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Front-end developer, designer, writer, and avid user of the superpowered information superhighway. ✧ https://vale.rocks ✧ https://fedi.vale.rocks/vale

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Brendan Fraser in The Whale with a deeply sad expression.
Vale.Rocks' search page returning results for 'instead of'.
Interface with two main toggles. One enables desktop notifications, the other enables push notifications. Below are a list of sounds which can be individually toggled.
Google AI Overview reading: 'The EPOC Web Browser refers to the internet browsers developed for Psion's EPOC (Electronic Piece Of Cheese) operating system, which eventually became the foundation for Symbian OS. Though primitive by modern standards, these lightweight browsers were revolutionary for bringing internet access to early Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).'
The new Siri app logo beside the old Sony Ericsson logo. Both are circles with a weird wavy bit running within them. The Siri logo would match the Ericsson logo almost perfectly if rotated.
Net Link version 3 home. The interface is busy and provides a top-down view of a city. Each district is labelled with a topic. Around the peripheries are a range of buttons and branding.
A booklet page with header 'The URL Input Screen'. Content reads: 'By entering the URL (address) of the desired page on the UAL Input Screen, you can jump to that page.. What is a URL? A URL is the address of a Web page on the Internet. The term "address" is sometimes used instead.' Different characters are then displayed and explained alongside a fancy picture of the globe with bits whizzing about it.
A weathered scroll like interface with buttons for 'gamezone', 'goldclub', 'services', 'e-mail', 'www', and 'news', among other interface buttons.
The name 'Eric Bailey' written out in the aforementioned meat font.
Front of a spiral-bound portfolio. It has a magenta to black gradient with the text 'Graphic Design Portfolio. Declan Chidlow'.
Screenshot of a YouTube Short thumbnail with Kevin's smiling face above the text 'Everybody is dead!'
YouTube's TV interface displaying in Chromium on a Linux desktop.
Kickstarter screenshot. 'AU$ 125,216 pledged of AU$ 42,244 goal. 752 backers. 7 hours to go'
Me on my mountain unicycle about to gun it up a dirt ramp.
A figure on a unicycle, with an arrow indicating their centre of mass. A slider from slow to fast is present at the bottom.
A bag and sink full of human hair.
Google Search Console notice reading 'A query recently got fewer impressions than usual. Check this query's performance to investigate further. "in game background shows the console on which it is being played". Down 72%.'
CRT monitor displaying the text 'It's not safe to turn off your computer.' At the bottom in smaller text it says 'run'. The monitor bezel is slightly stained by crimson.
Pure white text on a pure black background, blurred in a manner representative of what some people with astigmatism might see. It is difficult to read and focus on due to halation, with the bright text appearing to bleed into the dark background.
Hacker News interface with a post that has -4 points. One comment reads, '-4 points on this submission? What? How did that happen? I've never seen it go negative.'
A collection of six 88x31 web badges: Codeberg, Tangled, Forgejo, GitLab, Stoat, and ListenBrainz.
A collection of 88x31 buttons. One set is blurry and rendered with `image-rendering: smooth`. The other is sharp, and each individual pixel can be seen. It is rendered with `image-rendering: crisp-edges`.
Four-panel Star Wars-based meme. Anakin says, 'AI is going to overhaul digital accessibility.' Padmé smiles and asks, 'For the better, right?' In the third panel, Anakin stares back silently with a grim expression. In the final panel, Padmé looks concerned and repeats, 'For the better, right?'
Italy, which looks vaguely like a boot/leg, displayed on Apple Maps.
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch smiling in a selfie with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Here it comes meme. A strained man in front of an incoming tornado. The Y Combinator logo is superimposed over the tornado.
2005 group photo of Y Combinator's first batch. Sam Altman stands beside Aaron Swartz to the centre-right of the photo. Many other people are also present in the photo.
5-star review from Jessica W. 'Best whizzer ever. We all know what these are used for and they work great'. Quality excellent. Value excellent. 81 people find the review helpful.
Run node screenshot-new-site.js 🚧 Watch out fellas, papa's screenshotting 1 site(s)... example.com does not exist on S3 Capturing screenshot for https://www.example.com/... 🤯 — Oh god, screenshot FAILED for example.com. They're saying Navigation timeout of 30000 ms exceeded ===== Screenshotting for this PR is complete. ✨ Successful: 0 💥 Failed: 1
Me, draped over a blue sofa armchair placed in the middle of the Australian bush. The image is aggressively dithered.
A fish, underwater, smoking a cigarette. There is smoke rising through the water.
'The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere', a painting of a man riding a horse and shouting while holding out a lantern. A man runs out of a nearby house.
Test result screen showing a score of 0.0033.
A collection of pixel-y web buttons/badges. Shown are badges reading: - Melt Ice - Free Palestine - Slava Ukraini - RSS - # MD - ./npmx - imood.org - TechConf.Directory - Ko-fi - Jet Set Radio - Minecraft - Terraria - Evangelion - Cowboy Bebop - Team Fortress - SiIvaGunner - Under Construction
A frantic-looking Dr Hunter S Thompson donning a cowboy hat stands in deep snow under oppressive blue light in the Colorado mountains, aiming a silver pistol at an old grey typewriter.
