The employees of the startup RAPPTR (Quinn Pine, Blaze Lightyear, Astra Q, and Eddit Kit) find themselves in quite a pickle as a rogue investor tries to take over the company while CEO Chad is recovering in his napping pod.

Join us on a workplace-themed role playing adventure created by Dave Rupert.

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A web developer from Atlanta, GA that specializes in Vue.js, python, and PHP.

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A user-centered frontend developer with a focus on web accessibility.

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Co-Founder of OddBird, working on CSS in a W3C group.

Riffing off the CSS Wrapped 2024 list from the Chrome team, we're talking field-sizing, animate to height, anchor positioning, custom scrollbars, cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, and more!

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We're talking HTML this episode, detail summary, HTML datalist element, styling selects, anchored pop ups, popovers, invokers, HR in select, target=blank, HTML for People, and what we still need.

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How do you like your turkey at Thanksgiving, building social capital with the neighbors, a brief SportsTalk Show segment, noticing easter eggs in apps and the web, what is a component anyway, CSS parts follow up, and questions about Alpine.JS and ESLint.

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Chris Person from Aftermath joins us to chat about the state of forums in 2024, being downwind of knowledge, forum drama, Reddit and StackOverflow's impact on forums, the importance of the individuals caring for knowledge and information, and the benefits and struggles of cooperatives in reporting.

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Makes Highlight Reel. Co-Founder 'n blogger at Aftermath.site.

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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Riffing off a Dave Rupert blog post, Chris and Dave talk through the pros and cons of web components, when to use them, when it's a bad idea to use them, what would it take to make the Next.js of web components, and how long until we don't need anymore frameworks?

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How important is the DX of software vs how important is the person showing off the software, Douglas Crockford and JSON, remembering XML, trying to write better HTML for email, new TC39 proposal, workshopping t-shirts, and what do you do if you want a little bit of database on your website?

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Dave's designing a new tshirt, questions for lawyers about copyrights for code projects, what does the copyright in the footer actually do, what do Dave and Chris require for personal web projects, does Jekyll get updated anymore, the Bob from Hell UX pattern, viewing ads on CNN, what about Joomla or Statamic, and how do paid fonts on the web work?

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Brian Muenzenmeyer joins the show to talk about his book, Approachable Open Source, ways we can make open source easier to get in, important conversations around funding and supporting open source, and whether money helps maintainers deal with burnout or not?

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Author of Approachable Open Source, Principal Front End Engineer.