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robertgroves.com | ✶✶✶✶ | Chicago, IL Teaches machines irony; they reply with stack traces. Survived Leet Heat, still tastes colors. Deploys personal code at 2:42 a.m. because chaos needs company. So it goes.

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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 07/09/2026
3 conferences, 3 immediate calls for next year's conference each time. This is now a tradition. Could we all let @dthompsondev.bsky.social and the #CYC26 team breathe for a minute! ...okay, that's enough time, bring on #CYC27 🤣
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 04/09/2026
Learning about baseline CSS features in "Baseline Magic: The Art of Intent-Driven CSS" presented by @lindakat.com @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 04/09/2026
Thinking about how to take AI from one-off task completer to full-on co-worker. Sitting in on Boston Cartwright's talk: Agents are not Apps: Stop building interfaces, Start building coworkers @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 04/09/2026
I'm a firm believer that fun web projects need audio and audio needs to be done right. Watching Kerline Moncy's talk: What Happens When the Music Starts? The Architecture of Browser Audio @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 04/09/2026
Watching @virtualized6ix.bsky.social to refresh and add to my tool belt for discerning and troubleshooting application issues. @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 04/09/2026
Just watched Michael Gyarmathy walk through The Evolution of Divot: How Agents Earn Their Autonomy @commityourcode.bsky.social 🧠 Ideas swirling 💫 #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 04/09/2026
After Kevin's keynote anyone else @CommitYourCode more than half-tempted to skip the rest of today's talks to go build things instead. Fired up... LFG! #CYC27
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 04/09/2026
Excited to start day two of @commityourcode.bsky.social! Watching Kevin J. Scott's keynote to kick things off. #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
Leveling up my UI knowledge with Kaleb Garner's talk - Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
Listening to why modularity and layering to build adaptable, scalable, and maintainable software still matters. Presented by Noah Harris @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
Didn't think I'd see a hyper-specific talk that hits close to work. Listening to @nerajno.bsky.social discuss GEO @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
Here like a zombie, for all the brains! 🧟🧠 Watching @bytesofbree.bsky.social s talk: Give Your Agent a Second Brain (and a UI to Match) @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
How can we know that LLM feature is working? About to find out with Kyle Taylor @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
Taking in the practical and fun aspects of AI agents with @joelhooks.com at @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
Learning about fine-tuning with Reece Iriye and getting past the hype-cycles and focusing on the engineering problems and solutions. @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
Alexander Crettenand is convincing us that managing devs is not like herding cats... it's more like herding horses. At @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
Watching @roxyrodbeck.bsky.social showing us how to ship it fast and fix it later at @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/09/2026
*THE* @dthompsondev.bsky.social rockin' the keynote at @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 01/09/2026
special edition of the Learn With Jason livestream is back, Thursday at 9:30am PT! what's the value in working on new web frameworks today? why should we care at all? @ryansolid.bsky.social has been working on Solid 2.0 and grappling with the shifting landscape of OSS youtube.com/live/8f09f50...
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Does AI mean the end of progress for the web?
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Ryan McGovern @tekgadgt.dev · 20/08/2026
My first blog post is live! Hampton Roads HTML Day started with a friend asking where she could put her poetry online. Her question eventually filled a room with ~50 people writing HTML by hand and cheering every site that went live. ryanmcgovern.dev/blog/html-da...
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HTML Day 2026 — Ryan McGovern
How a friend’s poetry site led to Hampton Roads HTML Day, where about 50 people gathered to write HTML by hand and publish websites together.
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 20/08/2026
The Full Stack season finale starts in a few. LFG! youtu.be/5EnKcOWLyIY?...
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SEASON FINALE — Impress the judges · The Full Stack
YouTube video by CodeTV
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 17/08/2026
Gross Lard ...maybe a new font is in order 🤷
A pad of butter wrapped in gold foil with writing that, at a quick glance, might look like, "Gross Lard" due to the cursive font. But on closer inspection actually reads, "Grass Land."
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 17/08/2026
the tech industry can be tough, but if you look for them, there are bright spots. making The Full Stack was a great reminder of that for me
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 16/08/2026
Desperate measures call for... Brad Wenzel: Desperate Times - Full Stand Up Special youtu.be/23L2sIZTA-E?...
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Brad Wenzel: Desperate Times - Full Stand Up Special
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potch @potch.me · 07/08/2026
spent the better part of a week on optimizing my delaunay/voronoi implementation and all I got was this sick-ass visual so actually completely worth it potch.me/toys/delauna...
still frame of a field of moving points and its voronoi diagram - random bouncing points in rainbow hues, with opposing rotating rings of dark and lighter points
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Seve Savoie Teruel @techsev.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How is this happening so soon?!
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Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! Commit your Code is 30 days away! The Call For Volunteers is now open for in person in Dallas! We need around 40 volunteers to help but we don't want you to miss the whole experience. Volunteer shifts are 5 hours long. Then we want you to be an attendee! forms.gle/aMSof79f9LfF...
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CYC'26 Call for Volunteers
This form is a call for volunteers to assist with the setup and facilitation of the Commit Your Code Conference of 2026. All volunteer submissions must be able to be present in person. This is a gener...
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 02/08/2026
I meant to post about this a few days ago: my hackathon submission is a very meta landing page for @codetv.dev's Web Dev Challenge Season 3, Episode 5. This was my first time playing with @gsap-greensock.bsky.social. It's a pretty cool JS animation library. codetv-webflow-hackathon.webflow.io
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CodeTV Web Dev Challenge S3.E5 Tribute - A CodeTV x Webflow Hackathon Entry
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 30/07/2026
film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney or ghibli.