Modal reading 'Release the bees. Are you sure you want to send the bees?'. The two options are 'Cancel' and 'Deploy'.
Vale's user inspected in the internal Stoat admin panel. There are actions including 'Suspend', 'Ban', 'Wipe Messages', and 'Bees'.
A micro post on my site, with a red box indicating 8 likes and a comments section showing a comment from @ajames.dev.
Two collections of 3.5-inch floppy discs. One has a label reading, 'CSS (for WWW)'. To the right side is a copy of Microsoft Works.
A screen recording of Firefox, with '!npmx is-even' being typed into the address bar and the npmx search page with the query 'is-even' then appearing. The result for the 'is-even' package is then selected.
Selfie by Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bar graph showing 2026 conference distribution by month. Jan, 10. Feb, 19. Mar, 34. Apr, 31. May, 40. Jun, 35. Jul, 9. Aug, 4. Sep, 17. Oct, 17. Nov, 8. Dec, 3.
A bus with the text 'Me just trying to use the internet' crossing a railroad track and being demolished by a train that reads '40MB Hero Video'.
Notice reading: 'Travel Advisory. Attendees should be aware that travel to and within the United States of America presents heightened risks. Recent immigration enforcement actions have included aggressive use of force and expanded detention at or near borders. Transgender and gender-diverse travellers, in particular, may face increased scrutiny, misgendering, or denial of entry based on documentation or appearance. More broadly, the United States is experiencing political instability and the rapid expansion of authoritarian policies, sometimes implemented with little advance notice. Travellers are advised to review current conditions carefully, carry complete documentation, and assess personal risk before making travel plans. Consult your country's travel advisory for more information.'
A collection of 88x31 buttons/badges covering an assortment of topics. They include: - 'No Fascism / No Bigotry' badge with crossed-out swastika - 'Link Freely' badge with chain links - 'Built with Origami' badge - 'Hypertext Markup Language' badge - '<HTML/>' badge - 'Made with CSS' badge - '.CSS {}' badge - 'CSS is my passion' badge - 'Tailwind' badge - 'Bootstrap' badge - 'CSS > JS' badge - 'Contains ECMAScript' badge - 'JS()' badge - Rainbow 'Progressively Enhanced' button - 'Bluesky' badge - 'Codeberg' badge - 'GitLab' badge
Music page on Vale.Rocks with the text 'At this very moment I'm listening to Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) by Geoff Graham.' emphasised.
Checkbox setting option labelled 'Animation. Use gaudy visual effects.'
A small knitted person with blonde hair, pink skin, a smiling face, a purple shirt, and khaki pants. Affixed onto the front are paper illustrations of a computer and a unicycle.
Top level comment from maplethorpe: What people like Rob Pike don't understand is that the technology wouldn't be possible at all if creators needed to be compensated. Would you really choose a future where creators were compensated fairly, but ChatGPT didn't exist? Reply from Trasmatta: Very much yes, how can I opt into that timeline? Reply from metronomer: Well yeah. Reply from user__name > What people like Abraham Lincoln don't understand is that the technology wouldn't be possible at all if slaves needed to be compensated. Would you really choose a future where slaves were compensated fairly, but plantations didn't exist? I fixed it... Sorry, I had to, the quote template was simply too good. Reply from ori_b: Yes, that sounds like a win on two counts! Reply from caem: That would be like being able to keep my cake and eat it too. Of course I would. Surely you're being sarcastic? Reply from dmd: Er... yes? Obviously? What are you even asking? Reply from alpha_squared: Unequivocally, yes. There are plenty of "useful" things that can come out of doing unethical things, that doesn't make it okay. And, arguably, ChatGPT isn't nearly as useful as it is at convincing you it is. Reply from nocman: Um, please let your comment be sarcastic. It is ... right? Reply from Xiol: Yes. Reply from MonkeyClub: "Too expensive to do it legally" doesn't really stand up as an argument. Reply from kenferry: Uh, yeah, he clearly would prefer it didn't exist even if he was compensated.
A brown chicken in a Christmas hat on a green background, alongside the text 'Merry Christmas'
Two astronauts in space face Earth labelled 'FRONTEND'. The first says, 'Wait, it's all just sending HTTP requests to endpoints?' The second aims a gun at him, saying, 'Always has been.'
Mount Everest blacked out with the text 'Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)' over it.
The opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey with apes crowded around a dark black obelisk. The text 'Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)' has been superimposed over the obelisk.
Iron Man meme with Obadiah Stane shouting '90s devs were able to build this in IE. With a bunch of tables!'
A man gesturing to a butterfly labelled 'Front-end Developer' with the caption 'Is this full-stack?
A collection of stickers reading 'JavaScript is for Everyone' and a sheet of Multipage Version stickers splayed on an old laptop keyboard.
A photograph of a colourful rock sitting in dirt and surrounded by plants embedded in an AOL article. Under the photo text reads, 'Photo by Declan Chidlow'
'Still putzing with the CMS. let's squish these committies when we're done messing around' xdesro committed on Feb 27, 2019 't push' xdesro committed on Feb 27, 2019