Toolsday
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsToolsday is a 20-ish-minute podcast hosted by Una Kravets & Chris Dhanaraj. Toolsday is about the latest in tech tools, tips, and tricks on Tuesdays at 2! (Our alliteration game is so strong).
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Episodes
CSS in JS
January 24, 2017 19:06 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBCSS in JS: is it the next big thing? We break down some techniques with Glen Maddern. Glen Maddern Twitter Front End Center CSS in JS CSS Modules CSS Modules demo Styled Components Radium Other Next Vue
Discovered in 2016
January 10, 2017 20:27 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBEvery year introduces new tools. We recount our favorite discoveries from 2016. Una Atom VS Code Stylelint Format IA Writer Chris React Storybook Babel Preset Env Jest Travis CI Other The Case Against Progressive Enhancement ESLint
Animation Tools with Sarah
December 20, 2016 19:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBThis week we learn about animation in UI: basics, libraries, performance considerations, and more with Sarah Drasner Sarah Drasner Twitter Web Animation Workshops Codepen CSS Tricks Native Javascript Web Animation API Animation Libraries GSAP Mo.js React Motion Velocity.js Demos React Motion Demo Spring Parameters Chooser Other Snap.svg
Fitness Tools
November 22, 2016 17:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBWe care about you! This week we talk about tools that can help you stay healthy and productive. Fitness Tools! FitBit Charge HR 2 HeadSpace Pzizz MyFitnessPal MapMyRun Nike Fitness Club Zombies Run SkyFit Pokemon GO Couch to 5k StrongLifts 5x5 Workout Stand Instant Heart Rate
Images!
November 15, 2016 19:54 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBThis week's episode is full of image optimization tooks, formats, and some fun facts about images!
Our Favourite Chrome Extensions
November 08, 2016 19:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBWe rapid fire through our top eight Chrome extensions Una's Extensions aXe Accessibility Developer Tools DevTools Author OneTab Honey Panda Save to Pocket Send to Kindle Stayfocused Chris' extensions Refined GitHub Wapplyzer Postman React Developer Tools Reddit Enhancement Suite uBlock Origin JSONView Other Sindresorhus GitHub Ember Inspector LiveReload Awesome Screenshot
Conference Talks
November 01, 2016 20:07 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBChris interviews Una on her experience as a conference speaker and how you can become one too! Talk Tools Reveal.js Caniuse Component Code Mirror Resources @callbackwomen Technically Speaking
Visual Studio Code
October 25, 2016 19:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBWe stray off the beaten road of Atom and Sublime, and instead discuss our new favourite editor, Visual Studio Code, and our top five extensions for it. Visual Studio Code VS Code Chris' Extensions ESLint Atom JavaScript Grammar Debugger for Chrome Project Manager Beautify Una's Extensions HTML CSS Support Path IntelliSense Spelling and Grammar Checker Code Spellchecker Color Picker
State of Javascript
October 18, 2016 23:57 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBWe’re back! With an overview of what people have been talking about lately: the abundance of tools in web development. State of Javascript How It Feels to Learn Javascript Chasing Tools How it Actually Feels Yarn
Conference Talks
August 30, 2016 18:19 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBWe highlight thirteen conference talks that dazzled us, inspired us, and drove our careers forward
Travel Tools
August 23, 2016 20:52 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBAfter a short hiatus, Toolsday returns with CSS Wizardry himself, Harry Roberts, to talk about travel. Our Guest: Harry Roberts Website Twitter Travel Tools Recharge Minaal Priority Pass Trip It A Peculiar Journey
Travis CI
August 03, 2016 18:35 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBIn today's episode we're joined by Mathias Meyer to talk about Travis CI Our Guest: Mathias Meyer Website Twitter Travis CI Travis CI What is Extreme Programming Travis GitHub Badge Travis for Beginners Speed Up Your Travis Build Travis CI Enterprise
Standards and Linters
July 20, 2016 16:17 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBWhat’s the “correct” way to write code? We can’t say for sure, but these standards and linters can. This week we explore the options. JavaScript Standards and Linters ESLint JSLint Standard JS AirBNB Style Guide Idiomatic JS JS Plugins SublimeLinter SublimeLinter-eslint Linter for Atom ESLint for Atom ESLint for Code SCSS Standards SCSS Lint SASS Lint - node version SASS Guidelines CSS Comb PostCSS PostCSS
CSS Frameworks
July 12, 2016 19:13 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBCSS frameworks / design systems/ pattern libraries — so many names, so little time! We revisit the topic with so much more knowledges. CSS Frameworks / Systems Tachyons Bootstrap Zurb Foundation Pure CSS Lightning Design System Other Pokemon Go
Our Hardware!
