🛬 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.
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Robbie and I MC 🎤 Cascadia JS for the next 2 days
See ya there 🤘🏻
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.
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.
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Would use:
CSS relative alpha.
button {
border-color: alpha(from hotpink / calc(alpha * .25));
}
`
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.
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Was lucky to be on the 🎙️ Overcommitted podcast with Bethany, Brittany, and Erika.
Ep #242
From Wetware to Software
(presented by Warp)
🧠 wetware
🌧️ cloud leaks
🧑💼 agent vs agent
🥃 Whiskey & whatnot
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Ep #233
Humans Are Now Legacy Dependencies
Robbie and I chat agentic workflows, OpenClaw, Pi, malleable software, some whiskey and some whatnot.
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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
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Site Updates
- New persona filtering on desktop
- Deno KV social data caching
- new Codepen 2.0 editor support
- UI fixes
- Notebook update (added Color Picker)
- Server analytics added to Notebook
- Server page views and active users integrated into UI
Ep #234
Pay No Attention to the LLM Behind the Terminal withZach 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.
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First off, I call my OpenClaw assistant "Punk Ass," short for "Punk Assistant." It's been great so far having a punk ass for various projects. I hadn't been using my gaming machine much; now it's a work horse.
But, when you're running an AI assistant that handles Discord messages, cron jobs, and various projects; costs add up. But where exactly?
I directed a simple dashboard to find out.
…
Join us tonight at 5pmPT for a 🍀 St. Patrick's Day 🍀 live collab with the ShopTalk Show folks!
Twitch · YouTube
img:hover {
scale: 1.2;
clip-path: inset(10% round 20px);
}
`
nice, n' simple (codepen)
Try the latest
(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.
Ep #240
AI Cowgorithm Disrupts The Herd
(presented by Warp)
🕹️ Token spending
🧐 Autoresearch
🌗 Day Shift / Night Shift
🐄 Cowgorithms
💻 Terminal tools
🥃 Whiskey & whatnot
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So stinkin' cute!
Page load improvements deployed.
Like Zoolander who can't turn right, I thought View Transitions couldn't swoop.
I had been under the impression that they couldn't curve towards the destination, and it was one of those things that you like can't unsee. All view transitions going in straight lines…
CodePen
All my prior attempts had failed, til now.
The way of the swoop
When you give something a…
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
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dash.deno.com → console.deno.com
Fresh → Fresh 2
This was a large chunk of work 😅
Please report any regressions.
My CSS Day 2025 talk is out!
📼 youtube.com/watch?v=vPb7d28RFNE
Slides, demo links, & more here.
scroll-driven geometric orbit experiments
- Triangles
- Atomic
- Squares
- Orbits
Featuring billboarding, center of mass pivoting, and CSS trig functions.
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 & whatnot
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Was on PodRocket to chat about my post Why AI Sucks At Front End:
Watch it here or listen
AI is a sycophantic dev wannabe that skimmed a shitload of tutorials. You get the results of a probabilistic guess based on patterns it saw during training. What did it train on? Ancient solutions, unoriginal UI patterns, and watered down junk.
I'm about to rant about how this is both useful and lame.
The Good
AI loves the boring stuff. It thrives on mediocrity.
If you want some…
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