@jeblucas

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I left the day he walked in. Tzedek tzedek tirdof.
jeblucasFeb 2, 2024

Saw GODZILLA MINUS 1 MINUS COLOR and it was great. If you get a chance, go see it. The B&W hides most of the cheap CGI and the film is charming, especially if you watched Creature Double Feature like I did as a kid.

Also, this cost like $15M to make?! It’s amazing. More of these little films, well made.

jeblucasFeb 2, 2024
Sheril KirshenbaumFeb 1, 2024

I visited my 5th graders school for their writing celebration today. A classmate’s essays began…

“Have you ever imagined what it was like to live in the 1900s?” 🤔

jeblucasFeb 1, 2024
Tilde LowengrimmFeb 1, 2024
It is wild to me how many relatively-simple websites just utterly break without cookies or without JavaScript. If you have a straightforward article page nobody should need either to read it. I'm not talking about paywalls here, or about complex interactive webapps. Just simple pages anyone should be able to read where the images don't work if you don't have JS turned on. Or nothing at all loads if they can't set a cookie. I don't know who's writing these frameworks which can't even produce basic text-and-pictures HTML without JS, but it feels negligent.

Whatever happened to progressive enhancement? To writing semantic HTML and using CSS to lay it out how you want, and JS only to do the things CSS can't? Even a friendly, usable CMS can spit out semantic HTML which works with your style sheets. What's the structural incentive I'm missing here?
jeblucasFeb 1, 2024

The guy in When In Rome singing The Promise keeps saying “I gotta tell ya, gotta tell YAAaaaaaaa” but like 20 sec later is clearly saying “I promise YOU I will.”

So which is it, accent or no? Make up ya mind, you. #controversy

jeblucasJan 31, 2024
Figured out Blastula package for R at work today. That is a handy dandy little thing. Let’s me send rich, script heavy emails. I don’t need to make a dashboard, I can just have Blastula email them one if something goes out of whack. #Rstats
jeblucasJan 25, 2024
Alice McFlurry Jan 24, 2024
My only regret in life is not buying this thrift store shirt.
jeblucasJan 24, 2024
Steve HermanJan 23, 2024
LA Times staffers say ~150 of their colleagues were laid off today in a Zoom webinar by HR with chat disabled and no Q&A.