ShopTalk
Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert
100 episodes
A podcast about web design and development.
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738: The Trouble with Tests and Bugs, Interop Voting, and AI Skills
Show Description Dave’s got a great concert story to kick off the episode before talking AI-assisted tests, a practical use for HTML markers and templates, Interop voting, browser features like margin-trim, and how to…
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737: CSS alpha(), SVG with linked-parameters, and Arguing with Humans
Show Description On this episode we're chatting about how to make modern tooling more collaborative and human-friendly, CSS alpha() and color-mix() features, Chris quizzes Dave on SVG features, voting for interop,…
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736: Building Design Systems Using AI with TJ Pitre
Show Description TJ Pitre joins us to talk AI in design systems, building and maintaining component libraries, the evolution of modular CSS and component workflows, connecting Figma and code, keeping components in…
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735: Design System Docs, CodePen’s API, and Bucket Filling Conversations
Show Description Dave and Chris explore the evolving landscape of design systems, CodePen's new API features, what happens when an app moves your cheese and how to respond, and Regretful API's. Listen on Website…
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734: Web Performance with Ben Schwarz
Show Description Ben Schwarz stops by to discuss the state of web performance, using his research on airline websites as a case study for practical insights on improving website speed and user experience. Listen on…
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733: Treadmills, Bass Guitars, and Testing Web Components
Show Description We're talking treadmill and musical gear, software maintenance, dependency management, technical debt, testing web components, and CSS-Tricks hot drama. Listen on Website Links • Underdesk…
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732: Thomas Steiner on New Cross-Origin Storage APIs
Show Description We're joined by Thomas Steiner from Google to discuss his proposal for cross-origin storage, a new web API designed to bring back safe, cross-site resource sharing. We explore why the old shared-CDN…
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731: Terminal UX, Running Multiple Services, Don’t Settle for an App
Show Description We want your positive tech support stories! Topics this week include wrangling DNS/DKIM/DMARC for a friend's newsletter, comparing terminal tools like TMUX and Herdr, and juggling Rails, Node, and AI…
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730: A/B Testing with Charts, Music Recommendations, & Web Permissions
Show Description The realities of A/B testing, the future of specialized hosting in the AI era, microphone and camera permissions on the web, tricks for working with HTML email, and hyping Midnight Vinyl Club and How…
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729: After Dark Edition! Microlighter, Tri-state Drama, and Editing Video Quickly
Show Description Dave and Chris try to get their LUTS in a row, figure out which app to use to edit and publish video quickly, Dave's new syntax highlighter microlighter, could web MCP be a good thing to help agents…
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728: BIMI, Good Favicon Practice, and CSS @Layer Exploration
Show Description Having type two fun, email branding with BIMI, accessibility details in icons and favicons, using AI as a coding and maintenance partner, CSS @layer property, design systems, and the economics of fast…
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727: Front-End Complexity, AI Co-Authorship, and New CSS Navigation Patterns
Show Description We tackle a listener question about why junior front-end devs are expected to know so much beyond HTML and CSS, then get into Dave's real-world fix swapping old WebKit line-clamp hacks for the new CSS…
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726: Be More Weird, Sameness is Ok, and People Noticing the Effort You Put In
Show Description We're checking on quarter 3 KPIs, using AI for admin dashboards is kind of fun, being a weirdo is something we should aspire to, there's a reason things sometimes all look the same and that's ok,…
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725: CodePen 2.0, Templates on the Web, The Year of HTML?
Show Description CodePen 2.0 is out now and we're talking about the launch, the idea of templating on the web, and how HTML could look very interesting in the future. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links •…
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724: Ask Dan Abramov Anything About AT Proto
Show Description If you're like Chris and understand a bit of the tech behind AT Proto but want to understand it at a deeper level, this episode is for you. How does it differ from straight up RSS and Mastodon, where…
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723: Ads on Your Website, UX for Web Dev Jobs, and Progressive Web Components
Show Description How do websites handle advertising embeds, thinking DND thoughts about team topologies, does knowing UX help get jobs in web dev, using Elena for building progressive web components, and dealing with…
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722: The No-AI Talk Challenge, Picking Rails Tooling, Dark Mode?
Show Description Chris & Dave have been challenged to not talk about AI this episode - do they succeed? How do I optimize tracking pixels in my web app, what's the best book on CMS and authoring experiences, picking…
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721: New Gear, Nerding Out, and VS Code Forks
Show Description What to do when you have more ideas than time, getting new musical gear, nerding out and getting excited about things, the state of conferences in 2026, Cursor being bought, and Dave's got a minimum…
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720: TypeScript Complaints, Slowing Down, and AT Proto Protocols
Show Description In praise of a solid Shure microphone (sponsor??), AI being really helpful in certain situations, TypeScript complaints about complaining, TypeScript at CodePen, should we all slow down a bit, CI jail…
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719: Estimating Project Time, React Server Components, and Lifetime Offers
Show Description How do you estimate how long a task or project is going to take? Is it easier or more difficult with AI's help? Were web components a mistake? What do we think about Cloudflare's EmDash now? And are…
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718: 3D Printing Life Upgrades, Don’t Give Away Your Dopamine, and CodePen App Deploys
Show Description Dave's upgrading his office with a 3D printer, Chris is ordering 3D printed parts for his van, using mobile Starlink, Chris redesigned his website, playing puzzle games like Statedoku, Chess Peace,…
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717: Better DX for Web Components, What Was Popular That Now We’re Used To?
