It’s that time of year in the US where you don your ceremonial robes, prepare your incantations, and bring all your wit and wisdom to bear…
…in accurately guessing how much money you owe the government.
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What do people use for deploying/building code these days?
I use DeployHQ and I like it but I’m limited to 10 projects on the lowest tier. Next plan is double the cost so I’m shopping for alternatives because I have a lot of tiny projects.
I’d prefer not to have to write YAML.
An optimistic take on the deluge of AI-generated text: your own human writing becomes rarer and thus more valuable than ever.
Someone got a photo of @robb’s @eleventy setup
https://mstdn.social/@ElleGray/112202493657027204
OH: “They’re nice on the phone but they’ll eff you on paper.”
@davatron5000 @chriscoyier @shoptalkshow I think I failed to mention this in the episode but my go-to tower defense game series is:
Had a great time talking home-cooked apps and generally shooting the webdev breeze with @davatron5000 and @chriscoyier.
https://front-end.social/@shoptalkshow/112196289295136552
Who do I need to lobby in order to get and more granular scrollbar styling abilities in Firefox? Or is this a web standards thing?
Asking because my favorite user CSS to apply to websites is to make the scrollbar about twice as big.
A little bit of a ShopTalk spoiler but at one point I mentioned regretting that I used polling instead of web sockets on a home-cooked chat app/site.
Well, over the weekend I integrated Pusher which is a web-sockets-as-a-service product. It worked great. Their free plan is more than enough for a home-cooked app.
Backstory: https://blakewatson.com/journal/building-our-own-private-discord-knockoff/
I’m not sure what deity I crossed, but for no reason whatsoever I have It’s Gonna Be Me by NSYNC on repeat in my head.
Also, you’re a month early, boys. It’s gonna be April.
I've been messing around with some CSS for styling blog posts for like three days now and keep changing my mind. Is there a word for this? It's like CSS decision paralysis.
One topic that came up was the Discord knockoff me and @mhilltopple made just for us. One of its features is that we brought back the og Discord font, Whitney. I was kinda hating on the new Discord font and I feel a little bad about that now that I think about it.
But Whitney is nice, is what I’m trying to say.
I just got done recording an episode of @shoptalkshow with Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier!
It was fun. Hope yall like trig because there were some tangents. Should be out in a couple weeks.
Back in 2006, I was a happy Windows XP user. It was time for me to upgrade my machine. Instinctively I was going for a Dell.
But then I thought about iTunes. It was my favorite program on my Windows machine. I thought, “Let me just see what kind of machines Apple sells.” I got my first Mac a few months later and never looked back.
But I do miss the eminently usable UI of older Mac OS X versions.
I miss aqua-style scrollbars so much. I actually need and use scrollbars.
https://mastodon.online/@octothorpe/112117134117397539
> Then someone in the discussion said something I always find a bit deflating. They said they had no problem writing, but they’re not so keen on publishing.
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> “After all”, they said, “the world doesn’t need yet another opinion.”
Imagine your favorite app. Now imagine that you could change the way it looks or how it behaves without having to submit a feature request to the developer.
Such is the power of the web.
You can add your own CSS or JavaScript to any webpage. How wild is that?
Use your Mac the way I do: a thought experiment
https://blakewatson.com/journal/use-your-mac-the-way-i-do-a-thought-experiment/
Have you ever come across some code on a project and thought, “that is kind of weird but irrelevant to me right now,” and then discovered hours later that it’s the source of the bug you have been trying to fix the entire time?
Edit: it turns out there is a comment above the exact line of problematic code that says “Yes this is stupid…”
Edit again: git blame is erroneously saying that *I* did this three days ago.
I’m really sick of taking reverse Turing tests.