ShopTalk

By Chris Coyier & Dave RupertTechnology

ShopTalk episodes

November 06, 2023590: Twisting Through Websites
Show Description
The excitement of launching Luro, changes in social media platforms, different seasons for coding and marketing, embedded social media post weight, CSS thoughts from Web Unleashed, focus state issues, and fact checking and updating old posts on your blog.
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Links
Luro | Build a design system and track component usage, adoption, and success across your entire product.
Watch Dave's livestreams on Twitch
Pebble (social network)
Message Decoder – Chris Coyier
Message Decoder - Scans your notifications, automatically puts one-time passcodes on your clipboard
0 KB Social Media Embeds – Chris Coyier
WordPress plugin for fediverse embeds | Stefan Bohacek
Stories: Building a home for my shitty sci-fi | daverupert.com
Stories | daverupert.com
An Anchored Navbar Solution – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
I Have A New Podcast! - by Michael Hobbes
If Books Could Kill on Apple Podcasts
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58 min
October 30, 2023589: CSS Functions, Read It Later, Making Money in Business, and More
Show Description
A quick bit of union news follow up, CSS function round up, Read It Later inside Feedbin, fun uses for a Stream Deck+, how to turn up the money dial in your own business, and having the audacity to call yourself a publisher.
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Links
A Couple of New CSS Functions I’d Never Heard Of – Chris Coyier
[@ichrisv2 • Parenting tip: iOS17's Assistive Access mode is great for accessibility (seniors, etc.) but also ... • Threads](https://www.threads.net/@ichrisv2/post/CydyJByOPvK)
Bandcamp’s Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
xywh() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
Bramus: "To change a color based on Lig…" - Front-End Social
@ichrisv2 • Parenting tip: iOS17's Assistive Access mode is great for accessibility (seniors, etc.) but also ... • Threads
Chris Enns: "Parenting tip: iOS17’s Assisti…" - Mastodon
Read Later in Feedbin | daverupert.com
Feedbin
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane's small internet website
Convert bookmarklet to Chrome extension
Reeder 5
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader - Chrome Web Store
Stream Deck + Black Edition
The Browser is a Printing Press
Luro | Luro Posts
Luro
blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software
57 min
October 23, 2023588: Elliott Marquez on Web Components and Lit
Show Description
Elliott Marquez talks with us about the history of Polymer and Lit, why you should pick Lit, working with web components, the shadow dom, managing state, and how Material design is built with web components.
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GuestsElliott Marquez
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Front-end software development for Google’s Lit team.
Links
webcomponents.org
Lit
esm.run by jsDelivr - A New-Age CDN for JavaScript modules
davatron5000/fit-vids: Web Component version of FitVids from the creator of FitVids
Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
Material Web
Discord
1 hr 3 min
October 16, 2023587: Why Ethan Marcotte Thinks Tech Workers Deserve a Union
Show Description
Ethan Marcotte is here to talk about his new book, You Deserve a Tech Union, and discusses topics such as why we need unions in tech, who gets to be in the union, how unions can help deal with the AI question, union busting, and some arguments against unions.
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GuestsEthan Marcotte
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Designer, writer, and speaker. Started that “responsive web design” thing.
Links
Ethan Marcotte on LinkedIn
Ethan Marcotte on Mastodon
Welcome to Ethan Marcotte’s website — Ethan Marcotte
Responsive Web Design, A Book Apart
You Deserve a Tech Union, A Book Apart
Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike
CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees
Twitter lays off another 10% of staff, New York Times reports | CNN Business
Kickstarter United
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee? - Freakonomics
Basecamp Blowup: Banning Politics At Work Prompts Over A Dozen Employees To Quit : NPR
Bandcamp United - Home
Glitch workers sign tech’s first collective bargaining agreement - The Verge
Waiting for "Superman"
Resilient Management | A book for new managers in tech
58 min
October 09, 2023586: Micro.blogging with Manton Reece
Show Description
Manton Reece, creator of Micro.blog, stops by to talk about the history of Micro.blog, what it's written in, how it handles feeds coming in and going out, cross-posting, authentication, and the somewhat hidden features of Micro.blog: bookmarking, bookshelves, and even podcasting.
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GuestsManton Reece
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Creator of Micro.blog, co-host of Core Intuition.
Links
Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
Micro.blog
Manton Reece - About
Micro.blog - @manton
Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing by Manton Reece — Kickstarter
Indie Microblogging
Sinatra
Cross-Posting - Chris Coyier
Cross-posting to Twitter, Medium, Mastodon, and more - Cross-posting - Micro.blog Help Center
Letterboxd • Social film discovery.
Nostr, a simple protocol for decentralizing social media that has a chance of working
Welcome to Pinboard—Social bookmarking for introverts!
Micro.blog for iOS
Hugo
Bear Blog
MarsEdit 5
