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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 02/05/2026

i don't love putting people on blast, but really Open Table? I click the unsubscribe link from a marketing email and now I have to uncheck each box in order to stop getting your emails?

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 06/04/2026

nested media queries feel great, i never really liked having a bunch of code, then a bunch of media queries at the bottom. keeping everything together feels cleaner and easier to understand pawelgrzybek.com/native-css-n...

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 24/03/2026

come write songs with us and nerd out about music theory on April 16th. you can ask @lilgreybirb.bsky.social how the class was! sign up: lightninglessons.com/classes/writ...

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 29/01/2026

in case you're a nerd and dislike that your @ohmyposh.dev theme shows the wrong Node version after you update, `oh-my-posh cache clear` might just save you 🫡

terminal GUI showing a different/wrong node version than the terminal output of `node -v`

the correct node version is displayed in the terminal GUI

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 07/01/2026

TIL about the HTML <del> tag: indicating something that has been deleted from a document, which will render with strike through by default developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

MDN example showing the <del> tag with strike through

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 07/01/2026

decided to do one of those @frontendmentor.io challenges--i'm doing so much full stack / state mangement work, i was wanting to just look at a design and built it qr-component-dlane.netlify.app

QR code for frontend mentor design challenge

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 15/11/2025

No, you did not go viral, you got bots 😅.

List of a bunch of gibberish names and random emails

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 15/11/2025

A few days later I got an email from Resend (who I'm using to send emails) that I was almost hitting the max allowed emails in a day. Strange...that's gotta be a lot of users. Did I go viral 🤩

Email stating that this user is 80% of the way to their daily quota of 200 emails

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 15/11/2025

I built a nice little referral form on my website for a course I'm running: refer a friend and you both get 15% off.

A form for a course website that says refer your friends and has a spot for one person's name and email and another person's name and email

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 10/10/2025

signups: lightninglessons.com/classes/writ...

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 10/10/2025

Our upcoming songwriting workshop is meant to give you the tools to break down songs you love into concepts that you can take and use in your own songs let me know if you have any questions video link: www.youtube.com/shorts/qWQpQ...

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 07/10/2025

In addition to being a software engineer I've been a musician and guitar teacher for 15+ years. I'm growing my lessons business into an online music school and we're launching our first offering with one of my fav teachers: "Write a song using music theory" lightninglessons.com/classes/writ...

Flyer for online music theory songwriting workshop. Text reads:

Songwriting class, Lightning Lessons
Write a song using music theory
Virtual group workshop on Zoom
Register now at lightninglessons.com

An outline drawing of two teens dancing in a 50s Archie style

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 05/09/2025

the youtube for my original music hit 100 subscribers, how fun might be fun to start sharing more demos there www.youtube.com/@gentlereturn

screenshot of youtube channel saying 100 subscribers for gentle return

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 11/07/2025

@thesicktimes.bsky.social does fantastic journalism on the long COVID crisis. They're running their summer donation drive and it's being matched 😉 the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 31/05/2025

mixing an upcoming song of mine "the ruthless logic of use" and enjoyed this clip so I thought I would share it with you

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 25/01/2025

Olive n nathan snuggling

Black cat Nathan, snuggling with tabby cat olive. Nathan’s face is tucked in to olive’s hind legs and Olive’s Hands are on Nathan’s back

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 24/01/2025

70/30 whole wheat sourdough country loaf with regular and black sesame seeds

Two sourdough country loaves viewed from above. dark brown hard crust on a metal cooling rack on top of a blonde colored wooden table

Viewing the loaves of bread from the side

View of inside the loaf of bread. This is called a “crumb shot “. Uniform distribution of air bubbles, slightly dense crumb structure due to high level of whole wheat flour

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 22/01/2025

Latest library haul 🤤

Design for developers textbook, published by Manning.

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 19/01/2025

Sourdough country loaf-60/40 whole wheat/white bread flour

Picture of a sourdough loaf of bread from above. Sesame seeds sprinkled on top and a decorative wheat drawing scored into the crust.

