In today’s episode, we welcome Matt Pocock, an educator, content creator and engineer who used to be a voice coach. Now, he teaches Typescript on his YouTube channel and is building Total Typescript, the most comprehensive TypeScript course available out there.
We talk about his transition from a completely unrelated field into tech, the importance of great communication, TypeScript’s future, AI tooling and job hunts! A lot more else is covered in this video, so get cozy and tune in into this gem of an episode!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:15 What did Matt do before becoming a dev?
03:15 Career Transitions from a non-math background
04:02 What makes a good programmer?
06:46 Math knowledge > great communication?
08:55 On writing elaborate PR's
09:58 OCaml my Typescript
11:00 What is Typescript's Future?
14:21 Python type hinting and JSDoc
20:36 null vs undefined
25:02 interfaces vs type aliases
32:35 Does Matt have any rules of thumb when working with types?
37:14 How do you build nice encapsulated components with no external dependencies?
43:43 AI tooling integration
46:15 Will there be fewer jobs?
52:00 How often do you use classes?
54:29 Where to find Matt
