Best Jake Archibald Podcasts (2025)

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678: AI Hype, Browser Journey, and Content Creation Incentives 54:58

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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 → Links Introducing GPT-5 - YouTube Simon Willison on ai Orion Browser by Kagi VisBug Chrome Canary Feat…

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677: Background Code Agents, Append AI, and RSS Starter Packs 1:02:02

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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 1:00:07

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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 → Links how to make a killer thumbnail (for the 2025 a…

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675: Building Hot Page with Tim Farnam 1:03:59

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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 → Guests Tim Farnam Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Creative coder based in Mexico C…

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674: Context in Console, CodePen’s New Editor, and Looking for a New Arc 1:01:39

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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 59:14

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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 51:30

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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 →…

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671: Naming Consistency, HTML Includes, and Mixins 1:05:28

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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 → Links Understanding CSS corner-shape and t…

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670: Brad and Ian Frost on Their New Design Tokens Course 1:08:26

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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 1:07:06

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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 1:05:24

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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 sw…

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667: Jen Simmons on Declarative Web Push, Form Control Styling, & More 1:07:02

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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 → 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 R…

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666: What Are the Evils of the Web Platform? 1:02:12

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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 → Links Markup from hell - HTMHell Incomplete List of Mis…

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665: JavaScript Educator and Twitch Streamer Mat Marquis 1:01:18

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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 → Guests Mat Marquis Guest's Main UR…

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664: Figma Sites, CSS Carousels, and Internship Prep 1:05:29

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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 → Links Windsurf (formerly Codeium) - The most powerful AI Code Editor Figma Sites Figma Make …

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663: HBD Dave, Silly Web Fun, Color-Mix Tips 1:00:32

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Show 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 flattene…

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662: Alternative Browsers, Discord vs Circle, and AI in the Browser 1:03:00

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Show 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…

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661: Working Vacations, Ripping Out JavaScript, and Non-US Cloud Service Options 58:56

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Links European Alternatives A la…

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660: Teaching CSS, Conferences, and Masonry Updates 58:48

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Links The Homebrewery - NaturalCrit SmashingConf in-person Conferences 2025 — Friendly, inclu…

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659: CSS Carousel Configurator Demos with Adam Argyle 1:10:29

5M ago1:10:29

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Guests Adam Argyle Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social CSS at Google. Links Chrome Canary Fea…

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658: Andy Bell on Working with Clients, Writing, and Building Courses for Web Builders 1:02:22

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Show Description 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…

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657: David Darnes on Web Components and Design Systems 1:04:51

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Guests David Darnes Gues…

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656: Onboarding Woes, Coloring Links, and AI Slop Theories 55:21

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Show Description 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). Listen on …

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655: Conspiracy Theory Theories, View Transitions vs CSS Animations, and Autocomplete 45:50

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Links SubwayTakes (@subwaytakes…

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654: UI + State, AI Missing Context But Adds Browsers, and Scalability on the Web 56:34

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Show Description 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? Listen on Website → Links Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Cre…

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653: Interop 2025, Attributes, and Black Boxes of AI 58:34

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Links interop/2025/README CSS Day 2025, 5th & 6th of…

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652: Talking to Bots, Building Browser Games, and Political LLMs 1:02:53

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Show Description 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? Listen on Website → Links PixiJS: The HTML5 Creation Engine Unreal Engine: Powerful Real-Time…

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651: Jason Lengstorf on CodeTV.dev, DevRel Panic, and Spicy Gear 56:58

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Guests Jason Lengstorf Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Jason Leng…

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650: Layout in CSS, Balatro Q&A, Chrome Biz, & Forkin VS Code 1:04:46

7M ago1:04:46

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Links Web Awesome Layout Anatomy Bala…

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649: Chrome 133, Attribute Update, and Standardized Async CSS 59:33

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Links This Aged Great! Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History HTML Pro…

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648: Speculating on Funding Open Source 53:19

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Show Description Hard hitting investigative journalism episode warning: Chris and Dave speculate on the ways a project like void(0) could make money. Listen on Website → Links Biome, toolchain of the web Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling Rollup Rolldown Jest Vitest | Next Generation testing framework Playwright Cypress VoidZero | Next Generat…

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New View Transition Stuff 49:25

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In this episode, Jake goes through some of the newer features of the View Transition API, along with some vaguer ideas that are planned for the future. Resources General view transitions docs Custom entry and exit transitions hasUAVisualTransition so you know when the UA has done its own transition view-transition-class view-transition-types Cross-…

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647: Slash Pages vs Wikis vs Posts, RSS, Living with an ADHD Diagnosis, and M4 Upgrades 53:09

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Show Description 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, Chri…

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TC39 Roundup Drama Edition Part II: JS0 and JSSugar 31:42

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In this episode, Surma talks about a presenation-maybe-soon-to-be-a-proposal "JS0", which explores the idea of splitting JavaScript into two specifications: JS0, focusing on security, performance and capabilties, implemented by engines; and JSSugar, focussing on developer productivity and syntactic sugar features implemented by build tools. Notes &…

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646: Hard Code & Soft Skills 1:11:14

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Guests Alex …

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645: Mouthblogging CSS in 2024 56:52

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Show Description 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! Listen on Website → Links CSS Wrapped 2024 Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet | Clagnut …

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TC39 Roundup Drama Edition Part I: Shared Structs 30:47

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In this episode, Surma talks about the Stage 2 proposal "JavaScript Struct", which introduces fixed-layout objects and the ability to share them between realms. Notes & Corrections from Shu: Surma was slightly wrong about why private fields were originally considered problematic for sharability. The problem occurs when a class can be evaluated mult…

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644: Mouthblogging HTML in 2025 54:28

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Links The and elements are getting an upgrade - Stephanie Stimac's Blog Request for developer fee…

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643: Social Capital, Easter Eggs in Apps, & CSS Parts 1:02:00

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Links How to Spatchcock Chicken, a Step-by-Step Guide Half…

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642: Chris Person on Forums, Reddit, and Cooperative Reporting 1:04:16

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Show Description 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. Listen on Website → Guests Chris …

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641: Passkey Usage, Writing Code with a Bot, and What’s Up With Java? 58:33

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Show Description 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? Listen on Website → Links Auth0: Se…

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More build tools: Nix 41:06

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After talking about Bazel in one of our previous episodes, we are now looking at Nix, a build system that has been getting increasing attention lately. Resources: OTMT Bazel episode Surma's video on Nix Eelco Dolstra's PhD Thesis Nix & NixOS A branch of Squoosh using Nix Nixpkgs manual Comparison of size and freshness of different package managers …

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639: DX, JSON, XML, HTML, and Databases! Oh My! 56:18

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Show Description 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? Listen on Website → Links Web Unleashed 2…

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638: Q&A About Copyright, Jekyll, Joomla, Statamic, and More! 55:03

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Show Description 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…

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637: Approachable Open Source with Brian Muenzenmeyer 52:36

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Show Description 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? Listen on Website → Guests Brian Muenzenmeyer Guest's Main URL • Guest's …

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The new stylable select element 45:29

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We're finally getting a element we can fully control with CSS! A bunch of other stuff needed to be added to the platform to make it work, and the good news is we can use it a lot of them independently of . Resources: Chrome's article on the new , and how you can provide feedback. The CSS appearance property. Nope, I still don't know what it does. T…