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And whose fault is that?

Liz Truss in Taiwan calls for ‘economic Nato’ to challenge China - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/liz-truss-in-taiwan-calls-for-economic-nato-to-challenge-china it exists already, it's called the EU you dimwit...

Over winter I took far too many 360 photos of the same local spots, so had stopped carrying the camera around.

Today I realised that the same spots are looking very different now.

Proper lush.

#Scotland #360degree #photography #landscape #nature

Oh, FFS.

Photo credit: @tilton

shamelessly stolen off a facebook post that didn't have an artist credit

every damn time

A Möbius strip walks into a bar, sobbing.

Bartender: “What’s wrong buddy?”

Strip: “Where do I even begin?”

Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.

Show me a more iconic pair. I'll wait.

The CSS Zen Garden is 20 today.
http://www.csszengarden.com/

It was about 9pm or so in Vancouver twenty years ago today, where I spun up an FTP connection and uploaded a handful of files to a server. I didn’t expect what happened next.

My intent was creating a site that proved CSS was a better way to design and build for the web than the mess of fonts and table tags the industry was dependent on up till that point. I figured a handful of the folks already into CSS at the time would find it neat, maybe a few other people would make an attempt at submitting, and it might prove to be a fun talking point for a few months.

What I didn’t see was how effectively it proved the point, and how revelatory that would be to the wider industry who weren’t using CSS yet. I mean I always dreamed it might reach a wider audience, but I never expected it to blow up early and remain relevant for as long as it did.

The designs it contains span a formative period of web design and development and most are of that era, while the industry has continued advancing beyond the ideals of 2003. But I keep it alive not just as an early web milestone, but also because it continues on as a reference for web curriculums and those joining the industry every day who get to experience that same aha moment the rest of us did many many years ago.

It’s no exaggeration to say that this one site launched not just my own career, but the careers of many of the contributors who are still prominent in the industry today. It remains my most significant mark on an industry I still work within today, and I still feel the pride of managing to create something that helped change the trajectory of the web for the better.

Me: well excuuuuse me, who died and made you king?

Charles III: me mum. 😔

I just learned the term "molly-guard" for switch covers and the history of the term is adorable https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard

#books