But for pesky technical gremlins, this would certainly be our best episode yet. Apologies in advance for the background noise. Pre-recording testing was good, however it appears that an intermittent issue with a USB connector has caused us a few problems that can’t be edited out. Now we know we’ll do better next time.

Moving on this week’s show focuses on online document collaboration, discusses GMail’s 9th birthday, a new JS gem from Dave Rupert and much more.

• MK Geek Night
• Lessons learned in a year on my own
• Gmail is 9
• timeJump.js
• Wired UK
• Editorially
• Draft
• Edit Flow
• Giphy

No it’s not a mirage, this really is #023 of our occasional podcast. We must do better! Excuses are in abundance after which we discuss a whole raft of topics – some even web related!

• Beyond Tellerrand
• Web Teaching Day
• New pricing for The Web.IS
• Mike Kus designed a t-shirt for Shopify
• Cakebrew
• Bringing Pan Am Back To Life
• Figuring Out Responsive Images
• Oozled
• Normalising designs for better quality CSS
• Dog Tech is back!

This week Kieran joins us live via a pair of Apple headphones from Coffee #1. Complete with baristas creating flat whites and the chitter chatter of remote workers typing away we throw audio fidelity to the wind and freestyle over a few links from Keir’s web site.

• Codebase
• Deploy
• Dial 9
• Sirportly
• Keir’s 404 page
• MAMP Pro Apache Failed to Start on OS X Yosemite
• Print media queries not working?
• Briefly
• A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film
• Warmduscher

This week Keir tries to speak “Somerset” and no surprises for guessing the outcome of that one. Once that’s done and dusted we take a look at the rise in Markdown based writing apps, examine a new ebook service from Liberio, try and fail to work out the implications of the new EU VAT place of supply rule for digital services and finally round it out with a chat about at a new comms tool.

• Typed
• Whiskey
• Liberio — “eBooks to go” (Liberio is sadly no longer active — for more options check out this article)
• Cat Noone interview on Smashing Magazine
• Sendowl and the VAT question
• Rachel Andrew on the VAT rules
• Wire

I’ll say this — time off between episodes certainly gives us plenty to talk about. In our 45th, almost hour–long, outing behind the mics we welcome new members to “the club“, discuss Kieran’s move into the world of coffee capsule commerce, ponder on new forms of web education, and learn more what Kieran receives in the post!

• David McCann
• Matt Wilmott
• Colonna Coffee
• Oliver Lindberg
• The New Digital School
• Lecture In Progress
• Lecture In Progress Kickstarter
• Web Teaching Day
• How to Survive as a Web Designer Beyond 2020

(This story originally appeared in AhmedabadMirror on May 8, 2020)

In the wake of exodus of thousands of migrant workers who are leaving the state, the Gujarat cabinet has approved a new ordinance where existing stringent labour laws will be liberalised to ensure smooth functioning of industries in the post lockdown period.

The Gujarat high court has granted temporary bail to a murder accused to observe fasts during the holy month of Ramzan. He will have to surrender to jail on May 25, after Eid-ul-Fitr.​

The Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has decided to give additional financial compensation to health and paramedical staff of AMC and private designated Covid-19 hospitals who contact coronavirus infection on duty.

With as many as 390 more people testing coronavirus positive since previous night, the total number of Covid-19 cases in Gujarat reached 7,403 on Friday, a health official said.

In the ward of Covid-19 patients, one could expect the medicine, anaesthesia or pulmonology experts at work. But if one visits Civil Hospital, the treating doctor could well be on his/ her way to become ophthalmologist, gynaecologist or general surgeon! In SVP hospital, he or she may be specialising in psychiatry too!

The Gujarat high court rebuked the erstwhile royal family of the princely state of Bhavnagar for its "dishonest intention" to claim a land parcel in an unauthorized manner from the Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation.

In an incident that raises serious questions about Covid-19 care centres run by the city civic body, a 27-year-old coronavirus positive man died in his bed after suffering seizure at room 808-Block G3, at Samras Covid-19 care centre in Navrangpura. Only asymptomatic patients are isolated here so that they can be monitored and sent to hospital if they develop symptoms, or discharged when they turn negative.

In what could be a major breakthrough for N95 masks production in India, two Rajkot-based engineering firms have developed the machine indigenously to make this medically crucial masks. Most companies making N95 masks have been procuring the manufacturing machines from China, Japan and South Korea.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

(This story originally appeared in AhmedabadMirror on May 9, 2020)

Demanding a return passage to their home states, hundreds of agitated migrant workers clashed with the police at Mora village in Gujarat's Surat district on Saturday, an official said.

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