Reaching people on the internet in 2021 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021

It is so easy to be smug about this as a “web person” and go all “we told you so, all the time, we did”, but we also failed to match the siren song of closed platforms/apps with good monetisation.

@shanselman “If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” - Carl Sagan

That time Carl Sagan called out Star Wars for being too white and the audience didn’t know what to do 💀

This is a story of a Figma bug that wasn’t a bug at all.

In November of 2019, one of our users reported this: ⁝ MW

Voy a hacer un hilo con lo que pasó entre ayer y hoy al que voy a titular “MI PAIS” Empezando por la mascota que era argentina y se metió al vestuario a festejar

“No one cares about your gender” let’s play fact or cap.

me: can’t believe we didn’t date sooner

her: umm haha. this is a date..?

microsoft excel: [ripping off waiter mask] 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎

If you don’t fix the usability of your product, it’s just a matter of time before a developer uses it and decides to make an alternative.

This is such a ridiculous idea I love it.

Page transitions with <marquee>??? https://twitter.com/TerribleMia/status/1410336351006826498

Then @fimion chucks an IntersectionObserver on it to stop at certain pages: https://codepen.io/fimion/pen/VwbYgNw (Works best in Firefox I see)

lolllzzz 🤯

I know of no better way to catch up after some time away than RSS.

As a… – visitor I want to… – accept cooki… oh, close the special offer moda… oh, close the invite to surve… oh, close the chat windo… oh, wait for ad placeholders to shift the layout before I give up and close the tab so that… – I can see the ‘before you leave’ modal

Los penales sólo con sonido ambiente. Lo que estábamos necesitando antes de irnos a dormir. Mirá que te como, hermano.

UI is the bottle.

UX is not having to think about the bottle.

👀 http://www.birdandmoon.com/comic/smoke-and-mirrors/

Yet another @CodePen from me about Logic Gates, but it’s :has(). This is :has() selector Emulation #20! Powered by CSSOMTools #css

▶ Demo: https://codepen.io/RockStarwind/pen/yLbBzvR

Hi👋I have a special news 😍

I made my website using #HTML and #CSS

♥️http://www.dianash.dev♥️

please take a look and comment below your idea🙏

Source code is available in my GitHub 👉https://github.com/dianaash/myWebsite

#KidsCanCode #GirlsWhoCode #CodeNewbie #CodeNewbies #programming

It helps to remember: everything is a remix. We’ve all learned from those that came before, and are still learning from each other today and every day as we create fresh “new” content. We learn, react, create, share, and repeat.

✏️ Solutionism https://hiddedevries.nl/en/blog/2021-06-28-solutionism

contemplating IRL progressive enhancement

My 2-year-old daughter’s favorite stuffed animal, “Meow-Meow,” is a critical service in my house, so I run a highly available three-node Meow-Meow cluster.

Here’s how it works:

1. Three observer processes monitor the current Meow-Meow leader (wife, oldest daughter, and me)

So let’s talk about video game preservation, data hoarding, and Minecraft.

(🧵 thread)

have you ever loved databases so much, you wanted to write a children’s story, draw cute things, and sing a song?

well, I did! you can watch my talk* from @bangbangcon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhxY5jwZdfw (my talk starts around 32:26, if you don’t have time to watch the full hour)

Thanks so much everyone who joined for my talk today! Always such a joy being at @bangbangcon 😊 Thanks a ton to the organizers & production team making it all happen!‼️🙌🏽

Replay already available on the conf site! Slides with resource links are here: https://observablehq.com/@anjana/piet-bangbangcon https://twitter.com/AnjanaVakil/status/1395771268956266499

super excited to be taking part of @bangbangcon after watching many talks last year! 😎 📦 ✂️ https://twitter.com/bangbangcon/status/1395080791063810051

I’m proud to have debuted the world’s first GIF-based port of Doom on AO3 at #virtualbangbangcon! Play it at https://archiveofourown.org/works/31295183

Have you noticed GitHub links now look a bit different on social media? @jasonetco shows how and why we built a system to dynamically generate over 2 million Open Graph images daily 🤯

https://github.blog/2021-06-22-framework-building-open-graph-images/

!!Con 2021 Talk Recordings are online! Check them out at 🎥 http://bangbangcon.com/recordings 🎥

Thank you again to @confreaks for making it happen!

