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  Arsenal are champions of England. I love this club. Here's part of why. https://www.skysports.com/football/story-telling/11095/13230203/how-arsenal-became-woven-into-black-identity-and-culture

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  My cultural divination sessions have brought a grave prophecy. Everyone get ready for a dark time is now upon us. Retain thy resolve, and hark upon this prediction that I fear will corrupt the TikToks further: The word "canonically" will soon lose its meaning as people use it incorrectly. The end is nigh.

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  @ariel Do you know that the GitHub link from https://elenajs.com is broken? Is the project still going? It’s one of my favorites.

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  What if I'm like amazingly talented at golf. I'll never know.

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  Anyone who knows what "shibboleth" means is my kind of person.

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  We need a Museum of Disasters. Every exhibit shows a different type of catastrophe -- what happened, how we responded, what we learned. The final exhibit is always updating: the biggest risks we face right now. We make terrible decisions about risk when the last disaster fades from memory. Make it unforgettable.

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  I'm super skeptical about the #atprotocol for a few reasons. The biggest is the network architecture putting giant "relay" servers in the center. The sell is that servers can be super light and just have to talk to a relay server. But this effectively centralizes everything onto the relays. There is only one so far, BlueSky, and the infrastructure need is massive. I don't see anyone else making one any time soon so BlueSky still has defacto control over the ent...

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  A client asked me to build them a marketing site, which I did with #11ty. Super accessible, minimalist, max lighthouse scores, utterly responsive etc. Matched the design to the pixel. Loaded instantly even with a 3G connection. I delivered it within a week and a half, and they immediately ghosted me. Three months later they had rebuilt it in flutter web. It's not accessible at all, tons of usability issues, not responsive, over 5 MB to load before first paint. I just... Okay.

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  Chicago flag in HTML <span style="border-style: solid none solid">✶✶✶✶</span> https://codepen.io/deadwisdom/pen/ogzrWap?editors=1000