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@sifrious

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Syntax professional & semantics enthusiast.

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@sifrious
Mary Perry
2 years
@jdesmondharris Sung to the same tune as “it’s bedtime, why are you running: please stop”, “I said pick out 5 books; that’s 23” and “put your arms down or you won’t fall asleep”
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@Apocaloptimist5 It also predicts how well you can communicate with English speaking white men who work in academia pretty well. And if you're good at tanagrams (although that's a bit tautological)
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...Porque? Alright, so. Guys. I like databases.
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2 years
@heitheremedia @drivingmemadi Oh no that little ) that wasn’t curvy enough to be a } has to make other people feel sad too :/
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2 years
@RealGeoffErwin @MIT_CSAIL @IanColdwater Alias sudo to please and remember to echo thank you and ily
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2 months
It's been wonderful to meet @enunomaduro , hear about pest 3 and experience another fabulous Laracon After Dark
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@NickFitz @laceynwilliams This is a beautiful wish and i join you in it
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Even I never dreamed of Magic like this! 🚀☁️⭐️ #LaraconUS 2024
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4 months
@shenetworks Ok then, let me ask you this: how much are you paying for your cell phone service?
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1 month
This morning, I submitted 5 talk ideas to Laracon EU. Like and retweet if the spirit moves you. 🤞🏻
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@Will01162 @Apocaloptimist5 Yes! This is true! But once you learn the vocabulary your score increases because it's part of the test. It's very self referential which is why it is bad Also using those terms doesn't mean your smart nor does not using them mean you're not smart
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Mary Perry
2 years
@Vamsi_Kr1shna @driscollis I think the [:] means we are iterating through a copy of the original list while modifying the item in the original list by calling remove with a parameter from the clone
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@Nichola55465324 @Apocaloptimist5 I'm not sure that statistic is particularly meaningful. 3 points average differentiation in a group of people self identifying as members of a race is much less valuable than other groupings and variations within them. It answers a question that presupposes intelligence as a
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2 months
Yoooooo arch()->expect('dd')->not->toBeUsed();
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Mary Perry
21 days
My design patterns in Laravel talk is fruitioning, come hang out
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Joe Tannenbaum
21 days
Buckle up folks, because we've got Mary Perry ( @sifrious ) speaking at the next PHP × NYC! 🙌 RSVP here:
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11 months
I taught a coding (overview) class at my local library. Not only did a few people show up, had some drop-ins sit down to listen. I talked about how computers and databases can solve problems related to finding things and, of course, the “things” were books.
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6 months
The mic arrived. The setup is iteratively improving. Going to try again soon.
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2 months
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not a designer. I am a developer who just wants to ship beautiful sites. Thanks to @calebporzio I'm much more confident about design
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Taylor Otwell ☁️ 🦹
2 months
Awesome demo of Flux, a beautiful UI component library for Livewire. By @calebporzio .
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4 months
new setup artwork 80ish% there, I'll get the other half done ad hoc
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The x cinematic universe crossovers are sublime tbh
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2 years
The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. It’s kind of overwhelming
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TablePlus is so good
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6 months
@rplevy I'm inkleined to reward this kind of curiosity
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2 months
The perfect Buc-ee's Texas/programming souvenir shirt doesn't exi--
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@PovilasKorop I have been studying design patterns in depth for a few months (to put together a talk about patterns and Laravel) and this has been my most important takeaway It started to click for me in the Gang of 4 design pattern book's chapter on Factories, where frameworks are described
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7 months
Oh, you know, just trying to understand the Service Provider and how dependency injection works and then all of a sudden
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7 months
@samhuckaby The sound the terminal makes when it rejects a command
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1 year
@ask_aubry Also not a mathematician but
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2 years
@TheJackForge It should def have a full screen pop up window that interrupts dirty talk or harassment with “no sex stuff”
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3 months
I gave my socialite/factory pattern talk as a dry run at the local DEFCON meetup. It was great to get some feedback and practice. I had some important takeaways including "stand near the slides". Thankfully, you only give a talk for the first time once.
