Toolsday

Ep 130 - New in Netlify

shows@spec.fm (Chris Dhanaraj, Una Kravets, Jason Lengstorf) — Tue, 25 May 2021 22:05:00 +0000

Ep 130 - New at Netlify

Resources

Jason Lengstof

Twitter

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Ep 129 - Fullstack Shenanigans

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Tue, 25 May 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Ep 129 - Fullstack Shenanigans

Resources

Sponsors: Voyage

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Ep 128 - Container Queries

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:31:05 +0000

Ep 128 - Container Queries

Resources

Sponsors: Voyage

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Ep 127 - Book Club

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Wed, 7 Apr 2021 01:22:04 +0000

Ep 127 - Book Club

Resources

Sponsors: Voyage

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Ep 126 - Grab Bag of Tools

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:39:01 +0000

Ep 126 - Grab Bag of Tools

Resources

Sponsors: Voyage

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125 - New and Cool Github Features!

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:17:20 +0000

Ep 124 - New and Cool Github Features

Resources

-GitHub Codespaces
-GitHub 1s
-Refined GitHub
-GitHub Discussions
-GitHub Projects

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124 - Interviewing in 2021!

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:07:07 +0000

Ep 124 - Interviewing

Discord Channels to Check Out

These Discord channels have dedicated job channels to check out

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Ep 123 - Starting a New Project

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:42:11 +0000

Ep 123 - Starting a New Project

Resources

Sponsors: Redhat

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2020 Retrospective and 2021 Expectations

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:45:47 +0000

2020 Retrospective

Resources

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121. WMR with Jason Miller

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:09:53 +0000

WMR with Jason Miller

Resources

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120. Writing for Developers

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Thu, 3 Dec 2020 22:45:49 +0000

Writing for Developers

Resources

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119. Web Animations

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 22:17:53 +0000

Web Animations

Resources

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118. React Native

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Tue, 3 Nov 2020 21:51:15 +0000

React Native

Resources

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117. Our Developer Journeys

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 02:49:47 +0000

Resources

levels.fyi

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116. CSS: New and Experimental

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:51:12 +0000

CSS

Resources

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115. Svelte: A Second Look

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Wed, 2 Sep 2020 01:39:29 +0000

Svelte

Resources

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114. Lessons from a Year of Typescript

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:40:44 +0000

Typescript

Resources

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113. Still Working from Home

shows@spec.fm (Spec Network, Inc.) — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:47:02 +0000

Still Working from Home

Hardware

Keyboards

Webcam
(Both of the below used with a mirrorless camera)

Cameras

Monitor

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/P32u

Key Lights

https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/key-light

Chairs

Arms

Sponsors: Honeybadger

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Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and chron monitoring into a single, easy to use platform, all for way less than you're probably paying now.

Toolsday listeners get 30% off for 6 months. Simply mention Toolsday podcast when signing up and they'll apply the discount to your account; no credit card required.

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112. Eleventy

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 05:08:00 +0000

Eleventy

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111. Inspirational Documentation Sites

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 01:05:00 +0000

Inspirational Documentation Sites

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110. Working from Home

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 06:45:00 +0000

Resources

Software

Displays

Asus Zenscreen

Mice to check out

Standing Desks

Wirecutter Best Stand Desk

Today's Sponsors

Square

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109. Year in Review

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 21:43:00 +0000

In Review

Do we actually need CSS in JS?
Utility classes and Tailwind
CSS Grid is great!

React Hooks

Headless UI Components

Looking Forward

Subgrid shipped in Firefox!
Stylable form elements
Virtual Scroller
Container Queries
ReasonML

Today's Sponsors

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108. Chrome Dev Summit Highlights

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:30:00 +0000

Resources

Other

Designing in the Web

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Toolless Toolsday

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:18:00 +0000

Resources

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106. Ruminations on TypeScript

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:37:00 +0000

Resources

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105. AI Ethics with Milena Pribic

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:10:00 +0000

Milena Pribic

Twitter

Resources

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104. Design Tokens with Jina

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 2 Oct 2019 21:28:00 +0000

Jina Anne

Tools and Resources

Community

Design Systems Slack

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103. Variable Fonts

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 03:27:00 +0000

Resources

People to Follow

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102. New or Underrated DevTools

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 01:28:00 +0000

Resources

State Visualizer

New DevTool tricks

Hit H and hide elements!
Element breakpoints - Element breakpoints
Focus-within and focus-visible! Both states are now visible as states you can force an element to in the Element Pane
React DevTools and Why did I Render

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101. Story time with Chris!

