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Show Description Chris & Dave have been challenged to not talk about AI this episode - do they succeed? How do I optimize tracking pixels in my web app, what's the best book on CMS and authoring experiences, picking the best tooling in Rails that won't be obsolete, SPF, DNS, and D-Marc, adding dark mode to a website, and dealing with good old fashioned F.A.R.T. Listen on Website Watch on YouTu...

Show Description What to do when you have more ideas than time, getting new musical gear, nerding out and getting excited about things, the state of conferences in 2026, Cursor being bought, and Dave's got a minimum viable design system idea. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links FFConf Figma Config 2026 SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal Google Antigravity Devon: An open-source pair progr...

Show Description In praise of a solid Shure microphone (sponsor??), AI being really helpful in certain situations, TypeScript complaints about complaining, TypeScript at CodePen, should we all slow down a bit, CI jail and work trees, AT Proto and related protocols, interestForElement in HTML, and how many spoons do you have left for Clues by Sam? Listen on Website Links MV7+ - Podcast Microphone -...

Show Description How do you estimate how long a task or project is going to take? Is it easier or more difficult with AI's help? Were web components a mistake? What do we think about Cloudflare's EmDash now? And are lifetime offers a good or bad thing in the dev community? Listen on Website Links Keyframes, Cash, and CodePen w/ Shaw - Whiskey Web and Whatnot Meeting Design - For Managers, Makers,...

Show Description Dave's upgrading his office with a 3D printer, Chris is ordering 3D printed parts for his van, using mobile Starlink, Chris redesigned his website, playing puzzle games like Statedoku, Chess Peace, and Clues by Sam, how CodePen is going to support pointing domains at your app, and what Vite getting bought by Cloudflare signals. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Kagi - Recla...

Show Description Dave's changing up his camera angles, Chris has been upgrading his Sprinter van, how many hobbies is too many, what kinds of web tech was popular years ago that now seems normal, why isn't the DX around web components better, how can I structure my code to compose other custom elements, and what still can't be done on the web these days? Listen on Website Links Custom Elements Man...

Show Description We're running down what's new from Google for the web and figuring out if it's web developer Xmas or AI Doomsday this year. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Paul Irish The Dialog Element with Entry and Exit Animations 15 updates from Google I/O 2026 Google I/O 2026: What's new in Web UI Sponsors AI & Design Systems Course This course is for anyone invested in the success o...

Show Description What happens to a website when it stops? Is there a space for an internet salvage yard for websites? How do you feel about LLMs being included with your browser? And are we ever going to find out where AI got all it's data from? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Mat on Google's Prompt API Hard Fork - The New York Times 633: Thomas Steiner on AI in Chrome and the Web – ShopT...

Show Description How responsible should you be for fixing your own website for others, Dave's got a blacklog of blog posts, Chris got a camper van, debating burnout even when you love your work, a weekly AI doomer check in, and Chris has a talk for Smashing Magazine happening by the time you hear this. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Winnebago Revel | AWD Off-Grid Camper Van Naz Hamid Opu...

Show Description Brad and Ian Frost are back to chat about integrating AI into website and design system building, how to keep AI slop out of your design systems, building things humans need regardless of the tooling, and thinking of AI as a fancy linter. Listen on Website Guests Brad Frost Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Ian Frost Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Links Redesigning My Website W...

Show Description Chris Coyier and Scott Jehl discuss the recent advancements in lazy loading on the web, the process of standardization, browser support, and the future of web performance optimization. Listen on Website Guests Scott Jehl Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Tech lead of the Performance & Accessibility Team at Squarespace. Links Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer YouTube Embeds are Ba...

Show Description We've got Robby Russell, maintainer of Oh My Zsh, on the show to talk about why Chris has it installed, what makes a good Zsh plugin, Oh My Zsh plugins Robby recommends, what it's like working in Rails in 2026, dealing with project dependancies, and how Rails apps make use of frameworks? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Guests Robby Russell Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social CEO...

Show Description What is Sanity and who is it for in the age of AI, managing content with AI, how Simen Svale uses AI agents alongside Sanity, designing a MCP, design with Pencil vs Figma, how Inngest works, and how Simen keeps AI agents busy all day. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Guests Simen Svale Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Co-founder/CTO at Sanity.io Links The Content Operating Syst...