6 intense weeks of work, 2 all-nighters, and an incredible community of artists to get to this point. I’m proud to present the Top 100 Render Montage for the #alternaterealitieschallenge!

https://youtu.be/iKBs9l8jS6Q

Original Soundtrack by my best bud @Feverkin

A little side project from @thebadagas and me: http://www.window-swap.com Open a new window somewhere in the world. Hope this place on the internet helps reduce your lockdown blues in some small way, too. (Works best on desktop)

when wolfram alpha gives up because your input is too complex, consider also giving up

Google Photos automatically stitching together photos to become panoramas can have excellent results. Here is the cool dog chasing his ball in the water we met this weekend in three states on one photo.

Game of Life running a Game of Life.

Since the Game of Life is Turing Complete, it is capable of simulating itself.

https://youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8

What an incredible explainer for @apachekafka! by Mitch Seymour

More docs could use interactive storytelling to teach this way, it’s wonderful. Hat tip to @jkup for sharing

https://www.gentlydownthe.stream/

As an… – excel user I want to… – have fractions automatically converted to dates so that… – I can spend 01-Oct of my day manually changing them back

@unpacker @Asher_Wolf I can’t believe people are doing cyber crime with only a single monitor

me rn

My TV just said the the End User Terms changed and I needed to agree to them. I WANT NO LEGAL RELATIONSHIP WITH MY TV.

This surf inspired furniture brand is using the Instagram grid to create a micro site and I think it’s pretty novel.

https://instagram.com/salty_furniture?utm_medium=copy_link

Annoyed that I stumbled upon this amazing story after submitting my assignment on Right to Repair, but holy moly it’s an infuriating read on corporate greed and the profit games played.

Loved to hear about Huang investing in Kytch though.

https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

“It’s important to highlight just how much a megabyte is, how much potential it has. The fact that webpages are three megabytes is huge because most webpages are not doing that much. For typical webpage, there’s no good reason why it shouldn’t be under a megabyte." @eatwholegrain

🐧🐧🐧

It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974. This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate.

¡Hola! Les presento a Binancio 👋

Un bot que se dedica a analizar el mercado #P2P de @binance para sugerirnos el precio ideal de intercambio entre criptomonedas y dinero de manera simple y rápida 💸

Si te interesa conocer más, follow the white rabbit… 🐇

please enjoy this duck

👉🏼 “Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript”

🔗 https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/content-aware-image-resizing-in-javascript/

Seamcarving in JavaScript - sweet. I remember @quasimondo doing that in Flash in the long ago.

Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU EC2 Instance: https://talawah.io/blog/extreme-http-performance-tuning-one-point-two-million/

I’ve been working on this optimization experiment for a while now. Feels good to finally get this post published!

Pueden ver mi charla de ayer acá 👇🏽 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kDEE1XtrIw&t=19

we’ve updated http://poolsuite.fm* — all new features, icons, themes designed by @basstrien 🌴🔥

• formerly known as “poolside fm”

👉🏼 “Building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement”

🔗 https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

The UK government using common sense. Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpRDZzZHs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpJ06KvhN0E

[■,■,■,■].map(■→●) ⇒ [●,●,●,●] [■,●,■,▲].filter(■→true) ⇒ [■,■] [■,●,■,▲].find(●→true) ⇒ ● [■,●,■,▲].findIndex(●→true) ⇒ 1 [■,●,■,▲].fill(●) ⇒ [●,●,●,●] [■,●,■,▲].some(●→true) ⇒ true [■,●,■,▲].every(●→true) ⇒ false

@cassidoo “memoize, which is like memorize but in a baby voice”

literally will stick with me for life.

I’m very happy to announce the release of my new album, Wake Up Calls, composed entirely out of endangered British bird song! I hope that it will help us to become more aware of the glorious polyphonic sound worlds that surround us. http://smarturl.it/wakeupcalls

I’m back from a week at my mom’s house and now I’m getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I’ve been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

Remember when you wrote HTML in a plain text editor and then uploaded that to your website host using FTP? Good times.

“This blog post is dedicated to why you should have your own (independent) blog.”

Why you should have a blog (and write in it) https://leportella.com/why-have-a-blog.html/

— If you don’t have your own blog yet, read this post. There’s a big chance it will make you want to create one (& write in it)

Fucking finally

The real reason they discourage MRIs during pregnancy is because then people would realise they’re incubating nightmare demons and would be rightfully terrified

I have been continuously disappointed by the usability of gnu docs, so I’ve done some hacking and made single page (searchable!!) html builds of some info(1) pages, fixed the css, and posted them on my Web site

Sample: https://docs.jade.fyi/gnu/ld.html All of them: https://docs.jade.fyi/gnu/

New video! I promise this story about microwaves is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y

movie details: the lighthouse (2019) had to be shot in black and white because robert pattinson looked like mario in color

@pawelgrzybek @SaraSoueidan Here is a little bookmarklet i copied to get the url for channels that have a name and not an ID from the browser itself. It also works for channels with id.

