Starlifter.Dev
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -Benet 'Dr' Hitchcock and Josh Smith, New Zealand / Aotearoa based Web Developers, talk all things web and tech from the Starlifter Studio in #Coolston, Christchurch. Listen in for the latest hotness, solid tech that stands the test of time, coding successes and challenges.
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Episodes
Josh and Benet's 2020 recap
January 28, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes - 77.8 MBAfter a ridiculous 2020 Josh and Benet finally get around to recording a casual chat about their year in review including perennial topics such as raising children, podcasting experiments, CSS, SVG animation, the IndieWeb, productivity using Notion, oh and that #DevLyfe in Craft CMS. Links Episode cover image by Matt Hearne Allen and Heath ZEDi10 Focusrite 2i4 Reaper DAW Discord Craft CMS Natural Paint NZBEX Conventional commits Semantic release Custom D Quantum Physics...
Our friend Elinore
November 05, 2020 07:52 - 45 minutes - 104 MBBack in March, which feels like decades ago in this COVID-19 era, Josh, Benet and Elinore chat about her journey from New Zealand to various spots around the world while designing websites and running her own mini agency along the way. There was also discussion around awkward situations working on the support desk for an unmentioned tech company 😬 https://elinoreruby.com/
Sarah and Abigail from GymMaster.com
March 25, 2020 01:00 - 28 minutes - 41.3 MBIn this show Dr Hitchcock chats with Sarah Turnbull and Abigail Tubuy from GymMaster.com, a gym membership software-as-a-service based in Christchurch, New Zealand. They discuss what they enjoy about working at Gymmaster, what it is like working with Linux on a day-to-day basis, supporting clients around the world as well as Nerf fight battle wounds. Listen in 🎧
Meeting Meta featuring Jamie Hamilton
February 13, 2020 01:00 - 31 minutes - 30.3 MBJamie Hamilton, Creative Director at Meta Digital, chats with Dr Hitchcock about his career as a web designer, developer and now creative director. He shares stories of making CD-ROMs and Adobe Flash sites, what's changed in the Christchurch web scene since then and how 2020 is shaping up for Meta Digital. Meta Digital EPIC Innovation Yoobee (formerly Natcoll) CSS Grid
An encounter with the MediaBeast
November 30, 2019 00:37 - 1 hour - 145 MBTimestamps 00:50 - Quickfire questions with our very special guest star MediaBeast 01:58 - MediaBeast's origin story 07:53 - What is your criteria for deciding what new technologies to incorporate into your business? 12:04 - "None of that static-ie goodness. None of that JAM stack." 12:50 - The Solid - Javascript and dev tooling 14:00 - Laravel - MediaBeast talks about the latest developments. 18:42 - Laravel ecosystem 24:00 - The Hotness - container hosting 32:58 - The Cha...
Walkering over the front end
October 28, 2019 23:00 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBIn episode 2 of the Starlifter.Dev podcast we have a chat with Ben Walker, the latest addition to the Digital team at Plato Creative. He shares his story as a globe trotting designer/developer. We also cover the latest on updates in Firefox 70, Meetup.com, Craft CMS 3.3.11, and Vue 3 pre-alpha. Josh talks about moving a website built in SilverStripe 3 to a JAM stack based puppy running on Craft CMS, Gatsby.js and AWS. Benet shares his latest success in building a web app that cal...
It began in Coolston
September 03, 2019 01:00 - 36 minutes - 45.6 MBIn the debut episode of the Starlifter.Dev Podcast Benet and Josh talk about their beginnings in tech and the Web. The News - we share the latest updates on Craft CMS 3.2, PHP 7.4, Docker breakages. The Hotness - Josh has the lowdown on rad new services from GitHub including GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Actions and GitHub Package Registry. We also chat about the productivity gains we've made with Docksal, a fantastic tool for creating development environments in Docker. If you're havi...