Show Description Dave's changing up his camera angles, Chris has been upgrading his Sprinter van, how many hobbies is too many, what kinds of web tech was popular years ago that now seems normal, why isn't the DX…
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716: Google I/O 2026 Recap Edition
Show Description We're running down what's new from Google for the web and figuring out if it's web developer Xmas or AI Doomsday this year. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links • Paul Irish • The Dialog…
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715: Would You Like a LLM With Your Browser?
Show Description What happens to a website when it stops? Is there a space for an internet salvage yard for websites? How do you feel about LLMs being included with your browser? And are we ever going to find out…
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714: Camping, Burnout, and Chris’ CSS Talk
Show Description How responsible should you be for fixing your own website for others, Dave's got a blacklog of blog posts, Chris got a camper van, debating burnout even when you love your work, a weekly AI doomer…
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713: AI + Design Systems with Brad and Ian Frost
Show Description Brad and Ian Frost are back to chat about integrating AI into website and design system building, how to keep AI slop out of your design systems, building things humans need regardless of the tooling,…
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712: Lazy Loading the Web with Scott Jehl
Show Description Chris Coyier and Scott Jehl discuss the recent advancements in lazy loading on the web, the process of standardization, browser support, and the future of web performance optimization. Listen on…
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711: Where did Oh My Zsh Come From? And Using Rails in 2026
Show Description We've got Robby Russell, maintainer of Oh My Zsh, on the show to talk about why Chris has it installed, what makes a good Zsh plugin, Oh My Zsh plugins Robby recommends, what it's like working in…
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710: 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…
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709: 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,…
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708: 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…
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707: 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…
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706: 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…
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705: 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…
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704: 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.…
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703: 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 Guests Ujjwal Sharma Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social…
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702: 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,…
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701: 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,…
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700: Popover Web Component, Bugs in Blocks, and Where’s Vue?
Show Description We're passing over another milestone episode and answering your Q's with our A's while we do it: Dave goes 3D printing, should CSS be inside a web component, Chris is trying to build web component for…
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699: Jeremy Keith on Web Day Out
Show Description Web Day Out is coming up and Jeremy Keith from Clearleft (name pending the ShopTalk Show rebrand) is here to chat about it and while we've got him, Dave throws him on the hot seat to answer some hard…
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698: Why is AI Bad at CSS, Monofonts, and Safari Dev Tools
Show Description Why are AI tools so bad at CSS layout, Robin Rendle inspired monospaced fonts, CodePen's slideVars library, why are Safari dev tools so hard to use, button follow up, and what player component does…
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697: Web Install API, Resizing Text, Active View Transition Type
Show Description We're talking new stuff (to us) that we haven't chatted about yet like display:grid-lanes, the web install API, resizing text on the web, scroll triggered animations, active view transition type, and…
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696: Predictions for 2026, ADHD Updates, and Holiday Catchup
Show Description Catching up on holidays adventures, Dave's year in ADHD land, and our predictions for 2026. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links • Madhur Jaffrey Teaches Indian Cooking • What’s Going to…
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695: Happy Project Share Time (2025 Edition)
Show Description After a bit of gaming talk, Chris and Dave are sharing a bunch of cool projects that our Discord community members have been sharing over the past year including things like a web component based…
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694: Invoicing with Studioworks with Jessica and Chris
Show Description Chris and Jessica from Studioworks join us to talk about their new app, why they're uniquely qualified to run an invoicing app, what the long term vision is for Studioworks, pricing models of…
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693: Hobbies, Puzzle Game Circuit, and Web Monetization News
Show Description Why do we turkey when there's so many (better) options for meals, how many hobbies do we really need and why can't we do all of them, Clues by Sam difficulties and doing the puzzle game circuit, does…
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692: Killer Feature of Web Components, Skills > MCP, and Streaming HTML?
Show Description Dave has famous people blindness, a cologne life hack is dropped, what is the killer feature of web components, MCPs are so done—focus on skills instead, should custom events exist, and thoughts about…
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691: Charts + Graphs, Vibe Coding an App, and Debating Affordances
Show Description What do Balatro streamers do when the game is over, Random in CSS is so hot right now, Dave has a better idea for charts and graphs that would change the world, Quiet UI follow up, Dave tries vibe…
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690: Steve Ruiz and tldraw
Show Description Steve Ruiz talks about what tldraw is and who it's for, how they've dealt with data on all the computers, what's new in the tldraw SDK, ideas for building on top of tldraw, tldraw's business model,…
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689: Tyler Sticka on Colorpeek 2 and Awesome CSS
Show Description In this episode we sit down with Tyler Sticka to discuss upgrading his project, Colorpeek. We explore the practical applications of web components and CSS, and how they are shaping the future of web…
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