CSS in JS
CSS in JS: is it the next big thing? We break down some techniques with Glen Maddern. Glen Maddern Twitter Front End Center CSS in JS CSS Modules CSS Modules demo Styled Components Radium Other Next Vue...
Jan 24, 2017•31 min•Ep. 40
Toolsday
Toolsday is a 20-ish-minute podcast hosted by Una Kravets & Chris Dhanaraj. Toolsday is about the latest in tech tools, tips, and tricks on Tuesdays at 2! (Our alliteration game is so strong).
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Discovered in 2016
Every year introduces new tools. We recount our favorite discoveries from 2016. Una Atom VS Code Stylelint Format IA Writer Chris React Storybook Babel Preset Env Jest Travis CI Other The Case Against Progressive Enhancement ESLint...
Jan 10, 2017•34 min•Ep. 39
Animation Tools with Sarah
This week we learn about animation in UI: basics, libraries, performance considerations, and more with Sarah Drasner Sarah Drasner Twitter Web Animation Workshops Codepen CSS Tricks Native Javascript Web Animation API Animation Libraries GSAP Mo.js React Motion Velocity.js Demos React Motion Demo Spring Parameters Chooser Other Snap.svg...
Dec 20, 2016•36 min•Ep. 38
Fitness Tools
We care about you! This week we talk about tools that can help you stay healthy and productive. Fitness Tools! FitBit Charge HR 2 HeadSpace Pzizz MyFitnessPal MapMyRun Nike Fitness Club Zombies Run SkyFit Pokemon GO Couch to 5k StrongLifts 5x5 Workout Stand Instant Heart Rate...
Nov 22, 2016•26 min•Ep. 37
Images!
This week's episode is full of image optimization tooks, formats, and some fun facts about images! ImageOptim ImageAlpha SVGO Gulp ImageMin SVG Symbols SVGOMG WEBP FLIF...
Nov 15, 2016•29 min•Ep. 36
Our Favourite Chrome Extensions
We rapid fire through our top eight Chrome extensions Una's Extensions aXe Accessibility Developer Tools DevTools Author OneTab Honey Panda Save to Pocket Send to Kindle Stayfocused Chris' extensions Refined GitHub Wapplyzer Postman React Developer Tools Reddit Enhancement Suite uBlock Origin JSONView Other Sindresorhus GitHub Ember Inspector LiveReload Awesome Screenshot...
Nov 08, 2016•25 min•Ep. 35
Conference Talks
Chris interviews Una on her experience as a conference speaker and how you can become one too! Talk Tools Reveal.js Caniuse Component Code Mirror Resources @callbackwomen Technically Speaking...
Nov 01, 2016•27 min•Ep. 34
Visual Studio Code
We stray off the beaten road of Atom and Sublime, and instead discuss our new favourite editor, Visual Studio Code, and our top five extensions for it. Visual Studio Code VS Code Chris' Extensions ESLint Atom JavaScript Grammar Debugger for Chrome Project Manager Beautify Una's Extensions HTML CSS Support Path IntelliSense Spelling and Grammar Checker Code Spellchecker Color Picker...
Oct 25, 2016•23 min•Ep. 33
State of Javascript
We’re back! With an overview of what people have been talking about lately: the abundance of tools in web development. State of Javascript How It Feels to Learn Javascript Chasing Tools How it Actually Feels Yarn...
Oct 18, 2016•29 min•Ep. 32
Conference Talks
We highlight thirteen conference talks that dazzled us, inspired us, and drove our careers forward Una's picks Simon Swain on his JS Cavas Cold War Mark Robbins — CSS & Email Brenna O’Brien — JS Community: The Good Parts Dan Mall — Proper Etiquette for the Adv. of Design Camille Fournier — Cloning Yourself Isn’t an Option Bruce Lawson — How to Destroy the Web Jake Archibald — Building Progressive Web Apps Chris' picks Paul Irish - Web Application Development Workflow Addy Osmani - Gone in 60...
Aug 30, 2016•23 min•Ep. 31
Travel Tools
After a short hiatus, Toolsday returns with CSS Wizardry himself, Harry Roberts, to talk about travel. Our Guest: Harry Roberts Website Twitter Travel Tools Recharge Minaal Priority Pass Trip It A Peculiar Journey...
Aug 23, 2016•29 min•Ep. 30
Travis CI
In today's episode we're joined by Mathias Meyer to talk about Travis CI Our Guest: Mathias Meyer Website Twitter Travis CI Travis CI What is Extreme Programming Travis GitHub Badge Travis for Beginners Speed Up Your Travis Build Travis CI Enterprise...
Aug 03, 2016•28 min•Ep. 29
Standards and Linters
What’s the “correct” way to write code? We can’t say for sure, but these standards and linters can. This week we explore the options. JavaScript Standards and Linters ESLint JSLint Standard JS AirBNB Style Guide Idiomatic JS JS Plugins SublimeLinter SublimeLinter-eslint Linter for Atom ESLint for Atom ESLint for Code SCSS Standards SCSS Lint SASS Lint - node version SASS Guidelines CSS Comb PostCSS PostCSS...
