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Matt is here to talk about creating the perfect fantasy CMS for blogging, moderating comments at Metafilter, building sane defaults into programs, how difficult the web is, do we want AI in our CMS, and where is content headed on the internet?

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Guests

Matthew Haughey

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

A writer with over 25 years of experience building products. In that time I've worked as a designer, coder, company founder, and senior writer.

Links

• Matt Haughey
• Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
• MetaFilter | Community Weblog
• MovableType.org
• The story of b2, b2evolution and WordPress
• Ghost: The best open source blogging platform
• Micro.blog
• A Whole Lotta Nothing
• Notes from migrating 24 years of blog posts from WordPress to Ghost
• Ideas for my dream blogging CMS
• Embrace the weird
• The newest episode of Search Engine is incredible
• Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine - The Verge

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Dave & Chris and thoughts on career advice that worked 3 years ago but isn't as helpful now, marking tests with ChatGPT, is taking a Drupal job in 2024 a good idea, Chris got #gear sniped, P3 color follow up, the confusing File System APIs, and where did all the lightboxes go?

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Links

• chan (@chantastic) / X
• The Texas Tribune
• The Coming Wave Book
• Drupal - Open Source CMS | Drupal.org
• Electric Air Duster - 130000RPM Compressed Air Duster，3 Gear Adjustable Jet Dry Blower can Reusable Can for Computer Keyboard,Outdoors,Car,Home. : Electronics
• xScope • Measure. Inspect. Test.
• The Many, Confusing File System APIs – Cloud Four

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Dave's about to be eclipsed, the state of TypeScript in 2024, signals stage zero proposal, corrections on accessibility in frameworks (thanks!), web apps for better collaborative writing, getting productivity sniped, the problem with email may be you, indieweb follow up, and ultimate guitar tab apps.

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Links

• Streamlining APIs, Databases, & Microservices | Apollo GraphQL
• Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps
• Ember.js - A framework for ambitious web developers
• Web Test Runner: Modern Web
• Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer
• Notion – The next gen of notes & docs
• Paper
• Stashpad - Your streamlined Google Docs alternative
• ButterDocs | Google Docs Alternative for Serious Writers & Teams
• Things - To-Do List for Mac & iOS
• Godspeed
• Aboard - Collect. Organize. Collaborate.
• Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
• Analog - The original to-do system by Ugmonk
• CleanShot X for Mac
• IndieWebify.Me - a guide to getting you on the IndieWeb
• ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
• John Deere commits to letting farmers repair their own tractors (kind of) - The Verge

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Radical

Are you an aspiring designer, developer, marketer, or fanny pack tester? Maybe you're a burnt-out designer struggling for fresh ideas, or perhaps you have no idea where to start with design? Do you need to find a way to make your sites less boring and more memorable? Well then, this course is for you.

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What is a home cooked app? Blake Watson is on this episode to talk all about the kinds of apps that make a good home cooked app, tips and advice he has for making them, resisting the urge to monetize or growth hack them, and a few CodePen v2 thoughts sprinkled in at the end.

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Guests

Blake Watson

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

Currently a member of the frontend dev team at MRI Technologies, working on projects for NASA.

Links

• Watson Brothers Games
• An app can be a home-cooked meal
• blakewatson.com – About
• blakewatson.com – MagnoliaJS 2023: The joys of home-cooked apps
• MRI Technologies
• blakewatson.com – Building our own private Discord knockoff
• blakewatson.com – Things I miss
• blakewatson.com – Use your Mac the way I do: a thought experiment
• Overimagine1/old-discord-font: CSS to revert Discord's font change.
• A Fine Start - minimal new tab page
• Knockout : Home
• Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js
• The Programming Language Lua
• Save 10% on Thronefall on Steam
• Game Off 2023 - itch.io

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We're opening up the ShopTalk mailbag and answering your questions, including does WordPress on your resume kill your job chances, what are our fav and least fav parts of web dev, our thoughts on HTMX, and what is it like to use pnpm instead of npm.

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Links

• Front End Happy Hour
• Playdate
• Develop for Playdate
• Nuxt: The Intuitive Vue Framework · Nuxt
• ThePrimeagen
• Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm
• Yarn

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Radical Design

Are you an aspiring designer, developer, marketer, or fanny pack tester? Maybe you're a burnt-out designer struggling for fresh ideas, or perhaps you have no idea where to start with design? Do you need to find a way to make your sites less boring and more memorable? Well then, this course is for you.

Show Description

Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about Astro announcement of Astro DB. The pluses and minuses of it, and whether you have to always use the database with Astro DB. We get into how to seed your database, upgrading the database, and the almost weirdly generous pricing model.

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Guests

Fred K. Schott

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

Co-creator of Astro.

Links

• Astro DB: A Deep Dive | Astro
• Astro DB
• Astro DB: A Deep Dive | Astro
• tursodatabase/libsql: libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.
• StackBlitz | Instant Dev Environments | Click. Code. Done.
• Schema.org - Schema.org
• Ben Holmes on X: "Astro built a database platform. How does it work?
• Clerk
• Lucia documentation
• PlanetScale forever
• Astro DB Just Released

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We're talking with Michelle Barker about the idea of paying to support bloggers (and podcasters!) via services like Patreon, drumming as a fun side gig from CSS, how big of an issue digital sustainability is, trying to understand the environmental impact of our websites and digital life, wondering why YouTube embeds are still so large, disabling cookies, and how to build the web in a more sustainable way.

