davatron5000

davatron5000, 9 months ago to random

What makes you enthusiastic about the web?

A connection? A project? A technology?

davatron5000, 10 months ago to random

📝 New post: If #webcomponents are so good, why am I not using them?

https://daverupert.com/2023/07/why-not-webcomponents/

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Web developers over ~35 years old, can we chat for a second? Over here... everyone else you can keep scrolling.

I got some bad news. No one cares that we used to build entire websites with tables. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's our favorite story to tell. Same goes with floats. Flexbox has been in every browser since 2012. Grid since 2018. When we talk about the old ways we just sound old.

davatron5000, 3 months ago to random

Khan Academy made a ChatGPT bot to teach kids math and it uh... it can't do math and just makes shit up. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-tutoring-students-but-still-struggles-with-basic-math-694e76d3?st=606ux1exuaxyk3j

davatron5000, 10 months ago to random

What are you looking for in your dream tools/process/workflow? What’s one change you imagine would make it super better? What’s the next improvement you plan to make?

davatron5000, 1 year ago to random

This is a pretty good mental model for component systems: HTML&CSS + Web Components + BYO Framework.

I call the "framework layer" the "DOM Manager", the piece of the puzzle that make organizing, delivering, and updating the page easier and more programmatic than writing 10,000 webpages by hand.

I think with MPA View Transitions and broader web component support, the options for DOM Manager open up beyond popular-today JS frameworks.

https://blog.almaer.com/building-a-modern-design-system-in-layers/

davatron5000, 1 year ago to random

📝 Quick Friday post on how I'm using Arc Boosts to style bot posts in @elk (based on an idea from an old @ia blog post)

https://daverupert.com/2023/04/arc-boosts-elk/

davatron5000, 1 month ago to random

Oh cool, they’re using AI to [checks notes] determine my children’s academic prospects!?!!?

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/staar-artificial-intelligence-computer-grading-texas/

davatron5000, 7 months ago to random

Hey, if for whatever reason you're trying to use the jQuery version of FitVids in 2023, I'd just do this instead.

https://codepen.io/davatron5000/pen/JjwzMWm??editors=1010

davatron5000, 5 months ago to random

Let's say you know a guy with like 15 blog posts in the hopper... do you yeet them out even though it's the holidays and no one's going to read them? Or do you wait until the new year where everyone's too busy to read them?

davatron5000, 7 months ago to random

Having obtrusive thoughts about switching to Obsidian. Send help.

davatron5000, 3 months ago to random

📝 A holy communion https://daverupert.com/2024/02/a-holy-communion/

davatron5000, 1 year ago to random

Zelba zelba zelba

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Shoutout to the seven Japanese porn bots on X who engage with my content on a regular basis.

davatron5000, 8 months ago to random

Don't need a new keyboard don't need a new keyboard don't need a new keyboard don't need a new keyboard https://www.zsa.io/voyager/buy

davatron5000, 6 months ago to random

Is the phrase "Best Practice" a bit tired? Will King offers a few more specific options.

• Community pattern
• Readability pattern
• Performance patter
• Guardrail pattern

It will take awhile to break the habit of saying "Best Practice" but I like minor word changes that add a why to the what.

https://www.wking.dev/library/stop-saying-best-practice

davatron5000, 8 months ago to accessibility

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davatron5000, 1 year ago to random

Oh, you know, just added view-transitions to my Jekyll site over my lunch break.

*Canary-only, behind flags

Screencast of me clicking my article titles on my homepage and them morphing into the larger H1 article title on the post template.

davatron5000, 7 months ago to random

Happy WCAG 2.2 day! @marcus has a good roundup of posts that explains what's new and (gasp!) removed.

https://marcus.io/blog/overview-of-wcag22-posts

davatron5000, 11 months ago to random

oh no, one of my expensive domains-i'm-not-using auto-renewed.

we'll get 'em next year, champs.

davatron5000, 7 months ago to random

@lynnandtonic https://youtu.be/AXd1u3bdITg

davatron5000, 6 months ago to random

📝 New site section! Projects - A home for all my projects, side projects, and weird ideas.

• View projects: https://daverupert.com/projects
• Write-up: https://daverupert.com/2023/11/side-projects-galore/

davatron5000, 4 months ago to random

Five years ago, every surface and every drawer in my house had ten of those little microfiber screen cleaner cloths... now I'm not sure we have a single one in the house.

davatron5000, 3 months ago to random

📝 “I used to listen to your podcast” - mfw people say this to me + 10 reasons to give up on podcasts.

https://daverupert.com/2024/02/no-podcaster-don-t-cry/

davatron5000, 1 month ago to random

I only like ethically sourced human generated content. My wife and I love to get fresh content from this organic content farm just outside of Austin. We’re part of the Farm to Phone movement. But the best content is the content we grow and pickle ourselves at home.