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546: Ryan Dahl and Deno

Ryan Dahl stops by to talk about Node, Deno, JavaScript, testing, V8, and thoughts around getting started with Deno.




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557: ChatGPT, Conferences, Fidgets on the Web, and Modern CSS in Real Life

When will AI be able to tell you the risk / reward of cleaning up trees? Are conferences back? Bringing fidgets to the web, internet as an anxiety machine, and Chris is working on talk on modern CSS in real life.




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560: Oh Biscuits! Cascade Layers, Block Links, Emoji Lists, and more CSS!

After a brief visit from Hip Hop Dad Dave, we're talking cascade layers updates, block link practices, search element getting dropped, how to use cite, emoji list accessibility, scrollbar state, and trigonometric functions in CSS.




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564: Render ATL, New Colors Available, Gradients, HDR, and More

Chris previews a bit of his Render ATL 2023 talk, and then we mouth blog some color ideas, thoughts, and shame you for your non-HD websites.




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565: The Hurdy-Gurdy, OKLCH, Edge Dev Tools, and Ad Blocking

Dave doesn't hate the hurdy-gurdy, but it's creation is an interesting parallel to software development. OKLCH follow up, @media, Edge drops new dev tools, CSS and Astro theming, JavaScript devs discover PHP, how many people block ads, and accessibility and grids.




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567: Full Stack Dev, Load Bearing Developer, and Being Zod Curious

What do you do if your computer dies? Chris applies to work at Luro, Dave applies at CodePen, Dave's Zod curious, TypeScript, sorting out a 10MB blog post, and how much do you miss jQuery?




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568: Display Contents, Passkeys Follow Up, Yellow Fade Technique, and TOTK Talk

Macho Man Randy Standards stops by for a quick chat, Passkeys follow up, discussing the safety of Display: contents, the yellow fade technique, how hot CSS is right now (so hot), and a check in on how everyone's doing with Tears of the Kingdom.




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569: Apple’s Web Apps, Meta Quest and Vision Pro, and Missing Sticky Headers

How do you point out things in a UI? Are Arc Boosts the end of the web? What do you think of VR and AR / Vision Pro and Meta Quest? And what do you do when the sticky header goes missing?




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571: Searching vs AI, Getting Designers to Play Nice, and Web Components

Do you listen at 2x? Do Chris and Dave sound weird at normal speed IRL? How searching compares to using AI, chatbots kind of suck at context, getting a designer to work with developers at an agency, what happened to content visibility, and how to best build a design system using web components.




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572: Text Sqwunch Property, Figma Developer Mode, Stripe Elements

Show DescriptionDave reports back from the Figma Conference, how to build a better developer to designer bridge, do clients really want to update their website, using Stripe in 2023, permissions and sharing, and are you feeling overwhelmed by CSS in 2023? Listen on Website →Links Config 2023 | Figma’s Annual Conference Figma Visual Studio Code […]




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573: Google Reader, Sticky and Overflow, and Figma Thoughts

Chris breaks out his banjo, some thoughts on making music vs recording music, what happened to Google Reader and social reading, what black box properties can't Dave or Chris remember, follow up for dev teams communicating with designers, and what's Adobe going to do about Figma?




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574: Estelle & Eric on CSS The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Estelle Weyl and Eric Meyer join us to talk about the 5th edition of their book, CSS: The Definitive Guide. We talk about some of CSS' biggest blunders, custom scroll bars, single line comments, shorthand in CSS, useless CSS trivia, and how to get started learning CSS in 2023.




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578: Customer Support, P3 Color, Dave on Productivity, and Mobile vs Desktop

Is Apple's Numbers amazing or the worst? Customer support at various levels of software, Figma and P3 color, imagining a colorspace property in CSS, what's Dave doing for productivity, how has offloading CSS Tricks affected Chris, and should we build different websites for mobile vs desktop?




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581: DevRel, Musical Mics, Social Sharing, and 100 Years of WordPress

Dave calls a quick Luro branding meeting, some thoughts on DevRel, Chris tries to figure out musical instrument mics, follow up on WordPress from a previous episode, Chris' journey through the social graph options, 100 year hosting with WordPress, and the introduction of a new segment: Happy Project Share Time.




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583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton

Maggie Appleton talks with us about her work at Elicit, working with large and small language models, how humans vet the responses from AI, the discussion around the Soggoth meme in AI, using Discord as UI, what to do if your boss wants AI in your app, and why does she call her blog a digital garden?




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585: Blog Redesign, Sounds on a Website, Accessibility Tests, and Safari 17

Chris redesigned his blog, using sounds on your website to make it seem fancy, what can't automated accessibility tests test, and what's new in Safari 17.




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587: Why Ethan Marcotte Thinks Tech Workers Deserve a Union

Ethan Marcotte is here to talk about his new book, You Deserve a Tech Union, and discusses topics such as why we need unions in tech, who gets to be in the union, how unions can help deal with the AI question, union busting, and some arguments against unions.




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591: Cascade Layers, CSS Functions, and more CSS with Miriam Suzanne

Miriam Suzanne stops by to talk about CSS updates and news on container queries, rolling out cascade layers, !important things to remember, custom properties, exit animations, CSS functions, state queries, and more.




