Engineer @onXmaps. Formerly @Hopin. he/him. Rarely tweeting anything of substance, but you never know

Joined October 2009
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19 Sep 2024
A big learning from building Web Components for about 7 months now is that, if you think they might be used in frontend frameworks at all, you have to be very careful about messing with light DOM content. VDOMs are not aware of your messing around.
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The misogyny on Traitors Australia is off the charts
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This carries right to the end holy shit
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31 Mar 2024
Crackle is the only Rice Krispies gnome with a hat that fits
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19 Mar 2024
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19 Mar 2024
Maybe biased but I think you have to find people that managed to find their way to engineering organically. People chase money and get burned out because they don’t actually enjoy it that much.
Agreed!
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19 Mar 2024
_or_ they only learn engineering, get a job engineering, and then end up in an echo chamber where they neither learn anything new or think of anything new because all they knew was engineering-specific from the start.
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19 Mar 2024
Someone texted me about buying my house today and after a few messages I had a suspicion they were a chatbot
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19 Mar 2024
Chris is very focused
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13 Jun 2023
I've got one Bluesky invite code. Do any of my mutuals want it?
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13 Jun 2023
Really, nobody wants this thing?
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20 May 2023
Can't believe they're not calling these "pondering orbs" in 2023
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12 May 2023
Not a single Brit on Ted Lasso on Whatsapp
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11 May 2023
Surprise of the day is that Bard seems to be more helpful than ChatGPT now. ChatGPT seems like it's lying to me 99% of the time.
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25 Apr 2023
Double spaces after periods just looks wilder and wilder as time goes on
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21 Apr 2023
A lesson on the Aussie accent for an extremely niche audience: *When to Add an "er" Sound to the End of Words that Actually End in an "a"* "Figma" "Figmer API"
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11 Apr 2023
This tire store has had Friends on the TV for the past 3 hours, but it's not streaming, it's just the only thing on TBS apparently
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11 Apr 2023
Starscapes for kids' rooms are so much cooler now
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24 Feb 2023
If you travel with an electric toothbrush and don't bring the charger, it's called a spacewalk
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23 Feb 2023
Made a cookie jar that looks like my fussy cat playing with a ball. This was Sarah's Christmas gift.
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