ShopTalk Show

712

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000

711

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000

710

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000

709ad

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000

708

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

707

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0000

706

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0000

705

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Mar 2026 00:15:00 +0000

704

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0000

703

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0000

702

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:00:00 +0000

701

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Feb 2026 03:00:00 +0000

700

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0000

699

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000

698

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000

697

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000

696

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000

695

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0000

694

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0000

693

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Dec 2025 01:00:00 +0000

692

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0000

691

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0000

690

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:00:00 +0000

689

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0000

688

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0000

687

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0000

686

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:00:00 +0000

685

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0000

684

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:00:00 +0000

683

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 01:00:00 +0000

682

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0000

681

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Sep 2025 03:00:00 +0000

680

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Sep 2025 03:00:00 +0000

679

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

678

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:00:00 +0000

677

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:00:00 +0000

676

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

675

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 02:00:00 +0000

674

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:00:00 +0000

673

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 02:00:00 +0000

672

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0000

671

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:00:00 +0000

670

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0000

669

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0000

668

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Jun 2025 01:00:00 +0000

667

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Jun 2025 01:00:00 +0000

666

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 May 2025 02:00:00 +0000

665

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 May 2025 02:00:00 +0000

664

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 May 2025 01:00:00 +0000

663

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 May 2025 02:00:00 +0000

662

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:00:00 +0000

661

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 01:00:00 +0000

660

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 02:00:00 +0000

659

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Apr 2025 03:00:00 +0000

658

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

657

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:00:00 +0000

656

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:00:00 +0000

655

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

654

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Mar 2025 01:00:00 +0000

653

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0000

652

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0000

651

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0000

650

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0000

649

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0000

648

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0000

647

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0000

646

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 03:00:00 +0000

645

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0000

644

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Dec 2024 03:00:00 +0000

643

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 03:00:00 +0000

642

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0000

641

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:00:00 +0000

640

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0000

639

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 01:00:00 +0000

638 v2

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0000

638

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:00:00 +0000

637 v2

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 01:00:00 +0000

637

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:05:00 +0000

636

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Oct 2024 01:00:00 +0000

635

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:00:00 +0000

634

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:00:00 +0000

633

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:00:00 +0000

632

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Sep 2024 03:00:00 +0000

630

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0000

629

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:00:00 +0000

628

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0000

627

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Aug 2024 03:00:00 +0000

626

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:00:00 +0000

625

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:24:06 +0000

624

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

623

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

622: Website Rendering, Updating Software, and Edge Gets Faster

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

621

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0000

620

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0000

619

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 01:00:00 +0000

618

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0000

617

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000

616

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000

615

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000

614

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000

613

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:00:00 +0000

612: Matt Haughey on a Fantasy Blogging CMS Setup

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

611

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 01:00:00 +0000

610

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

609: Blake Watson on Home Cooked Apps

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Apr 2024 03:00:00 +0000

608: Can WordPress Kill Your Resume, Fav Parts of Web Dev, Exploring HTMX, and more!

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 01:00:00 +0000

607: What Will You Try Building with Astro DB?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 02:00:00 +0000

606: Web + Digital Sustainability, YouTube, and Cookies with Michelle Barker

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:00:00 +0000

605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Mar 2024 02:00:00 +0000

604: VS Code Plugins, Git as a Radical Statement, and Tailwind & Arc Drama

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 01:00:00 +0000

603: 3x Threat Josh Collinsworth on Deno, Fresh, React, Svelte, and PWAs

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:00:00 +0000

602: What Does Accessibility Really Mean?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:00 +0000

601: Brad Frost on A Global Design System + Frostapalooza

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Feb 2024 04:00:00 +0000

600: Where Will The Web Be 10 Years from Now?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

599: Fighting the Algorithm With RSS, Blogging, and the IndieWeb

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 05:00:00 +0000

598: Jen Simmons on Interop, Webkit Releases, and New CSS Features in Safari

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

597: How Many VS Code Plugins, Poor Charlie's Almanack, and Where to Start in 2024?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

596: The Year of AI, Arc, and Being Mad About the Right Thing

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0000

595: MedTalk Show, Plagiarism and Code Grifting, and How We're Testing Code

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0000

594

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0000

593: Beep & Texts, Tumblr, JavaScript & Web Components, & Cool Blog Post Ideas

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0000

592: Web Component Therapy, SEO Therapy, and Learning Something New like Swift

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0000

591: Cascade Layers, CSS Functions, and more CSS with Miriam Suzanne

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0000

590: Twisting Through Websites

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0000

589

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:00:00 +0000

588: Elliot Marquez on Web Components and Lit

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 23:00:00 +0000

587: Why Ethan Marcotte Thinks Tech Workers Deserve a Union

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

586: Micro.blog'ing with Manton Reece

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Manton 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.

585: Blog Redesign, Sounds on a Website, Accessibility Tests, and Safari 17

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

584: Community, Partnerships, Images, and Astro with Fred K. Schott

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0000

583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

582: Lifetime Plan, Pricing #HotDrama, and CSS Resets

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:00:00 +0000

581: DevRel, Musical Mics, Social Sharing, and 100 Years of WordPress

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

580: Chen Hui Jing and the State of CSS Survey for 2023

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0000

579: One Day Builds, Spicy Slugs, and What Next for CSS?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:34:09 +0000

578: Customer Support, P3 Color, Dave on Productivity, and Mobile vs Desktop

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:00:00 +0000

577: Shawn Wang on AI

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Aug 2023 02:00:00 +0000

576: WordPress Blocks, Web Components, and the Future of Browser Engines

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:14:23 +0000

575

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 02:00:00 +0000

574

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:00:00 +0000

573

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 01:00:00 +0000

572

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Jul 2023 01:00:00 +0000

571

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:00:00 +0000

570

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0000

569

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0000

568

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Jun 2023 16:20:05 +0000

567: Full Stack Dev, Load Bearing Developer, and Being Zod Curious

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 May 2023 02:00:00 +0000

566: View Transitions and Passkeys

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 May 2023 01:00:00 +0000

565: The Hurdy-Gurdy, OKLCH, Edge Dev Tools, and Ad Blocking

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 May 2023 02:00:00 +0000

564: Render ATL, New Colors Available, Gradients, HDR, and More

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 May 2023 02:00:00 +0000

563: Getting Pulled by the Algorithm, Consensual AI Training Data, and SVG Drawing

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000

562: Podcast Apps, Zaraz, Future CSS Thoughts, and Arc

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0000

561: Web Perf News, Web Sommelier, Data Analytics, and Passkeys

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:00:00 +0000

560: Oh Biscuits! Cascade Layers, Block Links, Emoji Lists, and more CSS!

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 02:00:00 +0000

559: Fidget Apps, Coding with AI, Dialog Element Navs, Getting Rid of CSS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Apr 2023 03:00:00 +0000

558: Esoteric Weird Content Editable Problems with Kristin Valentine

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0000

557 - ChatGPT, Conferences, Fidgets on the Web, and Modern CSS in Real Life

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0000

When will AI be able to tell you the risk / reward of cleaning up trees? Are conferences back? Bringing fidgets to the web, internet as an anxiety machine, and Chris is working on talk on modern CSS in real life.

556: Andrey Sitnik and Using OKLCH for Color

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:19:07 +0000

555: React Documentary, Front of the Front End, Fast Fallacy, and Best Practices

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0000

554: Jamstack Thoughts with Brian Rinaldi

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:00:00 +0000

553: TypeScript, DX, GripeScript, and Astro v2 with Fred Schott

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

552: Do You Want to Build a JS Framework? + CSS Wishlist for 2023

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:00:00 +0000

Austin power updates, what do you need if you want to build a new JavaScript framework, and what do we hope CSS brings in 2023?

551: PlanetScale with Iheanyi Ekechukwu and Mike Coutermarsh

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Feb 2023 19:41:32 +0000

550

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 03:00:00 +0000

549: Ben Ubois of Feedbin

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Ben Ubois is the founder of Feedbin, the RSS reader of choice for Dave and Chris. What influenced the creation of Feedbin, the state of RSS in 2023, curating your RSS feed, and subscribing to newsletters in Feedbin.

548: Infinite Canvas, Luro + Firma, and Scraping or Crawling

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 03:00:00 +0000

What's going to happen to homework with AI? Thoughts on infinite canvas which leads into Luro and Sigma integration, and Chris gets nerdsniped and tries to scrap (or should he crawl?) websites for data.

547: WordPress and GraphQL with Jason Bahl

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Jan 2023 01:00:00 +0000

546: Ryan Dahl and Deno

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0000

545: Arc Browser with Nate Parrott

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0000

544: Feedback, RSS Talk, Arc Brower, and Product Talk

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0000

543: Zach Leatherman on Eleventy, Mastodon, Twitter, and is-land

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:53:08 +0000

Zach Leatherman talks with us about what's new with Eleventy, setting up on Mastodon, what's happened with Twitter, and is-land.

542: Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS, Mastodon, and Stories on the Web

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 01:00:00 +0000

541: Una Kravets on What's New With CSS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Una Kravets stops by to talk about making CSS your job, @ Property, Cascade layers, color spaces updates, shared element transitions, animation on the web, nesting, focus visible, and what people should learn about CSS.

540: Next 13, WP vs FB, Figma Thoughts, and a TypeScript Journey

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Nov 2022 03:00:00 +0000

539: Sameera Kapila and Inclusive Design Communities

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:00:00 +0000

538: Patching the Web

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Catching up on work after being away at a conference, import maps coming to Safari, and your secret web patching tips including buying Disney tickets, saving Instagram photos, spell checking blog posts, taking funky screenshots, forms, cleaning up Jira, and pesky greyed out buttons.

537: ShopTalk Live from An Event Apart 2022

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:00:00 +0000

536: Functional Programming, npm Dependency Hell, and the Patchability of the Web

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0000

535: Improving Developer Productivity with Rebecca Murphey

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Oct 2022 16:12:59 +0000

534: Web Talks, AI Images, and Redesigning an API

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 03:00:00 +0000

533: Bastian Allgeier from Kirby CMS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Bastian Allgeier, creator of the popular CMS Kirby, talks with us about what Kirby is, why Kirby uses flat files, the whole SSG vs flat debate, the $20B Sigma shaped elephant in the room, running Kirby on the edge, how Kirby handles support and licensing, and what kinds of sites use Kirby?

532: Mobile Browser Injections, CascadiaJS + Enhance, CSS Methodologies

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:00:00 +0000

An update on the spoon theory talked about in the previous episode, thoughts on the mobile browser injection going on in apps, Chris spoke at CascadiaJS, Enhance.dev released, 4 new CSS methodologies, and quantity vs quality in your work output.

531: Mobile Database, GDPR Fun, and Heroku Shuts Down Free Plan

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Sep 2022 03:00:00 +0000

What database should a mobile app use? Is there any help for GDPR processes? Is there a way to get developers to better match design? How to implement accessibility in a web app environment? Heroku shuts down their free plan, and pricing is hard.

530: Keaton Taylor on Product Design, Career Paths, and DadTalk Show

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 03:00:00 +0000

529: Jen Simmons

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Jen Simmons walks through a ton of the new CSS and HTML features out now or coming soon - including container queries, cascade layers, .has selector, and more!

528: Alex and Andrew on Working in an Agency

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:00:00 +0000

527: Shaky Foundations, Tricky A11y Topics, & Dependency Follow Up

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0000

A quick Luro update, working in a coffee shop, when do you know it's time to leave a working but shakey system behind and start fresh, teaching tricky A11y tips, dependency follow up, how big are the node modules, and we dream up a media service app.

526: Web Components, Testing, and Database Seeding

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Aug 2022 01:00:00 +0000

525: Cache Bustin, Twitter Embeds, and Analytics Weirdness

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0000

524: Package Security with Feross Aboukhadijeh from Socket

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 01:00:00 +0000

523: Quality Design in Apps, Headless WordPress Shopify, GitHub Action Notifications

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:00:00 +0000

522: Jay Hoffman and The History of the Web 2 Sponsor Version

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Jul 2022 01:00:00 +0000

522: 522: Jay Hoffman and The History of the Web (Notion Only)

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Jul 2022 01:00:00 +0000

521: GitHub Actions with Rizèl Scarlett and Brian Douglas

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 01:00:00 +0000

520: Conferences, Search Engines, Anonymity, CSS, :Has, and the Future with Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:00:00 +0000

519 - SSG vs WordPress, Customize Menus, JavaScript Testing, and CMS Tools in JavaScript

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 01:00:00 +0000

518: WebPageTest Improvements, Shopify Hydrogen, and is .CSS a Bad Idea?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Jun 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Big Backend Energy

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 May 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Where have all the backend podcasts gone? Databases are so hot right now, so we're talking about them. What is the state of just using native web components? Are they a viable solution for a production app today? What if there was a type syntax in JavaScript?

516: Building a Technology, Twitter Driven Development, Deciding on a Blog Topic

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 May 2022 03:00:00 +0000

How do you add features to a web app while the web app is running? Should you add features to your app based on whatever Twitter tells you? And if Chris or Dave were starting a new blog today, what niche would they start writing about?

515: Gaming Fridge, Dave Goes Nuxt 3, Resizing Images, Hiring Devs, Design Systems, and Redesigning Blogs

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 May 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Dave's got a new fridge, questions about whether we'll see a big podcast again, #DaveGoesNuxt3, mouthblogging Netlify ideas, resizing and cropping images, should you hire a newb dev or senior dev, what is a design system, and redesigning personal websites.

514: Front End vs Back End Work, Teams Built Like a Video Game, API Keys, Twitter, and VanTalk

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 May 2022 16:50:21 +0000

Dave's got a theory that we could build dev teams like video game teams, Chris has an API edge rant, Dave tests Nuxt 3, billionaires buying apps, camper talk, and the search for the perfect webcam.

513: Live at AEA 2022

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 May 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Chris and Dave are answering questions live from An Event Apart, spring 2022 edition. What new CSS features are exciting? What would you add to CSS? What do you think creates the designer developer gap? Web components and two screens! And more!

512: Web Whiskey Crossover with Chuck Carpenter & Robbie Wagner

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Chuck Carpenter & Robbie Wagner from Web Whiskey and Whatnot stop by to talk about podcasting, hiring and firing, imposter syndrome, web3, Ember, and working with clients.

511: Dave Talks Web Components, AMP Follow Up, Core Web Vitals, Building a New CMS, and GitHub Copilot

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0000

510: Fred Schott on the Past, Present, and Future of Astro

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 01:00:00 +0000

509: No Coffee, Inert Follow-up, Dialog Element, JSX in the Browser, and Mexican Travel Tips with Chris

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0000

508: Sold Any Blogs Lately?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:01:46 +0000

Dave has questions about CSS Tricks sale to Digital Ocean, what's involved in selling a blog in 2022, the tech behind CSS Tricks, liberal coding to accept more than you anticipate, hidden attributes in HTML, and Inert in Safari 15.4.

507: To Do Tree, TypeScript and JavaScript, RSS Favs, PWA-holes, and Sound Notifications

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0000

506: 15m vs 30 Day Fix, Using Prisma, Infrastructure as Code, and Kirby CMS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 04:00:00 +0000

505: Passing Props, Node Shipped Fetch, Digital Rot, and Making CodePen a PWA?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0000

504: Rich Harris on Blogging, App Icons, Color, and Images

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Rich Harris stops by to talk about blogging, writing a book on app icons, how he archives his part of the web, whether browsers are evergreen, future vs backwards proofing, color, and images on the web.

