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Jamon Holmgren

Co-Founder & CTO

Jamon is Co-Founder and CTO of Infinite Red and one of the most recognizable voices in the React Native community. You may have seen him speak at various conferences around the world, but most know him from where he is just as likely to nerd out about React Native as he is to show pictures of his tractor. He lives in southwest Washington state with his family, plays recreational hockey as a goalie, and has a new granddaughter!

Robin Heinze

Director of Engineering

Robin, the Director of Engineering at Infinite Red, leads our team of senior-level React Native engineers. She’s guided numerous high-profile clients on their journey to the App Store and is just as known for her engineering knowledge as her seemingly endless collection of “mom jokes” on the show. She lives near Portland, Oregon with her family and enjoys knitting and Formula One.

Mazen Chami

Senior Software Engineer

Mazen’s smooth bass voice rounds out the trifecta of React Native Radio hosts. He’s one of the leading senior software engineers on the Infinite Red team. He’s spoken at tech conferences around the world, is on the React Native core release team, and is also our lead React Native workshop instructor. He lives in Durham, NC, and uses his former professional soccer (“football”) skills to play goalie for a local team.

Recent episodes

RNR 133: The SwiftUI Compliment Egg Sandwich with Eric Lewis

Sponsors Infinite Red The Freelancers Show G2i CacheFly Panel Charles Max Wood Josh Justice Joined by Special Guest: Eric Lewis Summary Eric Lewis, from NearForm, starts by sharing his development journey and becoming a core contributor to React Native. Eric tells the panel about Fabric, Turbo Modules, and Code Gen. He explains how Facebook uses these three tools. Eric explains how he got into SwiftUI by trying to build the perfect egg time. He shares compliment sandwich about SwiftUI and what he is using it for now. The panel considers why a React Native developer might want to cross-platform with SwiftUI. Eric shares what it’s like testing with SwiftUI. The show ends with some great resources for learning more about working with SwiftUI. Links https://quidd.co/ SwiftUI https://www.hackingwithswift.com/ https://nshipster.com/ https://www.swiftbysundell.com/ https://github.com/ericlewis https://twitter.com/ericlewis?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/ReactNativeRadio/ https://twitter.com/R_N_Radio Picks Charles Max Wood: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Superfans: The Easy Way to Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, and Build a Successful Business Smart Passive Income 75HARD The Adventure Zone Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? Josh Justice: React Native Community Chain React 2019 - Lorenzo Sciandra - All Hands on Deck - The React Native Community Experience renderAtl Eric Lewis: Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy (The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End) SwiftPM Library Wild Animal Safari

September 3, 2019
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RNR 131: Free Code Learning with Mehul Mohan

Sponsors Radio Infinite Red The Freelancer’s Show G2i CacheFly Panel Josh Justice Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Mehul Mohan Summary Mehul Mohan, the creator of Codedamn, shares what Codedamn is all about. A Youtube channel and website, Codedamn is a free online learning resource for new developers. Helping others learn and to improve his own coding knowledge through teaching are the main reasons he is so passionate about Codedamn. The functionalities on the website and youtube channel mostly consist of tutorials and video courses. Mehul shares the goals he has for Codedamn and is reaching out to other creators to bring other technologies to Codedamn. Mehul is building an app for Codedamn; the panel discusses the changes he had to make to switch it over to React Native and what amount of reusability there was. When to use Native iOS versus when to use React Native is considered by the panel. Mehul shares his experience diving into the React Native community; he found the community helpful and was impressed by developers contributing to the code. Mehul shares some of the libraries he found that made React Native easier to use. The panel ends the episode with a discussion on their preferred Native platforms and the benefits and drawbacks of each. Links https://codedamn.com/ https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper https://rnfirebase.io/ http://www.awesome-react-native.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/codedamn Free Code Camp React Native New Things - v0.59 https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c https://www.facebook.com/ReactNativeRadio/ https://twitter.com/R_N_Radio Picks Josh Justice: The Toys that Made Us Chain React 2019 - Kenza Iraki - Let’s Simplify Your Complex Forms Formik Charles Max Wood: https://themeforest.net/ https://codecanyon.net/ https://audiojungle.net https://podcastmovement.com/ Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Mehul Mohan: https://github.com/react-community/lottie-react-native

August 20, 2019
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RNR 130: Performance that Matters with Ram N

