Ryan Carniato, Creator of SolidJS and Principal Engineer at Netlify, has always had a love for music and tech. He set his punk rock dreams aside and settled down to become a full-time engineer. 
Ryan started programming at the age of 11 and got his first job at eBay where he contributed to their top open-source project, Marko. After building his network and experience in open source, he landed a job with Netlify living many developers’ dreams of getting paid to work on open-source projects. 
In this episode, Ryan talks to Chuck and Robbie about working on open-source projects, his experiences at eBay and Netlify, and his thoughts on TypeScript and inferred types versus explicit types.

Key Takeaways

[00:31] - Introduction to Ryan Carniato.

[02:18] - A whiskey review - Barrel Whiskey Infinity Barrel Project.

[10:54] - Ryan comments on tech hot takes from Twitter.

[15:21] - How Ryan started programming at 11 years old.

[19:50] - Ryan's journey into working on open-source projects.

[45:48] - Ryan talks about music, hiking, and video games.


Quotes
[13:04] - “When you think of Typescript, you think of something concrete, like something you can build on, and dependable. In Javascript, it's more like an art. Kinda like painting.” ~ Ryan Carniato
[19:14] - “I think at a young age where you can find those things that you are empowered to just do whatever you feel like, it's super powerful.” ~ Ryan Carniato
[29:14] - “Our biggest bottleneck is the network and the devices that are in the users' hands.” ~ Ryan Carniato

Links

Ryan Carniato Twitter

Mr. Solid

SoildJS

eBay

Netlify

Barrel Whiskey Infinity Barrel Project

Twitter

Motley Crue

Tailwind CSS

The Primeagen

SEGA Genesis 

Nintendo

Geek Squad

Jurassic Park

Vue JS

Knockout JS

Backbone JS

Marko JS

The Madness

The Clash

High Fidelity

Angular

Ember JS

React

Svelte

Astro

Next JS

jQuery

Jason Miller

JSX

Mesa Boogie

Chrono Triggers

Dungeons & Dragons

Twitch

The Witcher 3

Gwent

Skyrim

FIFA 23

Nintendo Switch

Mario Kart

Discord

Github


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Robbie Wagner

Chuck Carpenter

Ship Shape


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