503: Pull Request Issues, Checking in Node Dependencies, Nuxt and PropTypes, and Less Decomposing

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:34:27 +0000

502: Text Select in Notion, Safari Hot Drama, Writing in VS Code, and Other Browsers on Mobile Safari

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +0000

501: Cyber Pink, Deleting Twitter for Time, Lurking in Discords, and Customizable Controls in Apps

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Feb 2022 18:12:54 +0000

501: MDN with Schalk Neethling and Ruth John

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000

500: Front-End Web Professionals Excited to Talk Front-End Web Design And All It's High Dramatic Fashions

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000

We're celebrating episode 500 by looking back at the previous eras of ShopTalk Show including why we started the show, how it's changed over the years, and how the tech and our lives have changed as well.

499: Melanie Sumner on Ember, Accessibility, and the Web

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Long time listener, first time guest Melanie Sumner joins us to chat about her work on Ember, enterprise work, the importance of accessibility, and the web.

498: Prepping for 500, Git Journey, Git Hooks, Parcel CSS, and some Healthy Picks

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 05:00:00 +0000

497: The State of Native Apps and Web Apps in 2022 with Thomas Steiner

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:00:00 +0000

We're talking with Thomas Steiner of Google's Project Fugu about native apps or web apps. What is Project Fugu? Hardware limitations or requirements for using game controllers on the web. Working with new hardware API's. Reasons to choose a native app. As well as Thomas' SVG web app he's built.

496: 2022 Predictions

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Jan 2022 15:07:22 +0000

We're talking about our predictions for web tech in 2022: Container queries, web3, React, HTML elements, CSS compatibility, utility frameworks, designer and developer tooling, multiple frameworks, and more episodes of ShopTalk Show!

495: Snow Blower Won't Start, CSS Resets, Nuking Margin, Making Your Website Better, Testing on a Craptop

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:00:00 +0000

494: WYSIWYG Follow Up, Open Source Maintenance, Micro-Frontends, and Fleet vs GitHub Copilot vs VS Code

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 05:00:00 +0000

493: TikTok, Accessibility Follow Up, Dave's WYSIWYG Journey, Scaffolding Components, and All Unset

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 02:00:00 +0000

492: Paravel's Building an App - What's the Tech Stack? Also: Bun.sh, Vue, Slinkity, and Quantity Leading to Quality

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What's the tech stack Paravel's using to build their app? A conversation on AdonisJS, NuxtJS on Vite, side projects in Vue, checking out Bun.sh, Slinkity and Eleventy, and working on quantity to get to quality.

491: YouTube Benders, CSS Performance, Learning New CSS in 2022, Building a Great Embed, and Creating Slides

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:11:44 +0000

Dave and Chris are on podcast and YouTube benders, talking CSS performance, CSS contain: Strict, what's new in CSS, how to build a great embed, one thing to make websites better in 2022, dealing with dogma in community, creating great slide decks, and #juicegate.

490: Web3, Cryptobucks, HTML is Ok, Tailwind Tokens, and Getting Excited About CSS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

How good is web3 really? And is there money to be made without destroying the environment? Is HTML good enough for the future? And what are we excited about in new stuff for CSS?

489: Landing Web Clients, Native App vs Web App, and Dave Wants LinkedIn Friends

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

What's needed to start a tech business in 2021? Is VS Code on the web usable? Why would you choose a native app over a web app in 2021? And be sure to follow Dave on LinkedIn.

488: Sportsball Moments, WordPress Block Editor, WYSIWYG Editors, Cloning Notion, and How to Focus on Accessibility

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Nov 2021 04:00:00 +0000

487: Chaos Monkeys, Images Missing at ISP Level, Modern Image Handling, The Manager's Path

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:21:02 +0000

Parenting life update, redundancy for leaves, using a chaos monkey, images not showing up based on ISP, modern image handling workflow options, and discussing The Manager's Path.

486: Keeping Up the New Web Things, Dealing with Spicy Sections, a Cloudinary Follow-Up, and some Apple Problems Persist

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:00:00 +0000

It's difficult enough to keep up with new web things, even when it's your job. How do Chris & Dave do it? Dave's blogging on spicy sections, Chris' Cloudinary issues are resolved, and there's some Apple problems to deal with.

485: Building Websites Now vs 1996, Vue 3, Picking a CMS, and Writing a Book with URLs

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Is it harder to make a website in 2021 than in 1996? Are site building tools making life easier? Does Dave use scoped styles in Vue? How could Vue help with design systems? And Chris tries making a CSS Tricks book on the web, while Dave is workshopping a web components talk.

484: Cloudflare, Lying to the Browser, Cloudinary Issues, Vue 2 to Vue 3, and Font Icons

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 06:00:00 +0000

483: Q&A on XState, Getting Comfortable with JavaScript, Managing WordPress Sites, and Background Images in CSS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Oct 2021 06:00:00 +0000

482: Asset Pipeline Issues, Google ZX, Crazy CSS, and a New CSS Reset

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Join us on YouTube 3x a week for more ShopTalk fun. This episode: How would you build with maximum user growth in mind? Asset pipeline issues, self provisioning runtime, Google ZX, and crazy new CSS.

481: Frontend Feud: ShopTalk vs Syntax

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:17:50 +0000

Crossover! Your favorite web dev podcasts join forces for a super collab that’ll knock you frontend off! Amelia joins Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from ShopTalk Show while Divya teams up with Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski from Syntax. Let the FEUDing begin!

480: Pushing Users to the App, Browser Feature List, Notion Fun, and The Surprise Chain

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 05:00:00 +0000

479: Using VS Code, Import Ordering, Chrome API Eye Dropper, and YouTube Tease?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0000

478: Google Changing Titles, jQuery + Chris' Birthday, Kissing Content, and Word Break Break Word

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0000

477: Native CSS Module Scripts, Container Queries, and Writing Scoped CSS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0000

476: #HotDrama Mug, #HotDrama Safari, #HotDrama Chrome, and the WordPress Build Process

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 06:00:00 +0000

We've got a new ShopTalk Show mug you can order, Safari and Chrome #HotDrama to discuss, what is the modern WordPress build process like, and what's the state of your local bowling alley or pickleball website?

475: Ben Hong's Views on Vue, VuePress, Nuxt, Petite Vue, Shopify + Netlify, and Static Hosting

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Aug 2021 17:32:47 +0000

474: Tech Conferences, Dev on Windows, and CSS for Displaying Random Images

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Aug 2021 03:00:00 +0000

The D-d-d-d-discord's got threads! Are conferences a thing we're ready for? How was Dave's experience working on a Windows PC? Help Dave figure out his monitor issue on Mac. Are people writing websites without a build step? And what is a good CSS technique for displaying images that could be either horizontal or vertical?

473: Brad and Ian Frost - From Meteorologist to Web Developer

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 05:00:00 +0000

472: Good Meetings. Is This Data? Front End vs Back End.

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Sarah Drasner's got a new book and we talk about her article on good meetings. Are front end problems more difficult than back end problems? GitHub's got an upgrade issues feature. How would you design a database for a new project? And where and what is data in 2021?

471: Perf as a Job, Riverside vs Streamyard, Frontend Being Consumed, and How Much to Bill Clients

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 06:00:00 +0000

470: Slap a WAAPI, Explaining the Shadow DOM, LayoutNG, iFrames, the Web Animation API

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Jul 2021 03:00:00 +0000

Do you drive or fly in 2021? How do you explain the Shadow DOM? What's LayoutNG? How do iFrames and Accessibility work out? Should we be using CSS Prefers Reduced Motion? And what's up with the Web Animation API?

469: Syntax Crossover with Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0000

We're joined by Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski from Syntax.fm and chat about the fun of developing, SvelteKit, what tools Scott and Wes reach for when building a website, the WordPress developer experience, and some sick picks!

468: Is Sass Still Cool? Animation vs Transition, Animated Tables, and Dark Mode in Email

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Let's talk Sass, nesting, animation vs transition, animated tables, scroll snap points, progress meters, viewing emails in dark mode, and coded prototypes.

467: New Frameworks, Astro, New React, and WWDC 21 Thoughts

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Where are my paaaants? What to do with new frameworks? What to do with new React? Building in Astro. And WWDC 2021 reactions.

466: Tabs In Component Libraries, Grouping @media Queries, and When is Software Finished?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Jun 2021 04:00:00 +0000

What's the best way to include tabs as part of a component library? D-d-d-discord update on Alex's CSS-Trickz clone. Do you group your @media query items together or spread them around? And is software ever truly finished?

465: Linters, Delivering HTML in a Single File, Specialist or Generalist, and Social Image Previews

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 31 May 2021 16:37:33 +0000

We're talking about linters, should we deliver single file HTML? Should you focus on a specific tool or be more general? And we revisit social image previews.

464: Jamstack & New Netlify Features with Jason Lengstorf & Phil Hawksworth

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 May 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Jason Lengstorf and Phil Hawksworth chat about the current state of the Jamstack including React + Jamstack, Distributed Persistent Rendering, building for ease of use, dealing with minor changes and caching, whether Jamstack needs to do all things, and a big new Netlify features announced!

463: Choose Build Tools, Social Media Images, Border Radius Clipping, and Debugging Safari in Windows

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 May 2021 07:00:00 +0000

462: ShopTalk Show Live at AEA - The Web is Good, the Web is Bad

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 May 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Dave and Chris talked at An Event Apart Spring Summit 2021 on the good and bad of the web. They talked about CSS, framework knowledge, more CSS, PWA's for projects, service workers, the language of tooling, and web performance.

461: Dave Fired Everyone, WordPress Audio Player, Shared Element Transitions, and Fonts!

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 May 2021 06:00:00 +0000

460: What's New in CSS in 2021 with Adam Argyle

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Adam Argyle chats with us about CSS features from risky and never in any browser to stable and available in many browsers that are available in 2021.

459: Talking Web Components, ES Modules, Using OAuth, and Digital Art

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:00:00 +0000

Dave's prepping for a talk at An Event Apart about Web Components, and we're answering questions about OAuth, and talking digital art.

De-coding the Technical Interview with Emma Bostian

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Special guest Emma Bostian is on to talk about her new book, De-coding the Technical Interview, that will help you never bomb a technical job interview again. How to answer technical questions you don't know, looking for red flags when applying, infinite scrolling question, and how to not be a schlub when applying for a new job.

457: CSS Colors Fun, HSL, Updates from Browser Land, Pseudo Selectors, and Responsive Design Questions

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Apr 2021 05:00:00 +0000

We're talking all about fun with colors in CSS, browser updates, the death of AMP (question mark), pseudo selectors, a question about responsive design in vertical space, and linking with _blank.

456: WordPress Block Editor, ElementInternals, Writing Code or Leading a Team, and Container Queries

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:00:00 +0000

On this episode: Updates from Dave's shed, camera options for streaming and Zooming, Discord chats, Headless WordPress block editor musings, custom form controls with ElementInternals, going from a coder to a team leader, and container query updates.

455: A Day in Our Lives at Work, Envisioning Conferences Again, and the Benefits of Netlify

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 06:00:00 +0000

We're talking about threading in Slack or Discord, the continue reading button on a website, Axe software - also a sponsor!, cost benefit of time spent on work, what a day in the life at work is like for Chris and Dave, and musing about whether conferences are going to be a thing again.

454: All About Vite with Evan You

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Evan You chats with us about Vite. How is Vite so fast? What about tree shaking? How do you convert various formats into ESM and what does Evan recommend? What is the future of Babel? And what the first 2 minutes of a Vite project are like?

453: Streaming Hardware, Babel Thoughts, Power Washing Websites, and a Desk Update

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Dave's got YouTube dreams, a conversation about Babel, trying to generate a goldilocks level of source code a la Backbone and Underscore, power washing WordPress websites as a career, and an update on Dave's desk.

452: JavaScript and Bundlers, Dave and Vite, Stale Tab Reloading, and Consultants Who Can't Deliver

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

JavaScript and next gen bundlers, Dave's experience using Vite, what are your expectations with stale browser tabs, and what can you do when consultants don't seem to be able to deliver on a project?

451: JavaScript and Web Components with Nolan Lawson

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:16:23 +0000

450: ShopTalk Patreon Discord Fun, Office Updates, Notion Competitors, and Elastic Search

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:16:48 +0000

We're officially on Patreon now and we'd love to have you come join us in the ShopTalk Show Discord and help shape the future of the ShopTalk community. We also talk about Dave's office situation, Notion competition, Elastic Search, how should someone specialize to get a job, and breaking news on the pop up element.

449: Javascript in 2021, Writing Workflow, Picking a CMS and Web Hosting, and Web Workers?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Feb 2021 05:00:00 +0000

More on Javascript in 2201, looking at Jay Hoffman's writing workflow, helping pick a CMS for fun blogging, helping pick a web host and the happiest path involved, and just what the heck are workers on the web?

448: Next Gen Bundlers with Jason Miller and Fred Schott

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Feb 2021 06:00:00 +0000

This week we talk with the maintainers of Snowpack and WMR, two newish flavors bundlers, to discuss how ES Modules change the game for modern JavaScript development.

447: Headless WordPress, Recent RSS Favs, Custom Post Types in WordPress themes, and Sharing Buttons

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:00:00 +0000

We answer your questions about using a headless WordPress set up, changing WordPress themes and what happens to custom post types, those share buttons on websites, and talk about the 3 recent fav articles that came across our RSS readers.

446: Pandemic Purchases, Video on the Web, Convoluted Processes, and Javascript Debounce

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Dave and Chris talk about recent pandemic purchases, publishing video on the web, more sharing of convoluted processes, some menu bar app ideas, reinvigorating HTML, and writing good git commit messages.

445: 11ty Conversions, CSS Tricks Redesign, Art Direction, and Should We Be Using React?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:33:55 +0000

First episode of 2021! Dave's 11ty conversion continues, CSS Tricks gets a redesign, art directed blog posts, injecting styles into front matter, building stuff on holidays, and whether you should use open source from organizations that are sketchy?

444: macOS + Bluetooth Woes, WordPress Support Share, Puppeteer Update, and How Much Do You Care?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Dave's ongoing Mac adventures, cleaning up old WordPress plugins, sharing a WordPress support tech, a Puppeteer update, and the sliding scale of giving an F in projects. Oh and we review a bit of 2020 and look forward to 2021. Thanks for listening!

443: Asset Bundling with WordPress, Using Grid for Components, Testing Ecommerce, and Dave Goes Back to Mac?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:22:55 +0000

What's the state of the art technique when it comes to asset bundling in WordPress? Should we use grid for every component? How should we test ecommerce site builds? And Dave goes back to the Mac!

442: Buying a Big Monitor, How to Care about Blogging, & Buying a Big Shed

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Dec 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Chris wants to upgrade his monitor situation, and Dave wants to update his shed situation. And along the way, they answer a listener question about how to care more about the blogging.

441: Nuxt, Auth, OAuth, M1 Updates, and Truths About Digital Accessibility

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:13:04 +0000

Follow up on Chris' desk adventures, trying to work out Auth and OAuth with Nuxt, fixing a fixed header issue, more on Apple's M1 processor, and a blog post reading of the Truths about Digital Accessibility.

440: Serverless, Local Database, Edge Functions, and Using WordPress Serverless

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Let's talk Serverless - including using WordPress Serverless, how to solve a problem like local databases, and edge functions with Netlify and beyond.

439: Container Queries, Desk and Cable Routing, and Designing a Clicky Keyboard

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Chris talks about his desk and cable organization in his new office, Dave talks about his new custom keyboard, and then they go for a deep dive into container queries.

438: ARM Based Macs, Digital Minimalism, Podcast SEO, and Monetization on the Web

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Nov 2020 04:00:00 +0000

Chris & Dave talking SEO, advice for pushing scripts to the end of a page, digital minimalism, LinkedIn Recruiters, ARM based Mac computers, and web monetization.

