Igalia Chats
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Igalia’s Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the Web, open standards, open source, healthy software ecosystems, the latest in browser features, and more.
Episodes
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Dec 6, 2023 • 1h 3min
The Struggle to Keep Up with Web Tech
Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell talk about the experience of discovering a web feature that’s been around for a while but nobody told you about it, the challenge of keeping up with new web platform features when there’s so much happening, and their tips for ways to stay as up to date as you can.
Nov 21, 2023 • 42min
Web Components are Having a Moment
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about Web Components and the recent flurry of posts about them.
Nov 13, 2023 • 55min
The Power of CSS
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Roma Komarov about CSS experiments and the power of CSS
Nov 6, 2023 • 53min
Tech Unions and Co-Ops
Valerie Young joins Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer to discuss the concept of tech unions and co-ops. They explore the organizational structure and decision-making in a cooperative, thresholds and transparency in cooperatively managed companies, and the essential ingredients for starting and running a cooperative. They also discuss the possibility of organizing a co-op track at a conference and the experiences and contrasts of co-ops, standards, and free software projects.
Oct 23, 2023 • 43min
Web History Part VI
Nicole Sullivan, Product Manager for Web UI on Chrome, and Brian Kardell discuss the early days of the internet, transitioning to tech, moving to a foreign country, learning a computer language, exploring behaviors in Internet Explorer, and building tools to contribute to the web.
Sep 1, 2023 • 49min
Web Applications 1.0
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer look back on things developing in WHATWG specs in 2004 and chat about what we've gotten and what remains outstanding.
Aug 22, 2023 • 39min
Polypane
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Kilian Valkhof about his Chromium-based web development app Polypane.
Aug 11, 2023 • 52min
Undersea Infrastructure
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with CNET Principal writer Stephen Shankland about the undersea cables that help power the internet
Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 4min
11ty, Open Source and Funding
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with 11ty creator Zach Leatherman about the project's shift from hobby work to a sponsor-funded full-time job and back again to hobby work, and his evolving thoughts on open source and how to support it.
Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 8min
First Person Scrollers
Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Chromium Layout engineer Ian Kilpatrick about performance
