Web of Tomorrow: Recent Episodes
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In each episode Adam interviews somebody who works in the web world as a designer, developer, manager, advocate, or founder. These are people who have built something awesome or are experts in something awesome. Together we're all building the web of tomorrow.
Richard Feldman has spent years using and teaching Elm and wouldn't want to use anything else at this point. Learn about why he likes it so much and how you can learn from him and his new book, Elm in Action.
Dave and Jamison host the Soft Skills Engineering podcast. Jamison talks about how he got into coding, and they talk about how they met and why they started the podcast, as well as the Dunning–Kruger effect, and React Rally.
Jens shares what accessibility is, why it's important for everyone, and how it can increase your business revenue.
Cassidy is really into mechanical keybards. She talks about how she got into keyboards, some keyboard vocabulary, and the Scrabble keycaps she launched on Massdrop.
Safia and I talk about how she got into computers, her startup, how she uses pen and paper for productivity, and a recent event where she received a lot of hate online.
It's common to hear jokes about PHP being a terrible programming language, but it powers most of the web. I talked with Sammy Powers, host of PHP Roundtable, to see what we can learn from languages like PHP>
You don't have a ton of time to devote to your side project. You can use this side project checklist to learn how to actually launch a product from start to finish.
I talked with Jake about being an author and software engineer. He shares his journey of becoming an author and getting selected to have his first book published through the Kindle Scout program. And he talks about his new book, Vagrants.
@climagic is a twitter account all about the command line. Mark talks about why he started the account, some interesting things he's done with it, why CLI is so great, why you should learn it, some history of the command line, and some useful commands.
Kye Hohenberger is the creator of Emotion, a high performance, lightweight css-in-js library. He talks about the benefits of CSS-in-JS and of emotion in particular.
Kyle Mathews is the creator of Gatsby, a blazing fast React static site generator. He talks about why he made Gatsby, why it's so fast, and why you should use it.
Storybook is an interactive development & testing environment for React and React-Native UI components. Marie explains why it's useful and how they use it at Algolia.
Why should you care about licenses? Mike Linksvayer talks about free and open source licenses, some of the legal issues behind them, and why you should pay attention to them.
Aaron Frost and I talk about ES6, a little bit of the history, some of our favorite features, and he explains the benefits of maps and sets.
Nathan Thomson is a UX designer who just launched a zombie board game on Kickstarter. But it wasn't easy. He and his co-designer went through a 2 year process and a lot of hard work to get to where they are today.
Want to really master flexbox? Dave Geddes has made a course that will help you do just that. In this episode, I talk to him about flexbox, his new course, and why we should really master this stuff.
In which I talk with Blaine Farr, the founder of WeVyte about his app and React Native.
In which I talk with Riley Carasquillo, a product manager at HireVue about what product managers do, and how they interact with engineers.
In which we talk with Andrew Jensen, a software engineer at Domo, about hardware + software, Internet of Things, and some projects he's worked on.
In which I talk with Aaron Costley, a software engineer at Amazon, about Angular 2 and why he chose it for his latest project at Amazon.
In which we talk with James Stewart a developer and team lead at Domo, and co-organizer of the Utah d3.js meetup group.
In which we talk with Ryan Henricksen about QA (Quality Assurance) and how he got into it.
Frida is a dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers that can help you with reverse engineering and security researching.
In which Riley interviews Dave Smith, a panelist on JavaScript Jabber, and an Engineering Director at HireVue, about how he got into programming.
In which we talk about how to practice your skills with katas on codewars and other sites.
In which we talk about the JSON data format, and Firebase, a real-time, NoSQL database.
In which we talk with Laura Leavitt, the UX designer of the year at Domo about her background and different aspects of design.
In which we talk about how Adam is learning functional programming and Riley is learning React.
In which we talk about how you can build cross platform apps using web technologies with Cordova/Phonegap.
In which we talk about what tech we're thankful for.
In which we talk about D3.js and how it's useful for data visualization and visual storytelling on the web.
In which we talk about some cool tools for JavaScript for task automation, scaffolding, and package management.
In which we talk about where to learn about how to learn to code for the web.
In which we talk about what the heck content management systems are and what they're good for. Some examples are Wordpress, Squarespace, Ghost, and Jekyll.