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738: The Trouble with Tests and Bugs, Interop Voting, and AI Skills 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 stream content into a page…

737: CSS alpha(), SVG with linked-parameters, and Arguing with Humans On this episode we're chatting about how to make modern tooling more collaborative and human-friendly, CSS alpha and ColorMix features, Chris quizzes Dave on SVG features, voting for interop, CodePen + AI tools, and how to…

736: Building Design Systems Using AI with TJ Pitre 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 sync across tools and teams, human review in…

735: 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.

734: Web Performance with Ben Schwarz

733: 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.

732: Thomas Steiner on New Cross-Origin Storage APIs

731: 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…

730: 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?

729: After Dark Edition! Microlighter, Tri-state Drama, and Editing Video Quickly 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 use CodePen…

728: 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.

727: Front-End Complexity, AI Co-Authorship, and New CSS Navigation Patterns 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 line-clamp property…

726: 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…

725: CodePen 2.0, Templates on the Web, The Year of HTML? 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.

724: 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…

723: 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…

722: 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…

721: 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.

720: 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…

719: 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…

718: 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…

717: 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…

716: 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.

715: 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?

714: 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…

713: 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.

712: Lazy Loading the Web with Scott Jehl 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.

711: Where did Oh My Zsh Come From? And Using Rails in 2026 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 Rails in 2026, dealing with project…

710: Simen Svale from Sanity 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 Simen keeps AI agents busy all day.

709: Slopforking a CMS, Apple Browser Feedback, and Custom Theme CSS 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, and Cloudflare slopforks a CMS.

708: People Are Not Friction, Getting Rid of the CMS, and Social RSS Follow Up 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 up conversation, the…

707: RSS with Social, AI Agent Traffic, and What to Blog About 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 feel about AI traffic on your website,…

706: Can You Vibe Code a Canvas App, Geolocation Part 2, & CodePen v2 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.

705: CodePen Public Beta, Anchor Positioning, and Build Awesome 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 into Build Awesome, and how would…

704: Sanitizer API with Frederik Braun 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.

703: Ujjwal Sharma and TC39 We're joined by Ujjwal Sharma to talk about what the TC39 is, who's in it, and how the TC39 group guides JavaScript.

702: Lit-HTML, Implied Target for Popover, and Website Builders 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, which website builder CMS's do we…

701: Digital Archives, OpenClaw Security Concerns, and @Property Declarations 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, should you declare…

700: Popover Web Component, Bugs in Blocks, and Where’s Vue? 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 popovers, why isn't Vue used or…

699: Jeremy Keith on Web Day Out 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 hitting journalism questions about the state of the web in 2026.

698: Why is AI Bad at CSS, Monofonts, and Safari Dev Tools 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 ShopTalk use for it's website?

697: Web Install API, Resizing Text, Active View Transition Type 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 a Quick Look at CodePen v2…

696: Predictions for 2026, ADHD Updates, and Holiday Catchup Catching up on holidays adventures, Dave's year in ADHD land, and our predictions for 2026.

695: Happy Project Share Time (2025 Edition) 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 admin bar, shape CSS generators, new website portfolios,…

694: Invoicing with Studioworks with Jessica and Chris 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 subscription apps, how invoicing isn't just for web…

693: Hobbies, Puzzle Game Circuit, and Web Monetization News 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 Dave like D&D or does Dave like…

692: Killer Feature of Web Components, Skills > MCP, and Streaming HTML? 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 streaming HMTL.

691: Charts + Graphs, Vibe Coding an App, and Debating Affordances 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 coding a tennis app and doesn't…

690: Steve Ruiz and tldraw 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, and what the future holds for tldraw the company.

689: Tyler Sticka on Colorpeek 2 and Awesome CSS 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 development. Tyler shares his experiences with…