Chris Coyier

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A web developer known for building tools and writing for front-end developers, Chris Coyier founded CSS-Tricks, ran it from 2007 to 2022, and co-founded CodePen, a widely used coding playground for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. He co-hosts Shop Talk Show with Dave Rupert, a long-running podcast on front-end web design and development, and has appeared as a guest on other developer shows including The Changelog, JS Party, PodRocket, and Maintainable.

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Chris Coyier hosts and writes Shop Talk Show , hosts CodePen Radio and writes Maintainable . They have also been a guest on JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development (5 times) , Whiskey Web and Whatnot (5 times) , The Changelog (3 times) , Boagworld: UX, Design Leadership, Marketing & Conversion Optimization (3 times) , PodRocket (3 times) , Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) (2 times) , User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth (2 times) , Front End Happy Hour , The Stack Overflow Podcast , Enjoy the Vue , Web Rush and This is HCD: Human-Centred Design, UX & Service Design .

Recently: “735: Design System Docs, CodePen’s API, and Bucket Filling Conversations” on Shop Talk Show (October 2026); “442: Pens are Actually Websites” on CodePen Radio (September 2026); “734: Web Performance with Ben Schwarz” on Shop Talk Show (September 2026); “734: Web Performance with Ben Schwarz” on Shop Talk Show (September 2026); “441: Challenges For We, Challenges For Thee” on CodePen Radio (September 2026); “733: Treadmills, Bass Guitars, and Testing Web Components” on Shop Talk Show (September 2026).

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“…I don't give a crap what other graphic designers like. It's not a metric that matters to me in musical taste. In fact, I probably have shared less in common with your average graphic designer than I do with a construction worker.” — Chris Coyier, Shop Talk Show

Coyier is talking about music recommendation sites, and remembers a genre of them built around designers sharing what they listen to. The remark is his objection to professional identity being treated as a proxy for taste. He calls it an old rant of his a moment later.

Shop Talk Show · 2026-08-31 Permalink → Listen →
Shop Talk Show Around 40:24 into the episode
Chris Coyier

it up a little bit. Yeah,

Dave Rupert

a little swallowed up. And yeah, his brother has really great taste in music and was kind of, you know, I think before kids or whatever, did a bunch of people. I like

Chris Coyier

that. There used to be like a little too much of the like designers plus music. This is a site. If you're a graphic designer and you like music. And I always been like, I don't give a crap what other graphic designers like. It's not a metric that matters to me in musical taste. In fact, I probably have shared less in common with your average graphic designer than I do with a construction worker.

Dave Rupert

Yeah, yeah.

Chris Coyier

Anyway, that's an old rant of mine. I won't research, but this has no particular, it's just like people who like music, it looks like.

Dave Rupert

Yeah, yeah. Well, I think that's kind of anyway. Just join it. I think it's kind of, it's, it's beautiful to look at, but it's also just kind of like, oh, wow, I didn't know that album was, you know, where's

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