Show Description Dave's coming in hot from vacation, how CodePen's new editor imports packages, should CodePen fix your code if you forgot something, the struggle to get the right context in the console, Chris is still shopping for an Arc replacement, and the struggles with inspiration driven engineering. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME) Listen on Website → Links Orion Browser by Kagi Meet Dia Chrome Canary SigmaOS Mythic Quest - Wikipedia Sponsors Design Tokens Course World-renowned design systems experts Brad Frost (creator of Atomic Design) and Ian Frost teach you everything you need to know about creating an effective design token system to help your organization design and build at scale.…

Show Description Chris and Dave chat about whether you should wing it or script your videos, unplanned demos versus the safety net of edited videos, streaming software with Ecamm Live vs OBS vs Streamlabs, new CSS animation composition, and anchor positioning thoughts. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME) Listen on Website → Links Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Sony ZV-1 Twitch > jlengstorf Twitch > ChrisCoyier YouTube > Chris Coyier Frontend Masters Figma Canva Figma Buzz YouTube > Mark Rober YouTube > The Coding Train Ecamm Live YouTube > CodePen Floating UI Sponsors Design Tokens Course World-renowned design systems experts Brad Frost (creator of Atomic Design) and Ian Frost teach you everything you need to know about creating an effective design token system to help your organization design and build at scale.…

Show Description We're all addicted to Clues by Sam and wonder about the data structure for the site, good thoughts on the design tokens community, shadow DOM, the state of web components in mid-2025, dealing with JSON, and new ideas around web monetization. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME) Listen on Website → Links Clues By Sam web-platform-tests dashboard P&B: Dave Rupert – Manu Web Bucks Supertab | Reduce friction and drive revenue with Pay-as-you-go Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access Get early access: Cloudflare Pay Per Crawl Private Beta | Cloudflare Sponsors Design Tokens Course World-renowned design systems experts Brad Frost (creator of Atomic Design) and Ian Frost teach you everything you need to know about creating an effective design token system to help your organization design and build at scale.…

Show Description Chris reflects on CSS Day in Amsterdam, allowing languages to grow with nonstandard elements, naming things continues to be hard, shapes are going to get weird on the web, HTML includes get stirred up, thoughts on CSS mixins, and Dave's blogging about resizing text fun. Listen on Website → Links Understanding CSS corner-shape and the Power of the Superellipse – Frontend Masters Blog CSS Functions and Mixins Module explainers/declarative-partial-document-updates.md at main · noamr/explainers · GitHub Houdini APIs - Web APIs | MDN Inverse text-sizing based on text-length with attr() - daverupert.com Fit-to-Width Text: A New Technique inverse text-sizing with attr - bigtext.js style - contenteditable dealio ShopTalk Show | creating Podcasts about building websites | Patreon Sponsors…

Show Description Brad and Ian stop by to chat about their new course, The Complete Guide to Design Tokens, what happens if you don't use design tokens on projects, what the ideal outcome is for building and designing with design tokens, how many colors is enough, what about refactoring, and does Figma or code win the argument? (Brad and Ian did give us a 20% discount code for the course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME) Listen on Website → Guests Brad Frost Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. Ian Frost Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Front-end architect, technical lead, and consultant who loves to help level up developers. Links Design Tokens Course with Brad Frost and Ian Frost Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher Nord Design System React Aria Style Dictionary | Style Dictionary Sponsors…

Show Description We're chatting with Peter Pistorius about the change they made from RedwoodJS to RedwoodSDK, how it's going to handle routing, some new marketing ideas for RedwoodSDK, how RedwoodSDK's principles are informed by where Peter's from, choosing to go all in on Cloudflare, how the community has responded, and plans for monetization. Listen on Website → Guests Peter Pistorius Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Working on RedwoodSDK Links peterp (Peter Pistorius) · GitHub GitHub - peterp/Blackspace: Add blank spaces to OS X's Dock Billable: Billing Made Simple. Period. RedwoodJS RedwoodSDK | The React Framework for Cloudflare Miniflare · Cloudflare Workers docs Plugins | Vite HTMLRewriter · Cloudflare Workers docs Sponsors…

Show Description Jake Archibald joins us to discuss HTML includes, potential solutions, and the implications of introducing such a feature. We talk about security concerns, performance implications, and community feedback regarding HTML imports. Listen on Website → Guests Jake Archibald Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Engineer at Shopify. Once swam to the end of an infinity pool. Links Off The Main Thread podcast blink-dev - Google Groups Sponsors…

