What stage of depression is “fuck it I’m gonna buy an emu”?
Dave Rupert
@davatron5000.bsky.social
Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.
This is banana republic stuff - we all know that, right?
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Vibe coded software is free as in puppy not free as in beer. Even if writing code is now cheap, you still have to maintain it.
When you’re an adult, you can have as many PB&Js as you want.
Was hanging out in the @shoptalkshow.com D-D-D-Discord and a random conversation about keyboards, anime, and LLMs made me make this:
When imagining the agentic future, I think we forgot to factor in everyone being stuck in CI jail now with more PRs landing and invalidating existing CI runs.
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And "How Many Dudes?" is now out! Exactly ONE YEAR TO THE DAY since we started working on it, and it's shaping up to be our biggest launch ever. Thanks so much to everyone who helped with this project. It was sooooo much fun to work on.
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How many dudes does it take to beat up a gorilla? A thousand toddlers? A horse-sized duck? A GOD? Enter the Dude Ranch and find out in this roguelike dudebuilder where you recruit an army of dudes to ...
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“I will spend the rest of my career working hard so that you’ll never have to use build tools again.” – @davatron5000.bsky.social Welcome to the #nobuild movement! 🙌✊
@shoptalkshow.com · last wk.725: CodePen 2.0, Templates on the Web, The Year of HTML? CodePen 2.0 is out now and we're talking about the launch, the idea of templating on the web, and how HTML could look very interesting in the future.
It's up! Capo extension for Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... Let me know if you run into any issues
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Rick Viscomi@rviscomi.dev · last wk.Capo extension support finally coming to Firefox
If ADHD doesn’t exist, then explain this! ( gestures at - unfinished 2025 taxes - an impressive gunpla collection - passport renewal form I printed out in May - twelve abandoned hobbies - the four books i’m currently toy reading right now )
mcc@dryad.technology · 7d agoIt was never going to stop at trans people.
Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now!? Kneel before the ALL POWERFUL declarative rendering schema!!1
Agustin Capeletto@lowpoly.gg · last wk.It's-a me, 3D CSS Mario! 🍄 ⭐ I'm recreating Giles Goddard's iconic N64 face engine, so we can use it on the web. The rendering is handled by CSS matrix transforms, without WebGL or canvas. demo: codepen.io/alowpoly/pen... repo: github.com/layoutit/css...
if you give your website a service worker cache and a keyboard-driven search bar, if starts to feel like using a local app that contains your notes but accessible in every browser, all the time!
> Blocks adds a visual layer to the opaque world of preprocessors, linters, and build processes. CodePen takes those processes and stack them on top of each other to form a predictable pipeline that you can easily visualize and understand how the sausage gets made. daverupert.com/2026/07/code...
The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this release…
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Data dump from @deque.com's latest survey. www.deque.com/blog/new-rep... Feels like an awfully high number of people saying they actively prompt for accessible output.
📝 A quick post that's somewhat obvious, but I think it's important. A simple formula for keeping good things around. daverupert.com/2026/07/numb...
Before I go: Double your business with companies you like
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “n...
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> A whole new product with a new file-system, versioned deployments, and customizable build chain smooshed in… yet the UI still feels familiar. 🏄♀️
Dave Rupert@davatron5000.bsky.social · last wk.📝 What I like about the new @codepen.io v2 experience daverupert.com/2026/07/code...
🚀 I made a little app for #webcomponents called CEM-to-CSV that creates a lil' spreadsheet to help with naming audits across your entire design system. It's all powered by your custom element manifest. Upload, drop, or paste your CEM today! cem-to-csv.netlify.app
yeah that's the Ancient Pixel of Pain & Suffering. it used to be documented in MDN but viewing the page kept driving men to madness so they took it down. you're gonna wanna leave that where you found it
konnaire@konnaire.bsky.social · last wk.Making a completely innocuous 1px CSS change that somehow deletes your entire hosting instance, email server, car, trousers, any evidence of the letter '█' in all written history
📝 What I like about the new @codepen.io v2 experience daverupert.com/2026/07/code...
The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this release ...
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The Full Stack is NOT a coding competition: it's about building a full product from idea to production to launch. all 8 ideas are really interesting — which one do you think has the best chance to win?
Are you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`? github.com/openui/open-... #HTML #accessibility #a11y
[focuslandmark] No declarative way to move keyboard focus between major page regions · Issue #1472 · openui/open-ui
Rich web apps are built from major regions — a ribbon, a navigation pane, a document canvas, a chat list, a composer, an assistant sidebar — much like native apps. Users want to jump between these ...
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Shoutout to my brothers and sisters who started a podcast on their laptop and are now forced to carry the whole-ass laptop around the house with you while you do morning chores.
Deborah Sandidge Photography "Looking like tiny dinosaurs, Great Egret chicks reach up and grab the sleepy parent’s bill hoping to be fed. This was one of my favorite nests to photograph in the wetlands, the chicks were so animated! Filmed with my Nikon Z9 and NIKKOR Z 600mm f/4 TC lens."