647: Slash Pages vs Wikis vs Posts, RSS, Living with an ADHD Diagnosis, and M4 Upgrades
Episode
53 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Productivity, Software Development, Product & Tech Trends
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓Slash Pages Strategy: Personal website slash pages like /uses or /now risk becoming stale static content. Converting them to dated blog posts enables syndication, creates historical records, and allows topics to evolve over time while maintaining discoverability through RSS feeds and archives.
- ✓Wiki-Style Content Architecture: Large comprehensive guide pages outperform multiple scattered blog posts on the same topic. CSS Tricks' Flexbox guide proved single authoritative resources generate more value than fragmented content, suggesting personal sites should consolidate related posts into living wiki-style topic pages with blown-out tag pages.
- ✓ADHD Medication Trade-offs: Non-stimulant ADHD medication Qelbree reduces overwhelm and improves task initiation but causes severe insomnia as a side effect. Stimulant alternatives like Adderall provide instant focus but require careful regulation. Diagnosis enables access to treatment tools after years of developing coping mechanisms and productivity systems.
- ✓CSS Margin-Trim Property: The margin-trim CSS property eliminates last-child selectors by removing unwanted margins at container edges from the parent level. Currently Safari-only, this feature reduces brittle selectors and complements text-box-trim for precise vertical alignment, especially critical for button padding and typography spacing issues.
What It Covers
Chris and Dave explore slash pages versus blog posts for personal websites, discuss Dave's ADHD diagnosis and medication effects, debate CSS system philosophies including margin strategies and text-box-trim features, and review M4 MacBook performance.
Key Questions Answered
- •Slash Pages Strategy: Personal website slash pages like /uses or /now risk becoming stale static content. Converting them to dated blog posts enables syndication, creates historical records, and allows topics to evolve over time while maintaining discoverability through RSS feeds and archives.
- •Wiki-Style Content Architecture: Large comprehensive guide pages outperform multiple scattered blog posts on the same topic. CSS Tricks' Flexbox guide proved single authoritative resources generate more value than fragmented content, suggesting personal sites should consolidate related posts into living wiki-style topic pages with blown-out tag pages.
- •ADHD Medication Trade-offs: Non-stimulant ADHD medication Qelbree reduces overwhelm and improves task initiation but causes severe insomnia as a side effect. Stimulant alternatives like Adderall provide instant focus but require careful regulation. Diagnosis enables access to treatment tools after years of developing coping mechanisms and productivity systems.
- •CSS Margin-Trim Property: The margin-trim CSS property eliminates last-child selectors by removing unwanted margins at container edges from the parent level. Currently Safari-only, this feature reduces brittle selectors and complements text-box-trim for precise vertical alignment, especially critical for button padding and typography spacing issues.
Notable Moment
Dave reveals his body consistently breaks down during time off work, experiencing both pre-Christmas illness and norovirus after New Year's. He describes this pattern as immune system letdown, where relaxation triggers the body to stop holding itself together after sustained work pressure.
Episode Transcript
Hey there. ShopifyX. You are listening to another episode of the ShopTalk Show. We're in to a brand new season. I'm Dave Rupert. With me is Chris Coyer. Hey, Chris. How are you doing? Good. Thanks. Thanks, Dave. And this new season is, of course, brought to you by our friends at Mitchell Mitchell McMitchell Toyota down on the Miracle Mile, Who are doing their Toyotaathon? Yeah. So gotta get down there. Use coupon code shop talk at checkout for 10% off your brand new Toyota Tacoma. Yeah. We might be able sued if there's a percent. Yeah. Thousands of dollars. Yep. Yep. Pretty cool. So what's going on, man? Working on some new brand deals. Yeah. I'm working on some new brand deals, licenses, you know, kinda trying to get, you know, make space for it. You know? So That'd be nice. Yeah. Prove to the people that we can do. I was always fascinated by that social media concept where I think particularly young people were, like, impressed by people that were sponsored. You know? Like, if you're big enough, you have sponsors. So then they would take that to their smaller channel. They'd, like, pretend to be sponsored. Oh, yeah. That's so bizarre to me. But I kinda get it, I guess. No. I think, Vercel sponsorship, man, how much clout would we have if we just had Vercel just saying, hey, guys. Here here's money. You know? And then if we had I will admit it says kind of the opposite. We don't have no sponsors right now. We got Why are they lining up? Just saying. We got friends in the Discord helping us out. So appreciate y'all. Absolutely. Our sponsors are our listeners. Thank you. Yes. Well, it's like PBS of of podcasts, I'd say. Of web development podcast. Yeah. We're that. Let's be that. I can be that. Alright. Grover. Coming in hot, man. Coming in hot for the New Year. I got two weeks off, so I I'm, like, I was sick for, like, all of it almost. Like, I had, like Oh, no. You know? I don't know. Yeah. It was just I think my body does this let down when work is stopping. You know? My body's like, cool, dude. We've been holding it together, and now I'm going to just be dead for a few days. And then that happened before Christmas. And then I think I got the norovirus, right after New Year's, which I do not recommend. Holy buckets. That one's like a speed run of food poisoning, the flu, and then a cold. And it's, like, it's brutal, man. I don't do not recommend. So, I'm sorry, man. That really that's awful. It didn't work. It just is. Healthy. That's sad. I take vitamin c. So, vitamins, you go out to things like that. I'm trying to tempt a temp sickness. Because it's I don't know. I talk feel like I haven't been sick in, like, …
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