August: Forem Twitch Events Roundup

In August, Nick Taylor and I were joined by 4 awesome guests! This is a round up of all the wonderful guests who joined us.

Walkthrough Wednesday with Lucia Cerchie

Lucia Cerchie, software engineer at StepZen, joined us on the stream to discuss GraphQL. We talked about what GraphQL is, the GraphQL editor, creating a query, using GraphQL in VSCode, GraphQL types, StepZen custom scalar types, and more!

Places to follow Lucia:

• Twitter

Helpful Links from the Stream:

• GraphQL.org - for learning GraphQL
• Open-source sample API
• blog post on the sample API
• command for installing StepZen
• StepZen's Custom Scalar Types
• Learning GraphQL book by Eve Porcello

Walkthrough Wednesday with Arsalan Khattak

Arsalan Khattak, Team Lead at MLH Fellowship, taught us about creating a back end with Fastify.io.

Places to follow Arsalan:

• Twitter
• Personal Website
• DEV

Helpful Links from the Stream:

• Fastify Boilerplate

Walkthrough Wednesday with Laurie Barth

Laurie Barth, Senior Software engineer at Netflix, joined us to talk about tech interviews from the perspective of those hiring and those looking for a new role.

Places to follow Laurie:

• Personal Website
• Twitter

Helpful Links from the Stream:

• Designing a Technical Interview
• Senior Interviews != Three Junior Interviews in a Trench Coat

Walkthrough Wednesday with Nader Dabit

Nader, Dev Rel at Edge and Node, taught us about Ethereum, DeFi, decentralized applications(DApps), NFTs, blockchain, and more.

Places to follow Nader:

• DEV
• YouTube
• Twitter

Helpful Links from the Stream:

• The Complete Guide to Full Stack Ethereum Development
• The GraphEthereum Foundation

Thanks to all our viewers who joined the streams and chatted with us this month!

Be sure to follow the ThePracticalDev Twitch channel to be notified when future streams begin and check out all the great guests we have joining us on Wednesdays this month.

Our September guests are:

• Chris Coyier, co-founder of CodePen, creator of CSS-Tricks, and co-podcaster at ShopTalk.
• Bekah Hawrot Weigel , Dan Ott, and Kirk Shillingford from the VirtualCoffee Community.
• Ceora Ford, developer advocate at Apollo.