Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat about the history and evolution of polyfills and somehow related efforts in the wake of recent events surrounding the transfer of ownership of the polyfill.io domainBy Igalia

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chatted with seven different participants at the CSS Working Group’s face to face meeting at Igalia headquarters — as it happened.By Igalia

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Robin Berjon about a piece he recently co-authored with Maria Farrell titled 'We Need To Rewild The Internet' about how the internet has become unhealthy and extractive, and how we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.By Igalia

Brian and Eric talk with Google's Rachel Andrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called MasonryBy Igalia

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with GitHub's Keith Cirkel about new work that GitHub is spearheading to help solve what might just be the Web's oldest problem: Headings.By Igalia

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with fellow Igalian Melissa Wen about layers and layers of things around colors.By Igalia

Ang, Chris and Josh chat about mixing up genres in our RPGs and as a result touch on what genre is, and why we can and should mash it all up together! Links: D&D Lego! The Nebula Awards Daggerheart PlaytestBy Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Mozillan and HTML editor Simon Pieters, and fellow Igalian/engine contributor Luke Warlow about getting started in web standards.By Igalia

Ang, Jared, and JT get together on the mics to talk about all the ins and outs of taking over the GMing duties in an existing group. Links: Pathfinder Mini-Dungeon Tome D&D 5e Mini-Dungeon Tome Coriolis: The Great Dark Kickstarter Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy TavernBy Gnome Stew

Eric and Brian open up the viewer mailbag to talk about recent AI and Accessibility posts, memory-safe browsers, backwards compatibility and platform regrets, dealing with tech debt, and moreBy Igalia

In honor of D&D’s 50th Anniversary, a whole bunch of Gnomes get on the mics to talk about our history with this venerable game. Prepare for a little nostalgia and musings about this hobby we all love.By Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the Interop Project and the complexities of organizing it.By Igalia

Ang, JT and Senda chat about the logistics of adding new players to your groups and new characters to your games. Links: Mythulu Cards Xenolanguage Coriolis: The Great Dark Kickstarter Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion KickstarterBy Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer recap the recent CSS Working Group Face-to-Face meetings.By Igalia

Ang, Jared and Josh get together and talk about what we can take from video games and apply to the RPGs we bring to the table. Links: Jared’s Marvel Multiverse RPG Extended ObjectivesBy Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Miriam Suzanne about the Shadow DOM, use cases, and 'open styling' problemsBy Igalia

Ang welcomes Bridgett Jeffries, Chaosium Community Coordinator to the Stew, where they talk about what that role means to the modern gaming community. Also, horror games and how our tastes change! Links Symphony Entertainment Sorrow in Tsavo Carousel of Fears Miskatonic RepositoryBy Gnome Stew

In our first Gnomecast of 2024, Ang welcomes Josh Storey to the Stew! Links Sarah Gailey’s Stone Soup Josh on BlueSky Josh on InstagramBy Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Jake Archibald and Surma about their new show and browser politics.By Igalia

Ang, JT and Tomas get together and talk about all the little things that help create deep, textured worlds for our players. Links Kanka.io Tomas’ Twitch Channel JT’s Dungeons and Dragons Utilities Arium Fetchwife Hive DreamsBy Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Chrome DevRel Bramus Van Damme, reviewing the year of change in the Web Platform.By Igalia

Ang has a chat with Bryan Steele about his work with Evil Genius Games and Everyday Heroes, along with all the other things he has been doing as a Professional Nerd for the last twenty-plus years. Links Evil Genius Games Warzone Eternal (still taking backer preorders until December 15th) Imaria (5E setting) Kickstarter Tales From a Professional Ner…

Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell talk about the experience of discovering a web feature that’s been around for a while but nobody told you about it, the challenge of keeping up with new web platform features when there’s so much happening, and their tips for ways to stay as up to date as you can.By Igalia

Ang, Chris, & Jared talk about superhero games and get off on a variety of comic book and superhero media tangents. Links WhatdoIKnowJR.com – Jared’s Reviews Supergods by Grant Morrison Screen Crush Youtube Channel Themershard OrnamentBy Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about Web Components and the recent flurry of posts about them.By Igalia

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Roma Komarov about CSS experiments and the power of CSSBy Igalia