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Office Space: Smashing the Printer
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Seve Savoie Teruel @techsev.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Steam has approved my game for release August 13th! I plan to launch it on stage at @renderatl.com during my talk about making games using React JS. No pressure!
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 29/07/2026
"we've got some DEVIOUSNESS in store for you today" — new episode of The Full Stack drops on Thursday at noon Pacific 6 teams left, and this time they need to ship a full, working MVP. join me, @kelseyhightower.com, the team members, and more during the premiere www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4gZ...
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They have to ship an MVP or the judges send them home
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 28/07/2026
YGNALM
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Yard Act - You're Gonna Need A Little Music (Lyric Video)
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 07/07/2026
NEW Web Dev Challenge premieres in 15 minutes! @cassiecodes.bsky.social joins as the advisor to challenge @shaw.city, @davidkpiano.bsky.social, @iljavaneck.bsky.social, Dennis Snellenberg, and @strange.website to build the greatest animated landing page using @gsap-greensock.bsky.social
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The greatest animated landing page with GSAP | Web Dev Challenge S3.E5
YouTube video by CodeTV
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Charles Villard @charlesvillard.co · 03/07/2026
Might change the title, but had to say something. youtu.be/UQ_ybfwPyw8?...
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Let's learn through this together. ❤️
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 03/07/2026
Looking forward to this regardless of how it turns out. If it ends up being bad, I'll probably still enjoy it and then read the book for the nth time. And who knows maybe in the future I'll have the opportunity to use a peripheral to visit a stub where they've nailed it. 📅❓🤠🏃‍➡️🍎📺📅✅
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Bit Bash Chicago @bitbashchicago.com · 12/05/2026
Our friends @indiecitygames.org are currently fundraising for their Chicago Indie Game Showcase 2026. Check ‘em out and help support more weird, wonderful Midwest-made indie projects! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind...
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CIGS (Chicago Indie Game Showcase) 2026
Chicago Indie Game Showcase (CIGS) is a one-day convention featuring independent games from Chicago and the greater Midwest
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 14/05/2026
"The old asymmetric broadband model (fat downstream, thin upstream) was engineered for passive consumption. That model is finished."
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 13/05/2026
I would like to talk to people who have been actively working to reduce screen time/reliance on tech, whether that's by switching to a flip phone or using something that helps you limit screen time etc -- amanda@techcrunch.com
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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 27/01/2026
This is a stretch but WHO HERE DRAWS COMICS? Literally any number of pages is fine. I need help testing out a Thing I Made
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 27/01/2026
Made a suggestion on @codetv.dev's Learn with Jason stream today. The results are in... (1/4)
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 27/01/2026
another late ship, with help from @ichris.bsky.social: we're launching a new podcast at @codetv.dev called The Web Dev Podcast these are short (15–30 min), video and audio options, talking to experts in tech about what's new in tools + how they fit into your stack codetv.dev/series/web-d...
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The Web Dev Podcast Series 1
The cutting edge of web development, brought to you by the people building it.
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dan @danabra.mov · 18/12/2025
i wrote about my new hobby project overreacted.io/introducing-...
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Introducing RSC Explorer — overreacted
My new hobby project.
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 09/12/2025
Background music for your next Sev-1 triage call.
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Somebody Told Me (The User Provider Should Use An Adaptor To Proxy The Query Factory Builder)
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 25/11/2025
Clerk put up $25,000 for the winner of the Next.js Conf Hackathon last month, and @codetv.dev partnered up to host and hang out with the teams. this was VERY fun, and we're cooking up something even bigger with the @clerk.com team for next year — stay tuned! 👀
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Jason Undead @jasonundead.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Liquid Swords www.jasonundead.com
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 24/11/2025
I don't always come up with amazingly fitting acronyms, but when I do...
Screenshot of a Bluesky thread. At the top, Brittany Ellich (@brittanyellich.com) asks, “What are we calling ‘software development augmented by agents’?” and lists options: “Agentic Software Development (the word ‘Agent’ already feels so overdone),” “AI Delegated Development,” “Vibe Engineering (funny but please no),” and “Something else??” followed by “#AI for visibility” and an eyes emoji. Below, a reply from Robert Groves (@robertgroves.com) reads: “Autonomously-Derived Advanced Predictive-Text Oriented Review Driven Iterative Engineering. It’s a mouthful for sure, but luckily it has the acronym ADAPTORDIE which both seems fitting and is statistically the last thing you’ll read after the agents take their final form.”
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potch @potch.me · 11/11/2025
A Colorful Poster Appears! Selling my CSS color voronoi map as a print-on-demand poster so it actually exists! I ordered a test print and they did a good job. get yours! potch-dot-store.printful.me/product/css-...
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CSS named colors poster
From first lavenderblush to the last papayawhip, consult this poster of the named CSS color keywords and their hex codes like an alchemical table to a la
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CodeTV @codetv.dev · 11/11/2025
Boost your portfolio and network while having some fun: the @Twilio Hotline Challenge hackathon is open! Build your own hotline by Nov 21 to win prizes and grow your skills. Details: codetv.link/wdc/hackathon
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Charles Villard @charlesvillard.co · 11/11/2025
Apropos of nothing, and as a moderator of the @codetv.dev Discord, I'm happy to announce an impromptu contest! We need you to draw the new CodeTV mascot: @jason.energy, in a Squirrel-style wingsuit. The sketch that gets the most faves, I'll buy a coffee or something.
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Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 09/11/2025
"You're absolutely correct! I apologize for the confusion. Let me re-analyze this more carefully: ..."
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a man with glasses says boy do i hate being right all the time
Alt: a man with glasses says boy do i hate being right all the time
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