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Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
🆕 blog! “The Cleaner 🆚 Der Tatortreiniger” After watching the BBC comedy series The Cleaner staring Greg Davies, I was surprised to lea...
 Hey, German friends! Can you recommend any other good German comedies (with English subtitles)? View quoted note →
I want to allow my bots' posts to be quoted. Do I need all these interaction policies - or can I just have the simplified interactionPolicy? #MastodonAPI #QuoteToot
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🆕 blog! “Targetting specific characters with CSS rules” You can't. There is no way to use CSS to apply a style to every letter "E". It simply can't be done. At least, that's what they want you to think… What if I told you there was a secret and forbidden way to target specific characters in text and apply some styles to them? As part of my experiments in creating a "drunk" C… 👀 Read more:
Targetting specific characters with CSS rules – Terence Eden’s Blog
 ⸻ #css #HTML
Help me out, Fedifriends. In the last week I've had three different dipships complain that the posts by @npub1y66r...eusx are too long for the fediverse. How can I make it more obvious that it is an automated blog syndication account? Its account is literally `@ blog`. Its name is "Terence Eden's blog". Its description says it is a blog. Should I change the avatar? Add a banner? Or just accept that some people don't/won't understand that it is a long-form account?
Why didn't rental Segways become as ubiquitous as rental eBikes in cities?
Here's a minimum viable WebP. Useful if you need to hardcode a blank image. header( "Content-type: image/webp" ); echo base64_decode( "UklGRhYAAABXRUJQVlA4TAoAAAAvAAAAAEX/I/of" );
Hey, #WordPress friends. What's the purpose of <!-- .children --> and <!-- #comment-## --> being injected after every ul/ol comment? Are they necessary? Can they be removed? As seen in:
GitHub
WordPress/wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php at 69ced2eb1fc85ec5e106384b48c8015c77468402 · WordPress/WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull reques...
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GitHub
WordPress/wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php at 69ced2eb1fc85ec5e106384b48c8015c77468402 · WordPress/WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull reques...
Programmers - which of these commenting conventions do you personally prefer? 1. Above ``` // Describe the function function foo() { … } ``` 2. Inside ``` function foo() { // Describe the function … } ```
Android will *not* be getting most of the Unicode 17 updates. Some of its fonts are over a decade out of date - and Google refuses to re-use its own Noto font stack. I've raised the issue at:
Google Issue Tracker
 If you're a Googler please ask someone to prioritise this issue. Can everyone else please hit the +1 button. #Google #Android #AOSP #Unicode
🆕 blog! “Some thoughts on personal git hosting” As part of my ongoing (and somewhat futile) efforts to ReDeCentralise, I'm looking at moving my personal projects away from GitHub. I already have accounts with GitLab and CodeBerg - but both of those sites are run by someone else. While they're lovely now, there's nothing stopping them becoming as slow or… 👀 Read more:
Some thoughts on personal git hosting – Terence Eden’s Blog
 ⸻ #developers #git #ReDeCentralize