We're all addicted to Clues by Sam and wonder about the data structure for the site, good thoughts on the design tokens community, shadow DOM, the state of web components in mid-2025, dealing with JSON, and new ideas around web monetization.

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• Clues By Sam
• web-platform-tests dashboard
• P&B: Dave Rupert – Manu
• Web Bucks
• Supertab | Reduce friction and drive revenue with Pay-as-you-go
• Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
• Get early access: Cloudflare Pay Per Crawl Private Beta | Cloudflare

Chris reflects on CSS Day in Amsterdam, allowing languages to grow with nonstandard elements, naming things continues to be hard, shapes are going to get weird on the web, HTML includes get stirred up, thoughts on CSS mixins, and Dave's blogging about resizing text fun.

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• Understanding CSS corner-shape and the Power of the Superellipse – Frontend Masters Blog
• CSS Functions and Mixins Module
• explainers/declarative-partial-document-updates.md at main · noamr/explainers · GitHub
• Houdini APIs - Web APIs | MDN
• Inverse text-sizing based on text-length with attr() - daverupert.com
• Fit-to-Width Text: A New Technique
• inverse text-sizing with attr - bigtext.js style - contenteditable dealio
• ShopTalk Show | creating Podcasts about building websites | Patreon

Brad and Ian stop by to chat about their new course, The Complete Guide to Design Tokens, what happens if you don't use design tokens on projects, what the ideal outcome is for building and designing with design tokens, how many colors is enough, what about refactoring, and does Figma or code win the argument?

(Brad and Ian did give us a 20% discount code for the course: SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME)

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Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA.

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Front-end architect, technical lead, and consultant who loves to help level up developers.

• Design Tokens Course with Brad Frost and Ian Frost
• Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher
• Nord Design System
• React Aria
• Style Dictionary | Style Dictionary