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April 14, 2025660: Teaching CSS, Conferences, and Masonry Updates
Show Description
Follow up on thoughts about teaching CSS from scratch, questions about conferences to attend as well as a way to kickstart a conference idea, some Balatro thoughts, and our thoughts on the recent Grid vs Masonry debate.
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Links
The Homebrewery - NaturalCrit
SmashingConf in-person Conferences 2025 — Friendly, inclusive & fun events for web designers and developers. - SmashingConf New York, Freiburg, Antwerp and Online
Web Design Event
State of the Browser 13
Bring live to life
59 min
April 07, 2025659: CSS Carousel Configurator Demos with Adam Argyle
Show Description
Adam Argyle joins us to chat about new CSS features that are demo'd in a carousel configurator - a builder-like experience to help visualize the capabilities of a CSS only Carousel: buttons, markers, paging and inertness.
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GuestsAdam Argyle
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
CSS at Google.
Links
Chrome Canary Features
Demo Space
CSS Carousel Configurator
Black Emperor
1 hr 11 min
March 31, 2025658: Andy Bell on Working with Clients, Writing, and Building Courses for Web Builders
Show Description
We're joined by Andy Bell, the founder of Set Studio. They discuss the evolution of web design, the importance of client relationships, and the innovative approaches taken at Set Studio and Piccalilli. The conversation covers the shift from traditional design methods to a more browser-centric approach, the challenges of client work, and the significance of documentation in maintaining project integrity. Andy shares insights on creating customizable design systems and the necessity of having a decision-making framework in client interactions.
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GuestsAndy Bell
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Designer, front-end developer and the founder of Set Studio and Piccalilli.
Links
Pen.new
mdn.io
Set.Studio
Front-End Development Skills
Obsidian Thinking
Connected Workspace
The Telepathy Tapes
Complete CSS
If it works, it's right - Piccalilli
Carousels with CSS
1 hr 3 min
March 24, 2025657: David Darnes on Web Components and Design Systems
Show Description
David Darnes joins us to talk about his work on the Nord design system, writing web components, working with embeds and web components, thoughts on building a progress bar or notification component, keeping design systems and design tools in sync, and tricks for components and variables.
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GuestsDavid Darnes
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Designer, Front-end Developer & Writer.
Links
Nord Health
Ariel Salminen
Design Systems WTF
Awesome Standalones
DesignSystems.wtf
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1 hr 5 min
March 17, 2025656: Onboarding Woes, Coloring Links, and AI Slop Theories
Show Description
Onboarding users is a lot more difficult than you might think it is, how should links be coloured or styled, keeping web software up to date, why does some AI slop get created in the first place, getting context for why things happened or decisions were made, and our first bullet point dev career story (Steve's version).
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Links
Subscribe to us on YouTube!
Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing
Automate without limits
CodePen PRO
Link Color Idea
Ludacris Freestyle
Front
Tag, You're It
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56 min
March 10, 2025655: Conspiracy Theory Theories, View Transitions vs CSS Animations, and Autocomplete
Show Description
It's a speed run meeting edition episode and we're talking conspiracy theories, getting hypnotized, disinformation on TikTok vs the news, view transitions vs CSS animations vs the web animation API, follow ups on font-weight and attire, and classic autocomplete vs AI autocomplete.
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Links
SubwayTakes (@subwaytakes) | TikTok
Motion - A modern animation library for JavaScript and React
font-weight: 300 considered harmful | CSS-Tricks
46 min
March 03, 2025654: UI + State, AI Missing Context But Adds Browsers, and Scalability on the Web
Show Description
UI and state struggles, AI missing important sand context, should we look forward to AI browsers, how bad is the mobile web in 2025, what does scalability with websites actually mean, and is there a role for someone as a project manager with tech insight?
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Links
Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals
UI = f(statesⁿ) - daverupert.com
Welcome to Steam
Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images – Eric Bailey
The Browser Company | Building Arc
Dia from The Browser Company
Perplexity teases a web browser called Comet | TechCrunch
Introducing Operator | OpenAI
Daring Fireball: One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps
Sill | Top news shared by the people you trust
57 min
February 24, 2025653: Interop 2025, Attributes, and Black Boxes of AI
Show Description
We're looking at the Interop 2025 announcements, Dave is hating on (and talking about) attributes, debating better ways to handle color inputs, following up on the implications of AI that is shaped by politics, and Dave mouthblogs the secret black boxes of AI.
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Links
interop/2025/README
CSS Day 2025, 5th & 6th of June, Amsterdam
Interop 2025 | Igalia
Miriam’s post
Robin Sloan’s post
Michelle Barker’s reply
Baldur’s post
Robin’s reply
Baldur’s reply
Jeremy Keith’s reply
TechCrunch article
OpenAI Model Spec
Vale post
Search Engine podcast
GitHub link
59 min
February 17, 2025652: Talking to Bots, Building Browser Games, and Political LLMs
Show Description
Remembering the old days before we had bots, teaching kids to talk to bots, how difficult is it to build games in the browser, are we seeing LLMs get more political, what does mainstream media really mean, and have you heard about PouchDB?
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Links
PixiJS: The HTML5 Creation Engine
Unreal Engine: Powerful Real-Time 3D Creation Tool
Balatro: A Unique Gaming Experience
Xbox Adaptive Controller: Accessibility in Gaming
Designing Content Authoring Experiences by Greg Dunlap on Kickstarter
Craft CMS: A Flexible Content Management System
Analysis: ChatGPT’s Political Views Are Shifting Right
Search Engine Podcast: Insights and Discussions
PouchDB: A Pocket-Sized Database on GitHub
Zero Docs: Documentation for Zero
Replicache: Real-Time Data Synchronization
Obsidian: Sharpen Your Thinking
1 hr 3 min
February 10, 2025651: Jason Lengstorf on CodeTV.dev, DevRel Panic, and Spicy Gear
Show Description
Jason joins us to talk about his rebranding to CodeTV.dev, how Chris Coyier helped him become a star, the power of free, how he makes money with CodeTV, sponsorship and tech shows, crappy web cams, and the gear he uses to look and sound amazing.
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GuestsJason Lengstorf
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Jason Lengstorf is the producer of CodeTV.dev, where he helps tech companies connect with developer communities through better devrel strategy and media.
Links
tv for developers — CodeTV
The Best React-Based Framework | Gatsby
Scale & Ship Faster with a Composable Web Architecture | Netlify
The Great British Bake Off
Web Development Challenge
Leet Heat Pilot
TV for Developers
Dropout Comedy
Nebula Universe
Sunny Nihilist Declaration
Philosophize This! Episodes
BenQ RD280UA Monitor
iPhone Webcam for Mac
Webcam Comparison
Sony FX3 Camera
ATEM Mini
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57 min