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Angelos Chaidas

@chaidas.gr.bsky.social

Dad. Gamer. (Solo) board gamer. (Lots of) Sci-fi and fantasy books. (Thoroughly enjoys) Working with web technologies since 1998. (Loves) JavaScript, React, HTML and CSS.

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O Τάσος Τέλλογλου δεν έχει κάποιο φοβερό μυστικό που θέλει να μοιραστεί μαζί μας Οι απάτες με δόλωμα ένα επώνυμο και ευρέως αναγνωρίσιμο πρόσωπο, που προτρέπουν τον κόσμο να επενδύσει τα χρήματά του κάπου, δεν είναι καινούριες. Έχουν κάνει την εμφάνιση τους και στη χώρα μας, εδώ κ...

Οι απάτες με δόλωμα ένα επώνυμο και ευρέως αναγνωρίσιμο πρόσωπο, δεν είναι καινούριες. Έχουν κάνει την εμφάνιση τους και στη χώρα μας, εδώ και χρόνια. Αυτή τη φορά χτύπησαν την πόρτα του @telloglou2024.bsky.social κ του #insidestory_gr

Της @etriantafillou.bsky.social
insidestory.gr/article/o-ta...

08.08.2025 06:45 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Nice!

I’m inspired to add “Strategic Mini-Siesta Expert” (at least for the summer months) to mine…

07.08.2025 04:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

In Sudan, the post-American world has already arrived, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social reports. A brutal civil war has left a vacuum—and no international organizations, no diplomats, and certainly no Americans are coming to fill it.

06.08.2025 10:13 — 👍 81    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 1

Sorry make that “rest”. A true “re” and not a “ree”.

06.08.2025 18:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah yes, a female Titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, true goddess of fertility and motherhood before Demeter took on that role :-)

If you fancy emulating the Greek phonemes, she’s “RE-ah”.

“Re” pronounced the same way as you do in “result”

06.08.2025 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ah, thank you for (kinda) making my point:

(I believe) that we _don't_ really care about the scale of the disaster - despite UNHCR and MsF doing their best to educate us.

We care about a notion of our protest being "effective".

"Sudan? What is that?" vs "Jews? Hey, they are everywhere!".

04.08.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hate to be the “but” guy… but: we appear to be _very_ selective in our outrage.

I’ve struggled to find any organised protests for the Sudan civil war and yet the official figures are now reporting almost 522 _thousand_ children dead from malnourishment?

03.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Για να σας τρομάξω και λίγο Google “Jamaican okra slime link” για crazy levels of wtf.

Αξίζει και το ίδιο search σε TikTok για πιο ανωμαλία.

_runs and hides_

29.07.2025 08:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Η σύζυγος τις αγόρασε κατενθουσιασμένη από local μανάβικο-χρυσωρυχείο, και ούτε καν πήρε πρέφα που έσκασε ενα 15αρι από την χαρά της.

Αν παίζει σύλλογος υποστήριξης συγγενών μπαμιο-freaks, θα έλθω και έχω και ιστορίες…

21.07.2025 13:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Είπα να βγάλω φωτό τα σπόρια της υπερμεγέθους μπάμιας αλλά δεν ανεβάζω triggering NSFL περιεχόμενο για λόγους αρχής

21.07.2025 12:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Photo of the most disgusting legume in Greek cuisine: Greek Okra, Paros variety.

Photo of the most disgusting legume in Greek cuisine: Greek Okra, Paros variety.

Αφιερωμένο στο Ελληνικό Μπαμιο-Bluesky-Verse: τοπική ποικιλία Πάρου, 10 πόντους αηδία…

(Obligatory cc @jimandrakakis.net για προώθηση στους λοιπούς ιδιαίτερους ανθρώπους που έχουν την ικανότητα να το τρώνε αυτό)

21.07.2025 09:01 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

In my case my trusty (DA-15 plug) keyboard was being locked in a cupboard by dad to ensure "I don't spend all my summer days in front of a screen" (8088 PC with 256KB memory and no HDD).

No keyboard meant bios error code on boot. Tricky to do a "mouse only" thing.

(Thus I learned to lockpick)

14.07.2025 04:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

03.07.2025 14:36 — 👍 882    🔁 153    💬 66    📌 41

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

01.07.2025 18:46 — 👍 37488    🔁 6867    💬 654    📌 514

Εδω βάζεις δύσκολα :-) Στο ιδιωτικό μαιευτήριο που είμασταν εμεις τα βραχιολάκια ειχαν και ενα id / barcode thing (ίδιο της μανας με του βρέφους) και ήταν και color coded για gender.

17.06.2025 08:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally εχεις και τα medical edge cases. Λεχώνα σε δύσκολη φαση, παιδι που χρειάζεται κατι να του γίνει, κάποιος _πρέπει_ να εχει ευθυνη. Στο NHS εχεις ενα "support person" αλλα αν πρεπει να παρθούν αποφάσεις μπλέκει το πράγμα. Σε μας παει default "πατέρας".

