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Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert
Just build websites.
- 56 minutes 34 seconds654: 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?
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
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3 March 2025, 9:30 am - 58 minutes 34 seconds653: 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.
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
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24 February 2025, 9:36 am - 1 hour 2 minutes652: 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?
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
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17 February 2025, 2:30 pm - 56 minutes 58 seconds651: 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.
Guests
Jason Lengstorf
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
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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BenQ
Not really but you should call us Mr or Ms BenQ!10 February 2025, 9:24 am - 1 hour 4 minutes650: 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 to keep you using them like Raycast, and thoughts on the VS Code forks + AI.
Links
- Web Awesome Layout Anatomy
- Balatro
- Pokémon GO
- A Little Arm Chair Businessin’ about Chrome – Chris Coyier
- Raycast Focus works really well - daverupert.com
- Cursor - The AI Code Editor
- Trae - Ship Faster with Trae
- Codium is now Qodo | Quality-first AI Coding Platform
- Windsurf Editor by Codeium
- Zed - The editor for what's next
- Ghostty
- Helix
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Complete CSS
Get to a level in development that you never thought would be possible with this expansive CSS course from Andy Bell. You won't be the same developer after completing it.3 February 2025, 9:00 am - 59 minutes 33 seconds649: 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 Async CSS.
Links
- This Aged Great!
- Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
- HTML Programming Language
- HTML Semantics Consensus
- CSS attr() Upgrade
- Making this less annoying
- Powerful Apps for Mac & iOS
- Let's Standardize Async CSS!
- Off The Main Thread
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27 January 2025, 8:33 am - 53 minutes 19 seconds648: 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.
Links
- Biome, toolchain of the web
- Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
- Rollup
- Rolldown
- Jest
- Vitest | Next Generation testing framework
- Playwright
- Cypress
- VoidZero | Next Generation Tooling for the Web
- The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
- Astro
- Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime
- Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
- The World's Most Trusted Game Development Engine - Unreal Engine
- Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
- Deploy your Laravel PHP application painlessly | Laravel Forge
- 37signals
- Basecamp: Project management software, online collaboration
- Simpler Static Site Generator
- Cloud Application Platform
- Igalia Chats
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20 January 2025, 9:26 am - 53 minutes 9 seconds647: 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, how we use RSS, the importance of containers and context, Dave talks about living with ADHD, developing a system approach to CSS, Chris' thoughts on upgrading to an M4 MacBook Pro, and writing in Pug.
Links
- Chris Coyier.net
- slash pages
- /uses
- chipotle - IndieWeb
- Digital gardening
- daverupert.com
- Feedbin
- Reeder
- NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS
- Unread: An RSS Reader
- Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing
- I got the ADHD, too - daverupert.com
- My ADHD diagnosis process | Brad Frost
- CSS wants to be a system - daverupert.com
- M4 – Chris Coyier
- Getting Started – Pug
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13 January 2025, 9:40 am - 1 hour 11 minutes646: 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 recovering in his napping pod.
Join us on a workplace-themed role playing adventure created by Dave Rupert.
Guests
Alex (Eddie)
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
A web developer from Atlanta, GA that specializes in Vue.js, python, and PHP.
Ben (Blaze)
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
A user-centered frontend developer with a focus on web accessibility.
Miriam (Astra)
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter
Co-Founder of OddBird, working on CSS in a W3C group.
Links
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Bluehost
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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 animations, and more!
Links
- CSS Wrapped 2024
- Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
- OpenType
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Bluehost
Find unique domains, web hosting, and WordPress tools, all in one place. Empower your business or digital agency with Bluehost.9 December 2024, 9:03 am - 54 minutes 28 seconds644: 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.
Links
- The <details> and <summary> elements are getting an upgrade - Stephanie Stimac's Blog
- Request for developer feedback: customizable select | Blog | Chrome for Developers
- HTML & CSS Dropdowns
- HTML Latest Control
- Browser noopener links
- Stylable Select Element
- Self-Closing Tags in HTML
- Riverside
- Select Element with Rules
- HTML Basics for Beginners
- The aside element
- AI Note Taking
- Interop 2025
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Bluehost
Find unique domains, web hosting, and WordPress tools, all in one place. Empower your business or digital agency with Bluehost.2 December 2024, 10:27 am - More Episodes? Get the App