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Bit Podcast is an ongoing series about games, design & development from the mouths of @DavidDarnes, @BenjaminReid and @JimboDoPhoto.... more

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The podcast currently has 58 episodes available.

Bit Podcast episodes:

April 08, 2016#38 Rogue Commits
We’re talking about the latest feature to hit GitHub as well as some new CMSs, and of course the new Star Wars teaser trailer:
GitHub commit squashing. You can now combine commits when merging pull requests on, read all about it

Simpla has just started it’s open beta, I have my reservations though which I discuss with Ben. You can try it out for yourself for free at simpla.io

A quick(ish) mention of GitLab Pages, which is similar to GitHub Pages but appears to have some more technical features for static site generator fans

Finally, the Rogue One “a Star Wars Story” teaser trailer has just gone live and we chat about how it looks from these early snippets. check out the video on YouTube
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38min
March 30, 2016Episode #37
In our latest episode we’re talking about NPM, PSVR and hopefully less acronyms:
NPM Chaos: npmjs.com fell into chaos, but for only 10 minutes, we explain discuss what happened

PSVR: Sony unveils the retail price for their VR peripherals that work in conjunction with the PlayStation 4

Expanding on our PlayStation discussion, we explore the idea of a rumoured PlayStation 4.5 on the horizon

Finally we end the show with something that might mean the end of that age old question “What platform are you buying X on?”, here’s our source material
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40min
March 11, 2016Episode #36
It’s time for episode #36. Ben’s bringing home the bacon today, both in terms of topics and tech!
After our last episode, Ben got inspired and decided to create a Google Chrome extension to save GitHub repos

We talk about the recently launched game The Division, and how it might have been hyped up a little too much. Checkout the latest trailer

And finally talks, more specifically lightening talks. Ben encourages me to get into them, after he really enjoyed his talk at Bristol JS. I’m thinking about lightening talks for Jekyll Conf & Bristol Web Perf
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31min
February 26, 2016Episode #35
Howdy from Episode 35! This a short but sweet episode. Mentioning news from MailChimp & GitHub, and something new from a thing called Canvas:
Hi/shout out to Robb Lewis, from Ruminate Podcast

Mandrill pulled the rug from under us. Well, not until April

GitHub has now switched their icon system to SVG, read more about their process

Canvas: An amazing web app for writing markdown, try it out for yourself
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28min
February 11, 2016Episode #34
In episode 34 we’re looking at CSS variables and some of the features of GitHub, both new and non-existent:
CSS variables: They’re here, but are they safe? Check out this example in FireFox 31+ & Chrome 49+

GitHub: Why is it so hard to find that repo I stared? Check out this chrome extension

Jekyll: We really like it, especially now version 3 is on GitHub. However, it’s not perfect
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34min
January 28, 2016Episode #33
In this episode we discuss:
Our new site, Currentstat.us
Vue.js (sorry I couldn’t find the episode, or we didn’t do it!)

Our Jekyll episode

Macaw joining Invision
Macaw.co

InVision announcement

A smaller iPhone?
The rumoured “iPhone 6c”
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37min
January 15, 2016Episode #32
We’re back from the holidays. Pretty chunky episode this one:
GreenSock: Dave exaplins why GreenSock, or GSAP, is so awesome for web animations and how easy it is to pick up

Oculus Rift: We chat about their recently announced pre-order and some of the competition they might be up against this year. Mainly PlayStation VR

Star Wars: The Force Awakens: We’ve both seen it, now it’s time to chat about. There is a spoiler warning but we don’t go into great detail
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48min
December 04, 2015Episode #31
A new location for episode 31, coming to you from Ben’s war bunker.
Here’s a round up of our discussion:
News! Some pretty cool bits of info to kick things off from Ben

Job stories: From being hassled by recruiters, to being offended by the recruitment process

Schema: The intricacies of adding rich data to HTML elements and some of the pitfalls we’ve encountered
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32min
November 02, 2015Episode #30
Episode 30 is out! This time we’re going into detail on what The Grid actually is and a round up of Paris Games Week.
Show notes:
The Grid, their main website
The Grid preview on The Next Web

Their GitHub bot and full directory of GitHub Pages sites

The Grid October Update

Paris Games Show, full round up on GameSpot
No Man’s Sky latest trailer

Matterfall latest trailer

Uncharted 4: Multiplayer trailer

WiLD Gameplay trailer

Detroit: Become Human announcement trailer

Gran Turismo Sport announcement trailer

RIGS: Mechanized Combat League trailer
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52min
September 17, 2015Episode #29
Time for a new episode!:
GTA Freemode, checkout the official trailer

Yeoman

GitHub.com interface, here’s the documentation on editing code on Github.com
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32min

FAQs about Bit Podcast:

How many episodes does Bit Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 58 episodes available.