ShopTalk

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Chris has opinions about being sick, implied target for popovers, should Apple provide cross platform virtual machine images for Safari testing, what tips are there for beginners to HTML and CSS, which website builder CMS's do we recommend, and a Chipotle hack for your lunch plans.

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The Missing Link for Web Components – Frontend Masters Blog

Better defaults for popovers - Manuel Matuzovic

346: With Ben Evans – CodePen

Ben Evans on CodePen

Pure CSS Only Portrait - Isla

Pure CSS Still Life - Water and Lemons

A Single Div

Webflow

Craft CMS

Sanity

Contentful

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When Dave dies, who gets his domain name? How OpenClaw is a massive security concern, tips on handling a broad design surface area with a design system, changing database values with text-transform, should you declare CSS properties with @property, and was Chris wrong about CSS?

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Your Home for a Century: Our 100-Year Domains and Plans

1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts | 1Password Community

From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface | 1Password

Openclaw (clawdbot), Agents and the Age of Personal Software - YouTube

bbPress.org

WooCommerce

cap - no cap

Nice Select · February 3, 2026

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Axe-Con
Axe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings.

Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.

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We're passing over another milestone episode and answering your Q's with our A's while we do it: Dave goes 3D printing, should CSS be inside a web component, Chris is trying to build web component for popovers, why isn't Vue used or talked about more, finding bugs in blocks in the new CodePen, and we're grateful for 700 episodes.

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Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js

vuejs/petite-vue

Syntax: Hacking Pizza Ordering For Fun And Profit - YouTube

Theo - Twitch

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Axe-Con
Axe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings.

Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.

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Web Day Out is coming up and Jeremy Keith from Clearleft (name pending the ShopTalk Show rebrand) is here to chat about it and while we've got him, Dave throws him on the hot seat to answer some hard hitting journalism questions about the state of the web in 2026.

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Web Day Out in Brighton, March 12th 2026

Strategic design partners for website and service design | Clearleft

css.properties

Raycast - Your shortcut to everything

Rachel Andrew – Doing stuff on the web since 1996.

Browser support at Clearleft

CSS Day 2026, 11th & 12th of June, Amsterdam

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Axe-con
Axe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings.

Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.

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Why are AI tools so bad at CSS layout, Robin Rendle inspired monospaced fonts, CodePen's slideVars library, why are Safari dev tools so hard to use, button follow up, and what player component does ShopTalk use for it's website?

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Clair Obscur | Expedition 33

Apple One

Where’s the AI design renaissance?

Outlyne

Bolt

Lando Norris

Robin Rendle

Dave Rupert

Casey Newton

slideVars - Automatic Sliders for CSS Custom Properties

Media Chrome Docs

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Axe-con
Axe-con - the world's largest digital accessibility conference is from the makers of Axe-core and Axe DevTools Browser Extension. Taking place online on February 24-25. Registration is free and also gets you access to the on-demand recordings.

Axe-con has a specific Development Track for dev content - some top speakers are Ire Aderinokun (front-end developer and Google developer expert), Jesse Beach (Software Engineering Manager at Meta), and other prominent folks from orgs like Coinbase, Zendesk, Red Hat, Atlassian, and more.