devMode.fm

By Andrew Welch, Ryan Irelan

devMode.fm is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to the tools, techniques, and technologies used in modern web development. We cover JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue.js, and Svelte, tooling like webpa... more

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October 14, 2019Luring Clients away from WordPress
On this episode, we’re joined by Sebastien Dehesdin from Bleeps & Blops to talk about luring clients away from WordPress.

WordPress powers a massive slice of the Internet, but its hold is slipping as modern web development advances, and other solutions offer a better develop and content authoring experiences.

We delve into strategies we use to lure clients away from WordPress, and talk in depth about what works, and what doesn’t work.

We also discuss at length what it’d mean if Craft CMS ever went fully OSS, and if this would be a good or a bad thing for developers and clients.
Bleeps & Blops

Craft Partners

Craft for our organization

WordPress

Advanced Custom Fields

Headless Wordpress

Why we develop websites using Craft CMS instead of Wordpress

Matrix

Live Preview

Headless Preview in Craft CMS

Craft CMS 3.3 with GraphQL

Quick Start: Gridsome + Craft CMS GraphQL API

Craft CMS pricing

Moz

Barefoot Contessa

Guide Dogs

Rafflesia
...more
56min
September 30, 2019Turning knowledge & passion into your own SaaS
In this episode, we talk to Matt Gray about his journey from working at an agency to freelancing to developing his own software as a service (SaaS) called “Servd”.

We delve into the nuts and bolts of Servd, which aims to be a one-click hosting solution for Craft CMS that implements a number of best practices such as scalability, image optimization, robust queue running, log aggregation, and more!

The Servd service sounds amazing, but even more incredible is Matt’s story of personal hardship that caused him to want to leverage his knowledge & passion to create a SaaS in 2019. Join us for Matt & Mandy’s wonderful story!
Servd

Blogs on Servd

Devops Garbage

Kubernetes

Kooky Kubernetes name & pronunciation

Docker: Part 1 - Local Development

How do you pronounce Redis

Galapagos Marine Iguanas
...more
1h 1min
September 21, 2019Dot All 2019 Conference Recap & Analysis, Live from Montreal!
The devMode.fm crew recaps the Dot All 2019 Conference in Montreal, Canada… joined by Ben Croker and Lindsey DiLoreto. If you couldn’t make it, this podcast is for you!

We talk about and analyze the news announced at the Dot All 2019 conference such as Craft Cloud, Craft CMS 4, and more!

We also discuss the talks that we heard, in terms of what talks we found memorable. The videos of all of them will be published for those who were unable to attend, or want to see them again.

We delve into the benefits of meeting up with your colleagues, and how the conference is really about the people & connections.
DotAll 2019

Craft Cloud

State of Craft 2019

Craft 4 and Craft Cloud Announced at Dot All 2019
...more
48min
September 16, 2019What traits does it take to be a good developer?
In this roundtable discussion, we delve into what traits we believe it takes to be a good developer. We’re joined by special guests Jennifer Blumberg from Next Solutions, Paulo Elias from IDEO, and Ransom Roberson from Venveo for a fantastic discussion.

We separate out the traits that it takes to be a “good human” that are fairly universal to traits that are specific to being a good developer.

Are there some traits that make you a great developer, but a terrible human (and vice versa)? Are there some traits that we conventionally consider “bad” that can be good?
devMode.fm website code on GitHub

We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.

The Coming Software Apocalypse

Anger is a Gift

The 5 Whys

An Annodated webpack 4 Config for Frontend Web Development
...more
1h 13min
September 02, 2019Returning sanity to the webdev process
In this episode, we talk to Chris Ferdinandi believes that many of our modern best practices are harming the web.

Chris has ideas for a new set of best practices that bring more simplicity and sanity to the dev process. They involve such heretical ideas as not using the popular JavaScript frameworks, and using vanilla JavaScript instead.

We also delve into static site generators, and how the complexity that frontend development has morphed into creates exclusionary “gatekeeping”.
GoMakeThings.com

Chris Ferdinandi on Twitter

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

The Cost of JavaScript

The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch

@pika/web

Rian Rietveld resigns from WordPress accessibility team

LoadJS

The Great Divide

Split

Forestry
...more
1h 2min
August 19, 2019The Honesty Required to Run a Profitable Business
In this episode we talk with Stephen Callender about what it takes to run a profitable business. As it turns out, it requires a whole lot of honesty.

Stephen shares his journey from dual masters degrees to being a preacher to finally ended up running his own web development agency from Argentina.

