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Patrick “Honeydew” Harrington & Andrew record another devMode standup streamed live on YouTube, where we talk about a website that Andrew’s brought back from the dead as a favor to a friend that’s a favor to a friend. The website went entirely offline because the VPS bill wasn’t paid, and Andrew stream him rebuilding & modernizing is from ..

We talk with Dr. Thomas Anthony from Distilled / SearchPilot about how a scientific approach to SEO A/B testing gives you results, not incense and tarot cards. Joined by guest host Caroline Blaker from Petroglyph Creative, we discuss the struggle to bring the rigor of the scientific method to SEO, by isolating what works from what doesn’t in a det..

Patrick & Andrew record another devMode standup streamed live on YouTube, focusing the conversation around the idea of using your skills and interests to make your own product. We talk about the benefits of using your super powers as a developer to make your own product, and thus your own wealth… as well as the downsides of being your own boss..

Jonathan Melville hosts this episode on how we handle breaking down complex problems so that we can implement a solution. Our jobs as developers is solving problems we don’t fully understand yet, but there are methodologies we can use to help break down these complex problems into eminently doable chunks of work. We talk about our personal approa..

Patrick & Andrew recap the results of Andrew’s bet against the fall of the republic, we talk about building multi-arch Docker images for Patrick’s beloved M1, and tell you more about LLVM & compilers than you wanted to know. We then launch into PHP 8, the JIT (Just In Time) compiler, finding & fixing weird obscure bugs, how to decide w..

For the 100th episode, Ben Croker leads the cabal of inquisitors, and puts the regular hosts Patrick Harrington & Andrew Welch in the hot seat! We discuss their colorful histories and learn more than we ever wanted to know about running marathons & Patrick in tights. Ben Croker and his henchmen Matt Stein & Lindsey DiLoreto proceed t..

We sit down for a chat with Henri Helvetica to discuss his journey from working at record labels to the fashion industry and then landing with a splash in the tech world. We discuss how his varied background has given him things to draw upon in the tech world in unexpected but serendipitous ways. We have a good discussion on the Toronto Web Perf ..

Patrick is madly in love with his M1 MacBook Air, Docker on M1 Macs, how virtual. memory swapping works, how often do you reboot your computer? Andrew is somewhat skeptical about the Apple Car (remember the Pippin!), we talk deployments with Buddy, GitHub Actions, Azure pipelines, the glory of a modular webpack 5 config, get-webpack-config, Maelst..

We talk with Kent C Dodds about how he made a career out of teaching React, culminating most recently in his Epic React course that aims to ensure you learn how to React. Kent also talks enthusiastically about Remix.run, the project from Ryan Florence @ryanflorence & Michael Jackson @mjackson that provides a complete frontend -> backend sol..

On this devMode Standup, Patrick & Andrew talk about the promise of the JAMstack, Patrick’s experience with Nuxt, and how Sprig is the same but different. We also talk about stuff Andrew is up to, such as Alpine Docker containers, dual PHP containers for XDebug performance reasons, and get into Spatie’s new Ray debugging tool too. Then we tal..