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Two Canadian web developers discussing life, technology, and their journey through the world of development. Deploying on Fridays.

The DevPlebs


    • May 29, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 54m AVG DURATION
    • 27 EPISODES


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    #23 Finally, A Fan Requested Episode (An Honest Review Of Our Workplace)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 45:41


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Keith's absent father! How we missed another week of the podcast! More references to Puddle of Mudd and Tony Hawks Pro Skater! Being bested by a golf podcast!  Bam Magera as our future podcast guest! Sticker Slapping Groceries! Andreas's podcast request! Being in an alt rock band in your 50's! Complaining that your kid sucks at the bar to strangers during hockey playoffs! Keith's talk at the ForwardJS conference! iMovie being hot garbage! Keith's neighbour drilling stones all day! Mispronouncing Nader Dabit's name as "Naber Dabit"! Our lack of free coffee! What it's like to work at CBC! Early adoption of React! Trying to figure out what a string ref is! Phil taking the reigns editing this weeks podcast! Talking about our workplace carefully enough so we don't get fired!

    #22 A Brief Discussion On The State Of The Modern Web

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020 57:48


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Getting requests for content! How expensive it is to podcast! Our eventual sponsored content! Apple saying we're too sad for analytics! Bad documentation! Our stupid, simple brains! Getting thrown into the deep end of the pool! Meeting two Vice Admirals of the Royal Canadian Navy! Being careful about who you choose to challenge to a push up contest! The Presedential Fitness Test! Doing 53 pushups! That time Keith lost 120 lbs! How Trump looks perpetually sore! How to redeem 2020 through a world leader fitness challenge! How we're a 25% fitness podcast! Keith's unreliable memories! The entire history of Spike TV! Takeshi's Castle! Phil's big, dirty bundle! The Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2 Remaster! How pure the web used to be! Cellphones getting bigger in order to watch pornography on them! Comparing the virtual dom to PUBG! Getting back into running! Having snowstorms in mid-May! Being called "stud"! Having so many episodes that we have pagination on our page! Reminiscing on 6 AM! Getting 9 hours of sleep! Our expert opinion on the state of the modern web!

    #21 Developer Confessions Part 2 *EXTRA SHOCKING*

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 46:55


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Continuing to do a podcast even though nobody is listening to podcasts right now! People questioning our devotion! How things will never go back to normal! How things weren't that great before the lockdown happened! Train VLOGS! Keith's failed rockstar dreams! Having a Vevo account! Spotify ad revenue! How the younger generations of developers are going to take over! Apps built with Windows Forms! Singing Puddle of Mudd at karaoke! Keswick Boston Pizza! Arguing on the internet! Not having the energy to deal with people on the internet! Keith's awful networking professor! Learning things from your mentees! Having nothing excite you anymore! Idiot senior developers! Old portfolio sites! Phil's dream of MVC! Owning way too many domains! More developer confessions!

    #20 Internship It

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020 55:30


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Having no idea what to talk about on the podcast! Faffing around! Moscow mules! The real meaning behind the word "artizan"! Keith's struggle with finding mint leaves! Paying way too much for ground pork! How to make at-home ramen! Using animals as toilet paper! Alex Russel being a doodoohead on Twitter! Terrible rural internet! Rendering Photoshop in an iframe! The startup from hell, again! Our college's job board! Sharing 6 jobs across over 100 students! Phil's fallback as a Wordpress developer! The great intro and outro to this podcast! The time Keith had the bright idea to try and record new songs for every weekly episode! Steve Ballmer screaming! GitHub being a problematic company! Coding with a full face of makeup! Web developers being gross! Avoiding accountability! Watching every single episode of the Big Bang Theory! Tibia, the online game Keith used to play! Too Hot To Handle on Netflix! Getting canceled! A little bit about co-ops!

    #19 Pretty Much Just 35 Minutes Of Us Complaining About Meetings

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020 35:42


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Popping this pop! Getting demonetized! Weezer's Blue Album! Grammy award winning artist Weird Al Yancovic! The movie UHF! The movie BASEketball! How people who like Weird Al's original songs vs his parodies are superior human beings! Meteor.js! Our (probably) one millionth stream! Avril Lavigne! Lyme disease! Getting canceled and bringing our podcast back for due to audience demand! The terrible comeback seasons of Arrested Development! Bringing your dogs and kids and cats into your meetings! Becoming Tik Tok famous! Phil's insistence on using inside jokes! The Joe Rogan podcast! Reminding Phil what the show Fear Factor was! A new podcast where we review every individual episode of the Big Bang Theory! How problematic How I Met Your Mother is! Our continued downspiral in quality! Being naked from the waist down during meetings!

