Show DescriptionMatt Visiwig stops by to chat with us about his site, SVGBackgrounds.com, a membership site for copy-and-paste website graphics built around SVG. We talk about why he built the site, how he decided to monetize it, competing with AI garbage on the web, pricing membership options, and how he's running the site. Listen on Website →GuestsMatt VisiwigGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterSelf-employed web designer, building SVGBackgrounds.com. Links Customize and apply backgrounds fast...

Show DescriptionWe're chatting with Jason Grigsby about what a white-collar recession means, how the sources and methods of consuming news shape our perspectives, whether the current economic conditions represent a market correction and if a rebound is imminent. We explore the critical decision of whether to embrace AI advancements or risk being left behind. We also talk about AI-generated voices, large language models and ethics, and the impact of social media signals in an AI world. Listen...

Show DescriptionLuke Abbott is the creator of Strum Machine, an app that simulates backing tracks by stitching together individual notes, chords, and strums recorded on guitar, standup bass, and mandolin. We talk about what Strum Machine does, why he decided to build it, how bringing on a professional designer helped, pricing thoughts, and the "fun" of building a version on iOS. Listen on Website →GuestsLuke AbbottGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterMusician and creator of Strum...

Show DescriptionDave's got job news to share, as well as insight into the process of what applying for a job in tech is like in 2024. We also talk about styling, scoping, positioning, and floating UI. Listen on Website →Links Algorithms & Data Structures | Learn Algorithms with TypeScript for Interviews | Frontend Masters Information asymmetry Fluent 2 Design System Font Awesome Web Awesome Icônes Iconify — Search Icons Create Floating UI User App Tour Sponsors

Show DescriptionAdam Argyle stops by to chat about the conversation that's happening around CSS Grid / Masonry. What do we want? What might Apple's response to Google be? And nitpicking the spec just for fun. Listen on Website →GuestsAdam ArgyleGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterCSS DevRel Google Chrome, CSSWG member, host on GUIchallenges, co-host: CSSpodcast and BAD at CSSpodcast, maker of VisBug, OpenProps and GradientStyle. Links ‎Gemini - chat to supercharge your ideas Invent Masonry...

Show DescriptionChris bought recording gear off an Instagram ad, our thoughts on WebC, CodePen upgrades Yarn, thoughts on the commercial value of open source, Automattic releases an app to install WordPress locally, IBM buys Hashicorp, income tax software, and a hack for getting Safari to respect background colors used in a pseudo selector. Listen on Website →Links FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024 601: Brad Frost on A Global Design System + Frostapalooza –...

Show DescriptionMatt is here to talk about creating the perfect fantasy CMS for blogging, moderating comments at Metafilter, building sane defaults into programs, how difficult the web is, do we want AI in our CMS, and where is content headed on the internet? Listen on Website →GuestsMatthew HaugheyGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterA writer with over 25 years of experience building products. In that time I've worked as a designer, coder, company founder, and senior writer. Links Matt...

Show DescriptionDave & Chris and thoughts on career advice that worked 3 years ago but isn't as helpful now, marking tests with ChatGPT, is taking a Drupal job in 2024 a good idea, Chris got #gear sniped, P3 color follow up, the confusing File System APIs, and where did all the lightboxes go? Listen on Website →Links chan (@chantastic) / X The Texas Tribune The Coming Wave Book Drupal - Open Source CMS | Drupal.org Electric Air Duster - 130000RPM Compressed Air Duster，3 Gear Adjustable...

Show DescriptionDave's about to be eclipsed, the state of TypeScript in 2024, signals stage zero proposal, corrections on accessibility in frameworks (thanks!), web apps for better collaborative writing, getting productivity sniped, the problem with email may be you, indieweb follow up, and ultimate guitar tab apps. Listen on Website →Links Streamlining APIs, Databases, & Microservices | Apollo GraphQL Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps Ember.js - A framework for ambitious web...

Show DescriptionWhat is a home cooked app? Blake Watson is on this episode to talk all about the kinds of apps that make a good home cooked app, tips and advice he has for making them, resisting the urge to monetize or growth hack them, and a few CodePen v2 thoughts sprinkled in at the end. Listen on Website →GuestsBlake WatsonGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterCurrently a member of the frontend dev team at MRI Technologies, working on projects for NASA. Links Watson Brothers Games An app can...

Show DescriptionWe're opening up the ShopTalk mailbag and answering your questions, including does WordPress on your resume kill your job chances, what are our fav and least fav parts of web dev, our thoughts on HTMX, and what is it like to use pnpm instead of npm. Listen on Website →Links Front End Happy Hour Playdate Develop for Playdate Nuxt: The Intuitive Vue Framework · Nuxt ThePrimeagen Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm Yarn SponsorsRadical DesignAre you an aspiring...

Show DescriptionFred K. Schott stops by to talk about Astro announcement of Astro DB. The pluses and minuses of it, and whether you have to always use the database with Astro DB. We get into how to seed your database, upgrading the database, and the almost weirdly generous pricing model. Listen on Website →GuestsFred K. SchottGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterCo-creator of Astro. Links Astro DB: A Deep Dive | Astro Astro DB Astro DB: A Deep Dive | Astro tursodatabase/libsql: libSQL is a fork...

