Show Description Chris and Dave chat with Dan Mall about designing a portfolio that hiring managers can't deny. Should you tailor your portfolio for each specific job you might apply for? Where does privilege come into play when applying for jobs? Could it backfire? And be sure to stick around for an opportunity to add the design of a certain p ...…

Show Description Jen Simmons is back to talk about what's new in Firefox including a dev tools update. We also chat about sub grid, variable font support, and discuss whether all the new stuff that's been added over the last few years heralds a new era of web design. ⭐️Jetpack Jetpack adds loads of features your self-hosted WordPress site, with ...…

Show Description We're joined by Jon Bellah and David Khourshid to talk about what a state machine is and what's not a state machine. We talk about state machines in React, login forms, going into the wrong state, fallbacks, game development, and working state machines into existing projects. ⭐️Jetpack Jetpack adds loads of features your self-h ...…

Show Description Jennifer Robbins stops by ShopTalk Show to talk about her recently updated book, Learning Web Design - what's been updated, who the book is for, and what's changed since she first published the book. ⭐️Digital Ocean The easiest cloud platform to run and scale applications - From effortless administration tools to robust compute ...…

Show Description Dave and Chris answer your questions about how to get code consistency at work, advice on writing testable code, a new intrinsic size attribute, WooCommerce custom site building, and some thoughts on a low code world. ⭐️WooCommerce WooCommerce is WordPress plugin that brings eCommerce to your WordPress sites. It's unique in its ...…

Show Description We're answering your questions about proper autocomplete on websites, node based CMS configs, follow up on line length, retina screens, update security, and some quilting drama. ⭐️An Event Apart Every aspect of An Event apart is optimized for the best experience possible—from great food (with plenty of options) to impeccable li ...…

Show Description Elliot Condon stops by the show to talk about his WordPress plugin, Advanced Custom Fields. We talk about his development process, modern WordPress dev workflows, and how Gutenburg will affect plugins like ACF. ⭐️Rollbar Instantly know what's broken and why with [Rollbar](https://synd.co/2Afb9s9). Reduce time wasted debugging a ...…

Show Description Adam Wathan stops by to talk about Tailwind CSS, how it got started, dealing with large CSS and config files, why you might want to use Tailwind CSS, Purge CSS, and more! ⭐️Digital Ocean The easiest cloud platform to run and scale applications - From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking ser ...…

Show Description Dave and Chris are joined by Michael Arestad to talk about WordPress, Jetpack, and answer your WordPress related questions about building apps with WordPress, back-end devs doing front-end dev jobs, and adding filtered searches to custom queries. ⭐️FITC Web Unleashed Web Unleashed, helps front-end professionals learn the skills ...…

Show Description Kianosh Pourian and Dale Sande stop by to talk all about the internet of things. What are some of the ways to avoid the dark side of internet connected devices? How do web designers get into developing for internet devices? What happens when Facebook buys your lightbulbs? And how can Dave build an on-air light for his office/st ...…

Show Description We help you avoid becoming a designosaur by answering your questions about learning React, creating a universal header, jQuery vulnerability, implementing pattern libraries, and taking WordPress development seriously. ⭐️Jetpack The ideal way to experience WordPress. Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that provides incredibly useful ...…

Show Description We're back answering your questions about getting old and also the web. On this episode we're talking about web components, view source in text editors, job application process, using canvas for animations, cleaning up CSS, coding bootcamps, and more. ⭐️Netlify Netlify is a static file host with a ton of features you'll love as ...…

Show Description If you're a developer who's struggled with design, you're going to love this episode! Laura Elizabeth stops by the show to talk about her course called Design Academy that teaches developers how to design better marketing sites. ⭐️Rollbar Instantly know what's broken and why with [Rollbar](https://synd.co/2tfQT2S). Reduce time ...…

Show Description Gerry McGovern is our guest this week to talk about listening to your customers, what big companies do right and wrong, how to avoid living in the past, and consulting Chris on how a new feature for CodePen could be developed. ⭐️LogRocket Stop guessing why bugs happen. LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helpi ...…

Show Description Chris Eppstein is back on the show to talk about his new project CSS Blocks and how it works, what kinds of projects it's best for, and how it integrates with other frameworks on the web. ⭐️Jetpack Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that combines all sorts of powerful functionality into a single plugin. Here's a handful of things it ...…

Show Description Tim Brown is our guest to talk about his new book coming soon called Flexible Typesetting from A Book Apart. ⭐️An Event Apart To design a better web experience, attend a better-designed web conference. An Event Apart is three days of design, code, and content taught by absolute masters—the people who shape our medium. Join us i ...…

Show Description Dave gives a lesson on streaming, and your questions on the future of PSD to markup, tools for prototyping, what to study in 2018, and CSS Grid vs Flexbox. Thanks bro! ⭐️Study Web Dev This episode is brought to you by Kyle from studywebdevelopment.com. Check out his freelancing bundle for frontend developers and use coupon code ...…

