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On this episode, we talk to Shawn “swyx” Wang from Netlify about the JAMstack & Serverless revolution in frontend development. We discuss what exactly Netlify is, and how you can leverage the Edge, Build, and Dev aspect of it to make your development process more enjoyable. We talk about the challenges of maintaining Author Experience (AX) in..

On this episode, we’re joined by Sebastien Dehesdin from Bleeps & Blops to talk about luring clients away from WordPress. WordPress powers a massive slice of the Internet, but its hold is slipping as modern web development advances, and other solutions offer a better develop and content authoring experiences. We delve into strategies we use t..

In this episode, we talk to Matt Gray about his journey from working at an agency to freelancing to developing his own software as a service (SaaS) called “Servd”. We delve into the nuts and bolts of Servd, which aims to be a one-click hosting solution for Craft CMS that implements a number of best practices such as scalability, image optimization..

The devMode.fm crew recaps the Dot All 2019 Conference in Montreal, Canada… joined by Ben Croker and Lindsey DiLoreto. If you couldn’t make it, this podcast is for you! We talk about and analyze the news announced at the Dot All 2019 conference such as Craft Cloud, Craft CMS 4, and more! We also discuss the talks that we heard, in terms of what t..

In this roundtable discussion, we delve into what traits we believe it takes to be a good developer. We’re joined by special guests Jennifer Blumberg from Next Solutions, Paulo Elias from IDEO, and Ransom Roberson from Venveo for a fantastic discussion. We separate out the traits that it takes to be a “good human” that are fairly universal to trai..

In this episode, we talk to Chris Ferdinandi believes that many of our modern best practices are harming the web. Chris has ideas for a new set of best practices that bring more simplicity and sanity to the dev process. They involve such heretical ideas as not using the popular JavaScript frameworks, and using vanilla JavaScript instead. We also ..

In this episode we talk with Stephen Callender about what it takes to run a profitable business. As it turns out, it requires a whole lot of honesty. Stephen shares his journey from dual masters degrees to being a preacher to finally ended up running his own web development agency from Argentina. Running your own business isn’t always roses, and ..

On this episode we’re joined by Jason Lengstorf and Chris Biscardi to talk about the newly released Gatsby Themes! We discuss out Gatsby themes are not your daddy’s ThemeForest, they are composable so you can utilize multiple themes in one project. They are also granular, so you can replace the look and functionality of only the pieces you need to..

In this episode, we talk to Vue.js core team member Chris Fritz about what awesome new features we can look forward to in Vue.js 3.0! First we discuss a misconception / miscommunication about Vue.js 3.0: the existing templating & component syntax is will not only continue to be supported, it will continue to be recommended! Then we go on to t..

In this episode we have on Brandon Kelly from Pixel and Tonic to talk about the newly released Craft CMS 3.2! Craft CMS has long worked as a “headless” CMS via the Element API or GraphQL courtesy of the CraftQL plugin, but the new Headless Live Preview support takes it to the next level. We talk about that in depth, and then also discuss a number..