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HTML All The Things - Web Development, AI, and Developer Careers
by Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan
HTML All The Things is a podcast for web developers navigating the modern tech industry.Hosted by web development agency owners Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan, the show explores web development, AI-driven industry shifts, and the realities of building a sustainable career in tech.Matt and Mike regularly discuss foundational technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript along with modern tools and frameworks such as Svelte, Vue, WordPress, React, and Tailwind. They also dive into freelancing, running a web agency, dealing with clients, and how developers can stay competitive as the industry evolves.If you’re a developer who wants to sharpen your skills, understand where the industry is heading, and build long-term leverage in your career or business, this podcast is for you.
Episodes
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Would You Pay More for Hand-Coded Software?
As AI becomes capable of writing more software, could hand-coded apps eventually become the digital equivalent of handmade furniture or artisan jewelry? In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike debate whether people will ever pay a premium for software written by humans, whether users...
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AI Basics For Developers
AI coding tools are getting more capable, but learning to use them well is about more than chasing the newest model. In this episode, Matt and Mike break down the fundamentals developers need to work effectively with AI, from models, agents, and harnesses to tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and...
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Is the AI Bubble Starting to Pop?
Is the AI bubble finally starting to pop? In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike discuss OpenAI reducing usage on its $200 Pro plan, the enormous cost of AI infrastructure, and growing questions around whether businesses are actually seeing enough financial return from their AI…
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AI Basics for Small Businesses
AI can save small businesses time, reduce repetitive work, and unlock capabilities that previously required more people, but where should you actually start? In this episode, Matt and Mike break down how small businesses can introduce AI without getting overwhelmed, from identifying…
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AI Has Made Skilled Labour Almost Free (And It’s Scary)
Our world already has an instant gratification problem and AI has somehow made it worse. It's making skilled work faster and cheaper than ever, which in turn makes us more impatient than ever. Why should we spend a week learning a new SEO tool or a new coding method when we can just ask our AI to...
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How to Prepare for a Tech Layoff
Tech layoffs can happen with little warning, even when your company is doing well. In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss the warning signs that layoffs may be coming, how to prepare while you're still employed, and what to do when a layoff starts looking imminent. From building an emergency fund...
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AI’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Intelligence Anymore
AI models are already remarkably capable, but their intelligence doesn’t matter much if they’re too expensive, limited, or confusing to use. In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike discuss why cheaper and faster models, higher usage limits, and a better user experience could be more...
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AI Basics: Learn These Tips First
AI is easy to start using, but getting good at it takes practice. In this episode, Matt and Mike break down the AI basics everyone should learn first, from improving your prompts and knowing when AI needs to search the web to verifying important answers and avoiding AI overload. Whether you're...
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Is AI Coding Making Technical Debt Worse?
Is AI coding making technical debt worse, or could it help us finally clean it up? In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike debate how tighter deadlines, unchecked code, and AI’s context limits affect maintainability - and whether clean code still matters when AI can navigate the mess....
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My Favorite Developer and Productivity Apps Right Now
Every once in a while, a new app actually sticks and changes how you work. In this episode, Mike shares the developer and productivity apps that have earned a permanent spot in his workflow, including the Aside AI Browser, Orca Agent IDE, OrbStack, Aerospace, Raycast, and Niagara Launcher. We dig...
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I Let AI Help Plan My Vacation... Here’s How It Went
Can AI actually plan a good vacation? Matt recently used ChatGPT and Gemini to help plan a trip to the UK, from sightseeing and transportation to fitting everything into a packed itinerary. We break down what AI got right, where it completely missed the mark, and why the best travel planning…
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Don't Just Vibe Code, Learn While You Code
AI coding tools can generate huge amounts of functional code in seconds, but does that mean developers no longer need to learn how to code? In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss how aspiring and junior developers can use AI coding agents as both builders and tutors - following their curiosity,...
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Does AGI Actually Matter to You?
GPT-6 Astra is here, bringing another huge jump in AI capabilities - and once again raising the question: are we approaching AGI? But defining artificial general intelligence gets messy fast. If AGI means matching or exceeding humans across virtually any cognitive task, how do you actually test...
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AI Agent Skills Explained: What They Are and Which Ones to Use
Most of us repeatedly teach our AI coding agents the same lessons: ask questions before coding, write a specification, break the work into tickets, test everything, and review the result. Agent skills let us package those instructions into reusable workflows that an agent can load whenever they...
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AI Lets Me Game More - and Work Better
AI agents can handle tasks independently for minutes at a time - but what should you do while you wait? Start more work, run additional agents, or finally take a break? In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike discuss how AI has unexpectedly created more opportunities for short retro-gaming...
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How to Design Websites for Small Businesses
A small business website doesn’t always need a fully custom design. In fact, spending too much time on bespoke visuals can waste the client’s budget without helping the business achieve its goals. In this episode, Matt and Mike explain how freelancers and agencies can choose the web design…
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Are Tech Leaks Real - or Just Marketing?
