Solving Problems By Building Your Own Tools with Eve Porcello, Co-Founder of Moon Highway

The Dev Morning Show (At Night)

This episode features an interview with Eve Porcello, software engineer, instructor, author, and co-founder of Moon Highway. Since starting her company in 2012, Eve has created video content for egghead.io, O'Reilly Media, and LinkedIn Learning. She has taught JavaScript, GraphQL, and React workshops to tech professionals for nearly a decade and is a frequent speaker at conferences.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Eve to discuss building practical tools for yourself, apps for teachers, and the power of the cowboy emoji.

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:33): What Eve is working on right now

(03:41): What Eve’s day-to-day looks like

(05:28): What tools Eve uses

(07:17): How Eve got into the industry

(10:12): Rapid Fire Questions

(21:13): Random Segment Generator

(28:54): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“Because a lot of what I do is learning-related, sometimes I can get down a road of just trying to learn too much or taking too many tutorials or not really getting into the weeds with something. So I think building something that is somewhat practical, or maybe even just for a single user app, is nice because you'll run into problems that you don't in a nice little clean edged tutorial. So building something is super important, I feel like, and I try to not break that rule.” – Eve Porcello

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Links:

Twitter - Follow Eve

Eve’s GraphQL Newsletter

Visit Moon Highway

Twitter - Follow Cassidy

Twitter - Follow Zach

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