Ang, Chris, & Jared talk about using Canon Characters in your games. They touch on their experiences as a GM and player and then give some tips and tricks to make it a little easier for you to make you IP games with Canon Characters work. Links WhatdoIKnowJR.com – Jared’s Reviews Modiphius Star Trek Characters TOS Questing Beast with Justin Alexand…

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Valerie Young about Co-OpsBy Igalia

Some of us are attending conventions once again and thought we should share our best tips for how to go about existing in the convention space. Enjoy. Links https://schwalbentertainment.com/punkapocalyptic-the-roleplaying-game/ https://milehicon.org/ https://jumpgategames.itch.io/planetfist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl0z5Z8bvro’ Tomas’ game “…

Nicole Sullivan, Product Manager for Web UI on Chrome is interviewed by Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia, in Part 6 of our History of the Web series designed to tell the story of the web from the people who helped build, shape, and promote itBy Igalia

We have a 20 year gaming group anniversary to celebrate and Ang does it with her crew by recording a Gnomecast. They talk about how they’ve kept this group going for 20 years, the changes, and challenges they’ve dealt with, and some pretty good stories about characters and campaigns they’ve played together.…

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Ang, Chris, and Senda get together to talk about some of the RPG a day questions from 2023. Baker Mealtrain: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/lk908w/ Sean P. Kelly and how2 RPG just released a great video all about Vassen. https://youtu.be/HuRUr27nSV4?si=fNaYtAH86hVC4J00 Seth Skorwkowsky on a ‘Great Player Mindset’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h…

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer look back on things developing in WHATWG specs in 2004 and chat about what we've gotten and what remains outstanding.By Igalia

JT sits down with the Demon Lord himself, Rob Schwalb from Schwalb Entertainment to talk about his newest game, Shadow of the Weird Wizard. https://schwalbentertainment.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/432417423/shadow-of-the-weird-wizard https://schwalbentertainment.com/category/weird-wizard/ https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/8782/S…

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Kilian Valkhof about his Chromium-based web development app Polypane.By Igalia

Session 0. We’re doing it again. Why? Because it’s important. Why is it important? Because it helps groups understand who the characters they’re playing are, why the characters are doing what they’re doing, places them firmly into the campaign and setting of the game, and give all the players at the table a bunch of information so they can have a e…

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with CNET Principal writer Stephen Shankland about the undersea cables that help power the internetBy Igalia

Not every seed that’s planted in the ground grows which is why you need to get some fertile soil, space your seeds in the soil properly, water them as needed, and monitor those seeds as they begin to spout and grow. Same thing applies to Plot Seeds but instead of trowels, watering cans, and enriched soil we bring a different set of tools and ideas …

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with 11ty creator Zach Leatherman about the project's shift from hobby work to a sponsor-funded full-time job and back again to hobby work, and his evolving thoughts on open source and how to support it.By Igalia

The gnomes welcome Alex Thomas from Green Ronin, the line developer for Mutants and Masterminds. Ang might have also Gulliver travelled him to a chain to get this interview. Either way, the conversation is pretty good, filled with super hero gaming conversations, and talk of writing for RPG companies. Please forgive our audio as this was done on on…

Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Chromium Layout engineer Ian Kilpatrick about performanceBy Igalia

Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a new, novel browser engineBy Igalia

We’re talking about parties. Not adventuring parties. Masquerades, balls, shindigs, gatherings, formal dances, ragers, raves, and festivals. Chris and Jared want to help you drop that holiday party right in the middle of your game and make it as memorable as possible.By Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with their colleague Martin Robinson about the recently rejuvenated Servo project.By Igalia

It’s here. It’s there. It’s every bleeping where. Quantum Ogre. Quantum Ogre.By Gnome Stew

On today’s Gnomecast we talk problems with scheduling. To cover that we have Ang, along with Tomas and Phil to talk about the true BBEG of ttrpgs. Time to break out the +4 calendars.By Gnome Stew

Jared takes some time to speak with Adam Bradford, the person behind Demiplane. a place for Digital Tools, Content, and Services to Discover, Prep, and Play All Your Favorite Tabletop Roleplaying Games.By Gnome Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the new Baseline effort announced at Google IOBy Igalia

Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell sit down to chat with fellow Igalians Samuel Iglesias and Clayton Craft about the Steam Deck and interesting work that Igalia does to power it.By Igalia