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Jared White & Ayush Newatia

A podcast about the protocols, the projects, and the people who make the open platform of the Internet possible.

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#25
Oct 2, 2024 · 53 min
Deploying Your Web App…What Could Go Wrong?
Deploying web apps today is the portal to madness and pain, with many levels of misery awaiting as you descend into the depths of Hades. Or…if you play it right, it’s little more than the press of a button.
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#24
Sep 11, 2024 · 46 min
Your Static Just Zapped Me
It's time for some acronym soup: SSG SSR CSR SPA MPA…MEAN? SSI?? PERL??? (Officially not an acronym…) If you're coming down with a headache already, trust us, you're not alone. It's…a lot. Thankfully, Ayush and Jared are here to break it all down for you,
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#23
Aug 28, 2024 · 45 min
Action Web Components for Full-Stack Magic
What if your backend could drive reactive UI changes on your frontend? Without dependencies? Without relying on any particular framework? What if your HTML could gain full-stack programming superpowers? Introducing Action Web Components—inspired by cleve
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#22
Aug 15, 2024 · 39 min
And Lo, There Was ARPANET (Baby Internet!)
How did the Internet first begin? Why was it developed at the Advanced Research Projects Agency? Where was it initially launched at the end of the 1960s? Is it pronounced r-OO-ter or r-OW-ter?? These and other hard-hitting questions are answered as Jared
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#21
Jul 24, 2024 · 49 min
The Browser Wars & an Uneasy Peace
It’s been a wild, wild ride getting from the anything goes origin story of the mainstream web—anyone still remember “Netscape Navigator” and “Trumpet Winsock”?—to today’s carefully-curated experience in the age of Interop and using GitHub to achieve spec
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#20
Jul 10, 2024 · 41 min
Pendulum Swings & 2023’s State of JS
Whoa, there was one more “State of” survey from 2023 to mine for content! Who knew? Yes, the results are in, and we talk about them…but more broadly, our feelings about the state of web frameworks in our industry and the much-ballyhooed pendulum swing bac
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#19
Jun 26, 2024 · 35 min
How Many Books Could ePub Pub if ePub Could Pub Books
What if you could take HTML & CSS, package them up in a file, and publish that file as a singular artifact? That's essentially what ePub is. (ePUB? EPUB?) With Ayush's real-world experience publishing e-books, we are guided through understanding more
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#18
Jun 12, 2024 · 48 min
From Frameworks to Using the Platform with Elise Shaffer
When you've spent a good portion of your career as a web developer utilizing CSS processors & frameworks, what would lead you to embrace vanilla techniques and modern CSS features? This is the question in the air as we welcome our first ever guest to
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#17
May 29, 2024 · 44 min
HTML Finally Gets the Respect It Deserves
The results of the State of HTML 2023 survey are in! It’s an exciting time for HTML which has seen a lot of growth and expansion of capability in a welcome break with the past (when typically CSS and especially JavaScript would leapfrog the rate of change
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#16
May 15, 2024 · 1 hr 17 min
This State of Affairs
Where data lives, how to retrieve data, how to change data, how to track updates to data and provide feedback accordingly to the user…in other words, state. Web application development can necessitate a wide range of possible options for how you manage st
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#15
Apr 30, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move
Join us for a meaty conversation all about the various levels of specifications and conventions which make the World-Wide Web go: from TCP/IP to HTTP to WebSockets and beyond. We also talk about conventions in various languages and frameworks to enable bu
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#14
Apr 16, 2024 · 1 hr 3 min
Interop 2024 and the State of the Industry
Oh yes, we’re back! In this first Just a Spec episode of the year, the lads speculate on the grand conspiracy behind the results publication delay of State of HTML 2023 (not really!), catch up on personal news from during the podcast’s year-end hiatus, an
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#13
Nov 15, 2023 · 52 min
Thankful for the Modern Web (and a CSS Course!)
Thanksgiving’s coming up here in the U.S. and we thought it’d be fun to talk about of our favorite aspects of the modern web (and how it compares to the “dark days” of old). In addition, Jared’s launched a brand-new course platform over at The Spicy Web w
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#12
Oct 11, 2023 · 52 min
Naming Things
Ah yes, that notorious hard problem in computer science. Time to name some things as we talk abut the philosophy undergirding software development, why “naming things” is hard but also a core aspect of the job, the sometimes reluctance to name things in a
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#11
Sep 28, 2023 · 56 min
Fast Frontend Testing, Storage, Observers, Fetch, & More
A whole grab bag of topics today! We talk about some of the well-known storage APIs like localStorage and sessionStorage, as well as the newer IndexedDB API which pairs well with Service Workers. We also talk about the three Observer APIs to help with rea
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#10
Sep 13, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min
A State of CSS
The results of the 2023 State of CSS survey are in, and we're here to break it all down and uncover the most interesting nuggets and opportunities as we look ahead to the future of CSS and the web platform. But not before some spicy meta chat on open sour
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#9
Aug 30, 2023 · 49 min
Turbo, Astro, Server Components, and HTML Over the Wire
The lads are back with an action-packed episode full of juicy details about “buildless” architecture & “Turbo” architecture, server components, tools & techniques which encourage server-rendered HTML pages and fragments sent over the wire, making
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#8
Aug 16, 2023 · 56 min
The Accessibility Tree
Gather ’round the accessibility tree, dear listeners, and hear a grand tale about roles and attributes, screen readers and DOM inspectors, and how to be a good A11Y. We also touch on why accessibility isn’t something you bolt on after you design a website
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#7
Aug 2, 2023 · 50 min
Email, Gotta Love It
We're here to deep dive into the technical underpinnings of everyone's FAVORITE internet technology: email. ;-P Amaze your nerd friends with all the exciting trivia you will learn in this action-packed episode! Hosted by Jared White & Ayush Links:
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#6
Jul 19, 2023 · 29 min
TIL About gTLDs, FTW!
It’s hard to imagine in this current world of any dot-something you could possibly imagine when looking to register a domain name, but there was once a past era of the internet when all we had was .com, .net, and .org. A dark time. A sad time. How did we
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