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 overall state of the industry and hiring processes and how to distinguish yourself from the crowd. Audio · Video| nerdy.dev
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, and eternal web dev debates. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple| nerdy.dev
Since I've tried and failed like 3 times to try and write a blog post on "sector driven design" or "smart components," this post is just gonna try and elaborate on what Miriam Suzanne kids a li'l and says "containers know stuff." This is huge though, for development and design. Components/elements/containers whatever, can own all their presentation aspects for nearly any scenario now. They can feel like magic, perfectly adapting to wherever the component author or designer has condoned. A new...| Adam Argyle
Ep #212 TalkShop Show w/ Macho Man Randy Standards Robbie and I chat with Dave Rupert about whiskey, web culture, the quirks of building side projects, the shifting landscape of the web, AI-driven development, spec-driven workflows, RSS’s decline, and more. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple| nerdy.dev
Stoked for my upcoming talk at Beyond Tellerrand in Berlin next month: 🎶 Midi Meets CSS 🎶 Most folks use WebGL to visualize their audio (and it's awesome) but that's not me, CSS is. I've taken a different approach… Be there or be aspect-ratio: 1| Adam Argyle
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 different programming languages like Rust, TypeScript, and Swift, and whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple| Adam Argyle
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, NPM dependency hygiene, developer visa drama, and tech salaries. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple| Adam Argyle
Quick post on closedBy="any", a declarative way to add light-dismiss to a dialog: <dialog closedBy="any"> <p>Hi, I'm a dialog.</p></dialog> And just like that, tapping or clicking outside the dialog will close it. Oh yeah! Well I bet I can't use it yet. # Here's the browser support: Or a bit-o-js to get you started: someDialog.addEventListener('click', ({target:dialog}) => { if (dialog.nodeName === 'DIALOG') dialog.close('dismiss')}) More resources # You should write one! I'm writing this bec...| Adam Argyle
You can now watch my talk from CascadiaJS 2025 3 weeks ago 🤘🏻💀 Watch on YouTube| Adam Argyle
Ep #213 Is CSS A programming language? Robbie and I chat with Kevin Powell about the quirks and complexities of CSS, Tailwind and Flexbox, AI’s failure to write decent styles, anchor dingles, trim styles, and more. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple| Adam Argyle
Website for Adam Argyle: Teacher, Speaker, CSSWG member, and creator of Open Props and VisBug.| nerdy.dev
Three solutions, one for today and two for tomorrow| nerdy.dev
Fail safe, reliable, & deeply nestable.| nerdy.dev
