Mark Jaquith
@markjaquith
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Making things on the web since the dial-up days. Values: truth, curiosity, and improvement. ❤️ @sarcasmically (Jaquith is pronounced JAKE-with)
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Just accidentally discovered that macOS Calculator has a “Paper Tape” window you can activate with ⌘-T
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@lizzywol
This sentence is *technically* true in that we don’t know if it’s 98.8% because of biology or 99.1% because of biology, but deeply dishonest in its obfuscation of the fact that we know it is *overwhelmingly* biological.
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@film_girl
If I found something I created at 17 I would destroy it and make sure there were no witnesses.
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@jessesingal
“Incredible scoop,” thought Peter.
“Better fact check it before I publish.”
He glanced down at his t-shirt — “Believe Science” in thick lettering.
His mind wandered to how much he hated anti-science morons.
“Article Published” read his screen.
He hadn’t remembered clicking.
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@allahpundit
It’s so bad.
Private citizen. Private donation. Not illegal. Not even unethical (are we against… criminals having representation now? seriously?). Hacked information. Shows up at his house with a microphone. Puts his house on air. “Caught”. “Investigation”.
Shameful.
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I’m looking for a new job! I have 19 years of professional full-stack web development experience. Ideal role is “Senior Web Architect”.
I’m passionate about tackling challenges and advancing modern web tech within a forward-thinking company.
DMs open; Retweets appreciated. 🙏🏼
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@jessesingal
"Don't harass people about their anodyne opinions" is the easiest layup in the world, but somehow this comic went with "this sea lion is trying to calmly argue against his kind's extermination — what an asshole"
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@tszzl
Fighting 47 middle-class families to get the last two seats at the Miami AmEx lounge so you can drink a cappuccino from a machine and say “no, someone is sitting here” until your voice gives out
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Weekend exploration, egged on and sparked by
@helenhousandi
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“What if building custom blocks for the Block Editor was as easy as supplying attributes and a block of HTML? What if this produced React editing code and PHP rendering code without a build step?”
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Fun thing about WordPress having a REST API is that you get to see how sites organize their data. For instance, the Department of State website is making extensive use of the ACF plugin.
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Adults are in charge again, and Antifa chuds are here to remind you that you can’t tell them to stop playing Xbox you’re not their real dad.
“We are ungovernable” - banner at Portland protest on Biden’s inauguration today
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Just released Encute — a fluent API for manipulating WordPress scripts and styles.
Script::get('jquery')->footer();
Style::get('contact-form-7')->keepIf(fn() => is_page('contact'))->defer();
Will put it in the plugin directory once it has a code-gen UI.
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@goblinodds
Oculus — little looker
Tuberculosis — little bump disease
Modulo — little measurement
Stimulus — tiny poke
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@pmarca
Obviously something happened, but my thesis is that which way the parties diverged is a historical accident. A few different tweets from Trump and Republicans would be cheering the COVID vaccine miracle while Democrats resisted the “rushed Trump vaccine”.
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It's absurd that Ron DeSantis spends every waking moment trying to "own the libs" but it's also absurd that so many people just take the bait.
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Ukrainian UN ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya addressing UN just told Putin that if he wants to kill himself, “he doesn’t have to use nuclear arsenal; he has to do what the guy in Berlin did”.
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I made a Clerk integration for SvelteKit with a boost from
@thebrianbug
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Supports server-side protected routes, and all the main Clerk components like <SignedIn let:user />, <SignIn />, <UserProfile />, etc.
@sveltejs
+
@ClerkDev
is a great combo.
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I’m having TOO MUCH FUN writing absurd function PHPDoc descriptions and watching CoPilot write them.
I wrote: “Reverse the post content on Thursdays” and CoPilot did it. 🤪
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@Duderichy
Ew, why can’t they just bottle up their frustrations and hopes and let household and relationship work pile up until it all comes to a head in an Applebee’s parking lot like a NORMAL couple. 🙄
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@allahpundit
I’m still gonna be using COVID-19 as an excuse not to go to parties in 2039.
🎵Been spending most their lives in an introverted paradise 🎵
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@Aella_Girl
Makes me think of the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where a Survivor contestant is comparing himself to Holocaust survivors at a dinner party
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@DistractedAnna
Me, apologizing when my phone briefly vibrates a table.
Them, listening to the entirety of the Cheers intro song play twice over while they stare at their phone and ponder the pros and cons of answering.
