Popular Tweets
A list of popular tweets by retweets and favorites.
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Finally added dynamic theme-color support to my personal website and I'm loving how it looks in Safari! 🎨🌲⛰️ Alt: Changing the 'Theme' on alistairshepherd.uk in MacOS Safari and the browser UI changes colour accordingly.
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Love how Apple is basically using "we created an OS so insecure it relies on bureaucracy to keep users safe" as an excuse for ridiculous monopolisation doctorow/1487888780123987968
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I've finished a completely new version of alistairshepherd.uk, which I'm finally getting out there! 🕺🎉 I'm extremely happy with it, particularly the landscape and theme selector! With JS the colour scheme matches your local time. Check it out, more details below 👇
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I was thinking of the things I've learnt this year, and I honestly think the most useful thing is that I can now remember the arguments I need for tar. All thanks to an old http 203 where DasSurma mentioned "extract ze files" (-xzf), and "compress ze files" (-czf)
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Petition: Scrap the Voter ID requirement introduced in the Election Integrity Bill petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576024
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🎉 Excited to announce a new project, Async Alpine! 🎉🚀🥳 🏔️ Adds async/lazy loading to any Alpine_JS project ⚙️ Load with strategies 'visible', 'media' and more ⚡️ Helps write small, efficient Alpine sites! Check out demo vid: youtu.be/jnrprAKhPrw The link to the repo ⬇️!
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Thanks mxbck for reminding me this was possible with his site—mxb.dev—and mmatuzo for the css article that digs into it—css-tricks.com/meta-theme-color-and-trickery/
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New Project! 🚀🥳 Tracking management on the web is in a bad state. Many sites have dialogs with no options, don't respect your choice or load 100+kB just to decline. I've built Cead Consent to fix that! A simple, lightweight, easy consent manager. github.com/Accudio/cead-consent
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Great article here from adactio about 'the algorithm': adactio.com/journal/18117 Surveillance on the web is a scourge that targets and ruins the lives of so many, often including vulnerable people.
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Great write up of the brilliant eleven_ty + Headless WordPress combination here! Jaydn_Edwards/1379422198490861571
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I've submitted my thoughts on mobile browser competition to the UK's Competition Authority. This is really important to advise the UK govt on how to deal with Apple and Google's browser monopolies. My submission: alistairshepherd.uk/writing/cma-mobile-browsers-mir/ Check out the quoted tweet for more info! OpenWebAdvocacy/1537676458478702594
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Working on a project at the moment where I'm trying to avoid using a carousel library. It's amazing how far you can get with modern CSS and a little JS! I put together a wee example with Alpine_JS, it's surprisingly simple and effective! codepen.io/accudio/pen/mdxyqKd via CodePen
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Found time to make some tweaks to my website! Mostly to the animated colour themes to look a bit nicer. It's now using the lab colour space for more interesting and less muddy nighttime colours (attached video). Also using Houdini custom properties for smoother transitions 1/3
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Please go and enable this to ensure you don't tweet inaccessible images! TwitterSupport/1574847270754942978
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Reading my shop-bought copy of Fuck Yeah, Video Games while in line to meet Mr_Rebecca and DanNerdCubed, I think this illustration is my favourite bit so far:
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Thank you so much DanNerdCubed and Mr_Rebecca for signing my book and being so lovely and awesome at the Edinburgh signing today!
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Just finished TheArtfulEscape published by A_i. Absolutely stunning game with brilliant visuals, music and story. I couldn't possibly recommend it more—easily one of the best games I've ever played. If you're into the above, play it now without spoilers, amazing experience!
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GET <rect> sticker just arrived from cassiecodes, couldn't help but take a wee artsy photo with the plant babies and a sunny Edinburgh in the background! Thank you Cassie for the lovely stickers and the kind message ❤️
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type__error It frustrates me how the replies are full of people asking why—to no explanation from CSS Tricks. That's not a CSS Trick, it's an engagement hack monopolising on nostalgia.