Salma Alam-Naylor - Nordcraft

About this episode

Salma Alam-Naylor discusses her journey from music teacher to developer and the role of visual editors in web development.

This week we're joined by Salma Alam-Naylor, the Head of Developer Education at Nordcraft. Salma shares her journey from music teacher to developer, her discovery of the developer education space in 2020, and the challenges and opportunities she's faced in her role. We discuss the importance of visual editors in web development, the illusion of complexity in development, and the future of web development. Salma also introduces Nordcraft, a visual web framework that allows you to build websites with a GUI. https://whitep4nth3r.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitep4nth3r/?originalSubdomain=uk https://github.com/whitep4nth3r https://nordcraft.com/

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett

Guest: Salma Alam-Naylor

Topics covered

• developer education
• web development
• visual editors
• career journey
• software development

Keywords

• developer education
• web development
• visual framework
• Nordcraft
• software development
• GUI
• complexity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nordcraft, whitep4nth3r, GitHub, LinkedIn

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