Web Dev with Matt

Want to learn web development from the comfort of your chair, car, when you're out for a run, or doing some random house work? This is the show for you. Every week, in 20 - 40 minutes, I help you improve your web development skills with new knowledge, tips, pointers, random facts, inspiration, and some general chit chat. Tune in to have a fun, engaging, and friendly conversation about web development.

Web Dev with Matt is a technology podcast hosted by Matthew Setter, with 40 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Matthew Setter hosts Web Dev with Matt, a technology show with 40 episodes published.

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  Episode #41

  How to Create Your First Web App: The Seven Steps You Need To Take Before You Start Building

  Sep 22, 202630 minS2

  In this week's episode, I want to share with you the seven steps you need to take - BEFORE you build your first app. Sure, it's exciting to get in and start building, but don't. Do these things first to set yourself up for success. Step 0: Always remember the KISS (Keep It Simple Silly) principle ! Step 1: Set up your development machine Step 2: Build an ultra simple web app, using a Sinatra-inspired framework, on your local development machine Step 3: Start learning about HTTP, i.e., the different request types, request methods, etc, HTML , and CSS Step 4: Augment the application with different request types, i.e., POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests Step 5: Build your first CI/CD pipeline and deploy your application to a remote server Step 6: Add database support to your application Links from the episode GitHub Actions GitLab CI PHP Deployer Capistrano The Sinatra framework The Slim framework The HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Want to grow your knowledge further? Check out the books below, where you can grow your web development skills in a very focused, very hands-on way. Deploy with Docker Compose Mezzio Essentials Hosted and produced in Bundaberg by: Matthew Setter . Website: https://matthewsetter.com . Follow me on: LinkedIn . If you like the podcast, and want to support it, how about buying me a coffee? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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  Episode #40

  Your learning doesn't stop once your degree or certificate is finished. It's only just beginning!

  Sep 15, 202623 minS2

  Following on from the previous episode recapping Pycon AU 2026, let's talk about self-learning and why it's your super-skill as a web developer; not only as a developer but in any career or discipline of any value! Come find out why that's the case, why learning is wonderful, and why a degree, or trade/industry certificate is but the beginning - never the end - of your career education. Links from the episode CQUniversity - Bachelor of Information Technology UTS - Bachelor of Computing Science Want to grow your knowledge further? Check out the books below, where you can grow your web development skills in a very focused, very hands-on way. Deploy with Docker Compose Mezzio Essentials Hosted and produced in Bundaberg by: Matthew Setter . Website: https://matthewsetter.com . Follow me on: LinkedIn . If you like the podcast, and want to support it, how about buying me a coffee? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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  Episode #39

  PyCon AU 2026 - What a Wonderful Conference!

  Sep 1, 202623 minS2

  Over the years, I've attended a number of software development conferences, but this year's PyCon AU would have to be the most impressive and memorable one I've ever been to! In this episode, I'm giving a full breakdown of just why it was so special and memorable for me. In short, it was because of: The diversity of the attendees The sheer thoughtfulness and dedication of the organising team The excellent quality of the website; and The quality of the location Links from the episode PyCon AU 2026 Bachelor of Computer Science at UTS (The University of Technology Sydney) Bachelor of Information Technology at CQUniversity (Central Queensland University) Jack Skinner Want to grow your knowledge further? Check out the books below, where you can grow your web development skills in a very focused, very hands-on way. Deploy with Docker Compose Mezzio Essentials Hosted and produced in Bundaberg by: Matthew Setter . Website: https://matthewsetter.com . Follow me on: LinkedIn . If you like the podcast, and want to support it, how about buying me a coffee? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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  Episode #38

  My 3-Stage Process To Recover From Bugs in Production

  Aug 25, 202615 minS2

  What do you do when bugs make it into the production version of your web applications? While there are many approaches that you can take, over the years, I've refined a simple, 3-stage process for both fixing them and helping ensure that they don't happen again in the future. In this episode, I'm stepping through that process, along with a host of links, suggestions, tips, and tricks, that I hope will help you recover from and improve your processes after bugs slip out; regardless of whether you're a solo developer or part of a larger team or organisation. Links from the episode Git blame Git annotate Good Code Reviews, Better Code Reviews, by Gergely Orosz Filezilla CI/CD Pipelines Automated deployment Mago PHPStan Phan PHP Code Sniffer Cargo Clippy golangci-lint GitHub Branch Protection Rules GitLab Forgejo Codeberg Mercurial SCM Want to grow your knowledge further? Check out the books below, where you can grow your web development skills in a very focused, very hands-on way. Deploy with Docker Compose Mezzio Essentials Hosted and produced in Bundaberg by: Matthew Setter . Website: https://matthewsetter.com . Follow me on: LinkedIn . If you like the podcast, and want to support it, how about buying me a coffee? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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  Episode #37

  If you want to be a developer, you have to read

  Aug 18, 202612 minS2

  This is something that I've thought about a lot during the (roughly) 30 years of my career. If you want to be a developer, if you want to write software you have to read! Whether that's a project's official documentation, the code, the docblock or inline comments, or related places such as forums like Reddit and Stack Overflow - you have to read. Sure, AI can summarise content for you, and can help with projects that have poor or no documentation. But, whether you use AI or not, there's no getting around reading. There are no shortcuts. In this episode, I go into depth about having to read as a developer, explain how it's unavoidable, and also why reading is a good thing. Want to grow your knowledge further? Check out the books below, where you can grow your web development skills in a very focused, very hands-on way. Deploy with Docker Compose Mezzio Essentials Hosted and produced in Bundaberg by: Matthew Setter . Website: https://matthewsetter.com . Follow me on: LinkedIn . If you like the podcast, and want to support it, how about buying me a coffee? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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