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codepo8

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Web developer for 25 years. Ex-Yahoo, Mozilla, Microsoft. Wrote the Developer Advocacy handbook. https://toot.cafe/@codepo8 on Twitter.

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"Can you make that web app behave like a native one?"
Sure...

window.onerror = window.close()

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In the US and Canada LEGO has a service where you can box bricks you don't need any longer and send them back free of charge. They will wash them and donate them to children's charities.
https://www.lego.com/replay

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Time to fix the clock again

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My company is hiring: who wants to work with me in Developer Relations? https://christianheilmann.com/2023/10/20/my-company-is-hiring-who-wants-to-work-with-me-in-developer-relations/

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You might wonder what religion praying mantises belong to. It's not a single one, they're all in sects.

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Did you know that Preview in MacOS can remove background from images? Keyboard shortcut CMD+Shift+K

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Goodbye . We all owe her so much. She's been found dead in her home at 60 years of age. I had many great encounters with her. First Lemmy, now this.

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90% of coaching advice on LinkedIn…

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👉🏻 “Here's why Japan has blue traffic lights instead of green”

🔗 https://www.rd.com/article/heres-japan-blue-traffic-lights/
💬 Languages are weird.

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The Top Accessibility Errors Found in 2023

  1. No link text
  2. Non-active element in tab order
  3. Missing link alt attribute
  4. No alt text
  5. Nested list not nested correctly
  6. Duplicate labels used
  7. Positive tabindex value
  8. Invalid aria-describedby
  9. No label for button element
  10. Invalid aria-labelledby
    https://www.tpgi.com/the-top-accessibility-errors-found-in-2023/
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People don't buy products. They buy solutions to their problems.

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👉🏼 „Short session expiration does not help security”
🔗 https://www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl/2023/08/16/session-timeout/
💬 if someone compromises your session, you’re screwed whether it lasts five minutes or for ever. Attacks that are prevented by short session timeouts are really rare.

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Who knew that training AI to give you quick summaries to any query on data from a platform that had "What is this - wrong answers only" as an in-joke for decades was a bad idea?

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👉🏼 „The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job
🔗https://christianheilmann.com/2023/05/09/the-ongoing-defence-of-frontend-as-a-full-time-job/
💬 Here’s the deal: a frontend developer isn’t a mediocre coder that only dabbles in “easy” languages like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. A frontend developer is someone who made a conscious choice to build interfaces for the unknown with a laser sharp focus on the end user’s experience.

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Need to get all the links from a website into a spreadsheet? Use the developer tools console!
console.table($$('a'),['innerHTML','href']) is the key.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUwVl4Gqvw

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The renaming of Twitter to X makes sense if you think of how many people refer to it as their ex-job.

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There was not a single Sci-fi movie or novel that predicted a 2023 where humans did menial, boring and dangerous work for minimum wage while machines wrote poetry and created art.

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Why isn't every science interested newss outlet going apeshit about what the Indian Space Program has achieved where China(!) failed? Is it because you can't pronounce the name of the landing craft? India has incredible talent!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02685-4

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👉🏼 „How large DOM sizes affect interactivity, and what you can do about it”
🔗https://web.dev/dom-size-and-interactivity/
💬 Large DOM sizes have more of an effect on interactivity than you might think. This guide explains why, and what you can do.

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Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow (David Ingram/NBC News) https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

Told you. Wankers.

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Antidepressants or Tolkien character?
https://antidepressantsortolkien-xebuz.vercel.app/

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Microsoft adds native support for rar, 7-zip, tar, gz, and other archive formats to Windows 11, via the libarchive open-source project (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/28-years-later-windows-finally-supports-rar-files/

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Time to update your browsers: WebP vulnerability in the wild.
https://stackdiary.com/critical-vulnerability-in-webp-codec-cve-2023-4863/

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