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By Chris Coyier & Dave RupertTechnology

ShopTalk episodes

August 26, 2024630: Frostapalooza Recap, Follow Up, and Messy Codebases
Show Description
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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Frostapalooza – Chris Coyier
FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024
Frostapalooza in photos and videos | Brad Frost
Symmetry 2024 Tickets
Code Editor Community
Understanding Technical Debt
Mermaid Tool
tldraw
Collaborative Whiteboard
Dev Mode
Visual Suite for Everyone
Game Development Competition
Butterscotch Shenanigans
Ghost Platform
Craft CMS
Astro
Eleventy Static Site Generator
Decap CMS
The Markdown CMS
Sanity Content Cloud
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1 hr 2 min
August 19, 2024629: The Great Divide, Global Design + Web Components, and Job Titles
Show Description
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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Trust the vibes
We don't need a boss, we need a process | Miriam Eric Suzanne
The Great Divide
JavaScript and The Great Divide
346: Is There a Great Divide?
Kevin Powell | CSS Evangelist
Javascript Testing Frameworks
Design System Comparison
Global Design System
Brad Frost Design
Frostapalooza Concert
Val Head
Sharpen your thinking
Sheelah Brennan's Engineer Comparison
Turkey Sounds
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57 min
August 12, 2024628: Tending to RSS Feeds, Code Hike’s Fine Markdown, and Cloudflare R2
Show Description
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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Noah Kahan - Stick Season on YouTube
Dave's new dogs from the Discord
Fine-grained Markdown
Cloudflare Object Storage
Uppy
Netlify Image CDN
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56 min
August 05, 2024627: Getting Comfortable with the Struggle and Vibe Driven Development
Show Description
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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Comfortable with the struggle
Cloudflare Workers · Cloudflare Workers docs
Wrangler Cloudflare Workers
Features • GitHub Actions
Azure DevOps Services
Yarn
Vibe Driven Development
Active Record Migrations
Prisma Migrate
1 hr 1 min
July 29, 2024626: We Were Wrong and Keep Getting in Trouble
Show Description
Chris has some follow up on blog posts and past podcast episodes to respond to including browsers and browser engines, advertising on the web, magazines, Cara, peak AI slop, and view transitions.
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FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Daring Fireball
Cory Doctorow's craphound.com | Cory Doctorow's Literary Works
Moonbound
Second Foundation
Servo Web Rendering Engine
Ladybird
Flow Browser
Learn. Build. Grow. Together.
Artist Platform
Tech News
The Homepage of Dave Rupert
View Transitions Break
Misconceptions about view transitions | Blog | Chrome for Developers
56 min
July 22, 2024625: CarTalk, Ownership of A Book Apart, and URL Shorteners
Show Description
Dave's putting together a platform for his presidential bid and workshops his policies, discussing vehicle options for a family in 2024, Chris and other authors get ownership of their A Book Apart books back, and the ramifications and reasoning behind Google killing a URL shortener.
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‎Office Space (1999) directed by Mike Judge • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
2024 Hyundai IONIQ 5: Electric SUV | Hyundai Canada
R2 - Rivian
Bronco® Sport | Build & Price | Shop.ford.ca
A Book Apart
Practical SVG by Chris Coyier
Print-On-Demand
I’m Mat. I make websites.
Reacquired.
Real Life News
587: Why Ethan Marcotte Thinks Tech Workers Deserve a Union – ShopTalk
Google URL Shortener
Netlify Astro Partnership
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44 min
July 15, 2024624: Blogging, In App Browsers are Bad, and Teaching CSS from Scratch
Show Description
On this epsiode we're talking about the current state of blogging and social media, the polyfill hack, whether in app browsers should be banned, web components and the difficulty of front end web dev, and how we would go about teaching CSS from scratch in 2024.
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Polyfill Attack Impacts Over 380,000 Hosts, Including Major Companies
Off The Main Thread podcast
Web Dev Pitfalls
State of JavaScript 2023
Fliteboard eFoil
49 min
July 08, 2024623: Assigning Weight Dynamically, CoPilot vs Other AI, and Monorepos
Show Description
We're talking about assigning a weight to items in a layout, differentiating between banger posts and regular blog posts, using social engineering to get PR's accepted, monorepo thoughts, using CoPilot vs other AI programming support bots, has TypeScript benefited from AI, and what happens if you turn off CoPilot?
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614: CSS Grid Level 3 aka Masonry with Adam Argyle – ShopTalk
606: Web Sustainability with Michelle Barker – ShopTalk
Footnotes Progressively Enhanced to Popovers – Frontend Masters Boost
Charm
Supermaven
ThePrimeagen on YouTube
57 min
July 01, 2024622: Website Rendering, Updating Software, and Edge Gets Faster
Show Description
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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Scale & Ship Faster with a Composable Web Architecture | Netlify
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator
Astro
Next.js React Framework
Cloudflare Services
Internet Power
Website Improvement
Server Islands
Create Web Components
FAST
Enhance
Vue.js Framework
An even faster Microsoft Edge
59 min
June 24, 2024621: Setting Up Prettier and Linting, Comparing Colors, and Accessibility Overlays
Show Description
We've got follow up on Cloudflare and Cara from last episode, a question about setting up Prettier and auto linting, a cool tool from a listener on comparing colors, a question about using tooling like Craft or more user friendly apps like Webflow when working with clients, and our takes on accessibility overlays.
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Cloud Application Hosting for Developers | Render
Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter
Biome, toolchain of the web
Vetur
Compare colors
Craft CMS
Webflow: Create a custom website | Visual website builder
Accessibility Overlay Decision
51 min