    Not So Short Shorts #4 - Mentorshit

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2020 34:28


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to! Listening to this podcast while studying! Delivering content with confidence and enthusiasm! Listening to the DevPlebs on your long weekend! Speaking to your family because you have nothing better to do! Messing up the description from last week's episode! Dev.to reducing the threshold of article views from less than 100 to less than 50! Keith being a celebrity! The trouble with timezones! How resumes are like dating profiles! The Ladybug Podcast, again! Phil's sexual innuendo! Our weekly Magento update! How Drake probably listens to the podcast! Have a happy Easter (as long as you listen to the podcast)! Mentorship or something!

    #18 The Self-Isolation Showdown Extravaganza (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2020 45:51


    A follow up episode to how we're surviving self-isolation.

    #17 Enter The Interview

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2020 66:47


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Spilling the tea on Zoom! Attempting to target Gen Z! Moving the podcast to Tik Tok! Not watching porn on your work machine! Drinking and podcasting! The girl at the liquor store who bought almost every White Claw! Reaching 1000 streams! Podbean sending us baked beans for our accomplishments! Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP political party in Canada being on Tik Tok! Reinstating gladitorial combat! Whether or not Fortnite is dead! That time Apple put the new U2 album on everyones iTunes! Having absolutely no spine! How writing cover letters is the absolute worst! Keith's month of privacy! The famous Keith pizza story! Telling jokes in interviews that don't land! Phil's terrible impromptu interview! Never hiring anyone taller than you! Chasing clout! Our love for all of our Icelandic fans! The Windows directory structure! DevPlebs x LuluLemon!

    #16 The Self-Isolation Showdown Extravaganza (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2020 40:09


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Making bad decisions in your early 20's! Getting shitty homemade tattoos! Wearing weightlifting gloves to do athletic things! Remote podcasting! Phil becoming a cam girl! The reason why our podcast is art! Phil's trust for Keith! Why we aren't giving tips for working remote! Phil's unorthodox working conditions! Weird snacks! Having a disproportionate amount of waffles in the house! The Pomodoro technique! Dreaming code! Working at home with your partner! The tall stairs in Keith's house! More talk about weightlifting gloves? Keith's pillow-y hands and buttery skin! How this entire episode was just a 30 minute advertisement for Zoom! Keith's wife's intestinal issues! Going partially vegan! How our numbers compare to the Ladybug podcast! The Keswick High School Ultimate Frisbee team! An update on our self-isolation!

    #15 Developer Pitfalls Or (How Not To Die Miserably In The Hole You've Dug)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2020 50:16


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: The burden of daylight savings time! Becoming a conspiracy podcast! Death threats! Wimpy web developers! Meeting our quota for talking about web development on the podcast! Our collective bad memories! Keith's lazy dogs! Canadian winter! Phil's Gatsby talk and his average sized deck! The ever-declining quality of this podcast! Only listening to audio in .FLAC format! Dropping spoilers for the movie Saw! The market for erotic podcasts! Using bitwise operators to look smart and write unmaintainable code! Holding yourself accountable! Keith's weird promise of fan fiction at 1000 streams! Bidets and Thai butt guns! Weak and lazy metaphors! Professor Jaret Wright! People trying to sell us services even though we're broke! How to be a better developer!

    #14 Be The G.O.A.T. When You're Remote

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2020 52:51


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Keith not being as anti-social as he seems! Building up bad karma from being negative! How Mark Zuckerberg would kill his employees! The torture scene from The Social Network! Phil's bizarre lying story! Getting out of homework! Jay Chesterman's large muscles & great skateboarding skills! Phil hiding from his teacher under a table! Teaching your children to have a lack of accountability! Being locked out of the brand Twitter account! Trap country! Train germs! Gym sweat! Washing your hands for the first time! Keith`s Liam Neeson impression! Office mold! Trust issues! Trying really hard to not say something bad about someone! The perils of micro management! Touques (or beanies, depending on where you're from)! Giving unwarranted nutritional advice! Staying hydrated! Our credentials as water doctors! Mouthguard science!

