738: The Trouble with Tests and Bugs, Interop Voting, and AI Skills
Dave’s got a great concert story to kick off the episode before talking AI-assisted tests, a practical use for HTML markers and templates, Interop voting, browser features like margin-trim, and how to stream content into a page without first building a recursive tree.
Time Jump Links
- 00:00:20 You need a good sick
- 00:02:22 Can you play the ancient riff?
- 00:10:00 Selling old gear to people who want it
- 00:12:21 Learning about who you're voting for
- 00:14:20 Go play Tupo
- 00:16:08 Go play How Many Dudes
- 00:19:04 Sponsor: AI And Design Systems
- 00:21:35 The trouble with tests and fixing bugs with AI
- 00:37:20 Invoking skills on purpose vs the LLM using them when it thinks it needs them
- 00:43:02 Interop ranking and voting
- 00:48:15 Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it
- 01:08:23 Webm is worth a second look
Links
- Tupo · A daily sudoku-style logic puzzle with a twist
- Clues By Sam
- How Many Dudes? | Download and Play!
- 445: CodePen AI is Here – CodePen
- Microsoft-Decision-1: Our model for fast decision-making
- Magic Words - daverupert.com
- AI Skills for Real Engineers
- 2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking
- Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it - daverupert.com
- The WebM Project | Welcome to the WebM Project
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