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Papa, flounder, learner-builder 🌳 the web is for everyone ❤️
https://jldec.me 😎 https://x.com/jldec
April 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Please sir may I have some vibes
April 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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My designs get lots of publicity in magazines and online and it looks like I’m doing really well.
The reality is that it’s bloody hard work being self employed and it’s not getting any easier.

Have a look at what I do and repost. