In this episode, I speak with Alvin Bryan, a developer advocate at Contentful. We discuss the role of open-source in education, ethical tech, mentoring, the new challenges early-stage developer face in a changing job market, and how to stay motivated.

Alvin, in their own words

Alvin is a developer advocate at Contentful and a front-end developer. He’s been working in the industry for a while and loves creating beautiful, fun experiences.

Social

• The Mycelium Network Discord
• The Mycelium Network on Twitter

Links

• Alvin on GitHub
• Alvin on Polywork
• Alvin on the web
• Alvin on Twitter
• Contentful
• What is a design system?
• Figma
• Sketch
• Penpot
• React
• What are Web Components?
• What are design tokens?
• Learning to code in a time of crisis
• Cascadiajs
• Netlify
• Vercel
• GitHub
• web://workbook
• MDN Web Docs
• What is ethical tech?
• The rise of Signal
• Signal
• What is Linux?
• Proton Mail
• Our time has come - Penpot
• Hugo static site generator
• NetlifyCMS
• Forestry
• Codebar
• freeCodeCamp

Produced and supported by Mechanical Ink