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:22:00 +0000

Resources

Who's Hiring

Also find that link by googling "Who's Hiring Hacker News" and then the current month and year

On Being a Senior Engineer

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100. Four years in Review!

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 22:05:00 +0000

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99. Variety Show: State Machines and Houdini

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:47:00 +0000

Resources

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98. LitHtml

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 17:38:00 +0000

97. lit-html

Resources

Justin Fagnani

Other

Rich Harris Thread

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97. Tailwind

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:16:00 +0000

97. Tailwind

Tailwind Resources

Adam Wathan

Other resources mentioned

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96. Inspiration

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Sat, 1 Jun 2019 07:11:00 +0000

96. Inspiration

People to Follow

Websites to Checkout

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95. State of CSS Tooling

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Fri, 17 May 2019 04:52:00 +0000

95. State of CSS Tooling

Pre-processors

Sass
Stylus

Post-processors

CSS in JS

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94. Flutter

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:05:00 +0000

#94: Flutter

Resources

Will Larche

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93. Svelte

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 15:37:00 +0000

#92: Svelte

Resources

Rich Harris

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92. Interviewing

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 3 Apr 2019 07:35:00 +0000

#92: Interviewing

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91. What's New in CSS

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 02:33:00 +0000

91. What's New in CSS

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90. React Hooks

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:48:00 +0000

#90: React Hooks

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Examples

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89. Pour One Out

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:55:00 +0000

88: Pour One Out

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88: CUBS #6: Gatsby

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:42:00 +0000

88: Devsolutions

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87: Devsolutions, Gatsby.js, and SVG UI

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:00:00 +0000

87: Devsolutions

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86. 2018 in Review

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:16:00 +0000

2018 in Review

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85: VisBug with Adam Argyle

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 4 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Resources

Our Guest: Adam Argyle

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84: Chrome Dev Summit Recap

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:11:00 +0000

Chris' Top 5 Talks

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83: What's New in React

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:02:00 +0000

Resources

React Conf Videos

Hooks documentation

Other

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82: Houdini Reloaded

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:56:00 +0000

Resources

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81: Next.js

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 3 Oct 2018 00:29:00 +0000

Resources

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80: CSS Gripes

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:08:00 +0000

Resources

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79: Development Platforms

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 5 Sep 2018 01:30:00 +0000

Una and Chris go over the thousand and one options developers have today to get their apps into the cloud

Get Your App in the Cloud ASAP

Netlify
Now

Platforms as a Service

Tutorials

Puppeteer in Google Cloud Functions

Past Shows

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78: Generative Art with Tim Holman

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:14:00 +0000

Generative Art

Other Resources

Tutorial Markdown

Tim Holman

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77: Is Redux Dead?

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:31:00 +0000

Is Redux dead? Twitter seems to think so, but listen in to hear us talk about why people use Redux, and whether we think they'll keep using redux in the future.

Resources

Articles

Is Redux Dead?

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76: CUBS #5: React Native

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:56:00 +0000

React Native

Getting Started

Resources and Examples

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75: Process and Ideation

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:13:00 +0000

Ideating is hard! We talk about getting inspired to build things, and the process we go through to hone in on what we're creating.

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74: Our VS Code Workspaces

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:32:00 +0000

VS Code

Visual Studio Code

VS Code Settings

Settings we talked about

"files.defaultLanguage": "markdown"
"editor.formatOnSave": true
"editor.renderIndentGuides": true
"editor.tabSize": 2
"editor.wordWrap": "on"

Themes

Fonts

Plugins

Resources

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73: CSS Blocks

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:02:00 +0000

CSS Blocks

Chris Epstein

Twitter

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72: CSS in JS

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:00:00 +0000

Tools

Blog Posts

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71: CUBS #4: D3

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 15 May 2018 18:00:00 +0000

Tutorials

Articles and Podcasts

Playgrounds

Public Data Sets

People to Follow

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70: JS Interaction Libraries

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 1 May 2018 09:00:00 +0000

In today's episode, we talk about JavaScript's animation in transition libraries which we shortened down to interactions....or libraries

Tools and Libraries Mentioned

React Animation

React Transition Group

AnimeJs

chenglou/react-motion

third party React Motion demos

Articles

Flip Your Animations

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69: Gatsby.js w/Jason Lengstorf

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

This episode features the great Jason Lengstorf and we're talking about Gatsby!