Navigate to the channel and run it. Sometimes you need to refresh the page for it to work.

https://pudymody.netlify.app/blog/2020-05-11-youtube-channel-rss/

Friendly reminder for all RSS users! You can subscribe to GitHub projects and YouTube channels using RSS.

https://pawelgrzybek.com/rss-feed-for-youtube-channels-and-github-project/

#rss

running this selfie through the gender swap filter on faceapp until i am unrecognisable as a human LETS GO

“RSS Readers: Yet Another Case for Semantic Markup” by @BenDMyers

https://benmyers.dev/blog/rss-semantics/

— I’m in the middle of an article around the same topic. There’s much to be said about optimizing for Reader Modes and reading apps. 💯

indentation size should be a personal display setting in IDEs - not part of the serialized data in code

Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them.

Facebook banned them.

“Being transparent about how ads use data is enough to get banned; in Facebook’s world, the only acceptable usage is to hide what you’re doing.”

https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/

Awww poor little Facebook can’t keep its services free of charge without you opting in to tracking. 🤣

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/2/22415824/facebook-instagram-notice-ios-apps-free-privacy-tracking?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

I’m still determined to use twitter as a happy place and not prescribe to any of the negativity 😜 SO post below in the thread the piece of artwork that you’re most proud of or that was your favourite to draw!

This is mine at the moment, but it changes daily ahaha.

I see the hype pendulum is swinging from fat clients to thin clients again…

Everybody has constant, stable and high-speed internet access, right?

The internet is full of cats. Here’s another one. The kitten follows your mouse (or your touch). @CodePen

https://codepen.io/Ma5a/pen/BapbQam #javascript #kitten

For the last six years I’ve kept a spreadsheet listing every parking spot I’ve used at the local supermarket in a bid to park in them all. This week I completed my Magnum Opus! A thread.

I made an incredible #CSS animation🐘

I hope you enjoy😃

I couldn’t explain too much because of twitter limit, so if you have any question, please comment below👇

My code is in my @CodePen https://codepen.io/superpowerkid/pen/dyNmqYr?editors=0100

#HTML #SVG #KidsCanCode #CodeNewbie #CodeNewbies #GirlsWhoCode

Animals Taking Seflies. Thread.

Current status - running Windows 3.1 via JavaScript inside of Chrome on Linux via WSLg on Windows 10. THIS IS HOW I DEVELOP SOFTWARE NOW

At last! Every frame hand embroidered to bring you the joy of this non binary office bat, just dancing to the beat of their own drum <3

Buenas noches

🌱🌿 Pokemon Greenhouse 🍃🌿

Is this working??

Never forget. The greatest Twitter exchange of all time. Of all. Time.

Colorization APIs are becoming widespread; AI-colorized historical photos are circulated without caveat. But is AI colorization providing an accurate image of the past? To find out, I digitally desaturated these color photos by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1909 and 1915.

This VIC-20 game “Escape 2020” speaks to me

C64 Bitcoin miner https://github.com/ytmytm/c64-bitcoin-miner

Finally, get those 0.2MHZ to work for you.

God help us

Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT’s actually reference the media you’re “buying” and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon

Here’s 6s of calm if you need it 😌

･ ﾟ 　 ･ ﾟ ･｡
･｡ .｡ ｡･ °. ﾟ “ML is just assuming past decisions were right and replicating them without question.” ﾟ. ｡｡ ･ ｡ ･ﾟ ｡°. ｡･｡

@shanselman My basement is a tribute to being a kid in the 80s, sponsored by @arcade_1up.

ダース・ベイダーの動かし方

3D CSS Responsive Party Chopper! 🥳

Fires “joy” on tap/hold! ✨👇

Responds to mouse movement 🐭

👉 http://codepen.io/jh3y/pen/WNRjxjP via @CodePen

I’m fascinated by this simple formula to create bit fields that look like alien art:

(x ^ y) % 9

Sombras!

Accurate.

ted chiang on how most fears about technology are really fears about capitalism

I know this is a minority position but I love the goofy intro sentences students write. Since the dawn of time, humans have wondered about the mind. fuckin tell me about it man