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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

RT @myrabatchelder@twitter.com

It continues to blow my mind we already know can cause brain damage, heart damage, lung damage, diabetes, blood clots, pulmonary embolisms, strokes, dysautonomia, POTS, ME/CFS, & many more horrible health issues & people just pretend like getting Covid repeatedly is fine

🐦🔗: twitter.com/myrabatchelder/sta

watching ppl older than me start hrt now while i'm 6yrs into it like "omg you're baby. i'm your trans godmother now"

funny how we're good at constantly doing a thing we know for a fact is going to be bad for us

dear companies please stop listing your remote job offers as "anywhere" if you mean "US only", there's an option for that

hey @Cliniko@twitter.com your job posting here - lgbtqremotely.com/job/cliniko- - is still up even though it says the applications were closed last December, should i still apply? :)

man i was holding out until finishing doom 2016 to watch the civvie video on eternal but now that i watched it i feel like i'm just never going to play it

RT @bobposting@twitter.com

"You think you know more than actual endocrinologists about trans HRT???"

Well, yeah.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/bobposting/status/

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RT @jordanneran@twitter.com

i make the pictures on the canva and the plans on the google
6 days to raise another $705

🐦🔗: twitter.com/jordanneran/status

RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

change of plans. please hire me. looking for full remote work only. i can do embedded C work, i can do web development like nobody's fucking business. i can do anything with computers. DM me for CV

🐦🔗: twitter.com/maplesbian/status/

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