Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about building community, open source and sponsorship, building on partnerships in the dev community, WordPress + Astro, view transitions, using Discord for support, and leaking secret Astro Studio details.

We're closing in on episode 600 and need your help to celebrate! Listen in to learn how to contribute to the episode. We're also talking GitHub desktop apps and code editors, how many VS Code plugins are needed, reading long form like Poor Charlie's Almanack, InVision shutting down, and answering our first Q of the year: how would you approach learning web development in 2024?

We're opening up the ShopTalk mailbag and answering your questions, including does WordPress on your resume kill your job chances, what are our fav and least fav parts of web dev, our thoughts on HTMX, and what is it like to use pnpm instead of npm.

Dave's putting together a platform for his presidential bid and workshops his policies, discussing vehicle options for a family in 2024, Chris and other authors get ownership of their A Book Apart books back, and the ramifications and reasoning behind Google killing a URL shortener.

We need an army of people who will ensure the protection of water bodies, and who will strive to create a water-literate community.

A recent CSE study found that many green-certified buildings were not eco-friendly after all. Deepa Sathiaram, executive director, En3 Sustainability Solutions, tells us what exactly goes wrong.

Traditionally, people built walls by placing mud mixed with jaggery, grass and such local additives, but today we have scientifically evolved mix with cement and quarry dust.

A bunch of Chennai students are making Paani Genie, a 90-litre water container that can be rolled along.

Water-ATMs are becoming the rage all over the country. A look at the mechanism.

There is no dearth of ideas in construction, only of implementation, says Sathya Prakash Varanashi

How non-alcoholic mixers, handcrafted by small players, are edging out sugary soft drinks, sodas in cocktail glasses

Practically omnipresent, thanks to human activity, radio frequency is the new area of focus for energy harvesting technology

Li-ion battery recycler Metastable Materials launches commercial ops

Startup sets out to fill a crucial gap in satellite imagery for real-world applications

The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind urged NDA partners TDP and JD(U) to heed Muslim sentiments on the contentious issue surrounding the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024

Delhi, neighbouring States likely to experience ‘very poor’ quality air over next 10 days, have placed the depts. concerned on high alert: Gopal Rai

Isher Judge Ahluwalia’s memoirs are also a tale of India’s socio-economic reforms trajectory

The book draws upon diverse experiences of entrepreneurs to highlight the need for an exit strategy

The profiling of 25 BITSians follows a templated style

A relevant book for those about to embark on their entrepreneurial journey, or can serve as a useful resource for those who like to track the start-up ecosystem 

Climate-smart agriculture has the potential to assure food security, empower farmers, and protect our delicate ecosystems

Infusing soil with silica nanoparticles made using the technique could transform agriculture

Four home cooks in Thiruvananthapuram are turning fruits into value-added products without using artificial flavours or preservatives

Wants them to look at Korea as a testing bed for their ventures

Muhurat trading is a one-hour, symbolic trading session conducted by stock exchanges on the occasion of Diwali, marking the start of the new Samvat year.

The initiative is being organised by Chennai Volunteers, a social initiative of the Giving Matters Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, in collaboration with the Portobello Institute, Ireland

BJP’s Tamilisai Soundararajan says that it is not necessary that only parties with similar ideologies should form an alliance

He also presents sanction letters for pre-incubation centres, which aim to support innovative business ideas in their initial stages