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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · 9d

Todd and Paula are great people, and fighting with health insurance is awful. If you see this and you can help them out, please do

Todd @toddl.dev · 10d

Day 2 of posting this with hopes we can cross that line in 30 days.

My partner is in need of some medical assistance and future surgery and treatments.

We are 6% of the way there. More details and you can donate if you can here. gofund.me/231d524bb

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Donate to Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund, organized by Todd Libby

My name is Todd Libby, and I am starting this on the behalf of my pa… Todd Libby needs your support for Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · 12d

I wrote something at work about writing automated tests for the new ARIA Notify API, ended up being a bit of a tour of various Cypress commands and things you can do.

Thanks for the shout-out @frontenddogma.com!

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 12d

How to Test the New ARIA Notify API With Cypress, by @marktnoonan.bsky.social:

https://www.cypress.io/blog/how-to-test-the-new-a-notify-api-with-cypress

#howtos #testing #aria #notifications #apis

How to test the new ARIA Notify API with Cypress

The ARIA Notify API is a new way to communicate live page updates to assistive technology like screen readers. This helps make interactive web applications more accessible and solves some problems with current workarounds. In this blog post we'll explain what this new API does and how to test it…

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · 15d

Mandolin’s a hoot. We have some similar interests!

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · 18d

It’s getting there, I have a pedalboard to get around to setting up. And yeah it’s very relaxing to check out and focus on something concrete for a few minutes.

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · 18d

They are the best acoustics I’ve come across. Haven’t tried their basses, but I did recently get a fender ukulele bass which is loads of fun

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks! It’s a Breedlove

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · 19d

This is (kind of) Bristlecone Pine? I’ve also gotten pretty close to having a dedicated music noodling corner.

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Interrupting whatever to bring you some bass ukulele from the couch

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Aug 20

What’s genius about an endangered tiger holding an abstract, commercialized representation of a tiger, traveling to the left (back in time) over the upturned image of a long extinct dinosaur.

Uh, yeah, the kid’s got something.

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Aug 3

I just backed Pat Ingoldsby - 20 years of Dublin street life in poems on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

Pat Ingoldsby - 20 years of Dublin street life in poems

a singular legacy left by a legendary Irish poet

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Aug 2

I like this one a lot

Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · Jul 30

Walk up
wooden
stairs to
her room
held up
on stilts …

—P.W. Jarungpiterah

Afternoons with the Market Vendor by P.W. Jarungpiterah - Rattle: Poetry

Walk up wooden stairs to her room held up on stilts

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · Aug 2

For #SealeyChallenge /1 book a day #Day1 Re-issue of Canadian poet Erin Moure's Pillage Laud
@bookhugpress.bsky.social (experimental computer generated prompts circa 1998 meet queer eros poetics.) Wrestling intimate meaning from structural systems. #gaza fundraise @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

A poem from Erin Moure's collection. PILLAGE 5 ("Fairview") incl lines
"What do skirts foil? A love sequence left you. You
were a shore.:

Cover of PILLAGE LAUD
by Erin Moure
BookHug Reissues (2011)

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Jul 20

I’m glad you can still get poems in the post

Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · Jul 20

ISSUE 19 IS AT THE PRINTER!

This 92-page beauty is on schedule to be published and to ship out to pre-orderers and subscribers, on time, on/around August 1!!

Buy your copy now!

www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Stanchion Magazine Issue 19 | Stanchion

The dawn of a new era for Stanchion Magazine has arrived. Issue 19 will be packed with 22 brilliant pieces of prose and poetry, and the black and white photography you've come to expect, but now all t...

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Aboogail Screamini @abbeyperini.dev · Jul 10

Hey y'all, my favorite conference, @magnolia.boo , needs sponsors.

It has the best food, supports an under-served community, and as the inaugural costume contest winner, I can say it has the best costumes!

Sponsorships start at $500, so send this to your company:

drive.google.com/file/d/1p2bg...

2025MagnoliaSponsorshipProspectus.pdf

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · Jul 4

I tell ya, the subscribers only discount for Complete CSS is juicy. Sign up here to get it, starting Monday piccalil.li/courses/#get...

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Jun 28

I even called your by your real name as a treat

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Jun 28

Happy birthday Homer!

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SquiggleConf @squiggleconf.com · Jun 17

📣 We're proud to announce today the speakers for SquiggleConf 2025!

This amazing list of people are going to give talks on the latest and greatest in web dev tooling. SquiggleConf 2025 is going to be a wonderful time. We hope to see you there! 💙

squiggleconf.com

Meet this year's amazing speakers
SquiggleConf 2025
September 18-19 Boston

Anthony Fu

Jake Bailey

Shelley Vohr

TJ DeVries

Maddy Montaquila

Oliver Medhurst

Dominic Nguyen

Oliver Dunk

Mattia Manzati

Giacomo Cavalieri

Amy Dutton

David Sherret

Jessica Garson

Alexander Lichter

Nicolò Ribaudo

Michelle Bakels

Pete Gonzalez

Dylan Goings

(MC) Fatima Sarah Khalid

(MC) Nick Nisi

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Alex will help you, he once lent me a cup of wifi

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Valerie A. Smith, Back to Alabama, Sundress '24 @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thrilled to see Back to Alabama out in the world!

Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Jun 4

Just finished this signed book of poems by @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social that I got from my wife the other week. It’s fantastic and creative and I feel like every poem is just right. I love how many different kinds of poetry are in this one book.

The cover of Back to Alabama: poems by Valerie A Smith

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · Jun 4

Just finished this signed book of poems by @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social that I got from my wife the other week. It’s fantastic and creative and I feel like every poem is just right. I love how many different kinds of poetry are in this one book.

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Alex Riviere @dangitalex.wtf · May 28

This talk is too hot and is already out of date a bit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7L...

Hot New HTML Features! - Stir Trek 2025

YouTube video by Stir Trek

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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · May 23

Soupy Friday

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · May 17

Very sad news tonight about Paul Durcan RIP. A great loss to Irish poetry. Here’s an old interview I did with him from the 90s.

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · May 13

We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education for free at the point of entry.

We need your support to do free projects for good causes and publish free high quality education

We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education...

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