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3 months
How it started and how it's going
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6 months
The view from #nycxphp is gorgeous.
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2 months
I don't usually post coding and coffee pics but today is an exception
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7 months
Also: the spirit of the Laravel community is so strong and contagious it's refreshed my love for coding, and has helped me be brave. I've changed so much since Laracon 23
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Mary Perry
1 year
overwhelmed by how wonderful the laravel and larabelle community is. There’s too much new info to process at this point. Every day since I got back from Laracon at least one impossibly wonderful thing has happened (thankfully not before breakfast because that’s unreasonable)
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1 year
It's been a little over 3 months that I've been seriously learning Laravel, and I can't believe how much I've learned. I just committed my first CRUD MVP to prod, and I'm meeting with the organization that's agreed to test and use it today. I'm. So. Excited.
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Mary Perry
2 years
Got myself a laracast membership for Black Friday. About to learn so much php
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1 month
I can't believe I got to be at Laracon 2024 and see today's announcement coming together. I witnessed tech and economic history. Watching the values these oss visionaries hold regarding intellectual openness and radical inclusivity turn to resounding success is incredible.
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Even I never dreamed of Magic like this! 🚀☁️⭐️ #LaraconUS 2024
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5 months
Ok, so sublime text. Right?
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1 month
@TwitGuyHere123 @Nichola55465324 @Apocaloptimist5 I neither claimed anything in your second paragraph nor do I agree with it, in particular because "conditions" is not clearly defined. Genetics are a factor; there are too many other factors to name. Because of the nature of the test, it's difficult to ask useful questions
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2 months
Well, that was unpleasant Today I got in a great, multi-hour flow coding for the first time since I posted this. I missed it a lot. After a few false starts, it's starting to get better
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5 months
I'm just going to unburnout real quick.
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6 months
be bold && try hard short, sweet mantra
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2 months
Catching up irl with one of my favorite people
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2 years
@ImZackAdams It’s completely thread safe
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2 months
What happens never changes What it means does
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6 months
My laptop continues to improve! Thanks this time to @johnrudolphdrex and @ThunkDev and perennial gratitude of course for php x nyc
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7 months
Thank you @dhicking This means a whole lot
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4 months
I'm not even joking that's exactly what I did
@CatchyLabs
Bobby 👨‍💻✍️
4 months
Master shares the secrets to learning Javascript.
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1 month
It's funny how when people are kind others are willing to be excited for them as they learn and think of them generously, but when people are mean others tend to enjoy and note every mistake and bad take they make. Mean eclipses smart; kind amplifies it.
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7 months
@aarondfrancis is right about at least 3 things here: 1. I do immediately forget English and PHP as soon as I start streaming every time 2. It's super embarrassing 3. It means a LOT when people drop in to say hi
@ripplesfm
Ripples Podcast
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A minimal amount of effort can be an outsized encouragement to people just starting their journey. Encouraging newcomers is a pillar of the @laravelphp community, lead from the top from the earliest days of the framework
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1 year
I started on this last night and can say with confidence you can expect(‘it’)->toBe($rad)…
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Laravel News
1 year
Laravel Bootcamp now has a Livewire track
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5 months
"Thanks to Larabelles, I no longer feel like I don’t belong. I found my people, people who helped me see I could be a developer regardless of where I come from, gender, age, or life circumstances." Thanks to @zuzana_kunckova , I can say the same thing. What a lovely article, love
@studio24
Studio 24
5 months
Welcome to Studio 24 @zuzana_kunckova ! Zuzana joins our team as a PHP Developer. If you'd like to get to know Zuzana a bit better, she wrote a blog post about her journey to becoming a developer.
