ShopTalk

By Chris Coyier & Dave RupertTechnology

ShopTalk episodes

June 17, 2024620: Cloudflare #HotDrama, Auth, and Prototyping Thoughts
Show Description
We dive a bit deeper into the Cloudflare drama of the past couple of weeks, Instagram ads vs Cara art, what to do about Auth in your app, pre-negging any sponsorships, prototyping and feedback on projects, and ideas for future topics.
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Links
Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h
Connect, Protect and Build Everywhere | Cloudflare
Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies
Cara | Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
Auth0: Secure access for everyone. But not just anyone.
WorkOS — Your app, Enterprise Ready.
Theo - t3․gg
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
The Homer | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom
A Global Design System | Brad Frost
FAST
1 hr 3 min
June 10, 2024619: Svencodes
Show Description
Sven Neumann aka Sven Codes talks with us about SudokuPad, developing a cross-platform app, integrating new puzzles and features, the benefits of being easy to use, building a community, and monetizing an app while not upsetting your user base.
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GuestsSven Neumann
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Creator of Sven's SudokuPad.
Links
Solving “The Miracle Sudoku”
SudokuPad Web App - by SvenCodes.com and Cracking The Cryptic
Cracking The Cryptic
svencodes.com
Sven Codes (@svencodes) / X
Sven Codes
Sven Codes | Creating Sudoku Tools | Patreon
Buy Sven Neumann a Coffee
Sven's SudokuPad on Steam
Sven's SudokuPad on the App Store
Sven's SudokuPad - Apps on Google Play
1 hr 7 min
June 03, 2024618: Matt Visiwig on SVGBackgrounds
Show Description
Matt Visiwig stops by to chat with us about his site, SVGBackgrounds.com, a membership site for copy-and-paste website graphics built around SVG. We talk about why he built the site, how he decided to monetize it, competing with AI garbage on the web, pricing membership options, and how he's running the site.
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GuestsMatt Visiwig
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Self-employed web designer, building SVGBackgrounds.com.
Links
Customize and apply backgrounds fast | SVG Backgrounds
Matt Visiwig
Matt Visiwig (@MattVisiwig) / X
Purchase the Perfect MemberPress Plan for Your Site Today | MemberPress
chroma.js api docs!
jscolor: JavaScript Color picker with Opacity (alpha channel)
ACF | Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress
Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer
1 hr 1 min
May 27, 2024617: Economic & AI Vibes with Jason Grigsby
Show Description
We're chatting with Jason Grigsby about what a white-collar recession means, how the sources and methods of consuming news shape our perspectives, whether the current economic conditions represent a market correction and if a rebound is imminent. We explore the critical decision of whether to embrace AI advancements or risk being left behind. We also talk about AI-generated voices, large language models and ethics, and the impact of social media signals in an AI world.
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GuestsJason Grigsby
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Co-Founder of Cloud Four. Author of Progressive Web Apps from A Book Apart.
Links
An Event Apart - Farewell
Cloud Four – Responsive web design and development, progressive web apps
Jason Grigsby – A resurrected blog on the Indie Web
Jason Grigsby (@grigs) / X
High-Salary Job Scarcity
Code Tests
AI Ethical Framework
iPhone Personal Voice
MacWhisper
Progressive Web Apps
Decoder
1 hr
May 20, 2024616: Strum Machine with Luke Abbott
Show Description
Luke Abbott is the creator of Strum Machine, an app that simulates backing tracks by stitching together individual notes, chords, and strums recorded on guitar, standup bass, and mandolin. We talk about what Strum Machine does, why he decided to build it, how bringing on a professional designer helped, pricing thoughts, and the "fun" of building a version on iOS.
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GuestsLuke Abbott
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Musician and creator of Strum Machine.
Links
Strum Machine: customizable backing tracks made from real instruments
Tater Joes Old-Time Musical Mercantile
Chris Coyier on Strum Machine
