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How much would you pay for new users, initial thoughts on Figma's announcements, CSS carousel follow up, favicon easter eggs, how do you prepare for an internship, and why aren't more developers using logical properties?

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Windsurf (formerly Codeium) - The most powerful AI Code Editor
Figma Sites
Figma Make
Figjam
Are CSS Carousels Accessible?
Windsurf (formerly Codeium) - The most powerful AI Code Editor
Figma Sites: Design, Prototype & Publish Your Next Website
Creative Design Tools
Collaborative Whiteboard
Presentation Creation
AI-Powered Design Tools
Learn to Code Faster
Introducing Web Awesome
Prioritization Advocacy
axe Accessibility Tools
Todoist Task Management
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Do we sound drunk on Shorts? What speed do you listen to your podcasts at? Happy Birthday to Dave, Roblox scams, having silly fun on the web, Crashlands 2 released, a Balatro moment, non-standard browser use testing, and color-mix follow up.

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The Adventure Zone | Maximum Fun
Don't let your voice be flattened by the über theme - daverupert.com
Crashlands 2
Adam Coster: Crashlands 2
Balatro University
jQuery Reunion
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We're talking browsers and discussing alternative options like Vivaldi and Brave, the implications of Chrome's potential sale to OpenAI, the impact of AI on browser functionality, Discord vs Circle, and building with Hotwire.

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Newfangled Browser Alternatives – Frontend Masters Blog
Zen Browser
Horse Browser
Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
Opera GX | Gaming Browser | Opera
Thorium Browser
Mullvad Browser
Fast and Private Web Browser
DuckDuckGo
Microsoft Edge Download
OpenAI Chrome Acquisition
Mozilla on U.S. v. Google
HTML5 CSS3 Support
Opera Air | Mindful Browser
Opera Mini Download
Hotwire Drawer Component
CodePen
Circle
Discord
Zulip
Netlify Support Forums
Retro Photo app
Media Diet – Chris Coyier
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What are the non-US cloud services options, falling off the blogging train and trying to get back on, working on vacation, Chris recaps the Alaskan Folk Festival experience, how often do you go back and clean out JavaScript, and the idea of gilding just one lily on a new project.

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European Alternatives
A lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality
Trap (2024) Reviews
Polyfilling Concepts
ex-Googler · April 10, 2025
Gild Just One Lily
Blog Questions Challenge
CodePen Development
CSS clip-path maker
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Follow up on thoughts about teaching CSS from scratch, questions about conferences to attend as well as a way to kickstart a conference idea, some Balatro thoughts, and our thoughts on the recent Grid vs Masonry debate.

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The Homebrewery - NaturalCrit
SmashingConf in-person Conferences 2025 — Friendly, inclusive & fun events for web designers and developers. - SmashingConf New York, Freiburg, Antwerp and Online
Web Design Event
State of the Browser 13
Bring live to life
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Adam Argyle joins us to chat about new CSS features that are demo'd in a carousel configurator - a builder-like experience to help visualize the capabilities of a CSS only Carousel: buttons, markers, paging and inertness.

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Guests Adam Argyle
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

CSS at Google.

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Chrome Canary Features
Demo Space
CSS Carousel Configurator
Black Emperor
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We're joined by Andy Bell, the founder of Set Studio. They discuss the evolution of web design, the importance of client relationships, and the innovative approaches taken at Set Studio and Piccalilli. The conversation covers the shift from traditional design methods to a more browser-centric approach, the challenges of client work, and the significance of documentation in maintaining project integrity. Andy shares insights on creating customizable design systems and the necessity of having a decision-making framework in client interactions.

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Guests Andy Bell
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Designer, front-end developer and the founder of Set Studio and Piccalilli.

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Pen.new
mdn.io
Set.Studio
Front-End Development Skills
Obsidian Thinking
Connected Workspace
The Telepathy Tapes
Complete CSS
If it works, it's right - Piccalilli
Carousels with CSS
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David Darnes joins us to talk about his work on the Nord design system, writing web components, working with embeds and web components, thoughts on building a progress bar or notification component, keeping design systems and design tools in sync, and tricks for components and variables.

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Guests David Darnes
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Designer, Front-end Developer & Writer.

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Nord Health
Ariel Salminen
Design Systems WTF
Awesome Standalones
DesignSystems.wtf
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Onboarding users is a lot more difficult than you might think it is, how should links be coloured or styled, keeping web software up to date, why does some AI slop get created in the first place, getting context for why things happened or decisions were made, and our first bullet point dev career story (Steve's version).

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Subscribe to us on YouTube!
Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing
Automate without limits
CodePen PRO
Link Color Idea
Ludacris Freestyle
Front
Tag, You're It
Watch the video version of this episode
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It's a speed run meeting edition episode and we're talking conspiracy theories, getting hypnotized, disinformation on TikTok vs the news, view transitions vs CSS animations vs the web animation API, follow ups on font-weight and attire, and classic autocomplete vs AI autocomplete.

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SubwayTakes (@subwaytakes) | TikTok
Motion - A modern animation library for JavaScript and React
font-weight: 300 considered harmful | CSS-Tricks
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UI and state struggles, AI missing important sand context, should we look forward to AI browsers, how bad is the mobile web in 2025, what does scalability with websites actually mean, and is there a role for someone as a project manager with tech insight?

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Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals
UI = f(statesⁿ) - daverupert.com
Welcome to Steam
Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images – Eric Bailey
The Browser Company | Building Arc
Dia from The Browser Company
Perplexity teases a web browser called Comet | TechCrunch
Introducing Operator | OpenAI
Daring Fireball: One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps
Sill | Top news shared by the people you trust
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We're looking at the Interop 2025 announcements, Dave is hating on (and talking about) attributes, debating better ways to handle color inputs, following up on the implications of AI that is shaped by politics, and Dave mouthblogs the secret black boxes of AI.

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interop/2025/README
CSS Day 2025, 5th & 6th of June, Amsterdam
Interop 2025 | Igalia
Miriam’s post
Robin Sloan’s post
Michelle Barker’s reply
Baldur’s post
Robin’s reply
Baldur’s reply
Jeremy Keith’s reply
TechCrunch article
OpenAI Model Spec
Vale post
Search Engine podcast
GitHub link
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Remembering the old days before we had bots, teaching kids to talk to bots, how difficult is it to build games in the browser, are we seeing LLMs get more political, what does mainstream media really mean, and have you heard about PouchDB?

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PixiJS: The HTML5 Creation Engine
Unreal Engine: Powerful Real-Time 3D Creation Tool
Balatro: A Unique Gaming Experience
Xbox Adaptive Controller: Accessibility in Gaming
Designing Content Authoring Experiences by Greg Dunlap on Kickstarter
Craft CMS: A Flexible Content Management System
Analysis: ChatGPT’s Political Views Are Shifting Right
Search Engine Podcast: Insights and Discussions
PouchDB: A Pocket-Sized Database on GitHub
Zero Docs: Documentation for Zero
Replicache: Real-Time Data Synchronization
Obsidian: Sharpen Your Thinking
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Jason joins us to talk about his rebranding to CodeTV.dev, how Chris Coyier helped him become a star, the power of free, how he makes money with CodeTV, sponsorship and tech shows, crappy web cams, and the gear he uses to look and sound amazing.

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Guests Jason Lengstorf
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Jason Lengstorf is the producer of CodeTV.dev, where he helps tech companies connect with developer communities through better devrel strategy and media.

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tv for developers — CodeTV
The Best React-Based Framework | Gatsby
Scale & Ship Faster with a Composable Web Architecture | Netlify
The Great British Bake Off
Web Development Challenge
Leet Heat Pilot
TV for Developers
Dropout Comedy
Nebula Universe
Sunny Nihilist Declaration
Philosophize This! Episodes
BenQ RD280UA Monitor
iPhone Webcam for Mac
Webcam Comparison
Sony FX3 Camera
ATEM Mini
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Does layout make CSS difficult to learn from scratch, Chris quizzes Dave about Balatro, getting back into Pokemon, why should Google have to sell Chrome, adding fun features to apps you already have to keep you using them like Raycast, and thoughts on the VS Code forks + AI.

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Web Awesome Layout Anatomy
Balatro
Pokémon GO
A Little Arm Chair Businessin’ about Chrome – Chris Coyier
Raycast Focus works really well - daverupert.com
Cursor - The AI Code Editor
Trae - Ship Faster with Trae
Codium is now Qodo | Quality-first AI Coding Platform
Windsurf Editor by Codeium
Zed - The editor for what's next
Ghostty
Helix
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Dealing with AI creating fake work by famous artists, HTML is actually a programming language, Chrome 133 updates, attr updates, making "this" less annoying, and Scott Jehl's trying to standardize Async CSS.