Show DescriptionWe're talking with Michelle Barker about the idea of paying to support bloggers (and podcasters!) via services like Patreon, drumming as a fun side gig from CSS, how big of an issue digital sustainability is, trying to understand the environmental impact of our websites and digital life, wondering why YouTube embeds are still so large, disabling cookies, and how to build the web in a more sustainable way. Listen on Website →GuestsMichelle BarkerGuest's Main URL • Guest's...

Show DescriptionJim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, RSS in HTML, and the state of state and UI. Listen on Website →GuestsJim NielsenGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterDesigner. Engineer. Writer. Links About - Jim Nielsen’s Blog “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash The Subversive Hyperlink - Jim Nielsen’s...

Show DescriptionA follow up on jQuery conversation, Microsoft owning all the things, what VS Code plugins are your ride or die, the ability to Git from wherever you want, Tailwind drama, global design system follow up, Arc Search gets roasted, and Frontend Design Conference is back! Listen on Website →Links GitHub - tc39/proposal-type-annotations: ECMAScript proposal for type syntax that is erased - Stage 1 Chris Coyier on Embracing Technology and the Future of Web Development - Whiskey Web...

Show DescriptionJosh (or Jsoh) stops by to talk about his work at Deno, recent blog posts on Copilot, why Svelte is awesome and React is not, Apple and PWA, and building word games on the web. Listen on Website →GuestsJosh CollinsworthGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterFrontend Engineer at Deno, the maker and designer of the word games Quina, and Hondo. Links Josh Collinsworth Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime Deno Deploy | Deno Fresh - The next-gen web framework. I worry our...

Show DescriptionVoiceover pays us a visit, we talk about what accessibility really means, the difficulty of closing a dialogue element, web components at work, and jQuery 4 is out. Listen on Website →Links Opportunities for AI in Accessibility – A List Apart the-pastry-box-project.net An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues by Anne Gibson Alphabet of Accessibility Deck Understanding accessibility through ABCs – On the Issues Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior...

Show DescriptionBrad Frost has got design systems on his mind—at a global scale. What is a global design system? Are two design systems ever the same? How would this slot inside atomic design? What has been the response from the web community to global design system as an idea? And what's Frostapalooza? Listen on Website →GuestsBrad FrostGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterDesign system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, and musician located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. Links A Global...

Show DescriptionWe've got your feedback as well as our thoughts on where we all think the web will be in 2036 - as we celebrate 12 years of ShopTalk Show history, we're looking forward to what's to come with ideas around cookie banners, undo, no more passwords, React, Deno, Node, and Mozilla's future, ChatGPT's thoughts, accessibility, blockchain, VR / AR, hoverboards, P3 color space, indie web, JS bundle sizes, and more! Listen on Website →Links 12 predictions for the next 12 years...

Show DescriptionDave and Chris discuss indie web culture, the role of social media in today's society, and the challenges and strategies of freelancing. Additionally, they discuss a range of topics from content moderation, coding and refining tech skills, to emerging startups and the future of web technology. Listen on Website →Links Cracking The Cryptic How Adam Savage COMPLETELY Overhauled His Workshop Where have all the websites gone? I miss RSS kottke.org - home of fine hypertext...

Show DescriptionJen Simmons, Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & WebKit, stops by to talk about what Interop is, and a look ahead at new CSS features in Webkit and Safari such as JPEG XL, masks, a round function, JavaScript improvements, styling form controls, content unblocks, masonry, and more! Listen on Website →GuestsJen SimmonsGuest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & @webkit. Member of...

Show DescriptionWe're closing in on episode 600 and need your help to celebrate! Listen in to learn how to contribute to the episode. We're also talking GitHub desktop apps and code editors, how many VS Code plugins are needed, reading long form like Poor Charlie's Almanack, InVision shutting down, and answering our first Q of the year: how would you approach learning web development in 2024? Listen on Website →Links The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows | Tower Git Client GitHub...

Show DescriptionLooking back at the year of AI, using Arc on macOS and now Windows, dreaming of subscriptions, and knowing how to be mad about the right thing. Listen on Website →Links Crunchyroll Dropout ‎Wish (2023) GitHub Copilot Loom Introducing Whisper A Convo w/ Chris Coyier – Arc Arc from The Browser Company Codeium Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used | Ars Technica One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MB lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube...

Show DescriptionBlood pressure, stress, and COVID highlight the MedTalk Show portion of this episode, a new "Did You Know" segment about dev tools in Chrome, 4 hour video on plagiarism and code grifters, typography, breaking out of CSS Grid, the oldest things Chris and Dave worked on, and what the testing process is like at Luro or CodePen. Listen on Website →Links Blood Pressure – Chris Coyier QardioArm 2 - Smart Blood Pressure Monitor CodePen PRO Plagiarism and You(Tube) kottke.org - home...

Show DescriptionIn this episode we're discussing making tech videos, website tinkering, :has tricks, SVG path commands, and the complexities of CSS & JavaScript logic. Listen on Website →Links Streamlabs NextDNS GitHub Desktop Tower Git Client Screen Studio ScreenFlow Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc. Mark Rober I Joined 4 Coppers For Ranked... (Rainbow Six Siege) Element Indexes – Chris Coyier A /random Route on a WordPress Site – Chris...