HTML All The Things - Web Development, Web Design, Small Business
The adventures of Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan through the world of web development, web design, and small business management. As web development agency owners for the better part of a decade, they’ve worked with all sorts of technologies, through the rise of responsive web design, the revolution of serverless computing, and the popularity gain of many no-code tools for small business owners. They commonly discuss foundational web development technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - including popular frameworks and tools such as Tailwind CSS, Svelte, WordPress, Vue, and more.
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Junior Developers NEED to Hear This
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Tech layoffs are in full swing right now, with companies shrinking their teams for a variety of reasons. This is a stark contrast to the hiring spree that we experienced and grew used to during the chaos that was the COVID-19 pandemic. Does this mean that junior developers should pack up and find work elsewhere? Should people that are still learning web development leave the field entirely?
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Designing the Web for Vertical Video (Short-Form Content)
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
The most popular social media & video sharing websites out there now support (or are centered around) vertical video in the form of short-form content that commonly comes in under a minute in length. As the popularity of these short-form videos has taken off in recent years, we've seen this form factor escape smartphones, arriving on desktop computers and TVs. Unfortunately, this presents designers with a perplexing problem as vertical video (portrait aspect ratio) is not ideal for screens that are almost always landscape (widescreen). In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss the rise of vertical video (short-form content), discussing & debating on how it is shaping our user interfaces, and how it could even start shaping the hardware we use in the home.
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
CSS Attribute Selectors & Custom Attributes
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
CSS attribute selectors are a lot more powerful than I thought! I wasn't aware that they could not only select elements based on the presence of an attribute, or the presence of an attribute with a specific value, but that they could also "filter" through that attribute value by placing specific parameters on them using just CSS. In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss these "advanced attribute selectors" and cap the episode off by discussing another powerful CSS feature - custom attributes, done the right way!
Show Notes: www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/css-attribute-selectors-custom-attributes
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
The Scariest Web Development Tech
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
We all have holes in our knowledge that lurk...just around the corner...lying in wait to pounce and completely destroy our confidence and workflow! This scary truth falls into virtually every corner of web development from WordPress devs that have zero experience with PHP, to frontend developers that have no idea what a web server is. This week Matt and Mike discuss some of the web dev technologies that can scare even the most seasoned developer.
Show Notes: www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/the-scariest-web-development-tech
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Does Anyone Use Vanilla CSS Anymore?
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
There are a lot of ways to write CSS either directly or indirectly. By using tools like SASS, Bootstrap, TailwindCSS, and many more - you're largely avoiding vanilla CSS, replacing it with a new syntax, or maybe a website building library to make your workflow more efficient. But where does this leave vanilla CSS? Does anyone write just vanilla CSS anymore? And if so....why?
Show Notes: www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/does-anyone-use-vanilla-css-anymore
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Full-Stack Development Has Changed In 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Full-stack development demands both frontend and backend development skills, meaning one individual can spin up a website from the hosting, through the database management, and even the user interface. Recently, some people in the developer community have voiced their observations on how complex both frontend and backend development are on their own, stating that it's not really possible to be a full-stack developer if you want to maintain a high level of skill in all the technologies involved. In this episode, Mike breaks down a stack that he has recently started using that should allow him to provide a full-stack's worth of work through 2023.
Show Notes: www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/full-stack-development-has-changed-in-2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Can I Use This in Production?
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Browsers and web development tools are constantly evolving their support for new features. This forever changing landscape of our industry can lead many developers to ask whether they can use whatever they're using in production websites, or if they should stick to older methods that are more tried and true. In this episode, Matt and Mike discussed how to choose production-ready technologies based on the type of project you're working on.
Show Notes: www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/can-i-use-this-in-production
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Svelte vs React - What You Need To Know
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Svelte and React are two frontend JavaScript frameworks that, through their immense popularity, draw a lot of debate and questions from the web development community. For established developers, the question looms as to which one you should use and for what reason. Junior developers are left asking what the differences are and which one they should learn first, or if they even need to learn both at all. Today on the podcast, Matt and Mike discuss the differences between Svelte and React, pitting them against each other to debate their usefulness, best features, and which one you might want to use for your latest project.
Show Notes: www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/svelte-vs-react-what-you-need-to-know
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
CSS Selectors Crash Course
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
CSS selectors are a fundamental piece of CSS that allow it to select HTML elements based on a collection of parameters that the developer has set. CSS selectors can be used to select elements by type, class, ID, and can be written in a more complex way with the use of combinators. This week we discuss CSS selectors in great detail, covering their syntax, popular use cases, and clearing up (hopefully) some confusing bits that junior developers may struggle with.
Show Notes: www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/css-selectors-crash-course
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
AI Will Not Take Your Job...Yet
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
This week Mike discussed his experimentation with ChatGPT and other AI services, like GitHub Copilot. ChatGPT, Lensa, and other AI have been taking the internet by storm recently, whether it be through cool looking profile pictures, or the controversial ways they operate. In this episode we discussed things like how fast AI has advanced in such a short period of time, the opportunities innovators have to make their mark on the industry, and whether or not something like Copilot will take away your programming job.