From Shoelace to Web Awesome
Shoelace creator Cory LaViska joins Amal & Jess to tell them all about the forward-thinking library of web components that just joined the Font Awesome family to create Web Awesome.
Shoelace creator Cory LaViska joins Amal & Jess to tell them all about the forward-thinking library of web components that just joined the Font Awesome family to create Web Awesome.
Angelica is joined by the wonderful Anthony Starks to discuss creative coding to create art & visualizations with Go. Anthony is an independent developer/designer interested in data visualization, generative art, building tools & combining art + code.
This week on weâre joined by Emil Sjölander from Figma â talking about bringing Dev Mode to Figma. Dev Mode is their new workspace in Figma thatâs designed to bring developers and design to the same tool.
The question theyâre trying to answer is âHow do you create a home for developers in a design tool?â We go way back to Emilâs startup that was acquired by Figma called Visly, how we iterated to here from 20 years ago (think PSD > HTML days), what they did to build Dev Mode, what theyâre doing around codegen, the popularity of design systems, and what it takes to go from zero to Dev Mode.
Amal & Nick are joined by Saron Yitbarek (developer, podcaster, community leader & serial entrepreneur) to catch up and discuss her latest project: Not A Designer
We discuss all the ins & outs of tech entrepreneurship & the challenges of building something new in todayâs saturated market. Tune in for a behind-the-scenes look at how she does it & get a sneak peek on whatâs possibly next! (Spoiler Alert: we brain stormed it here)
This week weâre back for part 2 with Adam Wiggins â going beyond Heroku and the story of Muse (listen to part 1). After a six-year adrenaline high on Heroku, Adam needed time to recover and refill the creative well. So, he moved to Berlin, did some gig work with companiesâŠdabbled in investing and advising. But he wasnât satisfied. Adam likes to build things.
Ultimately, he was just waiting for the right time to reconnect with James Lindenbaum and Orion Henry â the same fellas he created Heroku with. Eventually they founded Ink & Switch, an independent research lab which led to innovations that made Muse possible. Muse is a tool for deep work and thinking on iPad and Mac. Todayâs show is all about that journey and the details in-between.
Suz, Amal, and Chris join Jerod to discuss what APIs are all about, share some APIs they admire, and lay out principles and practices we can all use in our APIs.
Carbon is an open source web app that helps you create and share beautiful images of your source code. Whether youâve used Carbon personally or not, odds are youâve seen its dent on the universe of social code sharing. Mike Fix has been maintaining Carbon for a few years and heâs embraced the project as an opportunity to experiment and practice working in public.
On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, we chat with Mike about building Carbon, growing its community, sustainability models, and why he loves the world of open source.
Weâre revisiting Shape Up and product development thoughts with Ryan Singer, Head of Product Strategy at Basecamp. Last August we talked with Ryan when he first launched his book Shape Up and now weâre back to see how Shape Up is shaping up â âHow are teams using the wisdom in this book to actually ship work that matters? How does Shape Up work in new versus existing products?â We also talk about the concept of longitudinal thinking and the way itâs impacting Ryanâs designs, plus a grab bag of topics in the last segment.
This week Feross and Emma chat with Segun Adebayo about Chakra UI, a modular React component library thatâs changing the game for design systems and app development.
KBall connects with Katie Sylor-Miller to talk about migrating OhShitGit to the JAMStack, migrating legacy codebases to modern front-end technologies, and design systems.
Design systems are taking the tech industry by storm, but what exactly are they? Do you even need one? This week weâre talking all things design systems. Weâll chat about component libraries and style guides, companies who are building design systems, and more!
Weâre back with another #YepNope episode, this time debating whether or not JavaScript needs to be rebranded. This premise was inspired by Kieran Pottsâ article of the same name. Divya/Jerod represent Team Yep and Chris/KBall represent Team Nope. Nick, as always, represents Team Type Script đ
Adam talks with Erik Kennedy about tactical design advice for developers. Erik is a self-taught UI designer and brings a wealth of practical advice for those seeking to advance their design skills and learn more about user interface design. We cover his seven rules for creating gorgeous UI, the fundamentals of user interface design â color, typography, layout, and process. We also talk about his course Learn UI Design and how itâs the ultimate on-ramp for upcoming UI designers.
Google UX Engineer Adam Argyle joins Jerod and KBall to share all the details on VisBug, his just-released Chrome Extension that âmakes any webpage feel like an artboard.â Adam is passionate about doing for designers what Firebug (and later DevTools) did for developers. In this episode, he shares that passion and how itâs driven him to create and open source VisBug.
Lauren McCarthy joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss her work on p5.js, contributions and culture, her before and after take on open source, her path to becoming a maintainer, how p5.js gets new contributors, how they keep them around, and why design isnât better represented in open source.
Adam Morse joined the show to talk about Functional CSS and his project Tachyons - a CSS Toolkit that lets you quickly build and design new UI without writing CSS. We talk about Scalable CSS, the difference between âAtomicâ, âOOCSSâ, âBEMâ and others, semantic class names, and where we go from here.
Jack Lukic is back again to talk about whatâs new with Semantic UI, the progress he, 104 contributors, and hundreds of translators have made towards a front-end standard only rivaled by Twitterâs Bootstrap numbers. We discuss the why and the how of him dedicating everything he has to Semantic UI and the potential it brings.
Andrew and Adam talk with Jack Lukic about Semantic UI.