
528: Alex and Andrew on Working in an Agency
08/15/22 • 56 min
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Show Description
Alex and Andrew join us from the Discord to talk about working on client sites and branding at Traina. How do they set up WordPress for development? What's the incentive to invest in tooling? And the benefits of using CodePen as a knowledge library for your brain.
Guests
Andrew Walpole
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
Andrew Walpole is a full-stack web developer and the Director of Web Development at Traina, a brand-first creative agency. He also enjoys dabbling in 3D printing, living-systems computation, and digital generative art.
Alex Riviere
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
Alex Riviere is a Senior Frontend Developer for Traina, Co-Host of the Enjoy the Vue podcast, Co-organizer for the Atlanta Vue.js Meetup as well as PyATL. He spends some of his down time making terrible things over on twitch.
Links
- Traina
- Nuxt
- Eleventy
- Timber
- Advanced Custom Fields
- Petite Vue
- Bun
- Zig
- Jetbrains
- Alex’s Twitch channel
- Enjoy the Vue podcast
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One workspace. Every team. We’re more than a doc. Or a table. Customize Notion to work the way you do. Customize Notion to make it work the way you want it to. Just drag and drop to craft the dashboard, website, doc, or system you need.Show Description
Alex and Andrew join us from the Discord to talk about working on client sites and branding at Traina. How do they set up WordPress for development? What's the incentive to invest in tooling? And the benefits of using CodePen as a knowledge library for your brain.
Guests
Andrew Walpole
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
Andrew Walpole is a full-stack web developer and the Director of Web Development at Traina, a brand-first creative agency. He also enjoys dabbling in 3D printing, living-systems computation, and digital generative art.
Alex Riviere
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
Alex Riviere is a Senior Frontend Developer for Traina, Co-Host of the Enjoy the Vue podcast, Co-organizer for the Atlanta Vue.js Meetup as well as PyATL. He spends some of his down time making terrible things over on twitch.
Links
- Traina
- Nuxt
- Eleventy
- Timber
- Advanced Custom Fields
- Petite Vue
- Bun
- Zig
- Jetbrains
- Alex’s Twitch channel
- Enjoy the Vue podcast
Sponsors
Notion
One workspace. Every team. We’re more than a doc. Or a table. Customize Notion to work the way you do. Customize Notion to make it work the way you want it to. Just drag and drop to craft the dashboard, website, doc, or system you need.Previous Episode

527: Shaky Foundations, Tricky A11y Topics, & Dependency Follow Up
Show Description
A quick Luro update, working in a coffee shop, when do you know it's time to leave a working but shakey system behind and start fresh, teaching tricky A11y tips, dependency follow up, how big are the node modules, and we dream up a media service app.
Links
- Luro
- Logitech MX Master 3S
- Microsoft Accessibilty Insights
- ShopTalk Show 524 on Web Security
- Jim Nielsen Netlify public folder
- SVG OMG
- Thumbor
- Bun
- Zig
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529: What’s new in Safari with Jen Simmons
Show Description
Jen Simmons walks through a ton of the new CSS and HTML features out now or coming soon - including container queries, cascade layers, .has selector, and more!
Guests
Jen Simmons
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & @Webkit. Member of CSS Working Group.
Links
Safari News * New WebKit Features in Safari 15.2 * New WebKit Features in Safari 15.4 * New WebKit Features in Safari 15.5 * New WebKit Features in Safari 15.6 * News from WWDC22: WebKit Features in Safari 16 Beta * WWDC22: What’s new in Safari and WebKit (video) * List of WWDC22 sessions about web technology :has() * Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more by Jen Simmons, on webkit.org * The demo that needed Cascade Layers because of complex :has() selectors * Michelle Barker’s demo of :has() + grid track animations Passkeys * Overview of Passkeys * Supporting Passkeys: documentation * About the security of passkeys * WWDC22: Introduction of Passkeys at State of the Union (video) * WWDC22: Meet Passkeys (video) * FIDO Alliance’s announcement of passkeys * Web Authentication standard * Web Authn on Can I Use Web Push * Meet Web Push * WWDC22: Meet Web Push for Safari (video)- bugs.webkit.org - for web technology & Web Inspector
- feedbackassistant.apple.com - for feedback on Safari’s interface
- webkit.org
- @webkit
- @jensimmons
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