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688: Modern CSS Round-Out Tabs, OpenUI, and Why Websites?
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Show Description Dave and Chris discuss the transition of QuietUI's license to open source, the creative process behind blogging, modern CSS techniques, and the features of QuietUI, a new design system with unique components. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links CodePen 50 Reasons to Build a Website – Frontend Masters Blog "Why would anybody st…
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687: Ben Frain on Responsive Design
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Show Description Ben's got an updated edition of his book, Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, to chat about as well as how much AI is being inserted into writing, layers, scope, color contrast vs contrast color, shouldn't AI bots pay for data they slurp, iFrames permissions issues in Chrome, anchor positioning, and where have all the blogger…
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686: Todd Libby on Deceptive Patterns
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Show Description Todd Libby is on the show to talk with us about deceptive patterns on the web, what WCAG is and who it's for, and 5 deceptive patterns in use on the web today. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Guests Todd Libby Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Web developer and developer advocate from Portland, Maine now living in Phoenix, Arizo…
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685: Fix My Home Tech, What’s Up with Firefox, and the MVP Car
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Show Description Who's the person to hire when your home network isn't working as reliably as it should? And while we're at it - can you also fix Dave's Find My notifications? What's the plan with Firefox in 2025? And Dave blogs (and mouth blogs) about his struggles with the MVP car. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Why I hate the MVP car -…
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684: What Motivates Chris to Keep Working on CodePen?
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Show Description Listener questions about CSS ruby-position, crafting adaptive layouts using a responsive component, what keeps Chris motivated to work on CodePen, why are there no positive issues on GitHub., tech support in the age of AI, and a semi-regular segment of inbox therapy. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Crafting adaptive layout…
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683: iOS 26 Safari, Material Support on the Web, and Fixing The Button Problem
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Show Description Dave and Chris discuss the release of Safari in iOS26, the aesthetics of Liquid Glass in CSS, the importance of material design, and the role of TypeScript in modern web development. The conversation also touches on when to consider rebuilding a tech stack, the significance of user experience, and how to know when to choose a new t…
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682: Whiskey, Security, Antitrust, and Fun with CSS Functions
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Show Description Dave's got a Whiskey related content warning, recent security vulnerabilities in NPM, challenges with password management, and the complexities of digital security. They delve into Google's antitrust issues and the dynamics of the browser market, before transitioning to innovations in CSS, including custom properties and functions.…
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681: CSS Reset Update, Arc Gets Bought, and Why Websites?
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Show Description Chris is updating us on the progress of his CSS reset, thoughts on The Browser Company and Arc being bought by Atlassian, and in 2025 why would anyone build a website? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Bend Old-Time Jams and Events Join or Die Join or Die on Netflix Bowling Alone - Wikipedia Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the …
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680: CSS random(), IDs in HTML, and Chris Goes Browser Shopping
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Show Description A quick update on Dave's hair, CSS random(), view transitions in CSS, thinking about IDs in HTML, opening details elements in a new tab, Chris tries out Edge, Shift, Zen and more, how Dave is trying to kick his YouTube tab habit, and government design fails. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Monchhichi - Wikipedia Rolling th…
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679: Two Idiots Argue With Kevin Powell About CSS
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Show Description Kevin Powell is on the show with breaking news about display masonry, how his career on YouTube started and where it's at now, selling courses and diversifying the content you create, struggling with being on all the platforms, and writing vs video in the age of AI. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Guests Kevin Powell Guest's Mai…
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678: AI Hype, Browser Journey, and Content Creation Incentives
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Show Description Identifying where we are in the AI hype cycle, a quick #davegoeshairy update, what has been the impact of AI on tech creators, Chris is making his own CSS starter on stream, and Item flow / masonry discussions. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Introducing GPT-5 - YouTube Simon Willison on ai Orion Browser by Kagi VisBug Chr…
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677: Background Code Agents, Append AI, and RSS Starter Packs
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Show Description What helps you remember a person's name, thinking about background coding agents, is AI for append only mode, what are MCPs and how should I think about them, what has been working for more than a month not just the last two days, and coming up with an RSS starter pack riffing off Molly White's article on using RSS. Listen on Websi…
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676: The $200 Upgrade, CSS Module Scripts, and Social Media Ethos
