Starlifter.Dev: Recent Episodes
Benet 'Dr' Hitchcock and Josh Smith
Benet 'Dr' Hitchcock and Josh Smith, New Zealand / Aotearoa based Web Developers, talk all things web and tech from the Starlifter Studio in #Coolston, Christchurch. Listen in for the latest hotness, solid tech that stands the test of time, coding successes and challenges.
After a ridiculous 2020 Josh and Benet finally get around to recording a casual chat about their year in review including perennial topics such as raising children, podcasting experiments, CSS, SVG animation, the IndieWeb, productivity using Notion, oh and that #DevLyfe in Craft CMS.
Links
- Episode cover image by Matt Hearne
- Allen and Heath ZEDi10
- Focusrite 2i4
- Reaper DAW
- Discord
- Craft CMS
- Natural Paint
- NZBEX
- Conventional commits
- Semantic release
- Custom D
- Quantum Physics for Babies by Chris Ferrie
- Notion
- Marie Poulin
- Cassie Evans
- Porkbun - domain registrar
- IndieWeb
- Webmention
Back in March, which feels like decades ago in this COVID-19 era, Josh, Benet and Elinore chat about her journey from New Zealand to various spots around the world while designing websites and running her own mini agency along the way. There was also discussion around awkward situations working on the support desk for an unmentioned tech company 😬
https://elinoreruby.com/
In this show Dr Hitchcock chats with Sarah Turnbull and Abigail Tubuy from GymMaster.com, a gym membership software-as-a-service based in Christchurch, New Zealand. They discuss what they enjoy about working at Gymmaster, what it is like working with Linux on a day-to-day basis, supporting clients around the world as well as Nerf fight battle wounds.Â
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Jamie Hamilton, Creative Director at Meta Digital, chats with Dr Hitchcock about his career as a web designer, developer and now creative director. He shares stories of making CD-ROMs and Adobe Flash sites, what's changed in the Christchurch web scene since then and how 2020 is shaping up for Meta Digital.
Meta Digital
EPIC Innovation
Yoobee (formerly Natcoll)
CSS Grid
Timestamps
- 00:50 - Quickfire questions with our very special guest star MediaBeast
- 01:58 - MediaBeast's origin story
- 07:53 - What is your criteria for deciding what new technologies to incorporate into your business?
- 12:04 - "None of that static-ie goodness. None of that JAM stack."
- 12:50 - The Solid - Javascript and dev tooling
- 14:00 - Laravel - MediaBeast talks about the latest developments.
- 18:42 - Laravel ecosystem
- 24:00 - The Hotness - container hosting
- 32:58 - The Challenge - service workers and progressive web apps (PWA)
- 40:00 - SSL on localhost
- 45:04 - The Challenge - MediaBeast trying out Vue.js, Nuxt.js and headless Craft CMS
- 52:12 - The Plug
Links:
- Yoobee
- Plato Creative
- Craft CMS
- GraphQL
- Prismic
- Webflow
- Sublime Text
- Docker
- Composer
- NPM
- Laravel
- Statamic
- Fargate
- Amplify
- Cloud Run
- PWA Builder
- Real favicon generator
- Building an offline page for theguardian.com
- https-localhost - NPM
- mkcert
- Using pwa-builder from Microsoft: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Request failed
- Sizzy
- Firefox 3D Dev View
- Vue.js
- Nuxt.js
- Gridsome
- Svelte
- Web Directions - Code - Conference
- Title to sidebar - Craft CMS plugin
- MediaBeast on Twitter
- Abandoned Cart - Craft CMS plugin
- Xero - Craft CMS plugin
In episode 2 of the Starlifter.Dev podcast we have a chat with Ben Walker, the latest addition to the Digital team at Plato Creative. He shares his story as a globe trotting designer/developer.
We also cover the latest on updates in Firefox 70, Meetup.com, Craft CMS 3.3.11, and Vue 3 pre-alpha.
Josh talks about moving a website built in SilverStripe 3 to a JAM stack based puppy running on Craft CMS, Gatsby.js and AWS.
Benet shares his latest success in building a web app that calculates the standard alcoholic drinks in his tasty craft beers as well as plugs the versatile gym management software, GymMaster.com.
Links:
- Ben Walker
- Batch
- Meetup.com Introduces RSVP Fees for Members
- Craft CMS 3.3
- Craft Cloud
- Vue 3 pre-alpha
- Firefox 70
- Craft CMS
- Gatsby.js
- Strapi
- AWS Amplify
- Amazon ECS
- Standies.beer
- GymMaster - Gym Membership Management Software
In the debut episode of the Starlifter.Dev Podcast Benet and Josh talk about their beginnings in tech and the Web.
The News - we share the latest updates on Craft CMS 3.2, PHP 7.4, Docker breakages.
The Hotness - Josh has the lowdown on rad new services from GitHub including GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Actions and GitHub Package Registry. We also chat about the productivity gains we've made with Docksal, a fantastic tool for creating development environments in Docker.
If you're having issues accessing local dev domains using Docksal when trying to work without an Internet connection on macOS try this fix https://docs.docksal.io/core/system-dns/
Links:
- https://www.customd.com/
- https://www.platocreative.co.nz/
- https://www.metadigital.co.nz/
- https://giphy.com/gifs/frustrated-annoyed-programming-yYSSBtDgbbRzq
- https://craftcms.com/blog/craft-32
- https://github.com/craftcms/commerce/blob/3.0/CHANGELOG.md#300-alpha1---2019-07-24
- https://github.com/sponsors
- https://docksal.io/
- https://docs.docksal.io/core/system-dns/