ShopTalk

By Chris Coyier & Dave RupertTechnology

ShopTalk episodes

November 04, 2024640: Navigating the Pros and Cons of Web Components
Show Description
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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Links
Where web components shine - daverupert.com
Fluent UI - Get started - Fluent UI
React
Website Improvement
Begin Team to Join
Eleventy Generator
Components
URLPattern Polyfill
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1 hr 6 min
October 28, 2024639: DX, JSON, XML, HTML, and Databases! Oh My!
Show Description
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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Links
Web Unleashed 2024 - FITC
New High Contrast Syntax Highlighting Themes – CodePen
Douglas Crockford
JSON
JSON Feed
Slow Horses
JavaScript Compiler Proposal
ECMAScript 2024 Updates
Contentful
Strapi
Sanity Content System
Heroku
Cloudflare
Turso
Netlify Blobs
bolt.new
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57 min
October 21, 2024638: Q&A About Copyright, Jekyll, Joomla, Statamic, and More!
Show Description
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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Links
Coming home | A Working Library
Release v4.3.4 · jekyll/jekyll
How to Monetize a Blog
The Verge
Joomla CMS
Craft CMS
Statamic
Kirby Adapts
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56 min
October 14, 2024637: Approachable Open Source with Brian Muenzenmeyer
Show Description
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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GuestsBrian Muenzenmeyer
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Author of Approachable Open Source, Principal Front End Engineer.
Links
Shop | Approachable Open Source
Approachable Open Source
Brian Muenzenmeyer
Front-End Social
SimpleBits®
Atomic Design Creation
Open Source Gardening
WTFPL
Security Risk Reduction
VoidZero | Blog
Announcing Biome
A Book Apart
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53 min
October 07, 2024636: W Hot Drama Week (WordPress, WP Engine, and Web Components – Oh My!)
Show Description
We're getting some feelings out about WordPress and Matt Mullenweg vs WP Engine drama, as well as the Web Components conversation that happened this past week.
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Links
WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power | TechCrunch
Automattic demanded a cut of WP Engine’s revenue before starting WordPress battle - The Verge
WP Engine Banned from Using WordPress.org Resources – WP Tavern
The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained | TechCrunch
Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’ - The Verge
WP Engine Term Sheet
Theo and Matt Mullenweg
Matt Discusses WordPress
WCUS 2024 Q&A
Modern WordPress Learning
Automattic | Five for the Future | WordPress.org
Automattic Alignment
Matt Mullenweg Calls Out GoDaddy
Matt Mullenweg Charitable Contributions
Lee Wittlinger Location
WebOps Platform
WP Engine
Hacker Interview
WordPress.com
WordPress Hosting
Web Components Present
Web Components Are Not the Future
50 min
September 30, 2024635: Jeff Robbins and Visibox as an Instrument for Video
Show Description
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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GuestsJeff Robbins
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Creator of Visibox, Musician in 123Astronaut & Orbitband, Cofounder at Lullabot, Executive Coach at jjeff․com.
Links
MV7+ - Podcast Microphone
NT-USB Microphone
Jeff Robbins (@jjeff)
Jeff Robbins
FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024
CodePen: Online Code Editor and Front End Web Developer Community
Learning Web Design with Jennifer Robbins
Visibox Announcement
Lullabot
Spaceage
Cross-Platform App Development
Desktop Apps with Web Frontend
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1 hr 2 min
September 23, 2024634: Fabian Kägy on WordPress, Blocks, and Enterprise Dev
Show Description
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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GuestsFabian Kägy
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Core Contributor and WordCamp Speaker. Director of Editorial Engineering at 10up.
Links
10up | finely crafted websites and tools
Fabian Kägy - User Experience focused developer currently building great user experiences within the WordPress Block Editor as the Director of Editorial Engineering @10up.
fabiankaegy (Fabian Kägy) on GitHub
@fabiankaegy on Twitter / X
Fabian Kägy (@fabiankaegy) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org
Fabian Kägy on LinkedIn
ACF Plugin
Create Block Theme
WordPress/twentytwentyfive
St. Jude Donation
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1 hr 1 min
September 16, 2024633: Thomas Steiner on AI in Chrome and the Web
Show Description
Thomas Steiner from Project Fugu talks with us about AI in Chrome, the small large language model in use, how features like this are rolled out, the ethics and concerns around sending and sharing data, on device vs web APIs, and ideas for use cases and ways to explore AI on the web.
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GuestsThomas Steiner
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Developer Relations Engineer at Google, focused on the Web and Project Fugu.
Links
Web Capabilities (Project Fugu)
Chrome.dev
Prompt API Playground
Summarization API Playground
Translation API
API Playground
Chrome AI Proposal
Chrome AI Experiment
Intelligence Preview
Prompt API Proposal
Writing Assistance APIs Proposal
Web Translation Proposal
WICG
WebML TPAC 2024 Agenda
TPAC 2024: Overview
Cache AI Models
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1 hr 1 min
September 09, 2024632: Adam Coster on Game Development and Crashlands 2
Show Description
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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GuestsAdam Coster
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
CEO & Webtech at Butterscotch Shenanigans
Links
Butterscotch Shenanigans
About | Butterscotch Shenanigans
Coffee with Butterscotch
adam-coster (Adam Coster)
Adam Coster @costerad on Twitter
Crashlands 2 on Steam
53 min
September 02, 2024631: Dave’s Second Brain Idea, Notion Thoughts, and Google’s LLM in Chrome
Show Description
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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Links
Notion Web Clipper for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and mobile
The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
Organize Life System
Things To-Do List
Bear - Markdown Notes
Analog Productivity System
Just use fucking paper, man
Daylight Computer Care
Chrome Canary Features
Cerebras
46 min