evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

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

Shading crops under solar panels -- known as "agrivoltaics" -- is win-win:
it can increase farm output while greatly reducing carbon emissions.

Corn, lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, wheat and pasture grass have already been proven to have increased yields.

https://theconversation.com/how-shading-crops-with-solar-panels-can-improve-farming-lower-food-costs-and-reduce-emissions-202094

#ClimateSolutions #SolarEnergy #Agriculture

#coronation

It's days like this, when I'm avoiding the coronation by trying to find something entertaining in a spreadsheet of local election numbers, that I wonder about my life choices.

#LocalElections #LocalElections2023 #UKpolitics

"Welcome to our gander reveal party!"

"Don't you mean..."

"No."

Geese emerge from everywhere. There are no fireworks. Only geese. There are no balloons. Only chaos. There are no genders. Only honk.

my level one character after I've bought all the skins in game

#Conservatives this morning. #ToriesOut

Tomorrow if prince Charles sees his shadow, that means another six years of austerity

The perfect confirmation dialog does not exist…

@ironicsans

♫ I am a language model of a modern major general
I’m trained upon a giant mass of textual material
I’ve billions of parameters and answer questions various
Responses range from perfect to unwittingly hilarious
I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
As long as with correctness you’re not overly fanatical
While many complex queries I can easily elucidate
I have an awkward tendency to freewheel and hallucinate ♫

barely legal

🚨 JORTS.HORSE 🚨

When there's a rapid unplanned disassembly but the show must go on