Dave Rupert

@davatron5000.bsky.social

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Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition Rule #76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies!
contrast-color resolves to black on green, whereas oklch resolves to white on green. oklch looks better, but may not be correct per wcag.
Questionaire form for: Which programming-related podcasts do you listen to?
Pam from the Office compares two pictures. Top panel: On the left is a picture of a whole entire webpage and the right is a picture of a menu component. The caption says: Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture. Bottom panel: Pam saying: They're the same picture.
John Ralphio from Parks and Recreation doing the "Don't be suspicious" dance.
A git status line of 4,295 lines of code added and 323,154 removed.
Browser flag for Browser-initiated automatic picture-in-picture
Side by side of me and the Ancient Aliens guy
Leslie Nielsen in the movie Naked Gun standing in front of an exploding building saying “the models will get better”
distorted text that says 19 replies on bluesky
A bandwidth usage chart going back to july starting at 1 gb for July, then a sudden hill approaching 18gb/day in August then going back down to 1 to 3 gb/day until late september which has steep sudden increase to 55gb/day
A google map of the city of Austin where the freeways that surround the city (Mopac, 71, and 183) are drawn over in red forming an "A" shape.
A transcript broken up into list-items with a metro map-style git-graph visualization connecting all the list-items with branches that fork and merge as the topics change.
A transcript of a short Trump speech with a git graph diagram of connected "metro map" style lines where commits are represented by "stops" on the train line. branching paths are represented by news lines in different colors.
An off-brand ET holding a vape.
My website with a tie-dyed background based on the accent color. the background is a splotchy purple with some green tones.
A 7”x4”x3” doll bed made of wood. Daughter is cutting a piece of fabric in the background as a blanket.
A sea wolf chillin on a log pondering the ocean behind him
A text input labelled "Amount" with "$80.32" written inside, but the eight has a larger circle on the top than the bottom and the three character has a larger curve on the top as well. Subtle but disorienting.
Dear Lort, what hath i wrought into this world. i am beocme death, destroyer of typography.
The RGM-79 GM mech robot from the animated series gundam
A very geometic mech design with curved legs a triangular gun and an almond shaped shied.
it's a javascript function that says function algorithmicFeed() { return getjerrysPosts() + getAllOtherPosts() }
A modal that says Are you sure? this post is a banger. would be a shame if the world had to miss out on it. and two call to actions. a primary "nah, jerry's right" button in red. and a "never give up" cancel button.
famous studio ghibli founder hayao miyazaki saying "i strongly feel this is an insult to life itself" to his employees who made a procedurally generated animation
picture of my new split ergo keyboard on my desk with my trackpack, analog todo system, and coffee cup
Me standing next to my blueish gray jeep and an American flag in the background lol
Screenshot of a file folder named css-egg-1 and contains a folder of images and a file named Overview.bs
A two-bit style game. At the top is a scoreboard of hears, shovels, and diamond. Below that is a big “Escape” button, and below that is a heading with the text level 8 and a grid of 8 cards flipped over. Beneath the cards is a shop where you can purchase 2x power ups for diamond and hearts or a one-half damage reduction for a shovel.
My default avatar thumbtacked up on a wall with a speech bubble that says "I'm here with opinions"
A graph of server logs that starts with nothing then on May 10th jumps to 150K messages every 40 minutes and is now only at 66K messages every 40 minutes