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@shoptalkshow.com735: Design System Docs, CodePen’s API, and Bucket Filling Conversations 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.
@shoptalkshow.com734: Web Performance with Ben Schwarz
@shoptalkshow.com733: Treadmills, Bass Guitars, and Testing Web Components We're talking treadmill and musical gear, software maintenance, dependency management, technical debt, testing web components, and CSS-Tricks hot drama.
@shoptalkshow.com732: Thomas Steiner on New Cross-Origin Storage APIs
@shoptalkshow.com731: Terminal UX, Running Multiple Services, Don’t Settle for an App 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 agent processes, and figuring…
@shoptalkshow.com730: A/B Testing with Charts, Music Recommendations, & Web Permissions 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 Many Dudes?
@shoptalkshow.com728: BIMI, Good Favicon Practice, and CSS @Layer Exploration 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 AI hardware.
@shoptalkshow.com726: Be More Weird, Sameness is Ok, and People Noticing the Effort You Put In 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, people see the effort…
@shoptalkshow.com724: Ask Dan Abramov Anything About AT Proto 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 is my identity being stored, how do I create a…
@shoptalkshow.com723: Ads on Your Website, UX for Web Dev Jobs, and Progressive Web Components 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 buttons in web…
@shoptalkshow.com722: The No-AI Talk Challenge, Picking Rails Tooling, Dark Mode? 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 the best tooling in Rails that…
@shoptalkshow.com721: New Gear, Nerding Out, and VS Code Forks 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 viable design system idea.
@shoptalkshow.com720: TypeScript Complaints, Slowing Down, and AT Proto Protocols 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 and work trees, AT Proto and…
@shoptalkshow.com719: Estimating Project Time, React Server Components, and Lifetime Offers 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 lifetime offers a good…
@shoptalkshow.com718: 3D Printing Life Upgrades, Don’t Give Away Your Dopamine, and CodePen App Deploys 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, and Clues by…
@shoptalkshow.com717: Better DX for Web Components, What Was Popular That Now We’re Used To? 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 around web components…
@shoptalkshow.com716: Google I/O 2026 Recap Edition 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.
@shoptalkshow.com715: Would You Like a LLM With Your Browser? 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 where AI got all it's data from?
@shoptalkshow.com714: Camping, Burnout, and Chris’ CSS Talk 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 check in, and Chris has a talk for Smashing Magazine…
@shoptalkshow.com713: AI + Design Systems with Brad and Ian Frost 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, and thinking of AI as a fancy linter.