Picture of the same loaf of bread from the side. You can see the crust “ear“curling up and burnt at the stop

Photo of the inside of the loaf. Big air holes and a light brown coloring.

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 15/01/2025

yay i made an image with SVG lol

a face that is two large green squares for eyes and a red upside down curve for a frowning mouth. made with SVG. barely looks like a face.

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 15/12/2024

she's leaving you - mj lenderman feat my kitty nathan healing from a sliced paw, stitches, and then torn stitches a week later

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 05/12/2024

For people in SF who might have been thinking "well is my house in the Tsunami risk zone?", and you want to check for the future, here's SF's map of which areas might need evacuation in the event of a Tsunami. The Es are for safe evacuation meeting sites. www.sf72.org/hazard/tsuna...

a map showing coastal areas of SF that would need to evacuate in the event of a tsunami, as well as "E"s on the map showing evacuation gathering sites

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 05/12/2024

California/Oregon Coast--the Tsunami warning has been canceled. www.kron4.com/news/tsunami...

No Tsunami warning, advisory, watch, or threat. screenshot from tsunami.gov regarding the 12/5/24 earthquake off the Eureka coast

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 04/12/2024

Someone sent me a $5 donation for the YouTube guitar lessons videos I’ve made under my music education business Lightning Lessons YouTube is so cool because I haven’t made a new video in over two years and people still consistently watch every week.

Screenshot showing a donation to Devin on Ko Fi with message that days “thank you so much for all the Alex G lessons”

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 28/11/2024

Whole wheat sourdough dinner rolls

Picture of dinner rolls on an oven. In three separate pans, the rolls are baked into each other in a “tear apart” style.

Close up of 5 dinner rolls baked together in a small cake pan

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 23/11/2024

this is the example from the MDN page that helped me

example from MDN for replacing a node by setting the outerHTML property.

takes a nested Div and then replaces it with a p element by setting the div's outerHTML to the p element

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 20/11/2024

60/40 whole wheat / 00 flour sourdough country loaf

Golden sourdough country loaf held in my hand over a blonde colored wood table. Sesame seeds on top, blackened bread “ear” curling up, and a wheat design scored into the crust

Golden sourdough country loaf on a metal cooling rack viewed from the side. Sesame seeds on top, blackened bread “ear” curling up, and a wheat design scored into the crust

Golden sourdough country loaf on a metal cooling rack viewed from above. Sesame seeds on top, blackened bread “ear” curling up, and a wheat design scored into the crust

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 18/11/2024

not my fav when you click an unsubscribe link from an email and then you have to uncheck each flavor of email you'd like to stop receiving

a list of email preferences that shows up when you click an unsubscribe link in an email. shows different categories of emails and has a checkbox next to each one that you have to uncheck if you want to stop receiving emails

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 17/11/2024

I got an email from the pet microchip people trying to upsell me on the premium subscription to their service, decided it was time to update the photos I have in their database. First pics when we first got them at 2-3 months old; second pics at 7 months old. They grow up so fast 🥹

Two photos of kittens: one black tuxedo standing on the edge of the tub looking at the camera; one orange/brown/gray tabby sitting in front of a cat tower looking at the camera

two photos of the same kittens but at 7 months old: one black tuxedo sitting on a music speaker with a spider plant next to it, looking at the camera;

one orange/brown/gray tabby sitting sitting on top of a toilet looking at the camera with a pothos plant nearby

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 12/11/2024

Nathan and Olive snuggling each other

My black kitty Nathan sprawled out straight and perpendicular on the left side of Olive. Both sleeping soundly on a golden woven blanket

Nathan and olive sleeping on the golden woven blanket

Nathan nuzzling his head into Olive’s fluff. Nathan is a black short hair cat and Olive is tabby and medium hair

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 11/11/2024

lol so why is a blue butterfly emoji the first suggested reaction emoji in my X DMs?

suggested emoji reactions to a DM on X (formerly Twitter). Shows a blue butterfly emoji as the first suggested reaction.

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 07/11/2024

lil Olive decided to eat an entire felt worm last night, so we had to go to the emergency vet to induce vomiting. Luckily she yakked it up and all is well. 😂 ughhh