Does layout make CSS difficult to learn from scratch, Chris quizzes Dave about Balatro, getting back into Pokemon, why should Google have to sell Chrome, adding fun features to apps you already have to keep you using them like Raycast, and thoughts on the VS Code forks + AI.

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• Web Awesome Layout Anatomy
• Balatro
• Pokémon GO
• A Little Arm Chair Businessin’ about Chrome – Chris Coyier
• Raycast Focus works really well - daverupert.com
• Cursor - The AI Code Editor
• Trae - Ship Faster with Trae
• Codium is now Qodo | Quality-first AI Coding Platform
• Windsurf Editor by Codeium
• Zed - The editor for what's next
• Ghostty
• Helix

Dealing with AI creating fake work by famous artists, HTML is actually a programming language, Chrome 133 updates, attr updates, making "this" less annoying, and Scott Jehl's trying to standardize Async CSS.

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• This Aged Great!
• Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
• HTML Programming Language
• HTML Semantics Consensus
• CSS attr() Upgrade
• Making this less annoying
• Powerful Apps for Mac & iOS
• Let's Standardize Async CSS!
• Off The Main Thread

Hard hitting investigative journalism episode warning: Chris and Dave speculate on the ways a project like void(0) could make money.

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• Biome, toolchain of the web
• Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
• Rollup
• Rolldown
• Jest
• Vitest | Next Generation testing framework
• Playwright
• Cypress
• VoidZero | Next Generation Tooling for the Web
• The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
• Astro
• Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime
• Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
• The World's Most Trusted Game Development Engine - Unreal Engine
• Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
• Deploy your Laravel PHP application painlessly | Laravel Forge
• 37signals
• Basecamp: Project management software, online collaboration
• Simpler Static Site Generator
• Cloud Application Platform
• Igalia Chats

In this episode, we kick off the New Year with chats about battling illness over the holidays, the challenges of maintaining productivity, the differences between slash pages, wikis, and blog posts, how we use RSS, the importance of containers and context, Dave talks about living with ADHD, developing a system approach to CSS, Chris' thoughts on upgrading to an M4 MacBook Pro, and writing in Pug.

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• Chris Coyier.net
• slash pages
• /uses
• chipotle - IndieWeb
• Digital gardening
• daverupert.com
• Feedbin
• Reeder
• NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS
• Unread: An RSS Reader
• Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing
• I got the ADHD, too - daverupert.com
• My ADHD diagnosis process | Brad Frost
• CSS wants to be a system - daverupert.com
• M4 – Chris Coyier
• Getting Started – Pug

The employees of the startup RAPPTR (Quinn Pine, Blaze Lightyear, Astra Q, and Eddit Kit) find themselves in quite a pickle as a rogue investor tries to take over the company while CEO Chad is recovering in his napping pod.

Join us on a workplace-themed role playing adventure created by Dave Rupert.

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Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

A web developer from Atlanta, GA that specializes in Vue.js, python, and PHP.

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

A user-centered frontend developer with a focus on web accessibility.

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

Co-Founder of OddBird, working on CSS in a W3C group.

• Hard Code & Soft Skills
• Lasers & Feelings by John Harper
• one.seven design studio

Riffing off the CSS Wrapped 2024 list from the Chrome team, we're talking field-sizing, animate to height, anchor positioning, custom scrollbars, cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, and more!

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• CSS Wrapped 2024
• Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
• OpenType

We're talking HTML this episode, detail summary, HTML datalist element, styling selects, anchored pop ups, popovers, invokers, HR in select, target=blank, HTML for People, and what we still need.

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• The and elements are getting an upgrade - Stephanie Stimac's Blog
• Request for developer feedback: customizable select | Blog | Chrome for Developers
• HTML & CSS Dropdowns
• HTML Latest Control
• Browser noopener links
• Stylable Select Element
• Self-Closing Tags in HTML
• Riverside
• Select Element with Rules
• HTML Basics for Beginners
• The aside element
• AI Note Taking
• Interop 2025

How do you like your turkey at Thanksgiving, building social capital with the neighbors, a brief SportsTalk Show segment, noticing easter eggs in apps and the web, what is a component anyway, CSS parts follow up, and questions about Alpine.JS and ESLint.

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• How to Spatchcock Chicken, a Step-by-Step Guide
• Half-Life
• Scott Jehl on Web Components
• CSS Parts Relief
• ESLint Sorting Plugin
• GitLens
• Biome