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Zach Leatherman
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A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
 - 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:
Unhooking from Amazon ebooks
Over the years we, as a family, have been moving our purchases away from Amazon, except in one single place: Kindle ebooks. For me it
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:
CSS flag generator
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:
Do politics belong at web events?
This question has been asked before and discussed before and I
Ranty grumble from me:
Devs: draw your line
This post is for my developers out there, web and otherwise. We have super powers. We can make something functional from practically nothing. And y...
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.
GitHub
GitHub - treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader: Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased.
Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've...
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calibre - Download calibre
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
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GitHub
Releases Β· noDRM/DeDRM_tools
DeDRM tools for ebooks. Contribute to noDRM/DeDRM_tools development by creating an account on GitHub.
 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
If anyone fancies bagging themselves $80 off for #blackfriday on my
terminal.training
Command line for non-techies
4 hour course by Remy Sharp to help you conquer the command line. Take advantage of the command line πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
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