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Ben Schwarz stops by to discuss the state of web performance, using his research on airline websites as a case study for practical insights on improving website speed and user experience.

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CEO at Calibre Analytics

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We're talking treadmill and musical gear, software maintenance, dependency management, technical debt, testing web components, and CSS-Tricks hot drama.

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We're joined by Thomas Steiner from Google to discuss his proposal for cross-origin storage, a new web API designed to bring back safe, cross-site resource sharing. We explore why the old shared-CDN caching model collapsed due to privacy and fingerprinting risks, and how this could solve those issues while avoiding those same pitfalls.

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Developer Relations Engineer at Google, focused on the Web and Project Fugu.

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We want your positive tech support stories! Topics this week include wrangling DNS/DKIM/DMARC for a friend's newsletter, comparing terminal tools like TMUX and Herdr, and juggling Rails, Node, and AI agent processes, and figuring out which tooling you like best.

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The realities of A/B testing, the future of specialized hosting in the AI era, microphone and camera permissions on the web, tricks for working with HTML email, and hyping Midnight Vinyl Club and How Many Dudes?

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Dave and Chris try to get their LUTS in a row, figure out which app to use to edit and publish video quickly, Dave's new syntax highlighter microlighter, could web MCP be a good thing to help agents use CodePen better, and saying no is as important as what you do ship.

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Having type two fun, email branding with BIMI, accessibility details in icons and favicons, using AI as a coding and maintenance partner, CSS @layer property, design systems, and the economics of fast AI hardware.

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We tackle a listener question about why junior front-end devs are expected to know so much beyond HTML and CSS, then get into Dave's real-world fix swapping old WebKit line-clamp hacks for the new CSS line-clamp property and the subtle bugs that kind of truncation work can cause. They also debate whether AI tools like Claude or Copilot deserve co-author credit on commits, gripe about agent-only coding workflows that skip linting and hide what's actually happening, and wrap up looking at new platform features like the navigation API and a proposed CSS-based routing approach using @route and @view-transition.

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We're checking on quarter 3 KPIs, using AI for admin dashboards is kind of fun, being a weirdo is something we should aspire to, there's a reason things sometimes all look the same and that's ok, people see the effort you put in to your creativity on the web, and thoughts on generating a random post on a static site generator.

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CodePen 2.0 is out now and we're talking about the launch, the idea of templating on the web, and how HTML could look very interesting in the future.

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