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Brent Larson

@nerdcowboy.bsky.social

Wrangler of code & pixels πŸ€“πŸ€  http://nerdcowboy.com

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and I think that concludes the hellsite transformation.

one hellsite is enough for me ✌️

25.09.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

too jumpy imo. especially the middle name when it jumps to a new line as you're typingβ€”that's pretty jarring and unexpected.

12.09.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

you won't succeed if you don't fail fast. wait.

02.09.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the actual purpose of waterfall is management control, which is vastly more important than project success

20.07.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Internal thinkers will hate this
External thinkers will love this
AI will hate external thinkers

External thinker:
"Ok, so i was thinking we should add this thing here…and that's how my grandma met my grandpa…anyways, you're such a good listener…what were we talking about again?"

18.08.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i find myself writing something like this pretty frequently:
"only focus on this task, we'll address other things later"
and "don't delete any comments"

18.08.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A to an extent.

I think it was more interesting when they were new because it was all new information we had never had before.

Now it's just a question of how much did it change year over year which is much less interesting.

12.08.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

tell me the bag designer is an alcoholic without telling me the bag designer is an alcoholic

(or more likely the exec that told them it needed a bottle opener)

12.08.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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height - CSS | MDN The height CSS property specifies the height of an element. By default, the property defines the height of the content area. If box-sizing is set to border-box, however, it instead determines the heig...

Did you know you can do `height: stretch` now in CSS? Works for `width` too. /via @patrickbrosset.com

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

05.08.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

Seems reasonable, but just for clarityβ€”the benefit here is primarily simpler types?

30.07.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’‘ Did you know @raycast.com had a color picker?

Just selects a color and copies to your clipboard. Map to a shortcut like opt+P to pick from anywhere

29.07.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
underlined headline that reads "Liverpool agree Β£79m deal for Elitike" except the underline visually makes it look like Β£7.9m

underlined headline that reads "Liverpool agree Β£79m deal for Elitike" except the underline visually makes it look like Β£7.9m

headline that reads "Liverpool agree Β£79m deal for Elitike"

headline that reads "Liverpool agree Β£79m deal for Elitike"

tfw the hover state kinda changes the story πŸ˜†
@theguardian.com

21.07.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

your point is some right orgs are immoral, invalidating all giving, but people on the right say the same thing about left orgs.

people give to what aligns with their morals, and the right does that a lot more. your opinion of their morals doesn't change how little the left gives.

18.07.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

fair critique, but it's not unique to conservative nonprofits. e.g. the red cross was once good, but now only pretends to help.

the right will also say leftist charities aren't helping people.

this is only a moral judgement. and the right will have an inverse moral judgement.

18.07.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

you're right. your response 100% exemplifies that you're better than those asshole christians

18.07.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are conservatives more charitable than liberals in the U.S.? A meta-analysis of political ideology and charitable giving - PubMed Political ideology not only influences political activities, but also apolitical fields such as charitable giving. However, empirical studies regarding political ideology and charitable giving have yi...

maybe you grew up with bad christians. stats have consistently found leftists give significantly less
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34429211/

18.07.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯ My friends at DMNO have a new devtool: varlock.

It’s a drop-in replacement for dotenv, and adds a bunch of cool stuff like validation and type safety. It stores the secrets themselves in password managers or encrypted vaults.

The landing page also has a very cool RPG vibe πŸ˜„
varlock.dev

16.07.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

As church leaders/guests they would be expected to receive support, but chose to set an example instead.

this is a rebuke to the able-bodied who chose to freeload. i.e. "unemployed freeloaders"

maybe you meant facetiously that "all unemployed people are freeloaders" which this is def not saying

07.07.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: 'The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.'"
2 Thessalonians 3:10

07.07.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens - Infrequently Noted Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Went to two frontend conferences in as many days, and learned a lot; not all of it what the presenters hoped I'd take away:

infrequently.org/2025/06/conf...

27.06.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Naming things may be hard, but it's not this hard:
UI: tags
API: categories
Data API: keywords

25.06.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

amazing for writing tests and fixing types. mediocre at everything else, so i just let it do a first draft and then I clean it up.

25.06.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i didn't last half a day. they could have built this into Arc and people would've loved it. it just feels like a prettier Chrome with an AI extension. big meh.

would love to see Raycast buy them

18.06.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky User Growth and Active Users See how activity and usage of Bluesky has been growing over time. How many users are currently active? How many posts are posted daily on Bluesky?

the downward trend is very real tho
bluefacts.app/bluesky-user...

18.06.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

when they started adding shielding to the speakers after people complained. roughly 2010 iirc

13.06.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of the "go to the top of the feed and load new posts" button

screenshot of the "go to the top of the feed and load new posts" button

they fixed it

06.06.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm absolutely right yet again! man, i just don't miss 🐐

i'd like to thank AI for always believing in meβ€”even when I'm wrong or I delve into trivial things.

05.06.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ugjkagk i love the Microsoft Design blog header.

04.06.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

it's not imposter syndrome, you just got to the top of mount stupid and you looked down

03.06.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

been on both sides of this. don't really care much anymore.

most a11y issues start with your design system. I think targeting by role is a good defensive measure, but when implemented by an inexperienced dev, it can solidfy bad code with bad tests (e.g. button that should've been a link)

03.06.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0