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This Aged Great!
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
HTML Programming Language
HTML Semantics Consensus
CSS attr() Upgrade
Making this less annoying
Powerful Apps for Mac & iOS
Let's Standardize Async CSS!
Off The Main Thread
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Hard hitting investigative journalism episode warning: Chris and Dave speculate on the ways a project like void(0) could make money.

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Biome, toolchain of the web
Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
Rollup
Rolldown
Jest
Vitest | Next Generation testing framework
Playwright
Cypress
VoidZero | Next Generation Tooling for the Web
The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
Astro
Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime
Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
The World's Most Trusted Game Development Engine - Unreal Engine
Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Deploy your Laravel PHP application painlessly | Laravel Forge
37signals
Basecamp: Project management software, online collaboration
Simpler Static Site Generator
Cloud Application Platform
Igalia Chats
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In this episode, we kick off the New Year with chats about battling illness over the holidays, the challenges of maintaining productivity, the differences between slash pages, wikis, and blog posts, how we use RSS, the importance of containers and context, Dave talks about living with ADHD, developing a system approach to CSS, Chris' thoughts on upgrading to an M4 MacBook Pro, and writing in Pug.

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Chris Coyier.net
slash pages
/uses
chipotle - IndieWeb
Digital gardening
daverupert.com
Feedbin
Reeder
NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS
Unread: An RSS Reader
Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing
I got the ADHD, too - daverupert.com
My ADHD diagnosis process | Brad Frost
CSS wants to be a system - daverupert.com
M4 – Chris Coyier
Getting Started – Pug
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The employees of the startup RAPPTR (Quinn Pine, Blaze Lightyear, Astra Q, and Eddit Kit) find themselves in quite a pickle as a rogue investor tries to take over the company while CEO Chad is recovering in his napping pod.

Join us on a workplace-themed role playing adventure created by Dave Rupert.

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Guests Alex (Eddie)
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

A web developer from Atlanta, GA that specializes in Vue.js, python, and PHP.

Ben (Blaze)
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

A user-centered frontend developer with a focus on web accessibility.

Miriam (Astra)
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Co-Founder of OddBird, working on CSS in a W3C group.

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Hard Code & Soft Skills
Lasers & Feelings by John Harper
one.seven design studio
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Riffing off the CSS Wrapped 2024 list from the Chrome team, we're talking field-sizing, animate to height, anchor positioning, custom scrollbars, cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, and more!

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CSS Wrapped 2024
Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
OpenType
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We're talking HTML this episode, detail summary, HTML datalist element, styling selects, anchored pop ups, popovers, invokers, HR in select, target=blank, HTML for People, and what we still need.

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The and elements are getting an upgrade - Stephanie Stimac's Blog
Request for developer feedback: customizable select | Blog | Chrome for Developers
HTML & CSS Dropdowns
HTML Latest Control
Browser noopener links
Stylable Select Element
Self-Closing Tags in HTML
Riverside
Select Element with Rules
HTML Basics for Beginners
The aside element
AI Note Taking
Interop 2025
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How do you like your turkey at Thanksgiving, building social capital with the neighbors, a brief SportsTalk Show segment, noticing easter eggs in apps and the web, what is a component anyway, CSS parts follow up, and questions about Alpine.JS and ESLint.

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How to Spatchcock Chicken, a Step-by-Step Guide
Half-Life
Scott Jehl on Web Components
CSS Parts Relief
ESLint Sorting Plugin
GitLens
Biome
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Chris Person from Aftermath joins us to chat about the state of forums in 2024, being downwind of knowledge, forum drama, Reddit and StackOverflow's impact on forums, the importance of the individuals caring for knowledge and information, and the benefits and struggles of cooperatives in reporting.

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Guests Chris Person
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Makes Highlight Reel. Co-Founder 'n blogger at Aftermath.site.

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Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information - Aftermath
chris person (@Papapishu) / X
Highlight Reel | creating videos of the best recent clips from around the gaming
Highlight Reel
Forum Channels FAQ
Lego Storage Solutions
Bogleheads
RomHacking
Metal Finishing
The Something Awful Forums
Jeff Atwood
StackOverflow
Build Civilized Communities
Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts
Gawker Plot History
Defector
404 Media
Hell Gate Overview
Open Source Blogging
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We've got a few leftovers from Halloween to process, what's been happening with Passkeys in late 2024, have you tried to write HTML faster than a bot can suggest it to you, CSS anchor positioning and popover polyfills, scroll driven animation thoughts, CSS nesting, and what's the reason for Java?

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Auth0: Secure access for everyone. But not just anyone.
Stripe Checkout | Checkout Pages for Your Website
Passkeys Authentication
Mundango Storytelling
Developer Tools
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Riffing off a Dave Rupert blog post, Chris and Dave talk through the pros and cons of web components, when to use them, when it's a bad idea to use them, what would it take to make the Next.js of web components, and how long until we don't need anymore frameworks?

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Where web components shine - daverupert.com
Fluent UI - Get started - Fluent UI
React
Website Improvement
Begin Team to Join
Eleventy Generator
Components
URLPattern Polyfill
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How important is the DX of software vs how important is the person showing off the software, Douglas Crockford and JSON, remembering XML, trying to write better HTML for email, new TC39 proposal, workshopping t-shirts, and what do you do if you want a little bit of database on your website?

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Web Unleashed 2024 - FITC
New High Contrast Syntax Highlighting Themes – CodePen
Douglas Crockford
JSON
JSON Feed
Slow Horses
JavaScript Compiler Proposal
ECMAScript 2024 Updates
Contentful
Strapi
Sanity Content System
Heroku
Cloudflare
Turso
Netlify Blobs
bolt.new
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Dave's designing a new tshirt, questions for lawyers about copyrights for code projects, what does the copyright in the footer actually do, what do Dave and Chris require for personal web projects, does Jekyll get updated anymore, the Bob from Hell UX pattern, viewing ads on CNN, what about Joomla or Statamic, and how do paid fonts on the web work?

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Coming home | A Working Library
Release v4.3.4 · jekyll/jekyll
How to Monetize a Blog
The Verge
Joomla CMS
Craft CMS
Statamic
Kirby Adapts
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Brian Muenzenmeyer joins the show to talk about his book, Approachable Open Source, ways we can make open source easier to get in, important conversations around funding and supporting open source, and whether money helps maintainers deal with burnout or not?

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Guests Brian Muenzenmeyer
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Author of Approachable Open Source, Principal Front End Engineer.

Links
Shop | Approachable Open Source
Approachable Open Source
Brian Muenzenmeyer
Front-End Social
SimpleBits®
Atomic Design Creation
Open Source Gardening
WTFPL
Security Risk Reduction
VoidZero | Blog
Announcing Biome
A Book Apart
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We're getting some feelings out about WordPress and Matt Mullenweg vs WP Engine drama, as well as the Web Components conversation that happened this past week.

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WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power | TechCrunch
Automattic demanded a cut of WP Engine’s revenue before starting WordPress battle - The Verge
WP Engine Banned from Using WordPress.org Resources – WP Tavern
The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained | TechCrunch
Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’ - The Verge
WP Engine Term Sheet
Theo and Matt Mullenweg
Matt Discusses WordPress
WCUS 2024 Q&A
Modern WordPress Learning
Automattic | Five for the Future | WordPress.org
Automattic Alignment
Matt Mullenweg Calls Out GoDaddy
Matt Mullenweg Charitable Contributions
Lee Wittlinger Location
WebOps Platform
WP Engine
Hacker Interview
WordPress.com
WordPress Hosting
Web Components Present
Web Components Are Not the Future
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Jeff Robbins stops by to talk about his software, Visibox, that was used at Frostapalooza for presenting video at the concert, what it's like building an app with Electron, how it's distributed, how files are used and managed, and how he supports hardware devices inside Electron.

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Guests Jeff Robbins
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Creator of Visibox, Musician in 123Astronaut & Orbitband, Cofounder at Lullabot, Executive Coach at jjeff․com.

Links
MV7+ - Podcast Microphone
NT-USB Microphone
Jeff Robbins (@jjeff)
Jeff Robbins
FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024
CodePen: Online Code Editor and Front End Web Developer Community
Learning Web Design with Jennifer Robbins
Visibox Announcement
Lullabot
Spaceage
Cross-Platform App Development
Desktop Apps with Web Frontend
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Fabian Kägy helps us understand the modern WordPress development process, Gutenberg vs Block editor vs full site editing, building with blocks or pages, what's coming in the Twenty Twenty-Five Theme, and whether the theme authoring process has been made too difficult in 2024?