Show Description Chris & Dave compare music store conferences to tech conferences, podcasts as coworkers, and follow up the min/max discussion from #308 before diving in to your questions on CSS in JS, merging Angular and React projects, picking a Windows laptop for testing, and how to break the 12 column grid mindset. ⭐️Fullstory FullStory cap ...…

Show Description We start the episode off with some dev confessionals before getting into your questions about counting KBs, removing outlines from tabIndex, Dave going Windows, Keystone JS as the CMS, how to assess new tools, the best way to fill out a portfolio, and hosting websites on AWS. ⭐️Fullstory FullStory captures every customer sessio ...…

Show Description In this episode we're updating you on humidity, our existential question, and Gutenberg. And then we dive into your questions on ugly tech docs, how soon to apply for a job, web colors not matching print, secret API keys, package overload, and React + WordPress. ⭐️Porkbun This episode of ShopTalk brought to you by something rea ...…

Show Description Ben Clinkinbeard and Elijah Meeks stop by ShopTalk Show to talk about data visualization, D3, and how to get started leveling up your data viz game. ⭐️FullStory FullStory captures every customer session on your site and replays it like a DVR, complete with the JavaScript console log and all underlying code. That means when you ...…

Show Description We're back for another RAPIDFire episode answering your questions on age limits in web design, correcting clients with bad copy, SCSS mixins, Yarn vs NPM, web vs native, and deep learning of core topics. ⭐️Netlify Netlify is a next-level web host. Netlify will connect to your repo so that Git is your deployment system and stagi ...…

Show Description On this episode Dave and Chris talk about how much is a podcast worth to you, follow up questions about Gutenberg, mixing HTML into Javascript, how to sniff out a scam client, theming components in Vue, and how to get started with web assembly. ⭐️Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to deploy, manage, and sc ...…

Show Description Just when you think you know everything there is to know about CSS, Aimee Knight is on the show and she'll help you understand CSS in a new way as a Javascript developer learning about CSS. ⭐️One Month Learn to Code in Just One Month With bootcamp courses at $199* you can learn Python, JavaScript, or Ruby in just 30 days.…

Show Description We're doing an old school RapidFire episode answering your questions on element queries, CSS helper classes, improving your design eye, PWA on desktop, frozen hover states on iOS, handling passwords for clients, and Lightbox alternatives.

Show Description Dave and Chris are back answering your questions about banjos and front end web development along with a quick trip to magazine corner. How do you write a good estimate? How about a unit test in WordPress? Is IE11 going to hold us back forever? What about GDPR? ⭐️CodePen Check out [CodePen Pro](https://codepen.io/pro/) which ca ...…

Show Description We're joined by Phil Hawksworth to talk about the benefits of static sites as well as work through some of the objections people often have to using a static site in 2018. ⭐️CodePen Wanna go to a CodePen Meetup? [You can!](https://blog.codepen.io/meetups/) Wanna host a CodePen Meetup? [You can!](https://codepen.io/meetups/host) ...…

Show Description We're joined by Michael Jackson, co-founder of React Training and creator of unpkg, to talk about some of the drama in the JavaScript world on the internet lately. We cover Dan Abramov's beyond React talk, Context and Suspense API, whether View Source matters, React Native Web, and of course Mootools. ⭐️Rollbar Instantly know w ...…

Show Description We've recovered from our ep300 festivities and we're back answering your Q's with our best A's - How to handle multiple projects on a dev team? What should we call JavaScript? Tips for scroll-jacking in a nice way? Best practices for CSS? And how to write when you don't want to write? ⭐️CodePen Pro With [CodePen Pro](https://co ...…

Show Description Over the course of 300 episodes & 6 years, a lot has changed in the web world. We look back at what was going on when we started ShopTalk Show and check in with where things are at now - and speculate about what might be happening 6 years from now. ⭐️Rollbar Instantly know what's broken and why with [Rollbar](http://synd.co/2Ep ...…

Show Description We've got a machine learning expert, Paige Bailey from Microsoft, on to help educate us on all the interesting things you can do with machine learning. Whether you're a huge company or a rose grower in Phoenix, there's probably something new you'll learn about machine learning in this episode. ⭐️Aside Quest A video games podcas ...…

Show Description The new WordPress editor, codenamed Gutenberg, has people excited and nervous about what's going to happen to their WordPress sites. We've got 2 Automatticians who are working on the Gutenberg project to help answer some of the questions swirling around this big change. ⭐️Dadi DADI is a global [decentralized cloud services plat ...…

Show Description Rachel Nabors is back to ease in an update on animation on the web including the web animation API, animation and accessiblity, leaving animation to the last minute on projects, Greensock, and her book "Animation at Work". ⭐️Rollbar Instantly know what's broken and why with [Rollbar](http://synd.co/2EpHISK). Reduce time wasted ...…

Show Description We've got Jason Pamental on the show to educate us on variable typography and how it could be the biggest thing to come to the web since responsive design. ⭐️DADI DADI is a global [decentralized cloud services platform](http://synd.co/2qGxVV1), built using blockchain technology. It is designed to bring the balance of computatio ...…

