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Show DescriptionEthan Marcotte is here to talk about his new book, You Deserve a Tech Union, and discusses topics such as why we need unions in tech, who gets to be in the union, how unions can help deal with the AI question, union busting, and some arguments against unions. Listen on Website →GuestsEthan MarcotteGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialDesigner, writer, and speaker. Started that “responsive web design” thing. Links Ethan Marcotte on LinkedIn Ethan Marcotte on Mastodon Welcome to Ethan Marcotte’s website — Ethan Marcotte Responsive Web Design, A Book Apart You Deserve a Tech Union, A Book Apart Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees Twitter lays off another 10% of staff, New York Times reports | CNN Business Kickstarter United When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee? - Freakonomics Basecamp Blowup: Banning Politics At Work Prompts Over A Dozen Employees To Quit : NPR Bandcamp United - Home Glitch workers sign tech’s first collective bargaining agreement - The Verge Waiting for "Superman" Resilient Management | A book for new managers in tech Sponsors

Show DescriptionManton Reece, creator of Micro.blog, stops by to talk about the history of Micro.blog, what it's written in, how it handles feeds coming in and going out, cross-posting, authentication, and the somewhat hidden features of Micro.blog: bookmarking, bookshelves, and even podcasting. Listen on Website →GuestsManton ReeceGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialCreator of Micro.blog, co-host of Core Intuition. Links Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine Micro.blog Manton Reece - About Micro.blog - @manton Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing by Manton Reece — Kickstarter Indie Microblogging Sinatra Cross-Posting - Chris Coyier Cross-posting to Twitter, Medium, Mastodon, and more - Cross-posting - Micro.blog Help Center Letterboxd • Social film discovery. Nostr, a simple protocol for decentralizing social media that has a chance of working Welcome to Pinboard—Social bookmarking for introverts! Micro.blog for iOS Hugo Bear Blog MarsEdit 5 Core Intuition podcast Sponsors

Show DescriptionChris redesigned his blog, using sounds on your website to make it seem fancy, what can't automated accessibility tests test, and what's new in Safari 17. Listen on Website →Links School dropoff and sweater weather season | Instagram Chris Coyier - Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker. Cannonball is such a badass song - Chris Coyier Soundcite Why not React? - DEV Community Top Tasks - A how-to guide - Gerry McGovern How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility – Smart Interface Design Patterns Expanding your touch targets – Nicole Sullivan v0.dev by Vercel Fable | Digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities Safari 17 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation display: contents considered harmful – Eric Bailey More accessible markup with display: contents | hidde.blog A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell Smart Interface Design Patterns (9h video + live UX training) – 100 Smart Interface Design Patterns & Live Examples. 9h Video + UX Training. How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility – Smart Interface Design Patterns Sponsors

Show DescriptionFred K. Schott stops by to talk about building community, open source and sponsorship, building on partnerships in the dev community, WordPress + Astro, view transitions, using Discord for support, and leaking secret Astro Studio details. Listen on Website →GuestsFred K. SchottGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialCo-creator of Astro. Links Astro Astro Documentation The Astro Blog | Astro Astro on GitHub Discord Astro (@astrodotbuild) on Twitter Discord | kapa.ai docs Astro Studio Music for fake trailer: - How To Make A Blockbuster Movie Trailer - Auralnauts music - The Booj — Twenty Thousand HertzSponsors

Maggie Appleton discusses working with language models, vetting AI responses, Soggoth meme, using Discord as UI, boss wanting AI, and calling her blog a digital garden. Topics include language models for data extraction, generative image models in illustration, efficiency, and environmental impact, academic paper sourcing, and digital gardens for content evolution.

The podcast covers topics such as audio challenges at conferences, a new lifetime plan for Patreon supporters, the concept of web payments API for protecting paywall content, discussion on Molly Holshog's legacy, the efficiency of adding new components using Luro, the history of CSS resets, critique of Andy Bell's CSS reset, and the advantages of using CSS variables in creating a cohesive system.

Show DescriptionDave calls a quick Luro branding meeting, some thoughts on DevRel, Chris tries to figure out musical instrument mics, follow up on WordPress from a previous episode, Chris' journey through the social graph options, 100 year hosting with WordPress, and the introduction of a new segment: Happy Project Share Time. Listen on Website →Links kingkool68/wordpress-rh-starter-theme get_template_part() The cost of convenience — surma.dev The State of API-Powered Publishing to Social Media Networks - Chris Coyier XPoster – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org FS Poster Micro.blog kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com alfateam/rdb: Javascript ORM Happy Project Share Time Learn Privacy Build UX A11yAutomation Continuous Accessibility Announcing Crashlands 2 | Butterscotch Shenanigans Stitch - Visual Studio Marketplace bscotch/stitch: Tools and apps for GameMaker development: a CLI for pipeline development, a VSCode extension for coding, and more. SponsorsNotionDo your most efficient work with Notion Projects. You can try it for free today at notion.com/shoptalk. When you use our link, you’re supporting our show!

Show DescriptionWe're talking the State of CSS Survey, 2023 Edition, with Chen Hui Jing. What was it like helping develop the survey? A bit of follow up on regions, the benefits of being able to tell the browser what you want, language issues in developing and understanding CSS, the struggle for non-majority users, CSS frameworks, and more. Listen on Website →GuestsChen Hui JingGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialA self-taught designer and developer. Links State of CSS Interop 2023: continuing to improve the web for developers Interledger Protocol (ILP): Open and Inclusive Payments SponsorsNotionDo your most efficient work with Notion Projects. You can try it for free today at notion.com/shoptalk. When you use our link, you’re supporting our show!

Show DescriptionHave you ever been an auctioneer? Sometimes when God closes a shed, he opens a sauna. Dave's working on the one day build theory, how to market with fake data, an update on the Discord, marketing with a spicy slug, what we want to see next in CSS, and thoughts on component libraries. Listen on Website →Links Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really. Zach Leatherman in Elk: "Looks like the cat is out of the ba..." | Elk fks on Twitter: "There have been zero commits to the Gatsby repo in the last 24 days." Lennart on Twitter: "I have some sad news to share: In July Netlify laid off a lot of amazing people and I was one of them. Thus I'm actively looking for my next role as a full stack engineer. Please share with your networks and reach out to me!" Ward Peeters on Twitter: "@FredKSchott It’s dead. The whole staff is gone except one. It still works well but don’t expect major React 18 features to land" Quick thoughts on chips | daverupert.com Raycast Prioritise content over components | simeonGriggs.dev Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog GitHub - robinsloan/perfect-edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template zeldman on Twitter: "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration." JavaScript for Web Designers — A Book Apart You Deserve a Tech Union, A Book Apart Expert Idiot | daverupert.com Sponsors

Show DescriptionIs Apple's Numbers amazing or the worst? Customer support at various levels of software, Figma and P3 color, imagining a colorspace property in CSS, what's Dave doing for productivity, how has offloading CSS Tricks affected Chris, and should we build different websites for mobile vs desktop? Listen on Website →Links Analog – Ugmonk web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles Manage color profiles in design files – Figma Help Center OKLCH Color Picker & Converter Bullet journal Things - To-Do List for Mac & iOS Bear WURFL.io Sponsors