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Guests Fabian Kägy
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Core Contributor and WordCamp Speaker. Director of Editorial Engineering at 10up.

Links
10up | finely crafted websites and tools
Fabian Kägy - User Experience focused developer currently building great user experiences within the WordPress Block Editor as the Director of Editorial Engineering @10up.
fabiankaegy (Fabian Kägy) on GitHub
@fabiankaegy on Twitter / X
Fabian Kägy (@fabiankaegy) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org
Fabian Kägy on LinkedIn
ACF Plugin
Create Block Theme
WordPress/twentytwentyfive
St. Jude Donation
Sponsors Jam.dev One click bug reports devs love.

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Thomas Steiner from Project Fugu talks with us about AI in Chrome, the small large language model in use, how features like this are rolled out, the ethics and concerns around sending and sharing data, on device vs web APIs, and ideas for use cases and ways to explore AI on the web.

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Guests Thomas Steiner
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Developer Relations Engineer at Google, focused on the Web and Project Fugu.

Links
Web Capabilities (Project Fugu)
Chrome.dev
Prompt API Playground
Summarization API Playground
Translation API
API Playground
Chrome AI Proposal
Chrome AI Experiment
Intelligence Preview
Prompt API Proposal
Writing Assistance APIs Proposal
Web Translation Proposal
WICG
WebML TPAC 2024 Agenda
TPAC 2024: Overview
Cache AI Models
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Show Description
Adam Coster talks with us about working with his family in game development, how they get started making games, what all is involved with publishing games, deciding to go Steam and Netflix only for Crashlands 2, how web tech is involved in game development, and the fun of testing and doing Q&A for games.

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Guests Adam Coster
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

CEO & Webtech at Butterscotch Shenanigans

Links
Butterscotch Shenanigans
About | Butterscotch Shenanigans
Coffee with Butterscotch
adam-coster (Adam Coster)
Adam Coster @costerad on Twitter
Crashlands 2 on Steam
Sponsors

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Dave's got an idea for a second brain app that's customized to his brain, where we're at with Notion and other notes apps, and accessibility on LLM's in browsers.

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Notion Web Clipper for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and mobile
The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
Organize Life System
Things To-Do List
Bear - Markdown Notes
Analog Productivity System
Just use fucking paper, man
Daylight Computer Care
Chrome Canary Features
Cerebras
Sponsors

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Chris has a birthday today , we recap our Frostapalooza experience celebrating Brad Frost's birthday, do all codebases become a mess, Mermaid, TLDraw, and Figjam thoughts, making tiny games, where's the follow up in web and world news, and what's the current state of CMS' on the web?

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Links
Frostapalooza – Chris Coyier
FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024
Frostapalooza in photos and videos | Brad Frost
Symmetry 2024 Tickets
Code Editor Community
Understanding Technical Debt
Mermaid Tool
tldraw
Collaborative Whiteboard
Dev Mode
Visual Suite for Everyone
Game Development Competition
Butterscotch Shenanigans
Ghost Platform
Craft CMS
Astro
Eleventy Static Site Generator
Decap CMS
The Markdown CMS
Sanity Content Cloud
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A bit of follow-up on vibe driven development and JavaScript not causing The Great Divide, writing testing automation, global design systems and web components, could PHP be used for web components, what if view transitions are going to be everywhere, and frontend engineer vs design systems engineer job titles and descriptions.

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Links
Trust the vibes
We don't need a boss, we need a process | Miriam Eric Suzanne
The Great Divide
JavaScript and The Great Divide
346: Is There a Great Divide?
Kevin Powell | CSS Evangelist
Javascript Testing Frameworks
Design System Comparison
Global Design System
Brad Frost Design
Frostapalooza Concert
Val Head
Sharpen your thinking
Sheelah Brennan's Engineer Comparison
Turkey Sounds
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Doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the planes, Dave's got a 2x life update, how often do you manage or prune your RSS feed subscriptions, checking in on Code Hike and their fine grained Markdown approach, JavaScript decorators use case, and using Cloudflare R2 for image storage.

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Noah Kahan - Stick Season on YouTube
Dave's new dogs from the Discord
Fine-grained Markdown
Cloudflare Object Storage
Uppy
Netlify Image CDN
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Chris brings some blog posts to talk about including being comfortable with the struggle of developer life, Cloudflare Workers + monorepos, vibe driven development, and questions about database migrations, and whether we think AI free blogs are going to be a rarity in the future?

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Comfortable with the struggle
Cloudflare Workers · Cloudflare Workers docs
Wrangler Cloudflare Workers
Features • GitHub Actions
Azure DevOps Services
Yarn
Vibe Driven Development
Active Record Migrations
Prisma Migrate
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Chris has some follow up on blog posts and past podcast episodes to respond to including browsers and browser engines, advertising on the web, magazines, Cara, peak AI slop, and view transitions.

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FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Daring Fireball
Cory Doctorow's craphound.com | Cory Doctorow's Literary Works
Moonbound
Second Foundation
Servo Web Rendering Engine
Ladybird
Flow Browser
Learn. Build. Grow. Together.
Artist Platform
Tech News
The Homepage of Dave Rupert
View Transitions Break
Misconceptions about view transitions | Blog | Chrome for Developers
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Dave's putting together a platform for his presidential bid and workshops his policies, discussing vehicle options for a family in 2024, Chris and other authors get ownership of their A Book Apart books back, and the ramifications and reasoning behind Google killing a URL shortener.

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‎Office Space (1999) directed by Mike Judge • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
2024 Hyundai IONIQ 5: Electric SUV | Hyundai Canada
R2 - Rivian
Bronco® Sport | Build & Price | Shop.ford.ca
A Book Apart
Practical SVG by Chris Coyier
Print-On-Demand
I’m Mat. I make websites.
Reacquired.
Real Life News
587: Why Ethan Marcotte Thinks Tech Workers Deserve a Union – ShopTalk
Google URL Shortener
Netlify Astro Partnership
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On this epsiode we're talking about the current state of blogging and social media, the polyfill hack, whether in app browsers should be banned, web components and the difficulty of front end web dev, and how we would go about teaching CSS from scratch in 2024.

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Links
Polyfill Attack Impacts Over 380,000 Hosts, Including Major Companies
Off The Main Thread podcast
Web Dev Pitfalls
State of JavaScript 2023
Fliteboard eFoil
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We're talking about assigning a weight to items in a layout, differentiating between banger posts and regular blog posts, using social engineering to get PR's accepted, monorepo thoughts, using CoPilot vs other AI programming support bots, has TypeScript benefited from AI, and what happens if you turn off CoPilot?

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Links
614: CSS Grid Level 3 aka Masonry with Adam Argyle – ShopTalk
606: Web Sustainability with Michelle Barker – ShopTalk
Footnotes Progressively Enhanced to Popovers – Frontend Masters Boost
Charm
Supermaven
ThePrimeagen on YouTube
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We're talking website rendering, server side rendering, Astro's server islands, perf hits for navigation elements, updating software because the docs aren't available for older versions, and a new Microsoft Edge was released.

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Links
Scale & Ship Faster with a Composable Web Architecture | Netlify
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator
Astro
Next.js React Framework
Cloudflare Services
Internet Power
Website Improvement
Server Islands
Create Web Components
FAST
Enhance
Vue.js Framework
An even faster Microsoft Edge
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We've got follow up on Cloudflare and Cara from last episode, a question about setting up Prettier and auto linting, a cool tool from a listener on comparing colors, a question about using tooling like Craft or more user friendly apps like Webflow when working with clients, and our takes on accessibility overlays.

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Links
Cloud Application Hosting for Developers | Render
Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter
Biome, toolchain of the web
Vetur
Compare colors
Craft CMS
Webflow: Create a custom website | Visual website builder
Accessibility Overlay Decision
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Show Description
We dive a bit deeper into the Cloudflare drama of the past couple of weeks, Instagram ads vs Cara art, what to do about Auth in your app, pre-negging any sponsorships, prototyping and feedback on projects, and ideas for future topics.

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Links
Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h
Connect, Protect and Build Everywhere | Cloudflare
Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies
Cara | Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
Auth0: Secure access for everyone. But not just anyone.
WorkOS — Your app, Enterprise Ready.
Theo - t3․gg
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
The Homer | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom
A Global Design System | Brad Frost
FAST
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Show Description
Sven Neumann aka Sven Codes talks with us about SudokuPad, developing a cross-platform app, integrating new puzzles and features, the benefits of being easy to use, building a community, and monetizing an app while not upsetting your user base.

