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@flamingos_cant
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Emacs evangelist | RWBY enjoyer | Deathcore liker

Or put more simply, someone with exceptionally bad taste.

Websitehttps://flamingos-cant.xyz
Lemmy@[email protected]

I just saw "improving your emacs skills or learning new features of the libraries" referred to as "emaxxing" and I just can't.

#emacs

@irelephant Congratulations on becoming a GNOME developer.
Just watched YouTube nuke my comment in real time real time because I mentioned bing.

the idea that the web ecosystem isn't "open" anymore because of complexity is ridiculous. anyone can still write basic html and javascript and get a site working. you don't have to use flexbox. you could just use nested tables. nobody gives a shit

the web ecosystem isn't open anymore because 5 planet spanning companies richer than god monopolize it now and you can't fix that by buying into the AI slop those very companies are peddling

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/

AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web

I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturallโ€ฆ

Techdirt

CSS nesting is now Baseline ๐ŸŽ‰

Write nested selectors directly in CSS โ€” just like Sass, but natively.

.card {
color: black;
&:hover { color: blue; }
.title { font-weight: bold; }
}

No preprocessor needed.

Learn more ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_nesting

CSS nesting - CSS | MDN

The CSS nesting module defines a syntax for nesting selectors, providing the ability to nest one style rule inside another, with the selector of the child rule relative to the selector of the parent rule.

MDN Web Docs

Pro-tip for web developers thinking about implementing a feature: don't. In most cases, just let the browser handle whatever the fuck you intend to re-implement badly with more bugs and less accessible.

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If I sent a message on matrix, but nobody was there to decrypt it, did I send the message at all?
"We use debian, that should be age verification enough"