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Nov 21

This has obviously been inevitable if you've followed what little I've posted here lately — but I'm done with Twitter. I've found plenty of community, friends, and web dev discussion on the Fediverse. I welcome you to join us: hachyderm . io fosstodon . org indieweb . social

Nov 17

(Sorry, I couldn’t resist 😝)

Nov 17

wired.com/story/how-to-g

Screenshot of a Mastodon post. Text reads, ‘"Every major social networking site, at this point, is basically a place to share screenshots from other social networking sites. Twitter is full of Reddit screenshots; Instagram is full of Twitter screenshots. This is an objectively stupid situation, but it’s happening because it’s not currently possible to share posts from one platform on another."

Justin Pot (@jhpot) getting to the purpose of the Fediverse, in an introduction to Mastodon for Wired magazine’

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Nov 12

I actually got very few responses, so I'll bump this for my webdev friends who are interested in front-end.social

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But if you're interested, and we know each other, shoot me a DM. I can do a few invites. We've got a good thing going over there! (No promises though; I have no idea what kind of response I'm about to get

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✨ We are *not* looking to be exclusive or for high-profile users only or anything like that. We just want an instance that's a good size for a healthy community and not a burden to moderate, hence the caution

A place for front-end web makers who value humans over technology, and embrace diversity on an open, accessible web. Also people who don't mind being associated with front-enders.

All right, web dev folks. Regarding front-end.social: We've had a lot of interest. Things should open on some level soon; we're hesitant to open the floodgates, because we aren't looking to be a 5k+ user "all of webdev" Mastodon instance.

front-end.social

Front-End Social

Nov 9

…That's not to say "don't go building another." Go for it! the power is in the protocol, not the software that uses it

WEBPERF.SOCIAL is a place for those who care about web performance, from novices to professionals. Everyone in related fields is also welcome.

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webperf.social should be the server with focus on web performance hopefully. #webperf

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Andrew James Carter

@Carter_AndrewJ

I can admit when I'm wrong and I was wrong about

@elonmusk

. No one was more skeptical than I - but his decisions this week have shown he really *can* put a social network on the path to unprecedented success. Specifically Mastodon.

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Nov 7

New post: You should start a Mastodon instance (…and I don’t mean a little one for your own personal use)

keithjgrant.com

…and I don’t mean a single-user one for your own personal use. This is happening Hi! I hope you had a great weekend. While you were off, you know, having

You should start a Mastodon instance

Nov 7

New post: You should start a Mastodon instance (…and I don’t mean a little one for your own personal use)

keithjgrant.com

…and I don’t mean a single-user one for your own personal use. This is happening Hi! I hope you had a great weekend. While you were off, you know, having

Keith J Grant (@keithjgrant@front-end.social)

I've mostly been over at Mastodon this week and I'm enjoying it. Enough of y'all have made the jump. Come find me at front-end.social/@keithjgrant. The water's nice 😄

front-end.social

407 Posts, 139 Following, 421 Followers ·

Front end developer working primarily in React. Currently at Red Hat working on Ansible Controller.

I live in the great Pacific Northwest. I care...

A place for front-end web makers who value humans over technology, and embrace diversity on an open, accessible web. Also people who don't mind being associated with front-enders.

Stop the presses; I'm migrating. front-end.social 👀

front-end.social

Front-End Social

keith·j·grant (@keithjgrant@mastodon.social)

I've mostly been over at @keithjgrant@mastodon.social this week and I'm enjoying it. Enough of y'all have made the jump. Come find me at mastodon.social/@keithjgrant. The water's nice

mastodon.social

69 Posts, 55 Following, 59 Followers · WARNING: This product contains content known to the State of California to cause web apps or other online material. Author of CSS in Depth: https://www.mannin...

buzz@andersen.social

@buzz

Oct 28

I’m sure they’re all seasoned experts in large scale social networking infrastructure.