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2 months
Missed my flight Stuck on a bench The good, the bad, the good, the bad
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3 months
I'm going to have a good day today
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7 months
I'm pretty hype about Laravel 11. For a month, I'm going to be streaming at 4pm EDT daily* doing homework from '30 Days to Learn Laravel', holding myself accountable and practicing talking about code as I write it. *except Sundays and unless something comes up
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6 months
@pragueyerrr Thanks for sharing this, it's so full of hope. It's good to hear that waiting for the prank to end and being so socially uncomfortable it's physically painful ends. Is there anything you did during that time other than reach out to your friend that helped? (7 years is a
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TIL what nerd sniping is I definitely got nerd sniped into Laravel Do it you won't
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Mary Perry
3 years
@therriaultphd @__mharrison__ I included preferring spaces to tabs on a dating profile once and got significantly fewer responses. I was so disgusted I deleted the account. True story.
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1 month
You know tfw you meet another dev in the wild and you throw jargon back and forth for like 5 mins until you accept each other as legit? I'm serious though. Is that normal?
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Mary Perry
2 years
@deanofarke @VAggrippino @DawsonCodes Check out the flask QuickStart here: and look for tutorials. Flask and Django are both frameworks that will allow you to make a server that responds to incoming requests using python code and the HTTP protocol.
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3 months
My 5 year old is officially better at photography than I will ever be. This pic is not even an anomaly. Two weeks ago I was teaching her how to look into a digital camera. Now she's telling me where to stand and talking about "the light" works
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3 months
How it started and how it's going
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Mary Perry
7 months
Oh, you know, just trying to understand the Service Provider and how dependency injection works and then all of a sudden
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7 months
Someone asked me during a stream why learn Laravel in 2024 and I am having some real spirit of the stairs right now
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2 months
My people! Thank you, thank you @zuzana_kunckova You did so much to spark those smiles. Your flame is so, so bright. Hope to see you next year Before larabelles I didn't feel like I belonged anywhere. Now even when things are rough, I remember there's another Laracon on the
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So. Many. Larabelles. Love to see how much growth they've had! Wonderful work, @zuzana_kunckova ! Keep it up!
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@aarondfrancis The other day, my daughter asked me what if I was her grandmother instead of her mother, so we started talking about Elizabeth. She mentioned Hannah I told her: yes, God loves Hannah and he remembers her. His steadfast love endures forever. I know this to be true. Heb 6:9-12
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2 months
Uh if you're at Laracon can you please send upvotes on the thunk pyramid game
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2 years
@deanofarke @VAggrippino @DawsonCodes Learning Flask gives you more control about handling (responding to) requests with python and a greater opportunity to understand the basics of HTTP; and that will also help you understand JavaScript and the browser.
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5 months
@ThePrimeagen It feels like being rickrolled somehow
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11 months
@ThePrimeagen @soychotic A murder of crows A coven of witches A btws of arch users
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@t3dotgg I have never needed to pay for herd and I use it all the time. Never paid for logs either. Herd is good. You can choose to pay for convenience, and the free tier is generous. You can also dig into Valet and do that. Herd is a wrapper for Valet. Valet is free and open source. You
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8 months
super excited to add a larajobs and overengineered stickers to my laptop from @dhicking and @inxilpro after the nyc x php meetup I feel like a cool kid now (still struggling with the whole sticker layout thing)
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3 months
LinkedIn has the weirdest algorithm. It's like hey, based on what you like would you want to be a L6 Netflix engineer? Add your education so they'll be more interested. No? Ok, how about this opening to be server at Red Lobster? And by the way, are you hiring?
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2 years
@NikkiSiapno Imo: it’s 20% being stuck, 30% accidentally learning neat unrelated things while trying to get unstuck, 20% learning about what I actually need to solve a problem, 20% bug fixes and formatting output and 10% actually coding. Maybe it’s just words, but maybe it’s outlook?
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1 year
For some reason The Algorithm(TM) keeps showing me posts about weather SQL should be pronounced S-Q-L, and I have opinions.
