jimniels

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by jimniels 6d ago
good for them. essential infrastructure. pillars of a civil society.
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by jimniels 6d ago
there’s a post-apocalyptic novel waiting to be written where civilization collapses and the cable hoarders sit on the thrones
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by jimniels 6d ago
> if you have graduated from "big box of cables" to "cabinets full of cables" I have much yet to learn, cable master :)
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by jimniels 6d ago
waiting for the next piece of this story, where your toddler turns 13 and gets their first mp3 player, which doesn't ship with a charger and guess who still has 18 inches of cable left?
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by jimniels 6d ago
Post author here. I didn’t get into my organizational techniques, but agree with your take! Ziploc bags + a sharpie is exactly how I do it. https://imgur.com/JMUIcDY
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by jimniels 11mo ago
Ah this is a good one! I should maybe start considering this as a default...
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by jimniels 11mo ago
My first thought on finding this: needs an rss feed! TY
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by jimniels 1y ago
Owner of said personal site here: that's nice of you to say. Thank yoU!
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by jimniels 1y ago
Author here: I didn’t realize that misspelling until now. But I like it. Gonna leave it. Thanks for pointing it out ha!
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by jimniels 1y ago
author here, thx for pointing these out! I was simultaneously working on some CSS for my blog on localhost and when I looked up some references to older articles to put in my post, I looked them up in the version of my site that was running
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by jimniels 1y ago
author here: this is a great point, thx for pointing it out! also love this summation > We are effectively writing in a fictitious language and pass it through a series of transformations until we finally get syntactically valid JavaScri
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Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660(quadratichq.com)
136 points by jimniels 1y ago|134 comments
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by jimniels 1y ago
Cool! Made me want to try building it in Quadratic because you can tie the live data source into the spreadsheet. I didn’t use the more comprehensive dataset in big query [1] and I didn't use the firebase API [2] either because it&#x27
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by jimniels 2y ago
Love this. Maybe everything we do and enjoy doesn’t have to also become a skill and identity.
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by jimniels 2y ago
Post author here. There are so many great additional examples of intriguing URL patterns in the comments here. TY everyone for sharing ones you remember!
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by jimniels 2y ago
Author here, sorry about that. I’ve since updated the link href
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by jimniels 5y ago
Oooh you’re right. I didn’t notice that. I wonder…
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Kickstarter: The iOS App Icon Book(kickstarter.com)
3 points by jimniels 5y ago|0 comments
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by jimniels 11y ago
I always liked this library. Wrote a tutorial around the concept of it on websesign tuts a few years back, though I'm not sure how dated it is in relation to the API now ( http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/fil