Do the Chop Chop
Today's topic: Sandwiches. Anthony discusses mixing the meats. Aura and Patrick disapprove of the cutlet.
Zero-sum Mentality
We talk about zero-sum mentality or the perceived lack of uniqueness that makes people hold off from sharing their thoughts and ideas with the world.
Javascript Design Patterns
There are some simple JavaScript design patterns that developers of any level can start using to improve their code. These aren’t process-altering changes—just minor tweaks that make code more reusable, extensible, and understandable.
Measure Twice, Cut Once
You can’t be at the top of your game while stressed and nervous about the emergency, so unless there’s an obvious, quick-to-deploy resolution, you need to give yourself some cover to work.
The Most Dangerous Word In Software Development
“Just” implies that all of the thinking behind a feature or system has been done. Even worse, it implies that all of the decisions that will have to be made in the course of development have already been discovered—and that’s never the case.
My Wheelie is Long Enough
Today's Topic: Packing for Travel. The origin story of the podcast is revealed. The hosts also discuss various packing methods, emergency socks and underwear and how to deal with dirty laundry while traveling.
No Idea What I'm Doing
We talk about how it's okay to have no idea what you're doing and the important differences between raw knowledge and the ability to acquire it.
Longform Content with Craft Matrix
There’s a constant tension between that type of longform, art-directed content and content management systems. New tools like Craft’s Matrix field give developers the control they need to achieve such beautiful layouts.
Control
We talk about unplugging, control, discipline, and fighting noise. Then we take a little detour through bad "science".
Template Organization in Craft
Craft’s Matrix is a game changer in the age-old battle between art-directed content and WYSIWYG editors. Matrix blocks, together with Twig’s template inheritance and multiple includes, provides us incredible power and flexibility within our templates.
Apple and Responsive Design
Apple has always had a funny relationship with responsive design. At last week’s WWDC, they finished laying the foundation of responsive design within native applications.
Cross-pollination
We talk about Apple finally adopting adaptive & responsive design and riff on the paradox of choice, the impact of Swift of programming education and "web vs. native" being the wrong outlook.
CHANGELOGs & Swift
We talk about bad CHANGELOGs and Apple's new Swift programming language.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
As the back-end developer on this project, I focused on the CMS-side of things. We built out a fresh ExpressionEngine instance to handle all of the Foundation’s content publishing needs. Strong search functionality was key to the success of the project, so we customized a Solr install, and integrated it with the ExpressionEngine environment.
On Styled Form Elements
Developers have a love/hate relationship with styled form elements. It’s fine when the interactions are simple, but what happenswhen things get a little more complex?
Meaning Over Complexity
Ideas don’t have to be complex to be meaningful. Sharing even the simplest idea can have a surprisingly profound impact on your readers and listeners.
Design Tools for Today’s Web
The web has always been fast-moving, and our tools need to keep up—but as we know, that doesn’t always happen. Sketch is a tool built for the modern web, and it’s changed my workflow dramatically.
The Right Toolbox
Choosing the right tool for the job sometimes means bringing along a whole toolbox. I’ll show how a complex back-end system was built with Craft, Laravel, Redis, and more, all working in harmony.
Syntax Highlighting Outside Your Editor
There comes a time when you’ll need to show code outside of a text editor. I explored a few tools to take syntax-highlighted code from the editor to your slides and documents.
Javascript Design Patterns
There are some simple JavaScript design patterns that developers of any level can start using to improve their code. These aren’t process-altering changes—just minor tweaks that make code more reusable, extensible, and understandable.