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Peter Yang

@petergyang

Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter's code base to tell Musk what Twitter needs to do is...interesting

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wait am I shadowbanned

A screenshot of the AI Tweet Generator app. I have searched for my twitter handle and it has popped up an error message reading, "Twitter account not found"

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Exclusive: Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show

Anyway I'm poking around at mastodon.social/@keithjgrant again, where I noticed #TwitterMigration is trending…

reuters.com

The heaviest tweeters, vital to its business, have been in "absolute decline" since the pandemic began, an internal researcher wrote. It underscores a challenge for Elon Musk.

monkey patching a global because the paradigm of the framework is having trouble meshing with the platform

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Noam Rosenthal - noam@webperf.social

this is gross

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@nomsternom

If I'm reading this correctly, React is now patching the global "fetch()" function to their own version that does custom caching tidbits? I know how I feel about it if it's true (

) but I'm not sure if I'm getting the right picture from the code so I'll hold it in for now. twitter.com/ascorbic/statu…

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Josh W. Comeau

@JoshWComeau

🌠 Well this is friggin’ cool! Animated holographic Pokémon cards using CSS filters and blend modes. 💯 → deck-24abcd.netlify.app Created by

. Thanks to

for letting me know!

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if you need a laugh today, you'll find it in this thread

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Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

Okay everybody it's Zero Hour for this website, post your favorite tweets and give them a little kiss goodbye.

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Oct 26

Insurance companies are like "We _want_ to cover this expense, but we can't without the secret code. We can't tell you the secret code, but someone at your doctors office _should_ know it. _We're_ not the bad guys. Tell them to call us and give us the secret code"

I've "installed" Xcode command line tools three times (WTF I don't want that anyway) and rebooted twice and still nothing works. Also, brew is broken because why not.

Not only does Apple make it a royal pain to install git and get it working in CLI, they wait until it's been just long enough (~12-18 months) that you won't remember ow you did it last time when they decide to uninstall it and make you jump through hoops again

@AppleSupport

Aaron Gustafson

@AaronGustafson

Oh my gosh, I love this so much!

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Brittlestar

@brittlestar

TERRIBLE PEOPLE VOTE

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Abraham Piper

@abrahampiper

Oct 23

Have you ever seen a bottle of Angostura bitters and wondered why the label looks too big? (1/...)

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

@Hello_Tailor

at this point i can only assume there's a saboteur in paul hollywood's staff, intentionally feeding him bad intel.

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Julia Young

@okjulia

Oct 21

PAUL HOLLYWOOD THINKS THIS IS A S’MORE i simply cannot stop laughing

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Wayspell

@wayspell

I'm now fully convinced

@PaulHollywood

has had neither a taco nor a smore before.

anslo

@anslogen

After 16 months of work I'm ready to share slowroads.io, my project to procedurally generate scenic landscapes, packaged as a chill driving game. Built with

@threejs

to run in your browser - no logins, no installs, just roads... #threejs #procedural #webgl

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Oct 23

The good life

Two cats, one speckled gray and the other completely black, laying stretched out on a carpet in front of a fire in the wood stove. They look like they’ve melted into puddles.

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I know the industry is slowly getting its feet in these waters, but I still feel very conflicted about it

I remember all this and still to this day have a sour taste in my mouth concerning web components. WCs were out of touch with both the old AND new zeitgeist

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But what actually happened? It wasn't "the zeitgeist", nothing so VAGUE, I'll tell you that much. The answer is there was a fight and advocates for progressive enhancement lost. You can see the portents of doom in this post from Aaron Gustafson in 2014: aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/a-fun

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Happy cool weather!

Fire blazing in a modern looking black cylindrical wood stove

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Mark Dalgleish

@markdalgleish

Oct 21

Man 1: I'm mad at CSS-in-JS because performance

Man 2: Here's a solution *hands him Vanilla Extract*

Man 2: *Setting Vanilla Extract on fire* I don't want a solution. I want to be mad at JavaScript

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Open Web Advocacy

@OpenWebAdvocacy

Oct 20

State of Web App Support (October 2022) On iOS: - Critical Functionality / Low Hanging Fruit shows almost no change in 1.5 years - No movement on Install Prompts - Notifications yet to be delivered - NFC / Bluetooth still rejected - Third Party Payments locked to ApplePay

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Oct 16

Peppercorn-encrusted sole over cilantro dandelion green rice with tomatillo jalapeño relish. Ho-lee shit this is good

Michael Thomas

@curious_founder

Oct 14

In 2020, Scrubgrass, a power plant in Pennsylvania was about to close. Then Stronghold, a crypto mining company, came to town. It's annual emissions rose from 12,000 to 500,000 tons, a staggering 3805% increase. This is just one of many similar stories. 🧵

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Oct 13

OS X's stubborn insistence on opening windows and popping windows to the front WITHOUT GIVING THEM FOCUS is so infuriating