ShopTalk

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 check in, and Chris has a talk for Smashing Magazine happening by the time you hear this.

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Winnebago Revel | AWD Off-Grid Camper Van

Naz Hamid

Opus OP4 Camper | Premium Off-Road Inflatable Trailer USA

HealthyGamerGG - YouTube

Smashing Conferences — Smashing Magazine

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AI & Design Systems Course
This course is for anyone invested in the success of digital products at your organization. Whether you're a designer, developer, product owner, manager, or leader, you'll learn how AI & design systems work together to help you create better digital products. The course blends foundational concepts with practical, in-the-weeds instruction to help you level up your skills and understanding.

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, and thinking of AI as a fancy linter.

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Brad Frost
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Ian Frost
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Redesigning My Website While Painting a Mural: The Ancient Future of Web Design - YouTube

AI & Design Systems Course with Brad Frost, TJ Pitre, and Ian Frost

Brad Frost

Ian Frost

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.

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Guests
Scott Jehl
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Tech lead of the Performance & Accessibility Team at Squarespace.

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Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer

YouTube Embeds are Bananas Heavy and it's Fixable – Frontend Masters Blog

How To Use Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-Loading on the Web Today — Squarespace Engineering Blog

Squarespace & Web Standards: How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy Loading to Today's Browsers — Squarespace Engineering Blog

web-platform-tests documentation — web-platform-tests documentation

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Sanity
The back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale. Start building with an extended 60-day trial.

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 Rails in 2026, dealing with project dependancies, and how Rails apps make use of frameworks?

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Robby Russell
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CEO and Partner at Planet Argon

Links

Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh

Robby Russell - CEO, Partner

Planet Argon

On Rails Podcast

Maintainable Software Podcast

ohmyzsh/plugins/autojump

shadcn/ui

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Sanity
The back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale. Start building with an extended 60-day trial.

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 Simen keeps AI agents busy all day.

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Guests
Simen Svale
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Co-founder/CTO at Sanity.io

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The Content Operating System for the AI era | Sanity

Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson

Message from Sanity

Pencil – Design on canvas. Land in code.

AI and backend workflows, orchestrated at any scale

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Sanity.io
The back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.