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I’m in Mexico and, as expected, every website assumes I want Spanish. Despite my browser sending en_US to servers. eBay at least switched to English once I logged in. YouTube is just pissing away ad...
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If I’m a Mexican and set up my phone to use Spanish, wouldn’t the browser send “es_MX” in the Accept-Language header? And thus why would websites not use this instead of IP address? I haven’t done a...
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Decided to freeze my credit as my parents had an SSN warning and I figured, why should my credit ever not be frozen.Equifax - easyExperian - website didn't work, had to call, was easyTransUnion -...
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I introduced my wife to the true definition of "hacking”:Tried to use EcoBici in Mexico City. It would not even charge our credit cards and just gave a generic "something was wrong” notice - not even a...
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This is anecdata, but because I know @fxn to be very diligent and on top of things, I did a lot of research before creating an issue with Zeitwerk, trying to write the perfect bug report. In doing so,...
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This hand-crafted toot is made possible by Buffer using color-vs-B&W to indicate which accounts one is about to post to.Anywho, I'm gonna try to cross-post to both here and BlueSky and see how that...
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I often wondered why there are endless email/marketing platforms. But I guess it's obvious - they are all horrible in their own way so someone builds their version. I guess that's probably better than...
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What I really want is a way to post to Mastodon and have some service watch my posts and if they are either top-level posts or replies to myself, send them to BlueSky, creating threads/self-replies as...
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I think I deleted my twitter account? I did "Deactivate Account" which appeared to be the only option? I loved that website for so many years, but a big reason was TweetBot. I never experienced the...
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Meanwhile, Buffer continues to be garbage. I'm on some kanban board clicking "New Idea"* and it just doesn't work at all. Imagine paying a huge dev team to make an app and they can't make buttons...
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Verification on Mastodon is just better. I don't have to entangle my handle with my verification. On BS I must change my handle to a domain name. Fortunately, I own davetron5000.com so it's close. But...
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Oh @buffer - your website doesn't work if I'm blocking Bugsnag, which I am. Great job.Also your AI slop machine, when asked to shorten the sentence above, made it longer. KILLING IT BROS
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Seems like push notifications for iOS Safari are still “Apple Quality” ie don’t work reliably? Or are not being used broadly? Anyone successfully using them for critical messaging?
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I was wondering why all those Cmd-K search boxes on dev tools doc sites were so bad - try searching Tailwind's for "margin" and you don't get margin first, you get Scroll Margin first. Who uses...
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Working on updating https://sustainable-rails.com this week for Rails 8. I'll hold the release until after XMas to include Ruby 3.5, too[1]. Rails is so stable, I don't think any of my recommendations...
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Also planning a few updates to https://devbox.computer:• How to get secrets into the images to enable e.g. gem push/npm publish• Doing stuff not as rooStretch goals• can this be used with...
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Currently stuck: Rails 8 removed sprockets, my book uses a customized version of Tachyons for CSS, because it's extremely simple and required just SASS and that's it. I know most devs are using...
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On my own, I have come to use a functional style with BEM for extracted CSS and this works well. I have no idea if this works for teams and TBH I assume every team's CSS is a huge mess just like it has...
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My feelings on Tailwind and its build step are in the vein of "some devs just seem to accept terrible things as the way it has to be". I saw this Youtuber "complaining" about Rails, but my read on what...
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