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721: New Gear, Nerding Out, and VS Code Forks

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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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Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert in silly sunglasses and a sign that says Shawp Tawlkk Shough DOT COM

Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert

This episode is with just Chris & Dave, ShopTalk Show's hosts. Chris is the co-founder of CodePen, and Dave writes web components at Microsoft.

Time Jump Links

  • 00:00:23 Bring the angle back
  • 00:03:29 Having more ideas than time
  • 00:07:57 New music gear on the to do list
  • 00:13:40 Nerding out about things and bringing people along for the ride
  • 00:16:41 Sponsor: Notion
  • 00:20:24 Conferences in 2026
  • 00:25:10 $60 billion for a VS Code fork
  • 00:31:35 Does Copilot look at all of your GitHub PRs?
  • 00:35:13 Accessibilty and AI
  • 00:42:52 CSS at-rule @function
  • 00:47:54 Dave's minimum viable design system
  • 00:56:08 Shipping Prompt libraries in the browser

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