Jacques

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Dad Web UI Engineer @ Netflix Code Janitor and Accessibility Friend He/him

Spotify miniplayer with the new pay gate around the smaller sized players removed. Companies hate the web because it's open by design and putting things behind walls takes effort.
Spotify popup player says "you discovered a Premium feature. With Spotify Premium you can make the Miniplayer even smaller." This worked last week.
A spotted bug like a little torpedo of a cricket with shiny wings a light spotting sits on a grape leaf. It’s a glassy-winged sharpshooter, an invasive bug that harms crops; Costco sent them all over Northern California.
A DHTML exercise with nested menus. "Well-Behaved DHTML: A Case Study" is drilled down from "SitePoint articles" through a menu with "By Simon Willison" and "By Aaron Boodman"
Yzma, her arms outstretched.
An uncooked brick of Ramen noodles that looks like Justin Timberlake’s hair from the “it’s gonna be me” era (and especially the music video for that song) Presented on the first day of May because we are all broken internet people.
Two images. The top one is a shot from the service and crew modules of Artemis II, looking past the moon with earth just peaking out. The bottom one is the line-of-sight display with countdown to firing solution on the Death Star looking past Yavin with Yavin IV just peaking out.
YouTube screenshot of a woman next to the text. “understanding the final below: an English phrase explained.”
Chasing goose meme. First panel the goose says “some lawmakers?” Second panel, the goose is chasing a man and saying “Which party of lawmakers, NPR? Which party of lawmakers??”
The famous Situation Room photo taken by Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer, at 4:05 p.m. on May 1, 2011. The photograph shows U.S. president Barack Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room receiving live updates from Operation Neptune Spear, which led to the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Secretary of State Clinton holds a hand over her mouth in concern and concentration.
A push notification from Zillow with the headline “this is your headline” and a body “this is the body text”
"we'll be right back!" screen featuring a person's rapid exit from a recent press conference that went sideways
A man with a zombie filter sits in front of the opening shot of the 2004 German jump-scare coffee ad.
Title card for the tv show The West Wing where the word “West “ has been removed because the administration knocked down the east wing and there’s only one wing left
That’s a penis
An email from the Kimbel Group headhunters that has been sent to my_email_address+adobe@gmail.com
The Vercel account deletion page saying "Your Account Is Being Deleted"
A McDonald’s logo in comic sans
Futurama scene in which, during a presidential debate candidate Jack Johnson says "I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far" and candidate John Jackson says "And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!" They are identical characters. Their heads have been replaced with effectively identical George Washington heads from the AI presidents page posted above, but they are AI and not... quite right. One is named "George Washihigton" and the other has been named "Wiche Meslington"
Melissa McCarthy tries to shove closed an overfull suitcase containing the word "German" She puts her whole body into it and is flung over top of the suitcase. The suitcase pops back open, with the word "German" still sitting in it.
slack message saying “the ghouls are fighting!”
An Interdictor class Star Destroyer (which already featured four ball-shaped protrusions) has been modified to have goggly eyes on the conning tower and on every ball. Also there are now 11 balls.
A truck with its front cab pushed forward making it look like it’s bowing its head and is a little embarrassed. Two emoji hands with index fingers pointed at each other have been crudely placed under its chin to increase the effect.
Two panels. The left panel is of the outside of an arcade. There are at least five signs that say arcade with arrows and a “coffee inside“and “card kiosk this way” and “war games this way” The right panel is a Far Side cartoon where “cat fud” has been poorly written multiple times with arrows leading to a laundry dryer. A cat is looking into the dryer while a dog hiding behind the washer thinks “oh please, oh please…”
The back of a Valentines themed skittles box features a card you can cut out for your teacher. The card says “ a teacher’s worth 1000 skittle packs. Consider this a start“ with a picture of a fun size skittles pack.
A comic with two panels. First panel has an engineer sitting in front of a computer saying “I think I will start advent of code“ In the second panel, the engineer has not moved at all and is saying “looks like I will have to develop an advent of code platform from scratch first“ In both panels, the “advent of code” is obviously pasted over the original comic. In the margin there is an creator credit for twitter.com/vincentdnl
Will Poulter's Kenny Rossmore, a young white guy with close blond hair who looks a bit like a confused thumb captioned with “You guys are getting clout?”
A yellow surface with dozens of different muppet eyes.
A google search for Veridian Dynamics has the following "AD Summary": "Veridian Dynamics is a fictional company from the TV show Better Off Ted that is committed to saving the environment: Mission: Veridian Dynamics aims to save the environment by making all of its buildings 100% green." This links to a promo video from the show which is from the episode "Jabberwocky" where the ENTIRE episode is about making up a fake product and then just promoting it instead of building it -- partly because they're unable to get out of the way of the momentum of their own lie and partly because "Products are for people who don't have presentations"
A typewritten letter reads September 28, 1956, Dear Mr. Adams: Thanks for your letter inviting me to join the committee of the Arts and Sciences for Eisenhower. I must decline, for secret reasons. Sincerely, E. B. White
Two bald eagles, sitting on separate branches at the top of a large spruce tree, looking out into the distance through a very apparent fog.
