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RT @frandallfarmer@twitter.com

I'm so very happy that our restoration effort of Lucasfilm's Habitat/Q-Link's Club Caribe lead by @TheMADE@twitter.com is getting some press love during this age, when so many pioneering projects are being forgotten.

If we can get the decedents opened...
twitter.com/epopt/status/15165

🐦🔗: twitter.com/frandallfarmer/sta

RT @MarkHoofnagle@twitter.com

So 3000 people die once and it’s no liquids, take off your shoes forever. 3000 people die every 2 days and it’s like “but masks are haaaard”.

Just want to make sure I’ve got this right.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/MarkHoofnagle/stat

RT @arielmtspeaks@twitter.com

When I break a computer, I *really* break the computer.
(I sometimes wish I didn't have this superpower.)

🐦🔗: twitter.com/arielmtspeaks/stat

RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

@TonicBH@twitter.com and look. i use dude, intimately with others sometimes who i KNOW. i wouldn't call a person i don't know who isn't male "dude". but the WAY these people get suddenly defensive when you simply CORRECT them, not even tell them off, MY GODDESS

🐦🔗: twitter.com/maplesbian/status/

if dude is so gender neutral then how many dudes have you had sex with, cis men?

i have been talking a lot more about web design/dev lately than i ever have before 🤔

flexbox was an invention added to css for two specific reasons
1) breaking compat with older browsers
2) appeasing people who think css is bad because they are misunderstanding what css is for
i will not be taking questions at this moment

back then i had only heard this title theme in its PC speaker rendition, but god this song never left my head did it youtube.com/watch?v=Bh-BAT7UoU

RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

Palmdle 303 3/6
Palmdle 304 4/6

i think i learnt about the word in 304 in a walkthrough for The Adventures of Willy Beamish as a kid

🐦🔗: twitter.com/maplesbian/status/

i hate the word "app", and yet it's wormed itself into my vocabulary as well because i'm autistic and i copy everybody else. fuck "apps". give me back programs. give me software suites. turn the web back into pages where the most interactivity is a guestbook and cursor trails

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the worst mistake in modern computing was to wrench webpages into being anything more than webpages and into "apps"

i swear to god we should never have strayed further away than basic AJAX

AJAX and iframes are all you need for webpage responsiveness

what more do you WANT

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and before you think this is a knock against PHP it's a knock against javascript. i love PHP

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you know what else delivered HTML over the wire without building the DOM in the client? that's right PHP

RT @fzero@twitter.com

It's very cool to see how Rails got HTML over the wire so right while the JS crowd is only catching up now hotwired.dev

🐦🔗: twitter.com/fzero/status/15164

RT @annaeso@twitter.com

TIL: you can ask Thunderbird to place your signature above the quote. Thanks @elegant_tolly@twitter.com!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/annaeso/status/151

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