ShopTalk Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert

Show DescriptionDave & 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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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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Show DescriptionDave'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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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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Show DescriptionWhat 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.
Listen on Website →GuestsBlake WatsonGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterCurrently a member of the frontend dev team at MRI Technologies, working on projects for NASA.
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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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Show DescriptionWe'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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Front End Happy Hour
Playdate
Develop for Playdate
Nuxt: The Intuitive Vue Framework · Nuxt
ThePrimeagen
Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm
Yarn
SponsorsRadical DesignAre 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 DescriptionFred 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.
Listen on Website →GuestsFred K. SchottGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterCo-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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Show DescriptionWe'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.
Listen on Website →GuestsMichelle BarkerGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterSenior 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.
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Michelle Barker
Ada Mode
Windscope
CSS { In Real Life }
Michelle Barker (@michelle@front-end.social) - 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.
SponsorsRadical Design CourseAre 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.