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Guests Sven Neumann
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Creator of Sven's SudokuPad.

Links
Solving “The Miracle Sudoku”
SudokuPad Web App - by SvenCodes.com and Cracking The Cryptic
Cracking The Cryptic
svencodes.com
Sven Codes (@svencodes) / X
Sven Codes
Sven Codes | Creating Sudoku Tools | Patreon
Buy Sven Neumann a Coffee
Sven's SudokuPad on Steam
Sven's SudokuPad on the App Store
Sven's SudokuPad - Apps on Google Play
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Matt Visiwig stops by to chat with us about his site, SVGBackgrounds.com, a membership site for copy-and-paste website graphics built around SVG. We talk about why he built the site, how he decided to monetize it, competing with AI garbage on the web, pricing membership options, and how he's running the site.

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Guests Matt Visiwig
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Self-employed web designer, building SVGBackgrounds.com.

Links
Customize and apply backgrounds fast | SVG Backgrounds
Matt Visiwig
Matt Visiwig (@MattVisiwig) / X
Purchase the Perfect MemberPress Plan for Your Site Today | MemberPress
chroma.js api docs!
jscolor: JavaScript Color picker with Opacity (alpha channel)
ACF | Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress
Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer
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Show Description
We're chatting with Jason Grigsby about what a white-collar recession means, how the sources and methods of consuming news shape our perspectives, whether the current economic conditions represent a market correction and if a rebound is imminent. We explore the critical decision of whether to embrace AI advancements or risk being left behind. We also talk about AI-generated voices, large language models and ethics, and the impact of social media signals in an AI world.

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Guests Jason Grigsby
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Co-Founder of Cloud Four. Author of Progressive Web Apps from A Book Apart.

Links
An Event Apart - Farewell
Cloud Four – Responsive web design and development, progressive web apps
Jason Grigsby – A resurrected blog on the Indie Web
Jason Grigsby (@grigs) / X
High-Salary Job Scarcity
Code Tests
AI Ethical Framework
iPhone Personal Voice
MacWhisper
Progressive Web Apps
Decoder
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Luke Abbott is the creator of Strum Machine, an app that simulates backing tracks by stitching together individual notes, chords, and strums recorded on guitar, standup bass, and mandolin. We talk about what Strum Machine does, why he decided to build it, how bringing on a professional designer helped, pricing thoughts, and the "fun" of building a version on iOS.

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Guests Luke Abbott
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Musician and creator of Strum Machine.

Links
Strum Machine: customizable backing tracks made from real instruments
Tater Joes Old-Time Musical Mercantile
Chris Coyier on Strum Machine
iReal Pro Practice
PG Music
SoundJS Library
Tone.js
Latest Posts - Page 2
Apache Cordova
Extensive Song Catalog
howler.js
A Tale of Two Clocks
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Dave's got job news to share, as well as insight into the process of what applying for a job in tech is like in 2024. We also talk about styling, scoping, positioning, and floating UI.

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Links
Algorithms & Data Structures | Learn Algorithms with TypeScript for Interviews | Frontend Masters
Information asymmetry
Fluent 2 Design System
Font Awesome
Web Awesome
Icônes
Iconify — Search Icons
Create Floating UI
User App Tour
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Show Description
Adam Argyle stops by to chat about the conversation that's happening around CSS Grid / Masonry. What do we want? What might Apple's response to Google be? And nitpicking the spec just for fun.

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Guests Adam Argyle
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

CSS DevRel Google Chrome, CSSWG
member, host on GUIchallenges, co-host: CSSpodcast and BAD at CSSpodcast, maker of VisBug, OpenProps and GradientStyle.

Links
‎Gemini - chat to supercharge your ideas
Invent Masonry Layout
Feedback on Masonry Layout – Frontend Masters Boost
Masonry
CSS Masonry
What would you call this layout?
Web Bloat Impact
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Show Description
Chris bought recording gear off an Instagram ad, our thoughts on WebC, CodePen upgrades Yarn, thoughts on the commercial value of open source, Automattic releases an app to install WordPress locally, IBM buys Hashicorp, income tax software, and a hack for getting Safari to respect background colors used in a pseudo selector.

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Links
FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024
601: Brad Frost on A Global Design System + Frostapalooza – ShopTalk
Audigo - The pocket-size recording studio
Final Cut Pro Sync
iPhone Webcam for Mac
Acapella PicPlayPost
Eleventy Generator
Astro
Enhance
Transform Plain Text
Home page
Efficient Package Manager
Explore Coding Ideas
Code Editor Community
Node.js Documentary
Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed.
Zed is now open source
Git Branching, Refined
Design System Tracker
Local WordPress Development
Studio by WordPress.com
WordPress Security & Performance
Melanie Sumner
IBM acquires HashiCorp
TurboTax Deceptive Filing
TikTok Tax Advice
Safari Selection Rendering
Val Town
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Show Description
Matt is here to talk about creating the perfect fantasy CMS for blogging, moderating comments at Metafilter, building sane defaults into programs, how difficult the web is, do we want AI in our CMS, and where is content headed on the internet?

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Guests Matthew Haughey
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

A writer with over 25 years of experience building products. In that time I've worked as a designer, coder, company founder, and senior writer.

Links
Matt Haughey
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
MovableType.org
The story of b2, b2evolution and WordPress
Ghost: The best open source blogging platform
Micro.blog
A Whole Lotta Nothing
Notes from migrating 24 years of blog posts from WordPress to Ghost
Ideas for my dream blogging CMS
Embrace the weird
The newest episode of Search Engine is incredible
Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine - The Verge
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Dave & Chris and thoughts on career advice that worked 3 years ago but isn't as helpful now, marking tests with ChatGPT, is taking a Drupal job in 2024 a good idea, Chris got #gear sniped, P3 color follow up, the confusing File System APIs, and where did all the lightboxes go?

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chan (@chantastic) / X
The Texas Tribune
The Coming Wave Book
Drupal - Open Source CMS | Drupal.org
Electric Air Duster - 130000RPM Compressed Air Duster，3 Gear Adjustable Jet Dry Blower can Reusable Can for Computer Keyboard,Outdoors,Car,Home. : Electronics
xScope • Measure. Inspect. Test.
The Many, Confusing File System APIs – Cloud Four
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Show Description
Dave's about to be eclipsed, the state of TypeScript in 2024, signals stage zero proposal, corrections on accessibility in frameworks (thanks!), web apps for better collaborative writing, getting productivity sniped, the problem with email may be you, indieweb follow up, and ultimate guitar tab apps.

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Links
Streamlining APIs, Databases, & Microservices | Apollo GraphQL
Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps
Ember.js - A framework for ambitious web developers
Web Test Runner: Modern Web
Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer
Notion – The next gen of notes & docs
Paper
Stashpad - Your streamlined Google Docs alternative
ButterDocs | Google Docs Alternative for Serious Writers & Teams
Things - To-Do List for Mac & iOS
Godspeed
Aboard - Collect. Organize. Collaborate.
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
Analog - The original to-do system by Ugmonk
CleanShot X for Mac
IndieWebify.Me - a guide to getting you on the IndieWeb
ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
John Deere commits to letting farmers repair their own tractors (kind of) - The Verge
Sponsors Radical Are you an aspiring designer, developer, marketer, or fanny pack tester? Maybe you're a burnt-out designer struggling for fresh ideas, or perhaps you have no idea where to start with design? Do you need to find a way to make your sites less boring and more memorable? Well then, this course is for you.

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What is a home cooked app? Blake Watson is on this episode to talk all about the kinds of apps that make a good home cooked app, tips and advice he has for making them, resisting the urge to monetize or growth hack them, and a few CodePen v2 thoughts sprinkled in at the end.

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Guests Blake Watson
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Currently a member of the frontend dev team at MRI Technologies, working on projects for NASA.

Links
Watson Brothers Games
An app can be a home-cooked meal
blakewatson.com – About
blakewatson.com – MagnoliaJS 2023: The joys of home-cooked apps
MRI Technologies
blakewatson.com – Building our own private Discord knockoff
blakewatson.com – Things I miss
blakewatson.com – Use your Mac the way I do: a thought experiment
Overimagine1/old-discord-font: CSS to revert Discord's font change.
A Fine Start - minimal new tab page
Knockout : Home
Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js
The Programming Language Lua
Save 10% on Thronefall on Steam
Game Off 2023 - itch.io
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We're opening up the ShopTalk mailbag and answering your questions, including does WordPress on your resume kill your job chances, what are our fav and least fav parts of web dev, our thoughts on HTMX, and what is it like to use pnpm instead of npm.

