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Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time.
Professional:
I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go.
Personal:
If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
What is this creepy ass toxic shit advert?
Why can I not block it?
Why am I seeing it?
If it’s not this it’s the weird as fuck AI tai-chi shit with the “my father is old but could he benefit Mr Obviously AI over-buff instructor man with long hair?”
Who *falls for* this absolute ass?
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Most people: "Isn't it stupid how those politicians surround themselves with Yes Men? God they're so stupid. How ignorant! You know nothing, but as long as those yes men say yes you think you're smart - idiot!"
Same people, but AI users: "I asked my Yes Machine and it said I'm very smart and suggested you are wrong!"
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Bajiru is practicing Rachmaninoff, 'Vocalise' Op. 34 No.14.
She's heard it a handful of times, it's a request to cover from Lesage.
She has no formal training. She knows no music theory.
She's sitting on her chair, with her leg up, while singing this.
She's **so good** that after a few minutes of practice listening and imitating, her VOD gets muted because her isolated practice vocal seems to have hit a DRM content match.
This woman is *insanely* skilled.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
How in hell did we ever build mechanical watches.
No. Really.
Look at that.
That's just ridiculous.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
- Mouse sings during the cyclethon, raising money for the Immune Deficiency Foundation.
- There have been 5 years of cyclethon's; the last three, she's tried not to repeat any songs, and to do a song for every 5k donated.
- These are all the times she sang La Camisa Negra live during the cycling; but synced together.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Can you imagine if we had some free source of energy that could supply the whole nation and was impossible to blockade or restrict?
Can you imagine if that was also cheaper than all other fuels? With current tech?
It’s almost as though renewable energy is a matter of national security; and its constant derision by fossil fuel industries was entirely about their loss of profit if we switched.
Can you imagine if we’d actually built the infra instead of get cucked by big business?
Imagine!
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
"Age verification" is "no anonymity".
Believing that a system enforcing age verification does not then also lead to a lack of anonymity is naieve. People, we got knickers in twists because of cookies - you think something that *requires handing over IDs* isn't going to end up mined that way too? Beyond all the other risks?
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Remember how I said about Baji being the first person I’ve ever known of that actually has multiple personalities?
Give this a couple minutes and you’ll hear her talking as “other guy”/ “lojiru” - and some dope singing to boot - then shift back to Baji and talk between the two.
This was immediately after covering Jinjer’s “Pisces”.
The next song she sings is a duet between her personalities, covering “a whole new world”. It’s fascinating.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
So I've been liking Lesage's live streams a lot - he's fallen into the vTuber rabbit hole since hearing Mouse do her Opera.
He also does free singing lessons most days, live. Funded by his community.
Here's an example one where they work both on singing and also vocal feminisation together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ULA8mSPUOk
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Apple; give me a way to set this as the default for that button.
I loath your "full screen", and always have. This is what it *should* be "Instantly, without animation, make the window the size of the screen." not "punt my window via some spinny animation to a new desktop screen and remove its window chrome"
This is where your obsession with removing useful UI started. This button's default behaviour.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
I’ll re-iterate what I said yesterday:
AI is exactly the same thing.
Once it’s been relied on long enough that there are not enough juniors with the fundamental knowledge, few to no seniors left… that’s the end of your ability to not rely on AI providers.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. Professional: I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go. Personal: If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.
Do Americans realise how absolutely insane the very concept of “purging a voter registration list” is? You have to *register to vote*? What are you even talking about?
Are you a citizen? Then you should automatically get a vote. There isn’t anything to administer. You live there. The government serves you; not you it. Voting isn’t supposed to be a privilege, or reward.
The obvious abuse vector that any system other than “all citizens vote” becomes is astounding.
