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Engineer @onXmaps. Formerly @Hopin. he/him. Rarely tweeting anything of substance, but you never know

Richmond, VA
Joined October 2009
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A big learning from building Web Components for about 7 months now is that, if you think they might be used in frontend frameworks at all, you have to be very careful about messing with light DOM content. VDOMs are not aware of your messing around.
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The misogyny on Traitors Australia is off the charts
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This carries right to the end holy shit
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Crackle is the only Rice Krispies gnome with a hat that fits
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Maybe biased but I think you have to find people that managed to find their way to engineering organically. People chase money and get burned out because they don’t actually enjoy it that much.
Agreed!
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_or_ they only learn engineering, get a job engineering, and then end up in an echo chamber where they neither learn anything new or think of anything new because all they knew was engineering-specific from the start.
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Someone texted me about buying my house today and after a few messages I had a suspicion they were a chatbot
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Chris is very focused
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I've got one Bluesky invite code. Do any of my mutuals want it?
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Really, nobody wants this thing?
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Can't believe they're not calling these "pondering orbs" in 2023
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Not a single Brit on Ted Lasso on Whatsapp
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Surprise of the day is that Bard seems to be more helpful than ChatGPT now. ChatGPT seems like it's lying to me 99% of the time.
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Double spaces after periods just looks wilder and wilder as time goes on
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A lesson on the Aussie accent for an extremely niche audience: *When to Add an "er" Sound to the End of Words that Actually End in an "a"* "Figma" "Figmer API"
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This tire store has had Friends on the TV for the past 3 hours, but it's not streaming, it's just the only thing on TBS apparently
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Starscapes for kids' rooms are so much cooler now
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If you travel with an electric toothbrush and don't bring the charger, it's called a spacewalk
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Made a cookie jar that looks like my fussy cat playing with a ball. This was Sarah's Christmas gift.
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