An encounter with the MediaBeast

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In this episode Myles Derham aka MediaBeast, Senior Developer from Plato Creative, takes time out of his busy schedule to chat Laravel, Craft CMS and all things static on the JAM Stack.

Timestamps

  • 00:50 - Quickfire questions with our very special guest star MediaBeast
  • 01:58 - MediaBeast's origin story
  • 07:53 - What is your criteria for deciding what new technologies to incorporate into your business?
  • 12:04 - "None of that static-ie goodness. None of that JAM stack."
  • 12:50 - The Solid - Javascript and dev tooling
  • 14:00 - Laravel - MediaBeast talks about the latest developments.
  • 18:42 - Laravel ecosystem
  • 24:00 - The Hotness - container hosting
  • 32:58 - The Challenge - service workers and progressive web apps (PWA)
  • 40:00 - SSL on localhost
  • 45:04 - The Challenge - MediaBeast trying out Vue.js, Nuxt.js and headless Craft CMS
  • 52:12 - The Plug