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Links
Front End Happy Hour
Playdate
Develop for Playdate
Nuxt: The Intuitive Vue Framework · Nuxt
ThePrimeagen
Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm
Yarn
Sponsors Radical Design Are you an aspiring designer, developer, marketer, or fanny pack tester? Maybe you're a burnt-out designer struggling for fresh ideas, or perhaps you have no idea where to start with design? Do you need to find a way to make your sites less boring and more memorable? Well then, this course is for you.

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Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about Astro announcement of Astro DB. The pluses and minuses of it, and whether you have to always use the database with Astro DB. We get into how to seed your database, upgrading the database, and the almost weirdly generous pricing model.

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Guests Fred K. Schott
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Co-creator of Astro.

Links
Astro DB: A Deep Dive | Astro
Astro DB
Astro DB: A Deep Dive | Astro
tursodatabase/libsql: libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.
StackBlitz | Instant Dev Environments | Click. Code. Done.
Schema.org - Schema.org
Ben Holmes on X: "Astro built a database platform. How does it work?
Clerk
Lucia documentation
PlanetScale forever
Astro DB Just Released
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We're talking with Michelle Barker about the idea of paying to support bloggers (and podcasters!) via services like Patreon, drumming as a fun side gig from CSS, how big of an issue digital sustainability is, trying to understand the environmental impact of our websites and digital life, wondering why YouTube embeds are still so large, disabling cookies, and how to build the web in a more sustainable way.

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Guests Michelle Barker
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Senior Front End Developer at Ada Mode, where Michelle works on Windscope, web-based data visualisation and exploration software for wind farm operators.

Michelle also loves playing the drums. Their happy place is where creativity and code intersect

You can also find Michelle writing and speaking about CSS and digital sustainability on the web and around the world.

Links
Michelle Barker
Ada Mode
Windscope
CSS { In Real Life }
Michelle Barker (@michelle@front-end.social) - Front-End Social
Michelle Barker
Michelle Barker on CodePen
mbarker84 (Michelle Barker)
shoptalkshow.com - Website Carbon Calculator
paulirish/lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube embed.
Sponsors Radical Design Course Are you an aspiring designer, developer, marketer, or fanny pack tester? Maybe you're a burnt-out designer struggling for fresh ideas, or perhaps you have no idea where to start with design? Do you need to find a way to make your sites less boring and more memorable? Well then, this course is for you.

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Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, RSS in HTML, and the state of state and UI.

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Guests Jim Nielsen
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Designer. Engineer. Writer.

Links
About - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash
The Subversive Hyperlink - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Files Please - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Canada to keep pressure on Facebook to pay for news, Trudeau says
Cite Your Sources, AI - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
For the first few decades of the web, the tacit agreement wa...
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML: A Follow-Up - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Style your RSS feed
UI is a Function of Your Organization - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
UI daverupert.com
Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I Staked Out My Local Domino’s to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is
The Benevolent Deception: When Should a Doctor Lie to Patients? - The Atlantic
Sponsors Elicit Elicit’s goal is to radically increase high-quality reasoning in science and beyond. As early as 2017, they pioneered process supervision, an approach to breaking down complex work for advanced machine learning systems, so that it remains transparent and controllable. Today they use language models to help more than 200,000 researchers each month. They just raised a $9 million seed round and are looking for exceptional engineers across frontend, backend, and ML. If you're an exceptional front-end engineer looking to build the next generation of AI interfaces with a modern tech stack (Next, Tailwind, Chakra), join them!

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A follow up on jQuery conversation, Microsoft owning all the things, what VS Code plugins are your ride or die, the ability to Git from wherever you want, Tailwind drama, global design system follow up, Arc Search gets roasted, and Frontend Design Conference is back!

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Links
GitHub - tc39/proposal-type-annotations: ECMAScript proposal for type syntax that is erased - Stage 1
Chris Coyier on Embracing Technology and the Future of Web Development - Whiskey Web and Whatnot - Episode 131
Zed
Dracula Official
GitLens
Tower Git Client
GitHub Desktop
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash
Sourcetree
Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine
What is Utility-First CSS?: HeydonWorks
A Global Design System | Brad Frost
Thoughts on a Global Design System – Chris Coyier
Arc Search
Can Apple Win Back Music - Brad Frost
Carolina Chocolate Drops
TPAIN - Twitch
Front-end Design Conference - April 25-26, 2024
Sponsors Wix Wix Studio combines pure web design with maximum productivity. Taking the grind out of website creation for professional designers. Use the powerful visual editor, or work online in a VS Code-based IDE, or code locally and push changes via GitHub.

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Josh (or Jsoh) stops by to talk about his work at Deno, recent blog posts on Copilot, why Svelte is awesome and React is not, Apple and PWA, and building word games on the web.

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Guests Josh Collinsworth
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Frontend Engineer at Deno, the maker and designer of the word games Quina, and Hondo.

Links
Josh Collinsworth
Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime
Deno Deploy | Deno
Fresh - The next-gen web framework.
I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind - Josh Collinsworth blog
How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary
Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
Screen Recorder for macOS. Beautiful videos in minutes | Screen Studio
CleanShot X for Mac
stitchy - crates.io: Rust Package Registry
Raycast
Home
Squoosh
RunJS - JavaScript Playground
Quina - Menu
Hondo - a word game in 100 words or less
Home / PWABuilder
Sponsors Join Elicit as a software engineer Elicit’s goal is to radically increase high-quality reasoning in science and beyond. As early as 2017, they pioneered process supervision, an approach to breaking down complex work for advanced machine learning systems, so that it remains transparent and controllable. Today they use language models to help more than 200,000 researchers each month. They just raised a $9 million seed round and are looking for exceptional engineers across frontend, backend, and ML. If you're an exceptional front-end engineer looking to build the next generation of AI interfaces with a modern tech stack (Next, Tailwind, Chakra), join them!

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Voiceover pays us a visit, we talk about what accessibility really means, the difficulty of closing a dialogue element, web components at work, and jQuery 4 is out.

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Links
Opportunities for AI in Accessibility – A List Apart
the-pastry-box-project.net
An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues by Anne Gibson
Alphabet of Accessibility Deck
Understanding accessibility through ABCs – On the Issues
Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer
storage-form Web Component - David Darnes
CodeMirror
FitVids.JS - A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
HTML with Superpowers | HTML with Superpowers
Learn from Dave Rupert's courses | Frontend Masters
jQuery
Sponsors Miro Find simplicity in your most complex projects with Miro. Your first three Miro boards are free when you sign up today at Miro.com .

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Brad Frost has got design systems on his mind—at a global scale. What is a global design system? Are two design systems ever the same? How would this slot inside atomic design? What has been the response from the web community to global design system as an idea? And what's Frostapalooza?

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Guests Brad Frost
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, and musician located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA.

Links
A Global Design System | Brad Frost
Shadcn UI
Homer Designs a Car
This Is Big Design
Frostapalooza Concert
Brad Frost
Brad Frost (@brad_frost) • Instagram photos and videos
bradfrost (Brad Frost) · GitHub
Brad Frost on CodePen
Brad Frost
Brad Frost
brad_frost’s Music Profile | Last.fm
Sponsors Jam.dev You’ve probably heard of Jam.dev, it’s used by more than 60,000 people. It’s a free tool that saves developers a ton of frustration. It forces your teammates to make the perfect bug report. They can’t do it wrong because it automatically includes a video of the bug, console logs, network requests, everything you need to debug. It automatically lists out the steps to reproduce. It’s so easy to get your teammates to use. It’s just a Chrome extension. When they see a bug, they click a button and right away it creates a ticket. So it saves time for them.

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We've got your feedback as well as our thoughts on where we all think the web will be in 2036 - as we celebrate 12 years of ShopTalk Show history, we're looking forward to what's to come with ideas around cookie banners, undo, no more passwords, React, Deno, Node, and Mozilla's future, ChatGPT's thoughts, accessibility, blockchain, VR / AR, hoverboards, P3 color space, indie web, JS bundle sizes, and more!

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Links
12 predictions for the next 12 years to celebrate 12 years of ShopTalk
The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows | Tower Git Client
Justin Peacock: "@chriscoyier @davatron5000 sin…" - Super Rad
Future of Web 2034
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
rabbit — home
Apple Vision Pro - Apple
A Global Design System | Brad Frost
Lemon Productions Podcast Editing by Chris Enns
phamtranscriptionservices.com
Sponsors Jam.dev You’ve probably heard of Jam.dev, it’s used by more than 60,000 people. It’s a free tool that saves developers a ton of frustration. It forces your teammates to make the perfect bug report. They can’t do it wrong because it automatically includes a video of the bug, console logs, network requests, everything you need to debug. It automatically lists out the steps to reproduce. It’s so easy to get your teammates to use. It’s just a Chrome extension. When they see a bug, they click a button and right away it creates a ticket. So it saves time for them.