Running your own business isn’t always roses, and Stephen talks candidly about how despite his business generating substantial revenue, he ended up $45k in debt… something he later had to confess to his wife.

It’s a really fantastic talk about the reality of running your own business, and spoiler alert: a great comeback story!
Foster Commerce

Profit First

Profit Well

Bare Metrics

Boss Life: Surviving my own Small Business

F*uck You, Pay Me

Web Developer Support & Maintenance Retainers

Commerce Minded Podcast
...more
1h 11min
August 05, 2019Theming in Gatsby JS
On this episode we’re joined by Jason Lengstorf and Chris Biscardi to talk about the newly released Gatsby Themes!

We discuss out Gatsby themes are not your daddy’s ThemeForest, they are composable so you can utilize multiple themes in one project. They are also granular, so you can replace the look and functionality of only the pieces you need to override.

We go on to discuss the themes in depth, and how they leveraged some of the design token work from styled-system, system-ui, and theme-ui.

We got on to discuss other cool stuff in the Gatsby world, such as Gatsby Cloud, Gatsby Preview, and some top secret upcoming projects the team is working on!
Announcing the Stable Release of Gatsby Themes!

Customizing Styles in Gatsby Themes with Theme UI

Build Blazingly Fast Websites with Gatsby

Styled-System

System-UI

Theme-UI

Announcing Gatsby Theme Jam!

Open Beta for Gatsby Preview is here!

Integration Guide for Gatsby Cloud

Composing and styling Gatsby themes — Learn With Jason video

Setting up your own Image Transform Service

The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

Brean Landyacht Club
...more
1h 1min
July 22, 2019New awesomeness coming in Vue.js 3.0
In this episode, we talk to Vue.js core team member Chris Fritz about what awesome new features we can look forward to in Vue.js 3.0!

First we discuss a misconception / miscommunication about Vue.js 3.0: the existing templating & component syntax is will not only continue to be supported, it will continue to be recommended!

Then we go on to talk about the additional functionality that composition functions (aka “hooks”) will bring to the party, should you choose to use them.

We go on to talk about better performance, enhanced developer experience, fewer edge cases, and a number of other features coming in Vue.js 3.0!
Chris Fritz on Twitter

Vue.js

Vue.js Documentation

Plans for the Next Iteration of Vue.js

RFC: Function-based Component API

Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based APIs instead

Vue 3 will change Vue in a big way

Vue's Darkest Day

Chris Fritz "Vue 3 Trends" presentation

Vue.js Reactivity Caveats

You will waste hours of productivity if you don't know this
...more
54min
July 10, 2019What's New in Craft CMS 3.2 with Brandon Kelly
In this episode we have on Brandon Kelly from Pixel and Tonic to talk about the newly released Craft CMS 3.2!

Craft CMS has long worked as a “headless” CMS via the Element API or GraphQL courtesy of the CraftQL plugin, but the new Headless Live Preview support takes it to the next level.

We talk about that in depth, and then also discuss a number of other new features that have been added such multiple Preview Targets, the attr() function, multi-site Element Queries and more!

Then Andrew decides to update the devMode.fm website to Craft CMS 3.2 live on air, and blindly push it to production… find out how that turned out!

That brings us to discussing the new testing features built into Craft CMS 3.2 that allow for test driven development via Codeception which can mitigate disaster.
Craft 3.2 is Here

Craft CMS 3.2.0 changelog

Going Headless with Craft CMS 3

Deane Barker's Squirrel Notes

attr() Twig function

Codeception

Testing with Craft with Giel Tettelaar

Creating your First Test in Craft CMS

Setting Up Your Own Image Transform Service

Pluginfactory.io
...more
1h
July 08, 2019Design, Build, and Launch with Webflow!
In this episode we talk about the visual development tool Webflow with co-founder Vlad Magdalin. Webflow is a visual website builder targeted at developers rather than end users.

We talk to Vlad about his roots as a web developer that ultimately led to his creation of Webflow the company, and the tool. The impetus was taking the repetition out of the job of web development, allowing you to focus on the higher level decision making and design where you bring value.

We discuss how Webflow is very much targeted at developers, and overcoming the stigma in a world jaded by the likes of SquareSpace and Wix was a challenge. But now Webflow is used on a large number of websites big and small, and has been actively adding important new features such as Ecommerce.

We were joined by special guest host Verity Stothard on this really intriguing deep dive into Webflow. We hope you love it!
Webflow.com

Webflow University

Inventing on Principle video

Webflow Ecommerce

Vlad on Twitter
...more
1h 16min

FAQs about devMode.fm:

How many episodes does devMode.fm have?

The podcast currently has 134 episodes available.