iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 20/11/2024

This continues to be *extremely* relevant: webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/histor… Just yesterday in the Web Performance Slack, folks were trading advice about how beat the keep-Safari-from-fucking-up-scrolling challenge (impossible)

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An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers - Webventures

TL;DR: iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied in...

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Tom Hazledine @tomhazledine.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Phew, made it to #halfstackconf Missed the morning (thanks, aeroplane mechanics), but I’m here in time to catch @nearestnabors.com Woohoo! 🎉

Rachel Lee Nabors on stage telling us all about “being an adult in professional relationships” (much funnier than it sounds!)

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Tom Hazledine @tomhazledine.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I am a professional and take my work profiles very seriously.

A screenshot of my GitHub contribution graph for 2012.

The yearly grid (where every day is a square) has been used to draw a pixel-art version of Pacman chasing two ghosts.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

I’ve spent much of the last year examining car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks. What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden. THREAD

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Tom Hazledine @tomhazledine.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

My new favourite thing is to get ChatGPT to generate ASCII art. Spoiler alert: it’s really bad at it. These are both world maps 🤣:

A screenshot of an amorphous blob outlined in ASCII style with colons, periods, commas, etc.

It looks kind of like an embryo if you squint?

Green and white text on a black background inside a code-block UI labelled “bash”

A screenshot of an amorphous blob outlined in ASCII style with repeated “a”s

Maybe this one looks like an onion? Or a squashed owl, perhaps?

White text on a black background inside a code-block UI labelled “markdown”

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Tom Hazledine @tomhazledine.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

I tend to hyper-focus on a topic/hobby/amazing-business-idea, so it’s hard to know how best to introduce myself… Should I tell you about the RSS reader I’m currently building? (rssisawesome.com) Or should I shout about my modular synthesiser? Or my JS SSG? Too many projects to choose from!

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Tom Hazledine @tomhazledine.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Took me a while to get here, but hi! 👋 Currently in tire-kicking mode, but first impressions are that there are a lot more familiar faces than elsewhere. We’ll see how it goes

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