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Dave and Chris discuss indie web culture, the role of social media in today's society, and the challenges and strategies of freelancing. Additionally, they discuss a range of topics from content moderation, coding and refining tech skills, to emerging startups and the future of web technology.

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Links
Cracking The Cryptic
How Adam Savage COMPLETELY Overhauled His Workshop
Where have all the websites gone?
I miss RSS
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Daring Fireball
Chris Coyier – Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.
The Homepage of Dave Rupert | daverupert.com
Naz Hamid
Substack Is Not Infrastructure – Pixel Envy
Why Platformer is leaving Substack
Duolingo - The world's best way to learn a language
Shutting down Artifact. We’ve made the decision to wind down… | by Artifact Team | Artifact News | Jan, 2024 | Medium
Daring Fireball: Artifact Is Shutting Down After One Year
The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org
IndieWeb - IndieWeb
Webmention - IndieWeb
Quick thoughts on chips | daverupert.com
Quicker Thoughts on Chips - Snook.ca
Email is good. – A site about email productivity.
Lemon Productions - Podcast Editing and Production by Chris Enns
Brad Frost | Design system consultant, author of Atomic Design, web designer, and musician
Courses by Kent C. Dodds
Sponsors Jam.dev You’ve probably heard of Jam.dev, it’s used by more than 60,000 people. It’s a free tool that saves developers a ton of frustration. It forces your teammates to make the perfect bug report. They can’t do it wrong because it automatically includes a video of the bug, console logs, network requests, everything you need to debug. It automatically lists out the steps to reproduce. It’s so easy to get your teammates to use. It’s just a Chrome extension. When they see a bug, they click a button and right away it creates a ticket. So it saves time for them.

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Jen Simmons, Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & WebKit, stops by to talk about what Interop is, and a look ahead at new CSS features in Webkit and Safari such as JPEG XL, masks, a round function, JavaScript improvements, styling form controls, content unblocks, masonry, and more!

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Guests Jen Simmons
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

 Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & @webkit. Member of CSS Working Group.

Links
Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
Apple Developer
JPEG - JPEG XL
WebKit
Bugzilla Main Page
Sponsors Jam.dev You’ve probably heard of Jam.dev, it’s used by more than 60,000 people. It’s a free tool that saves developers a ton of frustration. It forces your teammates to make the perfect bug report. They can’t do it wrong because it automatically includes a video of the bug, console logs, network requests, everything you need to debug. It automatically lists out the steps to reproduce. It’s so easy to get your teammates to use. It’s just a Chrome extension. When they see a bug, they click a button and right away it creates a ticket. So it saves time for them.

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We're closing in on episode 600 and need your help to celebrate! Listen in to learn how to contribute to the episode. We're also talking GitHub desktop apps and code editors, how many VS Code plugins are needed, reading long form like Poor Charlie's Almanack, InVision shutting down, and answering our first Q of the year: how would you approach learning web development in 2024?

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Links
The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows | Tower Git Client
GitHub Desktop | Simple collaboration from your desktop
Zed - Code at the speed of thought
Tree-sitter｜Introduction
Panic - Nova
JetBrains: Essential tools for software developers and teams
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Stripe Press — Ideas for progress
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
Stripe Press — Ideas for progress
Stripe Press — The Dream Machine
Stripe Press — The Making of Prince of Persia
The Very Best Podcasts of 2023
The 25 Best Podcasts of 2023 - The Atlantic
‘Search Engine’ Podcast Brings Back the Joy of ‘Reply All’
UX design company InVision is shutting down this year
Website design software | Adobe Dreamweaver
Learn JavaScript, React, and TypeScript to Node.js, Fullstack, and Backend | Frontend Masters
Learn from Emma Bostian's courses | Frontend Masters
Trending - CodePen
Sponsors Jam.dev You’ve probably heard of Jam.dev, it’s used by more than 60,000 people. It’s a free tool that saves developers a ton of frustration. It forces your teammates to make the perfect bug report. They can’t do it wrong because it automatically includes a video of the bug, console logs, network requests, everything you need to debug. It automatically lists out the steps to reproduce. It’s so easy to get your teammates to use. It’s just a Chrome extension. When they see a bug, they click a button and right away it creates a ticket. So it saves time for them.

Show Description
Looking back at the year of AI, using Arc on macOS and now Windows, dreaming of subscriptions, and knowing how to be mad about the right thing.

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Links
Crunchyroll
Dropout
‎Wish (2023)
GitHub Copilot
Loom
Introducing Whisper
A Convo w/ Chris Coyier – Arc
Arc from The Browser Company
Codeium
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used | Ars Technica
One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MB
lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube embed.
Sponsors Miro Find simplicity in your most complex projects with Miro. Your first three Miro boards are free when you sign up today at Miro.com .

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Blood pressure, stress, and COVID highlight the MedTalk Show portion of this episode, a new "Did You Know" segment about dev tools in Chrome, 4 hour video on plagiarism and code grifters, typography, breaking out of CSS Grid, the oldest things Chris and Dave worked on, and what the testing process is like at Luro or CodePen.

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Links
Blood Pressure – Chris Coyier
QardioArm 2 - Smart Blood Pressure Monitor
CodePen PRO
Plagiarism and You(Tube)
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Welcome to Ethan Marcotte’s website
Practical SVG, A Book Apart
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies: Collins, Jim, Porras
Kevin Powell
Igalia Chats: The Struggle to Keep Up with Web Tech
Thoughts on testing
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In this episode we're discussing making tech videos, website tinkering, :has tricks, SVG path commands, and the complexities of CSS & JavaScript logic.

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Links
Streamlabs
NextDNS
GitHub Desktop
Tower Git Client
Screen Studio
ScreenFlow
Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc.
Mark Rober
I Joined 4 Coppers For Ranked... (Rainbow Six Siege)
Element Indexes – Chris Coyier
A /random Route on a WordPress Site – Chris Coyier
daverupert.com
Bookshelf | daverupert.com
Sentry
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Thoughts on smashing all communication messaging apps together, what's happened to Tumblr under Automattic, what the situation is with native web components and JavaScript, and looking at a list of types of blog posts.

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Links
Combined Messaging Apps – Chris Coyier
Adium - Download
Beeper
XMPP
Texts
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg details Tumblr's future after re-org
Matrix.org
Web Components | Learn to Create Web Components | Frontend Masters
HTML Web Components - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Uncluttered – Baldur Bjarnason
Luro | Build a design system and track component usage, adoption, and success across your entire product.
Apple Annie’s Weblog · Types of blog posts.
Email is good. – A site about email productivity.
Fastmail | We Respect Your Privacy & Put You in Control
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok | WIRED
Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow (Changelog Interviews #565) |> Changelog
Julia Evans
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Talking web components, progressive enhancement, style-able components, having to pay before you get to see a demo, being annoyed at the business of SEO, and subscriptions vs ads.

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Links
FitVids has a web component now | daverupert.com
Code Hike
Everything about SEO is obnoxious – Chris Coyier
Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google? - The Verge
Swift.org - Welcome to Swift.org
Flutter - Build apps for any screen
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Miriam Suzanne stops by to talk about CSS updates and news on container queries, rolling out cascade layers, !important things to remember, custom properties, exit animations, CSS functions, state queries, and more.

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Guests Miriam Suzanne
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Co-Founder of Oddbird, core contributor to Sass, author for Sitepoint and CSS Tricks, invited expert to the w3c CSS Working Group.

Links
mirisuzanne (Miriam Suzanne)
Miriam Suzanne on CodePen
Autoprefixer CSS online
Lightning CSS
Select an element which doesn’t descend from another in CSS | chriskirknielsen
Susy | OddBird
Posts | OddBird
Demystifying CSS Container Queries | OddBird
Demystifying CSS Container Queries
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The excitement of launching Luro, changes in social media platforms, different seasons for coding and marketing, embedded social media post weight, CSS thoughts from Web Unleashed, focus state issues, and fact checking and updating old posts on your blog.