Show Description We've got questions and so do you. Take a knee: How do you clean up code when you join an existing project? Is keeping up with web dev tech too hard? How do you get better while trying to raise a family? [Jerry Seinfeld voice] What's the deal with web components? And should there be a day to celebrate first responders in tech? ...…

Show Description You've been upgraded to ShopTalk Show 2K18. For this edition we've got magazine corner, bitcoin thoughts, how to start contributing to open source projects, preferred prototyping tools, and finding online community for web developers. ⭐️Rollbar Instantly know what's broken and why with [Rollbar](http://synd.co/2meZHTl). Reduce ...…

Show Description We're kicking of 2018 with a hot new episode covering ShopTalk's Magazine Corner, #DaveGoesAndroid, Chris goes to Bend, and our predictions for web development in 2018. ⭐️One Month One Month's online courses can help you become a WEB DEVELOPER, level up your CAREER or make a MARK ON THE WORLD. Over 70,000 students have taken On ...…

Show Description Pour yourself a cup of your favorite holiday beverage, spike it with something appropriate, and join us for our holiday spectacular where Dave sings his way through your questions about best practices for deployment, logging in JavaScript, coding practices at a company, and our favorite parts of a project. ⭐️OneMonth One Month’ ...…

Show Description On this episode we're dipping our eyeballs into VR, trying to save the world from code, and answering your questions about creating framework agnostic view components, iframe scrolling on iOS, and parsing data from an external JSON file. ⭐️Storyblocks A one-stop-shop for all of your stock media needs at an extremely high value. ...…

Show Description We're talking exercise regime, writing a book, and answering your questions about CSS frameworks, parsing data out of email, benefits and struggles to working vs freelancing, the ideal dev publishing environment, and figuring out good naming conventions. ⭐️​Storyblocks Storyblocks: A one-stop-shop for all of your stock media ne ...…

Show Description It's the sexiest CSS alive podcast and we're answering your questions about WordPress' Gutenberg, using video in the background on the web, absolute positioned images vs CSS background images, and getting PSD or AI files for website mockups. ⭐️Cloudinary Cloudinary helps you upload and manage your videos in the cloud at any sca ...…

Show Description Jetlag edition of ShopTalk Show answering your questions about remote working, caching for offline use with service workers, life using and maintaining NPM modules, and monitor switching hardware. #airportmagazinetalk ⭐️One Month One Month's online courses can help you become a web developer, level up your career, or make a mar ...…

Show Description Dave and new dad Chris are here answering your web devlopment questions about PSD to pixels, leveling up on accessibility, gaining access to WordPress theme files, and editorial workflows for web publishing. ⭐️One Month One Month's online courses can help you become a web developer, level up your career, or make a mark on the w ...…

Show Description We're talking with two content strategy experts, Ellen de Vries and Robert Mills, about the wide world of content strategy. Or is that even the right word? Ellen has just released a book (published by Gather Content, where Robert is also a content strategist) in which she doesn't even use those two words together. ⭐️One Month [ ...…

Show Description We start off on the magazine rack at the airport, move into AI and Machine Learning, refactoring a pattern library, Dave's working on his TODO's, and Chris enjoys Notion. Plus your questions about attr(), static HTML inside WordPress, cross browser testing, email data, rems vs pixels, and polite CTA popups. ⭐️One Month One Mont ...…

Show Description Jobs hunting and the frustration with job titles. Why isn't it ok to only know HTML and CSS in 2017? Why do bootcamps seem to focus on javscript so much? We're joined by Lara and Mandy for this episode to try and figure all of this out. ⭐️.design domain names [.design domain names](http://synd.co/2xhB4tZ) allow you to create a ...…

Show Description We're coming at you in 4K audio from Chris' new office and Dave's garbage can while we rapidfire your questions on CSS grid fallbacks, angular represented on the podcast, Javascript's acceptance, NodeJS support on hosts, and avoiding CORS issues. ⭐️FullStory Operating a site without FullStory is like running a brick-and-mortar ...…

Show Description We're testing out a new episode with a couple of guests from CrossBrowserTesting who are here to help us understand what kinds of tests we should be running, automated versus manual testing, who should be testing, and how much testing of your website is really necessary? ⭐️FullStory Operating a site without FullStory is like ru ...…

Show Description Javascript has been on people's mind and so Dave and Chris bring the horn section along to answer your questions on choosing which technology to run with, when to learn it, spaghetti code, and also Dave's thoughts on Microsoft Edge Summit 2017. ⭐️Pistol Lake The team at Pistol Lake spend 2 years developing an amazingly soft fab ...…

Show Description Dave and Chris share some secret, personal things before diving into your questions about testing in React, gathering client requirements, and whether frameworks are for beginners or advanced devs? ⭐️FullStory Operating a site without FullStory is like running a brick-and-mortar shop with the lights off, according to FullStory ...…