Leaks have become an unavoidable part of following technology and entertainment. Unreleased phones appear online months before their announcements, unfinished games are shown without context, and spoilers can surface in your feed whether you searched for them or not. In this edition of the Web...
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How to Become a GTM Engineer: A New Career Path for Developers
Developer job titles are changing, and GTM Engineer is one of the fastest-growing roles at the intersection of software, data, automation, AI, and revenue. Instead of building only for product or internal engineering teams, GTM Engineers help companies find, convert, retain, and expand customers...
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Developers Are Exhausted by AI Coding
After using AI coding tools professionally and personally, Brett Codes says he is done. His viral video and blog post describe feeling detached from his work, less engaged with programming, and increasingly anxious about the future of his career. This anxious feeling is common in tech and…
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Small Business Websites Need to Do More Than Exist
Small-business websites used to have a straightforward job: explain who you are, what you offer, and how customers can contact you. Then search became a major source of discovery, and businesses added keyword-focused pages, blogs, technical SEO, and local listings. Now AI Overviews and zero-click...
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Can Company Mission Compete With a $100 Million Paycheck?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reportedly worries that some new hires are joining the company for the paycheck rather than its AI safety mission. But with competitors offering top researchers compensation packages reportedly reaching nine figures, is choosing the money really surprising? In this...
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From Dishwasher to Engineering Manager
Before becoming an engineering manager, Mike spent nearly two years washing dishes and another five working as a line cook. The jobs may seem completely unrelated to software development, but the lessons he learned in the kitchen continue to shape how he handles pressure, leads developers, and...
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Is AI in a Bubble? History Says It's Complicated
Every major technological revolution seems to come with the same question: is this a bubble? AI is no exception. In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike explore why so many people are comparing today's AI boom to the dot-com bubble, and what history can teach us by looking back at events...
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How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Website
Choosing the right CMS isn't about picking the most popular platform - it's about asking the right questions. In this episode, Matt and Mike break down the framework they use before recommending a content management system for a new website. From understanding who will manage the site to…
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Do You Actually Own Your Digital Games?
Do you actually own the digital games you buy? An Xbox player in Brazil successfully sued Microsoft after a hacked account left him locked out of his entire digital game library - and his other Microsoft services. The court ordered Microsoft to restore his account and compensate him, raising some...
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AI Coding Makes Development Easier - So Why Are We Burning Out?
AI coding tools can make developers faster, remove tedious work, and help us build things that once felt out of reach. So why can using them still leave us feeling drained? In this episode, Matt and Mike explore the complicated relationship between AI coding and developer burnout. They discuss...
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Kimi K3 Brings Frontier AI Into the Open
Kimi K3 is a massive new open AI model with 2.8 trillion parameters, native vision and a one-million-token context window. Its creator claims it can compete near the frontier of coding, reasoning and knowledge work - but its potential goes far beyond benchmark scores. In this Web News, Matt and...
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JavaScript Isn't Always the Answer: Native Browser Features Every Developer Should Know
Modern browsers have evolved dramatically over the past two decades, quietly absorbing many features that once required custom JavaScript or third-party libraries. In this episode, Matt and Mike explore native browser capabilities including form validation, accordions, dialogs, popovers, lazy...
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Growing Your App: From MVP to MLP
Should you ship your app as soon as it's functional, or keep building until users love it? In this episode, Matt and Mike explore the difference between a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a Minimum Lovable Product (MLP), and why that distinction matters more than ever in the age of AI-assisted...
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How to Build an Async Remote Team That Actually Works
Remote work isn't simply about working from home - it’s about building systems that let people do their best work without constant meetings or interruptions. In this episode, Mike shares nearly a decade of experience leading asynchronous engineering teams, discussing what separates successful…
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What Happens When Physical Games Disappear?
Sony has announced that beginning in 2028, new PlayStation games will no longer be released on physical discs. While much of the discussion has focused on digital ownership and game preservation, we explore a different question: what does the loss of physical media mean for gaming culture? From...
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AI Safety: From Narrow AI to Superintelligence
Artificial Intelligence is advancing faster than ever, but can it actually be made safe? In this episode, we explore the evolution of AI from today's Narrow AI systems to the theoretical future of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Superintelligence. Along the way, we discuss AI alignment,...
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Web News: Consumer Electronics Are Getting Gutted
The price of consumer electronics keeps climbing, and it may not be slowing down anytime soon. Using Valve's new Steam Machine as a case study, we examine how the ongoing RAM pricing crisis and AI-driven demand for hardware are reshaping the consumer electronics market. From gaming PCs and…
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Get Found: SEO, Social Media, and Building an Audience with Matt Diamante
Matt Diamante joins the show to discuss modern SEO, social media growth, and building an audience in the age of AI. We explore how he grew his following to over 600,000 people, why he fired his largest client to focus on content creation, and what businesses need to do to stay visible as search...
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The $2 Trillion AI Panic: Is SaaS Really Dead?
