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scss is just css now

Okay geeks, it’s almost January 2024 and, finally, Scss is now CSS.

Okay, not all of it, but primarily the biggest feature everyone uses.

Nesting.

That’s what we’re all using Scss for, right?

Right? Don’t lie…

Okay, let’s say we ditch Scss, as you should. Seriously, you should.

Do we… keep splitting CSS into lots of files like we did Sass?

Think about it, we take out the abstractions of Sass rules, we ditch the Sass build scripts, right?

Are we delivering lots of files now?

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social fracture

Today, I was able to try out Bluesky, the Twitter ripoff. It’s very faithful if you’re used to Twitter.

I’ve been using Mastodon, lightly, for most of the year. It’s where the most relevant chatter was since Twitter’s fracture.

By a miracle, and help from OldTweetdeck, I’m still running the previous version of Tweetdeck for now. It’s on life-support and could die at any time.

Besides the light use of Facebook and Instagram, and having signed up for Pixelfed but not really using it, it’s a weird time for social media in 2023.

To recap:

  • Twitter is dying. Its owners want it to be called ? but nah, not gonna do that
    • Tweetdeck still serves its purpose for me, a general idea of what Twitter people are saying, but it’s far more conservative hyperbole now. However, still my social attention spend
  • Facebook serves people older than 30 crowd just fine, I guess, but I am allergic to its slurping up of all data to do who knows what. No thanks
  • Instagram is barely useful, mostly for the Stories feature, but just not much to enjoy beyond that
  • I wanted Pixelfed to replace Instagram, giving me control back, but I just haven’t committed
  • Mastodon is the 2nd primary attention and most of my posts, which still isn’t a lot
  • Nostr, well, is really so niche right now, you probably haven’t heard of it. But, for the few notable people I see there, and can’t really see elsewhere, it’s slightly interesting
  • Bluesky is not really gonna be much for me until I get a Tweetdeck like instant feed refresh tool. I don’t like manually refreshing Bluesky to see new posts, never did about Twitter, eithe

I won’t bother with any other social networks. It’s already too much for me.

Ideally, when magical time and effort appear in my life, I’ll set this site up to just blast out to half the list up there, Indieweb style, and start writing here on this site. Or not. It’s a lot of work, and the UI for WordPress and Gutenberg is not ideal, whether with Classic Editor or Gutenberg.

Also, I still have trust issues with the web in general. OpenAI, ChatGPT, all these new 2023 AI services, this site and my content on all the sites above and more have fed into their dataset. It’s annoying.

How do I find a balance here?

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Bookmarked Unsolved Mysteries – Opening Theme (youtube.com)

This is still one of the most effective creepy theme songs and I love it!

generational divides

Older: That’s crazy
Younger: That’s wild

Older: Completely or Absolutely
Younger: ? or 100%

Older: I kinda don’t…
Younger: I low-key don’t…

Older: Know what I mean?
Younger: IYKYK

Older: That’s weird
Younger: That’s sus

Older: I got your back, my friend
Younger: I got you, fam

Older: You’re too much
Younger: You’re so extra

Older: You’re the best!
Younger: You’re the GOAT

just thrown away like that

I had to look it up just now because I don’t remember when I started using it.

It was around May of 2009. I don’t even think it was possible to use you browser to access it, either. It was before iOS had an app.

Twitter didn’t even own it yet!

This was two years after I started using Twitter in March of 2007; Twitter permitted for us to sign up at SXSW that year so I was an early user even though I didn’t really understand its utility and it was still finding its place.

Tweetdeck is how I primarily interacted with Twitter all this time. It’s consistent. It provided near real-time updates without me refreshing. It’s my go to, to see how the public is reacting.

Then, this past Sunday, it was yanked away from me and replaced by the new version. A version that’s going to be locked down behind a paywall after the end of July. And this new version just doesn’t compare or stand a chance.

Sure, I have other ways to figure all of this out. But Tweetdeck was there for me through a long span of my adulthood.

I could see all kinds of people confirming that I just felt an earthquake. I got to know smaller personalities who weren’t well-known. I also could see what celebrities were thinking. So many pointless brands hawking to get my attention.

It was always there. I learned a lot. I was always entertained.

If it’s locked up and thrown away from me, so be it. I won’t miss what it is now.

EDIT July 9 – They are allowing the old version to be used again, but I cam only assume it’ll still be hidden behind a paywall after the end of the month.

relearn using dishwashers

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Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)

I’m writing this post to clear off some of the dust from this site. I’m linking to a YouTube video that goes deeply into using dishwashers and how so many of us have forgotten how to actually use dishwashers well. In fact, we really should stop hand washing too often to conserve water and reduce our bills since dishwashers are so efficient AND effective with less use of everything.

Four steps to effective dishwashing:

  1. Turn on the facet water and let it get as hot as it can. The dishwasher needs this hot water from beginning to end.
  2. Fill the pre-wash cup with detergent. Using a tablet? Drop a tablet into the dishwasher’s bottom. I’m using plain Finish tablets for this
  3. Fill the main wash cup with detergent. This is usually the one with a door that you lock into place until mid way through the cycle. This is where the fancier tablets can be used, but Finish is also just fine
  4. Check your rinse aid level. Do you see any in there? Fill it up, it adds a pop to the cleaning!

And seriously, if you do all four of these steps, you should be seeing a better dishwashing result every time! The biggest benefit you can take away is the pre rinse with both hot water and soap. If you get this right, the rest of the cycles do their job great.

Now, let’s see if this syndicated a nice little Twitter link into a Tweet. I haven’t tested this feature in a while!

custom roms rock

I am loving using an open source android custom rom! I can pick and choose who gets what and I’m in control of everything. This is a game changer. This deserves a blog post…

This is a test for using quill on this blog

RSVPed Attending IndieWebCamp East

IndieWebCamp East 2020 is an online gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists, to designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, actively work on creating for their own personal websites, and build upon each others creations.

ghost peppers ouch

Lesson learned: ghost peppers affect you the whole way through the body! One accidental ingestion and 12 hours of intermittent heat ???