Dave Rupert

@davatron5000.bsky.social

Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.

Have you ever wished I could help you with your CSS/design system problems but couldn't find the budget to hire me full-time? Well, I'm available for contract work starting in late August! Get in touch! mike@runtriangle.com

A Slack conversation between Andrew and Adam.

Andrew
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:01 AM
i feel like all the existing CSS we have is sort of a "one off" there doesn't seem to be a lot of reusable pieces in there. There are 14k lines of CSS 😱

Adam 
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:06 AM
I could talk all day about this (pros vs. cons in a start-up where you have no idea of where the design is going) but yeah, many pages are "one off" within their product areas.

Andrew 
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:06 AM
oh i get it, i understand why were here
i'm just going to need some practice, its been years since i had to write real css. i'm used to just applying premade classes and praying

Adam 
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:09 AM
We aren't fancy enough to have Mike Aparicio making design systems for us yet

Andrew 
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:24 AM
one day

Mike Aparicio 
May 17th, 2023 at 2:10 PM
We did it!

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.

How Many Dudes? | Download and Play!

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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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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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?