The Tech Behind Compressed.fm
April 13, 2021
Amy and James walk through the tech behind Compressed.fm and some of the unique challenges they faced when building the site.
James is a content creator and boot camp instructor. Amy has taught and developed some curriculum for the University of Florida’s Master’s program.
You don’t have to know code to be a good designer. You don’t have to know design in order to be a good developer. But, the best designers and the best developers have a basic understanding of both disciplines.
Amy and James walk through the tech behind Compressed.fm and some of the unique challenges they faced when building the site.
Amy Dutton shares how she got started in tech by building the original Giphy over 20 years ago. She talks about how she navigated some of her career decisions, ultimately landing a full-time job after seven years of doing freelance full-time.
James Q Quick shares how he got his start in tech and how a couple of job interview rejections turned into a bigger opportunity and ultimately a career path as an evangelist, speaker, and teacher
Since we're web designers and developers, we care about this sort of thing.
The website is built on Next.js and Sanity and hosted on Vercel.
Amy wrote a blog post on Medium, all about the branding and site design.
We’ve open sourced the code and made it available on GitHub.
We took an entire episode to talk about the tech behind the site.
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