Episodes
A paginated list of episodes in order. We heard you like WordPress loops.
Live-streaming Demos, CSS Animation Composition, and Anchor Position
Chris and Dave chat about whether you should wing it or script your videos, unplanned demos versus the safety net of edited videos, streaming software with Ecamm Live vs OBS vs Streamlabs, new CSS animation composition, and anchor positioning thoughts. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME)
Design Tokens, Web Compents, and Web Monetization
We're all addicted to Clues by Sam and wonder about the data structure for the site, good thoughts on the design tokens community, shadow DOM, the state of web components in mid-2025, dealing with JSON, and new ideas around web monetization. (20% discount code for the Design Tokens Course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME)
Naming Consistency, HTML Includes, and Mixins
Chris reflects on CSS Day in Amsterdam, allowing languages to grow with nonstandard elements, naming things continues to be hard, shapes are going to get weird on the web, HTML includes get stirred up, thoughts on CSS mixins, and Dave's blogging about resizing text fun.
Brad and Ian Frost on Their New Design Tokens Course
Brad and Ian stop by to chat about their new course, The Complete Guide to Design Tokens, what happens if you don't use design tokens on projects, what the ideal outcome is for building and designing with design tokens, how many colors is enough, what about refactoring, and does Figma or code win the argument? (Brad and Ian did give us a 20% discount code for the course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME)
Peter Pistorius on Developing RedwoodSDK
We're chatting with Peter Pistorius about the change they made from RedwoodJS to RedwoodSDK, how it's going to handle routing, some new marketing ideas for RedwoodSDK, how RedwoodSDK's principles are informed by where Peter's from, choosing to go all in on Cloudflare, how the community has responded, and plans for monetization.
Jake Archibald on Native HTML Includes
Jake Archibald joins us to discuss HTML includes, potential solutions, and the implications of introducing such a feature. We talk about security concerns, performance implications, and community feedback regarding HTML imports.
Jen Simmons on Declarative Web Push, Form Control Styling, & More
Jen Simmons stops by to talk about new CSS and Safari features like Form Control Styling, Declarative Web Push, Typography, contrast-color(), and more.
What Are the Evils of the Web Platform?
How it all comes back to the why column, dark patterns, privacy and tracking, getting emails forever from one purchase, how to be bold with communication while still being respectful, HTMHell, CSS mistakes, are we anti-JSON, and the state of FitVid in 2025.
JavaScript Educator and Twitch Streamer Mat Marquis
Fresh off his Megaman Streamathon, Mat Marquis joins us to talk about becoming a professional Twitch streamer, creating a JavaScript course, his thoughts on the design and content of said course, a brief moment on Linux in 2025, and attempts to make the web weird and fun again.
Figma Sites, CSS Carousels, and Internship Prep
How much would you pay for new users, initial thoughts on Figma's announcements, CSS carousel follow up, favicon easter eggs, how do you prepare for an internship, and why aren't more developers using logical properties?
HBD Dave, Silly Web Fun, Color-Mix Tips
Do we sound drunk on Shorts? What speed do you listen to your podcasts at? Happy Birthday to Dave, Roblox scams, having silly fun on the web, Crashlands 2 released, a Balatro moment, non-standard browser use testing, and color-mix follow up.
Alternative Browsers, Discord vs Circle, and AI in the Browser
We're talking browsers and discussing alternative options like Vivaldi and Brave, the implications of Chrome's potential sale to OpenAI, the impact of AI on browser functionality, Discord vs Circle, and building with Hotwire.