A podcast about web design and development. Released as audio and video.
Episodes
25 May 2026
Chrome 2026's AI-driven web updates, including the Web MCP protocol and Next.js integrations, reshape design, SEO, and e-commerce, while debates arise over AI's role in content quality, accessibility, ethical implications, and the tension between innovation and traditional expertise.
Open episode18 May 2026
The integration of AI into web browsers via APIs like `navigator.ai` highlights on-demand local processing for privacy, evolving specialized AI functions, ethical concerns around data and governance, technical hurdles for small models, critiques of AI aesthetics and "purple washing," corporate initiatives, and challenges in digital preservation and web ethics.
Open episode4 May 2026
AI's evolving role in design workflows streamlines tasks like website redesign and component generation, balancing automation with human oversight, ethical UX considerations, accessibility, and alignment with design systems while addressing challenges of compliance, adaptability, and intentional decision-making.
Open episode27 Apr 2026
Squarespace's use of Intersection Observer API for lazy loading video/audio addresses retrofit challenges, optimizes bandwidth/eco-friendliness, navigates browser preloading behaviors, and explores accessibility, layout shift prevention, evolving web standards, and collaborative development efforts.
Open episode20 Apr 2026
Ruby on Rails' resurgence in modern applications and large-scale systems like Shopify highlights its improved scalability, while addressing infrastructure complexity, legacy maintenance challenges, dependency risks, AI-driven automation potential, cultural barriers, and the need for streamlined workflows and future-proof design to reduce technical debt.
Open episode13 Apr 2026
Sanity's JSON-based, real-time headless CMS decouples content from presentation for cross-channel reuse, emphasizes structured data integration with AI, centralizes schema management via its MCP, and addresses legacy system challenges through tools like Pencil and Ingest to enable scalable collaboration.
Open episode30 Mar 2026
AI's limitations in context, labor displacement debates, tooling challenges, CMS integration, RSS innovations, and design ethics are explored, alongside risks like security flaws, job erosion, and over-reliance on simplified tech solutions.
Open episode23 Mar 2026
Covers film critiques, tech tools, RSS social features debates, AI's impact on content platforms, experimental social networks, web development challenges, and prioritizes human-driven tech content over AI alternatives.
Open episode16 Mar 2026
Discusses challenges in remote video interaction, the build vs. buy dilemma in startups, rising software costs, open-source controversies, web development limitations, AI's role in democratizing code, and ethical concerns around data scraping and project sustainability.
Open episode9 Mar 2026
CodePen's public beta launch is discussed, highlighting challenges, new features, and technical obstacles.
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