A podcast about developer tools and the people who make them. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore modern developer tooling and interview the people who make it possible. We love talking to the creators front-end frameworks (React, Solid, Svelte, Vue, Angular, etc), JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun), Languages (Unison, Elixor, Rust, Zig), web tech (WASM, Web Containers, WebGPU, WebGL), database providers (Turso, Planetscale, Supabase, EdgeDB), and platforms (SST, A ...
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A podcast about web design and development.
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Adam Argyle - nerdy.dev - Modern CSS
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1:05:27This week we have Adam Argyle on the show. Adam is a designer and developer who is known for his work on VisBug and other design tools. He's also a member of the CSS Working Group and has worked on the dev tools for Chrome. If you haven't seen Adam's work that utilizes all the latest and greatest CSS features, you're missing out. Come listen to our…
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Zoltan Kochan - PNPM and the Future of Package Management
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45:19This week we talk to Zoltan Kochan, the lead maintainer of PNPM, a package manager for JavaScript. PNPM revolutionized the way we install dependencies in the JavaScript ecosystem with it's speed and focus on DX. Come join us as we talk about the origins of PNPM, the technical details of how it works, and the future of package management. https://gi…
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682: Whiskey, Security, Antitrust, and Fun with CSS Functions
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57:05Show 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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1:07:22Show 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 Links Bend Old-Time Jams and Events Join or Die Join or Die on Netflix Bowling Alone - Wikipedia Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the Birth of the Agen…
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This week we talk to Oleg Isonen and Bogdan Chadkin, the people behind Webstudio. Webstudio is an open source visual builder for the web, aiming to right the wrongs of the current visual builder landscape for a more collaborative and accessible experience. https://webstudio.is/ https://github.com/kof https://bento.me/oleg008 https://x.com/oleg008 h…
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This week we talk to Francois Best, the creator of Nuqs, a library for managing URL state in React. We talk about the origins of Nuqs, the challenges of managing URL state, and the future of the library. https://francoisbest.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/francoisbest.com
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680: CSS random(), IDs in HTML, and Chris Goes Browser Shopping
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48:08Show 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 Links Monchhichi - Wikipedia Rolling the Dice with CSS r…
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679: Two Idiots Argue With Kevin Powell About CSS
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54:45Show 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 Guests Kevin Powell Guest's Main URL • Guest's S…
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678: AI Hype, Browser Journey, and Content Creation Incentives
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54:58Show 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 Links Introducing GPT-5 - YouTube Simon Willison on ai Orion Browser by Kagi VisBug Chrome Canary Featur…
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677: Background Code Agents, Append AI, and RSS Starter Packs
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1:02:02Show 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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This week we talk to Bereket Engida (Beka) the creator of better-auth. Better-auth is an extensible, open source authentication library that's taking the JavaScript community by storm.- https://www.beka.et/- https://better-auth.comBecome a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts to help support the podcast. https://www.patreon.com/d…
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676: The $200 Upgrade, CSS Module Scripts, and Social Media Ethos
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1:00:07Show 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 Links how to make a killer thumbnail (for the 2025 alg…
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675: Building Hot Page with Tim Farnam
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1:03:59Show 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 Guests Tim Farnam Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Creative coder based in Mexico Cit…
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Maxwell Brown - Effect.ts and Effectful Technologies
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55:49This week we're joined by Maxwell Brown, a co-founder of Effectful Technologies, the company behind Effect.ts, a library for building robust, production-grade applications with TypeScript. Effect.ts is a library that bends Typescript in many ways, like putting Errors and Dependencies into the type system. Join as as we see what they've been up to a…
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674: Context in Console, CodePen’s New Editor, and Looking for a New Arc
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1:01:39Show 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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59:14Show 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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51:30Show 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 L…
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Brendan O'Brien - n0, Iroh and the Future of Peer to Peer
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1:06:19This week we're joined by Brendan O'Brien (b5), founder and CEO of n0, the company behind Iroh - a peer-to-peer networking library that prioritizes reliability and "just works." Iroh enables developers to establish direct, authenticated connections between any two devices using only their public keys, achieving near 100% connection success rates. W…
