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Dave Rupert

@davatron5000.bsky.social

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Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · Feb 3

I can quit Balatro anytime okay.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 3h

Did you know the human brain is a neural netowrk that only requires ~40 watts of power and can be ran entirely on Starbursts? I think that's cool.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 10h

this is… i… i think sarah’s article has genuinely unlocked all of 2025

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 11h

Believing generative AI can be a "tool for thought" (e.g., critical thought) when all data suggests there's a high correlation between AI use and a lack of critical thinking is either brave or extremely naive. But I agree that all nearly innovation bucks go to "automation" rather than "augmentation"

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know what'd I'd do in this era of technology without @maggieappleton.com's blog. She's not just knowledgeable, but knowledgeable to the point of knowing if it's a model-level problem or a UX problem. Finally got around to reading her treatise on chatbots.

maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment

On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions

maggieappleton.com

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 13h

I learned about the SVG `` element yesterday. Didn't know it existed until I was poking around some Mermaid diagrams. It's a neat little doodad you can staple onto the path using the `marker-start|mid|end="url(#arrow)"` attribute. Weird. Yet wonderful.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

marker-end - SVG | MDN

The marker-end attribute defines the arrowhead or polymarker that will be drawn at the final vertex of the given shape.

developer.mozilla.org

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 13h

I love a good "Do this, not that" post. And this is a good one:

Do `git reset --keep`, not `git reset --hard`

adamj.eu/tech/2024/09...

Git: avoid reset --hard, use reset --keep instead - Adam Johnson

When I started learning Git, I found many references covering two ways to undo commits with git reset:

adamj.eu

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 14h

We're on the opensource plan currently and Netlify helped us out in this situation and the slurping of content has been stopped, so I think we're good for now 🤞

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much for checking that out and doing a PR.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

hey kid, gimme yer blood!

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

❤️ well that's great news!

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like I got it setup www.a11yproject.com/robots.txt

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

Some ethical concerns there (e.g. kiwi farms) that would need to be discussed with the team.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't. I installed it ... so now I guess we just ... hope?

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking with DNS to stop a botnet is not really what I want to do this weekend. So... I'd rather it just falls over.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

The A11y Project is at risk of going over our 1TB bandwidth limit on @netlify.com and being automatically charged $55/100gb in bonus bandwidth to keep it online.

I think we all know the cause and it's depressing. I've asked Netlify to just let the site go down when the limit is hit.

A bandwidth usage chart going back to july starting at 1 gb for July, then a sudden hill approaching 18gb/day in August then going back down to 1 to 3 gb/day until late september which has steep sudden increase to 55gb/day

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 1d

The document.write rule removal is a weak choice. Is there a conflict of interest there with ad tech?

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2d

When parakeets cosplay

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 3d

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TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 3d

We've created a tool called the "Screen reader support look up tables" designed to help people quickly check how screen readers interpret HTML elements and attributes across multiple combinations of browser and screen reader.

HTML/SR Support lookup

tetralogical.github.io

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 4d

Avoid "functional absolutism" by spending time and energy on things that don't matter. Love this sentiment by @aaadaaam.com.

Bonus: A wonderful little `` web component in the header.

aaadaaam.com/notes/lowrid...

Lowriders & websites | Adam Stoddard

The case for investing in things that “don‘t really matter”.

aaadaaam.com

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 4d

1. Mrs. Krabbapel's class looks at Bart. Milhouse says, "Say the line, Claude!"
2. Bart looks down in disappointment and says, "You're absolutely right."
3. The class cheers

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 5d

Josh died doing what he loved: Over-spiced takes.

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 5d

I think that was another fix by our team that was needed. But maybe connected? Was pretty specific to attr parameters tho iirc.

Will keep digging. My hunch is something changes on the TS-to-Node end.. but hard to track down.

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 5d

Naw... enjoy your evening! Was hoping something obvious came to mind. We're happy to have found a fix, but it's that itchy feeling of "yeah, but why did that fix it!?"