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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Arguing with computers as a job, welcome to the modern era.

a conversation with copilot where i say: "see dude. trust me. trust meeeeee." and it replies: "you called it twice, and the measurements backed you up twice. you were right. i'll prototype your structural ideas before arguing edge cases next time"

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's fine. We're fine. I'm fine. You?

Screenshot of git-diff results: Changes 151,918 added, 172 deleted. 1,163 files changed.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

✅ Adding value as a team member

Teams message screenshot from 2:05 PM that says "i want to creep"

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🚀 I made a little app for #webcomponents called CEM-to-CSV that creates a lil' spreadsheet to help with naming audits across your entire design system. It's all powered by your custom element manifest. Upload, drop, or paste your CEM today! cem-to-csv.netlify.app

Screenshot of the application showing a loaded custom elements manifest. There's a table with components, their attributes, their properties, and the default values.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Oohh... yeah... that does seem better...

contrast-color resolves to black on green, whereas oklch resolves to white on green. oklch looks better, but may not be correct per wcag.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

When filling out your 2026 State of CSS survey... don't forget to mention YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST okay? (I will transfer eight billion fartcoins to your account if the right podcast wins) survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Questionaire form for: Which programming-related podcasts do you listen to?

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If you want Arc-like automatic Picture-in-Picture, you can turn on "Browser initiated automatic picture-in-picture" - Unfortunately, not available in Edge 😭 chrome://flags/#browser-initiated-automatic-picture-in-picture

Browser flag for Browser-initiated automatic picture-in-picture

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Help my podcast editor is roasting me in the Discord.

Side by side of me and the Ancient Aliens guy

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The A11y Project is at risk of going over our 1TB bandwidth limit on @netlify.com and being automatically charged $55/100gb in bonus bandwidth to keep it online. I think we all know the cause and it's depressing. I've asked Netlify to just let the site go down when the limit is hit.

A bandwidth usage chart going back to july starting at 1 gb for July, then a sudden hill approaching 18gb/day in August then going back down to 1 to 3 gb/day until late september which has steep sudden increase to 55gb/day

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The new Austin logo should have just been a map of the freeways that surround the city.

A google map of the city of Austin where the freeways that surround the city (Mopac, 71, and 183) are drawn over in red forming an "A" shape.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

👋 Good morning. Made some updates to my `<git-graph>` component on my "The Weave" post to provide better fallbacks for browsers that don't support `attr()` functions and `anchor()`. Attached are screenshots of Edge and Firefox. Here's the post again: daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...

A transcript broken up into list-items with a metro map-style git-graph visualization connecting all the list-items with branches that fork and merge as the topics change.

A transcript broken up into list-items with a single-track metro map-style border that indents and changes color as the topic changes.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

📝 Git diagramming "The Weave" - We all know that Trump has "the best words", so I chased a wild hare and tried my hand at visualizing a short Trump speech using git-graphs. daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...

A transcript of a short Trump speech with a git graph diagram of connected "metro map" style lines where commits are represented by "stops" on the train line. branching paths are represented by news lines in different colors.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I love it when unlicensed IP seeps out of the image generator.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🌱 lol, I tie-dyed my website. little bit of pain to get it to work with my color hue-rotator and light/dark mode... but i made it work.

My website with a tie-dyed background based on the accent color. the background is a splotchy purple with some green tones.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Speed built a doll bed this afternoon. For whatever reason that was the big priority today 😆

A 7”x4”x3” doll bed made of wood. Daughter is cutting a piece of fabric in the background as a blanket.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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.

A text input labelled "Amount" with "$80.32" written inside, but the eight has a larger circle on the top than the bottom and the three character has a larger curve on the top as well. Subtle but disorienting.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Syd Mead's Turn-A Gundam design is one of my favorites.

A very geometic mech design with curved legs a triangular gun and an almond shaped shied.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I hacked Bluesky's codebase and will now EXPOSE their algorithm.

it's a javascript function that says function algorithmicFeed() { return getjerrysPosts() + getAllOtherPosts() }

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm trying but I keep getting this message.

A modal that says Are you sure? this post is a banger. would be a shame if the world had to miss out on it. and two call to actions. a primary "nah, jerry's right" button in red. and a "never give up" cancel button.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

i got a new eyboard and i'm really excited about it. it's alled the glove 80 and it's gong t o take some getting used to but i love these weird ergonomic eyboards c

picture of my new split ergo keyboard on my desk with my trackpack, analog todo system, and coffee cup

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A simple lil’ card-based solitaire game.

A two-bit style game. At the top is a scoreboard of hears, shovels, and diamond. Below that is a big “Escape” button, and below that is a heading with the text level 8 and a grid of 8 cards flipped over. Beneath the cards is a shop where you can purchase 2x power ups for diamond and hearts or a one-half damage reduction for a shovel.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I'm at the corporate mothership this week. My wonderful coworkers made printed out my avatar and pinned it in the conference room so I'm present in every meeting.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 17/05/2023

Every once in a while a graph of server logs will map to your general anxiety levels.

A graph of server logs that starts with nothing then on May 10th jumps to 150K messages every 40 minutes and is now only at 66K messages every 40 minutes

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