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642: Chris Person on Forums, Reddit, and Cooperative Reporting Nov 18, 2024

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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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Chris Person

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

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641: Passkey Usage, Writing Code with a Bot, and What’s Up With Java? Nov 11, 2024

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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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640: Navigating the Pros and Cons of Web Components Nov 04, 2024

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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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639: DX, JSON, XML, HTML, and Databases! Oh My! Oct 28, 2024

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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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638: Q&A About Copyright, Jekyll, Joomla, Statamic, and More! Oct 21, 2024

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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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637: Approachable Open Source with Brian Muenzenmeyer Oct 14, 2024

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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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Brian Muenzenmeyer

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Author of Approachable Open Source, Principal Front End Engineer.

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636: W Hot Drama Week (WordPress, WP Engine, and Web Components – Oh My!) Oct 07, 2024

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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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635: Jeff Robbins and Visibox as an Instrument for Video Sep 30, 2024

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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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Jeff Robbins

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

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634: Fabian Kägy on WordPress, Blocks, and Enterprise Dev Sep 23, 2024

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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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Fabian Kägy

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

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633: Thomas Steiner on AI in Chrome and the Web Sep 16, 2024

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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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Thomas Steiner

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

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632: Adam Coster on Game Development and Crashlands 2 Sep 09, 2024

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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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Adam Coster

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CEO & Webtech at Butterscotch Shenanigans

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631: Dave’s Second Brain Idea, Notion Thoughts, and Google’s LLM in Chrome Sep 02, 2024

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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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630: Frostapalooza Recap, Follow Up, and Messy Codebases Aug 26, 2024

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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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629: The Great Divide, Global Design + Web Components, and Job Titles Aug 19, 2024

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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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628: Tending to RSS Feeds, Code Hike’s Fine Markdown, and Cloudflare R2 Aug 12, 2024

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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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627: Getting Comfortable with the Struggle and Vibe Driven Development Aug 05, 2024

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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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626: We Were Wrong and Keep Getting in Trouble Jul 29, 2024

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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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625: CarTalk, Ownership of A Book Apart, and URL Shorteners Jul 22, 2024

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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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624: Blogging, In App Browsers are Bad, and Teaching CSS from Scratch Jul 15, 2024

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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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623: Assigning Weight Dynamically, CoPilot vs Other AI, and Monorepos Jul 08, 2024

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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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622: Website Rendering, Updating Software, and Edge Gets Faster Jul 01, 2024

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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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621: Setting Up Prettier and Linting, Comparing Colors, and Accessibility Overlays Jun 24, 2024

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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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620: Cloudflare #HotDrama, Auth, and Prototyping Thoughts Jun 17, 2024

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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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619: Svencodes Jun 10, 2024

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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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Sven Neumann

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Creator of Sven's SudokuPad.

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618: Matt Visiwig on SVGBackgrounds Jun 03, 2024

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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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Matt Visiwig

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Self-employed web designer, building SVGBackgrounds.com.

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617: Economic & AI Vibes with Jason Grigsby May 27, 2024

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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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Jason Grigsby

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

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616: Strum Machine with Luke Abbott May 20, 2024

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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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Luke Abbott

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Musician and creator of Strum Machine.

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615: Dave Goes Windows For Real May 13, 2024

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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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614: CSS Grid Level 3 aka Masonry with Adam Argyle May 06, 2024

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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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Adam Argyle

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

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613: Recording Live Music, WebC, Open Source, & WordPress Studio Apr 29, 2024

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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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612: Matt Haughey on a Fantasy Blogging CMS Setup Apr 22, 2024

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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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Matthew Haughey

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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.

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611: React! TypeScript! Jobification! Drupal! Apr 15, 2024

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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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610: TypeScript in 2024, Signals, Productivity Sniped, and Follow Up Apr 08, 2024

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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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609: Blake Watson on Home Cooked Apps Apr 01, 2024

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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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Blake Watson

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

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608: Can WordPress Kill Your Resume, Fav Parts of Web Dev, Exploring HTMX, and more! Mar 25, 2024

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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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607: Astro Launches an Integrated Database Mar 18, 2024

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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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Fred K. Schott

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Co-creator of Astro.

