Episode 70: MJS 071: Kye Hohenberger

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Kye Hohenberger

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kye Hohenberger. Kye is a senior front-end engineer at Gremlin, where they do chaos as a service and break your stuff on purpose so that you can fix it and it hopefully won’t happen again. He also created the Emotion library, which is a CSS-in-JS library. He first got into programming because his Grandpa was always working on computers and Kye was curious about how they worked. They talk about how he got into JavaScript, what he's built in JavaScript that he’s proud of, what he’s working on now, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 286
Kye intro
Works at Gremlin as a front-end engineer
How did you first get into programming?
Always had a burning curiosity for computers
Worked on HTML first
Worked with flash in High School
Tried to major in Computer Science and dropped out of it
Job in IT
Wordpress maintenance
Hooked on wanting to learn more
Python with Django
What was it that caught your attention?
How did you get into JavaScript?
Job at cPanel
What led you to build something like Emotion?
Didn’t like having to use the Sass compiler
What problem were you trying to solve?
Have you worked on anything else in JavaScript that you’re proud of?
What are you working on now?
APIs from Java to Node
Wrote Qordoba apps for 2 years
What made you switch from Angular to React?
Learning WebPack
And much, much more!

Links:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 286
Emotion
Wordpress
Python
Django
JavaScript
cPanel
Sass
Node
Angular
React
WebPack
@tkh44
Kye’s GitHub
Kye’s Medium

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Picks

Charles

Home Depot Tool Rentals
Framework Summit
Podcast Movement

Kye

The Console Log
Brian Holt on Frontend Masters
Emotion Team