ShopTalk Show

We're officially on Patreon now and we'd love to have you come join us in the ShopTalk Show Discord and help shape the future of the ShopTalk community. We also talk about Dave's office situation, Notion competition, Elastic Search, how should someone specialize to get a job, and breaking news on the pop up element.

More on Javascript in 2201, looking at Jay Hoffman's writing workflow, helping pick a CMS for fun blogging, helping pick a web host and the happiest path involved, and just what the heck are workers on the web?

This week we talk with the maintainers of Snowpack and WMR, two newish flavors bundlers, to discuss how ES Modules change the game for modern JavaScript development.

We answer your questions about using a headless WordPress set up, changing WordPress themes and what happens to custom post types, those share buttons on websites, and talk about the 3 recent fav articles that came across our RSS readers.

Dave and Chris talk about recent pandemic purchases, publishing video on the web, more sharing of convoluted processes, some menu bar app ideas, reinvigorating HTML, and writing good git commit messages.

First episode of 2021! Dave's 11ty conversion continues, CSS Tricks gets a redesign, art directed blog posts, injecting styles into front matter, building stuff on holidays, and whether you should use open source from organizations that are sketchy?

Dave's ongoing Mac adventures, cleaning up old WordPress plugins, sharing a WordPress support tech, a Puppeteer update, and the sliding scale of giving an F in projects. Oh and we review a bit of 2020 and look forward to 2021. Thanks for listening!

What's the state of the art technique when it comes to asset bundling in WordPress? Should we use grid for every component? How should we test ecommerce site builds? And Dave goes back to the Mac!

Chris wants to upgrade his monitor situation, and Dave wants to update his shed situation. And along the way, they answer a listener question about how to care more about the blogging.

Follow up on Chris' desk adventures, trying to work out Auth and OAuth with Nuxt, fixing a fixed header issue, more on Apple's M1 processor, and a blog post reading of the Truths about Digital Accessibility.

Let's talk Serverless - including using WordPress Serverless, how to solve a problem like local databases, and edge functions with Netlify and beyond.

Chris talks about his desk and cable organization in his new office, Dave talks about his new custom keyboard, and then they go for a deep dive into container queries.

Chris & Dave talking SEO, advice for pushing scripts to the end of a page, digital minimalism, LinkedIn Recruiters, ARM based Mac computers, and web monetization.

A bit of WordPress vs Jamstack fall out, iPad SVG drawing followup before diving into your questions: Can you use PHP to serve CSS? What's the ideal pipeline from request to deploy? And are there good options for self hosting video?

This episode is about evolving the web platform - the change process of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is a complicated and sometimes slow process that involves developers like us, standards bodies, browser vendors, and people like our guest, Greg Whitworth, who can act as outside influencers and shepherds to this process.

Chris is nostalgic for Magic the Gathering, Dave's wishing he hadn't added drawings to his blog, they're both mouthblogging about image compression and AVIF, and Jeremey Keith is back with chapter 4: The Website.

Natalya Shelburne is out guest to talk about her work at the New York Times, the importance of job titles, design engineering, design systems, and 2020 hot takes and soapboxes: childcare in the pandemic, education, and conferences.

The spookiest month of the year brings discussions of handling pull requests on open source projects, wayfinding on the responsive web, how would having to pay for frameworks change the web, relying on social media for promotion, and chapter 2 of the history of the web as read by Jeremy Keith.

Shawn Wang, known as Swyx, talks with Dave and Chris about his career path from finance to coding, and now in developer experience. They chat about serverless functions, React, getting a broad sense of technology, Wang's Coding Career Handbook, what's next for SSR, checking out Vite, and what exactly is DevX / developer experience?

This episode Dave's been blogging about the tangled webs we weave with dependancies and the internet, we talk more about web workers, and making peace with production code written by your earlier self. And Jeremy Keith kicks off part 1 of a reading of the history of the web.

Chris and Dave are coming to you live (recorded) from Smashing Conf's Live Webinar riffing on the talks and presentations, as well as their own Marketing Cloud Webinar Presentation.

David Dylan Thomas stops by to talk about his new book, Design for Cognitive Bias, recently published by A Book Apart. We talk about the illusion of control, confirmation bias, capitalism as a bias, culture fit, bias blindspots, the myth of the self-made man, move fast and break things, dark patterns, and what can we takeaway from learning about bias?

We're reflecting on turning 40, code health and integration testing, Mozilla Firefox conversations, the best way to provide an accessible text label to a button, and finding an application that minifies Javascript and images files.

We're talking addendum's and corrections, updates on Chris' text game, browsers built for designers, saying farewell to Firefox?, the best way to spin up a brochure website, and how Gutenberg in WordPress is these days.

Dave's gave a talk on backlogs, Chris has issues with Issues vs Discussions vs Chatting (and GIFs), and trying not to waste your time on ideas and projects when you have limited time to do them in.