ShopTalk

Show Description

Keaton Taylor is a product designer at Discord and stopped by the show to talk about getting distracted by new dev toys, spoons as the best worst analogy, Wichita as the new Portland, working at Discord, and the interesting career paths for developers and designers in 2022.

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Guests

Keaton Taylor

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

Keaton is a product designer who loves to dabble in front-end code. Currently, he's designing for the future of communities at Discord.

Links

• Discord
• Discord API
• Backyard

Sponsors

Notion

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Deque

This episode of ShopTalk is brought to you by Deque, the makers of axe. Do you know how accessible your website is? Can people with disabilities access it? If you aren’t sure, you can get started in just minutes with the free axe DevTools browser extension. Install it in Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. Navigate to the website you want to test, then open axe DevTools. Click the “Scan ALL of my page” button. And within a matter of milliseconds, you will get a list of accessibility issues with details and guidance on how to go about fixing them! If you want everyone to be able to access your website, you need to start testing it for accessibility. And axe is the perfect place for dev teams to begin that process. You don’t even need to know anything about digital accessibility. Let axe DevTools do the heavy lifting and try it for free today! Visit deque.com/shoptalk to get started.

Show Description

Getting feedback for what you're building or writing, RSS feed reminiscing, Arc browser thoughts, products that didn't make that should have.

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Links

• Feedbin
• Netnewswire
• Reeder
• Arc Browser
• Opera GX
• Brave
• Shift
• Cleanshot
• The Verge - Why one web pioneer thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser

Sponsors

Sanity

Sanity is the platform for structured content that powers awesome digital experiences for companies like PUMA, Sonos, Skims, Figma, and more. Sanity treats content as data, allowing your stories and your product information to become composable, reusable, and programmable so that you can deliver an outstanding experience to your audience faster and easier than ever — and at scale. The Sanity Studio, our content authoring tool, is getting a major upgrade that offers developers new and improved APIs and tooling that will change how your teams work together to build a custom content system for your business.

Show Description

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.

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Links

• Patchability of the Open Web
• A Use Case for Cascading Attribute Sheets
• Safari Tech Preview 156 announcement
• Disneyland queue hack
• Gist
• Four Thousand Weeks

Sponsors

Split Software

Split Sofware is the feature delivery platform you need to help exceed these modern expectations in continuous and progressive delivery. Because if you’re not delivering, you’re falling behind. You, and a team of 10, can create your first feature flags at split.io/shoptalk You’re being asked to crack the code without breaking the code. To take risks without taking risks. To quickly release features valuable to customers, profitable to companies, and backed by the data to prove it. It’s time to deliver. Fearlessly and flawlessly. You, and a team of 10, can create your first feature flags at split.io/shoptalk.

Show Description

Do you listen at 2x? Do Chris and Dave sound weird at normal speed IRL? How searching compares to using AI, chatbots kind of suck at context, getting a designer to work with developers at an agency, what happened to content visibility, and how to best build a design system using web components.

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Links

• Airshow Podcast Player
• Whiskey Web and Whatnot - A whiskey fueled fireside chat with your favorite web developers.
• OpenAI
• Raycast Pro
• Wavelength: Group Chat, Friends & AI
• Amelia Wattenberger
• Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
• GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer · GitHub
• Framer AI — Generate and publish your site with AI in seconds.
• content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
• The Frontend Studio for Nuxt Developers and Teams · Nuxt Studio
• Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.

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Show Description

Should you care about functional programming? What if cloud functions weren't node or deno, but built into the browser? Why do we accept npm dependency hell? Follow up on design matching the web question. And Dave blogged about the patchability of the open web.

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Links

• Faster Than Normal
• ShopTalk 531
• The Patchability of the open web

Sponsors

Split Software

Split Sofware is the feature delivery platform you need to help exceed these modern expectations in continuous and progressive delivery. Because if you’re not delivering, you’re falling behind. You, and a team of 10, can create your first feature flags at split.io/shoptalk You’re being asked to crack the code without breaking the code. To take risks without taking risks. To quickly release features valuable to customers, profitable to companies, and backed by the data to prove it. It’s time to deliver. Fearlessly and flawlessly. You, and a team of 10, can create your first feature flags at split.io/codepen.