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5 months
I learned about sail, php debug, SPAs, spatie packages, Laravel email attachments, and more when I paired with @santigarcor . It was a lot of fun; if you are participating in @benholmen 's pair-amid scheme Santiago is a wonderful developer to reach out to.
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4 months
This was a lovely conversation; talking to @GregSkerman and @michaeldyrynda was more fun than listening... but only marginally.
@michaeldyrynda
Michael Dyrynda
4 months
Was a pleasure to chat with @sifrious on her journey from studying economics to Python to joining the Laravel community! 🔈 📹
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5 months
Learning with others increases your luck. For the past few months I've been learning to check my ego, admit that I don't know things, ask questions and pay attention to engineers who know more than me. @tylerlwsmith @ganyicz @stauffermatt @TechEnby (outside of this experiment)
@benholmen
Ben Holmen
5 months
The experiment rolls on! Thanks to my friendly participants for taking the pair-amid® scheme to the next level. Look these folks up, they're all on board to pair with an internet stranger like you! @sifrious @_mesquitafelipe @harrylipnick @whereisjefe
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3 months
Well, this worked
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3 months
I'm going to have a good day today
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3 months
@ericlbarnes Updated answer: yes
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2 months
Some sleepless thoughts: Event sourcing mandates a system's state can be created by (and therefore defined by) a sequence of defined events. These events are kind of objects when you look at them as objects wrapped in event "envelopes", kind of snapshots of time when you look
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Mary Perry
5 months
Had a wonderful time with @harrylipnick and we furthered @benholmen 's pair-amid scheme and discussed eloquent models and relationships. It would have been worth it just to hear about his project, so the things I learned felt like a bonus
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1 year
✔️ pre-order received ✔️ arranged highlighters and sticky notes added authorization and routes to application with a convenient physical reference It’s going to be a good day.
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6 months
I'm so tired I just ran npm run dev in my browser search bar and waited for the rest of the output
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4 months
This is exactly why programming has held me through the most difficult parts of my life. The computer does what I tell it to do. I learn to adjust my instructions, my expectations, my documentation. I build a system; the system is what it does. I carry this in my heart.
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Speakers this year are entering in a literal fog of hype. I'm going to let you finish but @rissa_bubbles had the best entrance of all time
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2 months
@ThePrimeagen I really hope this is for Laracon
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Iq tests are dumb
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6 months
I made a portfolio in vanilla js and css so I wouldn't have to think too much about hosting it and wow did I think about it too much anyways I think it counts as a spa?
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8 months
See y’all at Laracon
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4 months
okay so I just ran dump($abstract) and dump($object) in .../src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php to look at singleton() binding to the Laravel Service Container and oh my GOODNESS this is so cool
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1 month
I tuned into a very small portion of a stream today and watched @teej_dv begin to extend socialite, which is what got me onto my current design patterns kick. It was such a cool feeling to hear someone else say the same things I thought out loud, felt like a shared experience
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7 months
Holy Thursday Just incredible
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2 months
When I get upset, I have 3 options: 1. Think about how I can make it better or how I great I am for being capable of fixing it 2. Think about how bad everything is and how bad I feel 3. Think about something other than myself That's why I pray. Breaks the me loop
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3 months
tilted && hanging in there vibes
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4 months
Sightseeing in Folsom, CA. Saw a turntable, various train stuff. The fence and lighting is pretty surreal. Some historic masonry blended with new work. Whole thing felt anachronistic tbh.
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2 months
Today I was helping to fill out a form for a family. The form is required to function in the US and the website is *bad*. The input labeled 'how many people live in the household' had a select dropdown that maxed out at 8. I modified the value attribute to an accurate integer
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5 months
Overflowing with gratitude today.
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4 months
The YouTube app stopped asking me if i want to watch @MostlyTechPod , it just autoplays now. Unsure if this is a skill issue or feature.
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Mary Perry
2 years
A programmer walks into a bar and asks “excuse me, but where is your foo?”
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