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  • The "Who To Follow on #Mastodon For #WordPress folks" page is still alive and kicking, if you weren't aware. https://wp-community-on-mastodon.wptoots.social/

  • My teenage daughters (freshmen in high school) told me they really love this "old song". It's Radiohead: "High And Dry". Do I feel old? Yeah but at least I raised them right. 😆 #parenting

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    Another developer: "What's a typical bad example of a code comment?" Me: 🤔

  • "Google adds AI to help humans write on the web." "Google reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages." "Google is doing _____ to search with AI." Can't help but feel history will write a chapter called: "#OpenAI and #Microsoft: How They Made Things Worse By Forcing #Google To Overreact". #AI

  • Why I 🧡 the web. Pong Wars. https://pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl/ It's a single #HTML file: https://github.com/vnglst/pong-wars/blob/main/index.html #JavaScript

  • In reply to @davidbisset. There is some saying this all will have Apple make #Safari "more competitive" which would also make the App Store better. I think Safari has been doing pretty good with CSS improvements in the past few years. Not sure if Safari competition is going to change anything in my scenario. Which…

  • Apple opens up browsers in iOS 17.4, displays default web browser prompt. People have been wanting #Apple to open up, but I see a future where #Chrome being the top browser on #iOS. Or, put another way, #Safari marketshare given to Chrome. In a future where Firefox and other browsers' marketshare likely even smaller than…

  • 👉🏻 The server side image map. Another trigger for #oldschool #developers. In the time it took to read that it either didn't do anything to you or you had horrible paralyzing flashbacks. 🫢

  • 👉🏻 The server side image map. In the time it took to read that it either didn't do anything for. you or you had horrible paralyzing flashbacks. 🫢 #oldschool #developers #html

  • If you are triggered by the mention of the 1×1.gif then you are an 1990's #oldschool #developer.

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    Novice #Designer: "I'm going to design a user dashboard that literally has EVERYTHING on ONE screen (even if it's too much)." Me: 🤔 #webdev #frontend

  • The Web Monetization API – there's a name I haven't heard in a while. I agree with @chriscoyier and wanted it to be a thing. Good read on his thoughts: https://chriscoyier.net/2024/01/24/what-happened-with-the-web-monetization-api/ @nhoizey also concurs: https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2024/01/25/what-happened-with-the-web-monetization-api/ #webdev #api

  • Manager: "Don't spend time writing #documentation. Users can figure this out on their own." #programming #memes Me: 🤔

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    Arjustings – The "ugliest handwritten #font made to grab everyone's attention". #free https://arjustings.gumroad.com/l/arjustingsfont

  • Apparently a list of recently updated plugins on WP.org is back! Apparently i've been told It's been years since .org team removed it. https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/updated/ #WordPress

  • Nice. The National Park's Service in the US has an #API: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/digital/nps-data-api.htm

  • Listening to a #JSParty episode about #HTMX. Learning about it for the first time, but based on all the hate i'm seeing from #JavaScript folks on #Mastodon about it, it's worth seeing that this is. https://changelog.com/jsparty/307 #podcast #webdev

  • Interesting: why lowercase letters save #data. https://endtimes.dev/why-lowercase-letters-save-data/ Text #compression is more effective when… – There's a smaller variety of characters in the text– The less common characters use used less frequently– Characters or groups of characters are repeated more often. Replacing uppercase characters with their more common lowercase counterparts helps with all three of these.

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    Why I 🧡 the web. NPR's guide to the running gags from Arrested Development. #tv #npr https://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/

  • Nice! An #opensource cross-platform #Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms. Uses Spotify's data API and #YouTube (or Piped.video or JioSaavn) as an audio source,eliminating the need for Spotify Premium Not an Electron app. https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

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    That's ok, I wasn't going to ever buy an #HP printer anyways. #Printers https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out/ "Every time a customer buys a printer, it's an investment for us. We are investing in that customer, and if that customer doesn't print enough or doesn't use our supplies, it's a bad investment."

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    Why I 🧡 the web. "SURF THE WEB LIKE IT'S 1999!" https://billsworld.neocities.org/ #GeoCities #oldschool

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    This is potentially cool for #frontend developers. It's a site that allows you to build and customize #CSS only loaders. https://www.loadership.com/ #webdev

  • Interesting read. "Culture Change at #Google"via @sussman https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/ "When employees feel truly valued (which is rare!), it creates psychological safety, high morale, productivity, and creativity… If you're someone building a company, challenge yourself to value employees above all else, then watch and be amazed at the ROI."

  • The best social network right now (at least in terms of "what makes me feel 💯") for me isn't #Mastodon, Twitter, etc. but a (relatively small) #Slack (one of the few Slacks i'm active on).

  • For busy stores, I don't mind self-checkout if i don't have a million or complex items. Usually faster than lines. But literally every time I'm using them either the machine gives me an error OR someone who is understandingly confused with the self-checkout UI needs assistance (and there's only one employee covering 6-10 stations). https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240111-it-hasnt-delivered-the-spectacular-failure-of-self-checkout-technology

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    Probably the best creative watch face i've seen for #developers.

  • Not the first time I've seen people ditch or thinking of leaving Slack and similar tech for… just plain Web 1.0 forums. https://posthog.com/blog/slack-closure Slack and others do keep great content hard to find or out of reach unless the owner pays. Could 2024 or 2025 have a slight uptick in just old fashion forums? the…

  • Why I 🧡 the web. A site that tracks the price of a #BigMac in every US McDonald's. 🍔 https://pantryandlarder.com/mccheapest

  • Question to my tech people on #Mastodon: My wife and daughter are building an app for web/iPhone/Android that requires storage of text/CSV files in a *secure* #database or storage via a service. Not AWS. Not preferably iCloud. Is there a service that can JUST provide SECURE storage with an API? Files contain records of students,…