722: The No-AI Talk Challenge, Picking Rails Tooling, Dark Mode?

722: The No-AI Talk Challenge, Picking Rails Tooling, Dark Mode?

From ShopTalk by Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert

July 6, 2026 · 59 min

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Chris and Dave discuss various web development topics while avoiding any mention of AI.

Show DescriptionChris & 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. Listen on WebsiteWatch on YouTubeLinks 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…

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Hosts: Chris Coyier, Dave Rupert

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Organizations: Vizio, The Verge, MDN, Auth0, Netlify, Vercel, Twilio, CSS-Tricks

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