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Guests

Michelle Barker

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

Senior Front End Developer at Ada Mode, where Michelle works on Windscope, web-based data visualisation and exploration software for wind farm operators.

Michelle also loves playing the drums. Their happy place is where creativity and code intersect

You can also find Michelle writing and speaking about CSS and digital sustainability on the web and around the world.

Links

• Michelle Barker
• Ada Mode
• Windscope
• CSS { In Real Life }
• Michelle Barker (@[email protected]) - Front-End Social
• Michelle Barker
• Michelle Barker on CodePen
• mbarker84 (Michelle Barker)
• shoptalkshow.com - Website Carbon Calculator
• paulirish/lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube embed.

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Radical Design Course

Are you an aspiring designer, developer, marketer, or fanny pack tester? Maybe you're a burnt-out designer struggling for fresh ideas, or perhaps you have no idea where to start with design? Do you need to find a way to make your sites less boring and more memorable? Well then, this course is for you.

Show Description

Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, RSS in HTML, and the state of state and UI.

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Guests

Jim Nielsen

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

Designer. Engineer. Writer.

Links

• About - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash
• The Subversive Hyperlink - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• More Files Please - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• Canada to keep pressure on Facebook to pay for news, Trudeau says
• Cite Your Sources, AI - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• For the first few decades of the web, the tacit agreement wa...
• The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• RSS in HTML: A Follow-Up - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• Style your RSS feed
• UI is a Function of Your Organization - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• UI daverupert.com
• Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• I Staked Out My Local Domino’s to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is
• The Benevolent Deception: When Should a Doctor Lie to Patients? - The Atlantic

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Elicit

Elicit’s goal is to radically increase high-quality reasoning in science and beyond. As early as 2017, they pioneered process supervision, an approach to breaking down complex work for advanced machine learning systems, so that it remains transparent and controllable. Today they use language models to help more than 200,000 researchers each month. They just raised a $9 million seed round and are looking for exceptional engineers across frontend, backend, and ML. If you're an exceptional front-end engineer looking to build the next generation of AI interfaces with a modern tech stack (Next, Tailwind, Chakra), join them!

Show Description

A follow up on jQuery conversation, Microsoft owning all the things, what VS Code plugins are your ride or die, the ability to Git from wherever you want, Tailwind drama, global design system follow up, Arc Search gets roasted, and Frontend Design Conference is back!

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Links

• GitHub - tc39/proposal-type-annotations: ECMAScript proposal for type syntax that is erased - Stage 1
• Chris Coyier on Embracing Technology and the Future of Web Development - Whiskey Web and Whatnot - Episode 131
• Zed
• Dracula Official
• GitLens
• Tower Git Client
• GitHub Desktop
• “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash
• Sourcetree
• Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine
• What is Utility-First CSS?: HeydonWorks
• A Global Design System | Brad Frost
• Thoughts on a Global Design System – Chris Coyier
• Arc Search
• Can Apple Win Back Music - Brad Frost
• Carolina Chocolate Drops
• TPAIN - Twitch
• Front-end Design Conference - April 25-26, 2024

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Wix

Wix Studio combines pure web design with maximum productivity. Taking the grind out of website creation for professional designers. Use the powerful visual editor, or work online in a VS Code-based IDE, or code locally and push changes via GitHub.

Show Description

Josh (or Jsoh) stops by to talk about his work at Deno, recent blog posts on Copilot, why Svelte is awesome and React is not, Apple and PWA, and building word games on the web.

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Guests

Josh Collinsworth

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

Frontend Engineer at Deno, the maker and designer of the word games Quina, and Hondo.

Links

• Josh Collinsworth
• Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime
• Deno Deploy | Deno
• Fresh - The next-gen web framework.
• I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind - Josh Collinsworth blog
• How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary
• Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
• Screen Recorder for macOS. Beautiful videos in minutes | Screen Studio
• CleanShot X for Mac
• stitchy - crates.io: Rust Package Registry
• Raycast
• Home
• Squoosh
• RunJS - JavaScript Playground
• Quina - Menu
• Hondo - a word game in 100 words or less
• Home / PWABuilder

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Join Elicit as a software engineer

Elicit’s goal is to radically increase high-quality reasoning in science and beyond. As early as 2017, they pioneered process supervision, an approach to breaking down complex work for advanced machine learning systems, so that it remains transparent and controllable. Today they use language models to help more than 200,000 researchers each month. They just raised a $9 million seed round and are looking for exceptional engineers across frontend, backend, and ML. If you're an exceptional front-end engineer looking to build the next generation of AI interfaces with a modern tech stack (Next, Tailwind, Chakra), join them!

Show Description

Voiceover pays us a visit, we talk about what accessibility really means, the difficulty of closing a dialogue element, web components at work, and jQuery 4 is out.

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Links

• Opportunities for AI in Accessibility – A List Apart
• the-pastry-box-project.net
• An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues by Anne Gibson
• Alphabet of Accessibility Deck
• Understanding accessibility through ABCs – On the Issues
• Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer
• storage-form Web Component - David Darnes
• CodeMirror
• FitVids.JS - A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
• HTML with Superpowers | HTML with Superpowers
• Learn from Dave Rupert's courses | Frontend Masters
• jQuery

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Miro

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