Aaron

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There Can Be Money in Blogging - Chris Coyier

When you hear me endlessly prattle on about how you should have your own site, publish your own feed, and the general power of writing, I mean it. But why? What’s the point of writing on your own site? So many. Not to mention it’s fun! But there can be money in blogging too: You […]

Chris Coyier

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

Which browser do you use?
Thanks for any boosts! I wanna know!
Chrome 👁️
29.4%
Firefox 🔥
37.5%
Brave 🦸‍♀️
6.5%
Opera ♦️
2.3%
Edge 🟦
5%
Other (comment) ⭐
5.6%
See results only 😑
2%
Safari 🌀
11.7%
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I'm excited for our container query-powered future. Design system creators can author truly fluid components that can be dropped into any arbitrary layout, sidebar, whatever, and Just Work.

This article on @smashingmag is a great primer: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/complete-guide-css-container-queries/

A Primer On CSS Container Queries — Smashing Magazine

CSS container queries have landed and are now available for experimentation. Let’s look at what problem is being solved, learn how container queries work, and see how they compare with and complement existing CSS features for layout.

Smashing Magazine
Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”