00:00 Welcome to MageTalk #240 - You have now listened to Kalen for 10 days straight!02:49 Kalen judges Willem’s character05:10 Mathias Schreiber becomes new MA Director - replacing Smith Bucklin10:39 To Rant or Not To Rant, that’s the question

Walking Cats & Composable Commerce

Oct 31st, 2022 1h 7m

Recorded on October 24, 2022Link to the video version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEe3tf1xUYo--00:00 Intro to Episode 239, warm welcome to Filip Rakowski and Bartek Igielski00:28 Filip and Barteks relationship to Magento02:31 The many Magen

A Touch Of Urgency Is Needed

Oct 19th, 2022 1h 14m

00:00 Welcome to MageTalk ep.23801:02 Magento Swag through the MA?07:24 Magento Branding / OS Task Force10:59 A year ago Kalen didn't care12:38 Magento businesses hurt with Adwords from Adobe15:16 Is Willem prepared to walk from the MA?22:00 Wh

Stop Saying "Magento is now Adobe Commerce"

Oct 5th, 2022 1h 11m

00:00 Intro01:55 MM22NYC - The history of the event and why Kalen only brought home socks07:18 Meet Commerce, the bring-your-wife conference in Madrid December 202209:31 Mingling with other platforms at conferences, are we allowing ourselves?18

#236 Everyone Loves A Good Slack Rant

Sep 24th, 2022 1h 6m

Everyone Loves A Good Slack Rant

Sep 24th, 2022 1h 6m

[00:01:25] Kalen: We’re finally in a good, uh, 2 36. So episode 2 36. So the last one was bringing amnesty into the fold 2 35 and[00:01:36] Willem: we’re finally episodes 236.[00:01:40] Kalen: 2 36. We’re getting into a pretty, pretty steady sc

Bringing Amasty Into The Fold

Sep 14th, 2022 52m

In this episode, Willem and I talk a little bit about some of the pain Amasty extensions have caused to Magento developers but also try to provide some constructive criticism to an extension company that...

The Roast Of The Gartner Magic Quadrant

Sep 5th, 2022 1h 25m

In this episode, Kalen sits down with Isaiah Bollinger to review (and roast!) some of the interesting and absurd bits about the Magic Quadrant. Isaiah is the CEO of Trellis Commerce – a leading ecommerce...

Willem Hasn’t Trained His Algorithm At All

Aug 27th, 2022 1h 31m

[00:00:00] Willem: Welcome to Mitch talk. This is episode 233 and my name is venom [00:00:09] Kalen: and I’m Kalin. That was that. That was, that sounded extraordinarily professional, like very. Very slow, calm, confident....

Kiel Is A Super Saiyan Version Of Kalen

Aug 20th, 2022 1h 38m

In this episode, Kalen sits down with Willem Wigman. — [00:00:00] Kalen: all right, man, should we do the intro? You want to clap? Let’s clap. Like [00:00:04] Willem: when we just landed the airplane....

Magento Is Being Strangled But Don’t Worry Everything Is Fine

Aug 12th, 2022 1h 39m

In this interview, Kalen sits down with Damien Retzinger, the Founder of Graycore, a software engineering firm specializing in ecommerce, as well as a member of the Magento Open Source Task Force.

One Magento Generation Ahead Of Me

Jul 29th, 2022 1h 8m

In this episode, Kalen sits down with Willem Wigman, the Executive Director at Hyva Themes. [00:00:00] Willem: If you ask me, we’ve been doing that for 10 years, Magento always has been composable a lot...

Magetalk Episode 229: Phillip Jackson Owes Me An Apology

Oct 2nd, 2021 1h 9m

In this episode, we sit down and talk about a little bit of everything – from advertising to Kalen’s track record on predictions, a little bit of Magento, and moaar. Kalen has launched a new...

MageTalk Episode 228: “Trying Not To Use Profanity”

Aug 20th, 2021 1h 48m

In this episode, we sit down and talk with Willem Wigman, the inventor of the Hyva Frontend Magento Development framework.

MageTalk Episode 227: “12 Hours of Silence”

Apr 22nd, 2021 12h

Per Kalen’s suggestion, this episode will be in Memorium to the passage of the Magento brand, now renamed Adobe Commerce. It is also, definitely, totally not in any way in relation to the 12 hours...

MageTalk Episode 226: “It’s Pronounced ‘Hyva'”

Feb 18th, 2021 58m 20s

Phillip and Kalen are trying to do the oft-attempted, rarely accomplished Reverse Podfade. Will they succeed? Only time will tell.

MageTalk Episode 225: “Coffee by the River” (with David Manners)

Sep 18th, 2020 1h

No longer coming to you live from his kitchen table, David Manners joins us for his FIFTH appearance on MageTalk, an-all time guest record. Kalen sits down with David to discuss some of the finer...

MageTalk Episode 224: “Living the PWA Dream” (with Damian Retzinger, CEO of Graycore)

Sep 11th, 2020 54m 51s

Kalen finally convinced Damian to join Twitter in March. Things are looking up! Building on PWA is all too common for Graycore, and Damian shares his experience in delivering the next generation of headless commerce...

MageTalk Episode 223: “Death by a 1000 Pings” (feat. Eric Hileman, CEO at MageMojo)

Sep 4th, 2020 1h 6m

Eric Hileman sits down with Kalen to discuss team remote culture, how to maintain open communication in Slack, and how to balance technical discussion in meetings with non-technical contributors. Listen now!

MageTalk Episode 222: “An Overheated Dutch Guy” (feat. Guido Jansen)

Sep 1st, 2020 1h 5m

What happens when a Dutchman with no air conditioning meets a Texan who sits mere inches away from an industrial chiller? Hijinx and hilarity! In this episode of Magetalk, Kalen sits down with Guido Jansen,...

MageTalk Episode 221: “Woken Up by Blinking Lights” (feat. Riccardo Tempesta)

Aug 28th, 2020 1h 11m

Kalen is joined by the venerable Riccardo Tempesta (a.k.a THE RICK) – CTO at MageSpecialist. They discuss the separation between a company and a personal brand, and Kalen’s forever stan of PHP as a coding...

MageTalk Episode 220 – Budgets: Healthy at Every Size

Aug 10th, 2020 1h

How do you create an accurate budget? Is there a difference between a good agency or a bad agency – and is there a correlation between developer happiness and their fit; and what about factors...

MageTalk Episode 219 – Creating Healthy Daily Habits

Aug 6th, 2020 1h 8m

How do you create better habits? How do you do more creative work? Does your day have a predictable structure and are you trying to optimize that for productivity or for happiness? Kalen and Phillip...

MageTalk Live Episode 218 – “Content Security Policy is Dead”

Aug 4th, 2020 1h

Is Content Security Policy dead? Magento security mastermind Willem Degroot thinks so. We delve into a bunch of topics and have a rousing debate around the future of security and – of course – Magento’s...