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593: Beep & Texts, Tumblr, JavaScript & Web Components, & Cool Blog Post Ideas

Thoughts on smashing all communication messaging apps together, what's happened to Tumblr under Automattic, what the situation is with native web components and JavaScript, and looking at a list of types of blog posts.




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594: Wiping Your Laptop, UX of Password Codes, and :Has Tips and Tricks

In this episode we're discussing making tech videos, website tinkering, :has tricks, SVG path commands, and the complexities of CSS & JavaScript logic.




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595: MedTalk Show, Plagiarism and Code Grifting, and How We’re Testing Code

Blood 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.




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597: How Many VS Code Plugins, Poor Charlie’s Almanack, and Where to Start in 2024?

We'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?




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601: Brad Frost on A Global Design System + Frostapalooza

Brad 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?




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603: Deno, React Alternatives, and Copilot Concerns with Triple Threat Josh Collinsworth

Josh (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.




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604: VS Code Plugins, Git as a Radical Statement, Tailwind & Arc Drama

A 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!




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605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers

Jim 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.




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608: Can WordPress Kill Your Resume, Fav Parts of Web Dev, Exploring HTMX, and more!

We'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.




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619: Svencodes

Sven Neumann aka Sven Codes talks with us about SudokuPad, developing a cross-platform app, integrating new puzzles and features, the benefits of being easy to use, building a community, and monetizing an app while not upsetting your user base.




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622: Website Rendering, Updating Software, and Edge Gets Faster

We're talking website rendering, server side rendering, Astro's server islands, perf hits for navigation elements, updating software because the docs aren't available for older versions, and a new Microsoft Edge was released.




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627: Getting Comfortable with the Struggle and Vibe Driven Development

Chris brings some blog posts to talk about including being comfortable with the struggle of developer life, Cloudflare Workers + monorepos, vibe driven development, and questions about database migrations, and whether we think AI free blogs are going to be a rarity in the future?




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628: Tending to RSS Feeds, Code Hike’s Fine Markdown, and Cloudflare R2

Doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the planes, Dave's got a 2x life update, how often do you manage or prune your RSS feed subscriptions, checking in on Code Hike and their fine grained Markdown approach, JavaScript decorators use case, and using Cloudflare R2 for image storage.




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629: The Great Divide, Global Design + Web Components, and Job Titles

A bit of follow-up on vibe driven development and JavaScript not causing The Great Divide, writing testing automation, global design systems and web components, could PHP be used for web components, what if view transitions are going to be everywhere, and frontend engineer vs design systems engineer job titles and descriptions.




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630: Frostapalooza Recap, Follow Up, and Messy Codebases

Chris has a birthday today 🎉, we recap our Frostapalooza experience celebrating Brad Frost's birthday, do all codebases become a mess, Mermaid, TLDraw, and Figjam thoughts, making tiny games, where's the follow up in web and world news, and what's the current state of CMS' on the web?




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631: Dave’s Second Brain Idea, Notion Thoughts, and Google’s LLM in Chrome

Dave's got an idea for a second brain app that's customized to his brain, where we're at with Notion and other notes apps, and accessibility on LLM's in browsers.




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632: Adam Coster on Game Development and Crashlands 2

Adam Coster talks with us about working with his family in game development, how they get started making games, what all is involved with publishing games, deciding to go Steam and Netflix only for Crashlands 2, how web tech is involved in game development, and the fun of testing and doing Q&A for games.




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634: Fabian Kägy on WordPress, Blocks, and Enterprise Dev

Fabian Kägy helps us understand the modern WordPress development process, Gutenberg vs Block editor vs full site editing, building with blocks or pages, what's coming in the Twenty Twenty-Five Theme, and whether the theme authoring process has been made too difficult in 2024?




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635: Jeff Robbins and Visibox as an Instrument for Video

Jeff Robbins stops by to talk about his software, Visibox, that was used at Frostapalooza for presenting video at the concert, what it's like building an app with Electron, how it's distributed, how files are used and managed, and how he supports hardware devices inside Electron.




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

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?




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Design water-smart cities

We need an army of people who will ensure the protection of water bodies, and who will strive to create a water-literate community.




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Design to beat the heat

Keeping the air conditioner on for long will only create heat islands, says Sathya Prakash Varanashi




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How a city deals with water

Water flows through streams and channels and forms a distinct part of the urban landscape of Tehran.




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Guidelines for green urbanisation

The Ministry of Urban Development has proposed environmental guidelines for construction projects in urban areas. Nidhi Adlakha reports




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Typecasting eco-ideas

Important public buildings ignore the time-tested lessons of sustainability found in local architecture. By SATHYA PRAKASH VARANASHI




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Top destinations

Panathur-Varthur & Thanisandra set to see price appreciation of 61% & 55% respectively by 2020




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Gunning for a slice of billion-dollar defence contracts 

How a college project birthed a bootstrapped manufacturer of components for the armed forces 




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The pros and cons of spouses teaming up as co-founders

How do married co-founders navigate the personal and professional ties at work




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Soft skills are most in demand

Why headhunters go for traits like leadership, communication, and emotional intelligence




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October decisions on ‘assisted dying’ for terminally ill

India, UK to legislate on allowing patients this choice




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The delicate balance in doctor-patient interaction

How clear communication and accountability in healthcare can significantly improve patient outcomes




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RNT: Judging a leader’s true nature

How Ratan Tata’s bold nature is evidenced by his enterprise moves