Our guest in this episode is Cory LaViska, the founder of Shoelace — a component library that makes it easy to build performant, mobile-friendly websites using CSS grids and custom elements APIs. Matt, Travis, and Cory discuss the partnership between Shoelace and Font Awesome, as well as their own experiences using different design systems and web components. Cory also touches on the benefits and challenges of modern web standards and the importance of keeping up with industry trends. Cory shares his favorite culinary icon, and busts Travis' chops for not having a Shoelace icon (yet.) ------------------------ TIME STAMPS 00:05:04 Customize CSS with Shoelace. 00:08:10 Reusable components for brand consistency. 00:11:50 Web Components: Easier Development. 00:17:06 Web components enable great tooling. 00:25:46 Use modern technologies. 00:30:17 Provide great software for free. 00:31:25 Open source technology is powerful. 00:36:04 Learn web programming with PHP. -------------------- NOTES  Shoelace.styleThe Font Awesome theme song was composed by Ronnie MartinAudio mastering by Chris Enns at Lemon Productions Stay up to date on all the Font Awesomeness!