Dave Rupert
Dave Rupert
Dave Rupert
I'm Dave Rupert, I write web components at Microsoft and am co-host of ShopTalk, a podcast about front-end web design and development. Previously, I co-founded a startup called Luro and an agency called Paravel with two of my best friends. I'm married to the drummer of a mid-2000s indie rock band, I'm a dad to two wonderful kids, and I live in Austin, TX where I work out of my backyard office.
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Two friends of mine (brothers, actually) got laid off from their job at a megachurch here in Austin. We met through a mutual friend that started attending their church. Our kids hang out on Roblox, so we’re connected through dadship and...
Try Grid Paper I’ve been getting into drawing dungeons on isomorphic grids. It’s fun but I was a little frustrated with the process of sourcing and printing out graph paper with an isomorphic grid on it. You have two bad options,...
Inkwell Games bills itself as “Daily puzzles worth thinking about” and that’s a great tagline. Right now they offer two daily puzzles: Stars and Fields. Both are enjoyable but I rank Stars as a bit above Fields but as I get better at...
Clues By Sam is a daily puzzle game where you get to uncover a criminal conspiracy by following the clues… made by Sam… err… Johannes. It’s a little if-this-then-that logic puzzle where Pam implicates Bob as a criminal and because Bob is...
Above the clouds in the Peruvian Andes there is a town named La Rinconada. It holds the title of being the highest year-round settlement in the world. At one point swelling to 30,000 people, the population has dwindled some now near...
In high school I had the weird, cyclical circumstance of reading Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at least once a year at every grade level. Like Groundhog’s day but set in fictionalized 17th century Salem. While I appreciated the easy grade...
The same people behind Project Kamp also run a project called Precious Plastic which is an open source plastic recycling platform. As most are well aware, plastic is a major problem polluting our land, our beaches, our rivers, our...
I’m a sucker for off-grid DIY content. And a double-sucker for commune documentaries. And this post is about a project that scratches both those itches. Project Kamp is a sustainable living community in the hills of central Portugal. The...
Although I technically own the game and played it once a decade ago; I had a horrible time playing Rust. Other players called me the N-word several times, I died almost instantly, my frame rates were trash, and after three hours I put it...
Ari Miller is a New York based beat maker who started streaming from his bedroom in 2020. He grew his following by engaging with other popular streamers but where I learned about him was his from viral street performances where he dawns...
I stumbled onto Odd Artworks’ Random Mini Dungeon video series via the algorithm. He rolls against a dice table to generate a theme and requirements and starts drawing an isomorphic dungeon on a single sheet of paper. It’s almost like a...
Another hot Fall in Texas. No notable rain since June. Air-conditioning humming. Water bill up. Backyard is a dust bowl from the dogs tearing up all the grass. My schedule is a constant loop of kid activities; school, cheer, baseball,...
As President of Web Components, it’s my duty to publicly comment on every Web Component library and framework that exists. Today I’m taking a look at Quiet UI, a new source-available web component library soft-launched by Cory LaViska,...
One unsung feature in the web components space that I don’t think gets enough attention is the Custom Elements Manifest initiative. I think it’s the killer feature of web components. Known as “CEM” to its friends, a CEM is a community...
I have a love-hate relationship with “the MVP car”, that classic illustration that shows us the RIGHT and WRONG way to build a product. To be fair, I don’t think its creator Henrik Kniberg would want it called “the MVP car” at all....