Slow page speeds and bad developer experience are huge pain points. If you can get those two things right, the developer community will likely rally behind you. CSS hit the bullseye when it introduced trigonometry functions to boost performance by avoiding Javascript. But Cypress has been a big letdown in DX.
Before introducing trig functions, CSS was pretty limited and it relied on Javascript to do all the complex styling. Since Javascript takes a significant amount of time to parse, that’s a big hit to your overall page speed. Now, CSS trig functions allow more flexibility to style pages with angles. Even Chuck, who isn’t a fan of CSS, can admit this is a big win for developers. Cypress, on the other hand, has locked some of their features behind a paywall and some developers are not happy about the change. Chuck and Robbie both find the tool too complicated and expensive compared to its alternatives.
In this episode, Robbie and Chuck talk about CSS introducing trigonometry functions to avoid Javascript, why Cypress isn’t living up to their expectations, testing software alternatives, and Chuck’s new sim racing hobby.

Key Takeaways

[00:28] - A whiskey review: Orphan Barrel: Mukety-Muck 26 Years Matured.

[09:28] - CSS adds trigonometry functions.

[17:05] - What makes a good testing tool.

[33:19] - Chuck and Robbie talk about their upbringing and food.

[40:45] - Chuck’s sim racing experiences.

[50:46] - Robbie talks about selling his house.


Quotes
[27:32] - “I tried to use Cypress, and I just gave up because it took me more than an hour to figure out, and I was just like, that's not worth my time.” ~ Robbie Wagner
[28:43] - “Playwright looks like a pretty nice play in the space.” ~ Chuck Carpenter
[30:00] - “As a professional developer, if a tool is helping me every day, and you say it’s going to cost me $10 a day, okay. As long as I don't have 400 tools that I need to pay $10 a month for.” ~ Robbie Wagner

Links

Orphan Barrel: Muckey-Muck 26 Years Matured 

UGG

SoBe

The Macallan Distillary

Total Wine & More

De Wine Spot

Tailwind CSS

YAML

iMac

iPhone

Windows

Cypress

Prisma

MySQL

SQLite

GitHub

Playwright

Mock Service Worker

Jira

Astro

Ember

Jest

Selenium Webdriver

Vitest

Porsche Experience 

GeForce Now

EA

iRacing

Steam

PlayStation

Assetto Corsa

Logitech

Porsche

Tesla

Ford Mustang Mach E

Porsche Macan

Porsche Cayenne

Rivian

Range Rover Sport

Rolls Royce


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