437: WordPress vs Jamstack Followup, iPad SVG Drawings, CSS in PHP, and Self Hosted Video

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Nov 2020 17:32:35 +0000

A bit of WordPress vs Jamstack fall out, iPad SVG drawing followup before diving into your questions: Can you use PHP to serve CSS? What's the ideal pipeline from request to deploy? And are there good options for self hosting video?

436: Control UI with Greg Whitworth

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:45:12 +0000

This episode is about evolving the web platform - the change process of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is a complicated and sometimes slow process that involves developers like us, standards bodies, browser vendors, and people like our guest, Greg Whitworth, who can act as outside influencers and shepherds to this process.

435: Magic, iPad Sidecar, Getting Unstuck, Image Compression, and The Website

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Chris is nostalgic for Magic the Gathering, Dave's wishing he hadn't added drawings to his blog, they're both mouthblogging about image compression and AVIF, and Jeremey Keith is back with chapter 4: The Website.

434: Natalya Shelburne on Design Engineering

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:31:49 +0000

Natalya Shelburne is out guest to talk about her work at the New York Times, the importance of job titles, design engineering, design systems, and 2020 hot takes and soapboxes: childcare in the pandemic, education, and conferences.

433: Garbage PRs, Wayfinding on the Web, and Chapter 2 of the History of the Web

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The spookiest month of the year brings discussions of handling pull requests on open source projects, wayfinding on the responsive web, how would having to pay for frameworks change the web, relying on social media for promotion, and chapter 2 of the history of the web as read by Jeremy Keith.

432: SWYX

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:00:17 +0000

Shawn Wang, known as Swyx, talks with Dave and Chris about his career path from finance to coding, and now in developer experience. They chat about serverless functions, React, getting a broad sense of technology, Wang's Coding Career Handbook, what's next for SSR, checking out Vite, and what exactly is DevX / developer experience?

431: Weaving Tangled Webs, Web Workers, and the History of the Web: Part 1

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:28:08 +0000

This episode Dave's been blogging about the tangled webs we weave with dependancies and the internet, we talk more about web workers, and making peace with production code written by your earlier self. And Jeremy Keith kicks off part 1 of a reading of the history of the web.

430: Smashing Conf Live Webinar

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 04:00:13 +0000

Chris and Dave are coming to you live (recorded) from Smashing Conf's Live Webinar riffing on the talks and presentations, as well as their own Marketing Cloud Webinar Presentation.

429: Cognitive Bias with David Dylan Thomas

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 4 Sep 2020 18:50:06 +0000

David Dylan Thomas stops by to talk about his new book, Design for Cognitive Bias, recently published by A Book Apart. We talk about the illusion of control, confirmation bias, capitalism as a bias, culture fit, bias blindspots, the myth of the self-made man, move fast and break things, dark patterns, and what can we takeaway from learning about bias?

428: This is 40, Code Health, Firefox Follow Up, Accessible Text Labels, and Minifying your Project

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:49:44 +0000

We're reflecting on turning 40, code health and integration testing, Mozilla Firefox conversations, the best way to provide an accessible text label to a button, and finding an application that minifies Javascript and images files.

427: Browsers Built for Designers, Firefox Farewell, Spinning up a Quick Website, and Gutenberg Experiences

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:37:25 +0000

We're talking addendum's and corrections, updates on Chris' text game, browsers built for designers, saying farewell to Firefox?, the best way to spin up a brochure website, and how Gutenberg in WordPress is these days.

426: Backlogs, Issues vs Discussions vs Chatting, and Trying Not to Waste Your Shot

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 07:00:09 +0000

Dave's gave a talk on backlogs, Chris has issues with Issues vs Discussions vs Chatting (and GIFs), and trying not to waste your time on ideas and projects when you have limited time to do them in.

425: Tailwind, Where to Find Inspiration, SVG Corrections, and Web Workers

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 06:00:03 +0000

We're talking about health, Tailwind CSS, getting overwhelmed with where to start on a project, some follow up on SVG sizes and web components, and why isn't there a bigger focus on web workers?

424: Web Components, Frameworks vs Vanilla, Accessible Numbers, and SVG Memory Usage

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Aug 2020 05:00:07 +0000

We riff on web components and web component libraries, when and why you should use a framework vs vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, how to make phone numbers more accessible, trying to figure out state, and some thoughts on SVG memory usage.

423: Sleep Issues, Zoom Masters, Discord as the New Chat, Chris Goes Ruby, and Dave Folds Windows

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:28:55 +0000

This episode we're talking about why we sleep, Zoom call etiquette and practices, spinning up Discord in 2020, Chris going Ruby, Dave working on CSS for foldable Windows devices, and what's the deal with masonry grid and layout?

422: The Uncanny Valley of Website, Accessibility Widgets, Motion Settings, and Medium

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 23:01:52 +0000

Is there a way to listen for clicks and defer them until the app becomes available? What's the deal with accessibility widgets for websites? Should the system, browser, or website be responsible for motion settings? And how is Medium as a platform for monetizing your blog?

421: Spinning Down Projects, Educating the Back-End Team, and Choosing Old Tech

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:59:27 +0000

We're talking about how and when to spin down old projects, sun setting GitHub repos, and forums. We also answer your questions about how to educate and bring along the back-end team with tech, and when you should stick with old tech instead of the new hotness.

420: CSS Tricks, Old Tech, Apple Goes Arm, and Building an Imagine Machine

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Jul 2020 16:04:54 +0000

We're talking about Chris' new book of CSS Tricks, building support for old tech on the web, Apple going Arm and what that might mean for Parallels, and building Dave's magical image machine.

419: Hey! What About Email, Scroll Triggers, Mobile First vs Desktop, and more?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 04:00:04 +0000

We're talking email, custom properties to tame the CSS stack, scroll trigger animation, WordPress blocks, mobile first vs desktop first design, and getting stuff to look nice on mobile Safari. And MORE!

418: LH, RLH, Shadow DOM, Developer Experience, and RUM

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:00:15 +0000

We read some blogs and have some questions of our own: LH vs RLH? What about styling the shadow DOM with CSS shadow parts? Should you focus your work on what's loaded in your brain already? What is the Developer Experience? RUM and making decisions with or without data.

417: RSS Feeds, MMO Games, DnD, and Custom Fields

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:14:14 +0000

We're talking RSS feeds, Gemstone 4, MMO games, DnD, Jekyll vs Eleventy performance, email newsletters, Github and Microsoft, and strategies for dealing with Jamstack page jank.

416: Banjos, Google Performance Updates, and Static Site Generator Perf

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:14:03 +0000

We're talking about what's going on in our worlds, banjo talk, building in WordPress, new perf details from Google, and answering a question about static site generator performance.

415: CSS Aspect Ratio, Rendering Engines, and More with Jen Simmons

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:13:51 +0000

Jen Simmons is back on the show to talk with us about her new HTML Essentials course, CSS Aspect Ratio, rendering engines vs browsers, and a big announcement from her personally!

405: Cross Cultural Design with Senongo Akpem

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:13:41 +0000

Seneongo Akpem talks with us about his new book, Cross Cultural Design, and how building websites for people all over the world and from different cultures can be done better.

414: RAPIDFire on Front End Ceiling, Emacs, Permissions, and Writing Better Words

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 May 2020 06:00:06 +0000

We're back doing a Rapidfire through your questions including: Is there a way to control text in the prompt for user permissions? Have we tried Emacs? How do you write better words? When is it appropriate to add a new framework to your resume? Do you think there is a front end ceiling?

413: World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 15 May 2020 16:58:56 +0000

Gerry McGovern talks with us about the amount of energy used sending the bits and bytes around the internet, the cost of storage, new phones vs old phones, the scale of data, and how do we adjust our process and culture to make changes?

412: RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Warner

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 8 May 2020 20:49:18 +0000

Tom Preston-Werner joins the show to talk about his latest project, RedwoodJS, and the decisions made about how it works, public APIs, how tied to Netlify RedwoodJS is, and why they're using Prisma.

411: Vitaly Friedman and Smashing Magazine in 2020

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 May 2020 17:47:38 +0000

Vitaly Friedman talks with us about the changing landscape of publishing on the web, the changes seen in web conferences, the difference between a workshop and a webinar, and keeping up with all the technology in front end development.

410: Gulp with Blaine Bublitz

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 09:00:01 +0000

We're chatting with Blaine Bublitz, lead at the Gulpjs open source project, about what Gulp is, the lack of money in open source, SVG and Gulp, handling dependencies in Gulp, and what the future of Gulp looks like.

409: Stripe & Streaming with Suz Hinton

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:39:58 +0000

Suz Hinton stops by to talk about what it's like to work at Stripe, how businesses should consider storing billing data, her live stream coding journey, and building and coding digital devices like the Arduino.

408: Frontend Masterery With Marc Grabanski

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 05:00:28 +0000

407: Extensible Web Manifesto with Brian Kardell

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Apr 2020 17:32:20 +0000

Brian Kardell talks with us about how new features get into browsers and the fun and challenging journey it takes to get there.

406: Netlify All the Things with Divya Tagtachian

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:01:23 +0000

Divya Tagtachian stops by the ShopTalk studios to answer questions about Jamstack and Netlify. What's open authoring? Can a SPA be Jamstack? Can a site be too large for Jamstack? Is SSR the same thing as Jamstack? What's happening with WordPress and Jamstack?

403: Serverless Architecture at Begin with Brian Leroux

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:19:51 +0000

Brian Leroux chats with us about building modern web apps using Begin and other cloud services like it including a deep dive on AWS Lambda.

402: New Website!

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:15:14 +0000

400: Talking with Jen & Adam about Firefox & Chrome

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:04:10 +0000

Jen Simmons & Adam Argyle stop by to continue our conversations about where browsers are at, and what's coming up for browsers - specifically Firefox & Chrome.

401: Dreaming About Foldable Phones, RSS, and SEO

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Mar 2020 04:00:01 +0000

We're pontificating on foldable phones and what that means for the web, automating and finding things we like with RSS, talking about a new CodePen feature, and trying to figure out SEO.

399: The Browser Show

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 04:00:03 +0000

Chris and Dave talk hot browser drama, CSS4 ideas and thoughts, moving HTML & CSS forward, and lazy loading - and a whole lot more!

398: An Event Apart, Subgrid, Grid, Chrome engine, & more with Eric Meyer

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:00:11 +0000

Eric Meyer joins us to talk about An Event Apart's 2020 season, subgrid shipping, the rumored rewrite of Chrome's engine, where HTML and CSS are headed, browser development, developing for giant screens and giant browser windows, and whatever happened to CSS 3?

397: Fixing Hardcoded Issues, Tooling for your Job, and Picking an Editor for a Job

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Feb 2020 03:00:03 +0000

Chris & Dave give an update on the website redesign project and then dive into your question: What kind of gear should you ask for from a new job? How do you fix a hardcoded issue in a project? And how is life using IntelliJ?

396: Edge Goes Chrome, Edge VM's, and Designing a Website to Last

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:08:20 +0000

Chris & Dave talk about Edge going Chrome, a bit of follow up from last episode about Virtual Machines, thoughts on designing a website to last, a question about Rails plus React, and a question about how to move from CoffeeScript to something current.

395: 2020 Don't Eject!

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:00:19 +0000

We're talking AI and machine learning taking over, and then answering your questions on: registering a domain name, document outlining in HTML, colleges still teaching Flash, should we eject or not, enqueuing React in WordPress, and saying hyphenated domain names out loud.

394: Andy Bell on Taking Side Projects to 11(ty)

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 06:00:01 +0000

Andy Bell brings his collection of side projects to the podcast to talk about including Piccalilli, Boiler Form, Web Components Club, Hylia for Eleventy, and Front End Challenges Club.

393: The Future Is Now McRupert

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Jan 2020 17:12:01 +0000

Chris & Dave are back for 2020 with thoughts on watching our industry, continuous integration and deployment, fall backs for when an API goes down, alternatives to WordPress, and tips for getting started with web components.

392: Looking Back at 2019

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:00:02 +0000

391: RapidFire Sickness

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:53:37 +0000

390: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Dec 2019 08:00:16 +0000

Zach Leatherman stops by the show to talk about his static site generator, Eleventy, as well as look back at his Front End Engineer Manifesto from 2012 and see how it holds up in 2019.

389: The Bacon Method

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Dec 2019 03:00:10 +0000

Dave and Chris talk about bacon, blogging, and the business of making money on the web. Are stories the new hotness? Should everything be an email newsletter? What can Dave sell for $10?

388: When Tech Works and When Tech Breaks

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 05:00:38 +0000

Chris and Dave talk about technology overwhelm, when tech breaks, when tech works amazing - and why and how tech sometimes falls out of favor.

387: Becoming a Frontend Architect With Katie Sylor-Miller

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 02:00:02 +0000

Katie Sylor-Miller stops by the ShopTalk studios to talk about her new job as Etsy's Frontend Architect as well as her experience learning Git.

386: Help! My Boss Wants to Code?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:00:08 +0000

Dave and Chris talk podcasts they're enjoying, a brief making money on the web segment, and your questions about styling old elements, encrypted media, and how to keep your boss out of your code.

385: Live from JAMstack

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Nov 2019 02:00:03 +0000

Live ShopTalk Show! Chris and Dave come to you live from the floor of JAMstack Conference in San Francisco answering *real* questions about JAMstack.

384: Miriam Suzanne

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 04:00:07 +0000

Marian Suzanne stops by the show to talk about Sass in 2019, design tokens, her company Oddbird, unused CSS, new CSS properties, and Dave & Chris' explanation of revert.

383: What's Up with CMS's?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:00:28 +0000

Chris and Dave revisit the state of CMS land with a discussion that mentions almost every kind of CMS available in 2019.

382: Jen Simmons on Browser Features

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:28:58 +0000

Jen Simmons is on the show to talk about how new features get shipped to browsers, when different browsers push features ahead of other browsers, talk a bit of Grid, Chris' aborting CSS, and aspect ratios and picture elements.

381: Animation with the Keyframers

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Oct 2019 08:00:01 +0000

David & Stephen from the Keyframers stop by to talk with Dave & Chris about the state of animation, state machines, and animation systems - as well as live streaming coding on Twitch.

380: Picking the Perfect Stack to Make Money on the Web

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:38:35 +0000

We're re-introducing ourselves in case you're new around here - and then we're right back into talking about picking the perfect stack, how to charge for various tasks in client work, handling H tags in the main menu of a site, and making money on the web.

379: Making Money on the Web

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:16:20 +0000

Chris and Dave talk about interesting ways to make money on the web including Dave's drawing app idea, games like Downwell, the Tech Lead YouTube channel, and services like Coil and Brave.

378: RapidFire Q&A on Podcast Sponsorships, npm Dependencies, and Front End Developers

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 03:00:03 +0000

Chris and Dave open up the mailbag and answer your questions in an return of a classic RapidFire episode. How do you know if you're a senior developer? How do we handle sponsors in WordPress?

377: React Courses with Tyler McGinnis

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Sep 2019 00:00:07 +0000

Tyler McGinnis stops by the ShopTalk Show to chat with Dave and Chris about his React courses, how he keeps up with web technology, and his thoughts on marketing and selling courses.

376: Live Share for VS Code with Jonathan Carter

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:57:30 +0000

Jonathan Carter, Lead Project Manager on VS Code Live Share, talks with Chris and Dave about how to use Live Share, how you can communicate while pair programming, live share vs screen sharing, limitations of Live Share, and most importantly: who controls the terminal??

375: Greenfield

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:11:42 +0000

When you're starting a new web project, what tools do you reach for? Dave and Chris talk through various scenarios and what they'd use to build it with.

