HTML All The Things is a podcast for developers navigating the modern web industry.
Hosted by web development agency owners Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan, the show explores web development, AI-driven industry shifts, and the realities of building a sustainable career in tech.
Matt and Mike discuss foundational technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript along with modern tools and frameworks such as Svelte, Vue, WordPress, React, and Tailwind. But beyond the code, the show also dives into freelancing, running a web agency, dealing with clients, and how developers can stay competitive as the industry evolves.
If you're a developer who wants to sharpen your technical skills, understand where the industry is heading, and build long-term leverage in your career or business, this podcast is for you.
Episodes
Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018
1hr 13 min
In this episode we explore our failures and shortcomings on a variety of our projects ranging from a stock photo resource to a fully-fledged Chrome App game.
Show Layout
Segment 1 - Starting Up
- Originally going to be an IT company
- Opportunity caused us to pivot before the opportunity fell through
- Decided to continue working in the web development and design field
Segment 2 - Lists by Design
- Product Page: Link
- First Chrome extension
- Was mean't to be a bookmarks replacer
- Added a lot of functionality that bookmarks don't have
Segment 3 - Clicks to Riches
- Product Page: Link
- Clicker/Idle game in the form of a Chrome App
- Was supposed to be a smaller version of a larger project
- Designed to generate revenue whilst working on the larger project
Segment 4 - Free Photos Hamilton
- Website: Link
- Free stock photo resouce
- Designed to offer free photos, focussing on the local area of Hamilton, Ontario
Segment 5 - Dealing and Mitigating Failure
- How to deal with failure and get ready for it before it even happens
- Always learn new things even if a project has failed totally
Web News - Windows vs MacOS
- The age old argument, who will win?
Social Links
Aug 1, 2018
Aug 1, 2018
1hr 6 min
In this episode we discuss our different workflows individually and collaboratively as a company.
Segment 1 - Infrastructure
- Started out using OneDrive
- Later started using BitBucket and GitHub
- Version control was needed more as projects grew in productivity
Segment 2 - Mike's Workflow
- Primary IDE is VS Code
- Xcode and Android Studio whenever a project calls for it
- Asana and Todoist
- Xampp
- Daily routine
Segment 3 - Matt's Workflow
- Notepad++
- CMD
- Chrome
- Testing browsers
- Balsamiq Cloud
- Workflow for small business basic site
- Workflow for projects
Segment 4 - Working Together/Collaborative Workflow
- Working together on OneDrive
- Dividing up parts of projects
- Code reviews/peer reviews
- Project management software
- Whiteboard project management
Web News - App Overload
- Discussion on how to manage app overload
- There are so many solutions to every problem and many of them have apps, this can cause app overload if you work on several projects.
Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018
1hr 17 min
In this episode we explore how to get started in web development and web design. We discuss some of the methods we used to get up and running and share some stories on our initial experiences in the field.
Topics covered in this episode include:
- Segment 1 - Mike's Beginnings
- Original exposure to code & first projects
- Segment 2 - Matt's Beginnings
- Original exposure to code & first projects
- Segment 3 - Libraries & Frameworks
- SASS - Official Site
- Bootstrap - Official Site
- Tailwind CSS - Official Site
- jQuery - Official Site
- Lightbox - Official Site
- NodeJS - Official Site
- Vue - Official Site
- Flutter - Official Site
- Segment 4 - When to Choose a Premade Solution
- Website builders
- Service providers
- Snippets & Plugins
- Examples include:
- Webflow - Official Site
- Podbean - Official Site
- Carrd - Official Site
- CouchCMS - Official Site
- Segment 5 - Web News
- Flutter
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018
1hr 4 min
In this episode Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan discuss their professional experiences that led them to today. These experiences form a foundation for future podcasts and act as a reference moving forward.
Topics covered in this episode include:
- Personal Introductions
- Segment 1 - Synopsis of Today
- Digital Dynasty Design
- Web design and development business
- Passive income projects
- Segment 2 - Education
- College and University educations and experiences
- Mohawk College
- McMaster University
- Segment 3 - Work Experience
- IT and administration
- Electrical drafting
- Co-ops
- Segment 4 - HATT
- What is HTML All The Things?
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