Web Perspectives

Web Perspectives

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Web Perspectives episodes

  • Interviewing² - The Interviewing Mindset

    We know the six underlying steps to display competence in an interview. but what about the mindset?  How can we best answer targeted interview questions?  How much is oversharing?  What qualities do interviewers prefer in web developer candidates?  How do the best candidates answer interview questions?  How much does experience actually matter?

    56 min
  • Interviewing Tips for New Web Developers

    The most important six interviewing tips for new and aspiring developers.  How should you prepare for your next job interview as a web developer?  What steps should you take to stand out from the competetition?  What about salaries?  All this -- and more -- including special, insider information on what it's like as an interviewer from the inside.  Get ready, buckle your keyboard wrist stands, and get ready to rock your next interview, in this one-hour episode of Web Perspectives.

    Blog Post: Effective Job-Seeking in 8 Steps

    1 hr 21 min
  • Remote Work, Post-Pandemic, Managing Teams w/ Mike Borthwick

    With the easing of restrictions, post-pandemic, surrounding office work, what does the future of remote work look like?  How has the industry changed now that most developers work remotely?  More importantly, how can we effectively manage semi-distributed teams in a partly remote workplace while still gaining the benefits of in-person work.  All this and more in this two-hour special of Web Perspectives.

    2 hr 6 min
  • GraphQL vs. JSON:API

    What is an API?  Why did our company choose to go with GraphQL over JSON:API?  The differences between the JSON:API specification and the GraphQL specification; how GraphQL goes against the grain of web standards and why it does this; how RESTful is more of a buzzword.  What the future of HTTP/3 looks like.  HTTP emoji status codes?

    1 hr
  • 10 Tools Every Front-End Developer Should Have

    In defence of tools!  What tools do we recommend to new developers?  How much do we rely on these tools?

    1. Clipboard managers
      • CopyQ
      • Alfred
      • Snippet Managers
      • Keyboard Shortcut Managers (not Linux)
      • Note-Taking Apps
        • Foam vs. Roam vs. Notion
        • TaskCafe for task management -- or Trello or Asana
        • Self-hosting and building your own task manager from TaskCafe
        • AI Intellisense: Tabnine
        • VNC
          • RealVNC
          • TreamViewer
          • NoVNC
          • UltraVNC
          • Emulation
            • Browserstack
            • Parallels
            • Docker
            • LXC & Proxmox
            • Sosoumi: instant MacOS in just a click on Linux, up to 4 times faster than native
            • VSCode Live Share, JetBrains CodeTogether
            • RSS Readers to supercharge newsletter subscriptions.  Feedly; GReader Pro for Android
            • Terminal Emulators: iTerm (MacOS), Konsole (Linux) , Cmder, ConEmu (Windows)
            • 1 hr 15 min
            • Back to the Basics: HTML

              What makes a web page work?  How do browsers work?  What constraints have tools imposed on us?  A primer and review on HTML and what makes an HTML document.  How going back to the basics can make the differences between a customer bouncing from your web page and staying.

              19 min

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