ShopTalk Show

We're talking about Chris' new book of CSS Tricks, building support for old tech on the web, Apple going Arm and what that might mean for Parallels, and building Dave's magical image machine.

We're talking email, custom properties to tame the CSS stack, scroll trigger animation, WordPress blocks, mobile first vs desktop first design, and getting stuff to look nice on mobile Safari. And MORE!

We read some blogs and have some questions of our own: LH vs RLH? What about styling the shadow DOM with CSS shadow parts? Should you focus your work on what's loaded in your brain already? What is the Developer Experience? RUM and making decisions with or without data.

We're talking RSS feeds, Gemstone 4, MMO games, DnD, Jekyll vs Eleventy performance, email newsletters, Github and Microsoft, and strategies for dealing with Jamstack page jank.

We're talking about what's going on in our worlds, banjo talk, building in WordPress, new perf details from Google, and answering a question about static site generator performance.

Jen Simmons is back on the show to talk with us about her new HTML Essentials course, CSS Aspect Ratio, rendering engines vs browsers, and a big announcement from her personally!

Seneongo Akpem talks with us about his new book, Cross Cultural Design, and how building websites for people all over the world and from different cultures can be done better.

We're back doing a Rapidfire through your questions including: Is there a way to control text in the prompt for user permissions? Have we tried Emacs? How do you write better words? When is it appropriate to add a new framework to your resume? Do you think there is a front end ceiling?

Gerry McGovern talks with us about the amount of energy used sending the bits and bytes around the internet, the cost of storage, new phones vs old phones, the scale of data, and how do we adjust our process and culture to make changes?

Tom Preston-Werner joins the show to talk about his latest project, RedwoodJS, and the decisions made about how it works, public APIs, how tied to Netlify RedwoodJS is, and why they're using Prisma.

Vitaly Friedman talks with us about the changing landscape of publishing on the web, the changes seen in web conferences, the difference between a workshop and a webinar, and keeping up with all the technology in front end development.

We're chatting with Blaine Bublitz, lead at the Gulpjs open source project, about what Gulp is, the lack of money in open source, SVG and Gulp, handling dependencies in Gulp, and what the future of Gulp looks like.

Suz Hinton stops by to talk about what it's like to work at Stripe, how businesses should consider storing billing data, her live stream coding journey, and building and coding digital devices like the Arduino.

Brian Kardell talks with us about how new features get into browsers and the fun and challenging journey it takes to get there.

Divya Tagtachian stops by the ShopTalk studios to answer questions about Jamstack and Netlify. What's open authoring? Can a SPA be Jamstack? Can a site be too large for Jamstack? Is SSR the same thing as Jamstack? What's happening with WordPress and Jamstack?

Brian Leroux chats with us about building modern web apps using Begin and other cloud services like it including a deep dive on AWS Lambda.

Jen Simmons & Adam Argyle stop by to continue our conversations about where browsers are at, and what's coming up for browsers - specifically Firefox & Chrome.

We're pontificating on foldable phones and what that means for the web, automating and finding things we like with RSS, talking about a new CodePen feature, and trying to figure out SEO.

Chris and Dave talk hot browser drama, CSS4 ideas and thoughts, moving HTML & CSS forward, and lazy loading - and a whole lot more!

Eric Meyer joins us to talk about An Event Apart's 2020 season, subgrid shipping, the rumored rewrite of Chrome's engine, where HTML and CSS are headed, browser development, developing for giant screens and giant browser windows, and whatever happened to CSS 3?

Chris & Dave give an update on the website redesign project and then dive into your question: What kind of gear should you ask for from a new job? How do you fix a hardcoded issue in a project? And how is life using IntelliJ?

Chris & Dave talk about Edge going Chrome, a bit of follow up from last episode about Virtual Machines, thoughts on designing a website to last, a question about Rails plus React, and a question about how to move from CoffeeScript to something current.

We're talking AI and machine learning taking over, and then answering your questions on: registering a domain name, document outlining in HTML, colleges still teaching Flash, should we eject or not, enqueuing React in WordPress, and saying hyphenated domain names out loud.

Andy Bell brings his collection of side projects to the podcast to talk about including Piccalilli, Boiler Form, Web Components Club, Hylia for Eleventy, and Front End Challenges Club.

Chris & Dave are back for 2020 with thoughts on watching our industry, continuous integration and deployment, fall backs for when an API goes down, alternatives to WordPress, and tips for getting started with web components.

Zach Leatherman stops by the show to talk about his static site generator, Eleventy, as well as look back at his Front End Engineer Manifesto from 2012 and see how it holds up in 2019.

Dave and Chris talk about bacon, blogging, and the business of making money on the web. Are stories the new hotness? Should everything be an email newsletter? What can Dave sell for $10?

Chris and Dave talk about technology overwhelm, when tech breaks, when tech works amazing - and why and how tech sometimes falls out of favor.

Katie Sylor-Miller stops by the ShopTalk studios to talk about her new job as Etsy's Frontend Architect as well as her experience learning Git.

Dave and Chris talk podcasts they're enjoying, a brief making money on the web segment, and your questions about styling old elements, encrypted media, and how to keep your boss out of your code.

Live ShopTalk Show! Chris and Dave come to you live from the floor of JAMstack Conference in San Francisco answering *real* questions about JAMstack.

Marian Suzanne stops by the show to talk about Sass in 2019, design tokens, her company Oddbird, unused CSS, new CSS properties, and Dave & Chris' explanation of revert.

Chris and Dave revisit the state of CMS land with a discussion that mentions almost every kind of CMS available in 2019.

Jen Simmons is on the show to talk about how new features get shipped to browsers, when different browsers push features ahead of other browsers, talk a bit of Grid, Chris' aborting CSS, and aspect ratios and picture elements.

David & Stephen from the Keyframers stop by to talk with Dave & Chris about the state of animation, state machines, and animation systems - as well as live streaming coding on Twitch.

We're re-introducing ourselves in case you're new around here - and then we're right back into talking about picking the perfect stack, how to charge for various tasks in client work, handling H tags in the main menu of a site, and making money on the web.

Chris and Dave talk about interesting ways to make money on the web including Dave's drawing app idea, games like Downwell, the Tech Lead YouTube channel, and services like Coil and Brave.

Chris and Dave open up the mailbag and answer your questions in an return of a classic RapidFire episode. How do you know if you're a senior developer? How do we handle sponsors in WordPress?

Tyler McGinnis stops by the ShopTalk Show to chat with Dave and Chris about his React courses, how he keeps up with web technology, and his thoughts on marketing and selling courses.

Jonathan Carter, Lead Project Manager on VS Code Live Share, talks with Chris and Dave about how to use Live Share, how you can communicate while pair programming, live share vs screen sharing, limitations of Live Share, and most importantly: who controls the terminal??

When you're starting a new web project, what tools do you reach for? Dave and Chris talk through various scenarios and what they'd use to build it with.

Adam Argyle stops by to talk with Dave and Chris about his web design tool, VisBug, and interesting ways designers and developers can use it to be involved in modern web design and development.

Simen & Knut stop by to talk about Sanity.io - why they developed it, what it does, who it's for, and the types of projects they see people using Sanity for.

If you've ever wondered how to become a technical writer - or even a guest writer - for sites like CSS Tricks or Smashing Magazine, this episode is for you. We're talking with Rachel Andrew about how to submit technical articles, becoming a better writer, and tips for getting articles accepted.

We're chatting with Lara Hogan about her awesome new book, Resilient Management. Lots of great advice in this episode for people who are managers, becoming managers, or who are managed by someone - so almost everyone.