Nick Sloan

nick@sloan.host

<p>I’m a technologist from Pittsburgh with nearly two decades of experience building software for the web and iOS, and managing engineering teams. I’m most at home among a team of people working together to build something they love.</p><p>Talk to me about vinyl records, music technology, comedy, Minecraft, Pittsburgh, Detroit style pizza, Democratic politics, or software development if all else fails.</p>

Posts

Post #2710280
Bad Religion’s Let Them Eat War feels like it was written for 2026.
Post #1982276
Is anyone else finding the Styles tab in Safari’s developer tools unreliable with nested CSS and layers? When inspecting the body element, it is showing me styles for the selector `p`, and not showing my styles with the `body` selector. Both `body` and `p` selectors are nested inside of the same layer declaration. The organization of the UI in the Styles tab doesn’t give me a lot of confidence that I’m not doing something wrong here, but Chrome shows me exactly what I expect.
Post #1185396
I&#39;m looking for inspiration. Can anyone point me toward web applications with a great experience on mobile. When I say web applications, I mean interactive tools delivered via a web browser. I don’t mean marketing sites or games. Nearly a decade ago, @adactio said “If the goal of the web is just to compete with native, then we’ve set the bar way too low.” Has anyone met this challenge? Boosts appreciated.
Post #1045080
Recently I’ve been watching a lot of Dimension 20 and Critical Role. I’ve been curious about TTRPGs for a long time, but the Unsleeping City series really captured my attention. Anyway, I’m interested in playing a D&amp;D campaign or similar. I’m open to joining a group or starting a new party, remotely or here in Pittsburgh. Does anyone have any advice for getting into this hobby? #ttrpg #DnD #Pittsburgh :boostRequest:
Post #780673
RE: https://phpc.social/@thephpf/116142771167684436 I haven’t talked to @elizabeth in such a long time, but she is one of the very best people I’ve met in this industry, and this announcement has made me feel all sorts of nostalgic for this community that I owe my career to. What a wonderful development for all of my PHP friends!
Post #780672
Michael Ian Black has been one of my favorite comedians for my entire adult life, but in the past decade he has become someone I look to for some of the most beautiful, insightful, and resonant writing about American life. https://michaelianblack.substack.com/p/my-only-prayer
Post #426407
This is a devastating examination of the current rejection of morality in the tech industry. Anil has tied together many of the same threads that @sean has been taking about for years. https://me.dm/@anildash/116092886343368931
Post #89203
@cstross@wandering.shop @debcha@saturation.social Also worth noting that there are adult literacy groups all over the place that can use support, especially volunteer tutors.