ShopTalk
Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert
100 episodes
A podcast about web design and development.
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688: Modern CSS Round-Out Tabs, OpenUI, and Why Websites?
Show Description Dave and Chris discuss the transition of QuietUI's license to open source, the creative process behind blogging, modern CSS techniques, and the features of QuietUI, a new design system with unique…
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687: Ben Frain on Responsive Design
Show Description Ben's got an updated edition of his book, Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, to chat about as well as how much AI is being inserted into writing, layers, scope, color contrast vs contrast…
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686: Todd Libby on Deceptive Patterns
Show Description Todd Libby is on the show to talk with us about deceptive patterns on the web, what WCAG is and who it's for, and 5 deceptive patterns in use on the web today. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube…
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685: Fix My Home Tech, What’s Up with Firefox, and the MVP Car
Show Description Who's the person to hire when your home network isn't working as reliably as it should? And while we're at it - can you also fix Dave's Find My notifications? What's the plan with Firefox in 2025? And…
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684: What Motivates Chris to Keep Working on CodePen?
Show Description Listener questions about CSS ruby-position, crafting adaptive layouts using a responsive component, what keeps Chris motivated to work on CodePen, why are there no positive issues on GitHub., tech…
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683: iOS 26 Safari, Material Support on the Web, and Fixing The Button Problem
Show Description Dave and Chris discuss the release of Safari in iOS26, the aesthetics of Liquid Glass in CSS, the importance of material design, and the role of TypeScript in modern web development. The conversation…
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682: Whiskey, Security, Antitrust, and Fun with CSS Functions
Show Description Dave's got a Whiskey related content warning, recent security vulnerabilities in NPM, challenges with password management, and the complexities of digital security. They delve into Google's antitrust…
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681: CSS Reset Update, Arc Gets Bought, and Why Websites?
Show Description Chris is updating us on the progress of his CSS reset, thoughts on The Browser Company and Arc being bought by Atlassian, and in 2025 why would anyone build a website? Listen on Website Watch on…
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680: CSS random(), IDs in HTML, and Chris Goes Browser Shopping
Show Description A quick update on Dave's hair, CSS random(), view transitions in CSS, thinking about IDs in HTML, opening details elements in a new tab, Chris tries out Edge, Shift, Zen and more, how Dave is trying…
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679: Two Idiots Argue With Kevin Powell About CSS
Show Description Kevin Powell is on the show with breaking news about display masonry, how his career on YouTube started and where it's at now, selling courses and diversifying the content you create, struggling with…
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678: AI Hype, Browser Journey, and Content Creation Incentives
Show Description Identifying where we are in the AI hype cycle, a quick #davegoeshairy update, what has been the impact of AI on tech creators, Chris is making his own CSS starter on stream, and Item flow / masonry…
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677: Background Code Agents, Append AI, and RSS Starter Packs
Show Description What helps you remember a person's name, thinking about background coding agents, is AI for append only mode, what are MCPs and how should I think about them, what has been working for more than a…
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676: The $200 Upgrade, CSS Module Scripts, and Social Media Ethos
Show Description It's time for a ShopTalk GearTalk segment on video and audio upgrades, a chat about better YouTube thumbnails, buying the $200 Yamaha guitar (or equivalent in other areas of life), Chris and Dave riff…
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675: Building Hot Page with Tim Farnam
Show Description Tim Farnam stops by to talk with Chris and Dave about his new project, Hot Page, and why and how he started building it after working in print and web news. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens…
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674: Context in Console, CodePen’s New Editor, and Looking for a New Arc
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…
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673: Live-streaming Demos, CSS Animation Composition, and Anchor Position
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…
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672: Design Tokens, Web Compents, and Web Monetization
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…
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671: Naming Consistency, HTML Includes, and Mixins
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…
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670: Brad and Ian Frost on Their New Design Tokens Course
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…
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669: Peter Pistorius on Developing RedwoodSDK
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…
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668: Jake Archibald on Native HTML Includes
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…
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667: Jen Simmons on Declarative Web Push, Form Control Styling, & More
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 Watch on YouTube Guests Jen…
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666: What Are the Evils of the Web Platform?
