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Oh! I've just watched the first 5 mins, definitely going to watch it all. She's legit already funny.
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This is such a great suggestion, actually. So, tell us, what *did* it feel like to make your first website? https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-what-it-felt-like-to-make-your-first-website (via @danhon https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/113018272551284688)
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 I had been on a Pipex 1 day course on html in Jan ‘95 and coded up my first page, then went on to build up a site and push it live. I remember being really scared that anyone in the world could see and read what I had designed but the excitement was extreme. This really was something new. Was 3 or 4 days before it got its first visit. Bit of a letdown, but set expectations for the future! 🤣   Just realised that on Mastodon, boosting *is* the algorithm. There's no code trying to cleverly show me stuff it reckons I'd be into, based on what my contacts are into, instead my contacts are saying "I like this, I bet my contacts would like it too" and that is way smarter than any algorithm. Thank you, boosters!
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  Can you even call it "the algorithm" if it's so transparent and driven by people you intentionally chose to follow intentionally pushing a button to share something with their followers? Everybody's Free (To Write Websites) Enbies and gentlefolk of the class of '24: Write websites. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, coding would be it. The long term benefits of coding websites remains unproved by scientists, however the rest of my advice has a basis in the joy of the indie web community's experiences. I will dispense this advice now: 1/10 Enjoy the power and beauty of PHP; or never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of PHP until your stack is completely jammed. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at your old sites and recall in a way you can't grasp now, how much possibility lay before you and how simple and fast they were. JS is not as blazingly fast as you imagine. 2/10 Hey hey hey CSS Tricks is actually back!! @geoff is going through updating the articles that need it and writing great new ones! Yessssssssss Go check out @csstricks - find the new ones and scroll down past a few strange test posts to find lots of recent links to fabulous older articles that have been updated 🧡 So... I bought a domain. I'm doing a thing. Do people still #buildInPublic these days? Let's do it. It's in a very very sparse starting stage right now: (Yes, I bought https://whimsically.net too. Not whimsicaIIy.net though!) #accessibility for hobbyists. It'll be slow, and move forward in bursts. I'm excited though!
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  @sarajw so does it mean "whimsicaccessibility"? or are there a different 11 letters? <grin> In case anyone is wondering whether @anarodrigues and I found each other - yes we did :) and we found a @Kilian too amongst many other lovely people! #CSSDay Oh @anarodrigues. Yes. https://ohhelloana.blog/i-want-it-all/ Also it feels like everyone else is keeping up, but they're not. I think we're all keeping up with different pockets of stuff while letting others slide, and when I consider everyone that isn't me - yes between them they've totally kept up with more stuff than me! What is great about this web dev community though is the sharing. We can't read all the things, but as long as we all keep communicating, we'll be alright :)   @sarajw they're not?! 😁 but that's exactly it - it 100% feels like everyone is keeping up but me. I love your POV - thank you for sharing 💚 It's starting soon! #11tyConf Catch mine at 20:10 UTC: (But please watch the others before me because I'm nothing compared to them! So much to learn!) @sarajw I'm probably only going to manage to watch the first hour and a bit live, so I'll have to catch-up on everything else tomorrow 😖 Curse having adult responsibilities! Shared with me by a colleague - oof. https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/ Feels like those creepy Black Mirror stories are coming ever closer.  @sarajw I've experienced most of these, or at least something similar. I think we will see a fracturing when a significant threshold of people refuse to deal with such things and go elsewhere for their services and products. |
Oh nice. She was about to go into talking about planning good infrastructure for the upcoming computer information networks - and decided to make an analogy as to how the car boom lead to the US forgetting about other transportation, like rail.
Yep yep yep.