Sign somewhere in Spain that reads “saffron, olive oil, wine, cheese, ice creams, PAIN”
- Gets the branch list by name - `git for-each-ref refs/heads/ --format=%(refname:short)` - Then for each branch found: - Find the ancestor commit where ThisBranch left BaseBranch - `git merge-base <BaseBranch> <ThisBranch>` - Get the tree ID - `git rev-parse <ThisBranch>^{tree}` - Make up a temporary commit with the contents ThisBranch squashed together - `git commit-tree <TreeID> -p <AncestorSha> -m "Temp <ThisBranch>"` - See if the temp commit contents was already applied to upstream - `git cherry <BaseBranch> <TempPatchSha>` - If the above output starts with `-` the branch is a candidate for deletion
Gif of Lower Decks. Boims says "Hey man, you've been working yourself to the bone. How about a break?" and Rutherford answers "Nah, I like the way work makes it hard for my brain to focus on the sad stuff."
A tweet from the CEO of Vercel, Guillermo Rauch reads "Congrats President trump 🇺🇸 Excited about the impact x, prediction markets, citizen journalism, podcasts, and the open web played in fostering democracy and a free media. It's a new world."
A stovetop crowded with four croissants, two large English muffins, a cherry croissant, and a massive eclair, cut into four pieces.
A loved circular chocolate brioche loaf with one piece being lifted out sits on a cooling rack. In the background there are muffins.
Feynman diagram of the interaction of an electron with the electromagnetic force The basic vertex (marked V) shows the emission of a photon (represented by a sad face because Phil is not attracted to it) by an electron (e−).
An image of the new Nintendo alarm clock. The screen says "I know where you live and I swear to god I will send the whole fking Koopa Kingdom to your house if you don't get up."
Zoidberg a humanoid lobster alien from the animated show Futurama seductively says “the rotting carcass of a whale“
Anthony Adams lurks behind a tree rubbing his hands and licking his lips. He is labeled “Gallium” (which rapidly forms AlGa when it touches aluminum — a brittle and very weak alloy)
Anthony Adams, rubbing his hands and licking his lips. He is labeled “Gallium”
A WW3 nuclear explosion.
La tweet from RTE news reads “An all-party committee has called for preparations for a united Ireland to begin 'immediately', saying that every Government department should examine the implications of constitutional change”
Austin Powers grimacing as he looks over his shoulder while trying to back up in a small cart that’s stuck between two walls
A Hearthstone card featuring the monarch’s new portrait, which is done in mostly violent red. The title of the card is “long live the king“ it costs nine Mana to play, does two damage, and has one life. The card is marked as an undead minion. Card text reads “battle cry: all opponent’s artifacts are moved to the British Museum. Deathrattle: summon an 1 1 copy of this minion.
Mariner, speaking to Rutherford as they sit at a booth in the mess: “bridge officers are always coming back from the dead”
A three foot tall onion plant crowds a whole garden bed because I must let my onion son thrive.
A swim lesson sign up table with a sign showing two red balls and the text “ attention: if you see this ball, please do not touch it. It is a training tool for the staff. Thank you.“ Super imposed over this image is an Amazon listing for a bag of similar red balls listed for $13.99.
A black dog sits with her hind legs splayed out behind her. Her tail is blurry because it’s furiously wagging. She is looking back over her shoulder.
Rusty Venture and Brown Widow sit on the edge of a bed in a dingy apartment, playing an instrument on a milk crate as they sing "I'm rusty" from Rust! the musical by Dr. Venture
A large, somewhat artistically simplified, concrete dinosaur sculpture stands in a park
A tweet by Carmen Gutierrez reads “don’t let your legacy be “over-educated, former gifted kid who ended up, leaving, no impact””
A tweet by Saruul Erdene says “hold my beer. This is the one we use 😎” A white, plastic, five-disease rapid test covering COVID-19, RSV, adenovirus, Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, and Flu A & B sits on a table.
A sunny day with white clouds, looking out over dunes towards the ocean. Bright green coastal plants and trees frame the front of the photo, and the sun is a warm color.
A graph showing 2500 plus confirmed Covid deaths during the end of year omicron wave vs the current rate, which is increasing but still under 500 per week. While very systemically underreported, it’s still close to a 747 worth of people every seven days, but less peppery damage, so I guess we’re cool with that now.
A white flat-front, 3m Aura 9210 plus, n95 respirator with white cloth elastic bands.
Oregon Health sign posted on a window has the headline “how can I avoid getting the novel coronavirus?” and then lists hand washing, avoiding touching eyes/nose/mouth, avoiding sick people, and covering your mouth when you cough.
A December 5th email from 23andMe that reads "On November 30, 2023, we launched updates to our Terms of Service. Important updates were made to the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration section to include procedures that will encourage a prompt resolution of any disputes and to streamline arbitration proceedings where multiple similar claims are filed. These updates will go into effect for customers 30 days from the date this email is received."