Show Description Jen Simmons stops by to talk about new CSS and Safari features like Form Control Styling, Declarative Web Push, Typography, contrast-color(), and more. Listen on Website → Guests Jen Simmons Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social Safari & WebKit Evangelist. Member of the CSS Working Group. Webmaster since 1996. Links webkit.org Safari Release Notes WCAG 2.0 contrast-color() function APCA Color Contrast Tool Color.js Release Lea Verou’s page on color contrast Declarative Web Push Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS CSS Forms Level 1 Specification in Progress line-height units Home | Open UI text-wrap: pretty margin-trim CSS shape() function Two Lines of Cross-Document View Transitions Code Sponsors…

Show Description How it all comes back to the why column, dark patterns, privacy and tracking, getting emails forever from one purchase, how to be bold with communication while still being respectful, HTMHell, CSS mistakes, are we anti-JSON, and the state of FitVid in 2025. Listen on Website → Links Markup from hell - HTMHell Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS [CSS Working Group Wiki] JSON Editing Douglas Crockford on JSON Fluid Video Plugin Sponsors…

Show Description Fresh off his Megaman Streamathon, Mat Marquis joins us to talk about becoming a professional Twitch streamer, creating a JavaScript course, his thoughts on the design and content of said course, a brief moment on Linux in 2025, and attempts to make the web weird and fun again. Listen on Website → Guests Mat Marquis Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social My goal is to ensure that your content can reach any user, in any browsing context—regardless of the size of their screen, the speed of their internet connection, the age of their device, or the combination of browsers and assistive technologies they use to experience the web. Links I’m Mat. I make websites. Wilto (Mat Marquis) · GitHub Mat “Wilto” Marquis (@Wilto@front-end.social) - Front-End Social Mat “Wilto” Marquis (@wil.to) — Bluesky WiltoStreams - Live Streaming JavaScript for Web Designers Learn JavaScript CodeMirror Text Editor JavaScript Playground JavaScript for Everyone Premium Courses Paul Irish Profile Robin Sloan Framework Laptop 16 DIY Johnny Mnemonic Johnny Mnemonic Trailer #1 Sponsors…

Show Description How much would you pay for new users, initial thoughts on Figma's announcements, CSS carousel follow up, favicon easter eggs, how do you prepare for an internship, and why aren't more developers using logical properties? Listen on Website → Links Windsurf (formerly Codeium) - The most powerful AI Code Editor Figma Sites Figma Make Figjam Are CSS Carousels Accessible? Windsurf (formerly Codeium) - The most powerful AI Code Editor Figma Sites: Design, Prototype & Publish Your Next Website Creative Design Tools Collaborative Whiteboard Presentation Creation AI-Powered Design Tools Learn to Code Faster Introducing Web Awesome Prioritization Advocacy axe Accessibility Tools Todoist Task Management Sponsors…

Show Description Do we sound drunk on Shorts? What speed do you listen to your podcasts at? Happy Birthday to Dave, Roblox scams, having silly fun on the web, Crashlands 2 released, a Balatro moment, non-standard browser use testing, and color-mix follow up. Listen on Website → Links The Adventure Zone | Maximum Fun Don't let your voice be flattened by the über theme - daverupert.com Crashlands 2 Adam Coster: Crashlands 2 Balatro University jQuery Reunion Sponsors Webflow x GSAP Community Challenge GSAP and ALL the plugins are now FREE for everyone thanks to Webflow (even for commercial projects)! The SplitText plugin has had a complete rewrite (half the size, accessible, and smarter text splitting). To celebrate: a community challenge all through May. Make something fun and win merch! One prompt each week featuring a different (previously paid) plugin.…

Show Description We're talking browsers and discussing alternative options like Vivaldi and Brave, the implications of Chrome's potential sale to OpenAI, the impact of AI on browser functionality, Discord vs Circle, and building with Hotwire. Listen on Website → Links Newfangled Browser Alternatives – Frontend Masters Blog Zen Browser Horse Browser Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser Opera GX | Gaming Browser | Opera Thorium Browser Mullvad Browser Fast and Private Web Browser DuckDuckGo Microsoft Edge Download OpenAI Chrome Acquisition Mozilla on U.S. v. Google HTML5 CSS3 Support Opera Air | Mindful Browser Opera Mini Download Hotwire Drawer Component CodePen Circle Discord Zulip Netlify Support Forums Retro Photo app Media Diet – Chris Coyier Sponsors…

Show Description What are the non-US cloud services options, falling off the blogging train and trying to get back on, working on vacation, Chris recaps the Alaskan Folk Festival experience, how often do you go back and clean out JavaScript, and the idea of gilding just one lily on a new project. Listen on Website → Links European Alternatives A lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality Trap (2024) Reviews Polyfilling Concepts ex-Googler · April 10, 2025 Gild Just One Lily Blog Questions Challenge CodePen Development CSS clip-path maker Sponsors…

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. Listen on Website → 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 Sponsors…