166: Front-end Adventures with Bad at CSS' David East and Adam Argyle

This week, Robbie and Chuck welcome Adam Argyle and David East from the Bad at CSS podcast, for a fun conversation about their favorite dev tools and the finer points of CSS. They discuss code editors, environment setups, AI-enhanced development, and the ongoing battle for coding supremacy between various tools and languages.

In this episode:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (05:02) - Whiskey: Catoctin Creek Ragnarok Rye
• (16:40) - CSS game
• (29:03) - Hot takes
• (33:15) - AI, code editors, and dev environments
• (37:15) - Nix Registry and dependency management
• (41:24) - Rebase vs merge
• (46:04) - Git tools and preferences
• (50:22) - Dog stories and Roomba mishaps
• (53:36) - CSS4 and the future of CSS
• (01:03:08) - Virtualized lists and data tables
• (01:07:09) - Podcast plug

Links

• Bad at CSS podcast
• Adam Argyle
• David East
• Tailwind CSS
• Firebase
• IDX
• All Things Open
• Catoctin Creek Ragnarok Rye
• Tears of the Kingdom
• Mike’s Hot Honey
• Syntax
• Laravel
• Rails
• AWS
• Flux
• Caleb Porzio
• DHH
• VS Code
• NixOS
• Nix.dev
• Python
• Github
• Postgres
• Docker
• Jeff Cross
• Boot.dev
• Primeagen
• Next.js
• Nuxt
• Roomba
• CSS Next Community Group
• Typescript
• Terminal Coffee
• Dax
• Vercel

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

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