A podcast about web design and development.
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Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 13 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell (@jcutrell), co-founder of Spec and Director of Engineering at PBS. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Twitter: @developertea :: Email: deve ...
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A weekly show covering the latest in browser features, standards, and the tools developers use to build for the Web of today and beyond. Each week, hosts Danny, Amal, Leon, and Justin are joined by a special guest to discuss the latest developments and features that you may just want to use in your next project.
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The award winning Big Web Show features special guests and topics like web publishing, art direction, content strategy, typography, web technology, and more. It's everything web that matters. Hosted by Jeffrey Zeldman.
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Do you want to get your first job as a web developer, or level up in your web dev career?? Well, StartHere: Web Development is the show for you! Dain Miller is your new mentor as he shares his industry experience, insight, and resources to help get you from knowing nothing to becoming a full-time web developer. Everyone starts somewhere and you’re starting here.
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Join us each week as we discuss all things software development. Frequently joined by a far more intelligent guest on the show's topic, we by no means know everything, but love what we do. Topics range from daily developer life, PHP, frameworks, testing, good software design and our experiences using many other programming languages.
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Web Developer / Trainer. Certified in Training & Assessment. Microsoft Technology Associate. Certified Google Educator. Google Classroom & Udemy. Sports fan. Podcasting about Careers in Web Development
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607: Astro Launches an Integrated Database
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Show Description Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about Astro announcement of Astro DB. The pluses and minuses of it, and whether you have to always use the database with Astro DB. We get into how to seed your database, upgrading the database, and the almost weirdly generous pricing model. Listen on Website → Guests Fred K. Schott Guest's Main URL •…
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Two Principle Categories To Judge Productivity Advice
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In today's episode we talk about principles of productivity. Most of the advice you receive will fit in the two categories we discuss in this episode. Once you connect with these ideas, you'll be able to use them for your own gain. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Jam.dev If you’re an engineer and you would rather spend your time writing cod…
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Cost of Delay Curves and Classes of Service
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In today's episode we discuss the concept of "cost of delay", and explore the fact that cost of delay does not necessarily follow a linear path. When cost of delay has a cliff, or an exponential curve, how do you weigh one opportunity versus another? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Unblocked If you would rather spend your time coding instea…
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606: Web Sustainability with Michelle Barker
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Show Description We're talking with Michelle Barker about the idea of paying to support bloggers (and podcasters!) via services like Patreon, drumming as a fun side gig from CSS, how big of an issue digital sustainability is, trying to understand the environmental impact of our websites and digital life, wondering why YouTube embeds are still so la…
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Taking Personal Accountability for Systematic Failures
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"What actions can I take to get better from here?" This seems like a simple concept, but in practice we often are more interested in protecting our ego. In this episode we try to practice this self-accountability through an exercise. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Jam.dev If you’re an engineer and you would rather spend your time writing c…
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Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part Two
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In this episode we continue our discussion about the most overused statistical measurement. We'll talk about a few more counterintuitive properties of the average, and how you might be underserving your colleagues as a result of thinking in averages. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Neo4j Is your code getting dragged down by endless JOINs an…
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605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers
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Show Description Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, RSS in HTML, and the state of state and UI. Listen on Website → Guests Jim Nielsen Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Designer. Engineer…
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Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part One
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On average, you're probably overusing this specific type of statistic. In today's episode, we discuss the king of all misleading numbers: averages! There's so much to talk about with averages that we're splitting this into two parts. Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician. But we will talk about some of the interesting properties of averages and why …
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Today we explore the idea of treating your time as a product. Start with a wishlist: what do you wish was true about your week? What are your "if-only" statements? Next, put on your product owner hat. How would you improve the situation, if you knew the "consumer"'s requests? This exercise should provide unique insight and a new lens to view your t…
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604: VS Code Plugins, Git as a Radical Statement, Tailwind & Arc Drama
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Show Description A follow up on jQuery conversation, Microsoft owning all the things, what VS Code plugins are your ride or die, the ability to Git from wherever you want, Tailwind drama, global design system follow up, Arc Search gets roasted, and Frontend Design Conference is back! Listen on Website → Links GitHub - tc39/proposal-type-annotations…
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Von Restorff Isolation Effect and a Backfiring of Process
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The Von Restorff effect says we remember things that stand out. This is probably mostly intuitive - "that stood out to me" is a common colloquialism. But what isn't intuitive is the implied downside of uniformity, which is often the product of process. In other words, if your process creates perfect uniformity, elevating any one thing, say, in prio…
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In today's episode, we do a journaling exercise to provide a new lens on developing your own career roadmap. We're going to practice the power of hindsight, finding our wiser selves, and ultimately looking forward and backward...at the same time. It sounds a little odd, but it's all based in solid cognitive science. If you have a notoriously hard t…
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603: Deno, React Alternatives, and Copilot Concerns with Triple Threat Josh Collinsworth
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Show Description Josh (or Jsoh) stops by to talk about his work at Deno, recent blog posts on Copilot, why Svelte is awesome and React is not, Apple and PWA, and building word games on the web. Listen on Website → Guests Josh Collinsworth Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Frontend Engineer at Deno, the maker and designer of the word games Quina, a…
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Delegation, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency
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As you grow your career, you will continuously lean on delegation to scale your efforts and focus on the most important things. True delegation requires ownership, and ownership can be thought of in two critical parts: agency and responsibility. In today's episode, we discuss the fool's errand of delegating only one or the other of these parts. 🙏 T…
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602: What Does Accessibility Really Mean?
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Show Description Voiceover pays us a visit, we talk about what accessibility really means, the difficulty of closing a dialogue element, web components at work, and jQuery 4 is out. Listen on Website → Links Opportunities for AI in Accessibility – A List Apart the-pastry-box-project.net An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues by Anne Gibson Alphabet of…
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601: Brad Frost on A Global Design System + Frostapalooza
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Show Description Brad Frost has got design systems on his mind—at a global scale. What is a global design system? Are two design systems ever the same? How would this slot inside atomic design? What has been the response from the web community to global design system as an idea? And what's Frostapalooza? Listen on Website → Guests Brad Frost Guest'…
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Apply Little's Law To What You Can Control
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Little's Law explains, in a given queuing system, what the relationships of throughput within that system are. We can garner insights both for our work, and for our own lives, by recognizing how these relationships work and what we can do to utilize them. In this episode, we talk about when it is useful to use Little's law to your advantage. 📮 Ask …
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600: Where Will The Web Be 12 Years from Now?
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Show Description We've got your feedback as well as our thoughts on where we all think the web will be in 2036 - as we celebrate 12 years of ShopTalk Show history, we're looking forward to what's to come with ideas around cookie banners, undo, no more passwords, React, Deno, Node, and Mozilla's future, ChatGPT's thoughts, accessibility, blockchain,…
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Finding Leverage by Escaping Functional Fixedness
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Finding leverage is difficult to do, but a lot of the reason for this is that we allow ourselves to fall into well-traveled cognitive pathways. If we reject the solution domain-set that comes to mind immediately, we may be able to consider options for solutions we had never considered. This larger solution set may also include a high-leverage optio…
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599: Fighting the Algorithm With RSS, Blogging, and the IndieWeb
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Show Description Dave and Chris discuss indie web culture, the role of social media in today's society, and the challenges and strategies of freelancing. Additionally, they discuss a range of topics from content moderation, coding and refining tech skills, to emerging startups and the future of web technology. Listen on Website → Links Cracking The…
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Is it Actually Important to Question Assumptions?
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In today's episode, we discuss turtles, resolutions, and why your beliefs and what you see as fact is probably worth questioning anyway. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive commun…
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598: Jen Simmons on Interop, WebKit Releases, and New CSS Features in Safari
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Show Description Jen Simmons, Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & WebKit, stops by to talk about what Interop is, and a look ahead at new CSS features in Webkit and Safari such as JPEG XL, masks, a round function, JavaScript improvements, styling form controls, content unblocks, masonry, and more! Listen on Website → …
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597: How Many VS Code Plugins, Poor Charlie’s Almanack, and Where to Start in 2024?
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Show Description We're closing in on episode 600 and need your help to celebrate! Listen in to learn how to contribute to the episode. We're also talking GitHub desktop apps and code editors, how many VS Code plugins are needed, reading long form like Poor Charlie's Almanack, InVision shutting down, and answering our first Q of the year: how would …
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9 Years - Persistence by Reducing Expectation
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Today Marks 9 Years of Developer Tea. Thank you all for your support, and your friendship. I wish you all well on your journey, and may you find clarity, perspective, and purpose. (Don't worry, we aren't going anywhere!) 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: …
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596: The Year of AI, Arc, and Being Mad About the Right Thing
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Show Description Looking back at the year of AI, using Arc on macOS and now Windows, dreaming of subscriptions, and knowing how to be mad about the right thing. Listen on Website → Links Crunchyroll Dropout Wish (2023) GitHub Copilot Loom Introducing Whisper A Convo w/ Chris Coyier – Arc Arc from The Browser Company Codeium Dropbox spooks users wi…
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What characterizes good plans from bad ones? And how can you make your plans better on average? In this episode we discuss how to better organize your intentions and processes to yield better plans. 🎙 Sponsor Today's episode is sponsored by Miro! Miro provides the creative freedom, collaboration, and integration you need to get your team moving in …
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595: MedTalk Show, Plagiarism and Code Grifting, and How We’re Testing Code
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Show Description Blood pressure, stress, and COVID highlight the MedTalk Show portion of this episode, a new "Did You Know" segment about dev tools in Chrome, 4 hour video on plagiarism and code grifters, typography, breaking out of CSS Grid, the oldest things Chris and Dave worked on, and what the testing process is like at Luro or CodePen. Listen…
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Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects
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The "lollapalooza" effect (coined by Charlie Munger) occurs when multiple other effects have a compounded outcome that tends to create an extreme situation. In this episode, we discuss lollapalooza effects and how you might fall victim to them, and more importantly, how you can use them to your advantage. 🎙 Sponsor Today's episode is sponsored by M…
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594: Wiping Your Laptop, UX of Password Codes, and :Has Tips and Tricks
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Show Description In this episode we're discussing making tech videos, website tinkering, :has tricks, SVG path commands, and the complexities of CSS & JavaScript logic. Listen on Website → Links Streamlabs NextDNS GitHub Desktop Tower Git Client Screen Studio ScreenFlow Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc. Mark Rober I Join…
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Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups
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When you are newly joining a team, you have a huge opportunity to do something that no one on the team has: to find your "weathervane." The pressure pushing against you to adopt the beliefs of the team you are joining. What you do with it is one huge way a team can improve, or otherwise, stay the same. 🎙 Sponsor Today's episode is sponsored by Miro…
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Most people believe good things will happen by default. Not to be the bearer of bad news, but there's a downside to this endless optimism. You cannot will good things to happen, and when you don't prepare for adverse events, you won't be ready when they inevitably occur. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a qu…
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593: Beep & Texts, Tumblr, JavaScript & Web Components, & Cool Blog Post Ideas
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Show Description Thoughts on smashing all communication messaging apps together, what's happened to Tumblr under Automattic, what the situation is with native web components and JavaScript, and looking at a list of types of blog posts. Listen on Website → Links Combined Messaging Apps – Chris Coyier Adium - Download Beeper XMPP Texts Automattic CEO…
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592: Web Component Therapy, SEO Therapy, and Learning Something New like Swift
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Show Description Talking web components, progressive enhancement, style-able components, having to pay before you get to see a demo, being annoyed at the business of SEO, and subscriptions vs ads. Listen on Website → Links FitVids has a web component now | daverupert.com Code Hike Everything about SEO is obnoxious – Chris Coyier Did SEO experts rui…
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591: Cascade Layers, CSS Functions, and more CSS with Miriam Suzanne
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Show Description Miriam Suzanne stops by to talk about CSS updates and news on container queries, rolling out cascade layers, !important things to remember, custom properties, exit animations, CSS functions, state queries, and more. Listen on Website → Guests Miriam Suzanne Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Co-Founder of Oddbird, core contributor …
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Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap
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Your team's process for managing a backlog is probably growing stale because you are running on habit rather than procedure. Break out of procedure and remind yourself why you have a process to begin with: orient yourself to the outcomes! 🎙 Sponsor Today's episode is sponsored by Miro! Miro provides the creative freedom, collaboration, and integrat…
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Show Description The excitement of launching Luro, changes in social media platforms, different seasons for coding and marketing, embedded social media post weight, CSS thoughts from Web Unleashed, focus state issues, and fact checking and updating old posts on your blog. Listen on Website → Links Luro | Build a design system and track component us…
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Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions
