Dave Rupert

@davatron5000
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Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.

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hey assholes, the charts are going the wrong way. https://webaim.org/projects/million/
WebAIM: The WebAIM Million - The 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages

Brutal.

When Microsoft acquired GitHub.

Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools.

CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS?

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs

CSS or BS?

Think you know CSS? Real property or made-up nonsense? 20 rounds. No mercy.

Hey gang, I need your help.

For @cloudfour’s design practice to survive, we need more projects.

If you’ve ever benefited from any of the 25+ talks, 80+ code repos or 500+ articles we’ve shared for free over the past 19 years, please read and share this post: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/more-projects-please/

#GetFediHired #OpenToWork #WebDesign #UXDesign #UIDesign #ProductDesign

More Projects Please

We’re actively seeking new UX design, UI design or hybrid creative/development challenges to solve.

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Coffee continues until morale improves

Do I know any @developers devs that work close to #css that I could nerdsnipe into figuring out how chromium could catch up to webkit in so far as a `:host(:has(~ ul li)) {}` selector?

See it in action, here: https://codepen.io/Westbrook/pen/EayLZow

Checkout the #CSSWG convo, here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/11859#issuecomment-3834942939

#webComponents developers want all the same `:has()` goodies that anyone can leverage, and you could be the hero we both need and deserve!! 🦸

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A great discussion of performance fundamentals, via my colleague Todd Reifsteck:

https://ricomariani.medium.com/software-performance-engineering-the-ideas-i-keep-coming-back-to-6f421b6a9505

Software Performance Engineering: The Ideas I Keep Coming Back To

Over the years, I’ve written about software performance from a lot of different angles: C++, .NET, systems internals, abstractions, memory…

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When I was a teenager in the '90s, my boyfriend at the time gave me his old skateboard.

The trucks and wheels were fine, but the deck was heavily used and the design had been scraped off most of the bottom, so I took some paint markers and decorated it by painting a black and white checkerboard background with a large stormtrooper head in the foreground because Star Wars and ska were two of my favorite things at the time.

I was mostly just a poser and barely rode it and it remained in the back of my car for several years until I was at a sporting goods store and saw a kid doing tricks on a demo deck and I told him he was really good and he said "Thanks! I have to practice here because I don’t have a skateboard."

At that moment, I remembered my backseat skateboard and told him he could have it, but warned him that the "graphic" was kind of nerdy so he was more than welcome to draw/paint over it.

I went out to my car and grabbed the skateboard and brought it to the front of the store where the kid was waiting and he flipped it over and said "Whoa! Star Wars and ska?!? These are two of my favorite things!"

I’m so glad that skateboard finally found the right owner.

Uninstalled 40 vs-code extensions. Please clap.