Did a deep dive to see if StyleX would work at Shopify . Turned out to be a wash , similar to my other explorations into OOCSS .
Ep #251 Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging IE5 Robbie and I do a mostly whatnot episode about our path getting into tech, playing in bands, and getting into trouble. We sip Glen Morangie "A Tale of Ice Cream" and share some stories. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · appl…
New member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society . Join me?
WebSub support added.
Jack (CEO of Patreon) gives a great talk about the struggles of being an artist with the internet from the 90s to today, a history of tech and art, and lessons learned. Heartfelt insights into working through 2026 "content creation" culture. Watch on YouTube .
Watch my talk "Contextualism" from CSS Day on Conffab
Some "open" agentic tools: Open Chamber Open Agents Open Design Open Design HTML Video Open Montage Wonder if they use Open Props 😏
My Blogspot in 2011: Ranting Devigner see what tech articles I was reading lol dev and design rants I was making also lol Devigner = Designer + Developer Before " Design Engineer " was coo
Kevin Powell tries out Prop For That , makin it look so slick and easy 🫶 Watch on YouTube
33554432px the maximum value for a CSS length in a layout context. #randomCSSfacts Bramus on Masto
Ep #250 Live at React Miami with Christina Martinez Robbie , Christina and I chat fun coding experiments, personifying agents, OpenClaw, hot takes and a little bit of whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Kubernetes HorizontalPodAutoscaler has the ability to dynamically adjust Deployment replicas depending on resource utilization.
Ep #249 Live at React Miami with Joel Hooks Robbie , Joel and I chat about Pi , OpenClaw, JoelClaw , YOLO mode, AGI, custom harnesses and a little bit of whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
100 ways to center a div by Temani Afif
Ep #248 Live at React Miami with guests Jason Lengstorf , Kent C. Dodds , Tanner Linsley and Francesco Ciulla Robbie and I chat with 4 guests in 1 episode ! Topics span things like Lambo's, MCP vs OpenClaw , agents building agents, polymorphic UI libraries, SDD + state machines,…
Ep #247 Live at React Miami with guest Ken Wheeler Robbie , Ken and I chat about proxies, pranks, survival bags, agent swarms and Ramon the 420 IQ Gorilla. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
✅ talk "Contextualism" at CSS Day 2026 Slides · Prop For That
Ep #246 React Miami with guest Michael "Micky" Shimeles (AKA Rasmic) Robbie , Micky and I chat about AI, frameworks, and the eternal beard vs mustache debate with a hilarious and fun guest. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
🛬 Landed and stoked for CSS Day 2026! 💀 Tattoo scheduled 🤜🤛 Excited to see fellow CSS nerds 🎁 Have a special surprise at the end of my talk that I can't wait to reveal
This blog is now a standard.site 🤘🏻
Ep #245 Live at React Miami with Typecraft (Chris) Robbie and I chat with Typecraft , chat tech and extract some 🔥 hot takes. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Robbie and I MC 🎤 Cascadia JS for the next 2 days See ya there 🤘🏻
New laptop after 6 years and it doesn't disappoint
I wished for this last year .flex-container { display : flex ; flex-wrap : balance ; } now it's headed to Chrome 🤘🏻
Just submitted my State of CSS 2026 Survey.
Would use: CSS relative alpha . button { border-color : alpha(from hotpink / calc (alpha * .25) ); }
Ep #244 Live at React Miami with Seth Webster Robbie and I chat with Seth Webster (executive director of the React Foundation , former React lead at Meta, and chief developer evangelist at Expo ) to talk the past, present, and future of React and some 🔥 hot takes. ⤷ whiskey.fm ·…
Ep #243 Keyframes, Cash and Codepens with Stephen Shaw Robbie and I chat with Stephen about CSS animations, web components, SSR nightmares, and why building things by hand still matters in the age of AI slop. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Was lucky to be on the 🎙️ Overcommitted podcast with Bethany , Brittany , and Erika .
You can now use my <color-input> as a Figma plugin : HDR Color Picker
Was on PodRocket to chat about my post Why AI Sucks At Front End : Watch it here or listen
Ep #242 From Wetware to Software (presented by Warp ) 🧠 wetware 🌧️ cloud leaks 🧑💼 agent vs agent 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #241 Axios Is Out, Fetchium Is In (presented by Warp ) 📡 Signals 🎣 Hooks 🔭 Observables 💀 Death to prop drilling 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
I love cozy games . I want more cozy software. It's such a great UI/UX goal: chill, empowerment, and joy.
So stinkin' cute!
Ep #240 AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd (presented by Warp ) 🕹️ Token spending 🧐 Autoresearch 🌗 Day Shift / Night Shift 🐄 Cowgorithms 💻 Terminal tools 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #239 Flogging Margins With The Dropcap Murphys featuring Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier ™️ Brand Truth vs Brand Slop 🔫 One-Shot Apps 🧑🎨 CSS in the Age of AI Context Rot 🧛🏻♂️ Energy Vampires & AI Brain Fry 🥃 Whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
dash.deno.com → console.deno.com Fresh → Fresh 2 This was a large chunk of work 😅 Please report any regressions.
Ep #238 NextJS is Dead, Long Live NextJS (presented by Warp ) 🏭 Dark Factories 🤖 YOLO mode ❌ T shape vs X shape 🦞 OpenClaw 💀 Death of SaaS 🥃 Redwood Empire & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #237 The Transactional Trap: How 97% of Developers Are Using AI Wrong - with Leon Noel & Danny Thompson 🤖 agentic dev 💬 prompt engineering 🦞 OpenClaw 🎼 orchestration, harnesses, and models 💀 leet code interviews 🕹️ Pokemon Go 🥃 whiskey & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify…
Try the latest <color-input> concept (I think it's hella rad) ⚓️ anchor() progressive enhancement 🤖 workers for color compute 🙈 new animations & interactions 🎨 gamut boundaries, mapping, stretching ☯️ contrast scores & much more QA and comment on GitHub if you may.
Page load improvements deployed.
Ep #236 The Manager Has Become The Managed (Presented by Warp ) Robbie and I chat with guest Amelia Wattenberger about: 📄 Why specs still aren't taking off 🤖 Being managed by your own bots 🛠️ Amelia's rad project Intent 🦆 Rubber duck debugging with Claude 🥃 A little whiskey & what…
My CSS Day 2025 talk is out! 📼 youtube.com/watch?v=vPb7d28RFNE Slides, demo links, & more here .
Join us tonight at 5pm PT for a 🍀 St. Patrick's Day 🍀 live collab with the ShopTalk Show folks! Twitch · YouTube
Ep #235 Hot Pockets Pro Max (presented by Warp ) Robbie and I chat OpenClaw , token optimizations, liberating data from walled gardens, burn windows, and of course some whiskey and some whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Ep #234 Pay No Attention to the LLM Behind the Terminal with Zach Lloyd of Warp Robbie and I chat latest agentic workflows with the CEO of Warp, digging into our favorite features, cloud agents with Oz , some delicious smokey whiskey and some whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spo…
Hello personal software: A Shopify store (TBA) Beer tracker Whiskey tracker My own guitar songbood My own banjo songbook Birthday tracker
scroll-driven geometric orbit experiments Triangles Atomic Squares Orbits Featuring billboarding , center of mass pivoting, and CSS trig functions .
Ep #233 Humans Are Now Legacy Dependencies Robbie and I chat agentic workflows, OpenClaw , Pi , malleable software, some whiskey and some whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple