721: New Gear, Nerding Out, and VS Code Forks
About this episode
The episode discusses new gear, design systems, and the future of conferences while sharing insights on various tech topics.
Show DescriptionWhat 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. Listen on WebsiteWatch on YouTubeLinks 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 SponsorsNotionWrite 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.
People in this episode
Hosts: Chris Coyier, Dave Rupert
Topics covered
- new gear
- design systems
- conferences
- VS Code
- technology trends
- musical gear
- pair programming
Sponsors
Notion
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cursor, Google, Figma, SpaceX
Products: Composer 2, Antigravity, Devon
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