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Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert
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    736: Building Design Systems Using AI with TJ Pitre

    2026-10-12 | 1h 9 mins.
    Show Description
    TJ Pitre joins us to talk AI in design systems, building and maintaining component libraries, the evolution of modular CSS and component workflows, connecting Figma and code, keeping components in sync across tools and teams, human review in AI-assisted workflows, Storybook, MCP tools, evals, and decision models like Jev for choosing components.

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    Guests
    TJ Pitre
    Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
    Product Architect for AI and Design Systems at Figma.

    Founder of Southleft.

    Links

    AI & Design Systems Course with Brad Frost, TJ Pitre, and Ian Frost

    TJ Pitre on GitHub

    TJ Pitre on LinkedIn

    AI + Design Systems — Southleft

    Sponsors
    AI & Design Systems
    AI delivers speed, but can make a huge mess. Design systems encode your org's standards of quality, but can be difficult to wield. Together, AI & Design Systems are a powerful combination to deliver quality, speed, and scale.

    Join industry experts TJ Pitre (Product Architect for AI & Design Systems at Figma), Brad Frost (creator of Atomic Design), and Ian Frost (veteran design systems developer) to learn AI & Design Systems core concepts, practical techniques to help your team deliver great digital products at scale.
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    735: Design System Docs, CodePen’s API, and Bucket Filling Conversations

    2026-10-05 | 56 mins.
    Show Description
    Dave and Chris explore the evolving landscape of design systems, CodePen's new API features, what happens when an app moves your cheese and how to respond, and Regretful API's.

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    Links

    Bear — Markdown Notes

    Design System Doc Spec 0.21.2

    437: The Cheese. It Has Been Moved. — CodePen

    CodePen PRO

    TypeSafe AI

    Tupo — A daily sudoku-style logic puzzle with a twist

    Sponsors
    AI and Design Systems
    AI delivers speed, but can make a huge mess. Design systems encode your org's standards of quality, but can be difficult to wield. Together, AI & Design Systems are a powerful combination to deliver quality, speed, and scale.

    Join industry experts TJ Pitre (Product Architect for AI & Design Systems at Figma), Brad Frost (creator of Atomic Design), and Ian Frost (veteran design systems developer) to learn AI & Design Systems core concepts, practical techniques to help your team deliver great digital products at scale.
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    734: Web Performance with Ben Schwarz

    2026-09-28 | 57 mins.
    Show Description
    Ben Schwarz stops by to discuss the state of web performance, using his research on airline websites as a case study for practical insights on improving website speed and user experience.

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    Guests
    Ben Schwarz
    Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
    CEO at Calibre Analytics

    Links

    ShopTalk Archives 2013

    068: With Ben Schwarz – ShopTalk

    Ben Schwarz — Founder & CEO at Calibre

    Calibre: Web Performance Monitoring for Every Team

    It's official: Airline websites are slow, but they don't have to be | Calibre

    World Airline and Airport Ratings
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    733: Treadmills, Bass Guitars, and Testing Web Components

    2026-09-21
    Show Description
    We're talking treadmill and musical gear, software maintenance, dependency management, technical debt, testing web components, and CSS-Tricks hot drama.

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    Links

    Underdesk Treadmill – Chris Coyier

    Sarah Drasner's Site

    Maggie Appleton

    Acoustic Bass Guitars - 4 string & 6 string | Taylor Guitars

    CSS-Tricks - Learning for front-end designers and developers

    Learn JavaScript, React, and TypeScript to Node.js, Fullstack, and Backend | Master.dev

    @web/test-runner - npm

    Node.js Test Runner

    Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright

    Sponsors
    SlopTalk Show
    Get your AI sloptalk at 50% off your first purchase of 5,000 tokens.

    Use coupon code DAVID BUSHELL'S GOLD FISH for your first order and tell 'em Chris and Dave sent ya.
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    732: Thomas Steiner on New Cross-Origin Storage APIs

    2026-09-14 | 1h 6 mins.
    Show Description
    We're joined by Thomas Steiner from Google to discuss his proposal for cross-origin storage, a new web API designed to bring back safe, cross-site resource sharing. We explore why the old shared-CDN caching model collapsed due to privacy and fingerprinting risks, and how this could solve those issues while avoiding those same pitfalls.

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    Guests
    Thomas Steiner
    Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
    Developer Relations Engineer at Google, focused on the Web and Project Fugu.

    Links

    David Bushell

    daverupert.com

    633: Thomas Steiner on AI in Chrome and the Web

    Pervasive Resources

    Intent to ship: Cache sharing for extremely-pervasive resources
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