June: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾
Tags: opensource, meta
Published: 2021-07-06 20:58:47

In June, Nick Taylor and I were joined by 3 awesome guests. This is a round up of all the wonderful guests who joined us and a special pair programming episode where I show Nick how to animate our Forem logo with CSS and JavaScript.

## Walkthrough Wednesday with Gant Laborde
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Nick Taylor and I were joined again by Gant Laborde to discuss AI, TensorFlow, and Gant's new book ["Learning TensorFlow.js: Powerful Machine Learning in JavaScript"](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094LZN7WD/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0).

Note: Please excuse my uncontrollable laughing at the beginning of the stream 😂 Gant was a very funny guest.

**Places to follow Gant:**
[Personal Twitter](https://twitter.com/GantLaborde)
[Personal Website](https://gantlaborde.com/)


## Pair Programming with Christina Gorton and Nick Taylor
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I showed Nick how to create an animation that appeared to be drawing the new Forem logo with both CSS and JavaScript(GreenSock). 

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## Walkthrough Wednesday with Cassidy Williams
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Cassidy Williams, Principal Developer Experience Engineer at [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/), joined us to discuss Next.js, the game Go, mechanical keyboards, [Polywork](https://www.polywork.com/), and more! 

**Places to follow Cassidy:**
[Website](cassidoo.co)
[Newsletter](cassidoo.co/newsletter)
[Polywork](timeline.cassidoo.co)
[Twitter](twitter.com/cassidoo)
[GitHub](github.com/cassidoo)

##  Walkthrough Wednesday with Hiroko Nishimura
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I was joined by Hiroko Nishimura, founder of AWS newbies, AWS hero, technical writer, and instructor. We talked about switching from full-time to freelance, complications of freelancing, why you might want to freelance, and how to get into tech writing and instructing. 
Special guest appearance by Hiroko’s lovely cat Tamakichi.🐈

**Places to follow Hiroko:**
[Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers Courses](https://introtoaws.com/ )
[AWS Newbies](https://awsnewbies.com/) 
[Ebook for Freelancers](https://freelancefinance101.com/)
[Blog](https://hiroko.io/)
[Website](https://hirokonishimura.com)
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/hirokonishimura)
[Polywork](https://timeline.hiroko.io/)


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 every Wednesday this month. 


**Our July guests currently include:**
- [Ben Hong](https://twitter.com/bencodezen), staff developer experience engineer at Netlify, will join to walk us through how we can all leverage Obsidian as a second brain.
- [James Q. Quick](https://twitter.com/jamesqquick), Developer Advocate at [Auth0](https://twitter.com/auth0), will join us to talk Developer Relations and Authentication in the Jamstack.
- [Jonan Scheffler](https://twitter.com/thejonanshow), head of Developer Relations at the Relicans along with other folks in the industry, will join us to talk about [Code School](https://www.twitch.tv/thejonanshow).