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Can WordPress Kill Your Resume, Fav Parts of Web Dev, Exploring HTMX, and more!

We're opening up the ShopTalk mailbag and answering your questions, including does WordPress on your resume kill your job chances, what are our fav and least fav parts of web dev, our thoughts on HTMX, and what is it like to use pnpm instead of npm.

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Astro Launches an Integrated Database

Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about Astro announcement of Astro DB. The pluses and minuses of it, and whether you have to always use the database with Astro DB. We get into how to seed your database, upgrading the database, and the almost weirdly generous pricing model.

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Web Sustainability with Michelle Barker

We're talking with Michelle Barker about the idea of paying to support bloggers (and podcasters!) via services like Patreon, drumming as a fun side gig from CSS, how big of an issue digital sustainability is, trying to understand the environmental impact of our websites and digital life, wondering why YouTube embeds are still so large, disabling cookies, and how to build the web in a more sustainable way.

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Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers

Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, RSS in HTML, and the state of state and UI.

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VS Code Plugins, Git as a Radical Statement, Tailwind & Arc Drama

A follow up on jQuery conversation, Microsoft owning all the things, what VS Code plugins are your ride or die, the ability to Git from wherever you want, Tailwind drama, global design system follow up, Arc Search gets roasted, and Frontend Design Conference is back!