The Big Web Show

Front-end architect and speaker Mina Markham is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Mina discusses her career path, her work at as a senior engineer at Slack, how she came to create the Hillary Clinton UI pattern library “Pantsuit,” her time at IBM, helping others and inviting women of color into STEM fields, becoming a public speaker in spite of deep introversion, a recent South African safari, air travel, conferences, the joys of visiting Italy, and more. Enjoy a relaxed and illuminating glimpse into the life of a private and highly creative person.

Links for this episode:
Mina Markham, Developer

Mina Markham on Twitter (@minamarkham)

Mina Markham on GitHub

Mina Markham on Linkedin

Sassy Starter

Front Porch Conference

Slack

Slack on Twitter

Mina’s story

Building Pantsuit – the Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott Hanselman

Black Girls Who Code

Girl Develop It

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Legendary computer scientist, web standards pioneer, and indie-web proponent Tantek Çelik is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest.

The secret history of standards in our web browsers. How web standards moved from academic ideas that sometimes couldn’t even be implemented to the foundation of our modern web. The rift between standards-oriented, CSS-and-accessibility-loving web developers and those who rely on powerful and sophisticated toolchains: can it be bridged?

The Flash years and today. Indieweb tools and the independent web community: what it’s about and how to get started. Readers versus social readers. Taking back privacy and the ownership of our content.

Links for this episode:
Tantek Çelik (@t) | Twitter

Tantek Çelik

Tantek Çelik - Wikiwand

5by5 | The Big Web Show

IndieWeb

Micro.blog

Microsub - IndieWeb

reader - IndieWeb

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Founder and business development consultant Joe Rinaldi (That Was Clutch, Philamade, Bureau of Digital) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Agency and freelance networking, mining contacts for work, honesty in client services, what they don’t teach in design school, the value of having worked in service.

Links for this episode:
@joerinaldi on Twitter

Joe Rinaldi on LinkedIn

That Was Clutch

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Why do companies de-prioritize accessibility? Making a digital map accessible to the blind. Pros and cons of the straw test. Why simulating a disability is not the same as working with disabled people. Using Twitter threads to prototype book chapters. How diversity (including neurodiversity and diversity of ability) makes for a better product. Changing small habits in your life leads to changing big ones.

Links for this episode:
Derek Featherstone (@feather) | Twitter

Level Access - Digital Accessibility Software, Services, Training - Level Access

Extreme Design by Derek Featherstone—An Event Apart Video

Accessibility for Web Design

UX Foundations: Accessibility

Gucci blackface sweater: Gucci removes $890 "blackface" sweater, apologizes after receiving backlash - CBS News

Transcript for Big Web Show Episode #184 with Derek Featherstone (MS Word)

Transcript for Big Web Show Episode #184 with Derek Featherstone (Accessible PDF)

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Coder, writer, composer, and founding developer of WordPress Matt Mullenweg is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest.

Open Source will save us. The WordPress 5.0 rollout. When Matthew met Jeffrey. Browsers in the age of Blink. AMP & HTML. Gutenberg: blocks and key commands. IE5. Box models. Google: still doing no evil?

Links for this episode:
Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) | Twitter

Matt Mullenweg – Unlucky in Cards

Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS — WordPress

Automattic

Blog — WordPress

Bringing UX to an open source platform: Redesigning WordPress - studio.zeldman

Progressive Web Apps | Web | Google Developers

AMP on Google | Google Developers

The State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant (late 2018)

The State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant (2019)

The Tail End - Wait But Why

Browser diversity starts with us. | Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design

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