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Surma and Jake talk about whatever's going on in the world of web development.

Discussing philosophies of Web development, life hacks, lessons and some honest truths.

Aug 10, 2020

- Jake messed up his recording, so it sounds like he literally phoned it in. He is very sorry.

- Where do you put clothes that are in active service?

- How the star system of hotels should work

- Jake hates Eastenders

- The <portal> element → https://goo.gle/3ihojWy

- The session history traversal bit of the spec →...


Jul 9, 2020

- Surma’s photo challenge: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTiwExnIe6/

- https://web.dev/live happened!

- Jake's image compression talk → https://goo.gle/2NZ4erd

- Jake & Jason write build plugins → https://goo.gle/2CajSNF

- https://tooling.report goes live!

- webpack's weird behaviour with entry points →...


May 8, 2020

- The Count from Sesame Street swearing → https://goo.gle/3ftsgqL (warning: silly/rude)

- Ofcom research into broadcast swearing → https://goo.gle/2A9xM1B (warning: lots of really bad language) (bigger warning: PDF)

- Banned word list read by a computer → https://goo.gle/2SNkgat (warning: lots of really...


Apr 30, 2020

Jake injured himself playing games.

Jake also has a stupid cat.

By the way, skip to 22 mins if you don't care about all that.

Writing a Countdown solver → https://goo.gle/2SkHtk2 

Here's the game show → https://goo.gle/3bPo1DM 

Here's the C++ solution → https://goo.gle/2VRzoFP 

Jake's unappreciated audio blog post...


Apr 15, 2020

Phil and Jack from fishandscripts.com are still lingering around. We chat about:

Fustractions with punctuality.

Phil's time website → https://goo.gle/34Cb3pW 

Frances on naming PWAs → https://goo.gle/3cgkfTu 

Jen's new job.

Surma's WebXR experiment → https://goo.gle/3adpDp2 

Transferring data between workers and...