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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 3d

Happy Halloween.

If you work in tech, or tech-adjacent fields, this spooky story is for you

stories.frankmtaylor.com/offline/

Offline | A short story | Frank M. Taylor

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 7d

I'm excited about getting my next (possibly last?) tattoo.
- my wife's writing on my ring finger as a wedding band
- Genesis 2:23 in Hebrew on my left ribs
- Psalm 82:3 in Hebrew on my right ribs
- And soon parts of Deuteronomy 6:5 in Hebrew on my chest

It all forms a theme that I think is finished

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 14d

Honestly if us-east-1 is gonna help burst this AI bubble then I'm here for it.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 14d

Please enjoy this new short (horror) story about the terrors of an always-online work ethic: stories.frankmtaylor.com/offline

Offline | A short story | Frank M. Taylor

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 16d

Little aggravates me more than when I see something written in a language I don't recognize.

And that's purely because I feel like I should be able to recognize most western languages.

I don't know why I think this.

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 25d

I only took two years of math in high school. I stopped after Algebra 2.

My original degree was Foreign language International Trade. Changed that b/c I couldn't do the bus calculus class.

Whole life has been redirected b/c I chose to avoid any advanced math.

Now for my M.S. in Linguistics:

A question I must answer. It asks: When does cos(a,b) = a * b?

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 25

New Article dropped:

How to manage performance in #CSS:

blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/09/23/h...

How to Manage CSS Performance for Websites

Every once in a while someone asks specifically about how to manage CSS performance for a website. What if there's a lot of components? What if there's a lot of animations? What if there's a lot of ju...

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 25

I want a bar with good WiFi that doesn't have any sports on the TVs and instead plays Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Marvel movies all day.

oh and the music is extremely quiet.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 19

honest question for developers / software engineers:

Do any of you actually enjoy dealing with containers?

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 10

Your organization would have more success with your design system if you had a 1-week training every year for everyone who had to use it than if you dedicated that time to documenting it poorly.

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 9

In tonight's DnD game my Paladin had to deal with childhood trauma and PTSD in the worst way possible:

While underground, pillars of blue light triggered the death of her parents and she had to destroy all the pillars.

With dynamite.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 7

I'm watching The Handmaid's Tale for the first time in 2025 and I realize there's a reason I'm watching it NOW.

Because now it's so much more believable.

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 4

I swear if I hear any more about adding AI at work I'm going to burn an effigy of WALL-E on my front lawn.

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 3

Because they're made by tech bros and not linguists

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Sep 2

If three years of therapy has helped with anything it's that now I can confidently take the encouragement and advice that my therapist has given to me and share it with someone else while I absolutely ignore it.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 29

I forgot that without Next.js we wouldn't have a DOM.

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 29

I really need everyone to lay off the Next.js

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 28

New Writeup about the AmericaByDesign[dot] gov website

America by Design is Deplorable for All

blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/08/28/a...

America by Design is Deplorable for All

On August 21 President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a national initiative to improve digital experiences for Americans called "America by Design". After establishing a National Design St...

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 28

I did a full writeup on this heaping dumpsterfire

America by Design is Deplorable for All

blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/08/28/a...

America by Design is Deplorable for All

On August 21 President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a national initiative to improve digital experiences for Americans called "America by Design". After establishing a National Design St...

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 26

Hey real quick:

this was 4.75 years ago or so

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hszd...

We Stitched Together All the Footage from the Capitol Riot

YouTube video by VICE

www.youtube.com

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 26

One time about 16 years ago I went to North Korea's website and Kim Jong-Il's name was wrapped in 16 <strong> tags.

I still think about that sometimes.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 26

This has major, "I don't hurt animals; I buy meat at the grocery store" vibes.

Zero knowledge of where the thing comes from. Just none.

wild.

Thanks for the questions and super valuable feedback! To be totally honest, I came from a Svelte/Framework background and just did not deeply consider/realise you can create a pure dom version and event handling with just plain js. It's definitely a valid point that I'll take into consideration into designing the next version. Currently it does seem a bit overengineered since the React, Vue and Svelte implementations are actually all wrappers over web components, and still potentially offer some (potential) advantages in advanced state management which I have not yet explored. I'll definitely look into this more deeply.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 26

I have so many questions

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 26

Calling ChatGPT "Sparkling Word Statistics" is how you keep Sam Altman's ego in check.

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · Aug 25

Well This week I start my M.S. in Human Language Technologies from the University of Arizona.

So if you thought my articles and ramblings about language and linguistics were insufferable before — buckle up, buttercup; it's about to get much worse.

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