Schedules, who needs schedules! In this episode we chat about a few interesting stories and sites we have stumbled across and discuss some of the upcoming features destined to appear in WordPress 3.6. Now with added music!

• Modern IE
• Those Who Make
• HD Live
• Made by Hand
• Wooden Specs Studio
• Unresponsive Design
• Front-end Performance for Web Designers and Front-end Developers
• WordPress 3.6
• Edit Flow
• Fixie Bike Index

Episode #004 is kindly supported by Handheld – a conference focusing on “big ideas for small devices” taking place in Cardiff, UK on November 27th – 28th. Early bird tickets are a snip at £99 + VAT (regular price £139 + VAT). Read Craig’s post announcing the conference for more details. And yes, there’s a band!

• Handheld Conference
• Niice
• Jordan Moore Membership
• Myo
• VHX
• Harvest
• Xero
• Basecamp Personal
• Codebase
• Gauges
• Github
• FreeAgent
• Google Apps
• Rails Casts
• Plaid Maker
• Stachist

Thanks again to Handheld Conf for supporting this episode

Thanks again to Handheld Conference for supporting this week’s episode. It’s a conference focusing on “big ideas for small devices” taking place in Cardiff, UK on November 27th – 28th. Grab your ticket today.

This week we focus on Yahoo!’s decision to ban remote working, executing ideas, deep dish pizza and automagical open source cocktails.

• Handheld Conference
• Richard Wiggins
• Shopify workshops and meetups
• Keir’s Responsive Day Out roundup
• Responsive Day Out audio
• Responsive GA
• Enquire.js
• Contents data protection
• DHH on Yahoo! remote working
• Daniel Howells on Yahoo! remote working
• The Yahoo! yodel
• Execute book
• Drew Wilson
• Josh Long
• Pictos
• Spacebox
• Sanebox
• Patxi’s San Francisco
• Pabst Blue Ribbon
• Aaron Robbs & Mark DiCristina  – Pizza enthusiasts
• Bartendro
• Diffords Guide to cocktails

We are back after a what can only be termed a travel enforced sabbatical. This week we chat about two new books focusing on remote working, Kieran regales us with more eco-living tales and we discuss why our industry seems obsessed on building businesses to flip.

• Brooklyn Beta
• Build
• Handheld
• Wood Grenade
• Automate Your Responsive Images With Mobify.js
• Remote by 37signals
• Year Without Pants
• Knock to Unlock
• Anatomy of a Password Disaster
• The Death of Everpix
• Warby Barker

Six links and just under one hour of chat, what are we playing at? Variety is the name of the game this week. We discuss Kieran’s new event, Getty Images big news, magazine web sites, Netflix, coding standards, text editors and round off with the Mark Cuban’s best ever investment.

• The Web Is
• Indie Direct
• Getty Images goes Free
• Digest Magazine
• Uppercase Magazine
• Netflix 2014 European Expansion
• Code Guide by @mdo
• Atom
• Huvr

In this episode we discuss all things relating to web conferences from the different style of events, costs and benefits, the long tail value of meeting like minded people and what you can expect if you are attending your first event.

• Beyond Tellerrand
• Break
• Reasons to be Creative
• MK Geek Night
• Second Wednesday

If you like our show please feel free to leave us a review on iTunes.

In a change to the announced billing, an impromptu early morning phone call made us think a chat about remote working might be in order. As many of us fight the January blues, and inevitable bout of illness that the new year often brings, it felt a timely opportunity to discuss the good, and the bad, aspects of working from a distance.

Topics we discuss include:

• How does working remotely affect us?
• What we both like and dislike about it
• How much real work you achieve per day
• The importance of “banter”
• Is the reality like the dream?
• A typical day for remote working?
• Do we put extra pressure on ourselves to output more as we are not in the office?
• How to feel part of the company you work for

And finally for those Nabaztag doubters out there you can read the full history of the internet enabled rabbit on Wikipedia!

Five Simple Steps Giveaway

To be in with a chance of winning one of the two sets of Five Simple Step’s Pocket Guide Collection 3 all you have to do it answer one of the following two questions correctly. Kieran’s decision will be final (he’s a harsh judge):

1. Q: What was Matthew Lillard’s handle in the cult-classic 1995 film Hackers?
2. Q: In the same year Sandra Bullock played a Systems Analyst in the film The Net. During the course of the film her identity is changed by cyber criminals but what is the name they gave her?

To enter just send a tweet to @backtofrontshow with your answer. We’ll announce winners on the next episode.

In this week’s episode, we turn our gaze to the topic of ad-blockers and paid content. We discuss Vitaly from Smashing Magazine’s recent post looking at how they are funding their content strategy and discuss our own views on paying for digital content.

As always we book end the show with some “bants” including heartfelt thanks to some of our favourite supporters and a nod to a Cornish brewing companies new site.

• Keir’s controversial “Grilled Cheese” post
• The Grilled Cheese Hipster Revival
• Vitaly’s article on Ad-Blockers
• Verdant Brewing Co

Happy New Year to you all! Rather unsurprisingly we missed our end of year review but the outline was probably one of our best. Maybe we’ll do it next year!

This episode we catch up on Kieran’s move behind the camera, argue over what exactly constitutes a pair of Daps and delve into the future of Medium in light of Ev Williams recent announcement.

• Colonna Brewing Guide Video
• What are Daps?
• Renewing Medium’s Focus
• Joe Polastre at Canvas Conference 2015
• Venture Capital is going to Murder Medium
• Dear Medium … Why Didn’t You Ask Us?
• Long Medium
• Drew Wilson’s Cave Week

If you like the show don’t forget you can support our astronomical S3 costs by becoming an exclusive member of the Back to Front Show Club!

It’s hard to believe it’s only been one week, no really, since our last confession. Where does the time go?

In this episode we catch up on what’s happened in our lives in the last seven days, discuss the latest goings on at Medium, ponder why the Guardian doesn’t write listicles and end on probably the best API in the world!

• Shopify Plus
• Canada 150
• Medium Membership
• Biz is Back at Twitter
• BreweryDB

Tap tap, is this thing on? After eight months or working out how to plug in our USB microphones, we finally figured it out and are back with 45 glorious minutes of chat!

In this episode, we learn all about “New Kieran” — new job, new house, and a new laptop. We also discuss a great post on lessons learned running a subscription-based newsletter, discuss Hanno’s great online playbooks for remote working and end on a new Maus that neither of us wants.

• Nalgene Water Bottle
• The Fall Guy with Lee Majors
• New Adventures is Back!
• What I Learned over a Year of Asking Users for Money for the First Time
• Instead Of Focusing On Growth, We Want To Focus On Enough: Our Journey To 330
• Get Revue — Editorial Nnewsletter Tool for Writers and Publishers
• Hanno Remote Team Playbooks
• The Lofree Maus
• The Baron Fig Bolt

Next up is our 50th episode — let us know what we should discuss via Twitter.

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.

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.

Hundreds of brick kiln workers and their families from Dahanu and Talasari talukas stranded in Gujarat since the lockdown began, are waiting to return to their homes.

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

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