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    725: CodePen 2.0, Templates on the Web, The Year of HTML?

    27/07/2026 | 1h
    Show Description
    CodePen 2.0 is out now and we're talking about the launch, the idea of templating on the web, and how HTML could look very interesting in the future.

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    Links

    Yarn

    Announcing TypeScript 7.0

    CodePen 2.0 announcement blog post

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    Notion
    Write custom tools for Notion Agents that generate assets, query live data, and hit any API. Listen for incoming webhooks from any app, then run workflows with Notion Agents, pages, databases, and external APIs.

    All of this, on a hosted runtime. Workers are isolated sandboxes managed by Notion, so the code behind your syncs, tools, and workflows runs on our infra instead of your servers.
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    724: Ask Dan Abramov Anything About AT Proto

    20/07/2026 | 55 mins.
    Show Description
    If you're like Chris and understand a bit of the tech behind AT Proto but want to understand it at a deeper level, this episode is for you. How does it differ from straight up RSS and Mastodon, where is my identity being stored, how do I create a schema, what can be updated or modified later, is there going to be a PDS revolution, how does Standard.site fit into it all, and what else could we build with AT Proto?

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    Guests
    Dan Abramov
    Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
    Links

    overreacted

    There are no instances in AT Proto

    dan abramov

    Tangled

    Leaflet

    BlueSky For You feed

    Standard.site

    Implementing Standard Site: WIlto

    atapult

    teal.fm
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    723: Ads on Your Website, UX for Web Dev Jobs, and Progressive Web Components

    13/07/2026 | 57 mins.
    Show Description
    How do websites handle advertising embeds, thinking DND thoughts about team topologies, does knowing UX help get jobs in web dev, using Elena for building progressive web components, and dealing with buttons in web components.

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    Links

    BuySellAds

    Carbon Ads

    It needs to map back to a role – Eric Bailey

    Elena | Progressive Web Components

    Ariel Salminen

    David Darnes

    Sponsors
    Notion
    Write custom tools for Notion Agents that generate assets, query live data, and hit any API. Listen for incoming webhooks from any app, then run workflows with Notion Agents, pages, databases, and external APIs.

    All of this, on a hosted runtime. Workers are isolated sandboxes managed by Notion, so the code behind your syncs, tools, and workflows runs on our infra instead of your servers.
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    722: The No-AI Talk Challenge, Picking Rails Tooling, Dark Mode?

    06/07/2026 | 58 mins.
    Show Description
    Chris & Dave have been challenged to not talk about AI this episode - do they succeed? How do I optimize tracking pixels in my web app, what's the best book on CMS and authoring experiences, picking the best tooling in Rails that won't be obsolete, SPF, DNS, and D-Marc, adding dark mode to a website, and dealing with good old fashioned F.A.R.T.

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    Links

    Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market | The Verge

    Window: queueMicrotask() method - Web APIs | MDN

    Jake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ... - YouTube

    Designing Content Authoring Experiences

    Ruby on Rails: Accelerate your agents with convention over configuration

    Secure AI Agent & User Authentication | Auth0

    next.js

    TanStack | The open-source application stack for the web.

    RedwoodSDK: A simple framework for humans

    Heroku | The Cloud Application Platform For Developers

    Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

    Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel

    Astro

    Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites | Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs

    Nuxt: The Full-Stack Vue Framework

    SendGrid Email API and Email Marketing Campaigns | Twilio

    Email · The email API for developers who ship the rest of the message too — Bird

    Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

    CSS Analytics - Project Wallace

    Flash of inAccurate coloR Theme (FART) | CSS-Tricks
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    721: New Gear, Nerding Out, and VS Code Forks

    29/06/2026 | 1h 2 mins.
    Show Description
    What to do when you have more ideas than time, getting new musical gear, nerding out and getting excited about things, the state of conferences in 2026, Cursor being bought, and Dave's got a minimum viable design system idea.

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    Links

    FFConf

    Figma Config 2026

    SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal

    Google Antigravity

    Devon: An open-source pair programmer

    Introducing Composer 2

    @function CSS at-rule

    A tale of two browsers

    Google's Prompt API

    Sponsors
    Notion
    Write custom tools for Notion Agents that generate assets, query live data, and hit any API. Listen for incoming webhooks from any app, then run workflows with Notion Agents, pages, databases, and external APIs.

    All of this, on a hosted runtime. Workers are isolated sandboxes managed by Notion, so the code behind your syncs, tools, and workflows runs on our infra instead of your servers.
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