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Web design hot take: Cookies are for persistent logins and persistent site settings that the user themself has set. (If the user hasn't changed any site settings (if present in the first place), you don't need a settings cookie!) If you're setting more than 2 cookies, you're (probably) doing something wrong. If you're using more than 5, fuck you.

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"we don't need it because we already know how touch screens work" ??? they've been around for decades and people aren't too stupid to figure out how touching a screen works

we got rid of it because the extra hours of art time come out of the CEO's fifth sexual assault legal fund and that's just not worth the digital version of "this button here is satisfying to press, this one over here is mushy and makes me feel depressed" because you aren't a person if you make less than 1mil/year

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everyone keeps doing UI art as like "it's a white box with a boring, businessy sans serif font and maybe a rounded rectangle on it" and i really, really hate it

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"a deal with the devil" is prejudiced against devils and demons

please use the more respectful phrase "accepting VC funding"

open for the most cursed set of pronouns to have others use for referring to you 

@t54r4n1 Gotta admit, I'm having a good laugh plugging these in to "[subject pronoun]'s a good person, but [possessive pronoun] pronoun choice is...uh...questionable."

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If your experience does not suit you, mod it. Mod your games, mod your OS, mod your hardware, mod yourself.

As long as you're not in a fair competition, cheat. Cheat if it's an unfair competition. Hack everything, level the playing field.

Remove unwanted mechanics, adjust difficulty, change your perceptions, change your experience. Online, in games, in meatspace. You are the final arbiter in what you experience.

Fuck anyone who claims this is wrong or cheapens an experience.

Legit, though, it never fails to amaze me just how prolific Indo-european languages are. Like, damn. Despite looking nothing alike, languages as diverse as Sanskrit, Persian, Spanish, Greek, Russian, and, yes, even English share a core going back thousands of years. Is that not just amazing?

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probably not screenreader friendly 

how it started: *wl̥kʷos
how it's going: wolf, lobo, [insert words in dozens of other languages here]

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release 1.0 of Palmdle is here!
- you can now track your stats as you complete daily challenges!
- play random games that do not count towards your stats!
- the game now displays letters you already guessed!
- and many other tiny things!

download today! github.com/Lana-chan/palmdle/r

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If you really wanted to have fun with it, you could do some fun political commentary.

"Wait, you mean you have to pay for basic necessities?!"

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Story idea: Isekai, but it's a demon being summoned and, not being able to go back home (yet?) or not knowing how or something, has to figure out life in our world. Think The Devil is a Part-Timer but with an everyday demon with no ambitions of conquest.

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just uploaded my tool to let you make an embedable bandcamp-style player for selling music on itch.io (or anywhere you can embed html+js+assets)
suricrasia.online/blamscamp/

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Just trans things, meds 

Nothing quite like being at the pharmacy, in a trans pride shirt, having already asked for a refill for my estradiol, and still having my spiro referred to as a "water pill". Listen, my guy, I don't doubt your competence as a pharmacist, but clearly your training was...uh...lacking

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RT @aka_tamagotchi@twitter.com

Web 3 is such a scam that I want to start Web -1. A separate IPv4 "internet" tunneled through IPv6 links using ipsec and cheap commodity hardware like Mikrotik hAP lites. Host your personal website on a 33MHz 68040, join a webring, play quake deathmatch with your friends.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/aka_tamagotchi/sta

Subtoot, but for humorous purposes, even if it was yikes; COVID nonsense 

In case you're curious, the QR code thing is a vaccine passport, and I'm still not sure where the blockchain comes into play.

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Subtoot, but for humorous purposes, even if it was yikes; COVID nonsense 

I clicked a link not thinking anything of it. Thought it was normal privacy stuff. Got to #3 about the QR codes surveillance putting you on the blockchain(!) and started wondering "What the fuck?" It wasn't until I read five (homeschool your kids instead of getting them the COVID vaccine), that I realized what was going on. But geez, was that a fun minute before I realized!

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