The Web Platform Podcast

Get an update on everything that is happening in the wonderful world of WebRTC. WebRTC powers a staggering number of applications most of us use every day and has some exciting use cases you probably never even thought of. As a developer WebRTC is certainly one of those technologies you should be taking a look at. In this weeks episode get the latest from one of WebRTCs leading authorities Tsahi Levent-Levi. Check out This Week in Web for a 15% discount on Amsterdam JSNation conference tickets!

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We all got here somehow. This week Danny Blue and Leon Revill share how they got into web development. The web is a big place so how did those who do this as a career end up here?

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Houdini is a set of specs and APIs which expose low-level CSS capabilities allowing developers to break the mould and capitalize on performance gains. Surma who is a web advocate at Google joins us this week to enlighten us on the use-cases and capabilities of these APIs and how they are going to impact the web.

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Finding documentation about the web and its various platform APIs used to be a fragmented experienced across a wide range of sites with not quite the right information. When all hope seemed lost, Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs became the clearinghouse for not only Mozilla related docs but also the web in general. In this episode, we talk with Mozilla's Ali Spivak (@Ali Spivak) and Kadir Topal (@atopal), as well as MDN Product Advisory Board member and ex-Mozilla/current Googler Robert Nyman (@robertnyman) about the ongoing growth of MDN and how the browser vendors and developers alike are beginning to bring better web platform documentation to all.

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Since Visual Studio Code burst onto the code editor scene, the steady improvements have made a number of web-related development tasks easier to handle. In this episode, we speak with web standards contributor and PM on the Visual Studio Code Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg) on a wide range of topics. From VS Code's beginnings and current open source model, to Kenneth's recent experiments with Chrome headless in VS Code via browser-preview extension, this is an episode not to miss.

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With an ever-expanding array of devices, connectivity, and growing usage in new markets, the need for web performance has never been stronger. Beyond single testing for a given metric, how do you achieve and monitor your progress? To help us learn more about performance, Ben Schwarz (@benschwarz), founder of Calibre, joins us to discuss various facets of web performance, how monitoring can help achieve your goals, and just why he thinks performance budgets aren't an end-all solution for most developers.

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For many developers, design can be a mystifying topic. For many designers, writing code isn't their daily task. In this episode designer and developer Erik Kennedy walks through common approaches and talks about who designers and developers can better work together to bring forth happiness inducing products.

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web.dev is a new developer resource released at Chrome Dev Summit last year to help developers with topics such as fast load times, network resilience, SEO and more. With integrated lighthouse, the automated performance auditing tool, it can analyse your sites and provide deep insight into what you can do to improve. Join us this week with Rob Dodson to talk all about how web.dev came about, why it is so important, all its great features and what could be coming in the future. Oh! and listen for a chance to WIN a FREE ticket to React Amsterdam, the largest React conference worldwide!

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Voice interfaces are more common than ever and devices like the Google Home and Amazon's Echo are becoming deeply ingrained in our day-to-day lives. This week we talk about developing for voice both for the web and beyond. We discuss how developing voice-based applications differs from traditional UI based applications and the challenges involved. Dustin Coates shares plenty of tips and resources to help you get stuck into developing for voice.

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This week we cover many of the great things announced at Chrome Dev Summit 2018. We talk about some of the exciting new things coming to the web, the new resource for web developers (web.dev) how the Squoosh app brings together all of the latest modern best practices including web workers, web assembly and PWA techniques to deliver a great experience and Justin opens with a priceless Santa impression - what more could you need to kick off your December?

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