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Links
Luro | Build a design system and track component usage, adoption, and success across your entire product.
Watch Dave's livestreams on Twitch
Pebble (social network)
Message Decoder – Chris Coyier
Message Decoder - Scans your notifications, automatically puts one-time passcodes on your clipboard
0 KB Social Media Embeds – Chris Coyier
WordPress plugin for fediverse embeds | Stefan Bohacek
Stories: Building a home for my shitty sci-fi | daverupert.com
Stories | daverupert.com
An Anchored Navbar Solution – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
I Have A New Podcast! - by Michael Hobbes
If Books Could Kill on Apple Podcasts
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A quick bit of union news follow up, CSS function round up, Read It Later inside Feedbin, fun uses for a Stream Deck+, how to turn up the money dial in your own business, and having the audacity to call yourself a publisher.

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Links
A Couple of New CSS Functions I’d Never Heard Of – Chris Coyier
[@ichrisv2 • Parenting tip: iOS17's Assistive Access mode is great for accessibility (seniors, etc.) but also ... • Threads](https://www.threads.net/@ichrisv2/post/CydyJByOPvK)
Bandcamp’s Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
xywh() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
Bramus: "To change a color based on Lig…" - Front-End Social
@ichrisv2 • Parenting tip: iOS17's Assistive Access mode is great for accessibility (seniors, etc.) but also ... • Threads
Chris Enns: "Parenting tip: iOS17’s Assisti…" - Mastodon
Read Later in Feedbin | daverupert.com
Feedbin
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane's small internet website
Convert bookmarklet to Chrome extension
Reeder 5
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader - Chrome Web Store
Stream Deck + Black Edition
The Browser is a Printing Press
Luro | Luro Posts
Luro
blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software
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Elliott Marquez talks with us about the history of Polymer and Lit, why you should pick Lit, working with web components, the shadow dom, managing state, and how Material design is built with web components.

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Guests Elliott Marquez
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Front-end software development for Google’s Lit team.

Links
webcomponents.org
Lit
esm.run by jsDelivr - A New-Age CDN for JavaScript modules
davatron5000/fit-vids: Web Component version of FitVids from the creator of FitVids
Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
Material Web
Discord
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Ethan Marcotte is here to talk about his new book, You Deserve a Tech Union, and discusses topics such as why we need unions in tech, who gets to be in the union, how unions can help deal with the AI question, union busting, and some arguments against unions.

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Guests Ethan Marcotte
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Designer, writer, and speaker. Started that “responsive web design” thing.

Links
Ethan Marcotte on LinkedIn
Ethan Marcotte on Mastodon
Welcome to Ethan Marcotte’s website — Ethan Marcotte
Responsive Web Design, A Book Apart
You Deserve a Tech Union, A Book Apart
Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike
CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees
Twitter lays off another 10% of staff, New York Times reports | CNN Business
Kickstarter United
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee? - Freakonomics
Basecamp Blowup: Banning Politics At Work Prompts Over A Dozen Employees To Quit : NPR
Bandcamp United - Home
Glitch workers sign tech’s first collective bargaining agreement - The Verge
Waiting for "Superman"
Resilient Management | A book for new managers in tech
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Manton Reece, creator of Micro.blog, stops by to talk about the history of Micro.blog, what it's written in, how it handles feeds coming in and going out, cross-posting, authentication, and the somewhat hidden features of Micro.blog: bookmarking, bookshelves, and even podcasting.

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Guests Manton Reece
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Creator of Micro.blog, co-host of Core Intuition.

Links
Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
Micro.blog
Manton Reece - About
Micro.blog - @manton
Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing by Manton Reece — Kickstarter
Indie Microblogging
Sinatra
Cross-Posting - Chris Coyier
Cross-posting to Twitter, Medium, Mastodon, and more - Cross-posting - Micro.blog Help Center
Letterboxd • Social film discovery.
Nostr, a simple protocol for decentralizing social media that has a chance of working
Welcome to Pinboard—Social bookmarking for introverts!
Micro.blog for iOS
Hugo
Bear Blog
MarsEdit 5
Core Intuition podcast
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Chris redesigned his blog, using sounds on your website to make it seem fancy, what can't automated accessibility tests test, and what's new in Safari 17.

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Links
School dropoff and sweater weather season | Instagram
Chris Coyier - Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.
Cannonball is such a badass song - Chris Coyier
Soundcite
Why not React? - DEV Community
Top Tasks - A how-to guide - Gerry McGovern
How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility – Smart Interface Design Patterns
Expanding your touch targets – Nicole Sullivan
v0.dev by Vercel
Fable | Digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities
Safari 17 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
display: contents considered harmful – Eric Bailey
More accessible markup with display: contents | hidde.blog
A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell
Smart Interface Design Patterns (9h video + live UX training) – 100 Smart Interface Design Patterns & Live Examples. 9h Video + UX Training.
How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility – Smart Interface Design Patterns
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Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about building community, open source and sponsorship, building on partnerships in the dev community, WordPress + Astro, view transitions, using Discord for support, and leaking secret Astro Studio details.

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Guests Fred K. Schott
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Co-creator of Astro.

Links
Astro
Astro Documentation
The Astro Blog | Astro
Astro on GitHub
Discord
Astro (@astrodotbuild) on Twitter
Discord | kapa.ai docs
Astro Studio

Music for fake trailer:
- How To Make A Blockbuster Movie Trailer
- Auralnauts music
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Maggie Appleton talks with us about her work at Elicit, working with large and small language models, how humans vet the responses from AI, the discussion around the Soggoth meme in AI, using Discord as UI, what to do if your boss wants AI in your app, and why does she call her blog a digital garden?

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Guests Maggie Appleton
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Design at Elicit. Makes visual essays about UX, programming, and anthropology. Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition.

Links
Maggie Appleton
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
Maggie Appleton | Dribbble
Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models
Ought
FAQ | Elicit
Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
577: Shawn Wang on AI - ShopTalk
Introducing Whisper
Photoshop (beta) on the desktop
Midjourney
Llama 2 - Meta AI
LukeW | Ask
Maggie Appleton (@Mappletons) / X
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Getting tripped up on audio at conferences, announcing the ShopTalk Show Lifetime Plan, some Once pricing #hotdrama, remembering Molly Holzschlag, web components, Luro launch day thoughts, and a question about using a normalize or sanitize in 2023 prompts a run through of Andy Bell's Modern CSS Reset.

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Links
ONCE — Introducing ONCE
Singing Carrots - The Place for Your Singing Practice
Online Form Builder with Cloud Storage Database | Wufoo
SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Free Online Survey Tool
Envato - Top digital assets and services
Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown
Tucson's Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60 | Obituary
Memories of Molly – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
Bruce Lawson's personal site : Goodbye Molly Holzschlag–a memoriam post
The History of Internet Explorer and Web Standards | HackerNoon
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.
Luro | Expand your design system to your entire product development process
A Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell
The ideal viewport doesn’t exist
The CSS Podcast
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Dave calls a quick Luro branding meeting, some thoughts on DevRel, Chris tries to figure out musical instrument mics, follow up on WordPress from a previous episode, Chris' journey through the social graph options, 100 year hosting with WordPress, and the introduction of a new segment: Happy Project Share Time.

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Links
kingkool68/wordpress-rh-starter-theme
get_template_part()
The cost of convenience — surma.dev
The State of API-Powered Publishing to Social Media Networks - Chris Coyier
XPoster – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
FS Poster
Micro.blog
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com
alfateam/rdb: Javascript ORM

Happy Project Share Time

Learn Privacy
Build UX
A11yAutomation
Continuous Accessibility
Announcing Crashlands 2 | Butterscotch Shenanigans
Stitch - Visual Studio Marketplace
bscotch/stitch: Tools and apps for GameMaker development: a CLI for pipeline development, a VSCode extension for coding, and more.
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We're talking the State of CSS Survey, 2023 Edition, with Chen Hui Jing. What was it like helping develop the survey? A bit of follow up on regions, the benefits of being able to tell the browser what you want, language issues in developing and understanding CSS, the struggle for non-majority users, CSS frameworks, and more.

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Guests Chen Hui Jing
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

A self-taught designer and developer.

Links
State of CSS
Interop 2023: continuing to improve the web for developers
Interledger Protocol (ILP): Open and Inclusive Payments
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Have you ever been an auctioneer? Sometimes when God closes a shed, he opens a sauna. Dave's working on the one day build theory, how to market with fake data, an update on the Discord, marketing with a spicy slug, what we want to see next in CSS, and thoughts on component libraries.