Sponsors Radio Infinite Red G2i CacheFly Panel Josh Justice Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Ram N Summary Ram N, a member of the React Native core team, joins the panel to discuss performance. After a small sidetrack discussion about AR and VR, the panel jumps into the discussion about performance and how to measure performance that matters. Ram defines performance and what qualifies as a performance scenario. Josh Justice brings up Ram’s Chain React talk and the story of turning a comment such as “your app sucks” into a productive conversation gathering information that will help you improve the performance of the app. Ram explains that they are two steps to improving and debugging performance, gather information and experimentation. The panel discusses the concept that “performance is a feature”, adding metrics at the beginning of a project instead of reacting to a slow app, and having performance requirements at the start of a project. The React Native initialization process and how developers aren’t building React Native apps but are building apps with React Native is expounded upon by Ram. Ram addresses Josh’s wonderings at the incomplete abstraction of React Native from the Native platform. Resources to better understand performance philosophy are recommended by Ram, including Yahoo’s performance roadmaps and the web performance doc at Google. Ram ends the episode by sharing what he is working on with VR and Oculus. Links Why Performance Matters Chain React 2018: The State of React Native by Ram N https://www.oculus.com/?locale=en_US Virtual desktop https://twitter.com/nparashuram?lang=en http://nparashuram.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ReactNativeRadio/ https://twitter.com/R_N_Radio Picks Charles Max Wood: Nintendo 2DS Eurographics Puzzles Josh Justice: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Nonstop Knight 2 Ram N: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started https://facebook.github.io/react-native/ Be nice to each other

August 13, 2019
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RNR 128: Chain React with Jamon Holmgren

Sponsors Radio Infinite Red TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Josh Justice Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Jamon Holmgren Summary Jamon Holmgren, one of the owners of Infinite Red, join the panel to discuss the recent Chain React in Portland, Oregon. Jamon shares how Chain React got started. The panel, who both attended chain react, share their experiences. They admire the small conference and the close-knit, family atmosphere. The Hermes Javascript announcement and Facebook’s coordination with Chain Reacts are considered. Jamon shares the types of companies that sponsor Chain React and how they are chosen. The panel considers the topics and speakers; Jamon explains how they have narrowed in on React Native this year and the success that brought to the conference. Jamon invites listeners to reach out with talks about sharing components between React Native and React Web. The episode ends with bumps and funny stories from the conferences. Links Chain React 2019: Hermes Engine Announcement Chain React 2018: Organizing Code for Cross-Platform Web and Mobile Development by Robert Scarano https://twitter.com/jamonholmgren https://github.com/jamonholmgren http://community.infinite.red https://www.facebook.com/ReactNativeRadio/ https://twitter.com/R_N_Radio Picks Josh Justice: Yes silver bullet The Tyranny of Metrics Charles Max Wood: The Lion King https://hopeinsource.com/ Jamon Holmgren: https://podcast.babeljs.io/

July 30, 2019
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RNR 127: The Devchat.tv Mission and Journey with Charles Max Wood

Sponsors Radio Infinite Red TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Episode Summary Charles talks about his journey as a podcaster and his mission with Devchat.tv. Devchat.tv  is designed to home podcasts that speak to all developer communities. Charles also plans Devchat.tv to host shows for technologies that are on the verge of a breakthrough and will be a lot more widely available in the near future such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). There are new shows being added continuously to reach out to new communities, some examples of which are: a Data Science show, a DevOps show and an Open Source show. As a kid, Charles would record his own shows on a tape recorder. He was always interested in technology. While studying Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, he worked in the University's Operations Center. Upon graduation, he started working for Mozy where he was introduced to podcasts. Listen to the show to find out the rest of Charles' story, some of the lessons and tips he learned throughout his journey and the evolution of the shows on Devchat.tv. If there isn't a show for your community and you would like there one to be, reach out to Charles. Also if there was a podcast about a programming related subject that ended abruptly and you would like it to continue, reach out to Charles. Devchat.tv would like to host these podcasts. Links Charles' Twitter EverywhereJS JavaScript Community EverywhereRB Ruby and Rails Community Find Your Dream Job As A Developer Devchat.tv on Facebook Devchat.tv Picks EverywhereJS JavaScript Community EverywhereRB Ruby and Rails Community Netlify Eleventy https://github.com/cmaxw/devchat-eleventy

July 23, 2019
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