iReal Pro Practice
PG Music
SoundJS Library
Tone.js
Latest Posts - Page 2
Apache Cordova
Extensive Song Catalog
howler.js
A Tale of Two Clocks
1 hr 5 min
May 13, 2024615: Dave Goes Windows For Real
Show Description
Dave's got job news to share, as well as insight into the process of what applying for a job in tech is like in 2024. We also talk about styling, scoping, positioning, and floating UI.
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Algorithms & Data Structures | Learn Algorithms with TypeScript for Interviews | Frontend Masters
Information asymmetry
Fluent 2 Design System
Font Awesome
Web Awesome
Icônes
Iconify — Search Icons
Create Floating UI
User App Tour
1 hr 4 min
May 06, 2024614: CSS Grid Level 3 aka Masonry with Adam Argyle
Show Description
Adam Argyle stops by to chat about the conversation that's happening around CSS Grid / Masonry. What do we want? What might Apple's response to Google be? And nitpicking the spec just for fun.
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GuestsAdam Argyle
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
CSS DevRel Google Chrome, CSSWG
member, host on GUIchallenges, co-host: CSSpodcast and BAD at CSSpodcast, maker of VisBug, OpenProps and GradientStyle.
Links
‎Gemini - chat to supercharge your ideas
Invent Masonry Layout
Feedback on Masonry Layout – Frontend Masters Boost
Masonry
CSS Masonry
What would you call this layout?
Web Bloat Impact
57 min
April 29, 2024613: Recording Live Music, WebC, Open Source, & WordPress Studio
Show Description
Chris bought recording gear off an Instagram ad, our thoughts on WebC, CodePen upgrades Yarn, thoughts on the commercial value of open source, Automattic releases an app to install WordPress locally, IBM buys Hashicorp, income tax software, and a hack for getting Safari to respect background colors used in a pseudo selector.
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Links
FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024
601: Brad Frost on A Global Design System + Frostapalooza – ShopTalk
Audigo - The pocket-size recording studio
Final Cut Pro Sync
iPhone Webcam for Mac
Acapella PicPlayPost
Eleventy Generator
Astro
Enhance
Transform Plain Text
Home page
Efficient Package Manager
Explore Coding Ideas
Code Editor Community
Node.js Documentary
Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed.
Zed is now open source
Git Branching, Refined
Design System Tracker
Local WordPress Development
Studio by WordPress.com
WordPress Security & Performance
Melanie Sumner
IBM acquires HashiCorp
TurboTax Deceptive Filing
TikTok Tax Advice
Safari Selection Rendering
Val Town
1 hr 4 min
April 22, 2024612: Matt Haughey on a Fantasy Blogging CMS Setup
Show Description
Matt is here to talk about creating the perfect fantasy CMS for blogging, moderating comments at Metafilter, building sane defaults into programs, how difficult the web is, do we want AI in our CMS, and where is content headed on the internet?
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GuestsMatthew Haughey
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
A writer with over 25 years of experience building products. In that time I've worked as a designer, coder, company founder, and senior writer.
Links
Matt Haughey
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
MovableType.org
The story of b2, b2evolution and WordPress
Ghost: The best open source blogging platform
Micro.blog
A Whole Lotta Nothing
Notes from migrating 24 years of blog posts from WordPress to Ghost
Ideas for my dream blogging CMS
Embrace the weird
The newest episode of Search Engine is incredible
Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine - The Verge
1 hr 3 min
April 15, 2024611: React! TypeScript! Jobification! Drupal!
Show Description
Dave & Chris and thoughts on career advice that worked 3 years ago but isn't as helpful now, marking tests with ChatGPT, is taking a Drupal job in 2024 a good idea, Chris got #gear sniped, P3 color follow up, the confusing File System APIs, and where did all the lightboxes go?
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Links
chan (@chantastic) / X
The Texas Tribune
The Coming Wave Book
Drupal - Open Source CMS | Drupal.org
Electric Air Duster - 130000RPM Compressed Air Duster，3 Gear Adjustable Jet Dry Blower can Reusable Can for Computer Keyboard,Outdoors,Car,Home. : Electronics
xScope • Measure. Inspect. Test.
The Many, Confusing File System APIs – Cloud Four
55 min