Dave Rupert
@davatron5000.bsky.social
Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.
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.
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.
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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.
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.
The new Austin logo should have just been a map of the freeways that surround the city.
September 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The new Austin logo should have just been a map of the freeways that surround the city.
👋 Good morning. Made some updates to my `` component on my "The Weave" post to provide better fallbacks for browsers that don't support `attr()` functions and `anchor()`. Attached are screenshots of Edge and Firefox.
Here's the post again: daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
Here's the post again: daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
August 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
👋 Good morning. Made some updates to my `` component on my "The Weave" post to provide better fallbacks for browsers that don't support `attr()` functions and `anchor()`. Attached are screenshots of Edge and Firefox.
Here's the post again: daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
Here's the post again: daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
📝 Git diagramming "The Weave" - We all know that Trump has "the best words", so I chased a wild hare and tried my hand at visualizing a short Trump speech using git-graphs.
daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
August 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
📝 Git diagramming "The Weave" - We all know that Trump has "the best words", so I chased a wild hare and tried my hand at visualizing a short Trump speech using git-graphs.
daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
I love it when unlicensed IP seeps out of the image generator.
August 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I love it when unlicensed IP seeps out of the image generator.
🌱 lol, I tie-dyed my website.
little bit of pain to get it to work with my color hue-rotator and light/dark mode... but i made it work.
little bit of pain to get it to work with my color hue-rotator and light/dark mode... but i made it work.
July 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
🌱 lol, I tie-dyed my website.
little bit of pain to get it to work with my color hue-rotator and light/dark mode... but i made it work.
little bit of pain to get it to work with my color hue-rotator and light/dark mode... but i made it work.
Speed built a doll bed this afternoon. For whatever reason that was the big priority today 😆
July 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Speed built a doll bed this afternoon. For whatever reason that was the big priority today 😆
Was filling out a work form on a portal and –I don't mean to distrub anyone too much (especially over the weekend)– but the 8 and the 3 were upside down.
June 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Was filling out a work form on a portal and –I don't mean to distrub anyone too much (especially over the weekend)– but the 8 and the 3 were upside down.
Syd Mead's Turn-A Gundam design is one of my favorites.
March 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Syd Mead's Turn-A Gundam design is one of my favorites.
I hacked Bluesky's codebase and will now EXPOSE their algorithm.
March 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I hacked Bluesky's codebase and will now EXPOSE their algorithm.
I'm trying but I keep getting this message.
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm trying but I keep getting this message.
i got a new eyboard and i'm really excited about it. it's alled the glove 80 and it's gong t o take some getting used to but i love these weird ergonomic eyboards c
December 2, 2024 at 3:35 PM
i got a new eyboard and i'm really excited about it. it's alled the glove 80 and it's gong t o take some getting used to but i love these weird ergonomic eyboards c
TIL that CSS has eggs.
November 26, 2024 at 4:56 PM
TIL that CSS has eggs.
A simple lil’ card-based solitaire game.
November 23, 2024 at 5:12 PM
A simple lil’ card-based solitaire game.
I'm at the corporate mothership this week. My wonderful coworkers made printed out my avatar and pinned it in the conference room so I'm present in every meeting.
November 12, 2024 at 9:44 PM
I'm at the corporate mothership this week. My wonderful coworkers made printed out my avatar and pinned it in the conference room so I'm present in every meeting.
Every once in a while a graph of server logs will map to your general anxiety levels.
May 17, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Every once in a while a graph of server logs will map to your general anxiety levels.