My Commit Your Code’26 Experience

Last month, I participated as a speaker at the Commit Your Code conference in Plano, Texas. The talks, the organization, and the people who attended, made it a very special event that left me with a big smile on my face.

On September 4, I had the pleasure of presenting at Commit Your Code 2026, a developer conference held at the Capital One Campus in Plano, Texas. I was there for only a few hours, but it was one of those events that left me with a big smile on my face… and a long drive home.

Building Games with CSS… Live on Stage!

My talk was titled CSS as a Game Engine: Building Playful, Stateful Web Experiences Without JS. The idea was to explore how far we can push HTML and CSS beyond their traditional roles, treating CSS as a way to model state and transitions to create Finite State Machines and, with them, small user experiences and games.

But I couldn’t just talk about it. I had to build something!

The plan was to create a small Whac-A-Mole game live on stage, using only HTML and CSS. First, I’d explain how selectors such as :checked, :has(), and :valid help us build interactive experiences, and then I’d put…