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Meyerweb

@Meyerweb@mastodon.social

Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.

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Meyerweb, to random
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You can see why this is a news headline. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/15/1251409920/amylyx-relyvrio-als-pulls-off-market-fda-approval

brucelawson, to random
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Six hours on this boring boat, my eyes smarting at the frankly vulgar showiness of the ocean blue and ridiculously flamboyant flowers

Some daft flowers, all seemingly from the same plant but different colours, in a pathetic act of horticultural "look at me" desperation

Meyerweb,
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@brucelawson The very nerve of them.

lynnandtonic, to random
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Industry vibes are so weird aaaahhh

Meyerweb,
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@jgarber @beep @lynnandtonic

bkardell, to random
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Not sure how unpopular this opinion is but: Using an 's for possessive is the more intuitive thing with "it's" despite being "wrong" and I think we should just all rebel and do that.

Meyerweb,
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@bkardell nooooope

Meyerweb,
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@bkardell None of the forms are weird, though.

havn, to CSS
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Can someone explain to me why we don’t have media queries for browser engines in #CSS? Just pride?

I get that we, in a perfect world, wouldn't need it - because the standards were strong enough. But I live in the real world, and would prefer not to write shit like this:

--variable: 0.17rem;
@supports (text-wrap: pretty) {
--variable: 0.07rem;
}
@supports (-moz-appearance: none) {
--variable: 0.11rem;
}

Advice for doing this better is appreciated!

#WebDev #Allheimen

Meyerweb,
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@atlefren Indeed! But I don’t know if it’s something that will fit well into toots (and also, I’d need to better understand the nature of the objection; also also, I’d want to be sure said thoughts were welcome by Erlend).

Meyerweb, to random
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The Mothership has cleared the scaffold. We are away.

Meyerweb, (edited ) to random
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RIP to an icon.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/

thomasfuchs, to random
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If you think likes on social media are thrilling and instant gratification, wait until you learn about editing files on the server

Meyerweb,
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@thomasfuchs Screw the server, edit locally for maximum gratification speed.

mpirnat, to random
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Witnessed an for the first time tonight. Magnificent! I commend the magnetosphere for its role in making this possible. A+, would marvel at the cosmos again.

Meyerweb,
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@mpirnat There’s that star due to go nova in the next few months, maybe it’ll be that.

gretared, to random
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Will the Bay Area be able to see the aurora?

Meyerweb,
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@gretared I just saw someone posting pictures of them from Georgia, so you just might.

Meyerweb, to random
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CLEVELAND! CHICAGO! Get your butts outside to see the ! My daughter Carolyn took these from Madison, OH, and I can see them faintly through the light pollution in suburban Chicago. Stunning.

Trees and horizon silhouetted against mostly purple auroral pillars, with a green river along the bottom of one curtain.

Meyerweb,
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@daveshea They’re looking pretty damn good. The Kp has been above 8 for hours, and mostly steady at 8.67. I’ve never seen anything like it before!

Meyerweb,
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@wjmaggos Yeah, I think it subsided by then (and also, clouds). The Kp has gone back up so try again, just in case.

Edit: just looked outside again in Rosemont and nope, too many clouds. Damn.

blogdiva, to random
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will we be able to see the here in NYC 🥺

Meyerweb,
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@blogdiva Kp has been holding strong at 8.67 for an hour or more, so your odds are good! Assuming you’re away from the city, whose lights will almost certainly swamp any auroral light.

Meyerweb,
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@blogdiva 🤞 🤞

Meyerweb, to random
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I’m riding in a car crossing north Indiana, relaying NOAA Kp data and Mastodon aurora sighting locations to a loved one on board a ship just off the coast of Ireland via SMS, and I’ve rarely felt so Gibsonian.

Meyerweb,
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I got this back, which I share with you, and now the circle is complete.

zachleat, (edited ) to random
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Planning on doing a full Organizer retrospective blog post, but in the interest of transparency here’s a peek at the conference budget (funded primarily by our Open Collective, prices in USD):

Expenses: $7574.20
Revenue: $4653.79 (Free event, but via sponsors and merch)
Profit: -$2920.41

Edit: Fixed a spreadsheet error 😬

Meyerweb,
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@zachleat @cloudcannon I hope you include a rough estimate of that amount in your blog post!

Also, I assume there weren’t speaking fees, given it was free?

Meyerweb,
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@zachleat @cloudcannon Good on ya! That’s excellent. Definitely be clear about that in the post.

Meyerweb, to random
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“Copyright protection is for us, not for you peons.” —OpenAI, probably
https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

Meyerweb, to random
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I for one am strongly in favor of the efforts to arm teachers, as it should make future teacher contract negotiations go a LOT faster.

mathewi, to random
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Meyerweb,
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@mathewi I went on a weird tear of “this person was also an accomplished poker player” factoids popping up yesterday. First was finding out about Jennifer Tilly’s WSOP bracelet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Tilly), then the news of Albini’s death broke, and then I was looking for something else and stumbled across Shannon Elizabeth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Elizabeth).

Edent, to wordpress
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🆕 blog! “A completely plaintext WordPress Theme”

This is a silly idea. But it works. I saw Dan Q wondering about plaintext WordPress themes - so I made one. This is what this blog looks like using it: The Code You only need two files. An index.php and a style.css. The CSS file can be empty, but it needs to exist - […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/a-completely-plaintext-wordpress-theme/
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Meyerweb,
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@Edent It cuts off right before the first code block, though. Markdown-to-HTML-to-strip glitch, maybe?

Meyerweb, to random
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Thought I would have to miss due to a series of meetings, but they magically all got canceled or rescheduled so I’ll be joining the crowd tomorrow. See you there? https://conf.11ty.dev/tickets/8ba8f51d6fae470895e712ef51f52085

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