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nobody is hiring. i'm running out of money. i'll just sell everything and never see anyone i know again. i hope i die

thinking about crafting CSS in a way that displays properly in IE6-era browsers but takes advantage of newer standards where possible (if the browser has viewport scaling, then scale by 2x so pixel art shows better in modern hi-res monitors, etc)

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i'm talking about this type of web design, you can see how some of these have no true text anywhere, it's all images webdesignmuseum.org/exhibition

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is this a solved problem? how did people usually lay these pages out otherwise in the 2000s, was it all by hand or did they have specific software to render the text boxes for them given the page layout? i want to make websites that look authentic but also 2020 accessible

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thinking about 2000s pixel-design websites that had all their text in images so they would be in a pixel-perfect font layout and thinking about writing software to render that kind of layout on the go so i don't have to do it manually and also so the source is used as alt text

i guess looking at the list of 404s in the network tab of inspect is something but is there like. A Better Way

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is there some firefox extension for webdevs which give me a list of all missing images/assets on a page

you grew up with dial up remembering the modem noises when you connected. i grew up with dial up remembering how if the noises were different, i was not going online that day. we are not the same

the more people who block me the more popular it means i'm getting

boohoo several mutuals follow a big vtuber artist thing who i never talked to who happens to have me blocked probably because i got branded a pedophile or something behind my back who fucking cares god damn it i hate it here

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this website makes me care about shit i shouldn't be caring about and i hate it

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