Show Description Chris Person from Aftermath joins us to chat about the state of forums in 2024, being downwind of knowledge, forum drama, Reddit and StackOverflow's impact on forums, the importance of the individuals caring for knowledge and information, and the benefits and struggles of cooperatives in reporting. Listen on Website → Guests Chris …

Show Description We've got a few leftovers from Halloween to process, what's been happening with Passkeys in late 2024, have you tried to write HTML faster than a bot can suggest it to you, CSS anchor positioning and popover polyfills, scroll driven animation thoughts, CSS nesting, and what's the reason for Java? Listen on Website → Links Auth0: Se…

Show Description Riffing off a Dave Rupert blog post, Chris and Dave talk through the pros and cons of web components, when to use them, when it's a bad idea to use them, what would it take to make the Next.js of web components, and how long until we don't need anymore frameworks? Listen on Website → Links Where web components shine - daverupert.co…

Show Description How important is the DX of software vs how important is the person showing off the software, Douglas Crockford and JSON, remembering XML, trying to write better HTML for email, new TC39 proposal, workshopping t-shirts, and what do you do if you want a little bit of database on your website? Listen on Website → Links Web Unleashed 2…

Show Description Dave's designing a new tshirt, questions for lawyers about copyrights for code projects, what does the copyright in the footer actually do, what do Dave and Chris require for personal web projects, does Jekyll get updated anymore, the Bob from Hell UX pattern, viewing ads on CNN, what about Joomla or Statamic, and how do paid fonts…

Show Description Brian Muenzenmeyer joins the show to talk about his book, Approachable Open Source, ways we can make open source easier to get in, important conversations around funding and supporting open source, and whether money helps maintainers deal with burnout or not? Listen on Website → Guests Brian Muenzenmeyer Guest's Main URL • Guest's …

Show Description We're getting some feelings out about WordPress and Matt Mullenweg vs WP Engine drama, as well as the Web Components conversation that happened this past week. Listen on Website → Links WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power | TechCrunch Automattic demanded a cut of WP Engine’s revenue…

Show Description Jeff Robbins stops by to talk about his software, Visibox, that was used at Frostapalooza for presenting video at the concert, what it's like building an app with Electron, how it's distributed, how files are used and managed, and how he supports hardware devices inside Electron. Listen on Website → Guests Jeff Robbins Guest's Main…

Show Description Fabian Kägy helps us understand the modern WordPress development process, Gutenberg vs Block editor vs full site editing, building with blocks or pages, what's coming in the Twenty Twenty-Five Theme, and whether the theme authoring process has been made too difficult in 2024? Listen on Website → Guests Fabian Kägy Guest's Main URL …

Show Description Thomas Steiner from Project Fugu talks with us about AI in Chrome, the small large language model in use, how features like this are rolled out, the ethics and concerns around sending and sharing data, on device vs web APIs, and ideas for use cases and ways to explore AI on the web. Listen on Website → Guests Thomas Steiner Guest's…

Show Description Adam Coster talks with us about working with his family in game development, how they get started making games, what all is involved with publishing games, deciding to go Steam and Netflix only for Crashlands 2, how web tech is involved in game development, and the fun of testing and doing Q&A for games. Listen on Website → Guests …

Show Description Dave's got an idea for a second brain app that's customized to his brain, where we're at with Notion and other notes apps, and accessibility on LLM's in browsers. Listen on Website → Links Notion Web Clipper for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and mobile The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds Obsidi…

Show Description Chris has a birthday today , we recap our Frostapalooza experience celebrating Brad Frost's birthday, do all codebases become a mess, Mermaid, TLDraw, and Figjam thoughts, making tiny games, where's the follow up in web and world news, and what's the current state of CMS' on the web? Listen on Website → Links Frostapalooza – Chris …

Show Description A bit of follow-up on vibe driven development and JavaScript not causing The Great Divide, writing testing automation, global design systems and web components, could PHP be used for web components, what if view transitions are going to be everywhere, and frontend engineer vs design systems engineer job titles and descriptions. Lis…

Show Description Doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the planes, Dave's got a 2x life update, how often do you manage or prune your RSS feed subscriptions, checking in on Code Hike and their fine grained Markdown approach, JavaScript decorators use case, and using Cloudflare R2 for image storage. Listen on Website → Links Noah Kahan - Stick …

Show Description Chris brings some blog posts to talk about including being comfortable with the struggle of developer life, Cloudflare Workers + monorepos, vibe driven development, and questions about database migrations, and whether we think AI free blogs are going to be a rarity in the future? Listen on Website → Links Comfortable with the strug…

Show Description Chris has some follow up on blog posts and past podcast episodes to respond to including browsers and browser engines, advertising on the web, magazines, Cara, peak AI slop, and view transitions. Listen on Website → Links FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024 kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products Dar…

Show Description Dave's putting together a platform for his presidential bid and workshops his policies, discussing vehicle options for a family in 2024, Chris and other authors get ownership of their A Book Apart books back, and the ramifications and reasoning behind Google killing a URL shortener. Listen on Website → Links ‎Office Space (1999) di…

Show Description On this epsiode we're talking about the current state of blogging and social media, the polyfill hack, whether in app browsers should be banned, web components and the difficulty of front end web dev, and how we would go about teaching CSS from scratch in 2024. Listen on Website → Links Polyfill Attack Impacts Over 380,000 Hosts, I…

Show Description We're talking about assigning a weight to items in a layout, differentiating between banger posts and regular blog posts, using social engineering to get PR's accepted, monorepo thoughts, using CoPilot vs other AI programming support bots, has TypeScript benefited from AI, and what happens if you turn off CoPilot? Listen on Website…

Show Description We're talking website rendering, server side rendering, Astro's server islands, perf hits for navigation elements, updating software because the docs aren't available for older versions, and a new Microsoft Edge was released. Listen on Website → Links Scale & Ship Faster with a Composable Web Architecture | Netlify Eleventy is a si…

Show Description We've got follow up on Cloudflare and Cara from last episode, a question about setting up Prettier and auto linting, a cool tool from a listener on comparing colors, a question about using tooling like Craft or more user friendly apps like Webflow when working with clients, and our takes on accessibility overlays. Listen on Website…

Show Description We dive a bit deeper into the Cloudflare drama of the past couple of weeks, Instagram ads vs Cara art, what to do about Auth in your app, pre-negging any sponsorships, prototyping and feedback on projects, and ideas for future topics. Listen on Website → Links Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ w…

Show Description Sven Neumann aka Sven Codes talks with us about SudokuPad, developing a cross-platform app, integrating new puzzles and features, the benefits of being easy to use, building a community, and monetizing an app while not upsetting your user base. Listen on Website → Guests Sven Neumann Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Creator of Sv…

Show Description Matt Visiwig stops by to chat with us about his site, SVGBackgrounds.com, a membership site for copy-and-paste website graphics built around SVG. We talk about why he built the site, how he decided to monetize it, competing with AI garbage on the web, pricing membership options, and how he's running the site. Listen on Website → Gu…