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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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Green Chef (For $50 off your first box of Green Chef, go to GreenChef.us/bigwebshow).

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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Basecamp founder, New York Times best-selling author, and web software pioneer Jason Fried is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. The two discuss Jason’s latest book (co-authored with David Heinemeier Hannson), It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work, which The Economist called “by far the best thing on management published this year.” Also: the secrets of Basecamp, the magic of sleep, the sameness of agencies’ portfolio sites, why Basecamp doesn’t user test, and more.


Note: We apologize for Jeffrey's audio quality in this episode, but Jason Fried says so many smart things we decided we had to share this conversation anyway. It's worth it!


Links for this episode:
Jason Fried (@jasonfried) | Twitter
Basecamp: Project Management & Team Communication Software
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780062874788: Amazon.com: Books
The 37signals Manifesto (our original site from 1999)
Jason Fried – Medium
Signal v. Noise
Jason Fried (Author of Rework)
Jason Fried | Speaker | TED
Amazon.com: Remote: Office Not Required eBook: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: Kindle Store
Rework: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780307463746: Amazon.com: Books
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman: 9780578012810: Amazon.com: Books