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cferdinandi

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I help people build a simpler, faster web. I love pirates, puppies, and Pixar movies. ADHD AF. he/him

https://gomakethings.com - https://adhdftw.com

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cferdinandi, to webdev
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🍦 New Article: The new and improved Lean Web Club https://gomakethings.com/the-new-and-improved-lean-web-club/

cferdinandi, to ADHD
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🐝 New on ADHD ftw! You are your ADHD https://adhdftw.com/you-are-your-adhd/

cferdinandi, to webdev
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🐝🎧 New ADHD ftw! Podcast:
Episode 10 - Second brain tool: Obsidian https://adhdftw.com/podcast/second-brain-tool-obsidian/

mvsde, to random
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Space suit technology is kinda amazing. I also wasn’t aware that no new EVA space suit model has been developed since the 80s.

https://youtu.be/FerFv7BZAwo

cferdinandi,
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@mvsde I was literally at the NASA visitor center in Cape Canaveral a month ago, and they were showing off some new designs in the works for future EVA suits

cferdinandi,
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@mvsde Yea, I REALLY dislike that. The Cape Canaveral Visitor Center is basically one giant Space-X ad.

andymoose, to random
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Medical professionals still think that slapping on a medical mask will magically remove all virus from the air - like viruses spread like alpha radiation as opposed to like smoke from a cigarette.

“Would you like me to put on a mask?”

“Sure - if you also flush the air out of this room like you are blasting the alien queen out the airlock”

cferdinandi,
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@andymoose On top if, they don't even fucking wear them correctly most of them time. Loose, ill-fitting, tons of gaps. It's beyond frustrating.

chriscoyier, to random
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jQuery plugins depended on jQuery, and when jQuery went out of favor, they ended up in the junkyard.

There is all sorts of componentry built exclusively on React, limiting it to React-based sites. As React goes out of favor, they will end up in the junkyard. (Same with any framework-specific extension.)

But with Web Components... it seems like the story will end differently. If they are built without dependencies, they might just live as long as the web does.

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@chriscoyier I think the snag for me is that a LOT of Web Components are being built with dependencies, which seems to defeat the whole point. I agree with you otherwise. The issue is dev behavior, not the tech itself.

cferdinandi,
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@chriscoyier So just by way of context... that Web Awesome project everyone's all hyped about? Lit as a framework for building Web Components. They all feel like "just another JS framework," with Web Components simply being an implementation detail rather than an actual benefit.

cferdinandi,
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@DavidDarnes @chriscoyier But a lot of what people are getting the most hyped about are not, unfortunately. Web Awesome. Lit as a tool. Etc.

cferdinandi,
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@bendelarre @chriscoyier I see it as a potential future failure point and a maintenance/dev issue

cferdinandi,
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@bendelarre @chriscoyier sounds like you’ve never had the joy of going back to code months later and having to spend hours fixing node dependency chain issues.

cferdinandi,
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@DavidDarnes @chriscoyier if the web ends up littered with a bunch of “could have just been HTML” that only renders with JS, I’m not sure that’s a win.

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@DavidDarnes @chriscoyier I agree! HOWEVER... when I see folks get hyped about stuff like Web Awesome, it simply being built with Web Components doesn't feel like a "win" so much as an implementation detail.

cferdinandi,
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@konnorrogers @bendelarre @chriscoyier one of the many false myths about vanilla JS. Sounds true. Isn’t.

cferdinandi,
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@konnorrogers @bendelarre @chriscoyier This is right up there with "vanilla JS doesn't scale" in terms of things people blindly repeat without any data to back it up.

mattwilcox, (edited ) to random
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Heard and respected. Personally never have used that word.

However; here is another take on that word and who gets to use it - as a conversation between a Black person and an Indonesian. https://youtu.be/dbcidd8CuYs?si=-p53J-cf0Jl4xdgT

The TL:DR is - white people: just don’t. Some Black people are fine with it and some aren’t (peoples are not monoliths); intent matters a lot. (But again, white people, we are assumed to have a certain context whether or not we individually do. So don’t.) https://mastodon.online/

cferdinandi,
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@mattwilcox I cannot imagine any situation where white people can EVER say it, in any context. Just don't.

aral, (edited ) to random
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To those Americans getting offended that their president and country are being criticised for arming a genocide may I just remind you that there is something a tad more offensive than being criticised for arming a genocide which is arming a goddamn genocide. Get some fucking perspective.

cferdinandi,
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@steviesyerda @aral and yet, the average American, cannot make Biden do anything, cannot will my country into a place that has a viable third-party candidate and have to live with the everyday repercussions of Trump being elected.

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@Radical_EgoCom @tadbithuman @aral I was commenting specifically to Aral, who is it various times implied that Americans just shouldn’t vote for Biden if he doesn’t stop supporting genocide.

I wish the American political system made that an actual possibility.

cferdinandi,
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@sharonecathcart @Radical_EgoCom @tadbithuman @aral I disagree with this, personally. He’s staunchly, publicly pro-Israel and denied they’ve done war crimes.

cferdinandi,
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@steviesyerda @aral Of course not. But Aral shouting at Americans that Biden sucks isn't going to stop people from dying, either. So again... what's the fucking point of this?

cferdinandi,
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@steviesyerda @aral Non-Americans shouting at Americans about how much Biden sucks isn't pressuring Biden to do anything

cferdinandi,
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@NoFlexZone @aral Ah yes. Shouting about Biden on Mastodon will definitely do that 🙄

cferdinandi,
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@countmonty @Radical_EgoCom @tadbithuman @aral You mean like Hamas agreed to do, but then Israel just went and bombed the fuck out of Rafah anyways. GTFO out of here genocide apologist.

aardrian, to accessibility
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I have been reading through the State of HTML 2023 results site (https://2023.stateofhtml.com/) and I am so disappointed in the overall efforts — both in the questions and in the code.

This may become a blog post.

I filed 3 issues today, have filed 15 since late 2022, and only 2 have been addressed:
https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/created_by/aardrian

But these surveys keep pushing problematic info in problematic UIs, giving the wrong impression of… everything.

cferdinandi,
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@aardrian I still think it’s wild that they had a well known industry voice driving this project and had this many issues.

eniko, to random
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remember when trump said if we just stop testing for covid it would go away as if by a miracle and everyone thought that was a scandalously stupid thing to say

on an entirely unrelated note since 3 weeks ago the CDC no longer requires hospitals to report covid hospitalizations and now biobot is no longer showing covid wastewater data for the US

cferdinandi,
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@eniko It's been fascinating watching Biden basically repeat Trump's covid approach and get praised for it. He's botched this thing so bad. It's infuriating.

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