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Bruce Lawson

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4 years

A friend in Germany tells me everyone’s panic buying sausages and cheese. It’s the Wurst Käse scenario.

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This is excellent. No more twatting about with multiple interviews etc; if you're invited to one of these, you know the organisation will be a bag of shit.

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Excited to introduce the world’s first AI interviewer, gpt-vetting. With gpt-vetting, you can interview 100x more candidates in less time & candidates get a more enjoyable, gamified, and less biased interview experience. You define the skills you want the interview to focus on,…

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Modern web development: "If you just spin up an instance of Golden Goose on Elastic Clownshoes, then clone the flugelhorn inside a Bangwoosh container, connect to the Zonk using Zonk -commit -rj -hgs.plonk, you're good to go. Chrome only of course"

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And apparently Greece is running low of hummus and taramasalata, leading to fears of a double-dip recession.

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Wow, BBC reports that the King of Spain has been refused entry into UK and told to quarantine on his private jet. The reign in Spain stays mainly on the plane.

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2 years

Spotted: React delivering your FAQ page.

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4 years

Mozilla laying off their devtools people is a massive blow. The excellent devtools were a good., non-ideological reason for developers to use Firefox as part of their daily work, & thus test in it & care about it. Moz had long given up on any other developer relations activities.

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5 years

Just heard a joke about Oedipus and King Midas. It was motherfucking gold.

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8 years

We know he can swim, but .. ?

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7 years

Breaking: Programmer accused of writing unreadable code refuses to comment.

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5 years

If you are a JS developer who writes front-end code, learn the semantics of HTML. There are 120-ish elements. Most 2 year olds know 100 words; by 2½ they know 300 words. Have an HTML vocabulary greater than a toddlers'. You can do it.

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5 years

Why do Norwegians and Swedes put bar codes on their military ships? So when they dock, they can Scandinavian. xx

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@LeaveEUOfficial @carolecadwalla @Nigel_Farage In what capacity does Fascage "speak for the nation"? He failed to be elected to parliament six times, if I recall correctly.

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3 years

I made this red square using pure CSS!

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2 years

Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS by the 2nd most active maintainer of Emotion, a widely-popular CSS-in-JS library for React.

Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS

Hi, I'm Sam — software engineer at Spot and the 2nd most active maintainer of Emotion, a...

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5 years

@JuliaHB1 'great unwashed'? Surely you mean "hard-working British men and women", you mouth-farting elitist oaf.

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4 years

I just received a DM from my MP, @jessphillips , checking that the benefits for the self-employed cover La Daughter and me during Covid. Her genuine concern for her constituents is why I voted for her.

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2 years

Big shout-out for the designer of the Dublin Beds logo

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2 years

I love a well-designed, informative infographic

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5 years

"Ok, as part of your interview test for junior developer, we want you to put some words, an image and some links onto a webpage. We use Node, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Redux, Puppeteer, Babel, Bootstrap, Webpack, <div> and <span>. Go!"

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5 years

I'm so proud of my son. It's not easy for a kid with a learning disability to apply to a mainstream college by himself (he only told me afterwards) but we've practiced interviewing and handshakes all over xmas, and today he was successful.

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5 years

Another day, another article by a JavaScripter complaining that it took them hours to style their page, after first saying they don't know simple CSS concepts. It takes me ages to write ES6 from scratch. That's a deficit in my skills. not a deficiency of the language. Arrgh.

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11 years

Yes, yes Java updater "3 billon devices run java". 14 million people have syphills, too, but that doesn't mean I want it.

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3 years

Using less of it.

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6 years

One trick that made me a better programmer/ speaker/ product person: rest, a lot. That's when ideas come. Read a lot, eclectically, about everything that interests you. That's where ideas come from. And wear groovy shirts.

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4 years

Web developers who hate HTML and CSS are definitely in the wrong business.

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4 years

Web developers who hate JavaScript are probably in the wrong business 😅

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7 years

Meme-ing

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4 years

I hate that there was a threatening Christian fundamentalist on the tube shouting anti-Semitic abuse at a kid wearing a kippah. But I love that Asma Shuweikh, a hijabi Muslim woman, intervened to support the child & his family. You rock, Ms Shuweikh.

