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In this episode, we have on special guest Jonathan Longnecker who works as a freelance web developer, but travels the world full-time in an Airstream RV with his wife and four children. All the while, he also documents his journeys and adventures on the TinyShinyHome.com website. We talk about the logistics of being able to juggle client work whil..

In this episode, we all square up at high noon, discussing our favorite local development environments in a shootout to determine the best of the best. We talk about why we use a local dev environment at all, and what we’re trying to accomplish by using one. We discuss not using any local dev environment (true “cowboy coding”), MAMP, Laravel Valet..

In this episode of devMode.fm we discuss support and maintenance retainers that you might establish with your clients. We delve into exactly what a support retainer is, and when it makes sense for both you and the client. A steady stream of revenue is vital to freelancers and agencies alike, and setting agreed upon budgets for priority support, up..

In this episode we have Andrew Fairlie from Mutual to discuss the new European Union General Data Protection Regulation aka the GDPR. We discuss what the GDPR means specifically to web designers and developers both in terms of the work we do, and the work proposals we draft. We discuss the GDPR from a gestalt perspective, to get an understanding o..

In this episode we have Brandon Kelly, the founder of Pixel & Tonic on to discuss their recently released Craft CMS 3. Living up to it’s version number, Craft CMS was 3 years in the works, and is a major new iteration of the popular CMS platform. We talk about the history of Pixel & Tonic as well as the history of Craft CMS, and learn the ..

In this episode we dive into using Git as a version control system with Mijingo’s Ryan Irelan. Whether you do frontend dev, backend dev, or any kind of dev, odds are very good that you’re using Git as a version control system. We talk about the history of Git, and delve into some of the bigger picture concepts behind Git to help understand what’s g..

In this episode, we have special guest Mark Huot to talk about GraphQL and his CraftQL plugin for Craft CMS 3. We talk about the history of GraphQL, and what problems it is designed to solve. We compare and contrast it with REST APIs, and talk about how GraphQL fits in with the JAMstack way of doing things. Even if you’re not working on a website ..

In this episode we have a roundtable discussion on deploying your website. You’ve created an awesome website, now how to do you it deployed to a public web server so the rest of the world can see it? And more importantly, how can you do this without tears? We discuss Git as a version control system, and why we use it for our websites. Then we move..

This episodes features accessibility guest Laura Shields from Nerdery.com in a lively discussion about web accessibility: what it means, how to do it… and most importantly, how to sell it to our clients. We can’t make the web a better place unless we can make a convincing case to our clients that it’s in their best interest to pay for it. Accessib..

In this episode, we talk to Eli Perelman and Tim Kelty from the Neutrino JS project about how Neutrino can make getting up and running using webpack a whole lot easier. Neutrino provides starter projects and middleware configs you can just grab off of the shelf and start using. Perhaps more importantly, Neutrino lets you solve a build problem once,..