3 Minutes With Kent

I was talking with some of the other Fluent Conf speakers this evening about one of my favorite features of our community: The more we share with each other, the better it is for everyone. See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)

The best part of going to meetups and conferences is getting to know new people you haven't met before and learn about their perspective and experiences. It will make you a better person and software developer

Today I'm playing with my kids and I'm reminded how important they are in life. I am giving two talks at Fluent Conf next week and doing a live JavaScript Air show and I have a lot to prepare and practice. However today I'm focusing on one of the most important things in my life: my relationship with my children. Don't forget what matters most.

When making a pull request it's often really helpful to take a screenshot of before/after, make an animated gif, or do a screencast. Here are some handy resources about this: LICEcap (http://www.cockos.com/licecap/) - Record gifs CloudApp (https://www.getcloudapp.com/) My Animated GIF Workflow

Links: - The First Pull Request (http://conferences.oreilly.com/fluent/javascript-html-us/public/schedule/detail/46612) - All Contributors Spec (https://github.com/kentcdodds/all-contributors) - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs) - Talk by Dan Abramov (https://twitter.com/dan_abramov) that started Redux (http://redux.js.org/) - angular-formly (http://angular-formly.com) - issuetemplate.com (http://issuetemplate.com) - GitHub issue templates (https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-templates) Find places to give talks here: - @calltospeakers (https://twitter.com/calltospeakers) - @devcfp (https://twitter.com/devcfp) - @CallbackWomen (https://twitter.com/CallbackWomen) - lanyrd.com (http://lanyrd.com/) - meetup.com (http://www.meetup.com/) See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)

I just finished the show Live at React Conf (http://jsair.io/react-conf). This is just a few lessons learned from this experience. See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

Got an email asking me to "help" someone by basically doing their job for them. I realize that this crazy world of the web can be a little exhausting with all the tooling and stuff, and I'm really motivated to help people learn. But I just simply don't have the time to help everyone that asks me for help. Here's a little bit on why. Angular and Webpack for Modular Applications (https://egghead.io/series/angular-and-webpack-for-modular-applications) See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

Just my opinion on React's new versioning scheme (https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/02/19/new-versioning-scheme.html) in which I reference semver.org (http://semver.org/). See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

I just made an ignite talk proposal about testing that I think could really help clear up the question about what and how to test your applications. Here's a little teaser of what it's about. Submit your own proposal here (http://conferences.oreilly.com/fluent/javascript-html-us/public/cfp/442). See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

Every weekday I tweet at the hashtag #eggheadADay (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23eggheadADay). I share this with my co-workers and we have a discussion about the lesson of the day. It's a great way to keep your skills sharp. Here's the Google Doc I use (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F9rJtzQKxMeZwBKhSZe3bObBQ-CTj-S94WjqVU1a1Oo/edit?usp=sharing). See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds).

This explains the what, why, and how for me requesting a new maintainer (or several) for the angular-formly project. Links: The issue (https://github.com/formly-js/angular-formly/issues/638) Open Source Stamina (http://kcd.im/stamina) See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

Super excited that my first pull request (https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/5940) to the ReactJS project (https://facebook.github.io/react/) was merged last night! It was based on this issue (https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/5939) I filed. So excited to have something I've done help the React community :-) Big thank you to Dan Abramov (https://github.com/gaearon), Paul O’Shannessy (https://github.com/zpao), Jim (https://github.com/jimfb), and Facebook Community Bot (https://github.com/facebook-github-bot) for iterating on the PR with me :-) In this show I give a few tips about contributing to open source projects and reference my (free) Egghead.io series: How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub (http://kcd.im/pull-request). Also check out my blogpost What open source project should I contribute to? (http://kcd.im/what-oss) This gives tips on how to identify how you can contribute. See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

Been refactoring a big react component into smaller stateless components to make it easier to understand dependencies for the different pieces of the component. Merrick Christensen demonstrates how to do this in his Egghead.io lesson "Extracting Private React Components" (https://egghead.io/lessons/react-extracting-private-react-components) See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

Last week I gave a workshop (https://github.com/kentcdodds/react-ava-workshop) about using the AVA (https://www.npmjs.com/package/ava) framework to test React (https://facebook.github.io/react/). One thing that I tried is this idea from "A better way to teach technical skills to a group" (http://miriamposner.com/blog/a-better-way-to-teach-technical-skills-to-a-group/) by Dean Hochman which utilizes post-it notes in an interesting way. I also utilized a little emoji I affectionately call Terry the Tiger

In this first episode of 3 minutes with Kent, I talk about the value of being nice in our industry.