August: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾
Tags: opensource, meta
Published: 2021-09-14 16:26:32

In August, Nick Taylor and I were joined by 4 awesome guests! This is a round up of all the wonderful guests who joined us.


## Walkthrough Wednesday with Lucia Cerchie
Lucia Cerchie, software engineer at StepZen, joined us on the stream to discuss GraphQL. We talked about what GraphQL is, the GraphQL editor, creating a query, using GraphQL in VSCode, GraphQL types, StepZen custom scalar types, and more!

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**Places to follow Lucia:**
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/CerchieLucia)

**Helpful Links from the Stream:**
- [GraphQL.org](https://graphql.org/learn/) - for learning GraphQL
- [Open-source sample API](https://github.com/stepzen-samples/sunrise-api)
- [blog post on the sample API](https://stepzen.com/blog/sequence-directive-sunrise-api)
- [command for installing StepZen](https://stepzen.com/docs/cli)
- [StepZen's Custom Scalar Types](https://stepzen.com/docs/design-a-graphql-schema/custom-scalars)
- [Learning GraphQL book by Eve Porcello](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-graphql/9781492030706/)


## Walkthrough Wednesday with Arsalan Khattak
Arsalan Khattak, Team Lead at MLH Fellowship, taught us about creating a back end with Fastify.io. 

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**Places to follow Arsalan:**
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/khattakdev)
- [Personal Website](https://www.khattak.dev/)
- [DEV](https://dev.to/khattakdev)

**Helpful Links from the Stream:**
- [Fastify Boilerplate](https://github.com/khattakdev/fastify-boilerplate)

## Walkthrough Wednesday with Laurie Barth
Laurie Barth, Senior Software engineer at Netflix, joined us to talk about tech interviews from the perspective of those hiring and those looking for a new role.

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**Places to follow Laurie:**
- [Personal Website](https://laurieontech.com/)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/laurieontech)

**Helpful Links from the Stream:**
- [Designing a Technical Interview](https://laurieontech.com/posts/interviews/)
- [Senior Interviews != Three Junior Interviews in a Trench Coat](https://laurieontech.com/posts/senior-interviews/)

##  Walkthrough Wednesday with Nader Dabit
Nader, Dev Rel at Edge and Node, taught us about Ethereum, DeFi, decentralized applications(DApps), NFTs, blockchain, and more.

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**Places to follow Nader:** 
- [DEV](https://dev.to/dabit3)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/naderdabit)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dabit3)

**Helpful Links from the Stream:**
- [The Complete Guide to Full Stack Ethereum Development](https://dev.to/dabit3/the-complete-guide-to-full-stack-ethereum-development-3j13)
- [The Graph](https://thegraph.com/)
[Ethereum Foundation](https://ethereum.org/en/foundation/)

Thanks to all our viewers who joined the streams and chatted with us this month! 

Be sure to follow the [ThePracticalDev Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/thepracticaldev) channel to be notified when future streams begin and check out all the great guests we have joining us on Wednesdays this month. 


**Our September guests are:**
- [Chris Coyier](https://twitter.com/chriscoyier), co-founder of CodePen, creator of CSS-Tricks, and co-podcaster at ShopTalk.
- [Bekah Hawrot Weigel](https://twitter.com/BekahHW) , [Dan Ott](https://twitter.com/danieltott), and [Kirk Shillingford](https://twitter.com/KirkCodes) from the [VirtualCoffee Community](https://twitter.com/VirtualCoffeeIO).
- [Ceora Ford](https://twitter.com/ceeoreo_), developer advocate at Apollo.