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On this episode, we talk to Souvik Das Gupta from Miranj and Rob Hewitt from Steadfast Design Firm about how designers and developers can work more effectively together. We discuss when designers and developers should begin the collaboration process, and whether it makes sense for each profession to learn a little bit of the other. We go on to ta..

On this episode, @csswizardry Harry Roberts regales us with stories from the trenches, discussing the real-world web performance problems he’s helped companies overcome, and how. We go on to discuss how to how to help justify to expense of optimizing for performance, and how it’s really a business decision in terms of what ends up making the compa..

Matt Stein from Working Concept hosts this episode all about the art of focus, joined by special guests Brandon Kelly from Pixel & Tonic and Ransom Roberson from Venveo. The devMode.fm crew discusses the very different strategies we’ve each each adopted to help us maintain focus, and discuss how work/life balance comes into play as well. We l..

On this episode we talk with Paulo Ellias about building real native iOS and Android apps in React native. Even if your bread and butter is web development, exploring the options available to you like React Native that allow you to leverage your existing skills can be a really positive outcome. We discuss what it’s like to go from building CMS we..

On this episode, we’re joined by Adam Bradley & Manu Martinez-Almeida, the Ionic Framework team behind Stencil! We learn how Stencil is a build tool that allows you to create framework agnostic components that work with all of the major JavaScript frameworks, including no framework at all as Web Components. We discuss how the Ionic Framework’..

This special holiday episode of devMode.fm is some roundtable banter with many of the regular devMode.fm hosts, and nothing technical is discussed at all. Instead, we delve into the history of eggnog — We thought Michael was reading from Wikipedia but turns out he’s just obsessed — betel nut chewing, and other holiday traditions. We start to disc..

On this episode, we have a roundtable discussion on developer burnout spear­head­ed by Ben Parizek of Barrrel Strength Design, along with our guest Ben Cro­ker of PutYourLightsOn. We talk about all of our personal experiences with developer burnout, in terms of what it feels like, what and whom it impacts, and also how to deal with it. We center ..

On this episode, we talk with Amelia Wattenberger, a frontend & UX developer at Parse.ly about data visualization aka dataviz. We discuss the origins of dataviz, and how it can be used to tell a narrative with the immediacy and visceral connection that can be difficult to do with other mediums. We discuss Amelia’s personal approach to dataviz..

On this episode we talk with Katie Fritz from Foster Commerce about what it takes to have an awesome Author Experience (AX). There’s plenty of talk about User Experience (UX) & Developer Experience (DX) but with many content-heavy websites, the content Author Experience (AX) can be of paramount importance. We go from high level philosophical ..

In this episode, we have a roundtable discussion with a variety of experienced web developers who are at different stages of using the JAMstack, from not at all, to exploring/experimenting, to using to deliver client projects to production. We’re joined by Will Browar & Marc Hartwig from Dixon Schwabl, Jake Dohm from Good Work, and Shawn “swyx..