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What is it about our present situation that changes our perspective? In today's episode we talk about the availability bias and why our present reality looms so large in our decisionmaking. 🎙 Sponsor Today's episode is sponsored by Miro! Miro provides the creative freedom, collaboration, and integration you need to get your team moving in the same …
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589: CSS Functions, Read It Later, Making Money in Business, and More
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Show Description A quick bit of union news follow up, CSS function round up, Read It Later inside Feedbin, fun uses for a Stream Deck+, how to turn up the money dial in your own business, and having the audacity to call yourself a publisher. Listen on Website → Links A Couple of New CSS Functions I’d Never Heard Of – Chris Coyier [@ichrisv2 • Paren…
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Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping
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What do you expect of yourself? Are you spending your time in ways that align with those expectations? In this episode, I provide you a simple framework as a starting lens for getting a better idea of how you are spending your time in relation to who cares the most about those investments. You'll walk away with a new lens on how to evaluate your mo…
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588: Elliott Marquez on Web Components and Lit
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Show Description Elliott Marquez talks with us about the history of Polymer and Lit, why you should pick Lit, working with web components, the shadow dom, managing state, and how Material design is built with web components. Listen on Website → Guests Elliott Marquez Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Front-end software development for Google’s Lit…
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What is the Real Question? How To Be An Exceptional Listener
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Almost every conversation you have will start with a question. Have you stopped to listen closely? Questions are extremely meaningful and deeply human. Paying close attention to questions is a skill that will put you head and shoulders above the average engineer or manager. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a…
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587: Why Ethan Marcotte Thinks Tech Workers Deserve a Union
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Show Description Ethan Marcotte is here to talk about his new book, You Deserve a Tech Union, and discusses topics such as why we need unions in tech, who gets to be in the union, how unions can help deal with the AI question, union busting, and some arguments against unions. Listen on Website → Guests Ethan Marcotte Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twit…
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Backlog Psychology - Fix Your Broken Expectations
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How often does reality match your expectations exactly? Sure, you may guess in the ball park, but usually there are errors in our expectations. In today's episode, I talk about a simple shift in thinking that will help improve your expectations for your work. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that …
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Show Description Manton Reece, creator of Micro.blog, stops by to talk about the history of Micro.blog, what it's written in, how it handles feeds coming in and going out, cross-posting, authentication, and the somewhat hidden features of Micro.blog: bookmarking, bookshelves, and even podcasting. Listen on Website → Guests Manton Reece Guest's Main…
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Backlog Psychology - Practice Requires Rhythmic Predictability
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In this episode we continue a little mini-series called "Backlog psychology." How do you get better at anything? (Hopefully you said "practice" almost instinctively.) What does good practice look like? Your team has an opportunity to practice every meeting and every day. But if your days look different from one to the next, how will you ever have t…
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585: Blog Redesign, Sounds on a Website, Accessibility Tests, and Safari 17
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Show Description Chris redesigned his blog, using sounds on your website to make it seem fancy, what can't automated accessibility tests test, and what's new in Safari 17. Listen on Website → Links School dropoff and sweater weather season | Instagram Chris Coyier - Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker. Cannonball is such a badass song - Chris C…
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584: Community, Partnerships, Images, and Astro with Fred K. Schott
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Show Description Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about building community, open source and sponsorship, building on partnerships in the dev community, WordPress + Astro, view transitions, using Discord for support, and leaking secret Astro Studio details. Listen on Website → Guests Fred K. Schott Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Co-creator of Ast…
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Backlog Psychology - Hyperbolic Discounting, Tech Debt, and Hacking Your Habits
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In this episode we continue the mini-series "Backlog psychology." Would you rather have $5 now or $50 next week? The answer to this question, though it seems logically obvious which is better, does not always produce the same response. The required incentive to convince someone to wait tends to follow an exponential curve upward. This is not just t…
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583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton
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Show Description Maggie Appleton talks with us about her work at Elicit, working with large and small language models, how humans vet the responses from AI, the discussion around the Soggoth meme in AI, using Discord as UI, what to do if your boss wants AI in your app, and why does she call her blog a digital garden? Listen on Website → Guests Magg…
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Backlog Psychology - The Ziegarnik Effect - Why Limiting Work In Progress Protects Your Cognitive Load
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In this episode we kick off a little mini-series called "Backlog psychology." You've heard you should "limit your work in progress" - why? What makes more work in progress more difficult to handle? Cognitive load isn't just about multi-tasking in the moment - it's also about limiting your open tasks. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and…
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