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Show DescriptionWe've got Robby Russell, maintainer of Oh My Zsh, on the show to talk about why Chris has it installed, what makes a good Zsh plugin, Oh My Zsh plugins Robby recommends, what it's like working in Rails in 2026, dealing with project dependancies, and how Rails apps make use of frameworks? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube GuestsRobby RussellGuest's Main URL • Guest's Social CEO and Partner at Planet Argon Links Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh Robby Russell - CEO, Partner Planet Argon On Rails Podcast Maintainable Software Podcast ohmyzsh/plugins/autojump shadcn/ui SponsorsSanityThe back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale. Start building with an extended 60-day trial.

Show DescriptionWhat is Sanity and who is it for in the age of AI, managing content with AI, how Simen Svale uses AI agents alongside Sanity, designing a MCP, design with Pencil vs Figma, how Inngest works, and how Simen keeps AI agents busy all day. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube GuestsSimen SvaleGuest's Main URL • Guest's Social Co-founder/CTO at Sanity.io Links The Content Operating System for the AI era | Sanity Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson Message from Sanity Pencil – Design on canvas. Land in code. AI and backend workflows, orchestrated at any scale SponsorsSanity.ioThe back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.

Show DescriptionDave's plan for when AI finally takes his job, going to the movies in 2026, Chris & Dave chat with Apple about the state of browsers, Dave has a way of setting a theme with a custom space property, and Cloudflare slopforks a CMS. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links The Greatest Average American: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes Weapons (2025) directed by Zach Cregger Dave's CodePen Pen Introducing EmDash SponsorsSanitySanity is a Content Operating System. It gives editors a real workspace. Studio is a customizable editing interface where your content team publishes without touching your repo or filing tickets. They can use built-in AI that researches the web, understands the content model, and handles the repetitive work (drafts, translations, metadata) so editors focus on editorial judgment. Content is structured data from the start, so agents work with typed fields, not raw text.

Show DescriptionMemories of Hawaii, people are not friction in the AI age, what do you pre-load for a flight, can you get rid of the CMS with AI involved, Dave's dream for a custom VS Code machine, CommonRSS follow up conversation, the hype for ATProto, and picking music apps for a family. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links People are not friction USB-C to 3.5mm Audio Cable (1.2m) - Apple (CA) The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott Whiskey Web and Whatnot Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson "You should never build a CMS" | Sanity Blog | Studio303 Skyreader npmx - Package Browser for the npm Registry Sill | Top news shared by the people you trust

Show DescriptionListener John has a VSCode extension to share, Chris muses on why nobody has attempted to build the social side of RSS, a listener is experimenting with feature-based folder structures, how do you feel about AI traffic on your website, what can someone blog about in 2026, and Digg gets dugg by bots. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links DTF St. Louis | Official Trailer Parasite (2019) tag-toggle - Visual Studio Marketplace CommonRSS Skyreader Tim Disney (@disnetdev.com) — Bluesky Feedbin Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

Show DescriptionAre we all going to vibe code our own bespoke apps now, can a canvas app be vibe coded, more geolocation API thoughts, CodePen v2's public beta is now out, and private pens explained. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links March Mad CSS Scroll My Mac Setapp | Powerful apps for Mac & iOS Move tests to closed source repo · Issue #8082 · tldraw/tldraw Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing Traditional Irish music on The Session CodePen Radio – CodePen

Show DescriptionChris talks through going public with CodePen v2's beta, the magic words and AI skills needed today, Chris has a beef with anchor positioning, thoughts on classless CSS libraries, Eleventy growing up into Build Awesome, and how would you pass an hour by quickly? (Hopefully by listening to this podcast.) Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Magic Words Anchor Interpolated Morph (AIM) · January 23, 2026 Build Awesome by Font Awesome Build Awesome: We're pausing our Kickstarter! Build a Web Site in 7 Minutes with Build Awesome Quiet UI Good Sudoku CodePen

Show DescriptionWe talk with Frederik Braun from Mozilla about the Sanitizer API, how it works with HTML tags and web components, what it does with malformed HTML, and where CSP fits in alongside the Sanitizer API. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube GuestsFrederik BraunGuest's Main URL • Guest's Social Security engineer and manager working on the Mozilla Firefox web browser Links Frederik Braun: Why the Sanitizer API is just setHTML() Frederik Braun freddyb (Frederik B) SponsorsBluehostDo you ever feel like pre-configured hosting is slowing you down? That is where VPS hosting starts to make a lot more sense. With Bluehost VPS, you are not stuck inside someone else's environment. You get full control of the server. You can spin up Docker, deploy containerized apps, run workflows, and connect your CRM, databases, and APIs without weird restrictions. No shared bottlenecks. No artificial limits. If you want to actually own your stack, your data, your performance, your roadmap, VPS is the move.

