This episode features Ken Jones, his side project Birdables that's he's turned into an NFT and printed actual trading cards. Ken also runs a small web agency and builds websites in various technologies.

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Show Notes

0:00 Introduction
1:36 Introducing Ken Jones
1:57 Birdables
3:14 Process of Creating the Cards
- Print of Figma
- Tiny Image Compressor
5:48 Getting the Cards Printed
9:12 NFTs and Minting the Cards
- Open Sea
13:09 Working with SvelteKit
- pnpm
17:29 Sponsor: Hashnode
18:15 No Code / Low Code Tools
27:29 Sponsor: Daily.dev
28:29 Determining which tech stack is best for a specific project
30:42 Niche Marketing and Tracking Users
35:45 Client Process
38:48 Wrapping Up
- Svelte Sirens
- Everything Svelte