Man arrested over anti-Semitic abuse on Tube

Police arrest a man in Birmingham after video of two Jewish boys being harassed is widely shared.

www.bbc.co.uk

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7 years

To the bastard who stole my Microsoft Office CD - I'll hunt you down. You have my Word.

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4 years

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font: A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers, free from the Braille Institute

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6 years

Every software project I've worked on since 1988.

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5 years

@jessphillips One day, your prints will come.

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7 years

Protip: to quickly tell the sex of an ant, put it in water and see if it sinks. Sinks: girl ant. Floats: buoyant.

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4 years

jQuery is used on 85.03% of desktop sites, and 83.46% of mobile sites. React is used on 4.6% of desktop sites. Web Almanac 2019) (

JavaScript | 2019 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

JavaScript chapter of the 2019 Web Almanac covering how much JavaScript we use on the web, compression, libraries and frameworks, loading, and source maps.

almanac.httparchive.org

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2 years

I'm old. I don't care about NFTs, or "Web3". I don't care about the Metaverse. Except for some niche uses, I've no interest in VR/AR. For me, frameworks and tooling only matter if they don't hinder the things I do care about: an open Web, affordable and accessible to all.

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7 years

Just said to Siri "Surely it won't rain today?" She said, "it will - and don 't call me Shirley". I'd forgotten to switch off Airplane mode.

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4 years

The only thing flat-earthers fear .. is sphere itself.

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5 years

What a hero. 17 year old Olga Misik in front of Moscow riot police, reading the Russian constitution's articles on the right to peaceful protest, to free speech and how the people's will and power are the most important thing for the country. She was arrested, detained and fined.

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4 years

@chuckborowicz Thank you. If a strangers' joke lands on your timeline, you need to wash your hands. Stay safe!

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5 years

Terrifying. Dozens of vulnerable MPs are being duped by the MayMay Challenge, in which they are induced to attempt economic suicide in exchange for retaining their seats or a chance of a junior ministerial job. #MayMayChallenge

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3 years

A nun, a priest, and a rabbit walk into a blood bank. The rabbit says, "I think I'm a type-o."

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2 years

I'm utterly shocked by the number of people who didn't know that every iOS browser is forced to use Apple's WebKit, despite being called chrome or Firefox. And this is *developers*. Apple aren't wholly to blame; Mozilla and Google are complicit in the bait-and-switch.

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6 years

Check, and mate, Pythagoras.

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7 years

I'm in a hotel lobby surrounded by chess players bragging about games they've won. Very festive: chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.

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4 years

@jengleruk @jessphillips No, she's working to get a man who's a danger to our nation's economy and security out of the PM's office.

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6 years

Terminal screen full of errors. Me to the team: "It won't build for me" Team: "What did you do". "I followed the instructions on the readme". Eye-rolling abounds. "Don't do that".

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3 years

Looking at my appointments in Google. Monday: Greg Tuesday: Ian Wednesday: Greg Thursday: Ian Friday: Greg Saturday: Ian It's the Gregorian calendar.

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2 years

Now, this is proper customer service

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4 years

My partner hasn't noticed I switched all the labels on the spice rack. But I know the thyme is cumin.

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3 years

Apologies if you find this a fence sieve.

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5 years

@slicknet 1964, My grandad (a coalminer): So, you wear a shirt & tie to work, sit at a desk moving paper around, & at 21 you're paid more than I am now? My Dad: Yes. 2010, Dad: So, your company makes a free product, competing with other free products, & you make more than I did? Me: Yes.

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3 years

I am *delighted* to announce that, for the 18th birthday of CSS Zen Garden, I have restored my original design "Geocities 1996" to its former glory. (Some class/ ID names changed so it broke.) Web Standards are future-proof, and great design is timeless

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5 years

I didn't believe that a chiropractor could improve my posture. But now I stand corrected

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7 years

Letter from son's school: b/c of funding reductions, they're cutting the school day by 30 mins. 2.5 hrs less education a week. Thanks Tories

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4 years

@jessphillips @MarcusRashford Aye. Taxpayers subsidised MP's Commons meals by £3.1 million in 2019. At £2.30 a head, that's 1,347,826 free school meals. Cummings' £50K council tax write off is another 21,739 fed kids. When will the elite learn responsibility and stop expecting handouts?

