HTML All The Things - Web Development, Web Design, Small Business
Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan • Business, Education, Technology, Entrepreneurship
Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan • Business, Education, Technology, Entrepreneurship
HTML All The Things - Web Development, Web Design, Small Business
Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan • Business, Education, Technology, Entrepreneurship
Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan • Business, Education, Technology, Entrepreneurship

About

The adventures of Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan through the world of web development, web design, and small business management. As web development agency owners for the better part of a decade, they’ve worked with all sorts of technologies, through the rise of responsive web design, the revolution of serverless computing, and the popularity gain of many no-code tools for small business owners. They commonly discuss foundational web development technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - including popular frameworks and tools such as Tailwind CSS, Svelte, WordPress, Vue, and more.

Episodes

  • Is There A Best Way To Make A Website?
    What is the best way to make a website? Websites can be made with no-code builders, custom code, marketing software, and unique combinations of available tech. Even if we narrow down our choice to custom code, we're still left wondering what our tech...
  • Celebrating 300 Episodes: What’s Next for HTML All The Things?
    Today we celebrate this past week's milestone of 300 released episodes. Now we know that this number is a bit wishy-washy because we have some "side episodes" like Tidbits and Web News...and it doesn't help that we changed how we number our episodes ...
  • Make a Project, Get a Job w/ Puru
    This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with the creator of MacOS Web, Puru Vijay to discuss how creating projects can help land you a job in the web development field. MacOS Web has come up in Puru's job interviews and has helped him build a c...
  • Should Junior Developers Use ChatGPT to Help Them Write Code?
    AI is a hot topic these days with LLMs dominating much of the tech talk we see online. In the web development scene, chatbots like ChatGPT and Copilot are able to develop and debug code through simple conversational prompts that don't require complex...
  • Beware of Vendor Lock-In
    Vendor lock-in in web development refers to a situation where a company becomes overly reliant on a single vendor's products or services, making it difficult and costly to switch to another provider. This can lead to several issues, such as reduced f...
  • Free Tiers Are Dangerous
    Free tiers are no stranger to web developers as many look to them to get them started on a new tool, try out hosting, or help with some basic design work. The problem is that free tiers are sometimes downgraded, or even completely removed from existe...
  • CSS: Styling the Web & Learning Through Content w/ Kevin Powell
    Kevin Powell, known to many as the King of CSS, joins Matt in this packed episode to discuss the current status of CSS, how to tailor your content absorption for learning, and more. The duo discussed whether or not popular CSS toolkits (ie SASS, Tail...
  • WordPress Is a No-Code Tool That Requires Coding
    WordPress is a very popular tool for making websites that can be easily extended to get the job done. While the original focus of WordPress was blogs, over time other websites started being created with it through the use of plugins like WooCommerce ...
  • Technical Interviews Exposed w/ Kyle TechSquidTV
    With the tech job market seemingly exploding with layoffs recently, nailing your technical interviews is possibly more important than ever. With that said, there are a lot of opinions out there on how much prep you should be doing and whether you sho...
  • Junior Developer vs Senior Developer
    Progressing through your web development career is unique depending on the companies you decide to work for, but there are some common positions that companies will use to help guide their promotion process. These positions include junior developer, ...
  • Work-Life Balance for Web Developers in 2024
    Work-life balance is an important topic to talk about in the tech field, especially in 2024 with the recent layoffs and overall industry downturn. It can be easy to sacrifice some personal time to log extra hours at the office in an attempt to give y...
  • Top 5 Insider Web Developer Agency Tips
    Running a web development agency isn't easy from both the technical and customer service side of things. Luckily, Matt and Mike have been running their web development agency for 7+ years, making plenty of mistakes, and claiming even more successes o...
  • Francesco’s Unique Developer Journey
    Almost everyone has a unique story on how they joined the field in which they eventually made a career, but many aren't as unique as Francesco Ciulla's. His development journey has lead him to work with the European Space Agency as a full-stack devel...
  • Web Development Is a Mess: Do We Need Frameworks? Is There Too Much to Learn?
    Web development, often hailed for its versatility, empowers us to create websites, progressive web apps (PWAs), mobile applications, and robust web-based tools. However, beneath the surface lies a complex landscape far from utopian. To make web devel...
  • How to Land a Web Development Job w/ James Quick
    Learn how to land a web development job with this week's guest, James Quick. James is a content creator that focuses on teaching web developers through his YouTube channel and podcast. Our discussion this week focused on landing and keeping a web dev...
  • CSS Browser Support: When Can I Use This?
    Back in the days of Internet Explorer web developers struggled with keeping their websites compatible across various versions. This problem exemplified as more modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome were added to the mix, forcing many web devs to cr...
  • Make React Faster Using Million 3 (Million.js) w/ Aiden & Tobiloba
    React is a powerful tool that empowers web developers to create reactive websites and web apps. Unfortunately, sometimes projects built with React can struggle to reach their maximum performance potential. To solve this, Million 3 (million.js) steps ...
  • Working with Junior Developers: Teaching, Training, and Mentoring
    When a junior developer is assigned to your team, it's easy to give them the "new guy" treatment. You might give them jobs you don't like to do or play some sort of harmless prank on them, but take it a step further and you're in danger of becoming a...
  • The Hidden Costs of Web Development
    Subscription fees are any household budget's worst nightmare, but they're not limited to just your favorite TV subscriptions. Web developers are also constantly bombarded by subscription fees for everything from development tools, analytics software,...
  • More Tech Layoffs, HTMX is Real, Friends with Ideas
    Three web development topics grace this episode's contents as Matt and Mike discussed the seemingly never ending tech layoffs that keep making headlines. The guys also discussed HTMX, a lightweight UI library that has taken off in popularity recently...