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

Fred Schott stops by to talk about TypeScript, what DX means in 2023, a bit of GripeScript, and being transparent about what Astro is good at, and what it's not.




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554: Jamstack Thoughts with Brian Rinaldi

Brian Rinaldi joins us to talk about the state of Jamstack in 2023, acronym confusion, SPA confusion, developing common tools of understanding, why Netlify bought Gatsby, and the state of developer conferences.




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556: Andrey Sitnik and Using OKLCH for Color

Andrey Sitnik from Evil Martians talks with us about why OKCLH is the best way forward for color on the web, how to incorporate it into design systems, getting your designers to use OKCLH, and what kind of fallback support is needed.




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558: Esoteric Weird Content Editable Problems with Kristin Valentine

Kristin Valentine from Vox joins the show to talk about text editor CMS fun across multiple sites, Vox's Chorus, The Verge redesign, sharing Design Systems, theming articles, and a fun new game called "Can Your Text Editor Do This??"




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

Is there still any value in specializing in front-of-the-frontend dev? Would you ever use the dialog element for a mobile navigation? Why did CodePen decide to use Go for its GraphQL server?




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

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.




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

There's a special guest on the show who takes aim at the billionaires in web dev, do we know better than the algorithm for news, why is AI training data such a secret, Chris and Dave discover JetBrains, monorepo struggles, and SVG drawing tools.




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566: View Transitions and Passkeys

How should a podcast start? Talking View transitions, Google's Baseline, Passkeys, how to start a company, and ordering a spicy chicken combo at Wendy's.




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574: Estelle & Eric on CSS The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Estelle Weyl and Eric Meyer join us to talk about the 5th edition of their book, CSS: The Definitive Guide. We talk about some of CSS' biggest blunders, custom scroll bars, single line comments, shorthand in CSS, useless CSS trivia, and how to get started learning CSS in 2023.




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576: Blocks, Components, Linting Images, Engines, and “Web Integrity”

We're talking how we stay online - or not - on vacation, is create-guten-block the future for us WP developers? Can we get a state of the web component address from the President of web components? Have we seen the last new browser engine? And deciding whether to add features or remove them from your app.




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

Is Apple's Numbers amazing or the worst? Customer support at various levels of software, Figma and P3 color, imagining a colorspace property in CSS, what's Dave doing for productivity, how has offloading CSS Tricks affected Chris, and should we build different websites for mobile vs desktop?




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

Maggie Appleton talks with us about her work at Elicit, working with large and small language models, how humans vet the responses from AI, the discussion around the Soggoth meme in AI, using Discord as UI, what to do if your boss wants AI in your app, and why does she call her blog a digital garden?




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

Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about building community, open source and sponsorship, building on partnerships in the dev community, WordPress + Astro, view transitions, using Discord for support, and leaking secret Astro Studio details.




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

Chris redesigned his blog, using sounds on your website to make it seem fancy, what can't automated accessibility tests test, and what's new in Safari 17.




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586: Micro.blogging with Manton Reece

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.




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588: Elliott Marquez on Web Components and Lit

Elliot Marquez talks with us about the history of Polymer and Lit, why you should pick Lit, working with web components, the shadow dom, managing state, and how Material design is built with web components.




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589: CSS Functions, Read It Later, Making Money in Business, and More

A quick bit of union news follow up, CSS function round up, Read It Later inside Feedbin, fun uses for a Stream Deck+, how to turn up the money dial in your own business, and having the audacity to call yourself a publisher.




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590: Twisting Through Websites

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.




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

Miriam Suzanne stops by to talk about CSS updates and news on container queries, rolling out cascade layers, !important things to remember, custom properties, exit animations, CSS functions, state queries, and more.




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

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!




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

Dave and Chris discuss indie web culture, the role of social media in today's society, and the challenges and strategies of freelancing. Additionally, they discuss a range of topics from content moderation, coding and refining tech skills, to emerging startups and the future of web technology.




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602: What Does Accessibility Really Mean?

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.




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603: Deno, React Alternatives, and Copilot Concerns with Triple Threat Josh Collinsworth

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.




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

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!




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606: Web Sustainability with Michelle Barker

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 […]




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610: TypeScript in 2024, Signals, Productivity Sniped, and Follow Up

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.




