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Show Description
Triple (or maybe even quadruple?) threat Josh Collinsworth is back on the show to talk about his new game, Tupo. They cover how the puzzles are generated and kept fair, why the usual Sudoku pencil marks don't help, and what Josh's player data shows about hints and checks. They also get into the tech stack, why Josh skipped the app stores, and how daily puzzle games took off after Wordle.

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Guests
Josh Collinsworth
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
A frontend developer and graphic designer who works across engineering, design, and messaging.

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Josh Collinsworth

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

Clues By Sam

Balatro: Deck-Building Roguelite

Wordle — The New York Times

Cracking The Cryptic - YouTube

Svelte • Web development for the rest of us

Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.

Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file

Quina - Menu

Hondo - a word game in 100 words or less

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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.

Show Description
Dave’s got a great concert story to kick off the episode before talking AI-assisted tests, a practical use for HTML markers and templates, Interop voting, browser features like margin-trim, and how to stream content into a page without first building a recursive tree.

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Links

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

Clues By Sam

How Many Dudes? | Download and Play!

445: CodePen AI is Here – CodePen

Microsoft-Decision-1: Our model for fast decision-making

Magic Words - daverupert.com

AI Skills for Real Engineers

2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it - daverupert.com

The WebM Project | Welcome to the WebM Project

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.

Show Description
On this episode we're chatting about how to make modern tooling more collaborative and human-friendly, CSS alpha() and color-mix() features, Chris quizzes Dave on SVG features, voting for interop, CodePen + AI tools, and how to detect when elements overlap with CSS.

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Glove80 Keyboards — MoErgo

Mat Marquis

Do we really need alpha()?

Detect When Elements Overlap with CSS

2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

Introducing Delta — Zed

Agent Collaboration Environment (ACE) for Multiplayer AI Coding — GitHub Issue #123

Matt Pocock’s Skills for Real Engineers

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.

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.

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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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.