After discussing Kieran’s classic 90’s Peugeot 306 Turbo Diesel we turn our focus back to six cuts from our web travels. This week featuring the finest in USB protection and 15 of the best productivity hacks money can’t buy.

• USB Condom
• 1 Year as a Digital Nomad – How to Build a Business by the Beach
• iPhone ATM PIN code hack
• Improving Smashing Magazines Performance: A Case Study
• Can I use?
• 15 Instant Productivity Hacks Every Professional Needs to Know

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This week it’s our links show in which we ask the question “does having a beard make you a better dev” as well as discuss a very meta podcast and a new team collaboration tool. You may notice a slight audio disparity towards the end. Unfortunately, Kieran’s Yeti cable fell out (professional to the end) a new mic is on order!

• Mendip Hills
• Somerset Levels
• How to Beard
• Talko
• Hear Startup
• Tesco to sell Blinkbox
• Inside the company that rebuilt Digg
• Archive Today

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Due to logistical issues Kieran was unable to join the party today. Thankfully Marc and Ben from Neutron Creations kindly joined Keir for a chat over lunch (literally). This week we discuss the recent web.is conference in Cardiff put together by our good friend Mr. Craig Lockwood.

• The Web Is
• Christopher Murphy
• Benjamin Hollway
• David Hieatt
• Managing Oneself

Back from our travels we retrun behind the Yeti’s to discuss everything from the hunt for the perfect email app to the sartorial elegance of modern tech CEO’s. This episode also features a rather spledid retreat venue only four hours from Spokane.

• The Web Is
• Beyond Tellerrand Berlin
• Punctuation Tips
• Google Inbox
• Define the CTO
• Business casual has become a little too casual
• Dog Bark Park Inn

It’s that time of the year when we look back on the past 12 months and dish out our (cough, cough) highly prized awards! This year in the 2014 BAFTAS we have eight categories and round off the show with a little bit of crystal ball gazing in which we both make our predictions for 2015.

Without further ado here are the categories and winners:

1. The award for not being a very good year in the industry: 2014
2. Conference/event of the year: Web Teaching Day & Beyond Tellerrand Berlin
3. Podcast of the year: Startup
4. Most hyped app of the year: Slack
5. Man of the year: Sean McCabe
6. Woman of the year: Rachel Andrew
7. Trend of the year: Privacy & Security
8. Foo Bar of the year: #VATMOSS

Happy holidays to our all listeners. We really do appreciate including us in your weekly audio listening. See you in 2015.

Happy 2015! We are back for the new year with a look at four links that caught our attention over the holiday season. We also spill the beans on some of the topics we’ll be covering this year.

Featured in this weeks episode:

• TechCrunch Cribs
• 12 Startups in 12 Months
• Just Try and do a Good Job
• Moonpig Vulnerability

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Three years ago we started this little adventure called The Back to Front Show. Since then we’ve somehow managed to record 39 shows. Not the best of averages but who’s counting?

In our milestone 40th show, we discuss the cake that never happened, Keir’s favourite new TV show, standing desks and end with a discussion that starts with Sarah Parmenter’s recent blog post and ends with thoughts on specialisation.

You may also be pleased to hear that our “and finally” section returns this week and features a great satire on our industry.

• Waitrose Caterpillar Cake
• Tattoo Fixers
• The $25 Oristand Standing Desk
• The Elephant in the Room
• Vitaly from Smashing Magazine’s response
• The Passable Designer

This episode is dedicated to our favourite Australian Gavin Ballard — all round good guy, world traveller, bon viveur and last but by no means least Shopify Expert. Gavin is a long time listener (we still aren’t sure why) and friend of the show. If we had a pin badge and sticker “care package” he’d be the first recipient!

Topics covered in this mega-length show include the weather in the South West, Skype video, our favourite NYC diners, the use of technology in the bathroom, career paths for developers, and more.

• Gavin Ballard
• Skype Etiquette
• RIP The Market Diner
• Modern stock photography
• The Vazoo Video Keir Forgot
• Being A Developer After 40</ul>

If you would like a show dedicated to you please let us know via the comment link below and we’ll undoubtedly make it happen.

This week we celebrate the internet’s very own Oliver Lindberg as we get #lostwithlindberg. Given our distinct lack of direction for this episode, it seemed only right and proper that our favourite editor of the internet takes this week’s naming rights. If you are ever lost, and if you can find him, maybe you can also get “lost with Lindberg”. Cue the music.

We might not be a crack commando unit but we did our best to highlight a few choice topics from the internet underground. In this week’s show, we speak out in favour of the new Instagram logo, welcome the Lord of the .io domain to the UK’s most hipster city, discuss a big man with a new big book, see the sunset on sunrise, and finally get all excited about our new startup!

• Instagram redesign their logo!
• Bath now more Hipster than Dalston
• Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin
• Goodnight Sunrise
• Startpup Contest

Welcome to Back Stories — a new series of one on one interviews hosted by Keir Whitaker (one-half of the team behind The Back to Front Show).

Each episode, unlike the usual show, will come in at 30 minutes and will attempt to delve into the interesting lives of people working in the web, design, tech, publishing, and creative industries.

In this first episode, Keir chats with Marc Thiele — long-time friend and the man behind the Beyond Tellerrand series of web conferences. There’s plenty of ground covered including the early 8 bit days, Flash, events, and more.

Marc Online

• Marc’s personal web site
• Marc on Twitter
• Beyond Tellerrand
• Twumble — Marc’s mostly German language podcast
• Marc’s interview with Keir on Twumble

Welcome to the second episode of Back Stories — a new series of one on one interviews hosted by Keir Whitaker (one-half of the team behind The Back to Front Show).

In this episode, Keir is joined by Craig Lockwood — long time friend of the show and the man behind endeavours including software, events, co-working spaces, and more. In this very open and honest account of his work and life, Craig shares his experiences of working in the web and tech industry.

Craig Online

• Craig’s personal web site
• Craig on Twitter
• Shopish — Craig’s day job
• Fit Stat — Craig’s side project

In this episode of Back Stories, Keir chats with Kurt Elster — founder of ecommerce agency Ethercycle, host of the popular Ecommerce Hacks Weekly video series, author of Ecommerce Bootcamp, and the host of The Unofficial Shopify Podcast.

Topics include the benefits of the “peacock” jacket, naming your company, specialisation, automating inbound leads, productised consulting, and much more.

Kurt Online

• Kurt’s personal web site
• Kurt on Twitter
• “Ecommerce Bootcamp” — Kurt’s book
• The Unofficial Shopify Podcast — Kurt’s podcast
• Ethercycle — Kurt’s company
• Ecommerce Hacks Weekly — Kurt’s newsletter

In this episode of Back Stories, Keir chats with Oliver Lindberg— founder of the new Pixel Pioneers web conference series and all round content guru. Topics covered include how to find speakers for your conference, the role of a good editor, how to improve your writing skills, and how to pitch to an editor.

Oliver Online

• Oliver’s personal web site
• Oliver on Twitter
• Pixel Pioneers — Oliver’s conference series
• The Lindberg Interviews — Oliver’s interviews

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

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.

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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 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.

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)

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which had marked four hotels as Covid care centres till now, will now have 100 more hotels with a bed capacity of 3,175 for the purpose. In another important development, the civic body has planned a massive sanitization campaign in AMC areas from Saturday.

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