The Web Platform Podcast

Get an update on everything that is happening in the wonderful world of WebRTC. WebRTC powers a staggering number of applications most of us use every day and has some exciting use cases you probably…

We all got here somehow. This week Danny Blue and Leon Revill share how they got into web development. The web is a big place so how did those who do this as a career end up here?

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Houdini is a set of specs and APIs which expose low-level CSS capabilities allowing developers to break the mould and capitalize on performance gains. Surma who is a web advocate at Google joins us t…

Finding documentation about the web and its various platform APIs used to be a fragmented experienced across a wide range of sites with not quite the right information. When all hope seemed lost, Moz…

Since Visual Studio Code burst onto the code editor scene, the steady improvements have made a number of web-related development tasks easier to handle. In this episode, we speak with web standards c…

With an ever-expanding array of devices, connectivity, and growing usage in new markets, the need for web performance has never been stronger. Beyond single testing for a given metric, how do you ach…

For many developers, design can be a mystifying topic. For many designers, writing code isn't their daily task. In this episode designer and developer Erik Kennedy walks through common approaches and…

web.dev is a new developer resource released at Chrome Dev Summit last year to help developers with topics such as fast load times, network resilience, SEO and more. With integrated lighthouse, the a…

Voice interfaces are more common than ever and devices like the Google Home and Amazon's Echo are becoming deeply ingrained in our day-to-day lives. This week we talk about developing for voice both …

This week we cover many of the great things announced at Chrome Dev Summit 2018. We talk about some of the exciting new things coming to the web, the new resource for web developers (web.dev) how the…

Tyler McGinnis joins us this week to talk about the importance of community outreach, how he got into teaching and what keeps him going. We talk about how publishing content like blog posts and other…

Feeling empowered to design on the web can be a challenge. With the recently demoed Project VisBug by Adam Argyle (@argyleink) at Chrome Dev Summit, that's changing. VisBug allows any website to beco…

Gatsby brings together React, Webpack and modern JavaScript in a way that makes a performant experience the default experience. In this weeks episode join us with Jason Lengstorf and learn how Gatsby…

Brave is a modern browser that puts the user first. This week learn all about Brave, find out why it's faster than Chrome and Safari and how it uses blockchain technology to pay users for their atten…

Nuxt.js is a framework for creating Vue.js applications, you can choose between Universal, Static Generated or Single Page application. Vue.js has exploded in popularity and along with it, some excel…

Babel, a build tool that has enabled web developers to build tomorrows JavaScript today, has finally hit it’s version 7 release. It’s been a long 3 years and Henry Zhu (@left_pad) along with the Babe…

CSS can seem like magic sometimes, but it really isn't! Join us with Aimee Knight and take an in-depth look at how the browser actually uses CSS. We talk about performance, hardware acceleration, deb…

This week learn why performance testing is so important, how to sell it to the business and which are Justin's favourite tools for getting the job done. Performance testing is a big topic but it's ne…

This week we talk about Customized Built-in Elements, part of the Custom Elements specification which hasn't had as much attention as other parts of the Web Component specs. Customized Built-in Eleme…

This week we discuss the important topic of SEO and how JavaScript impacts what search bots are able to crawl on your sites. Learn what developers can do to improve SEO for their sites which rely on …