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Rodney Urquhart grew up in a North Philly neighborhood ridden with gang violence and effects of the crack epidemic. After seeing people around him get involved with gangs and crime, he realized that staying in high school would result in getting arrested or shot. 

At 16, Rodney dropped out of high school and moved in with his grand mother. Being a high school dropout and having no college degree, Rodney had his fair share of companies casting doubt on his ability. But his willingness to learn and work well with others was what got him to create an impressive company portfolio including Comcast, Microsoft’s Yammer, and ThoughtWorks. He didn’t just want to survive, he wanted to thrive. 

Rodney currently heads the test infrastructure team at Slack. He is also part of a program called /dev/color, a non-profit organization that aims to maximize the impact of Black software engineers in the tech space.

#28: Rodney Urquhart - How a 16-year-old High School Dropout became a Software Engineer at Slack

In this episode, Tim and David are joined by Sarah Drasner, a teacher, author, consultant and staff writer at CSS-Tricks. They discuss animating with CSS, JavaScript and SVG, the advantages of animating with SVG over static graphics, SVG 2 and mesh gradients, staving off burnout, public speaking and writing, understanding better through teaching, paid vs community work, teaching in the Greek islands, and drawing snakes and lizards and dead things for encyclopedias.

Show Notes:
- Thanks to our sponsor, HelloSign: hellosign.com/api
- Sarah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sarah_Edo
- SVG Animation: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920045335.do
- Sarah on CodePen: https://codepen.io/sdras/
- Web Animations Workshop: https://webanimationworkshops.com
- Sarah's website: https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com
- GreenSock: https://greensock.com
- mo.js: http://mojs.io
- Web Animations API: https://www.sitepoint.com/bringing-pages-to-life-web-animations-api/
- D3.js: https://d3js.org
- React-Motion: https://github.com/chenglou/react-motion
- Field Museum: https://www.fieldmuseum.org
- Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com
- CSS-Tricks: https://css-tricks.com
- David Walsh Blog: https://davidwalsh.name
- Amelia Bellamy-Royds: https://twitter.com/ameliasbrain
- Vue: https://vuejs.org
- View a transcript of this episode here: https://www.sitepoint.com/animating-with-css-javascript-and-svg#transcript
- Visit the Versioning Show home page: https://www.sitepoint.com/versioning-show/

Say hello on Twitter: 
- M. David Green: twitter.com/mdavidgreen
- Tim Evko: twitter.com/tevko
- Versioning Show: twitter.com/versioningshow
- SitePoint: twitter.com/sitepointdotcom

Animating with CSS, JavaScript and SVG, and Avoiding Burnout, with Sarah Drasner

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