Jul 20, 2016•25 min•Ep. 28
CSS Frameworks
CSS frameworks / design systems/ pattern libraries — so many names, so little time! We revisit the topic with so much more knowledges. CSS Frameworks / Systems Tachyons Bootstrap Zurb Foundation Pure CSS Lightning Design System Other Pokemon Go...
Jul 12, 2016•31 min•Ep. 27
Our Hardware!
We chat about how we use completely different hardware to do our work Unas' Hardware Apple Magic Keyboard HP Comfort Grip Wireless Mouse Sony Bluetooth Over-Ear Apple Cinema Display Amazon Echo Chris' Hardware Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Logitech Proteus Core 502 (not 512, whoops) Steelcase Leap Sennheiser HD598 (0/2 on the model numbers) Bose SoundTrue In-Ear Dell Ultrasharp HD2515 Google Home Oculus Leap Motion Review Sites! Wirecutter...
Jun 21, 2016•21 min•Ep. 26
Firefox Dev Tools
We had Helen Holmes, UI designer of Firefox Dev tools to teach us some tricks we didn't know existed! Our Guest: Helen Holmes Website Twitter Instagram Firefox Dev Tools Firefox Dev Tools Mercurial Repo Gecko Repo Bugzilla GCLI Web Audio Eyedropper Tool...
Jun 15, 2016•28 min•Ep. 25
The Variety Show
The tools we love and use that we forgot or just didn't fit into any other category. Una's Picks Chrome DevTools Author Spectacle Kloudsec Jell Chris' Picks Zenhub Adobe Audition Audio Hijack Rollup Other Mentions Waffle.io HyperDev...
Jun 07, 2016•19 min•Ep. 24
Service Workers
We poke around, ruminate, and explore Service Workers. Service Workers Service Worker API Jake Archibald: The ServiceWorker is coming, look busy | JSConf EU 2014 Using Service Workers Today Getting Started with Service Workers Push Notifications Related Kloudsec CSSgrams Physical Web...
May 17, 2016•21 min•Ep. 23
Offline-first
How can we make sure people are able to access data on poor connections? Hear about offline-first this week with Hoodie's Gregor Martynus. Gregor Martynus Twitter Hoodie Minutes.io Native Web AppCache LocalStorage Service Workers Data Layer CouchDB PouchDB Offline-first Community Offline-First Website Offline-First News...
May 10, 2016•26 min•Ep. 22
System Tools
Some of the things you'll need to set up a MacBook from scratch, and some fun quirks that will make your life easier day to day. Mac Tricks Screenshot Folder Screenshot Type iTerm Keep Directory Github Git Open Hub Typefaces Input Mono Font Sky Fonts Etc Cloudup...
May 04, 2016•24 min•Ep. 21
Top 10 Tools
For our 20th episode, we do a recap of our favourite tools that we use everyday. Una's Tools WebPageTest Sublime Text Una's list of Sublime plugins in our Developer Environment episode Harp Surge Una's dotfiles Style Panel inside ChromeDevTools Chris' Tools Webpack ESLint TernJS Atom iTerm2 Z GitHub...
Apr 19, 2016•27 min•Ep. 20
Web Accessibility
This week we talk about web accessibility concerns — what the heck all those acronyms are, and how to test for compliance.
Apr 12, 2016•25 min•Ep. 19
(Mostly CSS) Animation
Animation brings the web to life! Today we talk about (mostly CSS) animation — how it works, tools, and resources.
Mar 29, 2016•25 min•Ep. 18
Unit Testing
Today we discuss JavaScript unit testing with ColbyCheeze! Learn about spying, stubbing, and mocking this week.
Mar 22, 2016•26 min•Ep. 17
Game Engines
Achieved in CryEngine 3 — wait no, Unity, wait no, Phaser?
Mar 08, 2016•26 min•Ep. 16
CSS Layout
This week we're talking CSS layout — from CSS 1 to current best practices to what's coming down the pipeline.
Mar 01, 2016•34 min•Ep. 15
Performance Profiling
We all agree performance testing is important, but how do you track it over time? This week Taylor Jones tells us how.
Feb 16, 2016•21 min•Ep. 14
Static Site Generators
There are 412 options for static site generators. This week we discuss (mostly three) of them.
Feb 09, 2016•23 min•Ep. 13
Solved by ES6 (ES2015)
We picked our top five ES6/7/2015/2016 upgrades and talk about how they make our lives so much easier.
Feb 02, 2016•20 min•Ep. 12
Express & Middleware
Our guest Jon Ballands chats with us about the IBM Swift Sandbox, and building it with Node & Express.
Jan 19, 2016•25 min•Ep. 11
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