Listener John has a VSCode extension to share, Chris muses on why nobody has attempted to build the social side of RSS, a listener is experimenting with feature-based folder structures, how do you feel about AI traffic on your website, what can someone blog about in 2026, and Digg gets dugg by bots.

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• DTF St. Louis | Official Trailer
• Parasite (2019)
• tag-toggle - Visual Studio Marketplace
• CommonRSS
• Skyreader
• Tim Disney (@disnetdev.com) — Bluesky
• Feedbin
• Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

Are we all going to vibe code our own bespoke apps now, can a canvas app be vibe coded, more geolocation API thoughts, CodePen v2's public beta is now out, and private pens explained.

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• March Mad CSS
• Scroll My Mac
• Setapp | Powerful apps for Mac & iOS
• Move tests to closed source repo · Issue #8082 · tldraw/tldraw
• Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing
• Traditional Irish music on The Session
• CodePen Radio – CodePen

Chris talks through going public with CodePen v2's beta, the magic words and AI skills needed today, Chris has a beef with anchor positioning, thoughts on classless CSS libraries, Eleventy growing up into Build Awesome, and how would you pass an hour by quickly? (Hopefully by listening to this podcast.)

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• Magic Words
• Anchor Interpolated Morph (AIM) · January 23, 2026
• Build Awesome by Font Awesome
• Build Awesome: We're pausing our Kickstarter!
• Build a Web Site in 7 Minutes with Build Awesome
• Quiet UI
• Good Sudoku
• CodePen

We talk with Frederik Braun from Mozilla about the Sanitizer API, how it works with HTML tags and web components, what it does with malformed HTML, and where CSP fits in alongside the Sanitizer API.

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Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Security engineer and manager working on the Mozilla Firefox web browser

• Frederik Braun: Why the Sanitizer API is just setHTML()
• Frederik Braun
• freddyb (Frederik B)

We're joined by Ujjwal Sharma to talk about what the TC39 is, who's in it, and how the TC39 group guides JavaScript.

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Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social

Developer Advocacy, Programming Languages & Web Standards

• Ryzokuken (Ujjwal Sharma)
• LinkedIn
• X (Twitter)
• Igalia
• TC39
• Use JSDoc

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

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

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