374: VisBug with Adam Argyle

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 9 Aug 2019 20:04:21 +0000

Adam Argyle stops by to talk with Dave and Chris about his web design tool, VisBug, and interesting ways designers and developers can use it to be involved in modern web design and development.

373: WordPress Databases & Hosting with Brad Touesnard

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 8 Aug 2019 20:15:42 +0000

372: Sanity.io with Simen Skogsrud & Knut Melvær

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 1 Aug 2019 22:41:56 +0000

Simen & Knut stop by to talk about Sanity.io - why they developed it, what it does, who it's for, and the types of projects they see people using Sanity for.

371: Technical Writing with Rachel Andrew

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 17:22:00 +0000

If you've ever wondered how to become a technical writer - or even a guest writer - for sites like CSS Tricks or Smashing Magazine, this episode is for you. We're talking with Rachel Andrew about how to submit technical articles, becoming a better writer, and tips for getting articles accepted.

370: Resilient Management with Lara Hogan

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:23:22 +0000

We're chatting with Lara Hogan about her awesome new book, Resilient Management. Lots of great advice in this episode for people who are managers, becoming managers, or who are managed by someone - so almost everyone.

369: Full Jamstack React Developer

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:39:52 +0000

Timejumps

01:34 What does Jamstack mean in your life?
17:25 What's your reaction to "Full Stack Developer"?
21:43 Sponsor: Datadog Synthetics
22:51 State Management
40:46 Sponsor: Jetpack
42:02 Will you write more responsible code?
44:16 Why did I have difficulty learning React?

368: Sacha Greif and the State of CSS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Jul 2019 15:56:50 +0000

Sacha Greif joins us to talk about the recently published State of CSS survey for 2019. What were the results? What surprised us? What are our thoughts for the future of CSS? Plus a preview of the Syntax vs Shoptalk War of 2020.

367: Accessibility with Nicolas Steenhout and Christopher Schmitt

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:22:03 +0000

We're talking accessibility with Christopher and Nicolas from Knowbility. Does accessibility transcend the web? Is it discouraging how much work still needs to be done? How do we get people the skills needed to help with accessibility on the web? Should accessibility be a role in house? And is Javascript the enemy of accessibility?

366: Developing Tito with Paul Campbell

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:11:51 +0000

Paul Campbell talks with us about the technology behind selling tickets on his app Tito.io and the journey they've taken in trying to rewrite the app.

365: ARTIFACT Pre-Show with Jennifer Robbins and Chris Ferdinandi

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:43:50 +0000

Jennifer Robbins and Chris Ferdinandi stop by to talk about a great conference that's returning in the fall, ARTIFACT Conference. We look back at the state of the web 5 years ago and preview some of the talks and ideas that will be happening at this year's ARTIFACT Conference. Be sure to listen for a special ShopTalk Show listener deal on tickets!

364: Gatsby with Jason Lengstorf

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 7 Jun 2019 17:59:03 +0000

Jason Lengstorf is our guest to help get us all up to speed on what Gatsby is, how it works, who it's for, and thinking about some interesting ways to use it on the web.

363: Are Static Site Generators Still Considered a CMS?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 30 May 2019 20:11:08 +0000

We're back answering more of your questions, including: what are the rule son displaying email on a website? What resources do you recommend to bootstrap a website? When should I stray from conventions? If customers don't want to maintain it, should I still use a CMS? And what are the limits of static site generators?

362: Breaking Browser News

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 May 2019 18:11:58 +0000

Chris and Dave are coming to you live from the Browser News Desk 2019 to talk about Microsoft Build, Google IO, and other news in the world of website builders.

361: Javascript with Sara Vieira

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 17 May 2019 23:05:00 +0000

We're talking Javascript land with Sara Vieira - how she got her start coding, Node, GraphQL, Apollo, living and traveling as a coder, what's happening in the Javascript ecosystem around the world, NuxtJS, design systems, and frameworks.

Riding a Bicycle

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 9 May 2019 21:28:00 +0000

We're answering more of your questions, including: using .HTML method on an inner element, ARIA labelling, job titles, and should we all learn about BaseCS?

359: RapidFire Q's on Node, Design & Development, & Coder's Block

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 2 May 2019 21:53:00 +0000

We're doing a RapidFire Q&Apisode answering your questions about Node, working on design and development, coder's block, and how to get more responsibility on remote projects.

358: UX Design Education with Jessica Ivins

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:33:00 +0000

Jessica Ivins is our guest to talk about her work at Center Centre, a user experience design school, and how students are learning to be the next generation of UX designers. We also discuss self-learning, accessibility concerns, website metaphors, and how to prep for applying at a school like Center Centre.

357: RapidFire CSS Crimes

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:21:00 +0000

Dave and Chris are answering your questions about what to learn next, webpack vs parcel, web development on Windows, React and NextJS, CSS crimes with WordPress, clashing on coding standards, code camps for newbies, and how to pick a CMS.

356: Blocks and Browsers

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:13:00 +0000

Dave and Chris talk about styling Gutenburg blocks, the Edge browser news, mobile web, Opera, web 3, Firefox empathy, and the general state of web browsers in 2019.

355: Accessibility with Heydon Pickering

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:48:00 +0000

We're chatting with Heydon Pickering about accessibility, using pre-built solutions past their best before date, everyone's varying degrees of proficiency, and whether accessibility is becoming second nature to more people.

354: Guillermo Rauch and Zeit

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Apr 2019 17:45:00 +0000

Guillermo Rauch stops by to talk about Zeit, Now, and Next.

353: Typetura with Scott Kellum

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:09:00 +0000

Scott Kellum talks with us about his new project, Typetura. We discuss how it works, what it's dependancies and limitations are, as well as what the future holds for CSS and the web.

352: Caching, Service Workers, and Javascript with Scott Jehl

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:41:00 +0000

Scott Jehl is our guest and we're talking about accessibility, jQuery history, progressive enhancement in modern javascript, critical CSS, service workers, maintenance of a server, and other fun stuff.

351: Dudes and Their Emails, Moral Quandaries, and Sass on Windows

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:35:00 +0000

We're chatting about how to get your name out there - and how not to get your name out there Jimmy John John. We also talk about indie publications, updates on Dave's office situation, and we dust off the Trello board for a mini-RapidFire on questionable projects, and building with GraphQL.

Maintaining Vue.js with Evan You

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 1 Mar 2019 19:25:00 +0000

We talk with Evan You, creator of Vue.js, about his role as a creator and maintainer of Vue.js, as well as questions about upgrading legacy apps with Vue? What is a Vue file? How do web components fit in? Where is Vue 3 at? And advice on how to get started using Vue.js?

349: Talking Svelte with Rich Harris

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:15:00 +0000

We're talking about Svelte with Rich Harris - what does it add to HTML? Does bundle size matter? How does Svelte handle routing? And who's using Svelte? Be sure to listen for a preview link to Svelte v3!

348: Getting lit-html with Justin Fagnani

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:34:00 +0000

Justin Fagnani from the Polymer Project is our guest and we're taking a deep dive into lit-html and Polymer elements, how those projects are different, and we'll discuss how Web Components is wrapped up in all of this.

347: Jason Miller and PreactJS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:37:00 +0000

Jason Miller stops by to chat about PreactJS.

346: Is There a Great Divide?

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 1 Feb 2019 20:24:00 +0000

Dave and Chris chat about the great (or is it?) divide in the front end world of web design and development.

345: Maintaining npm with Lauire Voss

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:13:00 +0000

Laurie Voss is the co-founder and Chief Data Officer of npm and he stopped by the show to talk a bit about npm's history, some of the issues it faces now, as well as what's in store for the web in 2019.

344: Maintaining Babel with Henry Zhu

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:01:00 +0000

We talk with Henry Zhu about his role maintaining the open source project Babel including how to make decisions on what pull requests to work on, scope, financial support, and what it's like to be an open source maintainer in 2019.

343: Learning How to Design with Erik Kennedy

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:55:00 +0000

Erik Kennedy helps us open up 2019 with a great discussions on learning how to design, picking out better typography, picking colors, how to handle negative design feedback, and more.

342: Performance Improvements with Ben Schwarz

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:27:00 +0000

We're talking performance improvements and we've got Ben Schwarz, creator of Calibre - the web performance monitoring app for teams, on to give some quick tips to improve performance as well as where performance is headed in 2019.

341: BaaS, Agile Methodologies, Human Readable URLs, and More!

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:54:00 +0000

We're back with some thoughts on why you should(n't) fly or go camping, talking about the tech we've been loving recently, and answering your questions about BaaS, agile methodologies, human readable URL's, and web components makes another appearance.

340: Starting Over and Combating Design Q&A

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:31:00 +0000

We're answering your questions about how to fill in giant gaps in work history, whether designers should know the basics of HTML and CSS, and combating the need for high-res mock ups for Q&A.

Jamstack, 3D on the Web, Migrating Your Site, and MarkoJS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 19:33:00 +0000

With a bit of a Jamstack conference recap at the front, we're back to a regular episode answering your questions about using 3D on the web, migrating a site between platforms, working with MarkoJS, and have you heard about web components?

338: How to Think Like a Front-End Developer with Monica Dinculescu

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:35:00 +0000

Monica Dinculescu is an Emojineer at Google and we talk with her about the state of front-end development, knowing what you're bad at vs what you're good at, and coming up with a better analogy for it all.

337: How to Think Like a Front-End Developer with Peggy Rayzis

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 8 Nov 2018 02:42:00 +0000

Peggy Rayzis is an engineering manager at Apollo GraphQL and joins us for a discussion of life as a front-end developer with a GraphQL focus.

336: How to Think Like a Front-End Developer with Ben Frain

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 2 Nov 2018 20:39:00 +0000

We're joined by Ben Frain to talk about his thoughts on the state of being a front-end developer in 2018.

335: How to Think Like a Front-End Developer with Sameera Kapila

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:13:00 +0000

Sameera Kapila is on to continue our How to Think Like a Front-End Developer series answering questions of what a job posting would look like, what the hardest part is of front-end development, what her ideal project would look like, and more!

334: How to Think Like a Front-End Developer with Brad Frost

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:20:00 +0000

Continuing in our series, Brad Frost stops by to give us his thoughts on front-end development work in 2018 and walks us through our Dribbble shots experiment. (Links to the images are below in the show notes or on your podcast player.)

333: How to Think Like a Front-End Developer with Trent Walton

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:02:00 +0000

We're joined by 1/3 of Paravel, Trent Walton, to continue our How to Think Like a Front-End Developer series and talk about his thoughts on what the characteristics of a front-end developer are, caring about performance, and getting back to the grain of the web.

332: How to Think like a Front-End Developer with Mina Markham

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 5 Oct 2018 17:42:00 +0000

Mina Markham stops by to talk about her career as a front-end developer, her dream project, and we get her thoughts on our Dribbble to web challenge.

331: How to Think like a Front-End Developer with Eric Meyer

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:44:00 +0000

To kick off a new mini-series called "How to Think like a Front-End Developer", we're joined by Eric Meyer to get his thoughts on front-end web development in 2018 including throwing a set of website design mockups at him and seeing how he'd break them apart into HTML.

330: Aaron Gustafson on WASP and PWA's

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:56:00 +0000

Aaron Gustafson is here to help us wrap our heads around the web standards project (WaSP), the W3C, and how it all relates to progressive web apps (PWA) and progressive enhancement. We talk about how standards come to be, how a PWA differs from a web view, why a company might choose Electron, and what the future is for PWA sites. Be sure to listen to the end for an internship opportunity with Aaron!

329: Dan Mall on Building a Portfolio

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:04:00 +0000

Chris and Dave chat with Dan Mall about designing a portfolio that hiring managers can't deny. Should you tailor your portfolio for each specific job you might apply for? Where does privilege come into play when applying for jobs? Could it backfire? And be sure to stick around for an opportunity to add the design of a certain podcast website to your portfolio!

328: Jen Simmons and Intrinsic Web Design

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:54:00 +0000

Jen Simmons is back to talk about what's new in Firefox including a dev tools update. We also chat about sub grid, variable font support, and discuss whether all the new stuff that's been added over the last few years heralds a new era of web design.

327: Working with State Machines

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Sep 2018 16:37:00 +0000

We're joined by Jon Bellah and David Khourshid to talk about what a state machine is and what's not a state machine. We talk about state machines in React, login forms, going into the wrong state, fallbacks, game development, and working state machines into existing projects.

326: Learning Web Design with Jennifer Robbins

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:48:00 +0000

Jennifer Robbins stops by ShopTalk Show to talk about her recently updated book, Learning Web Design - what's been updated, who the book is for, and what's changed since she first published the book.

325: Code is Expensive

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:37:00 +0000

Dave and Chris answer your questions about how to get code consistency at work, advice on writing testable code, a new intrinsic size attribute, WooCommerce custom site building, and some thoughts on a low code world.

324: Quilting Drama Q&A

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 21:14:00 +0000

We're answering your questions about proper autocomplete on websites, node based CMS configs, follow up on line length, retina screens, update security, and some quilting drama.

323: ACF With Elliot Condon

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:17:00 +0000

322: Full Stack Crossover with Adam Wathan

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 18:24:00 +0000

Adam Wathan stops by to talk about Tailwind CSS, how it got started, dealing with large CSS and config files, why you might want to use Tailwind CSS, Purge CSS, and more!

321: WordPress, Jetpack, and Steve

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:51:00 +0000

320: Internet of Things

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:17:00 +0000

319: Hello I'm A Designosaur

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Jul 2018 16:23:00 +0000

We help you avoid becoming a designosaur by answering your questions about learning React, creating a universal header, jQuery vulnerability, implementing pattern libraries, and taking WordPress development seriously.

Are You Leaking? Tell Us Where!

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:44:00 +0000

We're back answering your questions about getting old and also the web. On this episode we're talking about web components, view source in text editors, job application process, using canvas for animations, cleaning up CSS, coding bootcamps, and more.

Designing with Laura Elizabeth

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:55:00 +0000

If you're a developer who's struggled with design, you're going to love this episode! Laura Elizabeth stops by the show to talk about her course called Design Academy that teaches developers how to design better marketing sites.

Customer Experience with Gerry McGovern

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:06:00 +0000

Gerry McGovern is our guest this week to talk about listening to your customers, what big companies do right and wrong, how to avoid living in the past, and consulting Chris on how a new feature for CodePen could be developed.

315: CSS Blocks with Chris Eppstein

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 8 Jun 2018 21:28:00 +0000

Chris Eppstein is back on the show to talk about his new project CSS Blocks and how it works, what kinds of projects it's best for, and how it integrates with other frameworks on the web.

314: Flexible Type Setting with Tim Brown

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Jun 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Tim Brown is our guest to talk about his new book coming soon called Flexible Typesetting from A Book Apart.

313: Twitching and Prototyping

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 May 2018 08:51:00 +0000

Dave gives a lesson on streaming, and your questions on the future of PSD to markup, tools for prototyping, what to study in 2018, and CSS Grid vs Flexbox. Thanks bro!

312: CSS in JS Edition

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 18 May 2018 13:00:00 +0000

311: Dev Confessionals

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 15 May 2018 22:02:00 +0000

310: Humidity API

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 May 2018 19:04:00 +0000

309: Deep Dive on D3.js with Ben Clinkinbeard and Elijah Meeks

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 1 May 2018 17:07:00 +0000

308: Age Limits and Bad Copy

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:02:00 +0000

307: Existential Questions

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:53:00 +0000

306: Debugging CSS with Aimee Knight

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:15:00 +0000

305: CSS Jitter

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:04:00 +0000

304: Banjo Q&A Podcast

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:31:00 +0000

303: JAM Stack with Phil Hawksworth

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:43:00 +0000

302: React Drama with Michael Jackson

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:23:00 +0000

301: Hangovers

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Mar 2018 16:32:00 +0000

300: THIS. IS. 300.

