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  I love the Scottish not least because they're anti Tory. I struggle to reconcile this with the fact that they invented fucking GOLF.

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  The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. https://hyperblam.how

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  This book, called Content Design, has nothing written on the spine 🤔

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  When you think about it, the film Jaws isn't really about sharks. It's about one particular shark eating a bunch of people then exploding.

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  Undisputed song with highest density of good riffs. https://youtu.be/kIYhqb3gwX8?is=f91pZSzzbYC3ZYuM

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  East Bay Ray basically invented Black Metal on this 1986 track. Fantastically nasty riffing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ewDZd2Heac

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  11ty docs have gone a bit weird. The tabs for "build awesome" and font awesome threw me.

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  "Hi Heydon, I noticed you're someone who could really benefit from smarter meeting tools." Thank you, I feel so seen 😑

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  Revisited Pere Ubu's The Modern Dance today. I have a feeling @SteveFaulkner might be a fan? Post-punk while punk was still in its pomp. The minimalist application of synth noises is especially artful.

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  RE: https://front-end.social/@heydon/116533702492652688 Some great replies from some very smart and helpful people in this thread.

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  Wrote this song when I was particularly pissed off at someone giving me unsolicited advice. Is there anything worse? https://deathgarage.bandcamp.com/track/keep-it

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  Writing JavaScript is like eating a Nature Valley™️ bar. It's messy, lots of it crumbles away and gets wasted, and you're left feeling strangely unsatisfied. But it's hard to find the willpower to stop.

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  I finally finished my hand-drawn font! 236 glyphs 😅 https://buymeacoffee.com/heydon/e/536619

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  Random slide from my upcoming talk. They're all hand-drawn. #pixelPioneers

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  CSS is the world's most powerful and comprehensive design tool but the people who know it inside out don't get to call themselves designers because "that's doing code". Make it make sense.

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  A T-shirt for lovers of the three core web technologies. https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/not-you-tee/

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  Can we talk about SVG filter performance? I knew that animating turbulence parameters in SVG itself (`<animate>`) was a performance hog but it seems to go further than that. When I apply a static turbulence-based filter with CSS to an animated element, even that will make my brand new M4 Macbook Pro's fan go ballistic (!) Remove the filter and everything is cool and quiet, even though I'm sequencing generative music using custom elements behind the animation...

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  Experienced something terrifying yesterday: A CAPTCHA asking me to identify images where the images themselves were obvious AI slop. So... I was tasked to prove that I'm real by identifying realness in unreal images.

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  Slide from a talk I'm currently writing. Rates the best ways to write quality HTML.

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  Anyone going to #pixelPioneers in June who would be willing and able to rap over some music at approx 90bpm, on stage wirh me?

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  Plain language guide to JavaScript performance: * Don't do a lot * Don't do something multiple times that only needs doing once * Don't save things you later won't need * Aim for fast code, not neat or terse code * NEW: Don't download it if you're not going to use it * NEW: Don't do it with JS if CSS or the browser can do it instead * NEW: Don't do in the browser what can be done on the server Edit: thanks for the suggestions! T...

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  AI companies: "Are you a mediocre person?" Every pointless, boring, pasty motherfucker I've ever met: "Meeee? Yes uwu xxx" AI companies: "Well I can make you mediocre BUT FASTER"

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  AI is just a tool like a hammer is just a tool, if there was such a thing as a hammer that chose what to hit for you, and what it chose to hit was more often than not a minority. https://toot.cafe/@peter/116352199583846843

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  As someone without kids, I don't know how you parents do it! I'm also not interested in how you do it. Take your kid and do it somewhere else.

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  Don't fucking look, then.

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  If you wear glasses, you use assistive technology.