`30s` on the clock, how well do my CSS answers stack up against Kevin's audience? Watch on YouTube

Ep #254 **With Brad Frost ✨** Robbie and I welcome Brad Frost to talk grief and acceptance around AI, the Orchid synth, snowboarding as a metaphor for finding your line through chaos, why domain expertise matters more than ever, Van Halen's green M&Ms, and Brad's AI and Design Systems course. ⤷ whiskey.fm · spotify · apple · youtube

Banjo, guitar, drums, trees, n' mountains.

A next-gen programming model

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 · apple

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

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

Some practical, some wild

Everything JS knows, now CSS knows.

✅ talk "Contextualism" at CSS Day 2026 Slides · Prop For That

Ep #246 **React Miami with guestMichael "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 🤘🏻

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 🤘🏻

Ep #244 **Live at React Miami withSeth 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 · youtube · spotify · apple

Would use: CSS relative alpha. button { border-color: alpha(from hotpink / calc(alpha * .25)); } `

You can now use my `<color-input>` as a **Figma plugin** : HDR Color Picker

New CSS you feel like you could use today

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

How can it generate 3D worlds, videos, images and entire web pages, but still suck at front-end?

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 byWarp)** 🏭 Dark Factories 🤖 YOLO mode ❌ T shape vs X shape 🦞 OpenClaw 💀 Death of SaaS 🥃 Redwood Empire & whatnot ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple

My CSS Day 2025 talk is out! 📼 youtube.com/watch?v=vPb7d28RFNE Slides, demo links, & more here.

Ep #235 **Hot Pockets Pro Max (presented byWarp)** 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 #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

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 skills * why vanilla Claude might be the only tool you actually need * CSS anchor positioning failures * Stranger Things hot takes * why small distilleries are just like indie startups ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple

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 happens when tools like OpenCode and Claude become the new normal. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple

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 specialization, and why the future might belong to prompt-driven tinkerers instead of traditional developers. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple

This week I compete in Syntax's March madCSS; me against **16 other badass devs** in CSS & UI challenges 😅 Wish me luck 🤞

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 also dig into open source burnout, whether AI replaces developers or just reshapes the job, and some whatnot over whiskey. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple