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 URL • Guest's Twitter Creator of Visibox, Musician in 123Astronaut & Orbitband, Cofounder at Lullabot, Executive Coach at jjeff․com. Links MV7+ - Podcast Microphone NT-USB Microphone Jeff Robbins (@jjeff) Jeff Robbins FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024 CodePen: Online Code Editor and Front End Web Developer Community Learning Web Design with Jennifer Robbins Visibox Announcement Lullabot Spaceage Cross-Platform App Development Desktop Apps with Web Frontend Sponsors Jam.dev One click bug reports devs love. Find out more at jam.dev

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 • Guest's Twitter Core Contributor and WordCamp Speaker. Director of Editorial Engineering at 10up. Links 10up | finely crafted websites and tools Fabian Kägy - User Experience focused developer currently building great user experiences within the WordPress Block Editor as the Director of Editorial Engineering @10up. fabiankaegy (Fabian Kägy) on GitHub @fabiankaegy on Twitter / X Fabian Kägy (@fabiankaegy) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org Fabian Kägy on LinkedIn ACF Plugin Create Block Theme WordPress/twentytwentyfive St. Jude Donation Sponsors Jam.dev One click bug reports devs love. Find out more at jam.dev

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 Main URL • Guest's Twitter Developer Relations Engineer at Google, focused on the Web and Project Fugu. Links Web Capabilities (Project Fugu) Chrome.dev Prompt API Playground Summarization API Playground Translation API API Playground Chrome AI Proposal Chrome AI Experiment Intelligence Preview Prompt API Proposal Writing Assistance APIs Proposal Web Translation Proposal WICG WebML TPAC 2024 Agenda TPAC 2024: Overview Cache AI Models Sponsors Jam.dev One click bug reports devs love. Find out more at jam.dev

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 Adam Coster Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter CEO & Webtech at Butterscotch Shenanigans Links Butterscotch Shenanigans About | Butterscotch Shenanigans Coffee with Butterscotch adam-coster (Adam Coster) Adam Coster @costerad on Twitter Crashlands 2 on Steam Sponsors

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 Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking Organize Life System Things To-Do List Bear - Markdown Notes Analog Productivity System Just use fucking paper, man Daylight Computer Care Chrome Canary Features Cerebras Sponsors

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 Coyier FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024 Frostapalooza in photos and videos | Brad Frost Symmetry 2024 Tickets Code Editor Community Understanding Technical Debt Mermaid Tool tldraw Collaborative Whiteboard Dev Mode Visual Suite for Everyone Game Development Competition Butterscotch Shenanigans Ghost Platform Craft CMS Astro Eleventy Static Site Generator Decap CMS The Markdown CMS Sanity Content Cloud Sponsors Jam.dev One click bug reports devs love. Find out more at jam.dev

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. Listen on Website → Links Trust the vibes We don't need a boss, we need a process | Miriam Eric Suzanne The Great Divide JavaScript and The Great Divide 346: Is There a Great Divide? Kevin Powell | CSS Evangelist Javascript Testing Frameworks Design System Comparison Global Design System Brad Frost Design Frostapalooza Concert Val Head Sharpen your thinking Sheelah Brennan's Engineer Comparison Turkey Sounds Sponsors Jam.dev One click bug reports devs love. Find out more at jam.dev

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 Season on YouTube Dave's new dogs from the Discord Fine-grained Markdown Cloudflare Object Storage Uppy Netlify Image CDN Sponsors Jam.dev One click bug reports devs love. Find out more at jam.dev

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 struggle Cloudflare Workers · Cloudflare Workers docs Wrangler Cloudflare Workers Features • GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Services Yarn Vibe Driven Development Active Record Migrations Prisma Migrate Sponsors

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 Daring Fireball Cory Doctorow's craphound.com | Cory Doctorow's Literary Works Moonbound Second Foundation Servo Web Rendering Engine Ladybird Flow Browser Learn. Build. Grow. Together. Artist Platform Tech News The Homepage of Dave Rupert View Transitions Break Misconceptions about view transitions | Blog | Chrome for Developers Sponsors

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) directed by Mike Judge • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd 2024 Hyundai IONIQ 5: Electric SUV | Hyundai Canada R2 - Rivian Bronco® Sport | Build & Price | Shop.ford.ca A Book Apart Practical SVG by Chris Coyier Print-On-Demand I’m Mat. I make websites. Reacquired. Real Life News 587: Why Ethan Marcotte Thinks Tech Workers Deserve a Union – ShopTalk Google URL Shortener Netlify Astro Partnership Sponsors ShopTalk Patreon Support the show and help keep us on the air - AND get access to the super fun d-d-d-d-d-d-d-iscord with other Shopamaniacs.