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671: Naming Consistency, HTML Includes, and Mixins
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1:05:28Show 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 Links Understanding CSS corner-shape and the…
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670: Brad and Ian Frost on Their New Design Tokens Course
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1:08:26Show 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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This week we talk to Maxim Fateev, a co-founder of Temporal. Temporal started as a tool for Uber but quickly grew into a tool that makes distributed code exectution a breeze. Come hear what one of the poineers of Durable Exectution has to say! https://temporal.io Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com) Become a paid subscriber our patreon,…
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669: Peter Pistorius on Developing RedwoodSDK
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1:07:06Show 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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This week we talk to Dylan Piercey, a core team member of Ebay's Marko team. Marko heralded many next gen frontend framework features that litter the landscape today, including streaming, islands architecture, and more. Marko v6 is a major release that brings many new features to the table, including a new language features, and a new compiler. htt…
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668: Jake Archibald on Native HTML Includes
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1:05:24Show 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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1:07:02Show 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 Guests Jen Simmons Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Safari & WebKit Evangelist. Member of the CSS Working Group. Webmaster since 1996. Links webkit.org Safari Rel…
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This week we talk to Peter Pistorius, the man currently at the helm of Redwood. Redwood has undergone a lot of changes since it was first announced, pivoting to a serverless framework that leans into React Server Components. Peter has a grand vision for Redwood and the advent of personal software, and we're excited to hear about it. https://rwsdk.c…
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666: What Are the Evils of the Web Platform?
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1:02:12Show 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 Links Markup from hell - HTMHell Incomplete List of Mista…
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This week we talk to Greg Sadetsky and Antoine Leclair, the creators of Disco. Disco make running you own infra a piece of cake. https://disco.cloud/ https://docs.letsdisco.dev/ https://github.com/letsdiscodev/ https://github.com/gregsadetsky https://github.com/antoineleclair Episode sponsored By WorkOS (https://workos.com). Become a paid subscribe…
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665: JavaScript Educator and Twitch Streamer Mat Marquis
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1:01:18Show 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 Guests Mat Marquis Guest's Main URL …
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This week we're joined by Stepan Parunashvili, co-creator of InstantDB, a new database that's designed to make it easier to build local-first apps. Instant is a replacement for Firebase, and it's designed to be a more modern, more flexible, and more powerful database for the modern web. Join us as we dive into the details of InstantDB, the challeng…
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664: Figma Sites, CSS Carousels, and Internship Prep
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1:05:29Show 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 Links Windsurf (formerly Codeium) - The most powerful AI Code Editor Figma Sites Figma Make Fi…
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In this episode, we talk with James Garbutt about e18e, a community-driven initiative focused on improving the performance of JavaScript packages across the ecosystem.We discuss: • The goals and vision behind e18e • What’s slowing down the JS ecosystem • Why performance work is often invisible—and how to fix that • The importance of community coord…
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663: HBD Dave, Silly Web Fun, Color-Mix Tips
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1:00:32Show Description 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. Listen on Website Links The Adventure Zone | Maximum Fun Don't let your voice be flattened …
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Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh and the Future of Decentralized Coding
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55:12This week we're joined by Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh. Tangle.sh is a social coding platform built on the AT Protocol. We discuss the future of decentralized coding, the challenges of building a new platform, and how developers can leverage Tangled.sh's tools. https://anirudh.fi/ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wshs7t2adsemcrrd4snkeqli http…
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662: Alternative Browsers, Discord vs Circle, and AI in the Browser
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1:03:00Show Description 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. Listen on Website Links Newfangled Browser Alternatives – Frontend Masters Blog Zen Browser Horse Browser V…
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Eli Mallon - Streamplace and the future of decentralized video streaming
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53:47This week we're joined by Eli Mallon, founder of Streamplace, a decentralized video streaming platform. In this episode we discuss the future of decentralized video streaming, the challenges of building a new platform, and how developers can leverage Streamplace's tools. We also go into Atproto, the decentralized social media network that stream pl…
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