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Links
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
Zach Leatherman in Elk: "Looks like the cat is out of the ba..." | Elk
fks on Twitter: "There have been zero commits to the Gatsby repo in the last 24 days."
Lennart on Twitter: "I have some sad news to share: In July Netlify laid off a lot of amazing people and I was one of them. Thus I'm actively looking for my next role as a full stack engineer. Please share with your networks and reach out to me!"
Ward Peeters on Twitter: "@FredKSchott It’s dead. The whole staff is gone except one. It still works well but don’t expect major React 18 features to land"
Quick thoughts on chips | daverupert.com
Raycast
Prioritise content over components | simeonGriggs.dev
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog
GitHub - robinsloan/perfect-edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template
zeldman on Twitter: "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration."
JavaScript for Web Designers — A Book Apart
You Deserve a Tech Union, A Book Apart
Expert Idiot | daverupert.com
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Is Apple's Numbers amazing or the worst? Customer support at various levels of software, Figma and P3 color, imagining a colorspace property in CSS, what's Dave doing for productivity, how has offloading CSS Tricks affected Chris, and should we build different websites for mobile vs desktop?

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Links
Analog – Ugmonk
web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
Manage color profiles in design files – Figma Help Center
OKLCH Color Picker & Converter
Bullet journal
Things - To-Do List for Mac & iOS
Bear
WURFL.io
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Shawn Wang joins us to talk about his work in AI, why prompt engineering is not what you need to focus on, how the scope of AI is bigger than any one of us, how to deal with the consistency of AI, and how to make use of AI in your product or app.

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Guests Shawn Wang
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

I help devtools cross the chasm (devrel, advising and investing) and help developers learn in public!

Links
swyx's site
swyx.io (@swyx) / X
SWYX on YouTube
SWYX on GitHub
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — CodeGen, Agents, Computer Vision, Data Science, AI UX and all things Software 3.0 | swyx | Substack
You Are Not Too Old (To Pivot Into AI) - by swyx
LukeW | Ask
The Rise of the AI Engineer - by swyx - Latent Space
I Discovered The Perfect ChatGPT Prompt Formula
It's Time To Build AI | UX
GitHub - smol-ai/developer: the first library to let you embed a developer agent in your own app!
BendJS Website
Jasper - AI Copywriter | AI Content Generator for Teams
Amelia Wattenberger (@Wattenberger) / X
Typedream: Build your Website, Link in Bio, Forms, Blogs, and Sell Digital Products
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We're talking how we stay online - or not - on vacation, is create-guten-block the future for us WP developers? Can we get a state of the web component address from the President of web components? Have we seen the last new browser engine? And deciding whether to add features or remove them from your app.

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Links
Paul Reubens
Ask a Question - ShopTalk
If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? | daverupert.com
Moving from Stencil to LitElement
Bookshelf | daverupert.com
RespImageLint
Luro | Expand your design system to your entire product development process
Web-Environment-Integrity/explainer.md at main · RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity · GitHub
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Bluesky adds first class support for urls as a username, text-wrap pretty update, sqwunching text update, should CSS spit out errors, anchor functionality, what does the edge mean, eSports and bowling, how to test websites on slower CPUs, and what does proxy or reverse proxy mean?

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Links
Alex Super and You
Text Wrap Pretty in CSS
Open UI
Alcatel Mobile
Twilio Segment
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Estelle Weyl and Eric Meyer join us to talk about the 5th edition of their book, CSS: The Definitive Guide. We talk about some of CSS' biggest blunders, custom scroll bars, single line comments, shorthand in CSS, useless CSS trivia, and how to get started learning CSS in 2023.

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Guests Eric Meyer
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Estelle Weyl
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Links
First-Person Scrollers – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
CSS Selectors with Estelle Weyl
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition [Book]
Open Web Docs
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Chris breaks out his banjo, some thoughts on making music vs recording music, what happened to Google Reader and social reading, what black box properties can't Dave or Chris remember, follow up for dev teams communicating with designers, and what's Adobe going to do about Figma?

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Links
Garageband
Framework laptop
How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever - The Verge
Feedbin
Adactio: Jeremy Keith
NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS
Free Design, Photo, and Video Tool | Adobe Express
Free Design Tool: Presentations, Video, Social Media | Canva
Design for the web without Figma
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Dave reports back from the Figma Conference, how to build a better developer to designer bridge, do clients really want to update their website, using Stripe in 2023, permissions and sharing, and are you feeling overwhelmed by CSS in 2023?

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Links
Config 2023 | Figma’s Annual Conference
Figma
Visual Studio Code Toolkit | Figma Community
Luro | Expand your design system to your entire product development process
Storybook: Frontend workshop for UI development
Makeswift — the visual builder for Next.js
Webflow: Create a custom website | No-code website builder
How to test UIs with Storybook
GrapesJS
Stripe Checkout | Stripe Documentation
Stripe Elements: Embeddable UI components to build pixel perfect payments experiences
Appcues | Product adoption made easy
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America a book by Christopher Wylie
SkwunchText Experiment: inject spans and use :has() to count chars
Watch Out for Layout Shifts with ‘ch’ Units – Cloud Four
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Do you listen at 2x? Do Chris and Dave sound weird at normal speed IRL? How searching compares to using AI, chatbots kind of suck at context, getting a designer to work with developers at an agency, what happened to content visibility, and how to best build a design system using web components.

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Links
Airshow Podcast Player
Whiskey Web and Whatnot - A whiskey fueled fireside chat with your favorite web developers.
OpenAI
Raycast Pro
Wavelength: Group Chat, Friends & AI
Amelia Wattenberger
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer · GitHub
Framer AI — Generate and publish your site with AI in seconds.
content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
The Frontend Studio for Nuxt Developers and Teams · Nuxt Studio
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.
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We're talking Dave's new haircut, playing Hondo, what Dave uses for images on his bookshelf page, lazy-loading thoughts, vh vw follow up, eyeball tracking updates, loading website with js, Vue transitions, charging for API access, and do you cross post, one post, or no post on social media in 2023?

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Links
Dave Rupert: "I got the worst haircut of my entire life this week
Hondo - a word game in 100 words or less
Bookshelf | daverupert.com
Add sizes=auto to lazy-loaded #8008
From Milliseconds to Millions: The Numbers Driving Web Perf | Harry Roberts | performance.now() 2019
First Experiments with View Transitions for Multi-page Apps
Mimestream | A native macOS email client for Gmail
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How do you point out things in a UI? Are Arc Boosts the end of the web? What do you think of VR and AR / Vision Pro and Meta Quest? And what do you do when the sticky header goes missing?

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Links
Luro | Expand your design system to your entire product development process
WWDC23 - Apple Developer
Hiding The Complexity of Element Selection - Chris Coyier
Tango | Interactive walkthroughs, created in seconds.
Boosts: Customize Any Website | Arc Resources
Appcues | Product adoption made easy
Android Browser Navbar Sticky Header
Meta Quest 2: Immersive All-In-One VR Headset | Meta Store | Meta Store
Microsoft HoloLens | Mixed Reality Technology for Business
Welcome to Wolvic
Android Browser Navbar
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Macho Man Randy Standards stops by for a quick chat, Passkeys follow up, discussing the safety of Display: contents, the yellow fade technique, how hot CSS is right now (so hot), and a check in on how everyone's doing with Tears of the Kingdom.

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Links
display: contents considered harmful – Eric Bailey
The Yellow Fade Technique with Modern CSS using @starting-style – Bram.us
GitHub - oddbird/popover-polyfill
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What do you do if your computer dies? Chris applies to work at Luro, Dave applies at CodePen, Dave's Zod curious, TypeScript, sorting out a 10MB blog post, and how much do you miss jQuery?

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Links
Mac Studio - Apple
Zod | Documentation
Execute Program
Courses - Wes Bos
Building a modern design system in layers
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How should a podcast start? Talking View transitions, Google's Baseline, Passkeys, how to start a company, and ordering a spicy chicken combo at Wendy's.

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Links
The Homepage of Dave Rupert | daverupert.com
The Frontend Studio for Nuxt Developers and Teams · Nuxt Studio
Introducing Baseline
Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
Google Passkeys
Apple Passkeys
1Password - Password Manager for Families, Businesses, Teams
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Dave doesn't hate the hurdy-gurdy, but it's creation is an interesting parallel to software development. OKLCH follow up, @media, Edge drops new dev tools, CSS and Astro theming, JavaScript devs discover PHP, how many people block ads, and accessibility and grids.

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Links
The Homepage of Dave Rupert | daverupert.com
Get to Know Microsoft Edge
Boosts - Arc Boosts
Home - GAAD
grid - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
The Frontend Studio for Nuxt Developers and Teams · Nuxt Studio
Appcues | Product adoption made easy
The Hurdy-Gurdy software engineer | daverupert.com
5 Linkin Park riffs on hurdy gurdy
Podcast Episode 1: An Apology Regarding Aboard - Aboard
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