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rachelandrew

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Content lead for Chrome DevRel at Google. Opinions (and cats) my own.

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It's absolutely irresponsible of Google to continue to promote Chromium-only APIs such as the File System Access API as if they were standard APIs you can use with the expectation that cross-browser support will come eventually

Glossing over the difference between APIs that have genuine cross-browser implementation interest and Chrome-only APIs that are unlikely to ever get implemented in Firefox or Safari is tantamount to tricking devs into making their projects Chrome-only.

rachelandrew,
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@baldur @jyasskin If you can point me to such articles on web.dev I'll fix that, we aim for web.dev to cover interoperable APIs though there may be the odd older article that got missed. The Chrome for Developers site covers a lot of Chrome-first or Chrome-only content, and experimental things too that we hope to get feedback on, but we do try to make that clear.

jonhicks, (edited ) to random
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Well, it appears our ‘big car’ is fucked, and even if I want to spend the £3-4k I'm being quoted to fix it, I can't find anyone to do the work for months (timing chains = big job).

A lot of new & used cars are so bloody expensive and ugly/unexciting at the moment, and wondering if this is the time to finally make the leap to an EV. We do a lot of miles from Oxfordshire to Glasgow and back, and wonder if the infrastructure is there yet in the UK.

rachelandrew,
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@jonhicks I have a Hyundai Ioniq which I love, infrastructure is better than it was, you need to plan where to stop but it's not too difficult.

jonhicks, (edited ) to random
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‘The Mortimiser' is something I’ve been chipping away at for a few months now.

It uses the Bob Mortimer naming formula of ordinary first name with a noun/nonsense/mundane word. Who will you be today? Kenneth Warhammer? Agnes Buttery?

That's all it does. Nothing fancy!

https://hicks.design/else/mortimiser

rachelandrew,
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@jonhicks To be honest I'm now considering getting another cat purely so I can call it Bob Console Error.

rachelandrew,
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@jonhicks This could be put into excellent service as a name generator for animals up for adoption at rescue centres. Who wouldn't want to adopt a cat called Tim Tetrapack or Bob Console Error?

zachleat, to random
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you pay for the health insurance for your teeth separately—practically speaking your teeth are out of network from your body

rachelandrew,
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@zachleat It's the same in the UK. While there are NHS dentists (if you are able to find one) most people pay for (NHS or private) dentistry, and vision. Which is wild especially given several cancers and other issues are picked up by dentists and opticians.

mia, to random
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Good morning. I woke up in this place. I guess I live here now.

So far we're rolling with a 'stacked boxes' aesthetic.

rachelandrew,
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@mia Oooh it looks like a great space. Maybe you can find some old photos of the front when it was a store.

rachelandrew, to random
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A little post to mark the official end of the company I began in 2001. Just a few words because, unusually for me, I can't figure out what I really want to say. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/03/23/closing-time/

rachelandrew,
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@scottjenson I've had people report this before and I have no idea why, it's just WordPress.

rachelandrew, to random
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My soup maker packed up. I use it all the time to make lunch, so I thought I'd get a new one. What is going on at Morphy Richards that they sell this many different soup makers?

I mean, one is even called the "perfect" soup maker. Once you have the perfect one, why not stop selling all the other similarly priced ones? https://www.morphyrichards.co.uk/collections/soup-makers

rachelandrew,
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Maybe this is how you get promoted when you work for an appliance manufacturer. Invent a new soup maker.

rachelandrew,
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@yatil Soup makers are great. I just chuck whatever random veg are lurking in my fridge into the thing, turn it on, 30 minutes later soup! And they have a keep warm function, so I can go start it off whenever is convenient and go get my soup in a break between meetings etc.

rachelandrew,
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I think I might pass on the "Perfect Soup Maker" and go for "Total Control". Which magazine seems to rate that one, and I feel I want to be in control of my soup. I don't want my "perfect" soup rampaging round the kitchen and scaring the cats while I'm in a meeting.

mia, (edited ) to random
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Almost every theater in Denver has a wordpress site composed of random plugins and scraps of gaffer tape. Some use accessibility overlays. At least they're trying?

Someone should specialize in maintaining theater WP sites. Their needs are all pretty similar: event calendars and ticket sales.

Maybe that will be my retirement plan. I can become Colorado Theater Webmaster, or something. (Please do this before me, so I don't have to)

rachelandrew,
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@mia When I still owned Perch CMS I had a vague idea there might still be a market for super customized, super simple CMS packages (self hosted so no ongoing costs other than cheap hosting). So, something that someone with basic skills could deploy and run that had all the plugins ready to go for that use case.

I also have many thoughts about the things we lost when it became hard to make a living just being a "small town webmaster".

rachelandrew, to random
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The Nabaztag bunny is getting festive.

rachelandrew,
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@simoncox I remember affirmation of the day! Early on we had it set up to announce when we sold a Perch license. Fun times.

rachelandrew, to random
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Went for a festive run.

rachelandrew,
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I'm not sure what people thought we were doing as we ran back and forth in the rain to draw the feet. 😂

tink, to random
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Making soup today. Spicy parsnip and peanut butter for me, leek and potato for @perlbod (who thinks parsnips are an abomination only marginally preferred over peanut butter).

rachelandrew,
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@tink @perlbod I love veg, except parsnips. The vilest of roots.

rachelandrew, to random
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11 years. A post about my wonky elbow situation. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/01/21/11-years/

rachelandrew,
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@craiggrannell Yeah, it was a complete reconstruction so in terms of range of movement and so on, it's likely it's as good as it gets. Surgeon no.2 was very impressed with what the surgeon who did the reconstruction had managed to achieve, so I feel as if I'm luckier than I could have been. The nerve damage is most problematic day to day, just because it's random and painful, though I have a reasonable handle on environmental things that make it worse.

rachelandrew, to random
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What hasn't changed since 1996 https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2023/12/31/1996/

rachelandrew,
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@rem it was a tiny one-bedroom flat. I think that tree was wedged between a sofa and the desk.

rachelandrew, to random
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It's just me and the cats today as my daughter is with her mother-in-law (we will celebrate tomorrow). I'm wondering whether to festively remove a sink—probably a bad idea unless I want to be expensively mocked by an emergency plumber—or re-oil the kitchen worktop in a suitably Christmassy manner.

rachelandrew,
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Went for the sensible option of kitchen benches. Neighbour walked past while I was sanding them down. Is now likely wondering what the hell I have for Christmas dinner that requires ear protection.

rachelandrew, to random
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Sad that A Book Apart will no longer be publishing new titles. They were a very special publisher. It's great that the back catalog will still be available to buy though.

https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart

rachelandrew,
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A Book Apart did for technical publishing what An Event Apart did on the stage. They gave new ideas space. It's very rare, most of the time people want you to write or speak about the latest popular thing. I was very lucky to be part of both, and the industry has benefited massively from their vision and their trust in the authors and speakers they worked with.

rachelandrew, to random
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Batch cooking today so I can eat during the week, and also due to too many beets.

Batch cooking appears to have been rebranded as 'meal prep'. I assume the bros got into it but didn't want it to sound like what their nan did in the 1970s, freezing food in empty ice cream tubs.

rachelandrew, to random
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Been getting all up in the sky again, after a reasonable amount of standing about pointing at clouds.

View from inside a glider just after takeoff. The orange to g plane is towing.

rachelandrew, to random
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I'm working through the Flask Mega-Tutorial by @miguelgrinberg which I am appreciating as a Python newbie, and as a technical writer. It does a lovely job of revealing things you need to know as you go along, while getting something real working quickly. I'm coming from years of PHP development, and am finding that just as I think "but how would I...?" there's a note explaining exactly that.

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world

rachelandrew, to CSS
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align-content for block and table layout is in Chrome 123 (Beta out today). If there is a chance you've used align-content outside of flex and grid layout, as it didn't do anything due to lack of implementations, it would be a good time to check your site for strange alignment. Safari and Firefox also have this on the way. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/align-content

rachelandrew, to webdev
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Baseline is landing on Can I Use! Find out more, and discover the huge number of features that became interoperable and therefore part of Baseline this year. https://web.dev/blog/baseline2023

rachelandrew, to random
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I spent a good chunk of time hunting for my leather passport wallet, containing my passport and corp credit card. I eventually found it, carefully hidden with new teeth marks. The thief is unrepentant.

rachelandrew, to random
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Chrome Beta 120 is out. I've just published the beta post and there's so much on the way including unprefixed and updated CSS masking and a change to the CSS Nesting specification. Take a look https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-120-beta/

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