HTML All The Things - Web Development, Web Design, Small Business

Migrations

In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss the often stressful task of migrating an infrastructure to a new home. With the very real fear of downtime, issues, or data loss on the line, it's important to take the appropriate steps to give you the best chance of success. Furthermore, having a few backup plans is also a good idea should the migration hit a snag, or fail in some way. To finish off the episode, Mike takes us through the current status of laptops and desktops, discussing the hardware that's available today and what kind of computer you should be buying based on your needs.
Show Notes: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/Podcast/5d0a82b46a070d0011eb6561
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Freelancing, Contracting, Remote Work

In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss freelancing, contracting, and remote work some of the most important and quickly growing segments in the web development industry. Web developers often find themselves trying to decide between a traditional job and freelancing their skills out on their own. While freelancing sound lucrative and exciting, traditional jobs offer more stability and benefits that are generally not found elsewhere. We discuss these pros and cons of each of these pathways, and then change gears to discuss influencers and their affect on the social media platforms that we all use.
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Marketing and SEO w/ Chris Dayley

This week we sit down with Chris Dayley a digital marketing entrepreneur that helps businesses succeed online. We discuss a bunch of very interesting topics including things like SEO, conversions, A/B testing, and PPC. This episode is a great resource for any web developer, or online entrepreneur, that needs to brush up on their marketing skills. 
Show Notes: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/Podcast/5cf825c86a070d0011eb655d
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Procedures & Standard Practices

In this week's episode, Matt and Mike discuss why procedures and standard practices are important. Every entrepreneur at some point in their career has tried to turn themselves against the bureaucracy and slow systems that drive large corporate machines only to find themselves needing similar systems to keep themselves afloat. We'll be discussing this sort of realization and how a business can slowly, yet naturally, create unique procedures that compliment their work style. Then we change things up with a length discussion on digital wellbeing again, but this time we talk about the plethora of digital wallets and their associated apps and loyalty cards.
 
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Imposter Syndrome

In this episode Matt and Mike discuss something we've all felt at one time or another - Imposter Syndrome. Whether it's due to lack of experience, or tackling a brand new topic, imposter syndrome can zap your motivation and make you want to quit. While it's hard to overcome, it's important to note that everyone has experienced it at some point in their career and will almost definitely experience it again. We offer our stories alongside some tips to overcome the dread and emerge a better developer and entrepreneur. 
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Future of Web Development - Motion UI, PWA's, Blockchain, and More

In this episode of the podcast Matt and Mike discuss the future of web development focusing on emerging trends and new technologies that are ready to take the world wide web by storm. Things like Motion UI, Progressive Web Apps (PWA), blockchain, voice search integration, and much more! With so much functionality being put into web developers' hands the future looks bright, but performance is a big concern with sites getting heavier and heavier as the years go by. Full show notes: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/Podcast/5cdc53536a070d0011eb6557
 
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Bootstrap, Materialize, Tailwind CSS

In this episode of the podcast, Matt and Mike discuss CSS frameworks, with a particular focus on Bootstrap, Materialize, and Tailwind CSS. Each of these frameworks comes with their own pros and cons that make them a great fit for particular projects offering UI developers a bunch of options when choosing the tools they need for a given project. Full show notes: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/hub/Podcast/5cd34bab2c5a92001836b76b
 
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Choosing the Right Equipment

In this episode Mike and Matt discuss selecting, purchasing, and shopping for the equipment you need to get the job done. Whether you're on a budget, or ready to spend a bunch of money on something fancy, this episode covers how to make sure you get the most bang for your buck. We start off discussing the balance between pricing, your use-case, and future proofing, then we lay out ways to ensure you get all the features you need, followed by a discussion on some specific peripherals and equipment that you'll most likely encounter in the web development field. To top it off, we end with our recurring Web News segment, this week covering the various app install methods (PWA, app store, web app, browser) that are available on different devices, and which one is the most "legitimate" or more specifically, which one do you use depending on what the app does. Full show notes can be found here: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/hub/Podcast/5cc9e4282c5a92001836b769
 
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MacBook Adventures & Podcast Update

This week our episode was cut short and released late due to a bit of a fiasco with our only in-house MacBook. We're also using this opportunity to announce some changes that we're going to be applying to future episodes based on some feedback that we've received. If you're a fan of our Web News segment, this week the episode was dominated by a discussion around exactly what happened to our MacBook and the various attempts we made to fix the issue. A standard full episode is planned for next week. 

Full Time and Side Hustles w/ David Lindahl

In this episode we sit down once again with David Lindahl to discuss his full time job and many side hustles. 
Segment 1 - What’s New?
Tell us a little bit about yourself and what’s happened since we last spoke.
Segment 2 - UI Developer
How long did it take you to fully settle into your role?
Before you got a full time position you were working on a variety of side hustles, many of which are still online today. How was the transition from being your own boss to working under a company?
Is there any sort of issue with you running side hustles and working at your day job? Conflict of interest? Do they own a piece of that income as apart of an agreement?
How fast were you expected to “spin-up” when you were hired? For example, were you just thrown a bunch of work and expected to know how to do it on the first day/week?
How are the hours? Are you doing a lot of overtime? If so, is it mandatory?
Which do you prefer? Working a day job, or being your own boss?
How involved are you in the work environment? (ie company sports teams and events) Do you recommend being active within a company in this way?
Segment 3 - Side Hustles
What side hustles do you have going on?
Are you planning on generating a passive income from these projects, or do you have different goals in mind?
Rainier Watch is a big side hustle that seems to be getting bigger all the time, what’s your secret? Any tips and tricks for people that are trying to build a side hustle on Instagram?
How’s your work/life balance work out with your day job and side hustles together?
Are you planning for your side hustles to eventually take over your day job and becoming your full time occupation?
Web News - Organic vs Algorithm on Social Media
 
Whenever you look up growing on social media, most of the advice is specifically for exploiting the algorithm in some way
With that being said you need to have a good amount of content ready to go so that you actually have something to post, understanding how the algorithm works is great, but if you don’t have anything to post then you can’t get any exposure at all.
In terms of content, higher quality is obviously preferred, but if it doesn’t generate good numbers then it seems like putting in the extra time for quality isn’t worth it
How much time should you spend on your content?
Should you just keep posting quality content and expect results over time - with consistent posting?
Should you be prioritizing algorithm “hacks” to get your content more exposure?
Is there a balance between using the algorithm and organically making quality content?
Should you work on getting a following on multiple networks (ie Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) or should you focus on one?
 David's Links
"Made With Spark: https://madewithspark.com (The MVP site David mentioned in the show) - New website coming really soon"
RainierWatch - https://www.rainierwatch.com
Basecamp - https://basecamp.com
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