    #13 Sorry, Your Friends Make More Money Than You (#KnowYourWorth)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2020 60:26


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: React portfolios! Matt Hoffman! Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide on Nickelodian! Phil not being able to ride a bike! Deep dish pizzas! Phil betraying the trust of his family! Overeating! Stealing toilet paper from the college! Phil missing the train! Jason Momoa being in Toronto! Hakata Shoryuken Ramen! $3 for a 20 oz pint of Sapporo! Keith's terrible time skiing! Shallow hips! The movie Shallow Hal for some reason? The bullshit of negotiating your salary! Using self-deprecating humour as a defense mechanism! The true meaning behind "The Six"! Barrie Wrestling! Getting paid way too much! Whether or not people like lakes! Reverse osmosis water filtering! Eddie Guerrero (RIP)! Starting an OnlyFans! Keith's alcoholism! Criss Angel Mind Freak! Adorkable misogyny! Salaries n' stuff!

    Not So Short Shorts #3 - The Students From Hell (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2020 43:09


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Our surging popularity! Calendar-uh Phil and Keith! Keith's inherent eroticism! Phil's embarrassing waffle story! Poor bathroom etiquette! Grunting to let people know they've inconvenienced you! Our special Patreon exlusive frequency! Paying people to listen to our podcast! Bomberman! Compare and contrast essays! Mono ultra! Kids who bring briefcases to high school! Secret JavaScript tips that very few people know! Z E N P R O G R A M M I N G! Orphans who like to party! Charades! Adele killing the Skyfall theme! A very obnoxious programmer!

    #12 The Incredibly Peculiar World Of Job Titles In Tech

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2020 54:45


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Our 22 followers on Spotify! Our terrible financial situations! What we would do if we woke up beside a strange, large sack of cash! The Canadian $1000 bill! Drug money! Our awful podcast hosting service! Iceland's government selling the country's DNA! Being taller than 5'8"! Being tech adjacent! Not bothering to compete with technical podcasts! Thousands of people listening to this episode! The time Phil was a Lead E-Commerce Developer! EXTREME PROGRAMMING! The new Star Wars trilogy killing the Jedi job title! Large amounts of cringe! Becoming an alchemist! Phil actually being Star Wars kid! Phil almost throwing a metal pole like a javelin through the skull of a customer! Thomas Hobbes being kind of a dick! Phil becoming a Magento Solutions Architect! A lot (I mean a LOT) of hate for Magento 2!

    #11 Maybe It's Legacy Code, Maybe It's Just Shit

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2020 55:45


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Using the podcast to get dates! The weird and mysterious world of fake martial arts! That one time Keith and Phil took a Muay Thai class! Knife fights! Jump Rope For Heart! Keith's grade 8 obesity! The Superbowl! Why Jenga sucks! Fighting people who write bad code! Hooligans! How new code can be just as bad as old code! Phil sabotaging future developers at his old job! The current state of Yahoo! Jamming things into ViewBags! Toothpick and marshmallow bridges! Jake Paul? Udemy's shady business practice! Vanilla Ice signing over the rights to Ice Ice Baby to Suge Knight after being held by his ankles over a hotel balcony! Lot lizards! Scott Stapp not being worth $500! Chris Hansen opening up our YouTube channel!

    Not So Short Shorts #2 - The Students From Hell (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 45:06


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Keith starting the podcast! Jason Statham! Our laziness with topic ideas! Alcoholic Rockstar energy drinks! Rich Piana (R.I.P.)! Stealing our ideas from the Ladybug Podcast! Becoming a fitness podcast! Matthew Perry in 17 Again! Not Louis CK! Chest puffers! Being stuck sitting beside huge weirdos! Our future wedding episode! A terrible presentation on cyber bullying! The worst take on Bomberman of all time! Making multiple Facebook accounts to argue with yourself! Doing an assignment on Germany about Poland instead! Trash talking our peers!

    #10 The Startup From Hell (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2020 63:27


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Getting slapped with a DMCA notice! Calling out Joshua Fluke! Debating if every Brad is terrible! George Lucas's jowl! A small amount of web development content! Filler episodes! A cattle of interns! ActionScript being the new Star Wars! Working your way up the corporate ladder by driving your boss to work! Watching online chess! Comically deflating like a cartoon character! Giving your opponent your biggest weak points! A devastatingly will-crushing Kickstarter! A BILLION USERS! Missing the mark on Facebook games! Cheating on your spouse! Centipede camp! An actual fan email!

