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We talk with Olivier Bon about what it’s like being on the support front lines for Craft CMS. When you send in a support ticket, email, tweet, etc., chances are Oli is on the other end. Joined by Ben Croker, we hear about Oli’s journey to end up in his current position, working in a small village in the French countryside for Pixel & Tonic. W..

In this roundtable discussion, the devMode hosts and regulars talk about what it was like in 2020 living and working through the global pandemic. Many of our long-time hosts & regular guest come back to share their personal stories in terms of what work, play, and the meaning of life has become in the context of COVID-19. Of course, in true d..

On this episode, we chat with Drew Powers from skypack.dev about Snowpack, a modern frontend build tool that’s blazingly fast, and zero config to get up and running. Learn why Snowpack was named the “#1 Developer Productivity Booster” and why CodePen.io just announced an integration with the Skypack CDN. We talk about how leveraging the platform ..

On this episode, we talk with Segun “Sage” Adebayo, the creator of the Chakra UI component library about how Chakra came to be, and how helping people has changed his life. Chakra UI is a set of React components that makes putting together any website easier, with a consistent design system and accessible & composable components. If you’re a ..

On this episode, we talk with Stefan Baumgartner, author of “TypeScript in 50 Lessons” about what TypeScript is, and why we should adopt it. We discuss how the entire ecosystem, from fledgling developers to framework authors benefit immensely from TypeScript, and we discuss exactly how and why that is. It’s likely that if you do any JavaScript co..

In this roundtable discussion, we once again bring together members of the Craft CMS plugin developers cabal to talk about the state of plugin development 2 ½ years after the Craft CMS plugin store went live. We talk about a wide range of issues from development challenges to marketing, and how support is a large part of what we do. We also discu..

On this episode we have a round table discussion with a cadre of Craft CMS developers to discuss whether a future version of Craft CMS should use Yii3 or Laravel. We talk about the relative merits of both staying the course with Yii3 and joining the legions in Laravel-land… with a wildcard thrown in of potentially just leveraging Symfony directly...

On this episode we talk with Infosec consultant Eugen Olteanu about information security and the dark side of the web. There exists a parallel world where the breaking into websites is both a measure of street cred and also a profession. We delve down into the belly of the beast to discuss how this world works. We also talk about what developers ..

On this episode, we talk with Pariss Athena, the creator of #BlackTechTwitter & founder of BlackTechPipeline.com, about how developers can use social media to advance our development career. We have a great conversation about Pariss’s journey from being an esthetician waxing bodies to founding her very own tech startup. Helen may have had the..

On this episode we have Carson from Big Sky Software on to discuss how his htmx library is an extension to HTML that brings needed dynamic functionality to the modern web without bringing complexity. Joined by Ben Croker from PutYourLightsOn, we discuss the type of problems that htmx is designed to solve, which is dynamism & fetching backend ..