give a demo of her software before the interview starts.

[@Heater-v1.0.0]

Are you saying you have never used VSCode or one of many other applications written on top of Electron? Most programmers will have demoed her creations to themselves since years ago.

[@Shadowless_Kick]

@@Heater-v1.0.0 I am in a totally different field of software development, only recently I started to use VSCode for some hobby projects, but I don’t know VS Code on top of Electron, and I have not watched this YT channel before

[@Heater-v1.0.0]

@@Shadowless_Kick Understood. Now I'm curious to know what field of software you are in. VSCode seems to be everywhere. From embedded systems upwards.

[@Shadowless_Kick]

@@Heater-v1.0.0 Firmware networking device driver used in millions of network interface devices, among other projects, for a well known big company, but that was 5 years ago. People used vi, vim, emacs etc of their own choices, maybe somebody also used VSCode.

[@Shadowless_Kick]

@@Heater-v1.0.0 I answered your questions with some details, but my comment disappeared. Frustrating.

[@INDIAN_8611]

Lord and lady 😄

[@BlackTeenMonkey]

Keep the pod going!

[@vitalychernobyl6137]

It’s really something that so many smart people work with electron and it still has memory and speed issues. I wonder if the developers get a kick back from pc makers.

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

its because coders are dumber abnd dumber with every passing year...
in the past all coders were people from science and physics, with BA or PhD...
not some random kid who never went to university...
we not building tech utopia.. but a tech dark age and crash this century....

[@scarlet_phonavis6734]

The more overhead space the more will be wasted “because it works”
I’m honestly amazed she’s so open about being a head dev of one of the most hated things in the internet, laggy low effort embedded browsers that’ll eat up half a gig if ram for what can be done in megabytes
This has been a known phenomena for a long time, even has a proper name

[@DjKVL1143]

Let's go wooo......

[@l.piekha100]

wow so the most bloated on existence for software? Nice!

[@sepi4]

Does she like atom more than vscode? 😆

[@danielgiathi1546]

Let's go babyyyyyyyy

[@imalegend1111]

Who willing to help me build an algorithm.

[@ickebins6948]

I dont.

[@dkkogmaw1311]

Electron sucks hard legit a second semester cs student would write something with better performance

[@anon-fz2bo]

luck.

[@adewebs]

First to comment

[@user-qt6ve7ci2z]

I am first

[@krum303]

I live for drugs

[@quincylarsonmusic]

That is indeed one of the lyrics from the song I played the bass line to. Well done.