Links to things Mentioned Today:

Shannon Soper

Jason on the Web

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68: Houdini

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 3 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

This episode features Una getting overly hyped about Houdini: the future of writing CSS via web worklets.

Resources

Demos

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67: Tomorrow's Browser

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000

This week we talk about the in-progress JavaScript and CSS features we can't wait to see supported!

Things Mentioned

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66: Learning About Netlify w/ Phil Hawksworth

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Today we're learning about Netlify and joining us is the incredible Phil Hawksworth to share his tips and tricks around it all.

A few links from Phil

Netlify
10 Netlify features to surprise and delight - An article I wrote on Medium
Netlify blog and examples - lots of resources here
Static site generators galore! - Netlify can build using pretty much any static site generator
Headless CMS resources - A great companion for static or JAMstack sites
JAMStack - What is JAMstack and resources for building this way
Phil's site - hello!
Phil's twitter - @philhawksworth

Sponsors

Datadog

65: Exploring Serverless

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Resources

Sponsors

Datadog

64: Stylus

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 6 Feb 2018 13:00:00 +0000

This week we explore the pros and cons of Stylus: the hipster CSS preprocessor written to work smoothly with JavaScript.

Resources

2017 in Review

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 2 Jan 2018 20:18:00 +0000

It's time to wrap up the year and welcome 2018. So in this episode, Chris and Una go over their favorite tools and apps from 2017!

Resources

Sponsors

Webflow

CUBS #3: Preact CLI

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:49:00 +0000

CUBS is back with an episode on the Preact CLI! Chris and Una try it out for their own projects and discuss.

Resources

People to follow

Jason Miller

Sponsors

Webflow

Data Visualizations

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 8 Nov 2017 07:28:00 +0000

We take a quick look through the different graphing and svg libraries you can use to build your own data visualizations

Libraries

Learning Resources

Legacy Libraries

Sponsors

Webflow

CUBS #2: Slackbots

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:18:00 +0000

This week, Chris and Una take on the challenge of extending Slack (the messaging system) with their own bots!

General Resources

What We Made

ASL Bot

Tutorials

Sponsors

CUBS: Electron

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:33:00 +0000

Electron.js lets you build desktop apps using web technologies. It’s pretty rad! In the first episode of our new CUBS series, we explore Electron ourselves!

Resources

Sponsors

Web Animation API

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:36:00 +0000

This week we have Rachel Nabors teaching us all about the future of the Web Animations API!

Rachel Nabors

Resources

Promos

Promo Code: TOOLSDAY
Animation at Work

Sponsors

Webflow

Headless Chrome

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 23:22:00 +0000

This week, we’re wrapping our heads around Headless Chrome with Tim Holman!

Our Guest: Tim Holman

Resources

Sponsors

Digital Nomading

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:24:00 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered what its like to live and work around the world, this is the show for you. This week we talk to Nicole Dominguez about running her own business as a digital nomad.

Nicole Dominguez

Resources

NPX

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 9 Aug 2017 15:33:00 +0000

This week we talk with the awesome Kat Marchán about her new tool NPX and how it can improve your NPM workflow.

Our Guest

Kat Marchán on Twitter

Tools

Resources

[npx Announcement Post](https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx
https://medium.com/@maybekatz/introducing-npx-an-npm-package-runner-55f7d4bd282b)
Awesome npx

People

npx modules

Sponsors

RxJS

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:04:00 +0000

This week we talk getting started with RxJS and its data streaming possibilities with David Khourshid.

RxJS with David Khourshid

Resources

People

Sponsors

Writing

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:23:00 +0000

This week we discuss writing! An essential tool to get your voice heard and work seen in the dev community.

Writing Tools

Other

CSS Variables

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 5 Jul 2017 21:45:00 +0000

CSS variables are so freaking useful and their fast adoption has us more than excited. In this short episode, we discuss implementation and some use cases.

CSS Variables

Demos

Other Notes

Edge supports css grid behind a flag
@supports
Codesandbox
Glitch

Design Systems Revisted

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:00:00 +0000

What happens when our shiny design system has its first birthday? Chris and Una discuss lessons learned from their years in the field

Tools

GraphQL

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 24 May 2017 13:51:00 +0000

Tune in this week to hear us ford through unfamiliar waters as we tackle GraphQL! We go through why you should get excited about this new way of dealing with APIs.

