HTML All The Things
The adventures of the web development world through the eyes of Matt and Mike, two buddies that opened up their very own web dev agency straight out of college. They still do web dev work for client as well as create content here on YouTube (and other platforms. They stream some of their adventures live and even have a weekly podcast covering web development, web design, and small business.
HTML All The Things
Is AI the future of coding?
There's a lot of talk about "replacing software engineers with AI" but when you zoom in closer, you realize that it's not that simple. Software can be very simple at first... but as the user base and feature list grow - complexity grows right along side it.
Complex software requires the meticulous planning and implementation of features in order to keep things stable and secure.
If you're familiar with AI you'll know that it has a context issue in which its "mind" start to wander off, losing the ability to consider all the project's parameters at once when making decisions.
This context issue is a cornerstone of AI coding skepticism leading many people to believe that AI will ultimately be more limited than a human when it comes to creating software... even with improvements down the line.
What do you think? Is AI coding the future?
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Freelancers know this pain!
Clients that make a decision (even if it's wrong) and won't budge.
Obviously clients have a business to run and they'll do so the way they see fit. But if they've contacted you for help with SEO, web development, or other technical expertise... then it makes sense that you'd try and give them the best advice in an area where you're the expert, and they are not.
Unfortunately, some client interactions end up in a complete stalemate because they've decided that you're either doing something wrong, or that you need to do X... when in reality you need to be doing Y.
SEO conversations are the most common (in our experience) to end in a stalemate like this. For example, we may suggest that 5 blog posts isn't enough for their niche - and that working their way up to 15 blog posts would give them more exposure to the keywords that matter to them. But they may dig their heels in on the notion that our technical SEO is holding them back in some way. If there's nothing more to do on the technical SEO front, then we find ourselves in a stalemate.
We discussed scenarios like this and how to navigate them professionally in our latest edition of the Web News.
Has this ever happened to you? How did you handle it.
4 months ago | [YT] | 0
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Our first full-length video podcast episode!
If you've been following us for a while, you know that our podcast is primarily an audio show, and that we recently began experimenting with video on our short form "Web News" podcast spinoff.
We've now graduated a bit, with our very first full-length video podcast episode! Please give it a watch and let us know what you think!
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What do you listen to while you code?
Some people listen to focus playlists, while others need absolute silence. While Mike seems to code during deep work in mostly silence, Matt finds that his productivity can be sustained longer by having a TV show playing in the background.
Side note: We've been experimenting with this shorter form "Web News" episode type with video for the first time! We hope you've been enjoying it and would love to hear any feedback you have.
1 year ago | [YT] | 0
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🔥Are you feeling burnt out at work?
đź’ "Interrupt work as often as possible" - How many times have you been interrupted by emails and Slack messages today?
đź’ "Arrange meetings when there is more important work to be done" - Is your team bogged down by endless meetings?
đź’ "Hold 'speeches', bring up irrelevant issues" - Has your team been struggling with motivation lately? Did a recent townhall meeting try to raise your spirits without trying to fix the actual issues you face?
The quotes above are not from any sort of office manual, they're from a sabotage manual. Back in WWII, the predecessor of the CIA (Office of Strategic Services) wrote up the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" for those looking to sabotage the enemy war machine by grinding productivity to a halt in the workplace. Why is it then that many of the concepts covered in the manual describe an average day at the office?
In our latest podcast, we explored burnout and how many modern offices are set up in ways that make little sense from a productivity standpoint. Do we really need all these administrative jobs?
🎧 Listen now in the channel’s podcast tab, or YouTube Music!
1 year ago | [YT] | 1
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🚨 JavaScript Developers! 🚨
We just dropped a new episode you’re not gonna want to miss! In this episode we discussed all things WebAPIs to help you unlock powerful features right in the browser using nothing but vanilla JavaScript.
Easily select the elements you need to, access media devices (ie webcam, microphone), notify users with important updates, and more!
💪 Unlock the your JavaScript’s full potential
🎧 Listen now in the channel’s podcast tab, or YouTube Music!
1 year ago | [YT] | 4
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The second part of our 2-part “The Toughest Concepts in Web Development” series drops today 👀
It’s already on your favorite podcast app, and will be on YouTube soon 🎧
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