@youngelpaso
💾 Web developer, softball player, family man in Montreal. Frontend dev; built the design system at McGill University. JS frameworks, Web Components, CSS, HTML: all good! He/him DM for work inquiries / contracts
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the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Trying to catch the tiger by it's tail. Not a great strategy at the best of times.
Get your mind blown early this morning. This is a total banger thread, the kind of super smart, historical contextualizing that we all desperately need. Whew! Great follow too.
Wow! This is a great analysis! Dang! Literally threaded it all from 18th century to now so neatly. Thanks! 🤯👌
Ugh, so called professionalism means I need to replace yelling Frank Costanza with an actual picture of my face. What's the world coming to???
Also may be mid ice storm here in Montreal so getting the posts in while I can! You know where there's no ice storms? Barbados... Sigh
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
New grad students often adopt a stance of hypercriticism as a shortcut to seeming savvy.
When I was one, Nick Salvatore told us he didn't like "shit-on-the-book seminars" so we would instead spend our time talking about what *worked* in various texts to see what we could learn from other authors.
Hell yeah! Lol my last employer literally had me do the same. Clown stuff! So glad I'm not working with them anymore. Lines of code is a simple approach, useful sure but only to a simpleton.
Which is another way to say that you need managerial courage and leadership qualities to say no and the managers in question, specifically my last one, had none of the above. And yeah I'm salty about it, guy was a first class idiot and is running the organization into the ground.
To be fair, since we didn't have data you could argue I was unsupported in my claims. But given these were features that were to be added the burden was on the stakeholders to prove we needed em. Anyway, hours and days lost and careers diminished because of timidity and acquiescence of manager. 😓
Ding ding ding! This is so true. One of the most annoying parts of my old job was that we didn't really track any user data effectively and thus when I said "take it out, nobody will care" all I ever got was pushback. We spent months on features that data finally revealed were hardly ever used. 😵💫
I dunno, I used to think I need to finish every book I start. Not worrying about that anymore is liberating. There's so much to read that using your time to read whatever way works best makes most sense to me now. Correlation: "you gotta quit while you're ahead"
Carlyle Bay, Barbados. Sunset on a beach with people enjoying the view.
Barbados! What a place! Had the time of my life the last week or so. Very lucky to have had the privilege. 🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧
That was great! Good story too, really enjoyed the journey around Wulffleet!
This was so fun! I got down to 1300 okay. I understood a portion of 1200 and the last two got me. When I was in college one of my classes was translating Beowulf from Old English. I *loved* it and this was a bit reminiscent of doing that.
I could do this.
I'm sorry it took so long for this excellent joke to get a like and reply. 👌
Holy shit, really hit me. Damn man. Need to course correct.
Our showcase has just reached 100 sites! We are thrilled to see such a diverse range of projects using Sveltia CMS 🎉
Came here to say the same - S. will keep them well supplied for quite a while. Book mainly of lists of names.
Well we know how the ED-209 board meeting turned out.
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10 years ago, trans people were finally allowed to change their gender on birth certificates in Saskatchewan. 4 years and 3 days ago, Saskatchewan said trans people could have their proper gender on their drivers licenses. #Sask #SkPoli #Trans
...quiz yourself way earlier than you want to, and do it more frequently than you feel like doing. People spend too long passively reading/consuming instead of actively practicing/retrieving. Integrate that into your day just a couple times? You are ahead of many!
Whole timeline is state of the Union dumpster fire or some of the most promising (non AI) dev stuff I've seen in a while. Strange dichotomy. And if you want a break from AI hype, check out atproto hype! 😀
The latter is so much more encouraging than the former to say nothing of the SotU bullshit.
Yeah exactly. Told on himself. Good overall description of his period of rule really.
Love this idea. I'd be happy to check it out/contribute when the time is right. Fits in well with my new patent pending Personal Design Systems idea I've got kicking around. Really appreciate the CSS first aspect here too.
Apt choice. Good movie and book, worth thinking about
