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In this episode we talk about the visual development tool Webflow with co-founder Vlad Magdalin. Webflow is a visual website builder targeted at developers rather than end users. We talk to Vlad about his roots as a web developer that ultimately led to his creation of Webflow the company, and the tool. The impetus was taking the repetition out of ..

In this episode we have on Rich Harris, the creator the Svelte JavaScript framework. Rich leads us through the new Svelte 3.0 release, and how it moves away from a traditional JavaScript framework into a JavaScript framework compiler. This means you don’t end up shipping a monolithic framework, but rather only the JavaScript needed to do the thing..

On this episode we have on @GoogleDevExpert Jay Phelps from Citadel Securities about WebAssembly. We talk about what WebAssembly (or Wasm) is, and how it’s a “BIG IDEA” that’s going to impact you in the future. We talk about why there’s a need for something like WebAssembly, and what use-cases it solves. Then we dive deep to talk about the nitty g..

In this episode we have the one and only Una Kravets on to discuss her new status as a Googler in the Material Design Web department. We talk to Una about what exactly Google’s Material Design is, and how it’s far more than just Google’s UX for the web. In fact, Google’s Material Design is entirely theme-able, and is a broad umbrella under which G..

In this episode, we talk to webpack core maintainer Sean Larkin about what webpack is, who it’s intended for, and where it’s going in the future! We discuss the serendipitous history of how Sean came to be a webpack core maintainer, and how his job at Microsoft came about as a result of it. Join by guest host Jake Dohm, we then go on to discuss a..

In this episode of devMode.fm we talk with Jack McDade about his flat file CMS Statamic. We talk about the original problem of developer workflow that Statamic was intended to solve, and then move on to how it all works at a nuts & bolts level. Then we move on to discussing the major new version the Statamic team has been hard at work on: Stat..

In this episode, we talk with Fred K. Schott from the Pika Project about a future without webpack. Instead of having a massive build system just to use some node packages on the frontend, we can use @pika/web! @pika/web aims to tame some of the insanity that has come with modern JavaScript tooling. We talk about how it works to create a ‘web_modul..

On this episode, we have Zach Shallbetter, co-founder of Uxiliary on to discuss the “Frontend Developers” community he started on Slack. We talk about its sudden rise to fame, and then a devolution that happened as a result of Slack’s policies towards public communities. We discuss the scourges of recruiters, trolls, and horrible people that helpe..

In this episode, we have Simon Cox from Cox & Co Creative on to talk about what web developers need to know about the science of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) vs. the “sacrificing chickens” voodoo. We start off by talking about the sometimes problematic relationship between web developers and SEO consultants, and how that relationship can b..

In this episode we talk to Dominik Wilkowski of Thinkmill about design systems from a modern tooling point of view. We talk about how the real goal is to bridge the gap between design and development, and what role tooling can have in making this easier. We also go on to talk in broader terms about how using a design token system as an abstraction..