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606: Web Sustainability with Michelle Barker Mar 11, 2024

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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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Michelle Barker

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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.

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605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers Mar 04, 2024

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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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Jim Nielsen

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Designer. Engineer. Writer.

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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!

604: VS Code Plugins, Git as a Radical Statement, Tailwind & Arc Drama Feb 26, 2024

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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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603: Deno, React Alternatives, and Copilot Concerns with Triple Threat Josh Collinsworth Feb 19, 2024

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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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Josh Collinsworth

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

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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!

602: What Does Accessibility Really Mean? Feb 12, 2024

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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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601: Brad Frost on A Global Design System + Frostapalooza Feb 05, 2024

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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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Brad Frost

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

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Jam.dev

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600: Where Will The Web Be 12 Years from Now? Jan 29, 2024

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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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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.

599: Fighting the Algorithm With RSS, Blogging, and the IndieWeb Jan 22, 2024

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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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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.

598: Jen Simmons on Interop, WebKit Releases, and New CSS Features in Safari Jan 15, 2024

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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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Jen Simmons

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

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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.

597: How Many VS Code Plugins, Poor Charlie’s Almanack, and Where to Start in 2024? Jan 08, 2024

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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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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.

596: The Year of AI, Arc, and Being Mad About the Right Thing Dec 18, 2023

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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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595: MedTalk Show, Plagiarism and Code Grifting, and How We’re Testing Code Dec 11, 2023

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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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594: Wiping Your Laptop, UX of Password Codes, and :Has Tips and Tricks Dec 04, 2023

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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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593: Beep & Texts, Tumblr, JavaScript & Web Components, & Cool Blog Post Ideas Nov 27, 2023

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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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592: Web Component Therapy, SEO Therapy, and Learning Something New like Swift Nov 20, 2023

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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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591: Cascade Layers, CSS Functions, and more CSS with Miriam Suzanne Nov 13, 2023

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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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Miriam Suzanne

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

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Miro

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590: Twisting Through Websites Nov 06, 2023

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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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589: CSS Functions, Read It Later, Making Money in Business, and More Oct 30, 2023

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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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588: Elliott Marquez on Web Components and Lit Oct 23, 2023

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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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Elliott Marquez

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

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587: Why Ethan Marcotte Thinks Tech Workers Deserve a Union Oct 16, 2023

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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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Ethan Marcotte

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

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586: Micro.blogging with Manton Reece Oct 09, 2023

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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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Manton Reece

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

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585: Blog Redesign, Sounds on a Website, Accessibility Tests, and Safari 17 Oct 02, 2023

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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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584: Community, Partnerships, Images, and Astro with Fred K. Schott Sep 25, 2023

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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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Fred K. Schott

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Co-creator of Astro.

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583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton Sep 18, 2023

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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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Maggie Appleton

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

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582: Lifetime Plan, Pricing #HotDrama, and CSS Resets Sep 11, 2023

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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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581: DevRel, Musical Mics, Social Sharing, and 100 Years of WordPress Sep 04, 2023

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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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580: Chen Hui Jing and the State of CSS Survey for 2023 Aug 28, 2023

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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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Chen Hui Jing

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A self-taught designer and developer.

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579: One Day Builds, Spicy Slugs, and What Next for CSS? Aug 21, 2023

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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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578: Customer Support, P3 Color, Dave on Productivity, and Mobile vs Desktop Aug 14, 2023

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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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577: Shawn Wang on AI Aug 07, 2023

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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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Shawn Wang

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

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576: Blocks, Components, Linting Images, Engines, and “Web Integrity” Aug 01, 2023

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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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575: CSS Errors, Proxy and Reverse Proxy, and What’s The Edge? Jul 24, 2023

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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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574: Estelle & Eric on CSS The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition Jul 17, 2023

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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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573: Google Reader, Sticky and Overflow, and Figma Thoughts Jul 10, 2023

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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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572: Text Sqwunch Property, Figma Developer Mode, Stripe Elements Jul 03, 2023

