Random TIL for the day, inadvertently via @npub19vzl...zmql post here - the US had a _different_ Dennis the Menace, which explains the 1993 movie that really confused me with it's visuals as a teen. Only took a few decades to work it out 🀦 image
Web components: I love the idea of being able to reuse the custom component through my codebase and potentially other projects. I hate the idea that it's 100% reliant on JavaScript. I know what I'm after is some kind of server side include…just, doesn't sit right.
I've been _trying_ to unhook from Amazon, here's how it's going:
I made a tiny tool for making flags (simple line based) for your blog…if you wanted one. I pinched mine from front-end.social, and was asked how to make one, so I (half asleep) wrote this:
For the last few months I've had twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok (not that I'd ever actually visited) completely blocked from my devices - both on local home wifi and mobile over cellular data. I'm missing a good chunk of the internet and I sort of think that's totally fine.
I don't really talk publically about my politics, though I suspect they can be derived from some of my views. But I was spurred on to (finally) put down in black and white (bytes) where I stand, particularly when it comes to events:
Ranty grumble from me:
Amazon will remove the ability to download the ebooks for Kindle at the end of the month. So if you ever close your amazon account, you'll no longer be able to access the books you had bought. Let's fix that: 1. 2. 3. The bit you'll need is the kindle serial (from amazon's site), then you can convert to epub
An incomplete list of web page elements that don't require JavaScript to work (so STOP FUCKING USING JS TO BREAK THEM): - images - checkboxes & radio buttons - placeholder text - scrollbar - forms - actual fucking links
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