Static site generation + static hosting is cheap, simple and works for most blogs.

In general, it’s important that you are in control of your URLs and your content. https://twitter.com/SaraSoueidan/status/1328954494881820673

The perfect crime https://twitter.com/shellkryan/status/1327569835862142976

👉🏻 “🏛️ - An archivist browser controller that caches everything you browse, a library server with full text search to serve your archive.”

🔗 https://github.com/c9fe/22120

Nobody Is Normal: A New Animation Reveals What Lies Just Beneath the Surface of Being a Kid https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/nobody-is-normal-animation/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds

if you enjoyed my digital preservation talk at @Speakeasy_JS last week you’ll be amused to know that a flash game I made 16 years ago is now up and running thanks to the Ruffle project: https://elsie.glitch.me/

you can read a bit more about the game here: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/elsie

The Raven Technique: One Step Closer to Container Queries by @batch_man https://css-tricks.com/the-raven-technique-one-step-closer-to-container-queries/

Whenever I try to philosophize with my cat

Still one of my favourite Dilberts on startups and products.

The strange sound a block of ice makes when it hits the bottom of a 90 meter borehole in an Antarctic glacier. 🧊🔊

🎉 Announcing “Operator Lookup”, a search engine for JS operators 🥳

Why? Because they’re ungoogleable: search engines ignore special characters. I can never remember what these things are called, or how they work!

Try it now: https://joshwcomeau.com/operator-lookup/

2020 encapsulated in 1-minute…

When it’s all too much, take some time to think about Harvest mice

Concept: a witch cat that’s too fat to fly

Ah, when the web was simpler.

Spiders legs are hydraulically powered. That’s why when they die they curl up like this. There’s no more pressure in the system. #TheMoreYouKnow

Life hack: save time by crying about two things at the same time

I forced a bot to read over 1,000 hours of QAnon theories and then asked it to write QAnon theories of its own. Here they are.

Ostagram - mixing two images by style. https://www.ostagram.me/static_pages/lenta?last_days=1000&locale=en

convert -depth 8 yt_dl1.png rgb:yt_dl1.part convert -depth 8 yt_dl2.png rgb:yt_dl2.part cat yt_dl1.part yt_dl2.part > yt_dl-2020.9.20.tar.gz

@codepo8 Kind of a self-promotion, but maybe ppl will also like it. Time ago i wrote this which shows you pictures from /r/PuppySmiles but i never got to finish it because it was enough to my use. It doesnt work in FF with ETP on bc reddit

Tap/Click for another https://pudymody.github.io/puppies/

🐩🐕🐶I just wrote a dog browser by breed (or random).

https://codepo8.github.io/dog-browser/

Because playing is important.

Fuck cache invalidation, the biggest problem in computer science is guessing whether the help flag is -h, --help, or -help this time.

👉🏻 “Bear gets an X-Ray w/ CSS Variables 🐻🔍 #CodepenChallenge”

🔗 https://codepen.io/jh3y/full/yREybg

🎲Yesterday we wanted to play some games, and I realised I had no dice at home, so I wrote a quick simulator.

https://codepo8.github.io/dice-throw-simulator/index.html

Qué mujera

And yes, you totally open the portal with a sledgehammer 😂

Watch the full thing here: https://bit.ly/2T2VDWT

UFOs turned out to be nanobots floating in the cornea of your eyes.

something something missing NYC subway every day https://twitter.com/jadedcreative/status/1317142561379749894

spirit animals are just fursonas for cowards

I built my dog a selfie booth so she can take photos of herself by pushing a pedal with her paw

New #Codepen!

🐻Curious Bear🐻

Simple mouse parallax with #SVG, vanilla JS and #css animations.

👉 https://codepen.io/agathaco/pen/zYBGXaz via @CodePen

25 year old software joke about a toaster https://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt 👇🏼

How it started How it’s going

👉🏻 “Security flaw left ‘smart’ chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in”

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/06/qiui-smart-chastity-sex-toy-security-flaw/?guccounter=1

Why? Oh why?

A thread of medieval paintings of animals that look nothing like real animals because the artist had never seen them. Starting with - The Oyster

Getting data out of PDF deserves at least senior engineer title TBH.

