Jen Simmons, Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & Webkit, stops by to talk about what Interop is, and a look ahead at new CSS features in Webkit and Safari such as JPEG XL, masks, a round function, JavaScript improvements, styling form controls, content unblocks, masonry, and more!

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.

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've got follow up on Cloudflare and Cara from last episode, a question about setting up Prettier and auto linting, a cool tool from a listener on comparing colors, a question about using tooling like Craft or more user friendly apps like Webflow when working with clients, and our takes on accessibility overlays.

On this epsiode we're talking about the current state of blogging and social media, the polyfill hack, whether in app browsers should be banned, web components and the difficulty of front end web dev, and how we would go about teaching CSS from scratch in 2024.

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?

Dave's got an idea for a second brain app that's customized to his brain, where we're at with Notion and other notes apps, and accessibility on LLM's in browsers.

Fabian Kägy helps us understand the modern WordPress development process, Gutenberg vs Block editor vs full site editing, building with blocks or pages, what's coming in the Twenty Twenty-Five Theme, and whether the theme authoring process has been made too difficult in 2024?

How important is the DX of software vs how important is the person showing off the software, Douglas Crockford and JSON, remembering XML, trying to write better HTML for email, new TC39 proposal, workshopping t-shirts, and what do you do if you want a little bit of database on your website?

For too long have we ignored water bodies in a city’s life. Their role is utilitarian as well as aesthetic.

Mimicking nature’s cleaning process through DEWATS and the Vortex system.

The Centre has various plans to meet the housing needs of the country, writes K.A. Martin

Treating greywater rather than transferring it to an STP has numerous benefits, says Indukanth Ragade

Exploring alternatives is mandatory if we want a greener future.

Experts tell us why the country’s solar revolution needs the involvement of developers and not just a few enthusiastic individuals

As businesses head to the city, the lack of large format office spaces is pushing them towards peripheral locations.

Where is the Bengaluru market heading to? What are the factors that could help bring down the unsold inventory?

A building should have greenery, sound of water flowing, feel of natural stone under the feet, the smell of trees, flowers and fresh mud, and a charming yet sensitive design, feels architect Mona Doctor Pingel. A look by Nandhini Sundar.

Buildings need to become simpler and smaller, without compromising on the essential needs.

Wetlands harbour a tremendous biodiversity of plants and animals, and are also called the “kidneys of the world” because they clean up water as a natural function.

In many small and medium towns, domestic wastewater is already being put to use by farmers. A look by S. Vishwanath

How do married co-founders navigate the personal and professional ties at work

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 promise of an unchanged, consistent menu and supreme culinary artistry has drawn food lovers to ITC’s tables for decades

Lessons from European brands that have won consumers’ mindspace for long years

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

UK regulator has a reporting scheme to identify safety concerns in diabetes-care devices

India looks to accelerate proposed ‘renewable energy integration programme’

Decentralised use of green hydrogen could include cooking, off-grid electricity generation

How fund house Cactus Partners ensures its capital goes toward growth rather than just keeping operations running

Startup sets out to fill a crucial gap in satellite imagery for real-world applications

AAP govt. yet to implement at least 5 programmes it announced over the past two years to curb air pollution; these include using drones to map bad air sources and making PUC mandatory to buy fuel; our plans have been stopped by Centre: AAP

Data from the CPCB's Sameer app, which provides hourly AQI updates, showed that out of the 38 monitoring stations, 13 were in the severe category with readings above 400

Mr. Saifi submitted that once the offences under the Arms Act were dropped against him and neither any weapon was recovered nor the alleged gunshot was attributed to him, the charge of attempt to murder could not be framed

The Hight Court expressed surprise that members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) councillors were approaching courts with their grievances and asked them to raise the issue in the House or before the public

Panel to gather information from party’s candidates about various violations

The Constitution Bench says laws, rules and procedure governing recruitments to public services must be governed by the overarching principles of fundamental rights of equality and non-discrimination

India was one of the first countries to ban the book’s import and sale, citing concerns over its content being offensive to the Muslim community

Sima Baidya also says she has lodged a complaint against the chairperson of the centre and has sought security from the university authorities as she has been intimidated

The court directed the police to take Sanjeev Kumar into custody directly from the court and sent him to jail

Lakhs of devotees offer ‘Sandhya Arghya’ to the setting sun on the third day of the four-day festival; political leaders make a beeline for ghats with an eye on Purvanchali voters ahead of Assembly poll