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A next-gen programming model


A next-gen programming model

Ep #253
Experts Agree: Yelling at Computers Is the Future
Robbie and Chuck reunite over Jim Beam White Label to catch up on Chuck's move to Italy, AI as tech leads, CodeRabbit versus GPT for code review, SOC 2 compliance workarounds, and why GitHub bots might unlock dark factory workflows.
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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 #252
OpenClaw, Dark Factories, and Why You Should Stop Cussing at Your Agents
Robbie and I sip Compass Box Crimson Cask and get into the death of OpenClaw, factory engineering for AI workflows, npm worms targeting TanStack, sparse attention with SubQ, and why Ghostty is leaving GitHub.
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Presented by GitKraken


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.
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Presented by GitKraken


New member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

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 my talk "Contextualism" from CSS Day on Conffab


Some "open" agentic tools:
Wonder if they use Open Props 😏


Go off the scroll rails with one CSS property

My Blogspot in 2011: Ranting Devigner
Devigner = Designer + Developer
Before "Design Engineer" was coo


Kevin Powell tries out Prop For That, makin it look so slick and easy 🫶


33554432px
the maximum value for a CSS length in a layout context. #randomCSSfacts

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.
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Some practical, some wild

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.
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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, how Prolog is the most hated programming language, and whatnot.
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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.
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Everything JS knows, now CSS knows.

✅ talk "Contextualism" at CSS Day 2026


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.
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🛬 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 🤘🏻


.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.
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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.


You can now use my <color-input> as a Figma plugin: