The agreement between India and China opens new opportunities  

The IMF’s ‘mediocre’ medium-term outlook merits policy attention

Taking out popular sports from the CWG is a short-term solution 

The BRICS Summit showed that Russia was not without friends

Actor Vijay seems to be targeting both the BJP and the DMK 

About 125 stray dogs have been caught and sterilised at Tiruchi animal birth control centres in the last 10 days after the Corporation launched the special drive

Simen and Espen from Sanity stop by to talk about the origins of Sanity, how Sanity Studio works, good use cases for Sanity, how Sanity does real time updates, what Groq is, and where to start with Sanity.

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?

After a brief visit from Hip Hop Dad Dave, we're talking cascade layers updates, block link practices, search element getting dropped, how to use cite, emoji list accessibility, scrollbar state, and trigonometric functions in CSS.

We're talking Dave's new haircut, playing Hondo, what Dave uses for images on his bookshelf page, lazy-loading thoughts, vh vw follow up, eyeball tracking updates, loading website with js, Vue transitions, charging for API access, and do you cross post, one post, or no post on social media in 2023?

We're talking the State of CSS Survey, 2023 Edition, with Chen Hui Jing. What was it like helping develop the survey? A bit of follow up on regions, the benefits of being able to tell the browser what you want, language issues in developing and understanding CSS, the struggle for non-majority users, CSS frameworks, and more.

Dave calls a quick Luro branding meeting, some thoughts on DevRel, Chris tries to figure out musical instrument mics, follow up on WordPress from a previous episode, Chris' journey through the social graph options, 100 year hosting with WordPress, and the introduction of a new segment: Happy Project Share Time.

The excitement of launching Luro, changes in social media platforms, different seasons for coding and marketing, embedded social media post weight, CSS thoughts from Web Unleashed, focus state issues, and fact checking and updating old posts on your blog.

We're closing in on episode 600 and need your help to celebrate! Listen in to learn how to contribute to the episode. We're also talking GitHub desktop apps and code editors, how many VS Code plugins are needed, reading long form like Poor Charlie's Almanack, InVision shutting down, and answering our first Q of the year: how would you approach learning web development in 2024?

We've got your feedback as well as our thoughts on where we all think the web will be in 2036 - as we celebrate 12 years of ShopTalk Show history, we're looking forward to what's to come with ideas around cookie banners, undo, no more passwords, React, Deno, Node, and Mozilla's future, ChatGPT's thoughts, accessibility, blockchain, VR / AR, hoverboards, P3 color space, indie web, JS bundle sizes, and more!

Brad Frost has got design systems on his mind—at a global scale. What is a global design system? Are two design systems ever the same? How would this slot inside atomic design? What has been the response from the web community to global design system as an idea? And what's Frostapalooza?

Voiceover pays us a visit, we talk about what accessibility really means, the difficulty of closing a dialogue element, web components at work, and jQuery 4 is out.

Josh (or Jsoh) stops by to talk about his work at Deno, recent blog posts on Copilot, why Svelte is awesome and React is not, Apple and PWA, and building word games on the web.

A follow up on jQuery conversation, Microsoft owning all the things, what VS Code plugins are your ride or die, the ability to Git from wherever you want, Tailwind drama, global design system follow up, Arc Search gets roasted, and Frontend Design Conference is back!

Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, RSS in HTML, and the state of state and UI.

Show DescriptionWe're talking with Michelle Barker about the idea of paying to support bloggers (and podcasters!) via services like Patreon, drumming as a fun side gig from CSS, how big of an issue digital sustainability is, trying to understand the environmental impact of our websites and digital life, wondering why YouTube embeds are still so […]

Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about Astro announcement of Astro DB, the pluses and minuses of it, whether you have to always use the database with Astro DB, how to migrate data, seeding your database, upgrading the database, and what about Astro DB pricing?

We're opening up the ShopTalk mailbag and answering your questions, including does WordPress on your resume kill your job chances, what are our fav and least fav parts of web dev, our thoughts on HTMX, and what is it like to use pnpm instead of npm.

What is a home cooked app? Blake Watson is on this episode to talk all about the kinds of apps that make a good home cooked app, tips and advice he has for making them, resisting the urge to monetize or growth hack them, and a few CodePen v2 thoughts sprinkled in at the end.

Dave's about to be eclipsed, the state of TypeScript in 2024, signals stage zero proposal, corrections on accessibility in frameworks (thanks!), web apps for better collaborative writing, getting productivity sniped, the problem with email may be you, indieweb follow up, and ultimate guitar tab apps.

Show DescriptionWe dive a bit deeper into the Cloudflare drama of the past couple of weeks, Instagram ads vs Cara art, what to do about Auth in your app, pre-negging any sponsorships, prototyping and feedback on projects, and ideas for future topics. Listen on Website →Links Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force […]

Chris has a birthday today 🎉, we recap our Frostapalooza experience celebrating Brad Frost's birthday, do all codebases become a mess, Mermaid, TLDraw, and Figjam thoughts, making tiny games, where's the follow up in web and world news, and what's the current state of CMS' on the web?

Riffing off a Dave Rupert blog post, Chris and Dave talk through the pros and cons of web components, when to use them, when it's a bad idea to use them, what would it take to make the Next.js of web components, and how long until we don't need anymore frameworks?

The top localities that have generated a lot of interest among buyers in Hyderabad are Uppal, Chandanagar, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Kukatpally, Manikonda and Miyapur

We will have to brace ourselves for a likely water deficient scenario from June to September this year.

How a college project birthed a bootstrapped manufacturer of components for the armed forces 

How regulation can nudge private banks to promote financial inclusion

Sun-sational growth: In September, India’s installed solar power capacity reached 90,762 MW. Given the current rate of monthly capacity additions, there is little doubt that installed capacity will exceed 100 GW in 2024-25.

The Birsa Harit Gram project serves as a potential model for agro-forestry, which is gaining ground because the buyers of carbon credits prefer — pay a premium — for credits based on Nature Based Solution, as opposed to offsetting projects like renewable energy or projects like carbon capture.

Ratan Tata sought to promote research that could validate ayurveda through contemporary science

Online petition halts re-homing of 16-year-old cat in London

Practically omnipresent, thanks to human activity, radio frequency is the new area of focus for energy harvesting technology

How policy support and monetisation can rev up India’s innovation ecosystem

A new E-Class is here and it promises to be better than before. How’s that even possible?

India looks to accelerate proposed ‘renewable energy integration programme’