This week I talk with Gabrielle Wee, who’s done loads of creative coding work here on CodePen but like so many other creative people we talk to, her creativity explodes into so many other areas like illustration, photography, drawing, and even gardening. Plus a desire to share those techniques. Her path has led her to be working at Apple, a dream job.
Gabrielle on Dribbble and Twitter.
Some advice from Gabrielle: doing work that she was personally interested in, rather than pandering to any recent trend, was much more fun and led to more clear success. Also: be curious and inspect element.
Time Jumps
- 00:28 Guest introduction
- 02:50 Personal website with fancy domain name
- 04:26 CSS Trickery
- 07:59 Putting code out into the world for the first time
- 09:23 CSS Nest Dropdown animation
- 11:48 What’s the job trajectory to working at Apple?
- 15:51 Sponsor: Jetpack
- 17:18 What else was on your path to getting a job?
- 20:13 Where does your art training come from?
- 25:33 Making Pokemon in code
- 26:45 What about Daily UI?
- 28:49 Making gradients you think you can’t pull off
- 31:27 Closing advice
Sponsor: Jetpack
Jetpack has some good news. All backups are now in realtime, whatever plan you are on or buy. If you already have daily backups on your plan, email them them to get on the new system. The blog post has details. Real time backups are amazing, because you can back up to very specific moments in time (say, right before a certain post was edited) rather than the more broad sword of having to pick a day.
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