Web Dev with Matt
Want to learn web development from the comfort of your chair, car, when you're out for a run, or doing some random house work? This is the show for you.
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PyCon AU 2026 - What a Wonderful Conference! (opens the original)
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Over the years, I've attended a number of software development conferences, but this year's PyCon AU would have to be the most impressive and memorable one I've ever been to! In this episode, I'm giving a full breakdown of just why it was so special and memorable for me. In short, it was because of: The diversity of the attendees The sheer thoughtfulness and dedication of the organising team The excellent quality of the website; and The quality of the location Links from the episode PyCon AU 202
My 3-Stage Process To Recover From Bugs in Production (opens the original)
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What do you do when bugs make it into the production version of your web applications? While there are many approaches that you can take, over the years, I've refined a simple, 3-stage process for both fixing them and helping ensure that they don't happen again in the future. In this episode, I'm stepping through that process, along with a host of links, suggestions, tips, and tricks, that I hope will help you recover from and improve your processes after bugs slip out; regardless of whether you
If you want to be a developer, you have to read (opens the original)
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This is something that I've thought about a lot during the (roughly) 30 years of my career. If you want to be a developer, if you want to write software you have to read! Whether that's a project's official documentation, the code, the docblock or inline comments, or related places such as forums like Reddit and Stack Overflow - you have to read. Sure, AI can summarise content for you, and can help with projects that have poor or no documentation. But, whether you use AI or not, there's no getti
If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 3) (opens the original)
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In this episode, I'm finishing up the 3-part series showing by stepping through how to pick a set of software development languages for your web development journey. As with the previous two parts in the series, I'm doing that through a series of questions to get you thinking. These include: What are the established languages What is a good IDE or text editor that supports your language of choice What are the technologies and stacks and tooling that is available for those languages What are the
If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 2) (opens the original)
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If you've been wondering how to get started as a web developer, but were unsure how to do so, in this episode of the podcast, I'm continuing to step through how I'd get started if I were starting over. In this episode, I'm talking about how to pick the right software language and tech stack for your web development journey, before you dive in and commit to mastering them. To help you do that, I'm asking questions such as: Which languages do you enjoy using? How big are the communities around eac
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