Show DescriptionWe're joined by Ujjwal Sharma to talk about what the TC39 is, who's in it, and how the TC39 group guides JavaScript. Listen on Website GuestsUjjwal SharmaGuest's Main URL • Guest's Social Developer Advocacy, Programming Languages & Web Standards Links Ryzokuken (Ujjwal Sharma) LinkedIn X (Twitter) Igalia TC39 Use JSDoc

Show DescriptionChris has opinions about being sick, implied target for popovers, should Apple provide cross platform virtual machine images for Safari testing, what tips are there for beginners to HTML and CSS, which website builder CMS's do we recommend, and a Chipotle hack for your lunch plans. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links The Missing Link for Web Components – Frontend Masters Blog Better defaults for popovers - Manuel Matuzovic 346: With Ben Evans – CodePen Ben Evans on CodePen Pure CSS Only Portrait - Isla Pure CSS Still Life - Water and Lemons A Single Div Webflow Craft CMS Sanity Contentful

Show DescriptionWhen Dave dies, who gets his domain name? How OpenClaw is a massive security concern, tips on handling a broad design surface area with a design system, changing database values with text-transform, should you declare CSS properties with @property, and was Chris wrong about CSS? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Your Home for a Century: Our 100-Year Domains and Plans 1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts | 1Password Community From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface | 1Password Openclaw (clawdbot), Agents and the Age of Personal Software - YouTube bbPress.org WooCommerce cap - no cap Nice Select · February 3, 2026 SponsorsAxe-ConAxe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings. Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.

Show DescriptionWe're passing over another milestone episode and answering your Q's with our A's while we do it: Dave goes 3D printing, should CSS be inside a web component, Chris is trying to build web component for popovers, why isn't Vue used or talked about more, finding bugs in blocks in the new CodePen, and we're grateful for 700 episodes. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js vuejs/petite-vue Syntax: Hacking Pizza Ordering For Fun And Profit - YouTube Theo - Twitch SponsorsAxe-ConAxe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings. Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.

Show DescriptionWeb Day Out is coming up and Jeremy Keith from Clearleft (name pending the ShopTalk Show rebrand) is here to chat about it and while we've got him, Dave throws him on the hot seat to answer some hard hitting journalism questions about the state of the web in 2026. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Web Day Out in Brighton, March 12th 2026 Strategic design partners for website and service design | Clearleft css.properties Raycast - Your shortcut to everything Rachel Andrew – Doing stuff on the web since 1996. Browser support at Clearleft CSS Day 2026, 11th & 12th of June, Amsterdam SponsorsAxe-conAxe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings. Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.

Show DescriptionWhy are AI tools so bad at CSS layout, Robin Rendle inspired monospaced fonts, CodePen's slideVars library, why are Safari dev tools so hard to use, button follow up, and what player component does ShopTalk use for it's website? Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links Clair Obscur | Expedition 33 Apple One Where’s the AI design renaissance? Outlyne Bolt Lando Norris Robin Rendle Dave Rupert Casey Newton slideVars - Automatic Sliders for CSS Custom Properties Media Chrome Docs SponsorsAxe-conAxe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings. Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.

Show DescriptionWe're talking new stuff (to us) that we haven't chatted about yet like display:grid-lanes, the web install API, resizing text on the web, scroll triggered animations, active view transition type, and a Quick Look at CodePen v2 features. Listen on Website Watch on YouTube Links 694: Invoicing with Studioworks with Jessica and Chris – ShopTalk Email Marketing Platform | Litmus Most Reliable App & Cross Browser Testing Platform | BrowserStack Ios Vs Android In 2025 · December 27, 2025 Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes | CSS-Tricks Bruce Lawson's personal site : A first look at the Web Install API PWAStore - Free Web App Store | Install Apps Instantly Download the latest indie games - itch.io Grid Paper Squoosh SVGOMG - Optimize and minify SVG images Never write your own Date Parsing Library—zachleat.com FitText - A plugin for inflating web type Twenty Twenty-Five - daverupert.com Cyd Stumpel | Portfolio Cyd Stumpel SponsorsStudioworksManage clients and contacts, send branded invoices, receive payments, access educational resources, and connect with a supportive community. We’re building the best business hub for freelancers who want a custom client experience that feels polished and professional — with much more in store.