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Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert
A podcast about web design and development.
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Jan 8, 2024 • 57min
597: How Many VS Code Plugins, Poor Charlie’s Almanack, and Where to Start in 2024?
Show DescriptionWe're closing in on episode 600 and need your help to celebrate! Listen in to learn how to contribute to the episode. We're also talking GitHub desktop apps and code editors, how many VS Code plugins are needed, reading long form like Poor Charlie's Almanack, InVision shutting down, and answering our first Q of the year: how would you approach learning web development in 2024?
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The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows | Tower Git Client
GitHub Desktop | Simple collaboration from your desktop
Zed - Code at the speed of thought
Tree-sitter|Introduction
Panic - Nova
JetBrains: Essential tools for software developers and teams
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Stripe Press — Ideas for progress
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
Stripe Press — Ideas for progress
Stripe Press — The Dream Machine
Stripe Press — The Making of Prince of Persia
The Very Best Podcasts of 2023
The 25 Best Podcasts of 2023 - The Atlantic
‘Search Engine’ Podcast Brings Back the Joy of ‘Reply All’
UX design company InVision is shutting down this year
Website design software | Adobe Dreamweaver
Learn JavaScript, React, and TypeScript to Node.js, Fullstack, and Backend | Frontend Masters
Learn from Emma Bostian's courses | Frontend Masters
Trending - CodePen
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Dec 18, 2023 • 53min
596: The Year of AI, Arc, and Being Mad About the Right Thing
Show DescriptionLooking back at the year of AI, using Arc on macOS and now Windows, dreaming of subscriptions, and knowing how to be mad about the right thing.
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Crunchyroll
Dropout
Wish (2023)
GitHub Copilot
Loom
Introducing Whisper
A Convo w/ Chris Coyier – Arc
Arc from The Browser Company
Codeium
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used | Ars Technica
One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MB
lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube embed.
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Dec 11, 2023 • 1h
595: MedTalk Show, Plagiarism and Code Grifting, and How We’re Testing Code
Show DescriptionBlood pressure, stress, and COVID highlight the MedTalk Show portion of this episode, a new "Did You Know" segment about dev tools in Chrome, 4 hour video on plagiarism and code grifters, typography, breaking out of CSS Grid, the oldest things Chris and Dave worked on, and what the testing process is like at Luro or CodePen.
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Blood Pressure – Chris Coyier
QardioArm 2 - Smart Blood Pressure Monitor
CodePen PRO
Plagiarism and You(Tube)
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Welcome to Ethan Marcotte’s website
Practical SVG, A Book Apart
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies: Collins, Jim, Porras
Kevin Powell
Igalia Chats: The Struggle to Keep Up with Web Tech
Thoughts on testing
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Dec 4, 2023 • 1h 1min
594: Wiping Your Laptop, UX of Password Codes, and :Has Tips and Tricks
Show DescriptionIn this episode we're discussing making tech videos, website tinkering, :has tricks, SVG path commands, and the complexities of CSS & JavaScript logic.
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Streamlabs
NextDNS
GitHub Desktop
Tower Git Client
Screen Studio
ScreenFlow
Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc.
Mark Rober
I Joined 4 Coppers For Ranked... (Rainbow Six Siege)
Element Indexes – Chris Coyier
A /random Route on a WordPress Site – Chris Coyier
daverupert.com
Bookshelf | daverupert.com
Sentry
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Nov 27, 2023 • 47min
593: Beep & Texts, Tumblr, JavaScript & Web Components, & Cool Blog Post Ideas
Show DescriptionThoughts on smashing all communication messaging apps together, what's happened to Tumblr under Automattic, what the situation is with native web components and JavaScript, and looking at a list of types of blog posts.
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Combined Messaging Apps – Chris Coyier
Adium - Download
Beeper
XMPP
Texts
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg details Tumblr's future after re-org
Matrix.org
Web Components | Learn to Create Web Components | Frontend Masters
HTML Web Components - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Uncluttered – Baldur Bjarnason
Luro | Build a design system and track component usage, adoption, and success across your entire product.
Apple Annie’s Weblog · Types of blog posts.
Email is good. – A site about email productivity.
Fastmail | We Respect Your Privacy & Put You in Control
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok | WIRED
Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow (Changelog Interviews #565) |> Changelog
Julia Evans
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Nov 20, 2023 • 53min
592: Web Component Therapy, SEO Therapy, and Learning Something New like Swift
Show DescriptionTalking web components, progressive enhancement, style-able components, having to pay before you get to see a demo, being annoyed at the business of SEO, and subscriptions vs ads.
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FitVids has a web component now | daverupert.com
Code Hike
Everything about SEO is obnoxious – Chris Coyier
Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google? - The Verge
Swift.org - Welcome to Swift.org
Flutter - Build apps for any screen
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Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 6min
591: Cascade Layers, CSS Functions, and more CSS with Miriam Suzanne
Show DescriptionMiriam Suzanne stops by to talk about CSS updates and news on container queries, rolling out cascade layers, !important things to remember, custom properties, exit animations, CSS functions, state queries, and more.
Listen on Website →GuestsMiriam SuzanneGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialCo-Founder of Oddbird, core contributor to Sass, author for Sitepoint and CSS Tricks, invited expert to the w3c CSS Working Group.
Links
mirisuzanne (Miriam Suzanne)
Miriam Suzanne on CodePen
Autoprefixer CSS online
Lightning CSS
Select an element which doesn’t descend from another in CSS | chriskirknielsen
Susy | OddBird
Posts | OddBird
Demystifying CSS Container Queries | OddBird
Demystifying CSS Container Queries
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Nov 6, 2023 • 57min
590: Twisting Through Websites
Show DescriptionThe excitement of launching Luro, changes in social media platforms, different seasons for coding and marketing, embedded social media post weight, CSS thoughts from Web Unleashed, focus state issues, and fact checking and updating old posts on your blog.
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Luro | Build a design system and track component usage, adoption, and success across your entire product.
Watch Dave's livestreams on Twitch
Pebble (social network)
Message Decoder – Chris Coyier
Message Decoder - Scans your notifications, automatically puts one-time passcodes on your clipboard
0 KB Social Media Embeds – Chris Coyier
WordPress plugin for fediverse embeds | Stefan Bohacek
Stories: Building a home for my shitty sci-fi | daverupert.com
Stories | daverupert.com
An Anchored Navbar Solution – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
I Have A New Podcast! - by Michael Hobbes
If Books Could Kill on Apple Podcasts
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Oct 30, 2023 • 57min
589: CSS Functions, Read It Later, Making Money in Business, and More
Show DescriptionA quick bit of union news follow up, CSS function round up, Read It Later inside Feedbin, fun uses for a Stream Deck+, how to turn up the money dial in your own business, and having the audacity to call yourself a publisher.
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A Couple of New CSS Functions I’d Never Heard Of – Chris Coyier
[@ichrisv2 • Parenting tip: iOS17's Assistive Access mode is great for accessibility (seniors, etc.) but also ... • Threads](https://www.threads.net/@ichrisv2/post/CydyJByOPvK)
Bandcamp’s Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
xywh() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
Bramus: "To change a color based on Lig…" - Front-End Social
@ichrisv2 • Parenting tip: iOS17's Assistive Access mode is great for accessibility (seniors, etc.) but also ... • Threads
Chris Enns: "Parenting tip: iOS17’s Assisti…" - Mastodon
Read Later in Feedbin | daverupert.com
Feedbin
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane's small internet website
Convert bookmarklet to Chrome extension
Reeder 5
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader - Chrome Web Store
Stream Deck + Black Edition
The Browser is a Printing Press
Luro | Luro Posts
Luro
blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software
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Oct 23, 2023 • 1h 2min
588: Elliott Marquez on Web Components and Lit
Show DescriptionElliott Marquez talks with us about the history of Polymer and Lit, why you should pick Lit, working with web components, the shadow dom, managing state, and how Material design is built with web components.
Listen on Website →GuestsElliott MarquezGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialFront-end software development for Google’s Lit team.
Links
webcomponents.org
Lit
esm.run by jsDelivr - A New-Age CDN for JavaScript modules
davatron5000/fit-vids: Web Component version of FitVids from the creator of FitVids
Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
Material Web
Discord
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