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Designer. Started that responsive design thing. Writes a bit, or tries to. Spends a normal amount of time thinking about The Locked Tomb series.

A perfectly normal amount of time.

My new book is YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION! (You can purchase it from my bio, or just about anywhere books are sold!)

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Luke, (edited ) to random
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Anyone know of a code editing environment that live updates the preview based off of the you're currently typing? No 'save' action needed?

CSSEdit / Espresso is too old.
• Mac, please
• PHP pages

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@Luke Hmm, I don’t know of any Mac apps that do this! A browser’s devtools would probably be what I’d reach for, if I wanted as-I-type updating.

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i love personal website redesign projects, they concentrate the highest number of crippling insecurities over the longest period of time possible

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tfw you’re not a climber but you suddenly land on the highest shelf you’ve ever reached, and you’re not sure what the fuck happens next

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@fox if she or her sister ever learns how to operate the instant pot, we’re truly fucked

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@exchgr we totally call it her “what I’m uhhhhh innocent” face 😅

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Industry vibes are so weird aaaahhh

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@lynnandtonic [nods grimly] tech’s haunted

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you first, asshole

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i...

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@molly0xfff wow makes u think

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what i would give for an in-app thread reader (i.e. just fuse the posts together. just get rid of the username/timestamp between the posts. just make it look like a blog post. in fact could you just make a blog post and link to it)

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@exchgr sorry to sealion in but

TAB ATTIC

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today’s been kinda rough tbh, but i did get to introduce an old friend to https://virtual-stan.com/ for the first time, so things’re lookin’ up a bit 💖📦🤖

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“Amazon has launched a new ‘one-click to quit the union’ tool, and they’re relentlessly pushing it to every worker in their Coventry warehouse. […] If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership.”

A legal challenge to some gnarly union-busting tactics that Amazon’s deployed in one of its warehouses in the UK: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

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this from the company that once literally installed a mailbox to intercept union votes, mind you https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-interfered-with-union-elections-says-us-labor-board-2021-08-03/

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tech ceos: we must compete in the marketplace of ideas

tech workers: union election time

tech ceos: not like that

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🥱 “the marketplace is saturated”

😎 “welcome to damp mart”

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WIP

WIP drawing of the same

time lapse video of the drawing

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@exchgr oh elle this is lovely

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React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

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@baldur Oh Baldur, this is just so, so sharp. Gonna be thinking about this the rest of the day. Thank you.

(And I hope you know how downright humbled I feel, after seeing you closed with such an expansive endorsement of my little book. Thank you so much, Baldur — that really means a lot 💜)

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I'm going to be speaking at Web Directions Code 24! 🎉

🔗 https://www.ellyloel.com/garden/catch-me-at-web-directions-code-24/

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@elly Aw, yay — congratulations, Elly! John and the WD crew put on stellar events, and they’re lucky to have you.

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I am exceedingly proud that my book HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: INSIDE THE SYSTEMS THAT SHAPE OUR WORLD, has been longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction! Just look at that company, my goodness!

https://www.massbook.org/mass-book-awards

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@debcha Deb! Hell yeah!!

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experiencing a weird little bug on my laptop, where something — an image? a slack post? some random browser tab? who knows — occasionally generates a tooltip that pops up to say:

> fuck, dude

i have no idea why or how it’s happening, but i do know i’ve never empathized more with my computer

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@jgarber jason if i could reliably reproduce this i would 10000% tell all my internet friends

Luke, to random
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I need a web dev environment for iPad.
PHP. I wonder if Mamp has something.

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@Luke Would the Iconfactory’s little server dealie work for your purposes? https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory/111172885597647537

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@Luke ah, sorry — totally misunderstood your post! if you’re looking to serve directly from the ipad, i’m not sure what your options might be.

hope you find something good!

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inside every software author there are two wolves: 🐺 v0.99 🐺 v99.0

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@zachleat release one then the other, permanently close repo

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