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The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

When you make speed and "moving fast" the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there's no time to ...

We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it's been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn't difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token .. ...

I've heard the term "Ozempic face" for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be comfortable with bodies changing. There's also "Ozempic butt" and there's even "Ozempic penis". I'll let you search those up on . ...

I've watched a billion hours of YouTube and I've noticed a common trend: Whether that's a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; I've learned that it's fun to watch people make something. Since the beginning of humanity ...

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet ...