ShopTalk

By Chris Coyier & Dave RupertTechnology

ShopTalk episodes

April 13710: Simen Svale from Sanity
Show Description
What is Sanity and who is it for in the age of AI, managing content with AI, how Simen Svale uses AI agents alongside Sanity, designing a MCP, design with Pencil vs Figma, how Inngest works, and how Simen keeps AI agents busy all day.
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
GuestsSimen Svale
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Co-founder/CTO at Sanity.io
Links
The Content Operating System for the AI era | Sanity
Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson
Message from Sanity
Pencil – Design on canvas. Land in code.
AI and backend workflows, orchestrated at any scale
SponsorsSanity.ioThe back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.
57 min
April 06709: Slopforking a CMS, Apple Browser Feedback, and Custom Theme CSS
Show Description
Dave's plan for when AI finally takes his job, going to the movies in 2026, Chris & Dave chat with Apple about the state of browsers, Dave has a way of setting a theme with a custom space property, and Cloudflare slopforks a CMS.
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
Links
The Greatest Average American: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
Weapons (2025) directed by Zach Cregger
Dave's CodePen Pen
Introducing EmDash
SponsorsSanitySanity is a Content Operating System. It gives editors a real workspace. Studio is a customizable editing interface where your content team publishes without touching your repo or filing tickets. They can use built-in AI that researches the web, understands the content model, and handles the repetitive work (drafts, translations, metadata) so editors focus on editorial judgment. Content is structured data from the start, so agents work with typed fields, not raw text.
56 min
March 30708: People Are Not Friction, Getting Rid of the CMS, and Social RSS Follow Up
Show Description
Memories of Hawaii, people are not friction in the AI age, what do you pre-load for a flight, can you get rid of the CMS with AI involved, Dave's dream for a custom VS Code machine, CommonRSS follow up conversation, the hype for ATProto, and picking music apps for a family.
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
Links
People are not friction
USB-C to 3.5mm Audio Cable (1.2m) - Apple (CA)
The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott
Whiskey Web and Whatnot
Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson
"You should never build a CMS" | Sanity
Blog | Studio303
Skyreader
npmx - Package Browser for the npm Registry
Sill | Top news shared by the people you trust
58 min
March 23707: RSS with Social, AI Agent Traffic, and What to Blog About
Show Description
Listener John has a VSCode extension to share, Chris muses on why nobody has attempted to build the social side of RSS, a listener is experimenting with feature-based folder structures, how do you feel about AI traffic on your website, what can someone blog about in 2026, and Digg gets dugg by bots.
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
Links
DTF St. Louis | Official Trailer
Parasite (2019)
tag-toggle - Visual Studio Marketplace
CommonRSS
Skyreader
Tim Disney (@disnetdev.com) — Bluesky
Feedbin
Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott
57 min
March 16706: Can You Vibe Code a Canvas App, Geolocation Part 2, & CodePen v2
Show Description
Are we all going to vibe code our own bespoke apps now, can a canvas app be vibe coded, more geolocation API thoughts, CodePen v2's public beta is now out, and private pens explained.
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
Links
March Mad CSS
Scroll My Mac
Setapp | Powerful apps for Mac & iOS
Move tests to closed source repo · Issue #8082 · tldraw/tldraw
Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing
Traditional Irish music on The Session
CodePen Radio – CodePen
55 min
March 09705: CodePen Public Beta, Anchor Positioning, and Build Awesome
Show Description
Chris talks through going public with CodePen v2's beta, the magic words and AI skills needed today, Chris has a beef with anchor positioning, thoughts on classless CSS libraries, Eleventy growing up into Build Awesome, and how would you pass an hour by quickly? (Hopefully by listening to this podcast.)
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
Links
Magic Words
Anchor Interpolated Morph (AIM) · January 23, 2026
Build Awesome by Font Awesome
Build Awesome: We're pausing our Kickstarter!
Build a Web Site in 7 Minutes with Build Awesome
Quiet UI
Good Sudoku
CodePen
59 min
March 02704: Sanitizer API with Frederik Braun
Show Description
We talk with Frederik Braun from Mozilla about the Sanitizer API, how it works with HTML tags and web components, what it does with malformed HTML, and where CSP fits in alongside the Sanitizer API.
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
GuestsFrederik Braun
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Security engineer and manager working on the Mozilla Firefox web browser
Links
Frederik Braun: Why the Sanitizer API is just setHTML()
Frederik Braun
freddyb (Frederik B)
SponsorsBluehostDo you ever feel like pre-configured hosting is slowing you down? That is where VPS hosting starts to make a lot more sense. With Bluehost VPS, you are not stuck inside someone else's environment. You get full control of the server. You can spin up Docker, deploy containerized apps, run workflows, and connect your CRM, databases, and APIs without weird restrictions.
No shared bottlenecks. No artificial limits.
If you want to actually own your stack, your data, your performance, your roadmap, VPS is the move.
1 hr 3 min
February 23703: Ujjwal Sharma and TC39
Show Description
We're joined by Ujjwal Sharma to talk about what the TC39 is, who's in it, and how the TC39 group guides JavaScript.
Listen on Website
GuestsUjjwal Sharma
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Developer Advocacy, Programming Languages & Web Standards
Links
Ryzokuken (Ujjwal Sharma)
LinkedIn
X (Twitter)
Igalia
TC39
Use JSDoc
1 hr 8 min
February 16702: Lit-HTML, Implied Target for Popover, and Website Builders
Show Description
Chris has opinions about being sick, implied target for popovers, should Apple provide cross platform virtual machine images for Safari testing, what tips are there for beginners to HTML and CSS, which website builder CMS's do we recommend, and a Chipotle hack for your lunch plans.
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
Links
The Missing Link for Web Components – Frontend Masters Blog
Better defaults for popovers - Manuel Matuzovic
346: With Ben Evans – CodePen
Ben Evans on CodePen
Pure CSS Only Portrait - Isla
Pure CSS Still Life - Water and Lemons
A Single Div
Webflow
Craft CMS
Sanity
Contentful
50 min
February 09701: Digital Archives, OpenClaw Security Concerns, and @Property Declarations
Show Description
When Dave dies, who gets his domain name? How OpenClaw is a massive security concern, tips on handling a broad design surface area with a design system, changing database values with text-transform, should you declare CSS properties with @property, and was Chris wrong about CSS?
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
Links
Your Home for a Century: Our 100-Year Domains and Plans
1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts | 1Password Community
From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface | 1Password
Openclaw (clawdbot), Agents and the Age of Personal Software - YouTube
bbPress.org
WooCommerce
cap - no cap
Nice Select · February 3, 2026
SponsorsAxe-ConAxe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings.
Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.
1 hr 5 min