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:21:00 +0000

299: Machine Learning with Paige Bailey

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:43:00 +0000

298: Gutenberg with Tammie Lister and Matias Ventura

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:05:00 +0000

297: Animation at Work with Rachel Nabors

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Feb 2018 20:45:00 +0000

296: Variable Fonts with Jason Pamental

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:31:00 +0000

295: Take a Knee

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:11:00 +0000

294: 2K18 Part II

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:30:00 +0000

293: Preppin' for 2018

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Jan 2018 21:49:00 +0000

292: Noel.JS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:40:00 +0000

291: Dipping our Eyeballs into VR

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 6 Dec 2017 05:38:00 +0000

290: Benefits and Struggles

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:26:00 +0000

289: Spamming the Internet

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:58:00 +0000

288: Jet Lag Edition

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:33:00 +0000

287: Dad Talk Show

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:51:00 +0000

286: Content Strategy

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:09:00 +0000

285: AI-Driven TODOs

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:35:00 +0000

284: The Value of HTML/CSS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:44:00 +0000

283: Garbage Desks in 4K

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Oct 2017 21:39:00 +0000

282: Testing with CrossBrowserTesting

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:15:00 +0000

281: The New JavaScript

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:16:00 +0000

280: #shareyourdrafts

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:53:00 +0000

279: RIP HTML Imports

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 6 Sep 2017 03:15:00 +0000

278: Top 5 Browser APIs You're Not Using with Patrick Kettner

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:24:00 +0000

277: CSS-Zingers (Summer 2017 Beachbody Edition)

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:51:00 +0000

276: Web Components

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 02:47:00 +0000

275: History Repeating Itself

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 8 Aug 2017 00:10:00 +0000

274: Vanilla JS with Chris Ferdinandi

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 1 Aug 2017 20:41:00 +0000

273: On sharing and pricing

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:17:00 +0000

272: Color Accessibility with Geri Coady

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 04:53:00 +0000

271: Headless Material Sass Queries

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:16:00 +0000

270: Sketch and SVG with Peter Nowell

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Jul 2017 17:23:00 +0000

269: Rapidfire 91

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:08:00 +0000

268: Delivering Podcasts

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 01:47:00 +0000

267: Rapidfire 90

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:02:00 +0000

266: Rapidfire 89

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Jun 2017 22:41:00 +0000

265: On Podcasting

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 May 2017 14:02:00 +0000

264: React with Netflix

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 23 May 2017 02:13:00 +0000

263: HTML Email

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 16 May 2017 15:34:00 +0000

262: CSS Grid

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 May 2017 17:25:00 +0000

261: Rapidfire 88

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 May 2017 15:21:00 +0000

260: Rapidfire 87

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:48:00 +0000

259: Rapidfire 86

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:21:00 +0000

258: Design Ethics with Mike Monteiro and Robyn Kanner

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:01:00 +0000

257: Hiring with Rebecca Murphey and Lon Ingram

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Apr 2017 17:57:00 +0000

256: Civic Hacking with Code for Miami

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:51:00 +0000

255: Rapidfire 85

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:59:00 +0000

245: WebVR

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:07:00 +0000

253: Rapidfire 84

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Mar 2017 18:11:00 +0000

252: Finding "A Thing"

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 23:19:00 +0000

251: Rapidfire 83

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:46:00 +0000

250: Web Security

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:45:00 +0000

249: Publishing News

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000

248: AMP

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 23:37:00 +0000

247: The Performance Equation

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:56:00 +0000

246: Season Opener - Rapidfire 82

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:23:00 +0000

245: Rapidfire 81

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Dec 2016 16:48:00 +0000

244: Rapidfire 80

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:10:00 +0000

243: Rapdifire 79

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:38:00 +0000

242: Rapdifire 78

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:36:00 +0000

241: Rapidfire 77

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 9 Nov 2016 00:22:00 +0000

240: Rapidfire 76

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:54:00 +0000

239: Rapidfire 75

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:07:00 +0000

238: Rapidfire 74

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:36:00 +0000

237: Rapidfire 73

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:26:00 +0000

236: Rapidfire 72

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 3 Oct 2016 20:23:00 +0000

235: Rapidfire 71

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:33:00 +0000

234: Rapidfire 70

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:48:00 +0000

233: Rapidfire 69

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:16:00 +0000

232: Rapidfire 68

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:04:00 +0000

231: Book Writing Panel

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:12:00 +0000

230: Practical SVG

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:35:00 +0000

229: Rapidfire 67

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:54:00 +0000

228: Rapidfire 66

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Aug 2016 23:01:00 +0000

227: Rapidfire 65

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 1 Aug 2016 22:20:00 +0000

226: Rapidfire 64

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:03:00 +0000

225: #davegoeswindows wrap-up

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:48:00 +0000

224: Rapidfire 63

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 01:29:00 +0000

223: Rapdifire/WebDesignDay Recap

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 5 Jul 2016 14:37:00 +0000

222: Rapidfire 62

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 19:19:00 +0000

221: Non-profits with Elea Chang and Deep Shah

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:42:00 +0000

220: Rapidfire 61

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 01:25:00 +0000

219: Books With Katel LeDû and Louis Rosenfeld

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:23:00 +0000

218: RAPIDFIRE 60

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 31 May 2016 15:00:00 +0000

217: with The Marshall Project

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 May 2016 22:38:00 +0000

216: with Val Head and Sarah Drasner

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 17 May 2016 01:58:00 +0000

215: with Khoi Vinh

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 May 2016 21:45:00 +0000

214: Rapidfire 59

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 3 May 2016 00:24:00 +0000

213: The User's Journey with Donna Lichaw

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:13:00 +0000

212: Design for Real Life with Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:33:00 +0000

211: Rapidfire 58

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:43:00 +0000

210: Design Conversations with Christy Ennis-Kloote and Tom Greever

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Apr 2016 22:48:00 +0000

209: The Government with Hillary Hartley and Maya Ben-Ari from 18F

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:37:00 +0000

208: Rapidfire 57

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 02:49:00 +0000

207: Rapidfire 56

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:05:00 +0000

206: Game Dev with Rachel White and Lindsey Bieda

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:58:00 +0000

205: Rapidfire 55

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:04:00 +0000

204: Headless CMS

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:34:00 +0000

203: Web Animations API

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:22:00 +0000

202: Career Paths

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:13:00 +0000

201: Alejandra Luaces

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 2 Feb 2016 01:40:00 +0000

200: Rapidfire 54

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:29:00 +0000

199: A Look Back

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:07:00 +0000

198: with Ashe Dryden

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 22:44:00 +0000

197: with Stacy Kvernmo

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 23:20:00 +0000

196: Crossover with HTTP 203

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:02:00 +0000

195: With Brenna O'Brien

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:28:00 +0000

194: with Drew McLellan

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 2 Dec 2015 02:47:00 +0000

193: The State of Front-End Dev

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:25:00 +0000

192: with Whitney Hess

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:22:00 +0000

191: Ad Blockers

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:51:00 +0000

190.1: Rapidfire 53

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 3 Nov 2015 02:30:00 +0000

189: CSS Dev Conf Wrapup

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 21:47:00 +0000

188: Rapidfire 52

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:59:00 +0000

187: Rapidfire #51

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:50:00 +0000

186: Dave Goes Windows

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:31:00 +0000

185: This Idea Must Die

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:48:00 +0000

184: Live at An Event Apart

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:07:00 +0000

183: Crossover with Saron Yitbarek of CodeNewbie

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:24:00 +0000

182: With Jeff Veen

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Sep 2015 21:15:00 +0000

181: The Cathedral and the Bazaar

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:15:00 +0000

180: SUPER PANEL

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:49:00 +0000

179: Rapdifire 50

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 03:25:00 +0000

178: Rapidfire 49

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:30:00 +0000

177: with Sarah Drasner

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:40:00 +0000

176: Wes Bos

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:42:00 +0000

175: Rapidfire 48

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:59:00 +0000

174: RAPIDIRE 174

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:53:00 +0000

174: RAPIDIRE 47

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:53:00 +0000

173: with Andy Budd

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 8 Jul 2015 02:39:00 +0000

172: with Tim Brown

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:28:00 +0000

171: with Lara Schenck

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:02:00 +0000

170: Rapidfire 46

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:57:00 +0000

169: with Tiffany Rayside

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:47:00 +0000

168: Rapidfire 45

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 2 Jun 2015 19:18:00 +0000

167: Rapidfire 44

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 27 May 2015 00:27:00 +0000

166: with Lisa Irish

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 19 May 2015 14:13:00 +0000

165: with Tim Holman

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 12 May 2015 15:18:00 +0000

164: with Ben Callahan

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 5 May 2015 14:25:00 +0000

163: Rapidfire 43

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:19:00 +0000

162: Rapidfire 42

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:02:00 +0000

161: with Eric Meyer

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:55:00 +0000

160: with Nicole Dominguez

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:18:00 +0000

159: with Addy Osmani

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:00:00 +0000

158: with Kristina Halvorson

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:12:00 +0000

157: with Alex Russell

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:15:00 +0000

156: with Anna Debenham

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:00:00 +0000

155: with Aaron Mentele

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:00 +0000

154: with Yesenia Perez-Cruz

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:00:00 +0000

153: with Mark Otto

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:00:00 +0000

152: with Dan Denney

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:00:00 +0000

151: With Emily Lewis and Lea Alcantara

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:00:00 +0000

This week we're joined by Emily Lewis and Lea Alcantara of the CTRL+CLICK Cast!

We talk about keeping up with new technologies, Expression Engine VS Wordpress, CMS alternatives to Wordpress, the creative process for designing for the web, how to find work/life balance, and more.

Q & A:

20:01 For years I have primarily used ExpressionEngine as my CMS of choice. While I still love EE, it isn't right for every project, so I am looking to brush up on my Wordpress chops. Do you have any recommendations on a few sites or other online resources that you use to keep on top of WP developments?
25:04 Is Wordpress usually the best CMS to use for client work? Are there better alternatives out there?
41:58 When you're just beginning a new design - when that completely blank Photoshop canvas is staring back at you - what is your thought process like?
49:22 As a business owner, freelance creative who works from home, I often have trouble balancing my work life with my family life. Can you offer insight on how you balance work life and family life?

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46:12 Beanstalk - Beanstalk is a complete workflow for private teams to write, review and deploy code.

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150: Vitaly Friedman

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:00:00 +0000

Vitaly Friedman is the founder of Smashing Magazine.

Vitaly shared his experiences with traveling and working remotely, and online publishing. We also discussed Microsoft's new browser, designing for VR, holograms, and more.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

24:43 Microsoft's new browser, Spartan

Q & A:

36:31 I’m planning to start blogging about web development. Do you have any tips on how I can drive traffic / increase visibility of my blog posts. Are there any web sites where I could submit my blog posts in an attempt to increase visibility?
41:01 I currently use MAMP. I no longer want to use MAMP. Help me.
48:06 How do you organize your LESS/CSS files and optimize them at Smashing Magazine? How about Javascript?
56:23 Microsoft today announced HoloLens, its augmented reality-type headset, and there's the secretive Google funded Magic Leap project. There's also the world of VR: Sony is working on Morpheus and Samsung is partnering with Oculus. How will the web be consumed on these devices? How do today's web developers stay relevant, or will the role die off/merge with something else?

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149: with Wren Lanier

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:56:00 +0000

148: with Nathaniel Deal

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:00:00 +0000

147: With Tom Dale

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:48:36 +0000

This week we’re joined by Tom Dale. Tom is a former Apple software engineer who worked on MobileMe and iCloud. He also helped create Ember.js and co-founded Tilde.io with Yehuda Katz.

We took a deep dive into Ember.js, Javascript frameworks, and working with open source projects.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

16:24 I’m not so experienced with JavaScript, so I really don’t quite understand the potential benefits from using a JavaScript Front End Framework. Could you describe it with your own words and give some examples for real-world use cases?
25:45 I’m thinking about learning a JavaScript framework. So far I’ve been recommended to look into Angular and Ember. Which one is better?
58:07 How did you get started in open source software? What’s the best advice you have for encouraging others to get started as well, namely designers, writers, etc?

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54:21 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day.

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146: With Jed Schmidt

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:00:15 +0000

This week we’re joined by Jed Schmidt. Jed is a javascript developer and resident web nerd at UNIQLO in NYC. We take a deep dive with Jed into Javascript and front-end frameworks.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

16:10 In spirit of keeping markup separate from style, separate from behavior, what are your thoughts on using the HTML5 data attribute as a selector for javascript, rather than the typical classname or id?
28:32 How do you deal with handling the cache of JS and CSS files when rapidly iterating a design for a client?
31:56 I work for a company and my main responsibility is taking a PSD and converting it into a fully responsive HTML + CSS template. Would Grunt be an appropriate addition to my workflow or is it geared towards JavaScript projects?
39:26 What are your thoughts about supporting browser zoom? Do you have any advice on a good policy to give clients on what’s covered as a bug if it doesn’t look right when a user zooms?
45:38 I’ve been recently learning more about Meteor, but I’m wondering what are your thoughts on these frameworks. Do you think they are going to replace front-end javascript frameworks (Angular, Backbone, Ember) + server side framework (Rails, Express, Django) or do you think there’s a reason this separation exists between front-end and back-end?
56:40 How do jQuery Page Loaders work? How can I utilize CSS animations (even SVG at some point) on a page loader? Can you ask jQuery to paint a progress bar for each % of the website it has loaded? Would that slow down the loading?

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Now that the growth of the mobile Web has outpaced the desktop, Web designers and developers are at a crossroads. The race to keep up with every new device dimension and interface could easily dwarf the pain of dealing with browser quirks, but only if we let it! Take a day to discover the newest Responsive Web Design techniques and change the way you build the Web.
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37:00 Adobe Typekit – Typekit is a subscription font service that brings thousands of fonts from foundry partners into one library for quick browsing, easy use on the web or on your desktop, and endless typographic inspiration.

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145: With Sophie Shepherd

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:32:59 +0000

This week we’re joined by Sophie Shepherd. Sophie is a Senior Designer at Happy Cog Austin, organizes the Austin Dribbble Meetup, and teaches at Girl Develop It.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

19:40 How do I choose the right font for my website?
28:20 I have been doing web design and development for a while and I’m wondering whether I should start blogging. Would you recommend hosting a blog with Github+Jekyll or go with a standard WordPress blog?
35:00 I teach web design and development at a community college in Michigan. We have a Special Topics class that allow us to teach just about anything. This Spring semester I have a class on Emerging Web technologies. What sort of topics should be discussed in a class like this?
42:19 When dealing with overlays, do you prefer to have them centered on the screen, or offset from the top?
52:00 What’s your experience/opinion on R&D within companies, and should everyone has its own project? (For example: how Grunt fits in the company workflow)
58:40 I work with WordPress and create custom themes using a Bootstrap grid. I can develop roughly quickly, completing a site in 3 to 5 days. My coworker uses the same WordPress theme for all the projects, but gets praise for his quick turnaround time. Should I sacrifice my opportunity to grow for job security, or perhaps start looking elsewhere? Is this a new business trend, quantity over quality?

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26:20 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
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48:11 CodePen – CodePen is an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code editor in your browser with instant previews of the code you see and write. It is a searchable trove of your own creations, and a world of other people’s creations. A place to troubleshoot, to teach, to learn, to test, and to grow.
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144: Rapidfire 41

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:26:12 +0000

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but Thanksgiving turkey hangover and hot question and answer madness!