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4 years

Hyphens are important

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3 years

"Reflection of heart cave in Chiba, Japan". Is it just me, or does anyone else see something entirely different?

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6 years

Bah, no wonder my CSS wasn't working. I was refreshing the wrong bloody tab. The whole web platform is therefore rubbish and should be replaced with Java.

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6 years

Mozilla is 20 years old today. More than ever, the web needs a strong Mozilla to fight browser dominance, campaign for privacy and net neutrality. I hope they get their mobile strategy together - but am confident with @andreasbovens working his Belgian magic. Happy birthday, Moz!

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3 years

@AlanFreestone If women don't want to fuck a weird creep, that doesn't make it "toxic misandry", it makes it "women having control of their bodies and choices". The fact that you think women controlling their bodies is "toxic misandry" reveals a lot about you, and it's not healthy. Seek help.

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@belldotbz Ginger funster @sil has long maintained that every org needs a 12 year old boy (or me and him) checking product names and logos. But then, the folks at the Brazilian Institute for Oriental Studies would never have released this logo (now hastily ..er... pulled) which sparks joy.

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5 months

I got a fab Humpty Dumpty figurine in Aldi. It comes with Aldi King's horses, and Aldi king's men.

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8 years

I've got a new job! I'm Deputy CTO at Opera. Which is nice. Self-indulgent explainer blogpost:

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7 years

I'm leaving Opera

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1 year

@RussianEmbassy @mfa_russia @RusembUkraine @BBCWorld @SkyNews @guardianworld @TelegraphWorld @standardnews @ForeignAffairs @POLITICOEurope @NewStatesman The photos were taken in 2016 and show footage of a first-aid training session by the Ukrainian organization TacCat. One of the photos used in the collage was published by one of the participants, Liudmyla Bileka, on her Instagram in 2016.

The War in Ukraine in 2022 or the First Aid Training in 2016 – What does the Photo Collage Depict?...

On November 21st, Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3) (including the ones affiliated with the pro-Kremlin Conservative movement) shared a photo

mythdetector.ge

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8 years

We're all seemingly getting what we deserve.

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4 years

NCSA Mosaic v 1.0 was released 26 years ago today. It had "Full hypertext support, including using inlined images as anchors". Images could be aligned middle, top, or bottom, instead of just top, & "background color can be set to white instead of grey".

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2 years

New t-shirt

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On my first ever visit to my employer's HQ yesterday, I accidentally breached engineering etiquette when I mentioned my computer. Apparently it's bad luck to say "MacBook" in an office; you have to call it "The Scottish laptop".

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3 years

I can't believe it's Pancake Day tomorrow. That's really crêped up on us.

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4 years

"how come a church organ doesn't sound like a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually it will, if you remove the church. And if you connect a Commodore 64 to a loudspeaker in a large hall, it will sound like an organ."

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@JasonHall369 He is displaying his country's flag - see the hat on his head. But he can't spraypaint an ad for his shop on the wall in a conservation area, and has been warned about this repeatedly whether or not it contains a flag. Hope this helps get your blood pressure down to safe levels.

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8 years

Headscarfed leader of religious group that rejects aspects of secular UK society seen 21 miles from French coast

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5 years

In a recent poll, 80% of people in the UK said they would not open their homes to a sentient water basin that walked up to their door and asked for shelter. Let that sink in.

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4 years

Filling myself with delicious Japanese food to celebrate my birthday. 20 years ago when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, I never dreamed I would still be alive by now. Carpe diem, my little gyozas. Xx

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3 months

We need immediate support from web developers and businesses that operate online in the EU. The European Commission needs to hear from YOU to understand the devastating impact Apple’s new ban will have on your livelihoods, businesses and customers.