Core Intuition podcast
1 hr
October 02, 2023585: Blog Redesign, Sounds on a Website, Accessibility Tests, and Safari 17
Show Description
Chris redesigned his blog, using sounds on your website to make it seem fancy, what can't automated accessibility tests test, and what's new in Safari 17.
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Links
School dropoff and sweater weather season | Instagram
Chris Coyier - Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.
Cannonball is such a badass song - Chris Coyier
Soundcite
Why not React? - DEV Community
Top Tasks - A how-to guide - Gerry McGovern
How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility – Smart Interface Design Patterns
Expanding your touch targets – Nicole Sullivan
v0.dev by Vercel
Fable | Digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities
Safari 17 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
display: contents considered harmful – Eric Bailey
More accessible markup with display: contents | hidde.blog
A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell
Smart Interface Design Patterns (9h video + live UX training) – 100 Smart Interface Design Patterns & Live Examples. 9h Video + UX Training.
How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility – Smart Interface Design Patterns
1 hr
September 25, 2023584: Community, Partnerships, Images, and Astro with Fred K. Schott
Show Description
Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about building community, open source and sponsorship, building on partnerships in the dev community, WordPress + Astro, view transitions, using Discord for support, and leaking secret Astro Studio details.
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GuestsFred K. Schott
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Co-creator of Astro.
Links
Astro
Astro Documentation
The Astro Blog | Astro
Astro on GitHub
Discord
Astro (@astrodotbuild) on Twitter
Discord | kapa.ai docs
Astro Studio
Music for fake trailer:
- How To Make A Blockbuster Movie Trailer
- Auralnauts music
- The Booj — Twenty Thousand Hertz
59 min
September 18, 2023583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton
Show Description
Maggie Appleton talks with us about her work at Elicit, working with large and small language models, how humans vet the responses from AI, the discussion around the Soggoth meme in AI, using Discord as UI, what to do if your boss wants AI in your app, and why does she call her blog a digital garden?
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GuestsMaggie Appleton
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Design at Elicit. Makes visual essays about UX, programming, and anthropology. Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition.
Links
Maggie Appleton
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
Maggie Appleton | Dribbble
Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models
Ought
FAQ | Elicit
Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
577: Shawn Wang on AI - ShopTalk
Introducing Whisper
Photoshop (beta) on the desktop
Midjourney
Llama 2 - Meta AI
LukeW | Ask
Maggie Appleton (@Mappletons) / X
57 min
September 11, 2023582: Lifetime Plan, Pricing #HotDrama, and CSS Resets
Show Description
Getting tripped up on audio at conferences, announcing the ShopTalk Show Lifetime Plan, some Once pricing #hotdrama, remembering Molly Holzschlag, web components, Luro launch day thoughts, and a question about using a normalize or sanitize in 2023 prompts a run through of Andy Bell's Modern CSS Reset.
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Links
ONCE — Introducing ONCE
Singing Carrots - The Place for Your Singing Practice
Online Form Builder with Cloud Storage Database | Wufoo
SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Free Online Survey Tool
Envato - Top digital assets and services
Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown
Tucson's Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60 | Obituary
Memories of Molly – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
Bruce Lawson's personal site : Goodbye Molly Holzschlag–a memoriam post
The History of Internet Explorer and Web Standards | HackerNoon
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.
Luro | Expand your design system to your entire product development process
A Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell
The ideal viewport doesn’t exist
The CSS Podcast
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1 hr 2 min
September 04, 2023581: DevRel, Musical Mics, Social Sharing, and 100 Years of WordPress
Show Description
Dave calls a quick Luro branding meeting, some thoughts on DevRel, Chris tries to figure out musical instrument mics, follow up on WordPress from a previous episode, Chris' journey through the social graph options, 100 year hosting with WordPress, and the introduction of a new segment: Happy Project Share Time.
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Links
kingkool68/wordpress-rh-starter-theme
get_template_part()
The cost of convenience — surma.dev
The State of API-Powered Publishing to Social Media Networks - Chris Coyier
XPoster – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
FS Poster
Micro.blog
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com
alfateam/rdb: Javascript ORM
Happy Project Share Time
Learn Privacy
Build UX
A11yAutomation
Continuous Accessibility
Announcing Crashlands 2 | Butterscotch Shenanigans
Stitch - Visual Studio Marketplace
bscotch/stitch: Tools and apps for GameMaker development: a CLI for pipeline development, a VSCode extension for coding, and more.
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56 min