DejaVue

While Alex is at PragVue, Michael is joined by Developer Advocate Erik Hanchett who works at no other company than AWS. In this DejaVue episode, they discuss the different duties of a Developer Advocate and skills one need to become one, as well as everything around content creation and conferences.
In addition, Erik shares how it is to write Vue code as a Software Engineer at AWS, which he did for multiple years.

Enjoy the episode!

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Our Guest

* Erik Hanchett
* Web - https://www.programwitherik.com/
* Twitter - https://x.com/ErikCH/
* YouTube - ‪@ProgramWithErik‬

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Your Host

* Michael Thiessen
* Twitter -   / michaelthiessen  
* YouTube - ‪@michaelnthiessen‬
* Web - https://michaelnthiessen.com/

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Chaptermarks:

00:00 Welcome to DejaVue
00:35 How would you describe your job?
03:20 Do you miss the deep technical problems?
09:41 Duties when speaking at a conference
12:50 What is Developer Advocacy?
23:30 Which skills do you need to be a Developer Advocate?
26:40 Your first content pieces doesn't have to be perfect
28:16 First Five unreleased DejaVue episodes
29:44 Putting yourself out there
32:09 Erik's first podcast guest appearance ever
37:10 Using Vue.js at Amazon Web Services
41:29 How did you get into Vue?
43:16 Working on AWS Open Source projects
45:06 Migrating a library from Vue 2 to Vue 3
49:48 Nested Slot Bonanza
51:34 Angular, React and Vue devs in the same project
52:15 Wrapping up

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Links and Resources

▶ AWS Amplify https://docs.amplify.aws/
▶ VueUse https://vueuse.org/
▶ Vue Demi https://github.com/vueuse/vue-demi
▶ XState https://github.com/statelyai/xstate

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