Immediate Action Needed! - Open Web Advocacy

Apple has officially announced that they are attempting to kill web apps in the EU, which will have ramifications worldwide

open-web-advocacy.org

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3 years

@jessphillips Tax burden is highest since 1949. #factsButWhoCaresBecauseBorisIsSuchAFunster

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6 years

"I do not think we help our cause by talking about CSS as this whacky, quirky language. CSS is unlike anything else, because it exists to serve an environment that is unlike anything else." - @rachelandrew preaching most righteously

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5 years

To the Person who stole my glasses: I will find you. I have contacts.

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My lad just received an email saying "we look forward to your place here at the college". I'm so, so proud of him. It was so hard to get him a statement of special educational needs 11 years ago, and he's worked so hard for this.

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3 years

A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example, - Jane ate her friend's sandwich. - Jane ate her friend's colon.

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3 years

Marvelling at this woman who can summon lobsters from the deep, drawing them towards her outstretched hand.

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Obsessed with this picture from the Boston Globe of a lobsterwoman yeeting one that wasn't big enough

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4 years

Here's my 5500 word article for beginners on writing good semantic HTML, using a Cheeky Girls fan site to walk through the thought process.

Beginners’ Guide To Writing Good HTML

In this HTML tutorial for beginners you learn what is HTML and how to use it to create a website from scratch (incl. the new HTML5 tags). Start coding now!

websitesetup.org

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4 years

I think about the layoffs at Mozilla like I think about the ones we had at Opera. The strategy that the Excellent Thinkers at the top were pursuing failed. So, the Excellent Thinkers laid off so many clever people who did what the Excellent Thinkers told them to do.

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3 years

I hate it when movies show a "hacker" furiously tapping away on two keyboard at once. It's such a stereo-type.

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5 years

And there we are: Only non-Chromium browser on Windows will be Firefox. So, for the love of Web, TEST IN FIREFOX.

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It's the 59th day of an unpatched Safari bug that leaves every iOS web user leaking data. They can't choose a different browser, because of the #AppleBrowserBan , which Apple says is to protect users' privacy and security.

Exploiting IndexedDB API information leaks in Safari 15

In this article we discuss a software bug introduced in Safari 15’s implementation of the IndexedDB API that lets any website track your internet activity and even reveal your identity.

fingerprint.com

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5 years

John & Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system. (via FB chums)

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2 years

Chromium & Firefox intwend to ship a new HTML Sanitizer API, which developers can use to remove content that may execute script from arbitrary, user-supplied HTML content. The goal is to make it easier to build XSS-free web applications.

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4 years

Police officer: "So, Mr Lawson, how did the hackers escape?" Me: "No idea, they just ransomware."

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4 years

It's a 5 minute walk from my house to the pub, but a 45 minute walk from the pub to my house... The difference is staggering.

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4 years

Your occasional reminder that if you're refactoring a site to make it accessible, you can't do it all at once, and may never be able to do it the best way (with proper HTML). But every single fix you deploy makes it better for somebody, day by day, even if it takes months.

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"It seems the best way to improve web development would be to completely remove the need for CSS." I think the author of this comment means "The best way to make my life as a JavaScript developer easier is to remove any language I don't understand"

CSS Houdini sounds like the ultimate BAD idea.

CSS Houdini sounds like the ultimate BAD idea. It seems the best way to improve web development would be to completely remove the need for CSS. Then we wouldn’t be faced with embarrassingly stupid…

medium.com

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5 years

Arggh- I know loads of jokes about cash machines, but I just can't think of one ATM.

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3 years

At work, that nice @LeonieWatson came and told our devs about screen readers. She answered the Q "what are the biggest barriers that have easiest fixes: - images w/o alt text - lack of landmarks, eg <main>, <nav> etc - not using semantic HTML, eg <div> instead of <button>

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3 years

This is the best sticker I've ever had. Thank you science, thank you socialist medicine.

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6 years

Lucky June.

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6 years

Finally, a helpful explainer diagram for the webpack plugin API

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9 years

You mark my words , hipsters http://t.co/4Knetso9w3

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5 years

My arm is a bit sore after yesterday's flu jab. Haven't developed autism. Anti-vaxxers:

Dr Lara Norris

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@kurteichenwald @UtdLabile I saw a patient earlier this year. She had measles because she wasn’t vaccinated. She had a stroke and will need years of rehab. She’s 6.

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