43: Dive In with Jamon Holmgren. On Career, Consultancy, Conference Organization, Open Source, and Courageous Entrepreneurship

Jamon Holmgren is CTO and cofounder of Infinite Red, a consultancy that specializes in React Native.

Chantastic asks about Jamon's start in programming and entrepreneurship, why consultancies have an edge in Open Source, and how the Chain React conference plays into their business strategy.

They discuss the team benefits of TypeScript, humble PHP beginnings, and the big differences between consultancy and product.

Featuring

• Jamon Holmgren — Twitter, Github, Website
• Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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Links

• Construction Worker & Home Designer Turned Software Engineer and Business Owner — Jamon Holmgren on secondCareerDevs
• Home Grown Accountant to Software Engineer — Michael Chan on secondCareerDevs
• Infinite Red — Experts in mobile & web technologies. We create beautiful, functional mobile apps and websites
• Infinite Red Academy — Engaging, Hands-On React Native Training
• Infinite Red on Github — Engaging, Hands-On React Native Training
  • Reactotron — A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows
  • Gluegun — A delightful toolkit for building Node-powered CLIs
  • Ignite — The hottest CLI for React Native, boilerplates, plugins, generators, and more!
  • ProMotion — ProMotion is a RubyMotion gem that makes iPhone development less like Objective-C and more like Ruby. Star this repo to keep tabs on our progress
• TypeScript
• RubyMotion
• ember
• PhoneGap
• Chain React Conf — THE REACT NATIVE CONFERENCE RETURNS TO PORTLAND, July 11-12, 2019
• Building Infinite Red — A Podcast About Building Infinite Red