Q & A:

3:12 I have had to do a bunch of horizontal scrolling sliders for work lately. These “sliders” always through me for a loop because I am working off comps I had no part in designing. How do I keep these sliders from freaking out when the browser is resized while they are partially scrolled, and what is the definitive best way to make these from a performance and UX stand point so that I can help our designers make better choices?
10:10 When it comes to responsive web design in WordPress, I find myself using a lot of modules in the WordPress page editor to organize the sites content. Is there an easier way of doing this?
16:30 Have you ever used any prototyping tool like Fireworks or Sketch? If so, what is the best tool you’ve came across?
22:10 Where should I include the media queries for my responsive design in my CSS files?
30:14 Is there a way to use pure CSS (i.e., no JavaScript) to modify properties of a whole table-column without marking up each individual cell?
35:07 What other podcasts do you listen to?
45:30 Why are some sites targeted by hackers more than others, especially automated attacks? Do web sites end up on target lists, or are the attacks just random?

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28:29 One Month Rails: Learn Rails, 30 minutes a day for 30 days. You’ll learn how to build a fully functional web app using:
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- S3 from Amazon Web Services
- Heroku – the popular web service used for getting your site live on the Internet
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143: Rapidfire 40

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:52:54 +0000

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but web standards southern gentlemen and hot question and answer madness!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

2:37 A question about responsive images: I just came across this CSS approach to specifying a “focal point” of an image so when the browser resizes the image is cropped and it’s location is adjusted so that a specified point stays in the visible area. What do you think? Are there other similar solutions you like better?
5:40 I’m working on a refactor of a site I built a while ago. In that site, I’m loading a font file just for the logo which seems like it might be unneeded page bloat. My question is: is it worth the time subsetting a font for only the characters I need, or would a better approach be some sort of accessible svg?
11:40 I came across thegrid.io and watched their video. I love the concept, but how do you think this will effect the web design industry?
18:30 Is there a good replacement for css resets?
24:33 I’m wondering what your experiences are with hacking attempts and what methods you use to secure your sites and servers; specifically for WordPress sites?
38:01 I recently started to use SVGs instead of an iconfont. However I’m still struggling with the right technique. What are your thoughts on that?
44:11 I have a situation where people are creating and editing content in Google Docs, then pasting the content over to the CMS. Sometimes Docs behaves and doesn’t include a bunch of inline styles, sometimes it isn’t so nice. What is the best/most efficient way to override these inline styles?
51:56 Why isn’t there a good text editor for OS X ? I’m so tired of these multi-platform editors like Atom, Sublime, and Brackets. Are there any better options?

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142: With Rachel Smith

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:43:13 +0000

This week we’re joined by Rachel Smith. Rachel is currently doing animation/motion design for the web at Active Theory.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

16:16 I’ve been playing around with requestAnimationFrame in an attempt to create a smoother, more efficient animated ScrollTo effect for various web projects I work on. In some modern browsers, I’m getting some stuttering at the beginning of or during the animation. Any tips on how to create smoother animations using rAF or relevant resources for this type of problem?
24:08 I wondered if you guys had any good references about animated charts and statistics? I would need to be able to have nice transitions on graphs like the classic google analytics type chart (visit/time) and also other charts like pie charts and so on. What tech would be good for this?
32:54 Do you have a helpful tip on understanding the whole WebSockets ‘pub-sub’ concept?
46:00 I am front end web developer with php experience but have never created a native phone application. Would a program like PhoneGap or ionic be a good solution for this problem or would the “hybrid” app have performance issues?
53:11 I want to know why Photoshop has become an industry standard when it comes to creating layouts for web design. What are some of the benefits of using Photoshop for layouts?

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141: With Marcy Sutton

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:59:46 +0000

This week we’re joined by Marcy Sutton. Marcy is a interactive developer at Substantial in Seattle. We take a deep dive into web components, accessibility, Angular JS, AJAX, ARIA, and more!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

17:56 Do you know of any standard way that accessibility-aware web devs will test whether their ARIA-related efforts have proven successful? Is there some screen-reader or browser-extension of choice (or just your personal recommendation)?
26:00 Our client’s accessibility consultant is telling them that they must have valid HTML in order to be WCAG 2.0 compliant. Is that true?
30:46 With the prevalence of front-end frameworks like AngularJS, there seems to be a rise in logging in via AJAX instead of a traditional post back. I’m all for AJAX in almost every case on a web app, but when it comes to login/logout, I feel the perceived load time is much better for a traditional post back. I haven’t done any A/B testing on this with real users yet, but I’d love to hear your thoughts!
42:19 My question is concerning aria attributes placed on icon fonts, and the accessibility issues that can arise if you use the wrong one. For the past year or so at the agency I work at, we’ve been using icon fonts and slapping an aria-hidden=”true” on all of them. Recently I learned of the aria-label and aria-labelled by attributes. Dave, since you’re the accessibility master, what’s the best and/or proper way to use these different attributes?
54:30 What do you guys think about minifying html?

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140: With Justin Sainton

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:27:20 +0000

This week we’re joined by Justin Sainton. Justin founded Zao, Portland’s premier WordPress Agency. He is also the Lead Dev for WP eCommerce, and a WordPress Core Contributor, so we joined him for a Halloween-themed deep dive into some spooky questions about WordPress development!

Warning: this episode contains some spookily-scary soundbytes; listener discretion is advised.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Errors and Omissions

19:22 Blurry text after 3D transform? You need to use only 2D transform or hide, request prop, show. Thanks to Matt Lockyer for clearing that up!
20:12 Here’s that jQuery plugin for ‘responsive cropping’. Dynamically crop images to fill available space without cutting out the image’s subject. Great for full-screen images. Thanks to Zsolt Pentz for sharing that!

Q & A:

22:06 How much does A/B Testing help in eCommerce, and which tools or plugins do you use to A/B Test?
34:30 I’m working with someone on a WordPress site to clean it up and install a new theme. Here’s the problem: they’ve got hundreds of posts and pages chock full of inline styling… and there are so many s! It’s bad. Please tell me there’s a good way to strip all the cruft from these posts and pages in bulk!
38:20 I was thinking about managing CSS / JS for WordPress (as you guys were talking about recently), and avoiding extra http requests. This plugin ( AutoOptimize) may be worth a look.
41:35 I have a question about Bower and WordPress. I installed Codekit 2 and fiddled a little with Bower components, which I haven’t done before, and I installed WordPress, all good except that the WordPress files are in the bower_components folder. I’m pretty sure you are not supposed to use bower_components folder as the root for your WP projects, so what do I do? Do I take it out? In that case, what’s the point of using Bower to install WordPress?!
47:46 I’ve been working on overhauling our site using WordPress, WooCommerce and the woo canvas theme with a child theme. I’ve been nothing but happy with WooCommerce, however, I suspect Woo Canvas may be sacrificing performance for the sake of convenience. Other than saving me development time is there any security or performance advantages to using a child theme or will a lean custom theme perform better and be just as secure?
57:00 I have questions relating to WordPress and theme/plugin functionality in response to this article. While I sort of agree with the thesis of the argument I have a hard time wanting to use any plugins to create taxonomies or CPTs. What are your thoughts on this?

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139: RapidFire 39

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:20:48 +0000

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but mouth guns and hot question and answer madness!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

8:16 Is there a reason to use single quotes instead of double quotes when writing HTML?
11:45 I started doing work (with a group of fellow students) for a client 6 months ago, and they keep coming back with more work and changes to the site. I still haven’t been paid for the original work, and I can’t keep working for free, but I really need the money (if they ever pay). What should I do?
20:12 I work for an agency that hires a new developer every 9-12 months or so (with 5 currently on staff). Besides resources, what kinds of things can we put in place to not only make that a more seamless transition, but also for us to perform as a more cohesive unit?
26:10 My question is about rendering quality of text when the CSS transform scale is applied to the container. After scale is applied the text looks blurry. I tried using some of the fixes (like text stroke, for example), and it’s a little better but still not very sharp. Any suggestions?
36:00 What are the latest developments for dealing with the responsive image “art direction” problem?
44:59 How do web designers and developers handle the hosting of their own sites and their clients’ sites without it becoming a logistical nightmare?
51:20 The other day I saw a stack overflow question where somebody posted a PSD of a share button their designer had given them, and asked for someone to make it work using pure CSS. What are your thoughts on the ethics of outsourcing to stackoverflow?

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17:17 Environments for Humans Online Conferences
- UX Future Summit – Rosenfeld Media and Environments for Humans bring together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the UX Futures Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 5th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
- SASS Summit – A full-day deep dive into Sass–setting up from workflow foundations to learning the cutting edge Sass stuff coming in version 3.4. Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more. Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
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138: with Jared Spool

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 23:06:46 +0000

This week we’re joined by Jared Spool. Jared is the founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world. He also co-founded Center Centre, a new school creating the next generation of industry-ready UX designers.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

32:38 How do you feel about questionnaires being sent to clients? Do you think it decreases the level of personality / closeness with your client?
46:39 Have you ever used any prototyping tool like “Fireworks” or “Sketch”? And if so, what is the best tool you’ve came across?

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24:54 – Environments for Humans
- UX Future Summit – Rosenfeld Media and Environments for Humans bring together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the UX Futures Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 5th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
- SASS Summit – A full-day deep dive into Sass–setting up from workflow foundations to learning the cutting edge Sass stuff coming in version 3.4. Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more. Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT). Use discount code SHOPTALKSHOW for 25% off!
40:40 Adobe Typekit – Typekit is a subscription font service that brings thousands of fonts from foundry partners into one library for quick browsing, easy use on the web or on your desktop, and endless typographic inspiration.
- Typekit now brings beautiful type to your desktop with the power of Adobe Creative Cloud. Choose the fonts you need, and then use them wherever you need them—whether that’s on the web, synced to your desktop, or both.
- Check out their typography practice page, and sign up for a free trial!

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137: Rapidfire 38

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:12:00 +0000

This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE!!! Nothing but ray guns and hot question and answer madness!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

3:26 For responsive menus, do you use a similar plugin on each site, or do you build custom menus for each site? Are there any responsive menu plugins that you would recommend?
11:12 When editing pre-built wordpress templates for a company I work for I often find myself using display:none to get rid of content that the client doesn’t want on the page. It definitely feels like a dirty fix, what are your thoughts on this?
17:58 I’m trying to develop a horizontally-scrolling page layout for a website I’m working on. How would you guys tackle this sort of challenge these days?
25:11 I’m curious if you’ve ever been part of a team where you or someone else on the team introduced a technology or process change or maybe like a paradigm shift in how things needed to be done. What were the toughest challenges?
35:25 Stacy K. wins tickets to SASS Summit!
38:47 I need to create an array of arrays of images for my banners. How do I put that together?
45:38 What do you suggest a beginner do in order to continue not only learning but implementing new ideas?
50:08 I’ve been implementing AJAX on my Rails 4 site with jquery’s $.load() function and using window.history.pushState() to update url’s in the browser’s address form. I am having issues with the page staying the same when I use the back button. The url responds correctly in the address bar, however the page does not go back to it’s previous state. I’ve read about a few javascript libraries being able to deal with this. What are y’all’s thoughts on the subject?
56:29 We’re considering moving a WordPress site with a few hundred posts, and growing, over to a static site generator like Jekyll. I’m wondering, how scalable is it? Is there a limit? Do things slow down?

Sponsors:

15:40 E4H: Sass Summit – A full-day deep dive into Sass – setting up from workflow foundations, to learning the cutting edge Sass stuff coming in version 3.4. Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
- You should also check out the JS Summit: Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in JavaScript and jQuery for an all-new, three-day online conference, the JavaScript Summit 2013! Bring the experts to your desktop November 19-November 21, 2013 from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
- Discount code 25% off w/ SHOPTALKSHOW code. Recordings come with registration! So, if you miss a session or can’t make the day, you can watch them later at your own time when they become available. Grab your tickets now!
33:01 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
- SVG
- JavaScript for Web Designers
- Creative GoPro Photography and Video Techniques
- Up and Running with Genesis for WordPress
- Creating a One-Page Scrollable Website with Adobe Muse
- So much more. Learn all the things! Get a [free 7 day trial now]!(http://lynda.com/shoptalk)!

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136: Rapidfire 37

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:08:25 +0000

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but ray guns and hot question and answer madness!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

3:08 I hear a lot of people asking about mentorships so I made a site called HackMentor for people to post looking for mentors / mentees. I wanted to learn MVC so I thought it would be a fun project to get the concepts down.
5:03 I use Sass and Compass with Singularity and Breakpoint. I’ve been looking into integrating Grunt into my workflow but I’m having trouble finding a good solution to managing the Sass / Compass gems / plugins and the NPM dependencies. It feels like wonky to use bundler and npm, my project has a lot of configuration files it. Is there a better solution?
13:28 Just listened to episode 115 and Codekit looks like an amazing application. I have a question about using it in a Rails project. I think I recall Chris saying that he uses it when working with Rails. Can you explain the workflow for that?
15:20 Since the advent of tablets & smartphones I’ve noticed that my clients are a lot less concerned about desktop legacy issues i.e. IE. Should designers be a lot more emboldened in advising their clients to ditch IE 6-9 & get them to spend their money & your time on tablet-y smartphone-y goodness?
21:30 I’m having trouble with setting up Codekit to work with a Drupal Foundation 5 setup. Any advice?
28:36 What is a good way to implement page navigation with following requirements: no page refresh, the pages asynchronously preload, so there’s not much waiting when navigating, flexibility around loading new pages (for example the new page slides in rather than suddenly replacing the current one). Is Backbone good for this stuff or do I need something more advanced?
36:51 I just started working from home and I’m searching for some tips about how to setup my workspace. What kind of monitor are you using for coding? Are you using multiple monitors? Are you using an extra ergonomic keyboard/mouse? Do you guys like a standing desk? What kind of chair are you using?
48:27 My websites are getting more and more heavy with images and animations and my bosses / clients are complaining that things are taking to long to load and is not very responsive to user interaction. What are your suggestions on how to get my page to load sections at a time or load everything while displaying a loading animation?

Sponsors:

11:47 E4H: Sass Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Sass Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
- Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more.
- Use coupon code SHOPTALKSHOW for 25% off, and grab your tickets now!
25:21 Media Temple – For years, Media Temple has been the premium web hosting choice of more designers, developers, and creative professionals than any other platform.
- It’s all managed through their own simple, custom control panel, and backed by Media Temple’s famous 24/7 live support. Virtual Private Server solutions are also available with their DV and DV Developer hosting plans.
- Also, check out their new managed WordPress hosting which includes 3 WordPress installs with unlimited bandwidth!
- Special discount for ShopTalk listeners, use promo code SHOPTALK for 25% off your first month of web hosting. Go to mediatemple.net and enter your promo code upon signup.

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135: With Bastian Allgeier

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:06:54 +0000

This week we were joined by Bastian Allgeier. Bastian created and maintains Kirby, a file-based CMS. We take a deep dive into Kirby, other CMSs, and more.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

17:25 Booking.com: Would You Like Fries With That?

Q & A:

26:38 I’m a part of the CSS-Tricks forum where you can usually find me recommending Kirby to just about anyone struggling with WordPress. My first question is, was WordPress an inspiration for what NOT to do when building a CMS? Secondly, when can we expect V2 of Kirby to be released?
48:44 I was looking for a CMS to use for client sites, and I came across PyroCMS. What are your thoughts on PyroCMS?
51:33 I am a front end developer in the initial planning of a blogging site and am feeling a little overwhelmed with CMS options. Is WordPress still king, or is it worth it to look at an up and coming CMS like Ghost?