17.06.2025 07:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Πιστεύω οτι πέραν της "πατριαρχικίλας" υπάρχουν και κάποια πιο GR-specific edge cases οπου επίτηδες λεει το μαιευτήριο "ποιός ειναι ο πατέρας;". (Σκέφτομαι ανήλικες μάνες, "προστατευόμενες κοινωνικές ομάδες" κλπ.). Αλλα μπορεί να ειναι και bias αυτό 🤷🏼‍♂️

17.06.2025 07:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

χαχαχαχα. ΣΤο όνομα έχεις επιλογές. Στο επώνυμο πρεπει να το δηλωσεις ΠΡΙΝ παντρευτείς ή κανεις σύμφωνο συμβίωσης. Αλλιώς ο ληξιάρχος θα πει "τουτο δω, τινους είν;" - "Της Γκιούσου" - "Ποιανού είναι δαύτη;" κλπ κλπ

Το ηλεκτρονικό βραχιολάκι ισως λύσει λιγο την πατριαρχικίλα.

17.06.2025 07:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Επώνυμο τέκνου: Τι ισχύει, πώς μεταβάλλεται και διάφορα άλλα νομικά παράδοξα Σύμφωνα με το άρθρο 1505 ΑΚ «1. Οι γονείς υποχρεούνται να έχουν προσδιορίσει το επώνυμο των τέκνων τους με κοινή αμετάκλητη δήλωσή τους. Η δήλωση γίνεται πριν από το γάμο,

Τα μαιευτήρια πάνε με την default προσέγγιση και θεωρούν τον "τεκμαιρόμενο πατέρα των παιδιών" (σύζυγο, σύντροφο, "it's complicated" ) υπεύθυνο για τα πάντα (πληρωμή, ληξιαρχικές διαδικασίες κλπ).

Ολα ξεκινούν απο το "ποιό επώνυμο θα πάρει το παιδί" - www.mcaounilaw.gr/%CE%BD%CE%B5...

17.06.2025 07:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Irrelevant but ⭐💯 for the choice of (sans-aniseed) tsipouro. Babajimopoulos knows his distillates really well!

17.06.2025 06:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

25.05.2025 05:06 — 👍 8308    🔁 1833    💬 131    📌 93
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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a Cypriot politician and social media personality, Fidias Panayiotou. He’s best known for his clickbait YouTube stunts and for voting against aid to Ukraine and the return of abducted Ukrainian children from Russia.

1/20

13.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 363    🔁 103    💬 9    📌 10

(GR Grammar nazis: The diaeresis diacritic - ϊ - is uneeded in this context, I know, it's a family quirk and I love it, end of story)

06.05.2025 07:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hello my name is St�phanie - a talk on "special characters", inclusive design and user experience Encoding, database decisions about formats and characters support influence the user experience for people with names that contain special characters, on the web and beyond.

As someone whose surname is "Χάϊδας", I wish every person working with the web would read these slides by @stephaniewalter.bsky.social

stephaniewalter.design/blog/hello-m...

06.05.2025 07:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh yes.

As a 2nd year uni student (back in 1997) I did go “whooa!” when my “Professor of Computer Based Training” uttered the phrase about Java applets 😊

05.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Flame-άρω μόνος μου λοιπον: Λεω 4.80 CHF μονο και μονο γιατι το λενε "κρύο". Αν σου βάλαν παγο ΣΤΑΝΤΑΡ ενα 5.50 CHF.

02.05.2025 06:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ο ΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΘΕΛΕΙ ΝΑ ΜΑΘΕΙ ΤΙ ΠΛΗΡΩΣΕΣ (έτσι να βάλουμε λίγο 🔥στην συζήτηση)

02.05.2025 04:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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two people are standing on a boat in the ocean . ALT: two people are standing on a boat in the ocean .

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LoTR)

(Yes, seriously. Yes I know it's Waterworld. Yes I do like it that much. Yes, I am serious I'm not taking the piss, honestly... No I cannot explain it leave me alone).

26.04.2025 16:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Σε μένα ειναι λιγο "ημίτονο" αυτό.

Πέρσυ; Hosting meetups, ομιλίες σε συνέδρια, catchups με παλιές παρέες κλπ.

Φέτος: Σπίτι, κώδικας, άντε κανένας καφές. Έχω βρεί και μια παππουδίστικη ζακέτα και δεν την βγάζω απο επάνω μου.

Μολίς γεμίσω μπαταρίες, pivot σε extrovert overkill.

14.04.2025 13:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Tailwind’s “@ apply” Feature Is Better Than It Sounds

Tailwind’s “@ apply” Feature Is Better Than It Sounds, by @zellwk.bsky.social (@csstricks@mastodon.social):

https://css-tricks.com/tailwinds-apply-feature-is-better-than-it-sounds/

#tailwind #sass #mixins #comparisons

11.04.2025 08:06 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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