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…
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665: JavaScript Educator and Twitch Streamer Mat Marquis
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…
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664: Figma Sites, CSS Carousels, and Internship Prep
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…
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663: HBD Dave, Silly Web Fun, Color-Mix Tips
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…
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662: Alternative Browsers, Discord vs Circle, and AI in the Browser
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,…
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661: Working Vacations, Ripping Out JavaScript, and Non-US Cloud Service Options
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…
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660: 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…
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659: 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,…
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658: 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…
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657: 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,…
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656: 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,…
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655: 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,…
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654: 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…
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653: 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…
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652: 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…
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651: 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,…
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650: Layout in CSS, Balatro Q&A, Chrome Biz, & Forkin VS Code
Show Description Does layout make CSS difficult to learn from scratch, Chris quizzes Dave about Balatro, getting back into Pokemon, why should Google have to sell Chrome, adding fun features to apps you already have…
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649: Chrome 133, Attribute Update, and Standardized Async CSS
Show Description Dealing with AI creating fake work by famous artists, HTML is actually a programming language, Chrome 133 updates, attr updates, making "this" less annoying, and Scott Jehl's trying to standardize…
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648: Speculating on Funding Open Source
Show Description Hard hitting investigative journalism episode warning: Chris and Dave speculate on the ways a project like void(0) could make money. Listen on Website Links • Biome, toolchain of the web • Vite |…
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647: Slash Pages vs Wikis vs Posts, RSS, Living with an ADHD Diagnosis, and M4 Upgrades
Show Description In this episode, we kick off the New Year with chats about battling illness over the holidays, the challenges of maintaining productivity, the differences between slash pages, wikis, and blog posts,…
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646: Hard Code & Soft Skills
Show Description The employees of the startup RAPPTR (Quinn Pine, Blaze Lightyear, Astra Q, and Eddit Kit) find themselves in quite a pickle as a rogue investor tries to take over the company while CEO Chad is…
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645: Mouthblogging CSS in 2024
Show Description Riffing off the CSS Wrapped 2024 list from the Chrome team, we're talking field-sizing, animate to height, anchor positioning, custom scrollbars, cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven…
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644: Mouthblogging HTML in 2025
Show Description We're talking HTML this episode, detail summary, HTML datalist element, styling selects, anchored pop ups, popovers, invokers, HR in select, target=blank, HTML for People, and what we still need.…
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643: Social Capital, Easter Eggs in Apps, & CSS Parts
Show Description How do you like your turkey at Thanksgiving, building social capital with the neighbors, a brief SportsTalk Show segment, noticing easter eggs in apps and the web, what is a component anyway, CSS…
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642: Chris Person on Forums, Reddit, and Cooperative Reporting
Show Description Chris Person from Aftermath joins us to chat about the state of forums in 2024, being downwind of knowledge, forum drama, Reddit and StackOverflow's impact on forums, the importance of the individuals…
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641: Passkey Usage, Writing Code with a Bot, and What’s Up With Java?
Show Description We've got a few leftovers from Halloween to process, what's been happening with Passkeys in late 2024, have you tried to write HTML faster than a bot can suggest it to you, CSS anchor positioning and…
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640: Navigating the Pros and Cons of Web Components
Show Description Riffing off a Dave Rupert blog post, Chris and Dave talk through the pros and cons of web components, when to use them, when it's a bad idea to use them, what would it take to make the Next.js of web…
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639: DX, JSON, XML, HTML, and Databases! Oh My!
Show Description How important is the DX of software vs how important is the person showing off the software, Douglas Crockford and JSON, remembering XML, trying to write better HTML for email, new TC39 proposal,…
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