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the "esc" key on a keyboard is a holdover from early-'90s personal computers. on some models it would dispense a can of escargot out of one of the unused drive bays. they put it in the corner so you wouldn't press it by accident because you only got three of them. i pushed it once and got grounded

submitted 154 days ago • 339 comments

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

submitted 173 days ago • 34 comments

the internet was totally worth it, just for doordash alone. the fact that i can press an internet button and receive food on my doorstep like an abandoned baby at an orphanage. magnificent.

submitted 173 days ago • 10 comments

dream UX of Deutsche Bahn, instead of just redirecting me after logging in, show me a message that I'm already logged in and that I have to navigate to the app manually

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

😂 I love this so much. This is a landing page for Half Life 2’s 20th aniversary (www.half-life.com/en/halflife2...), and it has an easter egg; you can enable the object grabber from the game and wreck havoc on the page:

submitted 207 days ago • 6 comments

Nachdem The Onion Infowars gekauft hat, kann Postillion endlich nius übernehmen?

submitted 209 days ago • 1 comment

Fußgänger und Fahrradampeln sind übrigens nur rot und grün

submitted 218 days ago • 0 comments

😰

submitted 219 days ago • 0 comments

Please do the right thing today USA. Kind regards Rest of the world

submitted 219 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks for your talk @ericastanley.bsky.social, I really like the vector comparison for velocity

submitted 220 days ago • 1 comment

🎉 shadcn/ui is now fully compatible with React 19 (and Next.js 15).

submitted 222 days ago • 5 comments

in case you missed it, the first react compiler beta dropped among other things is official support for React 17+ so you can try it even with an old React (and yes, version 17 is four years old, which is about seventy five in the javascript years)

submitted 233 days ago • 3 comments