    #9 The Startup From Hell (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2020 61:49


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Keith's old band names! Attempting to pronounce Harry Potter spells! Microphone wind screens! Tuxedo shirts! Wearing pajama pants to your job interview! How Phil got his job at Forever 21! The woes of minimum wage! Getting paid in theoretical dollars! 2 chains (not the rapper)! Motivating unhappy workers with a pizza party! Costco trail mix! Building an app on sad, old technology! Feeling bitchy! Emotional baggage! Our eventual Raid: Shadow Legends sponsorship! A really bad startup!

    #8 How Working 80 Hours A Week Made Me A Better, More Miserable Developer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020 54:30


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Ruining another podcast episode! Raising the bar for 2020! Bloodstained! Becoming a professional skateboarder! Trains! Our cold, introverted husk! Ashton Kutcher! My failed dreams as a professional Twitter user! Podcast royalties! Youth being wasted on the young! The secret of being a good developer (cocaine)! Becoming a Lead E-Commerce Developer! Weezers discography! Why working 80 hours a week might not be great!

    #7 Goodbye 2019, You Trash Fire (New Year's Resolutions)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2019 63:46


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Analytics! The resurgence of rap metal! Burning down a Hot Topic! Perverted philosophers! Marketing the podcast to children! Our three listeners in Australia! Hammering down? Competitive Minesweeper! Low Hanging Fruit! The Fentanyl crisis! Selling the podcast to Disney! Air Bud! Robbing a bank! Making a nemesis of Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray! Our New Year's Resolutions!

    Not So Short Shorts #1 - Breakfast, Ben 10 & Incel Power Fantasies

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2019 50:55


    In the inaugural episode of our "Not So Short Shorts", the DevPlebs tell stories about people they've worked with ranging from the funny (bad excuses for not making it into work) to the highly unsettling (writing a story about murdering someone in the office).

    #6 Developer Confessions *SHOCKING*

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2019 61:58


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Personal bathrooms! Abuse of height! Gross baby photos! Setting expectations low! Driving success through guilt! Stealing the GitHub Student Pack! Knife crime! Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai! Extrapolating Meaning from this dumb podcast! Lying on your resume! Sorting algorithms! Getting a bad tattoo! Safari's dev tools! Changing our focus from web development to true crime!

    #5 Side Projects! (DMX Has A Net Worth Of Negative Ten Million Dollars)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2019 60:06


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: The British Bulldog! Having babies! Hating episode 4! Doing things! High school nicknames! The regrets of starting a podcast! Ugh, anime! Chain smoking! Peer pressure! Starting a cult! Shredding! Standing on the backs of better people! Gatekeeping! Sucking (listen to find out more)! Top Friends on Facebook! Wilson from Home Improvement! DMX's net worth! Side projects!

    #4 How To Not Suck In A Team (And Also Get Rock Hard Abs)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2019 64:18


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Giving Up! Tik Tok! Screaming in Walmart! Vaping! The LOTR trilogy! Games your girlfriend will hate! Murder? Baby gates! P90X! Rock hard abs! The Amityville Horror! Failing at our podcast! The Plain White T's discography! Defenestration! Giphy! The Phantom of the Opera! Raising the morale of your severely overworked employees with a pizza party! How to not suck in a team!

    #3 What Tech Stacks Should You Learn In 2020?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2019 68:30


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: WatchMojo! Pumping out content! Yooka Laylee! Shoutouts! Dan Abramov! Highschool football dreams cut short by ACL injuries! React Suspense! Nu Metal! Carpool Karaoke With James Corden! Turing (the language)! Snapchat! The Rules of BINGO! Linkin Park! Windows Forms! Chester the Cheetah! Alan Kay, the father of Object Oriented Programming! Dan Abramov again! Finding meaning in abstract art!

    #2 Work Life Batman

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2019 61:29


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Being unfunny! Fire extinguishers! The Microsoft Zune! Phil's Snobby Frame Rate Preferences! The Caped Crusader! Hype-Driven Development! The end of the Matrix where Neo jumps through Agent Smith! The Simpsons questionable animation practices! Cannibalizing Senior Developers! Billionaires! Having an existential crisis!

    #1 JOBS (Five Easy Steps To Earn A Six Figure Salary)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2019 72:43


    This week the DevPlebs talk about: Dieting! Being broke! The srcset attribute! Anime transformations! MasterChef Season 10! Jobs? Forever 21! Six Pack Shortcuts! Getting Ghosted! Blackmailing To Climb Your Way Up The Corporate Ladder! The Canadian Dollar! Phil's Old Face! Keith's Young Face! 5 Easy Steps To Earn A Six Figure Salary!

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