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Interop’s Labyrinth: Sharing Code Between Web & Electron Apps - Slack Engineering
While it’s no secret that the cross-platform Slack Desktop app is built on Electron, it might be slightly less well known that it’s a hybrid app built around our web app (slack.com). This is one of Electron’s most compelling draws — not only can you build a cross-platform desktop app from scratch with the web technologies you …
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Mar 21, 2021, 10:05 AM -04:00 Zack Snyder's Justice League. A better movie, but not a good movie.
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Mar 19, 2021, 8:04 PM -04:00 Thinking of trying eleventy. But I've put some much effort into my pelican setup. Hrm.
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Mar 6, 2021, 1:30 PM -05:00 I apparently own all six cancelled Dr. Seuss books
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Feb 15, 2021, 12:17 PM -05:00 I don't organize my bookmarks, though I've always meant to. That being said, isn't the point of IndieWeb's bookmark entry type to avoid relying on an external service for this?
Feb 15, 2021, 4:25 AM -05:00Testing a new browser gave me the incentive and opportunity to clean up my pile of "bookmarks". Wondering how most people use and organise their browser #bookmarks? Do you keep everything in separate folders? Never gotten around in using one of those "pinning" services, even-though I've been "bookmarking" interesting things using my "Known CMS" site, but I don't organise those properly using tags. -
Feb 12, 2021, 12:24 PM -05:00 I love how the media is covering this impeachment trial as if a conviction were an actual possibility.
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Feb 9, 2021, 3:13 PM -05:00 TIL that the chinese word for penguin literally translates as "business goose".
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Feb 8, 2021, 11:24 PM -05:00 
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Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) on X
A person I’ve never met dances gleefully to a song I’ve never heard and I am smiling for days. The sun shines on the snow and the tree shadows draw dark lines across the yard and I am filled with joy. Two people who don’t even exist fall in love in a novel and I am ecstatic. -
Jan 29, 2021, 7:24 PM -05:00
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PHILOSOPHY ON X (@philosophytweet) on X
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Jan 27, 2021, 10:20 AM -05:00 
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Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase | CSS-Tricks
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers -
Jan 24, 2021, 10:38 PM -05:00 Wait... did I miss something? What's wrong with shortbread?
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Jan 10, 2021, 6:25 PM -05:00 I used to use the Big Brother Database from Emacs but these days I don't use anything in particular and I'd like to change that.
Jan 9, 2021, 10:25 AM -05:00What do you use to manage the contact details of all your friends, family and other contacts? -
Jan 7, 2021, 1:31 PM -05:00 Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 64 events, most recently in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Buy me a coffee Follow @hdv on MastodonJan 3, 2021, 7:00 PM -05:00How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy
In the last week of 2020, I decided to export my Goodreads data to display it on my personal website. This post is about what I did and how. Screenshot Why export? First, I quite like Goodreads. It lets me see the reads of friends and acquaintances. It lets me share my own. This is all splendid, but it is still somebody else’s site. Somebody with very different life goals from my own, in fact. For more control on what I display and how, I decided to create a new section of this website ded... -
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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X
Word of the day is 'sequaciousness' (17th century): the blinkered, unreasoning, and slavish following of another, no matter where it leads. -
Jan 6, 2021, 12:44 PM -05:00 My my, that duolingo owl is aggressive, isn't it.
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Jan 3, 2021, 10:37 AM -05:00 How does this work, exactly? Is he rebinding old books or is he making new (blank, I guess?) books? Either way, looks really cool.
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Mina Hamedi 🇮🇷🇹🇷 (@mina_hamedi) on X
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Jan 2, 2021, 9:47 PM -05:00 Okay, so duolingo is kind of fun.
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Dec 31, 2020, 3:52 PM -05:00 Fully brag-worthy when a cat likes you and, apparently, no one else.
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Dec 27, 2020, 7:00 PM -05:00IndieWeb, Revisited
A couple of years ago I started building an IndieWeb website. Then I got painfully busy at work, stopped improving it, and basically ran out of free time to even post to it. Fast forward a couple of years, and I've got a new job that's somewhat more manageable, and during the holiday break I'm trying to get this thing going again. I've made a couple of changes: For the static site generator itself, I replaced Gatsby with Eleventy and am happier with it; it's basically just a pile of simple t... -
Dec 28, 2020, 5:58 PM -05:00 I am currently reading this tweet in Avasarala's voice and it's pretty awesome.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo (@SAghdashloo) on X
@bobbyvoicu If it weren't for our brilliant writers, this character would not have shined. It really is like a tango - it takes two to do it. Thank you so much. 😊❤ -
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@spavel.bsky.social🐀 (@PavelASamsonov) on X
Randall Rudd's instructions for drawing a single drop of water. -
Dec 24, 2020, 8:10 PM -05:00 I like egg nog way too much
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Dec 24, 2020, 5:35 PM -05:00 Merry Christmas everyone!
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Dec 23, 2020, 9:14 PM -05:00 The lighting at Atwater metro station is always impeccable. Inner 12 year old laughs hysterically
