• Is Cereal Soup?, the FG Scale, and JS vs CSS with Adam Argyle

  • Jan 23 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Is Cereal Soup?, the FG Scale, and JS vs CSS with Adam Argyle

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  • 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.aspMonty Python and the Holy Grail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_GrailHot Ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_OnesManchester 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_TrumpJoe Rogan: https://x.com/joeroganBernie Sanders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_SandersJD Vance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_VanceTaco 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/68Ken 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.fmGemini: https://gemini.google.com/Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/ Connect with Adam Website: https://nerdy.devX / Twitter: https://x.com/argyleinkYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adamargyleink Connect with Chuck and Robbie Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagnerChuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://whiskey.fmApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDfOvercast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.
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