(PDF is where data goes to die) https://twitter.com/karenkho/status/1314198352423251968

Joker & Lex Luthor

Control rooms, power stations, control panels—Soviet era mostly, and a few more modern ones.

Here’s a happy CSS Husky to start your day right: https://codepen.io/saranya-mohan/pen/vYGwNXB

This thread is evidence of the way TikTok’s duet feature can result in the most hilarious and creative collaborations.

Pretty much a guy wrote a musical number about a grocery store and everyone is adding onto it and I am deceased.

Part 1

Te odio disney, raton de mierda.

@merlinpatt77 https://youtu.be/UrrcK-RKom4

Going to any website in 2020:

Mood:

bash cheat sheet: what (), {}, $(()), $(), ${}, [], [[]] mean

permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/brackets-cheatsheet

Weighing a Car with Tire Pressures https://ift.tt/2VuzWR0 (cmts https://ift.tt/2YIX5Bl)

POW https://css-tricks.com/pow/

cool how in the year 2020 transferring a file between your own devices is still easiest done by DMing it to a friend and apologizing for using them for file transfer

What strikes me is how it’s grounded not in the ostentation or performativity of the theory but the HARM https://twitter.com/caseybriggs/status/1309826779146629122

@thephysicsgirl Dianna! What did you do!! The miscommunications game really started to derail with your interpretation from @3blue1brown’s animation!! 😂🤣🤣😂 https://youtu.be/MCuCBt24hAk

[New blog post!]: The failed promise of Web Components

https://lea.verou.me/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-components/

This started as a series of tweets, but I quickly realized I needed something more long form to properly unfold my thoughts.

Not the same https://www.commitstrip.com/2020/09/24/not-the-same/

A useless experiment for iOS and iPadOS only: Copy and paste the next tweet in Safari’s URL bar.

You will get an origin-less, server-less PWA fit in a tweet 🧐😜 What you install is not even the same content that you see in Safari ⏬

Okay, my phone is ridiculously aesthetic now

shell script arguments

permalink + transcript: https://wizardzines.com/comics/shell-arguments/

A faculty member has been asking how to stop Zoom from removing his head when he uses a virtual background. We suggested the usual plain background, good lighting etc, but it didn’t work. I was in a meeting with him today when I realized why it was happening.

Kids, I got the new TikTok for ya.

Tik the box of owning your own domain and website and Tok to your friends by self-publishing content in a place you control.

(The old man says on twitter dot com)

“experience will degrade without software updates”

inserts flyer under the door for this thing called … web sites … which magically send you new feature whenever available when you open it. https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1306922024141492225

🍱 Used #CSS grid to make better use of space for various viewports.

The editor root element is measured when resized and updates the data-layout property, which contains:

Orientation: landscape | portrait Height: short | tall Width: narrow | wide

📷 https://pqina.nl/doka/

This is the best application I’ve ever built. Honestly, it showcases all of my design and development expertise.

Is it secure? No. Is it accessible? No. Is it beautiful? NOPE.

Internet you are welcome.

http://theworstwebsiteinthe.world

👉🏻 “Centering in CSS - A guide to everything you need to know about centering in CSS”

🔗 https://ishadeed.com/article/learn-css-centering/

By Ahmad Shadeed - @shadeed9

for the past six months i’ve been secretly participating in the Do Not Get Arrested Challenge 2020 https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

#ad NEW VIDEO: About the time Kodak detected an atomic bomb before anyone else and kept it secret.

https://youtu.be/7pSqk-XV2QM

Part of this video was sponsored by @hbomax and their new series #RaisedByWolvesMax

We @citizenlab got quite the shoutout on @joerogan’s #jre podcast today by @Snowden. If you are concerned about your digital security, start basic & simple. Then build from there. We made a website to get you started: https://securityplanner.org

🚘 Array transformations 🚘

.forEach: everyone’s car gets a new paint job

.map(): everyone gets a newer model of the same car

.filter(): only people with station wagons get new cars

.reduce(): everyone’s car gets crushed into one super car

Soy estudiante de 1er año de derecho como te diste cuenta

I cant believe Mr. Grohl wrote a song about me!?! This is so so so #EPIC!! I think its the best song EVER, in the WORLD, EVER!!! Thank you so much Dave. You have raised the stakes to all instruments! I accept your next challenge! Thank you to the whole Grohl family! @foofighters

Modern web development: “If you just spin up an instance of Golden Goose on Elastic Clownshoes, then clone the flugelhorn inside a Bangwoosh container, connect to the Zonk using Zonk -commit -rj -hgs.plonk, you’re good to go. Chrome only of course”

In video meetings it’s a hassle to unmute just to say one word especially if someone else is speaking. I created a video lens that uses hand gestures to show comic-book style messages instead. So far it’s been pretty fun!

