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Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.
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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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A great behind the scenes look at all the effort that goes into building an accessible Shopify theme by Nic Chan. Nic's website is incredible btw, worth a browse. www.nicchan.me/blog/we-laun...

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We need more ideas and vision-casting like this from @werd.io werd.io/if-i-started...

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havin' a play with: backdrop-filter: url(#glass); Gecko/Webkit 🙏

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the allegations of bluesky being an echo chamber are false. all sixteen eras of taylor swift are evenly represented

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There are two problem-solving approaches: 1) identify a problem that you want to solve, then find a method that will solve it or 2) pick a method you want to use, and go hunting for problems. The second way is the stupid way, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it's the default method in tech.

submitted 71 days ago • 101 comments

Custom Elements Manifests are the sleeper feature of Web Components.

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Talked with @jakearchibald.com about the possibility of an HTML `<include>`. Why doesn't it exist? Could it exist? *Should* it exist? I'm a little obsessed with this. shoptalkshow.com/668/

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This episode was incredibly good! It’s super interesting that HTML imports would actually be possible (and also that they might be called <rupert> – and include lazy loading)! Thank you guys! 👏

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Was filling out a work form on a portal and –I don't mean to distrub anyone too much (especially over the weekend)– but the 8 and the 3 were upside down.

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Current design tokens project status

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Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

i have the brain cells & masters in compsci to handle a nuanced discussion on the broad topic of artificial intelligence, but not the character count allotment on here. i will say, the “you’ll be left behind if you don’t use it” crowd is very goofy just like the “have fun being poor” web3 folks were

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

How did I not know about canidev.tools before today?!

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

it turned out to be a bad year to work in international freight insurance, so i am on the hunt for a new staff engineering role tef.computer i work in the uk, but usually remote and in american timezones. postgres and dist-sys but i can sling json into any replicated log if needed

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We need to get back to the Obama timeline.

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11pm cockroach encounter. Guess I’ll just never sleep anymore.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

If anyone is hiring, I'm still looking for my next thing. Senior Frontend Developer. Skilled at HTML/CSS/JavaScript, React, UI/UX, A11Y, web performance, design systems, Web Components, and more. I'd love to work with you! gomakethings.com/resume

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Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?

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📝 The Fifth Estate daverupert.com/2025/05/the-...

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