Ep #253
Experts Agree: Yelling at Computers Is the Future

Robbie and Chuck reunite over Jim Beam White Label to catch up on Chuck's move to Italy, AI as tech leads, CodeRabbit versus GPT for code review, SOC 2 compliance workarounds, and why GitHub bots might unlock dark factory workflows.

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Ep #252
OpenClaw, Dark Factories, and Why You Should Stop Cussing at Your Agents

Robbie and I sip Compass Box Crimson Cask and get into the death of OpenClaw, factory engineering for AI workflows, npm worms targeting TanStack, sparse attention with SubQ, and why Ghostty is leaving GitHub.

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Presented by GitKraken

Ep #251
Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging IE5

Robbie and I do a mostly whatnot episode about our path getting into tech, playing in bands, and getting into trouble. We sip Glen Morangie "A Tale of Ice Cream" and share some stories.

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Presented by GitKraken

Jack (CEO of Patreon) gives a great talk about the struggles of being an artist with the internet from the 90s to today, a history of tech and art, and lessons learned.

Heartfelt insights into working through 2026 "content creation" culture.

Watch on YouTube.

Watch my talk "Contextualism" from CSS Day on Conffab

I first noticed web scroll areas had scroll locking behavior when making 2D scroll snap demos; I couldn't scroll diagonally without getting hijacked and locked into an x or y axis.

Even on a touch device, where a diagonal gesture is so easy and natural.

CodePen embed

Thanks to Bramus's rad interactive blog post I saw Chrome 153 with the remedy:

.scroller {
  overflow: auto;
  overscroll-behavior: contain;
  scroll-axis-lock: none; 👈
}

spec | check for support

Freedom from the axis lock 🤘🏻

Use cases #

I was thinking:

1. swipe to dismiss interactions
2. flings
3. maps or infinite canvas navigating
4. datagrids or tables
5. image zoom scrolling around
6. 360 pano images or 3D model panning
7. data vis exploration

Just seems worth while to use the natural inertia, tensions, perf and feels that scroll snap has for the snap feedback of "didnt swipe far enough" and the browser owned easing.

Can also mitigate scrollTo strangeness that might do x then y.

I did log a bug #

I saw some performance regressions in the first 2 demo's I pulled up to test with

1. swipe prototype
2. snap matrix

Filed a bug.

I wouldn't necessarily file this as perfectly fixed, I still felt it was a bit clumsy or not enabling diagonal scrolling as smoothly as I'd like.

Overall exciting and meaningful IMO tho.

Your thoughts?