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If you write some JS (or CSS) and you're kinda OK, you may make some mistakes but still eek out a reasonable outcome.If you try to write A11Y-friendly markup but

In the ol' days, we used to only ship the code to a browser page that was needed for that page. If we didn't need the file, we didn't include

I've all but confirmed that it's specifically the @linkedin web page (that I had kept pinned in my chrome-for-windows) which was chewing up about 40% of my battery life. I

an interesting observation...my windows laptop advertises ~10hr battery life. I have consistently been seeing less than half that. windows reports that chrome and sublime are taking up over 85% of

A little thread on monads...(please don't get scared by the terms and run away! give it a shot!) A monad is a container around a value (like a number, string,

think it doesn't matter that browsers want to hide the URL from users?imagine twitter stops making individual tweets accessible by actual URLs, so that your only sharing options are through

(thread)what if we flipped hiring on its end... what if we made "candidate's desired work listing" sites instead of "job listing" sites, and if companies had to apply to the

I haven't really said this publicly in over 8 years (since going independent), but...I'm at a point where I might entertain working for a company (part-time or full-time). I'm not

somebody please fucking explain this away as "oh, it was deceptive, the angle/focus of the camera lens makes it look like people are closer than they are, it's all fine

(thread)whenever you tell people you built (or are building) something, and they respond with things like "(did you know) you could do it with this X, Y, and Z thing

I have an box on a page I'm building that chrome is insisting on autocompleting with my email address, even though this box has absolutely nothing to do

Explain to me why we would rationally support the idea of styling a link to look like a button, or styling a button to look like a link?If semantics (choosing