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Brittney Ball on Gatsby, building and using learning resources and more
Quick show notes Our Guest: Brittney Ball What she'd like for you to see: Tech By Choice - Soon in Charlotte Her JAMstack Jams: Gatsby Her musical Jam: Lizzo Transcript Bryan Robinson 0:07 Hello, everyone, welcome to another episode of That's My JAMstack podcast where we profile amazing people working in this awesome JAMstack community. This week after the short hiatus, we're back talking with an amazing self taught software engineer from Charlotte, North Carolina. Everyone please welcome to the show the awesome Brittany Ball. Bryan Robinson 0:28 Brittany, thanks for joining us on That's My JAMstack today. How are you doing? Brittney Ball 0:34 I'm doing great. How are you doing today? Bryan Robinson 0:35 I'm doing well, doing well! Bryan Robinson 0:37 So um, I guess first let's start with just an introduction. Tell us a little bit about yourself what you do for work and fun and kind of who you are as a person. Brittney Ball 0:45 My name is Brittany Ball. I currently am a software engineer at a company in Charlotte, North Carolina called Skookum. They're a digital consulting agency and what I do for fun, I like poetry. So I do a lot of the, you know, open mic nights in Charlotte around Charlotte and I like to visit the different breweries. So that's a hobby of mine too Bryan Robinson 1:12 You actually go and perform poetry at the open mic night. Brittney Ball 1:15 No, I don't have that much courage, but I like to listen to others before Bryan Robinson 1:20 I was ready to be like, so like, impressed and just have to like leave the call. Because Wow, that would have been amazing. Cool. So, uh, so kind of what's your specialty in terms of software engineering? Like, what what do you primarily do back in front end? Brittney Ball 1:36 I'm a front end engineer. I love the design aspect of coding and you know, so I'm more into like, how everything looks and you know, functions on that that aspect. Bryan Robinson 1:48 Very cool. Very good. Me too. I like if I can't see it. I just I'm not interested in working on it. Brittney Ball 1:53 Exactly. Yeah. Bryan Robinson 1:55 Cool. So So obviously, this is a JAMstack podcast. So I guess what what was your entry point into this idea or this methodology or static sites or whatever you like to call it. Brittney Ball 2:05 I started to do research on Gatsby. And so that was like my entry point. And I really fell in love with how flexible it was. And, you know, the way that you could, you know, stack plugins, and, you know, the theme aspect of Gatsby and, like, Netlify and GraphQL. I just fell in love and like, I'm still, you know, learning, you know, it's so much you can do with it. So like, I'm still learning but I love it. Bryan Robinson 2:39 Very cool. and are using it personally or is it professional? Or where's that falling? Brittney Ball 2:44 Right now I'm using it personally to build learning resource that I'm working on. So it's like trial and error, some learning as I know this is something that I'm really passionate about. So Bryan Robinson 2:58 when you're building the resourcing Casspi, I assume, yes. Very cool and what sort of what sort of plugins are using, so you love that you can, you can kind of stack those plugins together. And I'm very interested in cascades plugin ecosystem. Brittney Ball 3:10 Um, so I'm using a plugin for that will. And so I have a blog aspect of this websites. I'm using a plugin to bring in our RSS feed. I'm also using a plugin that I actually worked with Jason Lengstorf who works for Gatsby, we built a plugin that would allow you to bring in things using a meetup API. So yeah, I'm using that plugin also. So like, I'm trying to like, it's a lot of things one into this learning resource. And so I'm having to like do a lot of research and if you know, it doesn't plugin, I'm learning to build my own and put it out there for others to use. Brittney Ball 4:10 Because Gatsby is so
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