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How to Shut Down an Immigrant Detention Camp

The latest Platner controversies.

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How One Shady Firm Is Using Reflecting Pool Renovation as a Cash Grab

WWW Ep244 Live At React Miami With Seth Webster

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 t…

Things I'm watching and reading in 2026

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WWW Ep239 Flogging Margins With The Dropcap Murphys

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…

WWW Ep237 Using AI Wrong With Leon Noel And Danny Thompson

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 💀 l…

WWW Ep236 The Manager Has Become The Managed (Presented By Warp)

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 🛠️ Ameli…

WWW Ep234 Pay No Attention To The LLM Behind The Terminal With Zach Lloyd Of Warp

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 O…

WWW Ep232 No Ralph Wiggum No Training Wheels Just Agents

Ep #232 No Ralph Wiggum. No Training Wheels. Just Agents. do Ralph Wiggum loops automatically produce better results? is context pollution killing productivity? the rise and fall of MCP servers and sk…

WWW 231 We Stopped Coding By Hand

Ep #231 We stopped coding by hand because agentic AI is too good Robbie and Chuck dig into agentic AI loops, the rise of prompt-driven development, whether coding by hand is officially dead, and what …

WWW Ep230 We Accidentally Deleted Programming

Ep #230 We accidentally deleted programming Robbie and I dig into the shift from code-first to spec-first development, whether TypeScript still matters in an AI-driven world, the rise of agency over s…

WWW Ep229 Is AI Just Stealing With Extra Steps

Ep #229 Is AI just stealing with extra steps? Robbie and I talk about the ethics and economics of AI, and why “stealing with extra steps” feels like the right metaphor for where things are headed. We …

WWW Ep224 Spooky Scary CSS

Ep #224 Spooky Scary CSS This week, Robbie and Adam talk about Halloween vibes, excellent scotch, and the strange state of modern web development. After rating an Orphan Barrel single malt, they dig i…

WWW Ep223 With David K Piano

Ep #223 The Piano Man of State Machines w/ David K. Piano This week, Robbie and Adam talk with David K. Piano about state machines, the chaos of overusing React hooks, Tailwind controversies, AI agent…

On General Musings With Kevin Powell About Interviewing For Frontend Roles In 2025

I was on the General Musings show with Kevin Powell 🤘🏻💀 We chat front-end job hunting in 2025, the misalignments between the technical interviews and the roles they were looking to fill, the overal…

WWW Ep216 With Shruti Kapoor About Why Open Source Might Be Your Best Career Move

Ep #216 Live at All Things Open w/ Shruti Kapoor Robbie and guest co-host Jason Lengstorf chat with Shruti Kapoor about her leap from Slack and PayPal to YouTube, the joys and pitfalls of open source,…

WWW Ep215 Rust Is Overrated With Naman Goel

Ep #215 Rust Is Overrated w/ guest Naman Goel Robbie and I talk with Naman Goel about the origins and evolution of StyleX , how it integrates with React and other frameworks, the pros and cons of diff…

WWW Ep214 Npm Worms & Rubygem Coups

Ep #214 NPM Worms & RubyGems Coups: Trust Issues in Open Source Robbie , Chuck , and I talk about the worst whiskey, Tailwind as a “state management library,” recent security scares in open source, NP…

WWW Ep211

Ep #211 Agents of Chaos: Whiskey Experiments and the Future of IDEs Chuck and I talk about offbeat experiments, and the chaos of tech culture. They discuss AI workflows, Warp vs. IDE debates, and the …

WWW Ep210

Ep #210 DevRel, Linux, and the Shrinking Path for Junior Developers w/ Ali Diamond Robbie and Chuck talk with Ali Diamond about her journey through tech, cybersecurity, and community building. They si…

WebDev Challenge - S2E2

Lane Wagner and I take on 2 other teams in a 4 hour challenge to make a 2+ player game using Temporal.

The Over Easy Mini Web Machine

Ep #5 The Over-Easy Machine UI layering with anchor() no more complex position: absolute keyword alignment intrinsically sized based on content pairs radically with popover elements Try the machine: B…

The CSS Podcast Trig For The UI Eng

Ep #81 Trigonometric Functions Una and I make math practical for the UI Engineer by avoiding the complex side of the mathematics and instead, focus on use cases . This is the episode about math in CSS…

The CSS Podcast On Animating Popover And Dialog

Ep #80 Animating to and from top-layer Una and I went over popover and dialog last week , and this week we're helping you animate and transition them! Learn about @starting-style , overlay , :top-laye…

The Pile Mini Web Machine

Ep #2 The Pile element layering layout machine replaces many use cases for position: absolute offers group or individual keyword alignment can be intrinsically sized based on content Watch episode 2: …

Type Guarded CSS Systems With @Property

I had the pleasure of speaking at Epic Web Conf in Park City, Utah! My talk was titled: Lightning in a Bottle with CSS Custom Properties Took a workshop on Remix and Shopify, watched to great talks ab…

Learn With Jason (live in studio)

I made a brutalist noise experience with Svelte, PartyKit, audio streams, gradients and blend modes. Jason and I go through the code, giggle, and cause some visual chaos.

How To Use CSS Relative Colors Syntax On The Latest GUI Challenge

Thinking on ways to solve relative color In this GUI Challenge , I show you how to use CSS RCS (relative color syntax) for lightening, desaturating, opacity, grayscale and more. oklch(from hotpink cal…

CSS Day 2023

Co-MC'ed CSS Day 2023 with Michelle Barker 🤘🏻💀 catch up on all the talks here What a blast, totally was with my people. I'm especially proud of a few dad jokes: "Why don't you <popover> and have a …

Thinking On Ways To Solve 3D Scifi Text Effects

Thinking on ways to do 3D SciFi Text In this GUI Challenge , I use CSS Scroll Linked Animations to 3D tilt a few paragraphs of text, and on scroll , make them appear to vanish into the far edges of th…