Resources

Data Sketches

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 17 May 2017 00:29:00 +0000

Live from JSConf.EU, we speak with Nadieh Bremer & Shirley Wu about their incredible data sketches project and their experiences with data visualization.

Data Sketches

Shirley Wu

Nadieh Bremer

Resources

Performance Tips and Tricks

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 3 May 2017 15:27:00 +0000

We blast through our top four tips, tricks, tools, and things to optimize your website for peak performance.

Una's Tools

Chris' Tools

Hardware

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:12:00 +0000

We talk with Suz Hinton about how to write software interconnected with physical objects. How cool is that wizardry!?

Our Guest: Suz Hinton

Boards

Community

Other

CSS Grid

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:02:00 +0000

Everyone’s talking about CSS Grid—the latest spec to surface in modern browsers. Listen up on why its so great!

Resources

People to follow

VR

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:03:00 +0000

What's super trendy in tech right now? Virtual Reality. We break it down this week at SXSW.

VR Devices

WebVR frameworks

VR Frameworks

Unity
Unreal

Gifv

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 8 Mar 2017 13:04:00 +0000

We talk to Jason Ormand about gifv! The latest in image performance technology. No, but really, it's pretty cool

Our Guest: Jason Ormand

GIFV Tools

Thumbor

Additional Information

Git

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 1 Mar 2017 18:54:00 +0000

Git is something we use every day—this week we talk about some tools, tips, and tricks to make it better.

Our Configs

Tools

Tutorials

Automatic Releases with semantic-release

Windows

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:12:00 +0000

What is Windows up to these days? Una and Chris give you the down low of developing on this operating system in 2017!

Windows

Surface Book

Shells

Tools

Webpack 2

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Thu, 2 Feb 2017 15:16:00 +0000

This week we sit down and talk with Sean Larkin about newly released Webpack 2! ES6 modules, tree-shaking, and more fun things in this episode.

Sean Larkin

Webpack 2

Other

CSS in JS

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:06:00 +0000

CSS in JS: is it the next big thing? We break down some techniques with Glen Maddern.

Glen Maddern

CSS in JS

Other

Discovered in 2016

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:27:00 +0000

Every year introduces new tools. We recount our favorite discoveries from 2016.

Una

Chris

Other

Animation Tools with Sarah

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:00:00 +0000

This week we learn about animation in UI: basics, libraries, performance considerations, and more with Sarah Drasner

Sarah Drasner

Native Javascript

Web Animation API

Animation Libraries

Demos

Other

Snap.svg

Fitness Tools

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:00:00 +0000

We care about you! This week we talk about tools that can help you stay healthy and productive.

Fitness Tools!

Images!

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:54:00 +0000

This week's episode is full of image optimization tooks, formats, and some fun facts about images!

Our Favourite Chrome Extensions

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 8 Nov 2016 19:00:00 +0000

We rapid fire through our top eight Chrome extensions

Una's Extensions

Chris' extensions

Other

Conference Talks

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 1 Nov 2016 20:07:00 +0000

Chris interviews Una on her experience as a conference speaker and how you can become one too!

Talk Tools

Resources

Visual Studio Code

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:00:00 +0000

We stray off the beaten road of Atom and Sublime, and instead discuss our new favourite editor, Visual Studio Code, and our top five extensions for it.

Visual Studio Code

VS Code

Chris' Extensions

Una's Extensions

State of Javascript

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 23:57:00 +0000

We’re back! With an overview of what people have been talking about lately: the abundance of tools in web development.

State of Javascript

Conference Talks

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:19:00 +0000

We highlight thirteen conference talks that dazzled us, inspired us, and drove our careers forward

Una's picks

Chris' picks

Travel Tools

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:52:00 +0000

After a short hiatus, Toolsday returns with CSS Wizardry himself, Harry Roberts, to talk about travel.

Our Guest: Harry Roberts

Travel Tools

Travis CI

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 3 Aug 2016 18:35:00 +0000

In today's episode we're joined by Mathias Meyer to talk about Travis CI

Our Guest: Mathias Meyer

Travis CI

Standards and Linters

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:17:00 +0000

What’s the “correct” way to write code? We can’t say for sure, but these standards and linters can. This week we explore the options.

JavaScript Standards and Linters

JS Plugins

SCSS Standards

PostCSS

PostCSS

CSS Frameworks

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:13:00 +0000

CSS frameworks / design systems/ pattern libraries — so many names, so little time! We revisit the topic with so much more knowledges.

CSS Frameworks / Systems

Other

Pokemon Go

Our Hardware!

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000

We chat about how we use completely different hardware to do our work

Unas' Hardware

Chris' Hardware

Review Sites!

Wirecutter

Firefox Dev Tools

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000

We had Helen Holmes, UI designer of Firefox Dev tools to teach us some tricks we didn't know existed!

Our Guest: Helen Holmes

Firefox Dev Tools

The Variety Show

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 7 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000

The tools we love and use that we forgot or just didn't fit into any other category.

Una's Picks

Chris' Picks

Other Mentions

Service Workers

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 17 May 2016 05:00:00 +0000

We poke around, ruminate, and explore Service Workers.

Service Workers

Offline-first

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 10 May 2016 05:00:00 +0000

How can we make sure people are able to access data on poor connections? Hear about offline-first this week with Hoodie's Gregor Martynus.

Gregor Martynus

Native Web

Data Layer

Offline-first Community

System Tools

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Wed, 4 May 2016 05:00:00 +0000

Some of the things you'll need to set up a MacBook from scratch, and some fun quirks that will make your life easier day to day.

Mac Tricks

Github

Git Open
Hub

Typefaces

Etc

Cloudup

Top 10 Tools

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 05:00:00 +0000

For our 20th episode, we do a recap of our favourite tools that we use everyday.

Una's Tools

Chris' Tools

Web Accessibility

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 05:00:00 +0000

This week we talk about web accessibility concerns — what the heck all those acronyms are, and how to test for compliance.

(Mostly CSS) Animation

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 05:00:00 +0000

Animation brings the web to life! Today we talk about (mostly CSS) animation — how it works, tools, and resources.

Unit Testing

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 05:00:00 +0000

Today we discuss JavaScript unit testing with ColbyCheeze! Learn about spying, stubbing, and mocking this week.

Game Engines

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 8 Mar 2016 06:00:00 +0000

Achieved in CryEngine 3 — wait no, Unity, wait no, Phaser?

CSS Layout

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 06:00:00 +0000

This week we're talking CSS layout — from CSS 1 to current best practices to what's coming down the pipeline.

Performance Profiling

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 06:00:00 +0000

We all agree performance testing is important, but how do you track it over time? This week Taylor Jones tells us how.

Static Site Generators

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 9 Feb 2016 06:00:00 +0000

There are 412 options for static site generators. This week we discuss (mostly three) of them.

Solved by ES6 (ES2015)

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 2 Feb 2016 06:00:00 +0000

We picked our top five ES6/7/2015/2016 upgrades and talk about how they make our lives so much easier.

Express & Middleware

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 06:00:00 +0000

Our guest Jon Ballands chats with us about the IBM Swift Sandbox, and building it with Node & Express.

Ember

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 06:00:00 +0000

With frameworks being so hot right now, we talk to Iheanyi Ekechukwu about Ember

React

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 5 Jan 2016 06:00:00 +0000

This week we talk about React and why it's so darn hard to get started with!

Chrome DevTools

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 06:00:00 +0000

Chrome DevTools is the topic of the week, which we've simply deemed "awesome".

CSS Processors

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 06:00:00 +0000

This week's episode is about the past, present and future of CSS Pre and Post-processors.

Remote Collaboration

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 8 Dec 2015 06:00:00 +0000

Absence makes the heart grow fonder? Let's talk about remote collaboration and the tools that make it possible.

Developer Environment

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 06:00:00 +0000

Sublime or Atom? Wait, WEBSTORM? We talk about our favourite developer environment tips and tricks.

Styleguides at Scale

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 06:00:00 +0000

We discuss the challenges of creating scalable styleguides with guest Brian Han

Learning Tools

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 06:00:00 +0000

College? Where we're going, we don't need college (or do we?).

Module Loaders

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:00:00 +0000

We'll talk about modules and module loaders! Everything from AMD to common.js and spend a bit of time going over Browserify and Webpack.

Task Runners

shows@spec.fm (Una Kravets, Chris Dhanaraj) — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 05:00:00 +0000

Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, Brunch, Mimosa, oh my! So many task runners, so little time. In this weeks episode, we explore each of these delectable breakfast items/task runners.