Sponsors:

23:58 E4H: Sass Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Sass Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more.
Use coupon code SHOPTALKSHOW for 20% off, and grab your tickets now!
42:50 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
SVG
JavaScript for Web Designers
Creative GoPro Photography and Video Techniques
Up and Running with Genesis for WordPress
Creating a One-Page Scrollable Website with Adobe Muse
So much more. Learn all the things! Get a [free 7 day trial now]!(http://lynda.com/shoptalk)!

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134: With Marc Grabanski

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:03:08 +0000

This week we were joined by Marc Grabanski. Marc is a UI dev consultant and runs Frontend Masters.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

12:00 Don’t call it Standard Markdown

Q & A:

16:07 How do you prefer attaching JavaScript events to elements?
25:58 I am having a hard time finding a way to bridge my methods between front-end javascript and back-end php/mysql. Is there a good way to bridge these technologies?
32:36 Is there a foundry or type designer you rely on to provide consistency, or do you assume the well known ones are all pretty much the same quality? Is there a real incentive to hosting yourself?
44:04 Is there a ‘best-practices’ way to direct WordPress to run any CSS and JS from plugins in the footer?
53:10 I have a friend that wants to make a quick buck throwing together sites with Drupal themes. How do you both precisely articulate what is, and what is not “professional” practice?

Sponsors:

22:29 E4H: Sass Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Sass Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
- Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more.
- Use coupon code SHOPTALKSHOW for 20% off, and grab your tickets now!
40:58 Adobe Typekit – Typekit now brings beautiful type to your desktop with the power of Adobe Creative Cloud. Choose the fonts you need, and then use them wherever you need them—whether that’s on the web, synced to your desktop, or both.
- Stunning typefaces from quality foundries. Inspiring to browse, and easy to use. Check it out now!

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rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:39:54 +0000

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but hot question and action action!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

3:29 My question is about LiveReload. I want to use this but am having trouble getting sass, wordpress, and LiveReload to play nicely. When setting up live reload do you use the JS snippet or the chrome extension? Do you let LiveReload compile your sass, or use your tool of choice?
13:10 Is there a way to link lyrics to a song so that the word that is being sung is highlighted?
20:18 How does one bounce back from a bad job interview?
24:44 There is a growing trend now to switch from Photoshop to Sketch. I have been working in a Windows environment all this time and I have no idea what to do if I got a Sketch document! Should I ask the designers to extract the assets to me and use a JPG as a reference? Should I turn down jobs I am getting that aren’t in Photoshop till Sketch releases a version that can run in Windows?
33:21 What are your thoughts on the single responsibility principle pertaining to classes in html/css? If you use this principle, do you extend many classes in sass?
42:42 I have seen examples (Chris even did one on css-tricks.com) where you can have audio playing even after changing pages. Is it possible to do this with video in the sidebar?
48:23 What is the best way to query for the span element above using javascript?
55:05 I’m looking at switching my line-height set up from rem width px fallback to unitless. This is for a responsive project, where the support benchmarks have been set pretty far back. What the benefits are compered to staying with rems, and is there a performance/rendering benefit, or does unitless help with responsive?

Sponsors:

17:35 E4H: CSS Dev Conf The first conference devoted to CSS, the design language of the web, returns for its third year on October 13-15, 2014, this time to New Orleans.
- Three keynotes and 24 sessions over three tracks makes for a fast-paced two-day immersion into modern multi-device design and development!
- Grab your tickets now!
31:20 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
- SVG
- JavaScript for Web Designers
- Creative GoPro Photography and Video Techniques
- Up and Running with Genesis for WordPress
- Creating a One-Page Scrollable Website with Adobe Muse
- So much more. Learn all the things! Get a [free 7 day trial now]!(http://lynda.com/shoptalk)!

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132: With Ian Feather

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 8 Sep 2014 22:48:27 +0000

This week we were joined by Ian Feather. Ian is the Client Side Technical Lead at Lonely Planet.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

28:26 How do I create CSS shapes for my website?
32:40 I noticed that Lonely Planet uses SVG icons; but they appear to be base64 encoded. How is that set up in the CSS, and what happens when they need to edit/add icons?
35:28 How do you guys deal with what I call project shame? Basically, no matter how good the end product is, I always end up finding the imperfect parts to hate, resulting in my career being a never-ending flurry of project shame. Does that happen with you guys too, or should I go see a therapist?
42:30 I’m wondering why a lot of people are choosing Bower components over using a cached version from a Google/Cloudflare hosted CDN? Isn’t the latter way faster most of the time?
50:16 I work in an environment where the JS architecture I write isn’t really understood by the majority of my coworkers. Should I continue writing classical JS in this environment? Or should I start writing functional JS so that my coworkers are more likely to understand my code?
54:00 Do you tend to create SVGs by hand (typing the points for lines and what not) or do you simply export SVGs from Illustrator?
57:16 Is building your own blog a rite of passage for a young web developer trying to level up, or is it a colossal waste of time?

Sponsors:

26:20 E4H: Sass Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Sass Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT). Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more.
- Grab your tickets now!
47:27 – WP Migrate DB Pro – The easiest way to sync WordPress databases between local and live sites. Copy your database from one WordPress install to another with one click in your dashboard.
- Stop wasting time on migrations
- Eliminate the pain that is migrating a WordPress *database
- Work less, bill the same, increasing your effective hourly rate
- No more fiddling with SQL files
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131: With Karolina Szczur

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:07:02 +0000

This week we were joined by Karolina Szczur. Karolina is a designer, developer and photographer living in Kraków, Poland. She is currently working with the delightful people of &yet.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

23:44 How do you guys deal with web fonts that render significantly smaller than average?
31:02 What is the current trend for the placement of a form on a page?
39:46 The agency I work with isn’t happy I’m using LESS or SASS for front end styles. They claim the CSS it delivers for the client is too messy, and that we should write straight CSS. Do you have any recommendations for writing cleaner pre-processed code?
47:15 Is it feasible in CSS to have ellipsis applied to multiline text (text in a block, so height is also should be considered), if it starts to overflow?
58:11 I am quite new to web design and I think I could improve on my web presence. It seems that almost all web professionals use Twitter extensively. Why is it such an important tool?

Sponsors:

22:02 E4H: CSS Dev Conf The first conference devoted to CSS, the design language of the web, returns for its third year on October 13-15, 2014, this time to New Orleans.

Three keynotes and 24 sessions over three tracks makes for a fast-paced two-day immersion into modern multi-device design and development!

Grab your tickets now!

37:54 lynda.com – The best online learning resource.

Check out super great courses like:

SVG
JavaScript for Web Designers
Creative GoPro Photography and Video Techniques
Up and Running with Genesis for WordPress
Creating a One-Page Scrollable Website with Adobe Muse

Get a free 7 day trial now!

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130: Rapidfire 35

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:27:28 +0000

This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE! Nothing but the best darn question and answer action you’ve ever heard!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

3:45 I need a responsive image solution for a redesign of a website running on the (.NET) Episerver CMS. What responsive image solution would you use under these constraints?
8:18 I’ve built a whole range of different sites now on WordPress and in each case I’ve felt that once I push the site live, the load time is sluggish. How do you approach this problem and what kinds of resources are out there to help?
13:50 Any tips for avoiding merge conflicts in the compiled .css file when working in teams? Should I even push compiled CSS to the repository, or should this be one person’s responsibility?
17:13 What software do you guys recommend when testing websites through a screen reader or text-based browser?
23:11 I’ve seen a few tutorials online using Adobe Edge Animate to create CSS animations. Is it something that needs to be learned or looked into if I already have working knowledge of CSS3 animations and transforms?
28:15 I am trying to dig into Sass/SCSS, preprocessors and have learned a lot already about using command line with Grunt.js and Compass, but I’m wondering if CodeKit would just be a simpler and easier thing to learn first?
32:10 What are some best practices when using tabindex?
38:06 Where would you recommend a young web designer start off? Let’s say they know html and css and are looking to learn more or kick of their career, what would you recommend?
41:10 I know there is a performance hit for every new font that gets loaded, but once I have loaded a font, is there a performance hit based on how much text on the page is being rendered? My boss likes to use the web font for the H tags and then use fallback web safe fonts for body copy, is this necessary?
45:05 I used to use my main email address for all my accounts, and shortly after an attack on a certain famous tech company, I received huge waves of spam that I have been struggling to get rid of. How do you guys handle your email accounts?
49:08 I’ve got a bone to pick with links and a seemingly odd trend of not adding target="_blank". My question to you is, “What’s up with that?”
54:00 If you export an adobe illustrator AI file to SVG, you can choose to save the layers as meta data in the SVG file. What’s even more interesting is you can then target those layers with css and jquery. Essentially you can traverse the Illustrator layer stack in an SVG file and add things like hover events which change the layer color via css. Here’s a tutorial on the subject which goes into greater detail.

Sponsors:

21:02 E4H: Accessibility Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in and for an all-new, two-day online conference, the Accessibility Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop September 9-10, 2014 from 9AM to 4PM (CT).

With flexible content delivery and adaptable applications, the truly Accessible Web is available to everyone all the time, regardless of ability. Spend some time with the Accessibility experts and find the inspiration and practical knowledge you need to make your Web presence truly universal.

Don’t miss this great event and purchase your tickets now!

39:13 Adobe – Check out Project Parfait: it’s a really nice way to extract everything you need from a PSD – in your browser!

Also, take a look at the Edge Animate CC updates: some sweet new features like copy/paste SVG art from Illustrator.

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129: With Sara Soueidan

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:32:50 +0000

This week we were joined by Sara Soueidan. We take a deep dive into the world of SVG.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

17:45 Why do you think it took us so long to start using SVG images in web development?
27:36 I just started fiddling with SVG sprites a bit and the things that I haven’t figured out yet in my SVG workflow are: removing inline styles from paths, polylines, lines etc, so that I can easily override them in my CSS file, cleaning up empty tags, and in general cleaning up unused stuff, so that the resulted file is as light as possible. Do you know of any resources, grunt plugins online tools that can do that automatically?
36:47 I’d like to use cacheable SVG sprites for icons; what’s the best way to achieve this, and can you highlight the pros and cons of the different techniques? Also, I’m currently testing an external symbol SVG file – what’s the most solid method of testing for browser support of SVG symbol? Does the ‘hasFeature’ test work robustly?
43:18 Can you give us a rundown of how SVGs actually render on a page and the best way to size/scale them?
51:10 Is there any simple way to work with SVG, and is working with SVGs going to be the next trend?
54:34 I have just used “CSS3 columns”, do you think would that be enough in future to create magazine site?

Sponsors:

35:03 E4H: Front End Summit Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in Frontend for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the FrontEnd Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop August 21st from 9AM to 5PM (CT).
As the web changes for the better, so do our tools. While keeping on top of industry changes is part of the job, fighting our tools that can help us do our job faster and better shouldn’t be. In this special FrontEnd Summit, we deep dive into tools–some common like text editors and some relatively new to the scene like Grunt and Sketch–to see how they can help stay on top of cutting edge.
Use coupon code SHOPTALK, and grab your tickets now!

48:52 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. Check out great courses like:

SVG
JavaScript for Web Designers
Designing a Logo for a Band
Writing Press Releases
Monday Productivity Pointers, and so much more.
Get a free 7 day trial now!

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Sara Soueidan
Sara on Twitter
Understanding SVG Coordinate Systems & Transformations
SVG Optimiser by Peter Collingridge (non-command line, works right in browser)
Codrops
SVGmin Grunt
CSS-Tricks – A Compendium of SVG Information
Modernizr
SVG use with External Source
Chris Coyier – SVG is for Everyone (video)
Dmitry Baranovskiy – You Don’t Know SVG
Using CSS Regions With CSS Shapes For A Better Reading Experience
Guide to Responsive-Friendly CSS Columns

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rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:50:50 +0000

This week it’s another Rapid Fire!!! Nothing but the best darn question and answer action you’ve ever heard!

We talked about:

Q & A:

2:01 I follow tons of awesome web developers on Twitter and I learn about all the cool new things. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. How do I actually get better at making websites?
8:22 I got an email that contained a countdown timer gif. Do you know how this was accomplished?
15:54 I am working with a site that generates it’s own short urls and I was wondering about adding to my pages. First of all, what good does it do? Secondly, I also saw . What is the difference, if any, and which should I be using?
25:44 What is your preference for fixing design breakpoints in responsive designs?
33:54 Now that Twitter is cutting off their Javascript engine to the public, how do I pull in tweets from Twitter without having to use the embedded widgets?!
40:02 Why do people avoid using Javascript?
44:44 How do you handle touch screens and responsive design?
52:42 Many mobile first grids/ frameworks I see use predefined breakpoints. Doesn’t this go against the common rule of designing for the content and not the device? Should I have commonly defined breakpoints then tweak each page accordingly?

Sponsors:

13:55 E4H: Front End Summit Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in Frontend for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the FrontEnd Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop August 21st from 9AM to 5PM (CT).
- As the web changes for the better, so do our tools. While keeping on top of industry changes is part of the job, fighting our tools that can help us do our job faster and better shouldn’t be. In this special FrontEnd Summit, we deep dive into tools–some common like text editors and some relatively new to the scene like Grunt and Sketch–to see how they can help stay on top of cutting edge.
- Use coupon code SHOPTALK, and grab your tickets now!
30:22 Adobe – Check out Project Parfait: it’s a really nice way to extract everything you need from a PSD – in your browser!
- Also, take a look at the Edge Animate CC updates: some sweet new features like copy/paste SVG art from Illustrator.

Show Links:

127: With Tobias Günther

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:25:12 +0000

This week we were joined by Tobias Günther. Tobias is the founder and CEO of Fournova, the makers of Tower – the most powerful Git client for Mac. We take a deep dive into Git and version control.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

16:06 I have never used git before as a web developer/designer. Can you explain in more detail about how git works?
21:12 When you make a commit in a VCS like Git or Subversion, should the commit message be in the past, present or future tense?
24:44 I am part of a very small team prototyping a new app. We are familiar with GitHub, but the enterprise-company we’re working for requires us to work in Subversion (SVN). How would you recommend we attack the SVN dilemma?
32:32 We have a linux-based server where some of our clients’ websites are hosted. Someone thought of the idea of moving the entire website-folder into a Dropbox-folder thus keeping all the websites constantly backed up to the cloud, and at the same time using the Dropbox built-in version history to easily revert back to older versions of images/files or whatever when needed. Any ideas about pros/cons regarding performance and so on?
40:06 What license – if any – do you guys use for open source software?
45:10 I recently wrote and open-sourced a “framework” of sorts which deploys WordPress projects via Git/GitHub using Capistrano and WP-CLI. Here’s the link.
52:00 Have you tried using Git as a project management tool? Would you recommend it?
57:05 Do you know of an ebook, online resource, or online course directed at Git newbies?

Sponsors:

23:07 Environments for Humans – Digital Biz Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Digital Biz Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop August 20th from 9AM to 5PM (CT).
- Dan Mall, Emily Lewis (Digital Biz & The Hiring Process), Carl Smith, Robb Harr (Digital Biz & Cashflow) etc. all going to be there to answer questions, and provide support to freelancers and small biz owners. Use coupon code SHOPTALK for 10% off your ticket!
37:21 Media Temple – For years, Media Temple has been the premium web hosting choice of more designers, developers, and creative professionals than any other platform. It’s all managed through their own simple, custom control panel, and backed by Media Temple’s famous 24/7 live support. Virtual Private Server solutions are also available with their DV and DV Developer hosting plans. Also, check out their new managed WordPress hosting which includes 3 WordPress installs with unlimited bandwidth!
- Special discount for ShopTalk listeners, use promo code SHOPTALK for 25% off your first month of web hosting. Go to mediatemple.net and enter your promo code upon signup.

