Code Rush

We share our summer projects, including babies and GSAP. We figure out that some feature flags in Safari are just a checkbox and loop back to topics from our previous episode. We discuss how to do structured schema data and how Figma enables AI training by default. CSS can put Rob off these days. We re-discuss CH units and steal some buttons.

• Introduction
• What have we been up to?
• Looping back to Safari feature flags
• Looping back to relative colors
• The resurrection of CSS Tricks
• Microdata vs JSON-LD
• Statamic Bard Texstyle
• Figma AI training
• Vacuum interruption #2
• Modern CSS
• ch units
• Auto-sizes in stable Chromium
• Button Stealer
• Ending the Summer Extravaganza

In this episode we recorded a month ago, we establish that Jay is clearly running this show and Rob just sits there. We cover our experiences with the recent Statamic Flat Camp and discover that Jay procrastinates watering his plants. Also: using modern CSS features, transitioning to auto, relative colors, Rob yelling at the Markdown cloud and a whole lot more. 

• Introduction
• Flat Camp in Rome and Statamic scales with TV2
• Using modern CSS features
• Jay moving to Safari?
• iOS/MacOS passwords app
• Transition to auto
• Josh Comeau on JS Promises
• CSS Day: fit to width text
• Fig / Amazon Q
• Select a range with nth-child:
• Using Things by Cultured Code
• Rob doesn't like Markdown
• Closing words

It has been a while. When we recorded this episode a while ago after a few drinks, and apparently it took Jay time to recover the edit. But here we are, with more profanity than usual. Sorry, not sorry. Jay spent a lot of money on hardware and a domain. We share what we've been working on, cover a lot of news and vacuum Jay's tiny London apartment.

• Introduction
• Jay's mechanical keyboard saga continues
• Expensive domain names
• Animating strokes
• Laravel for frontenders
• Vacuum intermezzo
• Content blockers
• Jay's Figma and design journey
• Vidstack, Plyr and using video's on websites
• CSS Grid and Masonry
• Dark mode as a UI piece
• View Transitions coming to Safari
• Detecting JS support in CSS
• Chrome DevTools updates
• New Statamic v5 commands
• Wrapping up

Jack McDade joins us to talk about his brand new Radical Design Course. The three of us are all going to Flat Camp EU and it is just around the corner. Statamic will get a major version update soon and it contains some pretty exciting new features and enhancements. Lastly, there’s a very generous discount code for Radical Design in this episode as well, but you’ll need to listen to find it.

• Introduction
• Radical Design
• Flat Camp
• Statamic v5
• Competitors

After a two month recording pause including an in person meetup, we have a lot to go over. Like clients sliding into your DMS, the new Cap unit, Dune 2, and the use and misuse of uppercase text. We also cover Herd Pro, the switch property, overflow:clip, form-sizing, CSS Generators, typescale.com, a warning about evergreen browsers, kanban boards in Apple Reminders, Eagle app and Screen Studio.

• Introduction
• Clients sliding into your DM's
• Jay is away from home a lot but still plays games
• A use-case for pseudo content as text
• Cap Unit
• The and misuse of uppercase text
• Arc Search
• Dune: part Two
• Herd Pro
• Safari 17.4 and the Switch control
• overflow: clip
• Field Sizing
• CSS Generators
• Evergreen Browsers
• Typescale.com overhauled
• Kanban view in Reminders and the quality of native Apple apps
• Eagle App
• Screen Studio

Three minutes of Indiana Jones chat followed by em's vs ch units—we know how to bring in the New Year! Webkit has introduced alt text for pseudo-elements. The summary/details element may soon be animatable. We record on Blue Monday which cleary increases Rob his grumpiness towards the endless stream of AI content. Jay documents his journey into the world of mechanical keyboards. We debate CSS grid strategy. Sketch/Figma debate. We ponder the maybe little-known art of repeating gradients in CSS.

• Introduction & Indy
• em vs ch units
• Native switch element in Safari
• Microsoft adding a Copilot key to keyboard
• Alt text in pseudo content
• Details / summary animations
• Ethical web principles
• Jay on mechanical keyboards
• Preferred MacBook resolution
• CSS Grid
• Sketch and Figma
• Repeating gradients

In our very first Christmas episode, Jay makes fun of Dutch again when English clearly lacks a very important word; Rob shares updates regarding his password manager changes and doesn't like big blobs of light. Tailwind gets :has(), Figma get a cool $1B, and something's up with Chrome dev relations. We chat about the most recent news in CSS, and Jay shares his experiences with GitHub Copilot.

• Introduction
• A year in review
• QR Codes and Security
• Apple Stolen Device Protection
• Hanging Punctuation
• Light and dark mode
• Vanilla CSS Peak
• align-content
• Baseline
• light-dark() function
• TailwindCSS v3.4
• Nicole Sullivan left Google for Apple
• Figma and Adobe
• 2FA and Passkeys in Craft CMS
• GitHub Copilot and AI

With Jay back in London, we return to remote recording again. We talk about abandoned side projects before Rob finally strikes back regarding pronunciation. We also cover Dutch politics (sorry), trivia, Google’s Topics API, and a lot of CSS news, including scroll snapping v2. Rob shares his experience of moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain, and to Jay’s delight, Firefox has a Compatibility panel.

• Introduction
• Side projects
• Pronunciation
• Dutch elections
• Thanksgiving having Dutch origins
• Why is the default link colour blue?
• Name attribute for details
• Topics API
• CSS random function
• CSS snap changed
• Text balance coming to Safari
• London meetup
• Tailwind to vanilla CSS converter
• The biggest year ever for CSS?
• Moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain
• Getting locked out of your Apple ID
• Firefox compatibility panel

Fireworks and popping beers. In this very first in-person recording, Rob gets flagged for proper pronunciation again. Jay has gathered more coffee knowledge. Rob doesn't spit out his wine when tasting. Last but not least, from the comfort of a fire stove, we laugh over vicar jokes and cover Laravel Precognition, Canvas, PostCSS, (scroll-driven) animations in various guises, Passkeys and 1Password.

• Introduction
• Laravel Precognition
• Canvas & Houdini
• PostCSS
• Coffee
• Hipster animation
• Scroll-driven animations and Safari
• Scroll-driven animation ranges
• Passkeys and 1Password
• Text balance
• Responsive video

After freelancing for ten years, Ross now works for WPEngine. He joins us to chat about his journey between the freelance and corporate worlds and the empowering revelation that everyone is creative. In the news, HTML introduces a brand-new search element, and CSS nesting is relaxing their requirement for ampersands—said in a Dutch/French accent. We also chat about positivity in our community.

• Introduction
• Search Engines
• Age Gate
• Google Privacy Sandbox
• News HTML Search Element
• Responsive Design Mode in Safari
• Spat Chat
• & in Nesting
• Ross Wintle
• From Freelancing to Employment
• You Are Creative