Episodes
A paginated list of episodes in order. We heard you like WordPress loops.
Adam Coster on Game Development and Crashlands 2
Adam Coster talks with us about working with his family in game development, how they get started making games, what all is involved with publishing games, deciding to go Steam and Netflix only for Crashlands 2, how web tech is involved in game development, and the fun of testing and doing Q&A for games.
Dave’s Second Brain Idea, Notion Thoughts, and Google’s LLM in Chrome
Dave's got an idea for a second brain app that's customized to his brain, where we're at with Notion and other notes apps, and accessibility on LLM's in browsers.
Frostapalooza Recap, Follow Up, and Messy Codebases
Chris has a birthday today 🎉, we recap our Frostapalooza experience celebrating Brad Frost's birthday, do all codebases become a mess, Mermaid, TLDraw, and Figjam thoughts, making tiny games, where's the follow up in web and world news, and what's the current state of CMS' on the web?
The Great Divide, Global Design + Web Components, and Job Titles
A bit of follow-up on vibe driven development and JavaScript not causing The Great Divide, writing testing automation, global design systems and web components, could PHP be used for web components, what if view transitions are going to be everywhere, and frontend engineer vs design systems engineer job titles and descriptions.
Tending to RSS Feeds, Code Hike’s Fine Markdown, and Cloudflare R2
Doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the planes, Dave's got a 2x life update, how often do you manage or prune your RSS feed subscriptions, checking in on Code Hike and their fine grained Markdown approach, JavaScript decorators use case, and using Cloudflare R2 for image storage.
Getting Comfortable with the Struggle and Vibe Driven Development
Chris brings some blog posts to talk about including being comfortable with the struggle of developer life, Cloudflare Workers + monorepos, vibe driven development, and questions about database migrations, and whether we think AI free blogs are going to be a rarity in the future?
We Were Wrong and Keep Getting in Trouble
Chris has some follow up on blog posts and past podcast episodes to respond to including browsers and browser engines, advertising on the web, magazines, Cara, peak AI slop, and view transitions.
CarTalk, Ownership of A Book Apart, and URL Shorteners
Dave's putting together a platform for his presidential bid and workshops his policies, discussing vehicle options for a family in 2024, Chris and other authors get ownership of their A Book Apart books back, and the ramifications and reasoning behind Google killing a URL shortener.
Blogging, In App Browsers are Bad, and Teaching CSS from Scratch
On this epsiode we're talking about the current state of blogging and social media, the polyfill hack, whether in app browsers should be banned, web components and the difficulty of front end web dev, and how we would go about teaching CSS from scratch in 2024.
Assigning Weight Dynamically, CoPilot vs Other AI, and Monorepos
We're talking about assigning a weight to items in a layout, differentiating between banger posts and regular blog posts, using social engineering to get PR's accepted, monorepo thoughts, using CoPilot vs other AI programming support bots, has TypeScript benefited from AI, and what happens if you turn off CoPilot?
Website Rendering, Updating Software, and Edge Gets Faster
We're talking website rendering, server side rendering, Astro's server islands, perf hits for navigation elements, updating software because the docs aren't available for older versions, and a new Microsoft Edge was released.
Setting Up Prettier and Linting, Comparing Colors, and Accessibility Overlays
We've got follow up on Cloudflare and Cara from last episode, a question about setting up Prettier and auto linting, a cool tool from a listener on comparing colors, a question about using tooling like Craft or more user friendly apps like Webflow when working with clients, and our takes on accessibility overlays.