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, Including Major Companies Off The Main Thread podcast Web Dev Pitfalls State of JavaScript 2023 Fliteboard eFoil Sponsors

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 → Links 614: CSS Grid Level 3 aka Masonry with Adam Argyle – ShopTalk 606: Web Sustainability with Michelle Barker – ShopTalk Footnotes Progressively Enhanced to Popovers – Frontend Masters Boost Charm Supermaven ThePrimeagen on YouTube Sponsors

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 simpler static site generator Astro Next.js React Framework Cloudflare Services Internet Power Website Improvement Server Islands Create Web Components FAST Enhance Vue.js Framework An even faster Microsoft Edge Sponsors

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 → Links Cloud Application Hosting for Developers | Render Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter Biome, toolchain of the web Vetur Compare colors Craft CMS Webflow: Create a custom website | Visual website builder Accessibility Overlay Decision Sponsors

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$ within 24h Connect, Protect and Build Everywhere | Cloudflare Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies Cara | Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Auth0: Secure access for everyone. But not just anyone. WorkOS — Your app, Enterprise Ready. Theo - t3․gg How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between The Homer | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom A Global Design System | Brad Frost FAST Sponsors

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 Sven's SudokuPad. Links Solving “The Miracle Sudoku” SudokuPad Web App - by SvenCodes.com and Cracking The Cryptic Cracking The Cryptic svencodes.com Sven Codes (@svencodes) / X Sven Codes Sven Codes | Creating Sudoku Tools | Patreon Buy Sven Neumann a Coffee Sven's SudokuPad on Steam Sven's SudokuPad on the App Store Sven's SudokuPad - Apps on Google Play Sponsors

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 → Guests Matt Visiwig Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Self-employed web designer, building SVGBackgrounds.com. Links Customize and apply backgrounds fast | SVG Backgrounds Matt Visiwig Matt Visiwig (@MattVisiwig) / X Purchase the Perfect MemberPress Plan for Your Site Today | MemberPress chroma.js api docs! jscolor: JavaScript Color picker with Opacity (alpha channel) ACF | Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer Sponsors

Show Description We're chatting with Jason Grigsby about what a white-collar recession means, how the sources and methods of consuming news shape our perspectives, whether the current economic conditions represent a market correction and if a rebound is imminent. We explore the critical decision of whether to embrace AI advancements or risk being left behind. We also talk about AI-generated voices, large language models and ethics, and the impact of social media signals in an AI world. Listen on Website → Guests Jason Grigsby Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Co-Founder of Cloud Four. Author of Progressive Web Apps from A Book Apart. Links An Event Apart - Farewell Cloud Four – Responsive web design and development, progressive web apps Jason Grigsby – A resurrected blog on the Indie Web Jason Grigsby (@grigs) / X High-Salary Job Scarcity Code Tests AI Ethical Framework iPhone Personal Voice MacWhisper Progressive Web Apps Decoder Sponsors

Show Description Luke Abbott is the creator of Strum Machine, an app that simulates backing tracks by stitching together individual notes, chords, and strums recorded on guitar, standup bass, and mandolin. We talk about what Strum Machine does, why he decided to build it, how bringing on a professional designer helped, pricing thoughts, and the "fun" of building a version on iOS. Listen on Website → Guests Luke Abbott Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter Musician and creator of Strum Machine. Links Strum Machine: customizable backing tracks made from real instruments Tater Joes Old-Time Musical Mercantile Chris Coyier on Strum Machine iReal Pro Practice PG Music SoundJS Library Tone.js Latest Posts - Page 2 Apache Cordova Extensive Song Catalog howler.js A Tale of Two Clocks Sponsors