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- #48 Jumper Removal Sound
We’re all about the Google hardware this episode, plus Ben wants to take his jumper off…
Topics- The new Google product line
- Google Pixel - madeby.google.com/phone
- Google Home - madeby.google.com/home
- Google WiFi - madeby.google.com/wifi
- Google Daydream - madeby.google.com/vr
- We’re also redesigning the Bit Podcast website, more info coming soon…
42 min - #47 Which Ben?News
- Google releases a HTML styleguide
- Gmail starts allowing for media queries inside HTML emails
- Zurb releases Slinky, an easier way to build HTML emails
- Safari 10 is released, with a variety of new tooling for developers
- Support for object-position
- Support for Apple Pay with Touch ID, see Stripe for more
- New Stripe website
Topics- Paper Planes, a Google Chrome experiment
- macOS Sierra update, including Siri
- No Man’s Sky update, tension between Sony and the developers
34 min - #46 D*cking around in SpaceIntro
It’s episode 46, and we have the great pleasure of welcoming Jamie back to the show!
Topics- Welcome back Jamie, what have you be been up to?
- Check out Jamie’s photography at jamietakes.photos
- Site note: Gold car!
- Apple’s new devices announcement
- iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, here’s a link to their shiny new page on it
- Apple watch Series 2, the range is expanding
- iOS 10 Beta, Ben has been testing it out before official release
- Sony Playstation announcement
- The Playstation 4 Pro
- The Playstation 4 Slim, which now replaces the standard PS4
- Ending the show with No Man’s Sky, Ben and Jamie discuss their experiences
44 min - #45 Faces for radio (video special!)Intro
This week we decided to make a video recording of our podcast, or “vlog” as some people might call it.
Topics- More rumours about the next iPhone, more info can be found on macrumors.com
- Ben talks about the Playstation meeting and leaked photos of the PS4 “slim”
- Dave tails off our speical video episode with Siteleaf, which is essentially a way to turn a Jekyll site into a proper CMS
26 min - #44 Pokeymens and Squidy SquadNews
- New SVG 2 features, as described by the W3C. Some interesting details listed
- Jamie might be returning! You should check out his portfolio
- The latest Pokemon Go update has tried to stop the cheaters cheaters
- No Man’s Sky is out, servers are getting a beating (as mentioned by the team)
Topics- The problems, and positives, to “Hype”. What happens if a game or film is “over-hyped”?
- Dave has been watching Silicon Valley, he really likes it
- Dave has also been using Sky Q, the interface is worth talking about
37 min - #43 Go make a teaNews
- Lego Shop (Switzerland) built in React
- Verizon to buy Yahoo ($4bln)
- Sketch update 39, flexbox type properties added
TopicsPattern librariesDave has been working on a pattern library, Ben offers help and explains a few of the tooling that his team uses.
- Styleguides.io examples
- Astrum by No Divide
- A component/pattern library for Lonely Planet, build in Ruby
Good work ethicsWe discuss our helpful tips when working, to keep our minds healthy.
- Get stuck, go make a tea
- Get annoyed, go make a tea
- Want a tea, go make a tea
- Just make sure to take breaks, even when you’re under pressure to get a lot of work done. Short breaks taken often will keep your mind fresh and not so stressed
What did you do in the beginning?Ben and Dave chat about their first experiences in the design & development industry, and what their first contributions were to the web.
Without giving too much away, we mentioned web banners. They’re back!
Pokémon Go & “big” gamesBen explains Pokémon Go and how it was initially created. Dave talks about No Man’s Sky and colleagues project to help document the large universe.
- Niantic, Inc.
- Article: No Man’s Sky PS4 And PC Cross-Play Feature Detailed By Hello Games
- Athena, the No Man’s Sky Database by Dale Anthony
53 min - #42 Just get on with itNews
A quick round up of what’s new and popped up on our radar:
- Article: Dreamweaver is back for us, coders
- Article: HTML5 Ads Aren’t That Safe Compared to Flash, Experts Say
- Astrum, a new pattern library tool for presenting your project components. From the people at No Divide
- Article: The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
- Dave was on Ruminate! Listen to episode #22
React Native (again)Ben is still working away on his React project on iOS. We nicely cross it over with a nice React web project, Checkland Kindleysides.
Audio on the web, still a bad idea?We discuss the taboo subject that is audio in web interactions. Good idea or bad idea? It must have it’s place, right?
- Gruffalo Exploration site
- Bens 404 page
Getting your team onboard with your ideasA little chat about what might help when you’re trying to get your ideas across to your team. A combination of presenting your ideas in a believable way, and some open mindedness from the others, can go a long way.
42 min - #41 Look, We're Segueing!
We tried really hard to smoothly transition from quite serious development tools to casual chat about games, I think we did pretty well. Topics for this episode were:
- React is just web components, right? If you’re interested in figuring React out, take a look at some examples on CodePen
- Teaching machines to design. We briefly discuss an article by Jon Gold, called ‘Taking The Robotos To Design School’
- There’s a possible new MacBook Pro on the horizon, as rumoured on Mac Rumors
- We attempt to predict a few things at E3, and kinda fail. Sorry Luke
- Uncharted 4 is still awesome, so we chat about it some more. Spoiler warning
43 min - #40 Spoiler Dodging
We return to our typical form of web design and development news, with a bit of gaming on the side.
The news- Add AMP to your articles with Mercury
- The new Instagram logo
The meat & potatoes- Ben talks about React and Redux
- Dave complains about SEO and how hard it is to see
- We both talk about how amazing Uncharted 4 is
40 min - #39 Live From Render
This weeks episode was recorded live at Render! We found a quiet (ish) spot to record half way through day 1 with a special guest and then once we returned home from a long day, recapped the afternoon’s talks. Enjoy!
Thanks to all the speakers, everyone at Render, Simpleweb and Basekit for sending us there!
Here’s the full list of the speakers and their talks from day 1:
- Bruce Lawson: web.next
- Jack Franklin: How jQuery has influenced The Web: Now and Beyond
- Val Head: Designing meaningful animation
- Alicia Sedlock: The landscape of front-end testing
- Harry Roberts: CSS for software engineers for CSS developers
- Sara Soueidan: SVG in motion
- Mariko Kosaka: Drawing on < canvas > - a few things I learned about pixels
- Katie Fenn: Chrome DevTools: Inside Out
- Robin Christopherson: Technology – the power and the promise
- Frederik Vanhoutte: Rendering the obvious
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About Bit Podcast
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Bit Podcast is an ongoing series about games, design & development from the mouths of @DavidDarnes, @BenjaminReid and @JimboDoPhoto.