Keyframes, Cash, and CodePen w/ Shaw

This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Shaw from CodePen to talk CSS animations, web components, server side rendering nightmares, and why building things by hand still matters in the age of AI slop. They dig into the CodePen 2.0 rewrite, Apollo GraphQL cache manipulation, the pain of reactive variables on the server, why Code Mirror 6 is both brilliant and bizarre, and whether stacks and fans will finally solve the PR review problem. Along the way, they cover HTML as a programming language, handwritten code museums, agentic parenting disasters, and why showing up prepared beats luck every time.

In this episode:

Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions

00:02:25 Whiskey Tasting: Andalusia Stryker Texas Smoked Single Malt

00:04:32 Hot Takes: Is HTML a Programming Language?

00:10:50 Chris Coyier vs Adam Argyle: The Impossible Choice

00:13:21 Git Worktrees, Stacks & Fans: Modern Version Control

00:22:21 React Server Components: Mistake or Masterpiece?

00:24:30 CodePen 2.0: Building a Modern Editor from Scratch

00:39:18 AI in CodePen: Curation Over Generation

00:45:07 Agentic Parenting & The Fart Sycophant Problem