12: Being a consultant

This episode we’re back with some exciting Safari news after Apples WWDC. We also look into native CSS nesting, which is almost available in all evergreen browsers! To wrap it all up we discuss using Nuxt for the very first time.

This episode we go over some exciting new things coming to WebKit.We also discuss our takes and experiences with AI tools such as chatGPT, Github Copilot and more. Links: Github Copilot Chat GPT WebKit Technology preview

Today we talk about getting into open source and building communities with our guest, Lars Brink. Links: Growing an Open culture in Open source  ThisIsLearning dev community

Today we discuss the pros and cons of both PostCSS and SASS, and if SASS is still needed today. Links: https://postcss.org/ https://www.postcss.parts/ https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer https://sass-lang.com/

Today we invited Filip Bech, CTO at Umbraco, on the show to talk about the Umbraco CMS, how to go headless, Web Components libraries and frameworks. Filip also shares some of the thoughts behind the modernisation of the Umbraco backoffice where they are using an API-First approach going from AngularJS to Lit. 🔗 Links: https://umbraco.com/ https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco.UI https://lit.dev/ https://vitejs.dev/ https://umbraco.com/products/umbraco-heartcore/ https://angularjs.org/ https://codesplitterspodcast.com/episodes/11-technology-throwbacks-a-tribute-to-angularjs-and-jquery/ https://twitter.com/Filipbech https://twitter.com/Umbraco

Thomas Hjortsberg is a good friend and ex-colleague of ours. He joins us to talk about collaboration between UX and frontend, and shares his wise words and war-stories based on his many years of UX experience.

In this episode we share a few nice tools, extensions and gotchas with each other. We also ended up talking about how we like to organize our bookmarks. 🔗 Links: Fig.io Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime Todo Tree extension for VS Code Webstorm Dialog :readonly Jest todo: https://jestjs.io/docs/api#testtodoname - example: it.todo("should do this thing") Cypress.io Playwright.dev

We talk about Mikkels new puppy and some other dog-talk. Once again we discuss cool new features in Safari, such as container queries and subgrid, etc. We also talk about updates in Vue, Nuxt and Angular 14. There is also a new story-tool in town - Histoire. 🔗 Links: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-16-release-notes https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/vue-2-7-naruto.html https://histoire.dev/ https://blog.angular.io/angular-v14-is-now-available-391a6db736af https://storybook.js.org/showcase/ https://tailwindui.com/ https://astro.build https://www.patterns.dev/posts/islands-architecture/ https://qwik.builder.io/ https://remix.run

This time we talk about our passion for homemade pizza, newly released Safari features, the <dialog> element, :focus-visible, optional chaining and polyfills. 🔗 Links: Ooni pizza ovens: https://eu.ooni.com/ Safari releases: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes Dialog element: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dialog :focus-visible: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:focus-visible The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/a-web-for-all/

In this episode we step a little bit away from talking about technologies and tools, instead we talk about being a consultant. What it means and how it's different from being an in-house developer or a freelance developer. We also discuss what different constellations we have been part of and some of the nice things of being a consultant.