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126: With Fabio Carneiro

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:19:01 +0000

This week we were joined by Fabio Carneiro. Fabio is an Email & User Experience Designer at MailChimp, where he designs and develops versatile, responsive html emails for over 4 million users.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

21:50 Are there any tools or frame works to help make responsive emails easier for me?
38:06 Can you describe your workflow for marking up and testing a HTML email?
44:58 If you were an active member in a forum, how could you describe the notification preferences of your dreams?
49:40 What is the easiest way of handling data without a database?
53:11 I’ve noticed that most registration forms don’t require the user to enter their email address twice (just like the password). Is there any best practice to make it the most comfortable for the client and securing a successful registration process?

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rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:00:01 +0000

This week it’s another Rapid Fire!!! Nothing but the best darn question and answer action you’ve ever heard!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

3:30 Do you have any rule of thumb for deciding when to use the new element (using the picturefill polyfill) vs just using CSS background images with media queries for responsive images? Is it more a question of semantics?
12:15 What is translateZ traditionally used for and how can it help me with my front-end style markup?
24:26 I love inline-block, it’s great and allows for easy simple vertical alignment. However it always adds that little bit of extras space making items wrap, e.g. a list of 4 with each set at 25%. Is there a better/cleaner way than commenting out the space? Why does it even happen?
31:36 I’m trying to move stackicons.com from icon font to SVG-based. Can you reference an external style sheet in the SVG file itself and use that as a single place to change styling across all the icons?
38:45 In jQuery, what is the difference between the .on function and the .click function?
44:47 I’m curious on what your thoughts are for terminology changes across an entire project. To give you some background, I work for a company that has created a web-based software. We have come across stages in our development that we want to change the terminology for functionality in our site. How would you guys go about this?
51:44 Regarding performance on mobile, is it better to A) have all content on page load and then show-hide it, B) inject the markup and content dynamically or C) load that markup and content using ajax, when a tablet o desktop media query matches, so secondary content can be shown to these more capable browsers.

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20:19 Adobe – Check out Project Parfait: it’s a really nice way to extract everything you need from a PSD – in your browser!
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37:05 E4H – FrontEnd Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in FrontEnd for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the FrontEnd Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop August 21st from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
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124: With Rob Dodson

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:35:35 +0000

This week we were joined by Rob Dodson. Rob works on Polymer at Google. True Facts. We take a deep dive with him into Polymer and Web Components.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

27:58 Web components are a hot topic at the moment, and it looks like libraries like Polymer are almost ready for production. Have either of you guys had the opportunity to play around with web components yet? Do you think they are the future? What do you believe to be positive and negative aspects of breaking up your HTML, CSS and JavaScript into isolated bundles of styling/functionality?
39:58 What would you say are the advantages of polymer over angular directives?
46:40 Is it possible to use Polymer with Phonegap?
49:09 When working on a project with a team, using Git and SASS, what does your guys folder structure and workflow look like?
54:38 I’ve started using Grunt for javascript concat and minification, image optimization and cache manifest generation when necessary. Should I .gitignore the node modules folder?

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123: Special Archive Episode from 2004

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:05:01 +0000

This week, we take a listen to an episode of the Shoptalk show that was recorded WAAAYYYYY back in 2004, when – apparently – both Chris and Dave had midwestern accents and voices that cracked regularly! They speak to some up-and-comers in the web design community, and debate the hot question: CSS, or tables?

Q & A

5:26 Live Journal no longer requires an invite code: is there going to be a Shoptalk Community?
7:07 How do I add text to my Zen Garden theme with CSS?
12:06 I’d like to use CSS Zen Garden, but I’m Christian. What should I do?
15:31 I’ve been using frames and tables for my layouts, but I’ve heard about divs and CSS. Should I take the time to learn this stuff?
17:25 Is it possible to use CSS with IE 5 and 6?
20:10 I heard the folks at Mozilla are about to release a new web browser. Will it handle CSS properties better than Internet Exploder?
22:59 I have two frames in a frame set. How do I let my users toggle the left frame on and off by clicking a button on the right frame?
26:27 Where can I find “Under Construction” GIFs for my new site? And how long do I have before GeoCities takes my page down?
30:41 I’m working with an Ad Agency doing print work, but I’m interested in building websites. Is the future of websites bigger than print design?
34:28 I’ve been hearing about liquid layouts to let websites adjust to different screen sizes, but since most screens are 1024px or 800px, are liquid layouts worth the extra work?
38:23 What can I do to make my Myspace page look cooler?
40:50 I’m building my first website, and I want to make a blog. Should I use WordPress or Grey Matter?
43:15 How do I change the background image in my nav bar when the user hovers over it?
46:46 Do you know of a good rollover plugin for Dreamweaver 6?
48:47 Why should I start using CSS and Divs instead of table based layouts?
52:38 I’ve been using Adobe Director, but my teachers at school keep telling me that Authorware is going to be the next big thing. Any tips?
56:00 My uncle keeps having the weird dreams about the future where kids are taking pictures of their meals and sharing them on the internet. Is he crazy?

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122: With Katie Kovalcin

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:50:56 +0000

This week we were joined by Katie Kovalcin. Katie is a designer at Happy Cog in Austin and teaches at Girl Develop It.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

12:55 Protesters outside Google.io, and Google Cardboard

Q & A:

19:56 What is your feeling on website creators like Wix and Squarespace? Is this taking away from potential business for web designer/developers?
27:32 Recently I was asked to create page design for a client. Just the visual design, no code. I thought this would be easy, but after spending an hour and a half creating a table in Illustrator, I’m yearning for some basic HTML & CSS. Are there any design tools you guys know of that take into account of things like “separation of style and content” or “modular components”?
34:10 I’m a newb. I love designing using HTML and CSS, but my creativity is stunted because I can’t program. Which language should I learn first?
38:43 Responsive web design has done a lot of great things for the web, but sometimes the sharing of a single codebase for all the different breakpoints makes things tricky. I’ll usually ask my designers to avoid situations that would require building a component in two different ways across screen sizes. The navigation in the header is usually one of the areas for this discussion (where a design basically requires toggling visibility between two different menu systems). Am I being too much of a stickler or should I stand my ground?
47:03 For smaller websites I often find it difficult to collect quality content from the business that I am designing a website for. These website budgets are usually small therefore a content writer may not be practical. Can you explain your process on collecting data or steering customers in the right direction when it comes to providing quality content?
52:35 I’ve got this really bad habit of nudging things in my design. Two pixels up, an em here, an em there. And then repeat into insanity. I’m always struggling to get that whitespace just right. How do you approach whitespace?

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Get 20% off your ticket now by using SHOPTALKSHOW during checkout!

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Jeff Low wins a ticket to this years CSS Summit! Thanks for sending in nerdy questions, everyone!

121: With Sam Kapila

rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:42:03 +0000

This week we were joined by Sam Kapila. Sam teaches at Texas State University, focusing mainly on Responsive Web Design and Typography.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

12:50 What did you guys study in college? Would you change your mind if you could go back? What kinds of studies do you recommend or do not recommend, and can you share any experiences?
23:30 I’m not in a position at work where it’s practical/needed to get into Yeoman or Bower, even though I like to stay at the forefront of web trends. Am I becoming a dinosaur?
32:20 I created a website with a small app for a client, and now they want the source code for the app so another developer can work on it. What should I do?
36:05 I’m intrigued to use CSS Calc in my private projects (modern browsers) but am not sure about the performance. It’s not a big deal, but i’d love to know if it’s a good thing to use, or should avoid it?
47:45 I really like the idea of embedding above-the-fold CSS in the head and including the rest at the bottom of the page. Do you see any drawbacks with this method?
57:04 How can I finally get started with contributing to open source projects?

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43:30 E4H – CSS Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in and for an all-new, three-day online conference, the CSS Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop July 15-July 17, 2014 from 9AM to 4PM (CT). Use coupon code “SHOPTALKSHOW” for 20% off your ticket!

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Nicely Said

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rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:12:37 +0000

This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but the best darn question and answer you’ve ever heard!

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

1:28 How can I achieve HTML includes or imports without using any php or javascript? I know that Codekit has a Kit language that can do this but I don’t have a mac yet. Is there a HTML preprocessors that can do this? If so, can I use only the import function and still use regular HTML on it?
8:56 Picture this: Client organization has a CMS and puts all their ‘news’ content in. Monthly they need to generate a paper newsletter… They push ONE BUTTON and a multi-page pdf, at least as beautiful as the site, is generated with all of their news content… Has anyone tried this?
17:03 What’s the best way to compress a vector graphic from Illustrator for the web? There used to be a SVG option for “Save for Web and Devices” but it’s gone in CS6. What SVG specs are best to use?
22:43 I’m starting to hear the phrase “Tech Bubble” a lot and it’s very disheartening. Do you guys believe we’re in a tech bubble? If so, is it we the web developers/designers who have to worry? Or is it more threatening to investors, entrepreneurs, and 30 y/o billionaires?
32:30 I’m about to start working at a full time job where the team uses Git. Do you have any advice about workflow or etiquette?
39:34 I’m a developer at a mid-sized SaaS company and we have a pretty successful product. Our product has an API and there are several other companies that sell web site integrations & 3rd party plugins to our customers. Our company even receives fees to recommend certain “preferred partners”. Do you think it would be unethical or a conflict of interest for me to develop my own premium WordPress plugin on my own time?
47:47 I’m currently working in a project and the design calls for use of full-screen image backgrounds, in order to optimize this for mobile devices I’m using media queries to call the appropriate background, it works like a charm, however there is something that bothers me, if I resize the window there’s a small bit of time where the webpage has no background while the image get’s loaded. Any way around this?
51:51 Why aren’t box-shadow and text-shadow shorthand properties like background and font? Why don’t the properties box-shadow-color, box-shadow-offset, etc. exist?
58:09 My question is about Print Stylesheets. Are they still relevant? How do you approach them?

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rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Thu, 5 Jun 2014 14:00:45 +0000

This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE!!! Nothing but HOT question & answer action.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

2:08 I have a question about running Sass in a corporate environment. I’m really interested in using Sass at work but since it requires Ruby there’s no chance of running a ruby server on my system. Is there any way to run a Sass processor from a thumb drive?
7:48 How long does it take for you to write a blog post from the first day you experience the problem (or get the initial idea of what want to write about) to when you actually hit the publish button?
16:42 Are there any good low cost alternatives to Engine Yard or Heroku for hosting test or small web apps?
22:20 What is the best way to validate html and css?
32:45 Are there any WordPress shopping carts that have a token feature or do you know of another way to accomplish this?
41:02 Is it worth offering IE6/7/8 support for a responsive design project?

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11:34 Blend Conf – BlendConf is a generalist conference featuring 60 diverse speakers sharing ideas and conversations about user experience, design, and development. September 11-13 in Charlotte, NC. 4 tracks: UX, Design, Front-end, Back-end. Keynote speakers are Mike Monteiro, Jennifer Palka (Founder Code for America), and Kimberly Bryant (founder, black girl code). Use coupon code “shoptalk” for 10% off!
38:41 Environments for Humans – CSS Dev Conf: the first conference devoted to CSS, the design language of the web, returns for its third year on October 13-15, 2014, this time to New Orleans! Tons of great speakers, including Chris Coyier, Rebecca Murphy, Dan Cedarholm, Estelle Way, Jonathan Snook, Rachal Nabors, and more! Go vote for your favorite talk, and pick up tickets today!

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rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 30 May 2014 17:08:19 +0000

This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE!!! Nothing but HOT question & answer action.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

1:48 I have a question(s) about loading JS files in a WordPress environment. Is there a rule of thumb for when async should be utilized? If I script is loaded in the footer does ‘async’ not matter as much?
7:50 What software do you two use to create your slides for when you do talks at conferences?
15:50 I have a question about deciding on a development stack. What are some of your recommendations when making these kinds of decisions?
29:12 Why use static site generators? Are there any good tutorials out there for those of us who have never used one before?
34:28 Is there a way to make a line of text fill the width of a parent container as if it were justified?
38:28 In job advertisements I’ve been seeing lately, all of the best jobs have Angular JS listed as one of the requirements. I really love creating websites that work everywhere. The idea of using the latest tech at the expense of accessibility, and progressive enhancement doesn’t sit well with me. How can I keep my career advancing, while maintaining those core beliefs?
43:45 How long does it normally take you guys to build a website from start to finish, for instance microsoft.com or css-tricks.com?

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33:00 Environments for Humans – CSS Dev Conf: the first conference devoted to CSS, the design language of the web, returns for its third year on October 13-15, 2014. This time to New Orleans! Tons of great speakers, including Chris Coyier, Rebecca Murphy, Dan Cedarholm, Estelle Way, Jonathan Snook, Rachal Nabors, and more! Go vote for your favorite talk, and pick up tickets today!

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rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Fri, 30 May 2014 15:56:19 +0000

This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE!!! Nothing but HOT question & answer action.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

2:25 With this trend of big background images and full with slider, which size of images do you recommend to have a balance between size and weight?
7:56 What’s the best way to handle SVGs?
23:37 Why don’t browsers just include various versions of jquery within the end user machine, loading it as they encounter usage?
27:36 You’ve mentioned Harvest as a tool for time-tracking and invoicing; are there any other tools you would suggest, specifically for expense tracking?
36:36 What do all of you think of Netflix disabling the developer console in Chrome? Will this become popular in the future? Is it unethical?
40:35 Inline-block grid systems won’t render correctly in Safari 7. It works fine on Safari 6, ffox and Chrome but fails miserably on Safari 7. Any solutions or advice?
43:50 I have recently started to do some freelance web design, I am confident in my pricing however when writing up emails to a potential client giving them an estimate I feel that there is room for improvement. How does Dave/Paravel approach this, do you send some kind of template or something else?
49:25 Going back to something raised in podcast #103 about getting server-side variables into javascript, what is the most pure way of putting server-side data into javascript?
54:37 I’m curious how you manage passwords when working with clients. How do you securely send passwords to clients?
59:19 I’m in my 40’s and to be honest, agencies are looking for people on their 20’s. Is this web design world a place for only youngsters?

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33:52 Environments for Humans – CSS Dev Conf – The first conference devoted to CSS, the design language of the web, returns for its third year on October 13-15, 2014. This time to New Orleans! Tons of great speakers, including Chris Coyier, Rebecca Murphy, Dan Cedarholm, Estelle Way, Jonathan Snook, Rachal Nabors, and more! Go vote for your favorite talk, and pick up tickets today!

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rupato+shoptalk@gmail.com (ShopTalk) — Mon, 19 May 2014 21:13:41 +0000

This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE!!! Nothing but HOT question & answer action.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

1:47 Could you recommend any good WordPress plugins to work with for a bilingual support?
10:38 Is it possible to have a single page website perform well in terms of SEO?
19:03 When starting from scratch on a smaller site I tend to work first on the markup, then once happy I begin the styling. This usually means going through all selectors in the DOM and pasting them into the stylesheet. Have you found a tool to scan a DOM and spit out all the classes (and maybe IDs) for styling with?
25:12 How should I handle vertical rhythm?
33:18 Have you guys had any luck using MAMP on Mountain Lion?
35:07 I’m having problems with version control. Do you have any advice?
42:49 When or why it would be better to use @extend in certain instances versus creating a mixin and using @include?
49:15 My client expects pixel perfection when translating PSD to website. What do you think is a reasonable level of fidelity to the mockup to expect from a developer?
57:51 In responsive web design, what are the advantages and disadvantages of including media queries “inline” in your CSS versus putting them in separate CSS files?

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54:41 E4H – Craft CMS Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in Craft for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Craft CMS Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop June 17th from 9AM to 5PM (CT). Get your tickets now!

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