Podcast
We present Craft CMS and the whole ecosystem in detail in the podcast. Talks with developers, designers, and editors who use the user-friendly content management system. And, of course, news about releases and plugins.
Latest Episode
From Notepad to Guiding AI: Why You Shouldn't Be Worried
Episode 24 with Michael Thomas 1 hr 10 min
Notepad, tables, Grunt, webpack, Vite, and now AI. Michael Thomas has watched the tooling change for twenty-odd years and doesn't believe this time is different. We talk about the Craft CMS skills he built for Claude Code, and why he still reviews every line.
All Episodes
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Episode 23 with Moritz L'Hoest 1 hr 11 min
Crafting Connections and Collaboration
Moritz L'Hoest worked his way from WordPress through Drupal to ProcessWire before switching to Craft CMS. He talks about why Git and Project Config changed the way he works, and why client communication matters as much as the code.
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Episode 22 with Travis Gertz 1 hr 6 min
Building Bridges: Inside the Life of a Craft CMS Developer Relations Engineer
Travis Gertz has been a Developer Relations Engineer at Pixel & Tonic for nine months and didn't know what Dev Rel even was when he applied. He talks about Craft 5.7, the Craft vs. WordPress page, and why the community cares about the craft of building the internet, not the CMS.
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Episode 21 with Ben Croker 1 hr 16 min
Reactive Craft CMS frontends with Datastar
Ben Croker dropped everything to work full-time on Datastar, a hypermedia framework that lets Craft developers build reactive frontends in Twig without touching React or Vue.js. Less learning, more unlearning.
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Episode 20 with Matt Ellis and Michael Westwood 1 hr 25 min
Not an Award-Winning Agency - Honcho's Journey with Craft CMS
Matt Ellis and Michael Westwood from Honcho run a Craft CMS agency with a twist: they proudly call themselves "not an award-winning agency." They talk about building a Craft-only shop, running a remote team, and what it takes to stand out in a niche.
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Episode 19 with Will Browar 1 hr 10 min
Who is the boss of the house? Craft CMS, Vue, or Will Browar?
Will Browar's introduction to Vue.js came on a road trip when his brother-in-law Andrew Welch convinced him it solved everything he hated about jQuery. He talks about his Craft CMS plugins, his move from agency work to a SaaS company, and keeping Craft as a passion project.
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Episode 18 with Brandon Kelly and Brad Bell 1 hr 13 min
Craft Cloud: A Seamless Hosting Experience for Craft CMS
Brandon Kelly and Brad Bell from Pixel & Tonic talk about Craft CMS 5, the new link field, and Craft Cloud, a hosting service six years in the making that went through a complete restart before launching.
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Episode 17 with Sean Smith 1 hr 19 min
The Joy of Self-Taught Coding
Sean Smith taught English in South Korea for 14 years before returning to Canada with a plan to become a web developer. He talks about his self-taught journey, founding Toronto's first ExpressionEngine meetup, and his experience with Craft CMS 5.
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Episode 16 with Bastian Allgeier 1 hr 10 min
Inside Kirby CMS
Bastian Allgeier, creator of Kirby CMS, discusses how Kirby began as a website for a friend's design studio, why he chose a file-based approach, and what makes Kirby a compelling option for Craft developers looking for alternatives.