June 21, 2016 05:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBWe chat about how we use completely different hardware to do our work Unas' Hardware Apple Magic Keyboard HP Comfort Grip Wireless Mouse Sony Bluetooth Over-Ear Apple Cinema Display Amazon Echo Chris' Hardware Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Logitech Proteus Core 502 (not 512, whoops) Steelcase Leap Sennheiser HD598 (0/2 on the model numbers) Bose SoundTrue In-Ear Dell Ultrasharp HD2515 Google Home Oculus Leap Motion Review Sites! Wirecutter
Firefox Dev Tools
June 15, 2016 05:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBWe had Helen Holmes, UI designer of Firefox Dev tools to teach us some tricks we didn't know existed! Our Guest: Helen Holmes Website Twitter Instagram Firefox Dev Tools Firefox Dev Tools Mercurial Repo Gecko Repo Bugzilla GCLI Web Audio Eyedropper Tool
The Variety Show
June 07, 2016 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBThe tools we love and use that we forgot or just didn't fit into any other category. Una's Picks Chrome DevTools Author Spectacle Kloudsec Jell Chris' Picks Zenhub Adobe Audition Audio Hijack Rollup Other Mentions Waffle.io HyperDev
Service Workers
May 17, 2016 05:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBWe poke around, ruminate, and explore Service Workers. Service Workers Service Worker API Jake Archibald: The ServiceWorker is coming, look busy | JSConf EU 2014 Using Service Workers Today Getting Started with Service Workers Push Notifications Related Kloudsec CSSgrams Physical Web
Offline-first
May 10, 2016 05:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBHow can we make sure people are able to access data on poor connections? Hear about offline-first this week with Hoodie's Gregor Martynus. Gregor Martynus Twitter Hoodie Minutes.io Native Web AppCache LocalStorage Service Workers Data Layer CouchDB PouchDB Offline-first Community Offline-First Website Offline-First News
System Tools
May 04, 2016 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBSome of the things you'll need to set up a MacBook from scratch, and some fun quirks that will make your life easier day to day. Mac Tricks Screenshot Folder Screenshot Type iTerm Keep Directory Github Git Open Hub Typefaces Input Mono Font Sky Fonts Etc Cloudup
Top 10 Tools
April 19, 2016 05:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBFor our 20th episode, we do a recap of our favourite tools that we use everyday. Una's Tools WebPageTest Sublime Text Una's list of Sublime plugins in our Developer Environment episode Harp Surge Una's dotfiles Style Panel inside ChromeDevTools Chris' Tools Webpack ESLint TernJS Atom iTerm2 Z GitHub
Web Accessibility
April 12, 2016 05:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week we talk about web accessibility concerns — what the heck all those acronyms are, and how to test for compliance.
(Mostly CSS) Animation
March 29, 2016 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBAnimation brings the web to life! Today we talk about (mostly CSS) animation — how it works, tools, and resources.
Unit Testing
March 22, 2016 05:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBToday we discuss JavaScript unit testing with ColbyCheeze! Learn about spying, stubbing, and mocking this week.
Game Engines
March 08, 2016 06:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBAchieved in CryEngine 3 — wait no, Unity, wait no, Phaser?
CSS Layout
March 01, 2016 06:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBThis week we're talking CSS layout — from CSS 1 to current best practices to what's coming down the pipeline.
Performance Profiling
February 16, 2016 06:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBWe all agree performance testing is important, but how do you track it over time? This week Taylor Jones tells us how.
Static Site Generators
February 09, 2016 06:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBThere are 412 options for static site generators. This week we discuss (mostly three) of them.
Solved by ES6 (ES2015)
February 02, 2016 06:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBWe picked our top five ES6/7/2015/2016 upgrades and talk about how they make our lives so much easier.
Express & Middleware
January 19, 2016 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBOur guest Jon Ballands chats with us about the IBM Swift Sandbox, and building it with Node & Express.
Ember
January 12, 2016 06:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBWith frameworks being so hot right now, we talk to Iheanyi Ekechukwu about Ember
React
January 05, 2016 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBThis week we talk about React and why it's so darn hard to get started with!
Chrome DevTools
December 22, 2015 06:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBChrome DevTools is the topic of the week, which we've simply deemed "awesome".
CSS Processors
December 15, 2015 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBThis week's episode is about the past, present and future of CSS Pre and Post-processors.
Remote Collaboration
December 08, 2015 06:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBAbsence makes the heart grow fonder? Let's talk about remote collaboration and the tools that make it possible.
Developer Environment
November 24, 2015 06:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBSublime or Atom? Wait, WEBSTORM? We talk about our favourite developer environment tips and tricks.
Styleguides at Scale
November 17, 2015 06:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBWe discuss the challenges of creating scalable styleguides with guest Brian Han
Learning Tools
November 03, 2015 06:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBCollege? Where we're going, we don't need college (or do we?).
Module Loaders
October 27, 2015 05:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBWe'll talk about modules and module loaders! Everything from AMD to common.js and spend a bit of time going over Browserify and Webpack.
Task Runners
October 20, 2015 05:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBGrunt, Gulp, Broccoli, Brunch, Mimosa, oh my! So many task runners, so little time. In this weeks episode, we explore each of these delectable breakfast items/task runners.