ShopTalk

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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 won't be obsolete, SPF, DNS, and D-Marc, adding dark mode to a website, and dealing with good old fashioned F.A.R.T.

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Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market | The Verge

Window: queueMicrotask() method - Web APIs | MDN

Jake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ... - YouTube

Designing Content Authoring Experiences

Ruby on Rails: Accelerate your agents with convention over configuration

Secure AI Agent & User Authentication | Auth0

next.js

TanStack | The open-source application stack for the web.

RedwoodSDK: A simple framework for humans

Heroku | The Cloud Application Platform For Developers

Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel

Astro

Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites | Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs

Nuxt: The Full-Stack Vue Framework

SendGrid Email API and Email Marketing Campaigns | Twilio

Email · The email API for developers who ship the rest of the message too — Bird

Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

CSS Analytics - Project Wallace

Flash of inAccurate coloR Theme (FART) | CSS-Tricks

Show Description
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.

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FFConf

Figma Config 2026

SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal

Google Antigravity

Devon: An open-source pair programmer

Introducing Composer 2

@function CSS at-rule

A tale of two browsers

Google's Prompt API

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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 related protocols, interestForElement in HTML, and how many spoons do you have left for Clues by Sam?

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MV7+ - Podcast Microphone - Shure USA

Lit

Devin | The AI Software Engineer

Understanding Standard.Site

Now in your timeline: Standard.site brings richer previews from across the open web - AT Protocol

tv for developers — CodeTV

HTMLButtonElement: interestForElement property - Web APIs | MDN

Using interest invokers - Web APIs | MDN

Spoons by Sam - daverupert.com

htmx ~ Code is Cheap(er)

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Macro
Macro is a tool to cut through the noise - It's a workspace built for engineers; One place for all your emails, tasks, team chat, and documents. Sign up at Macro.com and get $100 of your subscriptions using code SHOPTALK100

Show Description
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 or bad thing in the dev community?

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Keyframes, Cash, and CodePen w/ Shaw - Whiskey Web and Whatnot

Meeting Design - For Managers, Makers, and Ever

:host CSS pseudo-class - CSS | MDN

Introducing EmDash

WP Migrate

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Macro
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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 Sam, how CodePen is going to support pointing domains at your app, and what Vite getting bought by Cloudflare signals.

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Kagi - Reclaim the Web & Restore Your Privacy

A week on the road

The New Van – Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier – Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.

Social RSS (?) – Chris Coyier

Statedoku — Daily US States Puzzle | Sudoku Meets American Geography

Chess Peace - A Peaceful Chess Puzzle Game for iPhone, iPad & Mac

Clues By Sam

Online Courses • Josh W. Comeau

JavaScript for Everyone - Piccalilli

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Macro
Macro is a tool to cut through the noise - It's a workspace built for engineers; One place for all your emails, tasks, team chat, and documents. Sign up at Macro.com and get $100 of your subscriptions using code SHOPTALK100