This week, Robbie and Chuck talk with Adam Argyle about the quirks of CSS and JavaScript tooling, and modern web development. They discuss why JavaScript often takes center stage over CSS, the funding disparities between them, and what this means for developers.

In this episode:

(00:00) - Intro
(02:32) - Whiskey review: Standard Spirit Wormwood Rye
(07:54) - Social media and Blue Sky
(09:39) - Is cereal soup?
(11:15) - The Hot Dog and sandwich debate
(17:55) - JavaScript library guilty pleasures
(25:40) - CSS vs. JavaScript tooling
(34:52) - How Tailwind is funded
(35:58) - Politics in business
(41:36) - Shotgun debugging and pair programming
(47:46) - What is the FG scale?
(49:51) - Robbie’s big Tailwind “FG”
(51:16) - CSS carousel
(57:08) - The complexity of CSS and HTML
(01:07:15) - The importance of accessibility
(01:08:54) - The problem with AI in CSS
(01:09:54) - Plugs

Links

Fresca Mixed: https://www.frescamixed.com/
Bootstrap: https://getbootstrap.com/
Standard Spirit Wormwood Rye: https://www.standardwormwood.com/
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/
Gray Sky: https://graysky.app/
Lodash: https://lodash.com/
ES6: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_es6.asp
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail
Hot Ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Ones
Manchester Orchestra: https://www.manchesterorchestra.com/
Typescript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.com/
Honeybadger: https://www.honeybadger.io/
Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
PHP: https://www.php.net/
Astro: https://astro.build/
Jason Fried: https://x.com/jasonfried?
DHH: https://x.com/dhh/
Vercel: https://vercel.com/
Donald Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Joe Rogan: https://x.com/joerogan
Bernie Sanders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
JD Vance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance
Taco Bell: https://www.tacobell.com/
Panic Playdate: https://play.date/
Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/us/switch/
Changelog: Wine Web and a whole lot of Whatnot: https://changelog.com/friends/68
Ken Wheeler: https://x.com/ken_wheeler/
WAI-ARIA: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/
Project Wallace: https://www.projectwallace.com/
Syntax: https://syntax.fm
Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/

Connect with Adam

Website: https://nerdy.dev
X / Twitter: https://x.com/argyleink
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adamargyleink

Connect with Chuck and Robbie

Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner
Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd

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