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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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571: Searching vs AI, Getting Designers to Play Nice, and Web Components Jun 26, 2023

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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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570: Haircut Maintenance, Dave’s Bookshelf, Lazy Loading, and APIs Jun 19, 2023

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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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569: Apple’s Web Apps, Meta Quest and Vision Pro, and Missing Sticky Headers Jun 12, 2023

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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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568: Display Contents, Passkeys Follow Up, Yellow Fade Technique, and TOTK Talk Jun 05, 2023

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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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567: Full Stack Dev, Load Bearing Developer, and Being Zod Curious May 29, 2023

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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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566: View Transitions and Passkeys May 22, 2023

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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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565: The Hurdy-Gurdy, OKLCH, Edge Dev Tools, and Ad Blocking May 15, 2023

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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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564: Render ATL, New Colors Available, Gradients, HDR, and More May 08, 2023

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Chris previews a bit of his Render ATL 2023 talk, and then we mouth blog some color ideas, thoughts, and shame you for your non-HD websites.

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Davina George

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Get in loser we're going to make fun of people for having standard def websites.

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563: Getting Pulled by the Algorithm, AI Training Data, and SVG Drawing May 01, 2023

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There's a special guest on the show who takes aim at the billionaires in web dev, do we know better than the algorithm for news, why is AI training data such a secret, Chris and Dave discover JetBrains, monorepo struggles, and SVG drawing tools.

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Bernie Standards

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Trying to get billionaires out of the JavaScript ecosystem.

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562: Podcast Apps, Zaraz, Future CSS Thoughts, and Arc Apr 24, 2023

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What if Taylor Swift lyrics hold the answers to web dev questions? Podcast app thoughts, using Cloudflare Zaraz, what we're excited about with CSS, Arc browser updates, and are we even developers or are we specialized systems whisperers?

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Tswifinator

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Sent from the future to de-monetize the podcast by combining two very famous and litigious IPs.

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561: Web Perf News, Web Sommelier, Data Analytics, and Passkeys Apr 17, 2023

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Topics for this one include how do you learn about web performance news? Do you need a web components sommelier? Our thoughts on Syntax going to Sentry, and being able to focus on the things you want to focus on. Passkeys, Arc split screen, and vibe driven development.

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560: Oh Biscuits! Cascade Layers, Block Links, Emoji Lists, and more CSS! Apr 10, 2023

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After a brief visit from Hip Hop Dad Dave, we're talking cascade layers updates, block link practices, search element getting dropped, how to use cite, emoji list accessibility, scrollbar state, and trigonometric functions in CSS.

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Hip Hop Dad Dave

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559: Fidget Apps, Coding with AI, Dialog Element Navs, Getting Rid of CSS Apr 03, 2023

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Is there still any value in specializing in front-of-the-frontend dev? Would you ever use the dialog element for a mobile navigation? Why did CodePen decide to use Go for its GraphQL server?

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558: Esoteric Weird Content Editable Problems with Kristin Valentine Mar 27, 2023

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Kristin Valentine from Vox joins the show to talk about text editor CMS fun across multiple sites, Vox's Chorus, The Verge redesign, sharing Design Systems, theming articles, and a fun new game called "Can Your Text Editor Do This??"

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Kristin Valentine

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Engineer at Vox Media Product.

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557: ChatGPT, Conferences, Fidgets on the Web, and Modern CSS in Real Life Mar 20, 2023

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When will AI be able to tell you the risk / reward of cleaning up trees? Are conferences back? Bringing fidgets to the web, internet as an anxiety machine, and Chris is working on talk on modern CSS in real life.

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556: Andrey Sitnik and Using OKLCH for Color Mar 13, 2023

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Andrey Sitnik from Evil Martians talks with us about why OKCLH is the best way forward for color on the web, how to incorporate it into design systems, getting your designers to use OKCLH, and what kind of fallback support is needed.

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Andrey Sitnik

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Author of PostCSS , Autoprefixer , and Logux_io

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555: React Documentary, Front of the Front End, Fast Fallacy, and Best Practices Mar 06, 2023

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Reacting to the React.js documentary, is there still jobs for front of the front end anymore? The fast fallacy in frameworks, best practices, dealing with too much or too little isolation, and AI test generation.

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554: Jamstack Thoughts with Brian Rinaldi Feb 27, 2023

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Brian Rinaldi joins us to talk about the state of Jamstack in 2023, acronym confusion, SPA confusion, developing common tools of understanding, why Netlify bought Gatsby, and the state of developer conferences.

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Brian Rinaldi

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Brian Rinaldi is a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly with over 20 years experience as a developer for the web. Brian is actively involved in the community running developer meetups via CFE.dev and Orlando Devs. He’s the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and co-author of The Jamstack Book from Manning.

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553: TypeScript, DX, GripeScript, and Astro v2 with Fred Schott Feb 20, 2023

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Fred Schott stops by to talk about TypeScript, what DX means in 2023, a bit of GripeScript, and being transparent about what Astro is good at, and what it's not.

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Fred Schott

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Astro co-creator.

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552: Do You Want to Build a JS Framework? ☃️ CSS Wishlist for 2023 Feb 13, 2023

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Austin power updates, what do you need if you want to build a new JavaScript framework, and what do we hope CSS brings in 2023?

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551: PlanetScale with Iheanyi Ekechukwu and Mike Coutermarsh Feb 06, 2023

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu and Mike Coutermarsh talk about PlanetScale, what Vitess is, if PlanetScale is for both side and big projects, what read only regions are, what schema changes are, and how PlanetScale compares to other projects.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu is a Houston-based software engineer and angel investor, working at PlanetScale.

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Mike is a software engineer living in Pennsylvania working at PlanetScale.

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550: Sanity with Simen Svale Skogsrud and Espen Hovlandsdal Jan 30, 2023

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Simen and Espen from Sanity stop by to talk about the origins of Sanity, how Sanity Studio works, good use cases for Sanity, how Sanity does real time updates, what Groq is, and where to start with Sanity.

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Simen Svale Skogsrud

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CTO and founder at Sanity.io

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Open-sourceror at Sanity.io.

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549: Ben Ubois of Feedbin Jan 23, 2023

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Ben Ubois is the founder of Feedbin, the RSS reader of choice for Dave and Chris. What influenced the creation of Feedbin, the state of RSS in 2023, curating your RSS feed, and subscribing to newsletters in Feedbin.

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Ben Ubois

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Founder and developer of Feedbin.

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548: Infinite Canvas, Luro + Figma, and Scraping or Crawling Jan 16, 2023

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What's going to happen to homework with AI? Thoughts on infinite canvas which leads into Luro and Sigma integration, and Chris gets nerdsniped and tries to scrap (or should he crawl?) websites for data.

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547: WordPress and GraphQL with Jason Bahl Jan 09, 2023

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Jason Bahl joins the show to talk about the GraphQL and WordPress connection, his work on WP GraphQL plugin, Faust and Atlas from WP Engine, Jamstack and WordPress, and more.

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Jason Bahl

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Principal Software Engineer at WP Engine

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546: Ryan Dahl and Deno Dec 19, 2022

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Ryan Dahl stops by to talk about Node, Deno, JavaScript, testing, V8, and thoughts around getting started with Deno.

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Ryan Dahl

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Ryan Dahl is best known for creating the Node.js JavaScript runtime as well as the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime.

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545: Arc Browser with Nate Parrott Dec 12, 2022

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Nate Parrott from The Browser Company of New York stops by to talk about Arc - including the history of Arc, how boosts work, building out dev features, how they deciding on what features to build, and feedback from Dave and Chris on Arc.

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544: Feedback, RSS Talk, Arc Brower, and Product Talk Dec 05, 2022

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Getting feedback for what you're building or writing, RSS feed reminiscing, Arc browser thoughts, products that didn't make that should have.

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543: Zach Leatherman on Eleventy, Mastodon, Twitter, and is-land Nov 29, 2022

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Zach Leatherman talks with us about what's new with Eleventy, setting up on Mastodon, what's happened with Twitter, and is-land.

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