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  #CSS Working Group currently discussing ways to deal with “the Hampster Dance problem”.

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  Article starts out, literally kicks off the opening sentence with, “We’ve all used AI to help us write code” and brudda, let me stop you right the hell there. No, we all have not. Some of us are still resolutely hewing code out of text editors and actual human thinking, and it’s still usually better than whatever your steroidal autocomplete extruded for you.

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  I was at my computer and then looked at something on my phone and tried to move the mouse pointer from my computer to my phone and now I want to know why that’s not actually a thing.

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  Firefox Nightly just auto-updated me to the “new look” for Firefox and I… kinda like it? The frame edge around the lower part of the window is taking a little getting used to, but I’m (surprised to be) down with the overall feel.

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  I just re-installed SuperDuper! (https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html) after I somehow managed to break it. Been registered to me for 14 years, the main window informs me. That seemed like it was way too long, so I checked my logs and yep, my first logged run of it was at the beginning of August 2012. So, thanks for almost a decade and a half of backing me up, SuperDuper!

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  Earlier I reached the stage of hunger where even microwaved frozen pizza bagels sound good. I baked them instead, because still retained a few scraps of reason, but still. SOUNDED good.

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  Error 4:04am Sleep not found

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  Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

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  “Hey, sorry I’m late; a White-Tailed doe and her playful young fawn were having breakfast in my backyard. They weren’t in any rush, so neither was I.”

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  “Pale in the flare light The scared light cracks and disappears And leads the scorched ones here And everywhere, no one cares the fire is spreading And no one wants to speak about it…” https://youtu.be/91rHFP0OtTE

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  Hell yeah. https://youtu.be/Y_tMrwA1cWk

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  I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.

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  A local Food Not Bombs chapter needed a donations box for hygiene products, and put out a call that a friend passed on to me. After we worked out size and usage details, I (slowly, haltingly) built one, and delivered it today. They asked that its exterior paint be purple, and I was glad to make it so. #CommunityAction

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  At a party with a few dozen friends and acquaintances with everyone catching up with each other and as usual I generally cannot parse anything anyone says to me, or near me. #KingKopetzky

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  Old and busted: This pic looks ‘shopped New, untrusted: This pic looks slopped

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  ’Tis once again the season to hold this timeless holiday message close to our hearts.

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  Every time someone talks about using a rubric, *every* time, I think to myself, “Stanley Rubric?”

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  Live HTML in ` is now a thing in current Chrome (with a flag enabled), and people are doing wild stuff with it to “make the web fun again”! Whereas I have just used it to enhance a tool we use at work, because I am a boring stick in the mud. But an occasionally productive one. (If you’re only now hearing about this, an explainer with many examples: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-web-is-fun-again-first-experiments-with-html-in-canvas/)

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  @brentsimmons Nope, not just you. I also get a serious delay in the list being generated, even when the result is unambiguous. I type “1password” (for example) and wait 10–15 seconds for anything to happen. Often the list does actually include the thing I’m typing! But not always.

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  It’s frustrating that most American XL shirts fit my form, but are too short. When I go up a size, they’re the right length but drape too loosely. I don’t need shirts in XXL, I need XLL.

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  Nearly every paragraph of this article is a certified banger. “We don’t need to reinvent styling. We just need to respect the boundaries that made the web work in the first place. CSS is not broken; our discipline is. The answer isn’t more abstraction — it’s better understanding.” https://thenewstack.io/css-in-js-the-great-betrayal-of-frontend-sanity/

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  Rather unexpectedly, a 3D printer is soon to enter my life (long story). It seems like printers are either entry-level $300-$400, or higher-end $1,000+. Is there anything worthwhile in the $750 area? This will be hobby-use only, not for business purposes or mass production. It cannot be resin for a variety of reasons, and I will not budge on this.

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  I am “found out I have a six inch (13cm) wide livid but pain-free bruise with no idea how or why I would have a bruise of ANY size there” years old.

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  All you fascists bound to lose.

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  Conversation during the 50th Front-End Study Hall (https://indieweb.org/Front_End_Study_Hall) this past Tuesday sparked a goofy idea, so I brought it to life with a quick in-browser mockup and a little @acornapp work.

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  Texting in 2026.

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  It’s that time of year again: #interop2026 is now open for proposals from one and all! The window closes on the 24th of this month, so if there’s something you want to get in front of browser vendors to consider making more interoperable, now’s the time. More here: https://www.igalia.com/2025/09/04/Call-for-Proposals-Interop-2026.html

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  It’s amazing to me how broken Threads is in Firefox, while it renders fine in Chrome. The Firefox console seems to indicate the problem is due to CORS violations blocking JS from loading, so now I’m not sure if I should be mad at the Threads development team or lax security policies in Chrome. (Yes, yes, I’m aware you all have why-not-both and road-to-el-dorado-both memes at the ready.)

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  @wtrmt@mastodon.social @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com The Temporal API has a lot to answer for.

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  Dear Apple, please give the Weather app the option to show temperatures in both F and C, particularly on the menu bar in macOS. It would really help in chats that involve both US and non-US participants. Thank you so much!