ShopTalk 695: Happy Project Share Time (2025 Edition)
Dec 15, 2025
The hosts dive into exciting community projects, showcasing a web component admin bar and innovative CSS shape generators. They celebrate indie games and highlight creative tools like the Dummy Image Generator for prototypes. There's a playful discussion about Lynn Fisher's typographic experiments and Jim Nielsen's humorous guess-the-article game. The episode explores AI-driven website builders and an HTML-first framework called Greenwood, while also touching on email markup challenges and the upcoming State of the Browser conference.
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Start With A Practical HTML Course
- Take a focused beginner HTML course like Blake Watson's to learn foundational skills and shipping basics.
- Publish a simple personal site while learning to practice typography and real-world workflows.
Markdown In The Terminal Matters
- Rendering Markdown attractively in terminals fills a niche for CLI tools and developer UX.
- MarkShell converts Markdown into rich terminal output, ideal for Node.js CLIs and docs.
Admin Bar Built As Isolated Web Component
- Will Browar built an admin bar component initially for CraftCMS and then generalized it into a web component.
- He used Shadow DOM for style isolation so the bar looks consistent across any CMS-installed site.