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I’m pleased to say I have accepted a position at Material Security. Excited to start working with a talented team building clever solutions to workspace cloud threats. Thankful for everyone who helped send leads and offers my way. 🙏🏻
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I really love physical interfaces.
This controls the household Internet, per-child. Turns off while they’re at school. When they get home and do their chores, they can toggle it on. Supports scheduling for bedtime. Was a fun build!
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If you write tests for your WordPress plugins (you do, right? 😉), you should thank
@jrf_nl
for her heroic effort on PHPUnit Polyfills which allows you to write PHPUnit 9.x tests that can run against earlier versions of WordPress and PHPUnit.
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Unrelenting TailwindCSS skepticism is the surest indicator that your thinking calcified two decades ago
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@PaoloRicciuti
Or just proxy those requests through a tiny Cloudflare Worker on your domain! Plus then you get to control the caching, massage the data so it’s thinner to the client, and maybe actually increase the resilience of the request.
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Being so deeply involved in both PHP (20 years) and JavaScript (26 years) is wild. The JS community thinks PHP died, while they re-invent PHP. The PHP community (not dead, swimming in money) is pretending that server/client cohesion isn’t a massive advantage.
Y’all. Please talk!
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Boomers forget their username and call their kids for a reminder.
Gen-Xers use the same user/password for everything.
Millennials forget their password and go through the the Forgot Password flow monthly.
Zoomers forget their password, shrug, and just create a new account.
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@goblinodds
@lisatomic5
Right. So I went for blue based on this calculus:
I don't want anyone to die.
100% red = no one dies, but 50.01% blue means no one dies. And since it's much easier to get to 50.01% blue than to 100% red, I went with blue. I counted on people sensing that red has bad vibes.
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I’m really impressed by
@astrodotbuild
. Zero JS by default. Bring your own JS component library (or not). Easy to add things like Tailwind, Svelte, Vue. Easy to deploy on CloudFlare, Netlify, Vercel. Can output HTML or do SSR.
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Spot the perverse incentive.
If you go through 18–34 toll stations in a month, you’re incentivized to intentionally go through enough stations to bring your total to 35, which would result in you paying 17.5 tolls, saving you money.
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Two impeachments. The most in history, folks. Some are saying the biggest impeachments ever. Maybe in the world. Yuge, beautiful impeachments. You should see these impeachments, folks. Scholars are saying they’ve never seen anything like it. And it’s a great thing. A great thing.
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@drethelin
A filter for “*willing* to go to therapy” seems helpful… screens out the Paulies Walnuts.
But “currently going to therapy” screens IN the Tonies Soprano. 🤔
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@Aella_Girl
It could be. But it also could just be corporate conservatism. He doesn’t seem like he has a steady hand. The “verified” stuff was bungled. The Eli Lilly tweet was pretty damaging. They might just be saying “stop breaking shit so we trust this boat with our ad dollars again”.
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I use Ray for debugging WordPress (and Laravel). If you’ve ever wanted something lighter and easier than XDebug but more useful than var_dump(), Ray is it!
⚡️ Ray can help debug
@wordpress
apps faster
⚙️ You can measure performance, pause code, see queries, mails sent, …
📺 Here’s a demo:
😘 I don’t know many people in the WordPress community, so I highly appreciate RTs if you do!
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@bernybelvedere
Legend has it they were all born with cable knit sweaters loosely knotted around their necks, which they only remove for major surgery and skydiving.
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Writing a post about how awesome GitHub Copilot is and how much it has improved my work in the last year. By far the single biggest boost in how productive and happy I am while coding.
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@ollyrobot
We don’t say “the final screw in the coffin” because you probably only need like one in each corner
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@mkhammer
To be fair, the hosts push back on this silly idea and mention expanded electronic entertainment.
I think safeyism and the criminalization of childhood freedom is the other factor.
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This woman at Panera straight set up a mouse and mouse pad, a riser, and (I swear I’m not making this up) photos of her grandchildren. She brought so much stuff she had a suitcase for it.
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@mesolude
It’s an addicting feeling. 😌
People will be like “so you’re flying that drone?” and it’s more like “I *am* the drone”.
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@christian_pyn
@sirjoeldean
The pro tip for any service that lets you update your credit card but doesn’t let you cancel online, is to use one of those virtual credit cards. Update it, then cancel the card. And then when they try to bill you it will fail and the service will be canceled automatically.
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@jessesingal
“Want a snack?” was what got me. Like, if someone says “yes” to that during a sexual encounter… oof.
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A cute thing about NASA engineers is that they are *way* better at landing rovers on Mars than they are at landing high fives and fist bumps while celebrating.
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@jonst0kes
“Usually people are pretty apologetic and responsive to being corrected” sounds like something a child with little life experience would say. Generally this is the opposite of true. You chide people and embarrass them and they get angry and dig in.
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@TanaGaneva
I default to blocking annoying people, trolls, bigots, bad faith ideologues, pseudo-spammers, etc. I know muting is close to the same thing, but in addition to them disappearing from my view, I'd like to disappear from their view. I don't block people for good-faith criticism.
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Conferences should let attendees vote whether they want music at the afterparties and only have music if an overwhelming majority vote for it.
These are social events for people to talk and network.
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I’ve been using
@github
’s Copilot service for a year, and it has forever changed the way that I write code. It exists in a virtuous circle such that the better it works, the better I work — and the better I work, the better it works.
My full thoughts:
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Seems really bad that
@TwitterSupport
and
@elonmusk
are completely silent about all the good third party Twitter clients having their access cut off for two days.
I thought this was supposed to be the era of Twitter transparency.
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@Noahpinion
I loved the scene in Back to the Future Part III where Doc is like "No wonder this circuit failed, it says made in Japan" and Marty replies "What do you mean Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."
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@vocalcry
This is true! But if your lack of agency in other areas of your life is temporary and unavoidable, it's a decent coping mechanism.
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@thechosenberg
Basically yes. They go down the aisle and ask “gin and tonic?” and they will keep them coming and give you two at last call.
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The teen refused to eat the pasta and meat sauce I made for dinner because, and I’m not shitting you here… “it tastes too Italian”.
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I really hate it when someone gives me money and I put it in my wallet and it turns out that they gave me money.exe which is a Smart Contract that gives them all my money but what else are you gonna do, trust stable democracies and banks?!
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@mitchellh
Also you can just ask ChatGPT to write the OpenAPI manifest file by giving it the API URLs and sample responses. 😄
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@goblinodds
My theory on this is that people who are NOT into that just roll their eyes at the title and press play, but for the minority who ARE into it, it’s a value-add. Thus it is overrepresented.
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Satisfying mini project: I regenerated all my backup two-factor authentication codes, printed them out, and put them in sealed and printed envelopes. It was always a worry in the back of my mind that I would get locked out (it has happened before, and it sucks).
Worry gone.
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“A pro-war WordPress plugin was mistakenly approved, and then within an hour of leadership being made aware of it and its symbolic meaning, it was removed without a single objection” isn’t a sexy headline but that’s what happened.
Mistakes happen. Judge how they’re handled.
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@LadyBluenotes
I saw someone rendering a calendar into HTML and they hand-coded all the ways the month could look (starting day of week, number of days in month, number of days in previous month) in a giant list of if/then statements.
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Google’s Core Web Vitals are good, well-chosen metrics for making web pages with an enjoyable user experience. I was prepared to hate them, but prioritizing them really does make your pages feel *nice*.
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I think the freakout over Musk buying Twitter is premature. There are a lot of ways it could go really wrong, but it doesn’t have to.
That said, people being like “I’m gonna go start a blog” is good. Go get a domain and make something that trolls and bad policies can’t silence.
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This is a horrific story. 😧
Never let CPS or the police in your house without a warrant. Be polite, but firm. Tell them you need to speak to your lawyer.
My extended family has been thrown into a hellish nightmare. My nephew and his wife, who live in Boston, just had their two sons taken from them in the middle of the night by CPS. Their sons are 6 months old, and 3 1/2. A baby and a toddler, the baby still nursing.
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@blackgirlbytes
I hear “deep clean” and I want them to say “so we power washed your treble overlay and steam soaked your crossbridges” and me be like “I didn’t even know we had those, never mind that we should clean ‘em”
Instead it’s like “we wiped your fridge just the door just the front part”
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Car commercials around the holidays are like:
“Honey, I have a surprise for you.”
“You made a huge financial decision by purchasing a majorly personal item for me without consulting me? You’re the best! Wow, this bow could strangle two whales!”
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@allahpundit
One composer. One poet. One nation. One brave hammer-thrower.
A disrespectful setup 248 years in the making.
Coming to theaters everywhere:
I Know Why You Played the National Anthem at a Sporting Event This Summer
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Do Zoomers know there are phone battery percentages higher than 20%?
I swear you’ll ask your kids “is your phone charged?” and they’ll be like “ya bro im good its 17%”.
And then 26 minutes later they’ll send you a TikTok and then add “help phone 1% what do”.
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It’s really disheartening to see new web developers learning React first.
There are reasons to use React, but it should probably be the last frontend framework you learn — and only when you’re forced to. You have to learn a lot of tedious stuff to use it.
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Bahaha one minute after this tweet some account replied trying to phish my (non-existent) crypto wallet.
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Children deserve to be fed while they're at school. “School lunch debt” cruelly and unfairly shames them.
@sarcasmically
's company started paying off lunch debts last year, and has now launched a 501(c)(3) org so you can help.
Lunch Debt is Bullshit.
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Encute, my tool that helps savvy site operators manage WordPress- and plugin-enqueued assets, is now in the WordPress plugin directory, along with a code-generation tool:
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@t3dotgg
put out a great summary video of
@sebmarkbage
’s post that addresses a bunch of the potential React server actions and server component security footguns.
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@JayGSlater
They should have written this up in Japanese and dropped pamphlets about it. Imagine being in the Japanese air force and reading that American pilots just get a new plane when something minor is wrong with theirs.
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I highly recommend this (and Valet, obviously) for doing PHP dev on macOS.
It’s especially useful during transitional periods. Right now I’m considering PHP 8.1 for Laravel, but staying on 8.0 for WordPress until a few issues there get worked out. And I have one 7.4 laggard.
🚀 PHP Monitor 5.2 is now available!
Most notable: this release adds support for Valet 3. With this new version of Valet, you can now easily set a version of PHP *per domain*! 😎
⬆️ `brew upgrade phpmon`
📝 Learn more:
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@mattyglesias
I think about this and “WHO doesn’t want to wear the ribbon?!” at least once a week.
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@adamwathan
index.php, about/index.php, partials/header.php, etc.
If it’s basically static and a handful of pages, why bother with a router or a build process? PHP can give you shared template partials, and Nginx is your router. Fast. Runs anywhere.
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@allahpundit
One fewer than there are today. The quote by the mind-changer would be “you know, he probably shouldn’t have said it but I appreciate his honesty”
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This is an open source hardware/software radio receiver (Express LRS). It’s smaller than your smallest fingernail. It costs ~$20 USD. It has a range of at least 20km. You upload firmware to it via HTTP on its built-in Wi-Fi access point. The future is amazing.
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@thechosenberg
Just when you think Musk's reply is the most cringe-y non-sequitur possible, Jeff swoops in to educate you.
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@Aella_Girl
I think the problem is that anyone who would want to do it shouldn’t get the job.
But those foot massager machines are legit. You can just set up in front of the TV and it’ll grind away and turn your feet into limp noodles. And it won’t try to turn it into a sex thing.
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@jessesingal
I think about this tweet a lot:
everything 👏 is 👏 monocausal 👏 and 👏 specifically 👏 results 👏 from 👏 whatever 👏 shit 👏 I'm 👏 on 👏 about 👏 at 👏 any 👏 given 👏 time
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Thinking about making a WordPress plugin/library that lets you fluently tweak script and style assets.
Script::get('some-handle')->defer()->footer()
Style::get('contact-form-7')->showIf(fn() => is_page('contact'))->defer()
Thoughts?
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Traditional developer’s blessing: may you live long enough to accidentally rediscover your own solution on your own GitHub repo when searching the web for answers.
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GitHub Copilot has utterly changed the way I code. Once you figure out its strengths and weaknesses, it gets woven into how you think about coding.
I now write better code comments (because they help it help me) and I spend less time remembering syntactic quirks and code idioms.
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Nearing the end of two weeks in Spain where literally *every meal* has been excellent and affordable. 😭
I really don’t know how I’m supposed to go back to the US and pay $20 pp for mediocre carnival food cooked by bored children.
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@eigenrobot
People in this group talk about free speech like they’re doing a Jay Leno bit.
> So Substack has been referencing this so-called “free speech” thing (Did you see this? Have you heard of this?)
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@SaintQ92
In the replies: people talking about privately telling individuals in specific and relevant circumstances. Not “coming out” as in a public pronouncement.
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There's nothing more terrifying that attempting to share music you like with your teenager. She replied "lol" and called it "video game music". 💀 Utterly savage.
And then 10 very long minutes later she goes "i kinda like it".
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The Ethereum network has 1/5000th the computing power of a Raspberry Pi. Using that computing power costs almost a million dollars per hour.
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Russians should use this to arrest Putin.
The Russian law threatening up to 15 years for so called “fake news” about the military has passed.
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Google services documentation is like: “How to obtain a Google Adwords API key in 27 confusing steps: an incomplete guide”
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