How Frontend Masters Came to Be, New Courses, Hiring & AI | Community Q&A August 2023

This hangout was fun! A lot of great questions and discussion. Thanks everybody for joining!

What's in the hangout:
How Frontend Masters, a workshop series, evolved from speaking at conferences to teaching workshops in-depth that focused on actionable skills.
New courses on topics such as Vanilla JavaScript, web capabilities, Chat GPT, and practical CSS layouts. Discuss success of Will Sentance's new, "The Hard Parts of UI Development" course.
Marc shares updates on recording a podcast, upcoming workshops on Scratch for Kids, hardware with Arduino, and an Electron update.
Marc addresses questions about courses on Solid JS, planning systems design, and the optimization of Frontend Masters website. Marc conclude with updates on the company, including recent hires, a barbecue event, and plans for office expansion.
Industry updates: Arc browser 1.0, controversy surrounding the Web Environment Integrity API, and a new image format called JPEG Excel.

0:20 How did the name "Frontend Masters" come about? Marc explains how Frontend Masters came to be. Full behind the scenes video:    • Behind the Scenes Episode 1: The Frontend ...  
4:00 Frontend Masters hired a Senior
4:13 Four new courses:
Vanilla JS: You Might Not Need a Framework frontendmasters.com/courses/vanilla-js-apps/?utm_s…
A Tour of Web Capabilities
frontendmasters.com/courses/device-web-apis/?utm_s…
First Look: ChatGPT API for Web Developers frontendmasters.com/courses/chatgpt-api/?utm_sourc…
Practical CSS Layouts frontendmasters.com/courses/css-layouts/?utm_sourc…
6:15 Viral Clip from The Hard Parts of UI Development with Will Sentance frontendmasters.com/courses/hard-parts-ui-dev/?utm…
10:21 "Are you hiring?" Marc explains a bit about the Frontend Masters team. And yes, we are especially for a product designer. Apply here: frontendmasters.applytojob.com/
12:24 Sneak peak photo behind the scenes of the podcast twitter.com/FrontendMasters/status/168676082444081…
13:25 Fun workshops coming up. Scratch for Kids, Hardware, Electron: frontendmasters.com/workshops/
14:05 Solid JS frontendmasters.com/courses/reactivity-solidjs/?ut…
15:05 Prerequisites – used upcoming workshop with Misko frontendmasters.com/workshops/javascript-vm/
15:56 Systems Design topic request
17:29 AI discussion
18:35 The Last Mile documentary    • Coding Bootcamp in Prison | The Last Mile ...  
19:11 Company BBQ and expanding office
20:32 More AI discussion
21:45 Arc browser hits 1.0 arc.net/
22:30 Dan Abramov justjavascript.com/
23:43 "Web Environment Integrity API is an all-out attack on the free Internet" Freedom Software Foundation www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integr…
24:12 JPEG XL (discussion about WebP)
25:06 Q&A hangout sessions playlist:    • Svelte, Fullstack Frameworks & Modern CSS:...  
25:29 Course about Frontend Masters tech stack? No plan, but maybe!
TodoMVC vanilla JavaScript repo: github.com/1Marc/modern-todomvc-vanillajs
lit-html lit.dev/docs/libraries/standalone-templates/