Show Description Dave's plan for when AI finally takes his job, going to the movies in 2026, Chris & Dave chat with Apple about the state of browsers, Dave has a way of setting a theme with a custom space property, and Cloudflare slopforks a CMS. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links The Greatest Average American: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes Weapons (2025) directed by Zach Cregger Dave's Cod...

Show Description Memories of Hawaii, people are not friction in the AI age, what do you pre-load for a flight, can you get rid of the CMS with AI involved, Dave's dream for a custom VS Code machine, CommonRSS follow up conversation, the hype for ATProto, and picking music apps for a family. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links People are not friction USB-C to 3.5mm Audio Cable (1.2m) - Apple (...

Show Description Listener John has a VSCode extension to share, Chris muses on why nobody has attempted to build the social side of RSS, a listener is experimenting with feature-based folder structures, how do you feel about AI traffic on your website, what can someone blog about in 2026, and Digg gets dugg by bots. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links DTF St. Louis | Official Trailer Parasite...

Show Description Are we all going to vibe code our own bespoke apps now, can a canvas app be vibe coded, more geolocation API thoughts, CodePen v2's public beta is now out, and private pens explained. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links March Mad CSS Scroll My Mac Setapp | Powerful apps for Mac & iOS Move tests to closed source repo · Issue #8082 · tldraw/tldraw Enterprising developer som...

Show Description Chris talks through going public with CodePen v2's beta, the magic words and AI skills needed today, Chris has a beef with anchor positioning, thoughts on classless CSS libraries, Eleventy growing up into Build Awesome, and how would you pass an hour by quickly? (Hopefully by listening to this podcast.) Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Magic Words Anchor Interpolated Morph...

Show Description We talk with Frederik Braun from Mozilla about the Sanitizer API, how it works with HTML tags and web components, what it does with malformed HTML, and where CSP fits in alongside the Sanitizer API. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Guests Frederik Braun Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Security engineer and manager working on the Mozilla Firefox web browser Links Frederik Braun...

Show Description We're joined by Ujjwal Sharma to talk about what the TC39 is, who's in it, and how the TC39 group guides JavaScript. Listen on Website Guests Ujjwal Sharma Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Developer Advocacy, Programming Languages & Web Standards Links Ryzokuken (Ujjwal Sharma) LinkedIn X (Twitter) Igalia TC39 Use JSDoc

Show Description Chris has opinions about being sick, implied target for popovers, should Apple provide cross platform virtual machine images for Safari testing, what tips are there for beginners to HTML and CSS, which website builder CMS's do we recommend, and a Chipotle hack for your lunch plans. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links The Missing Link for Web Components – Frontend Masters Blog...

Show Description When Dave dies, who gets his domain name? How OpenClaw is a massive security concern, tips on handling a broad design surface area with a design system, changing database values with text-transform, should you declare CSS properties with @property, and was Chris wrong about CSS? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Your Home for a Century: Our 100-Year Domains and Plans 1Passw...

Show Description We're passing over another milestone episode and answering your Q's with our A's while we do it: Dave goes 3D printing, should CSS be inside a web component, Chris is trying to build web component for popovers, why isn't Vue used or talked about more, finding bugs in blocks in the new CodePen, and we're grateful for 700 episodes. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Vue.js - T...

Show Description Web Day Out is coming up and Jeremy Keith from Clearleft (name pending the ShopTalk Show rebrand) is here to chat about it and while we've got him, Dave throws him on the hot seat to answer some hard hitting journalism questions about the state of the web in 2026. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Web Day Out in Brighton, March 12th 2026 Strategic design partners for websit...

Show Description Why are AI tools so bad at CSS layout, Robin Rendle inspired monospaced fonts, CodePen's slideVars library, why are Safari dev tools so hard to use, button follow up, and what player component does ShopTalk use for it's website? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Clair Obscur | Expedition 33 Apple One Where’s the AI design renaissance? Outlyne Bolt Lando Norris Robin Rendle...