For years, SaaS companies seemed untouchable. Now, investors have wiped trillions of dollars from software stocks as AI agents become capable of building functional clones of popular products in minutes. But are these fears justified? In this episode, Matt and Mike break down the growing panic...
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Web News: Would You Risk Your Job to Oppose AI? (Debate)
In this edition of the Web News we address one of Mike's recent statements where he advised anti-AI workers to "shut up" in the face of a pro-AI workplace. He stated that you should not be bringing up your AI concerns to workplaces that are bullish on AI, especially during the difficult job…
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Are AI Data Centers Good or Bad?
Artificial intelligence may live in the cloud, but the infrastructure powering it exists in the real world. As companies race to build hyperscale AI data centers, communities are raising concerns about power consumption, water usage, housing pressures, environmental impacts, and the strain on…
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Web News: Anthropic Released An AI It Doesn't Fully Trust
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-level AI model with built-in safeguards designed to route certain high-risk prompts to older models instead. As AI capabilities continue to accelerate, are AI companies creating systems they no longer fully trust? We discuss AI safety, prompt…
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AI Isn’t Just Taking Jobs, It’s Creating Weird New Ones
Most conversations about AI focus on job displacement, but a different story is unfolding at the same time. As companies rush to adopt AI, entirely new roles are appearing to bridge the gap between powerful models and real-world business problems. In this episode Matt and Mike explore emerging...
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Web News: AI vs No-Code
In this edition of Web News, Matt and Mike debate whether AI coding agents are starting to reverse the no-code revolution. Inspired by a recent article about a company abandoning its no-code website and returning to code, the conversation explores how tools like OpenAI Sites, Cursor, and other...
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How Long Do Websites Last? (And When Should You Replace Them?)
When you launch a website, how long should you expect it to last? Two years? Five years? Ten? The answer depends on what you mean by "last." A website can remain online and technically functional for years while quietly becoming harder to maintain, slower to evolve, less effective at generating...
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Web News: The Middle Class Can't Keep Up With Tech Anymore
For years, technology kept adding new categories to our lives. First it was the desktop computer, then the laptop, smartphone, tablet, smartwatch, wireless earbuds, game consoles, and now smart glasses and AI-powered wearables. The problem is that every new category comes with its own price tag,...
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AI Coding Hype Is Starting to Crack
AI skepticism might be one of the most valuable developer skills right now - but only if it doesn’t turn into stubbornness. In this episode, Matt and Mike discuss the growing divide between developers who reject AI entirely and those who trust it far too much. They explore why blindly accepting...
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Web News: Why Does Every Website Look Like a SaaS App?
Modern web design is everywhere right now - gradients, floating cards, oversized hero sections, glassmorphism, micro animations, dark mode… and increasingly, every site is starting to feel the same. Even AI-generated websites seem to default to the same handful of design trends and layouts. But…
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You Know CSS… So Why Can’t You Build Anything?
In this episode, Matt and Mike break down why traditional CSS learning often falls short - and what actually works instead. From building muscle memory and understanding layout behavior to avoiding common beginner mistakes like over-nesting and fighting the layout, this episode is all about...
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Web News: Android Isn’t Just an Operating System Anymore
Google just unveiled a major expansion of Gemini across Android, and it feels like the company is trying to redefine what Android actually is. Instead of functioning as “just” a mobile operating system, Android is increasingly becoming an AI-powered platform layer that sits across phones,...
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What Is Going On With GitHub?
GitHub has had a rough few months, with outages, service degradations, Copilot interruptions, and even a merge queue bug that affected real pull requests. In this episode, Matt and Mike look at what’s been happening with GitHub, why developers rely on it so heavily, and whether the rise of...
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Web News: Are Web Dev Tutorials Dying?
AI isn’t just changing how developers write code - it’s changing what developers watch, what creators make, and what platforms reward. Traditional web development tutorials used to dominate developer education online, but now AI-focused content often gets more attention because it feels faster,...
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The Junior Developer Job Market in 2026: Crisis, Recovery, or Both?
The entry-level developer job market is sending mixed signals in 2026. On one hand, reports suggest that employment among younger developers has dropped significantly - fueling concerns that AI and automation are squeezing out junior talent. On the other hand, major companies are actively...
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Web News: Why AI Phones Might Fail Like BlackBerry
In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike break down the rumors surrounding OpenAI’s upcoming “AI agent phone” - a device that could fundamentally change how we interact with technology. But while the idea sounds futuristic, history tells a different story. From operating system challenges…
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HTML All The Things is a podcast for web developers navigating the modern tech industry.Hosted by web development agency owners Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan, the show explores web development, AI-driven industry shifts, and the realities of building a sustainable career in tech.Matt and Mike regularly discuss foundational technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript along with modern tools and frameworks such as Svelte, Vue, WordPress, React, and Tailwind. They also dive into freelancing, running a web agency, dealing with clients, and how developers can stay competitive as the industry evolves.If you’re a developer who wants to sharpen your skills, understand where the industry is heading, and build long-term leverage in your career or business, this podcast is for you.
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