Word Wrap: Recent Episodes
Claire and Steph are joined by Alex Trost, who is a developer experience engineer at Prismic, which is a content management system. Alex is an educator and writes really cool overview articles on his platform, frontend.horse, which also has a very active Discord community.
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We kick off with a preview of what to expect in season two of Word Wrap. Then, discuss how we've approached exploring a new code base, important considerations, and tips for tools and techniques.
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This episode has a large focus on the Jamstack, including both Jason and Phil's path into it. Spoiler: Phil says "tiddly" a lot.
We learn more about Miriam's journey into webdev and onto the CSSWG, what she finds frustrating about how others use CSS, the why behind the three specs shes writing, and what she personally wants to use container queries for most.
Steph and Claire discuss how their experiences re-inforce that regardless of methodology your team is using, it's important to find your voice in the process. If you're on a team, you're working to make the best product you can and that requires good communication and removing blockers.
You've likely heard about color contrast, but there's a lot more to accessibility than that. Claire and Steph will also review the upcoming update to the color contrast model, content reflow, touch/target size, and visible focus.
We kick off part one of our two part accessibility series, starting with semantics and dipping into more complex concepts like roving tabindex and focus trapping.
Angular? React? Whatever the flavor of the week is? There's a lot that goes into a decision of which JavaScript framework to choose - or whether to pick one at all!
In our first episode of 2021, we decided to do a bit of a different episode. In this episode, we talk about web components. Claire has some answers (be sure to check the notes!) and Steph has some questions. Do you have questions? Let us know.
Color contrast is very important - why do folks still ignore it in 2020? Tools, tips and tricks to really make sure your visual experiences are inclusive. Claire discusses a personal anecdote related to color contrast, and Steph really wants to write more CSS. What are some of your resolutions? Tell us at @wordwrapshow on Twitter.
This episode is basically Steph's love letter to Eleventy, and an ode to the 'net, lo-fi.
Claire and Steph discuss the Web, and why it is absolutely crucial to know your Web fundamentals. Inspired by a recent issue on the CSS Working Group's GitHub, we bring it back to the basics.
Claire and Steph talk about their experience with CSS - why it matters, what flavors they've seen, and why that experience matters. Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, even Bootstrap gets a mention!
Claire and Steph introduce themselves in this podcast. We get to hear their journeys into development, and their general tips for how in the world to navigate the development career path. Of course, since it's their first episode, there's some hiccups... but we're just getting started.