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Last week I picked up the EP-1320 Medieval and I’ve been tinkering with it all weekend. Besides it’s buck-wild look, it comes with a bunch of expertly recorded medieval samples: flutes, bowed harps, gitterns, reeds, trumpets, bells, battle toms, rowdy peasants, and coconut horse hooves. This makes it sound like…

The earth is heating up and AI isn't helping. It drives major increases in electricity use, water use and CO2 emissions. Yet, industry and governments alike seem keen to leverage the latest tech. Can we make greener choices?

Yesterday, I spoke at a conference on AI in government about sustainable…

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,…

This is the sort of book I usually hate. By law books about writing are so desperate to explain the world to me that I struggle to keep my eyes open. I don’t have much patience when I feel someone’s talking down to me, with them having figured the universe…

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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Announcing Prop For That, a JS library that backfills what CSS doesn't provide us yet (and maybe never will).

I'm done waiting for CSS to catch up to all the valuable information JS knows and done watching folks write the same little JS to just write a custom property…

This morning was a total stinker. I woke up with a dull headache, teeth grinding, fists clenched. Sometimes my body becomes haunted, a vessel for a thing; total and all consuming. It could be a conversation the day before or a problem I’m trying to solve, it doesn’t really…

✅ talk "Contextualism" at CSS Day 2026

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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