EmberJS and Tailwind fanboy, podcaster, and content creator.

Iā€™m Robbie Wagner, and I currently sling JavaScript for Amazon. I previously slung JavaScript for Apple and Netflix as well, and hope to complete my FAANG tour one day.

Top 5 Web Developer Tools for 2025

What are the best tools for web developers in 2025? I did a post on this a couple years ago laying out my top developer tools for 2023, and I wanted to circle back and give a couple updates. Honestly, not a lot has changed since then, but enough has that I...

Animating SVG Gradient Background Colors With CSS Custom Properties

Changing SVG colors is easy right? I certainly thought it should be and in the past it has not been too difficult, with things like changing the stroke or fill of the SVG on hover, but what about when we want to hover a solid colored SVG icon and have it change to a gradient? This proved to be much more difficult...

5 HTML Elements That Make JavaScript Libraries Obsolete!

Do we even need JavaScript anymore? Of course we do, but maybe not as often as you would think! With the slew of hot new HTML functionality, I am increasingly finding that native HTML elements do many of the same things I used to reach for JavaScript libraries for. Come with me on this journey and we'll explore my top...

Work

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    Amazon
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    Senior Software Engineer
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  2. Company
    Apple
    Role
    Lead Software Engineer
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  3. Company
    Netflix
    Role
    Senior Front End Developer
    Date
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    Partner
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