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Show Description It's time for a ShopTalk GearTalk segment on video and audio upgrades, a chat about better YouTube thumbnails, buying the $200 Yamaha guitar (or equivalent in other areas of life), Chris and Dave riff on CSS modules, and what's your social media ethos in 2025? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links how to make a killer thumbnail …
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675: Building Hot Page with Tim Farnam
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Show Description Tim Farnam stops by to talk with Chris and Dave about his new project, Hot Page, and why and how he started building it after working in print and web news. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME) Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Guests Tim Farnam Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Creative coder ba…
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674: Context in Console, CodePen’s New Editor, and Looking for a New Arc
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Show Description Dave's coming in hot from vacation, how CodePen's new editor imports packages, should CodePen fix your code if you forgot something, the struggle to get the right context in the console, Chris is still shopping for an Arc replacement, and the struggles with inspiration driven engineering. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Co…
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673: Live-streaming Demos, CSS Animation Composition, and Anchor Position
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Show Description Chris and Dave chat about whether you should wing it or script your videos, unplanned demos versus the safety net of edited videos, streaming software with Ecamm Live vs OBS vs Streamlabs, new CSS animation composition, and anchor positioning thoughts. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME) Listen o…
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672: Design Tokens, Web Compents, and Web Monetization
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Show Description We're all addicted to Clues by Sam and wonder about the data structure for the site, good thoughts on the design tokens community, shadow DOM, the state of web components in mid-2025, dealing with JSON, and new ideas around web monetization. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME) Listen on Website W…
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671: Naming Consistency, HTML Includes, and Mixins
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Show Description Chris reflects on CSS Day in Amsterdam, allowing languages to grow with nonstandard elements, naming things continues to be hard, shapes are going to get weird on the web, HTML includes get stirred up, thoughts on CSS mixins, and Dave's blogging about resizing text fun. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Understanding CSS cor…
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670: Brad and Ian Frost on Their New Design Tokens Course
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Show Description Brad and Ian stop by to chat about their new course, The Complete Guide to Design Tokens, what happens if you don't use design tokens on projects, what the ideal outcome is for building and designing with design tokens, how many colors is enough, what about refactoring, and does Figma or code win the argument? (Brad and Ian did giv…
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669: Peter Pistorius on Developing RedwoodSDK
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Show Description We're chatting with Peter Pistorius about the change they made from RedwoodJS to RedwoodSDK, how it's going to handle routing, some new marketing ideas for RedwoodSDK, how RedwoodSDK's principles are informed by where Peter's from, choosing to go all in on Cloudflare, how the community has responded, and plans for monetization. Lis…
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668: Jake Archibald on Native HTML Includes
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Show Description Jake Archibald joins us to discuss HTML includes, potential solutions, and the implications of introducing such a feature. We talk about security concerns, performance implications, and community feedback regarding HTML imports. Listen on Website Guests Jake Archibald Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Engineer at Shopify. Once swam…
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667: Jen Simmons on Declarative Web Push, Form Control Styling, & More
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Show Description Jen Simmons stops by to talk about new CSS and Safari features like Form Control Styling, Declarative Web Push, Typography, contrast-color(), and more. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Guests Jen Simmons Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Safari & WebKit Evangelist. Member of the CSS Working Group. Webmaster since 1996. Links webk…
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666: What Are the Evils of the Web Platform?
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Show Description How it all comes back to the why column, dark patterns, privacy and tracking, getting emails forever from one purchase, how to be bold with communication while still being respectful, HTMHell, CSS mistakes, are we anti-JSON, and the state of FitVid in 2025. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Markup from hell - HTMHell Incompl…
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665: JavaScript Educator and Twitch Streamer Mat Marquis
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Show Description Fresh off his Megaman Streamathon, Mat Marquis joins us to talk about becoming a professional Twitch streamer, creating a JavaScript course, his thoughts on the design and content of said course, a brief moment on Linux in 2025, and attempts to make the web weird and fun again. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Guests Mat Marquis …
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664: Figma Sites, CSS Carousels, and Internship Prep
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Show Description 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? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Windsurf (formerly Codeium) - The most powerful AI Code Editor Figma Si…
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