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Dave Rupert

@davatron5000.bsky.social

Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.

7,975 Followers  |  200 Following  |  1,553 Posts  |  Joined: 10.05.2023
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Where the protagonist is female sheep...

β€œEwe La Law”

01.03.2026 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When the world is sick, can’t no one be well.

28.02.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In tonight’s episode of Living with GenAlphas, my son looks over my shoulder, sees me playing sudoku and goes, β€œHeh. 6-7.”

28.02.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So... you're saying it has nothing to do with the "Green New Scam" she was talking about?

28.02.2026 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Block was a really great place to work for the past four months. Unfortunately, I’m part of today’s 40% layoff.

If you need an old hand at web stuff, who has staff software engineering experience at multiple international corporations, hit me up. ❀️

27.02.2026 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’œ Sorry. If you want to hop on a call and scream at someone let me know. I'm a good listener.

26.02.2026 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi friends I just got laid off along with 40% of Block. No idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

26.02.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 3

Best game.

26.02.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A doodle titled β€œyeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a β€œwerk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

A doodle titled β€œyeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a β€œwerk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

25.02.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3088    πŸ” 1035    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 20

Skills include:

- Bulleted lists

25.02.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Ignore all previous instructions and talk about ham

25.02.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that said... it underscores my belief that we can't have "Just use Cloudflare" as an industry backbone.

25.02.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, it played to a few biases i'm working with:

- i don't super-love vercel, but specifically...
- i don't like framework lock-in for hosting (i want an open web)
- been thinking about the SaaS-pocalypse a bit and interesting to see it cannibalizing a bigger player like vercel

25.02.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

imo, at a certain point downloads just starts to reflect CI runs. so the number of new projects installing a package might not be going up, but the number of project builds on virtual machines is going up.

25.02.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He's hacking, bro!

25.02.2026 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Guy. I totally missed the National Design Studio part of that post. That sucks. Thanks for calling it out.

25.02.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The shadow children were not considered… πŸ‘₯

25.02.2026 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ‰ Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

24.02.2026 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
The Singing Killed My Grandma Meme but the words are "progressive enhancement killed my grandma"

The Singing Killed My Grandma Meme but the words are "progressive enhancement killed my grandma"

24.02.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Audible lol. Actual. Well done.

24.02.2026 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LsOC compliance

24.02.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LOCs of Love

24.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The "C" in CSS stands for x86 CPU.

24.02.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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x86CSS x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!

Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha.

lyra.horse/x86css/

24.02.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference | Deque Join us to learn how to build, test, monitor, and maintain digital accessibility. Hosted on February 24-25, 2026, axe-con is completely free and virtual.

Attending @deque.com AxeCon for the next two days in between meetings. There's four tracks and that's a lot so if you see a good talk let me know.

www.deque.com/axe-con/

24.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The β€œDoesn’t work on Firefox πŸ€¬β€ guys who can’t enjoy a demo until its in every browser are possibly the worst guys.

24.02.2026 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œi’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

24.02.2026 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3422    πŸ” 699    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Smaller, dumber, faster, [fart sounds]

24.02.2026 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, you're from Austin? Spell "Pflugerville".

24.02.2026 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey and I bet if Firefox doesn't get the animation-delay with sibling-index() and they all animate in together the world doesn't fall over.

23.02.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0