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Software engineer, rediscovering the open web and personal websites. New to San Francisco. Formerly in Michigan, Tennessee and Madras. ✍️ https://rantinghuman.com
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quick important announcement: deck.blue is now my full-time job! patreon tiers are increasing prices though new members can use this discount code: 7C3E9 for the first month! please read the whole post below for more information on what this means for me and the future of deck.blue thank you all!

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International Women’s Day 2025: Meet India’s 18 women Chief Ministers. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

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Every day, way more knowledge is created than we could possibly consume. Therefore, if we define ignorance as the ratio of our knowledge over all knowledge, we can mathematically prove that we become more ignorant by the day, no matter what we do. I’ll let that sink in for a bit.

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Catching up on past episodes of Guidance Counselor 2.0 from @tdesseyn.bsky.social. The one with @joshwcomeau.com is really good—it softened my random pangs of self-doubt in doing what sparks joy for me rather than "Resume Driven Development". And it helps that Josh's joy comes from CSS!

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I put on my r̶o̶b̶e̶ ̵a̶n̶d̶ ̵w̶i̶z̶a̶r̶d̶ vibe coding hat⁣. Me: "Claude, could you add a slider to this div"⁣ Claude: "Here's your slider! But look, I also made the div draggable! And resizable! Isn't that cool!?"⁣ Sometimes Claude feels like an excitable and overenthusiastic new dev.

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New post: An amateur's deep dive into CSS circles, positioning and animation!

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Conversations with Miles are unbelievably life-like. Maya feels much more artificial. www.sesame.com/research/cro...

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Me: "I wonder if I should set up some GitHub actions to build and deploy my site to Netlify" @netlify.com: "Hold my beer" Awe-struck with Netlify's seamless integration with GitHub and Astro. Automatic CI/CD from the repo took less than a minute to set up. And it's available in the free tier!

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Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or capitalism, but it makes a political statement. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web" and I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today. localghost.dev/blog/this-pa...

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With apologies to Brandon Sanderson: rantinghuman.com/notes/we-are...

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Finally got around to pushing out my first personal website in years! Love that @astro.build makes it so easy to write and publish. rantinghuman.com

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RIP Valencia Street bike lane (2023 - 2025). 🪦 You will (not?) be missed.

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I’ve started using em dashes every chance I get after rediscovering this fun bookmark: www.pierrickcalvez.com/journal/a-fi... But now, I wonder—does that make it seem like LLMs were somehow involved?

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"You are normal,"—“Or rather, nobody is normal. Normal doesn’t exist. So if we slavishly try to dress ourselves to imitate it, all we’re really doing is becoming a different kind of abnormal—a miserable kind.” Brandon Sanderson dropping all kinds of wisdom in Wind & Truth.

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Asking for a friend: Does anyone else find themselves automatically stopping all activity on a social media platform right around the time their parents sign up?

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Had someone asking me about scroll-driven animations with CSS, and they didn't realize you can still use animation-timeline-function with them. Very easy way to do a lot more with those scroll-driven animations!

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The most fun way to learn SVG Paths, IMO. Also, why did no one tell me SVG Paths were basically Logo! www.nan.fyi/svg-paths

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Just to make it clear: this was a strike slip earthquake offshore of Northern California and NOT a subduction type event on the Cascadia subduction zone! So no significant tsunami would be expected. (I am seeing a lot of posts that say otherwise..) 🧪⚒️

submitted 94 days ago • 15 comments

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People. Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way. And it’s free for all. 🚀 htmlforpeople.com

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