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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
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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.
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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"
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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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