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614: CSS Grid Level 3 aka Masonry with Adam Argyle

Adam Argyle stops by to chat about the conversation that's happening around CSS Grid / Masonry. What do we want? What might Apple's response to Google be? And nitpicking the spec just for fun.




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616: Strum Machine with Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott is the creator of Strum Machine, an app that simulates backing tracks by stitching together individual notes, chords, and strums recorded on guitar, standup bass, and mandolin. We talk about what Strum Machine does, why he decided to build it, how bringing on a professional designer helped, pricing thoughts, and the "fun" of building a version on iOS.




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617: Economic & AI Vibes with Jason Grigsby

We're chatting with Jason Grigsby about what a white-collar recession means, how the sources and methods of consuming news shape our perspectives, whether the current economic conditions represent a market correction and if a rebound is imminent. We explore the critical decision of whether to embrace AI advancements or risk being left behind. We also talk about AI-generated voices, large language models and ethics, and the impact of social media signals in an AI world.




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621: Setting Up Prettier and Linting, Comparing Colors, and Accessibility Overlays

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.




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

We're talking website rendering, server side rendering, Astro's server islands, perf hits for navigation elements, updating software because the docs aren't available for older versions, and a new Microsoft Edge was released.




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627: Getting Comfortable with the Struggle and Vibe Driven Development

Chris brings some blog posts to talk about including being comfortable with the struggle of developer life, Cloudflare Workers + monorepos, vibe driven development, and questions about database migrations, and whether we think AI free blogs are going to be a rarity in the future?




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629: The Great Divide, Global Design + Web Components, and Job Titles

A bit of follow-up on vibe driven development and JavaScript not causing The Great Divide, writing testing automation, global design systems and web components, could PHP be used for web components, what if view transitions are going to be everywhere, and frontend engineer vs design systems engineer job titles and descriptions.




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637: Approachable Open Source with Brian Muenzenmeyer

Brian Muenzenmeyer joins the show to talk about his book, Approachable Open Source, ways we can make open source easier to get in, important conversations around funding and supporting open source, and whether money helps maintainers deal with burnout or not?




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641: Passkey Usage, Writing Code with a Bot, and What’s Up With Java?

We've got a few leftovers from Halloween to process, what's been happening with Passkeys in late 2024, have you tried to write HTML faster than a bot can suggest it to you, CSS anchor positioning and popover polyfills, scroll driven animation thoughts, CSS nesting, and what's the reason for Java?




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Let’s be water sensitive

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




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Can Chennai change its energy consumption patterns?

In creating energy-efficient cities, India will do well to model its development on its own age-old techniques, says Durganand Balsavar




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Water, unlimited

Anamika Mukherjee writes on what went into creating the water supply system in her home




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Sunshine cities

Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram are among the 60 cities that have received in principle approval from the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to be developed as Solar Cities, writes K.A. Martin




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Design water-smart cities

We need an army of people who will ensure the protection of water bodies, and who will strive to create a water-literate community.




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It’s good ‘office times’ for Bengaluru

The buoyant office market of Bangalore quite makes up for the lukewarm residential segment, according to findings.




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Improve quality of indoor air

Outdoor air pollutants are impacting the indoor environment and builders have to take remedial measures, says M.A. Siraj




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Green dream a reality now

Chennai-based green building consultant Sumitra Vasudevan gives tips on how to ensure your home has a low carbon footprint.




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How a city deals with water

Water flows through streams and channels and forms a distinct part of the urban landscape of Tehran.




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It’s all in the material

Materials have a major say in construction, as their manufacture has to be environment-friendly, making them energy-efficient, says green homes builder Chandrashekar Hariharan. By Ranjani Govind




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Alternatives and affordability

Each housing project has to be site-specific, culturally appropriate and climatically conforming.




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‘We want our citizens to breathe fresh air’

Dr. John Keung, CEO of Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority, plans to convert 80 per cent of all buildings in his country to green buildings by 2030.




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Architecture of the senses

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.




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In harmony with nature

Minimal energy consumption and carbon footprint, use of biogas and solar panels, decentralised water treatment… a look at life in Auroville




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Rooting for sustainability

At the World Bamboo Congress held in Korea this year, Rebecca Reubens spoke about bamboo’s potential for holistic sustainability through design.