I’ve also pushed a very small update to my website, and its chaotic layout (please, don’t look at the code 🙈).

That green screen is starting to pay off (@marisamorby 💚).

Geese on the bus there’s geese on the bus people

Haha. I’ve just spent 5 minutes manually decoding this binary message from season 5 of Silicon Valley and it says, “FIND A HOBBY FOR GOD’S SAKE” 😂

@chriscoyier Maybe this https://itty.bitty.site/

i think everyone’s goal in life should be to be as happy as this lab at the playground (viralhog)

I’m sick of how over-engineered and bloated the web is.

Most websites could just be some html + css + a <form>

Someone put Blade Runner 2049 music to drone footage of San Francisco on 9/09/20 credit to Terry Tsai (YouTube) #BayArea #BayAreaFires

A new-gen Xbox console will be priced LOWER THAN a vial of insulin that keeps me alive for a week. $299 v. $324. Imagine having to buy an Xbox every week for the rest of your life, just to survive. This is my America. https://twitter.com/verge/status/1303174099074777088

When a guy says ‘She’s asking for it’

En fin, la hipocresía

Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test. But as I explained then, it wasn’t really PLAYING on a pregnancy test, it was just a video being played back, not an interactive game.

Well, now it is. It’s Pregnancy Test Doom!

This is really really cool https://dev.to/sebastianstamm/this-image-is-also-a-valid-javascript-file-5fol

@NihilisticAlien @Tengoku Te esta mintiendo, es Billie Joe

The other day, I followed the SVG course by @sarah_edo and I’ve been having a blast with it since. Here’s a little animation of one of my cats. He follows your mouse (or tap on mobile) https://3e0tr.csb.app/

Mentally I’m here

<legend>Zelda</legend> <link href=“past.css”>

I saw a tweet recently that I wanted to confirm. Sadly I can’t find it right now, but it was about digital pregnancy tests. So, I went out and grabbed a 2-pack for 7 dollars: let’s tear it down!

In terms of perceived performance, I’ve said before that ‘More Weight Doesn’t Mean More Wait’. In other words, you can make a heavy page appear to load quickly by sorting your delivery priorities. But I should add that more weight often does mean more waste. https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern/status/1301093367351304192

every time i think im doing some horrible frontend code that ‘works’ i think back to when fallout 3 wanted to animate a train but objects cant move in their engine so they gave an invisible guy a train-shaped-sized hat instead and made him run the tracks. thats the spirit

The Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator, a British product from the 1920s, is a scroll-map navigator in the shape of a watch. It came with tiny interchangeable instructions that you scrolled manually to see which roads to take when driving.

my friends: you need to let it go and move on with your life

me:

Don’t we all women have this app anyway?

Number Scrubbing https://css-tricks.com/number-scrubbing/

I took an 85 megapixel shot of the moon last night by blending together 24,000 individual image frames. #astrophotography #opteam #space

“There’s more than meets the eye”

A good gentle reminder from ⁦@vanschneider⁩ to take it easy on yourself, don’t believe everything you see, and always remember that you only see what they want you to see. Social media is full of curated illusions. https://vanschneider.com/theres-more-than-meets-the-eye

http://metatags.io is really becoming my favorite tool to test social cards with an easy to remember URL (yeah I do type them quite often haha) and quick access to official debuggers in order to invalidate cache on their ends~

👉🏻 “CSS Zoo”

🔗 https://codepen.io/collection/AVVabV

Lots of lovely CSS animals by @s_aitchison

hate when mfs weave latin and shit into their arguments. “𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘰” well damn bro omelette du fromage to you too

👉🏻 “How a ‘NULL’ License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell”

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/

Every time a ticket officer forgets to add the licence plate to a citation it goes to him, so far $12k.

CSS != design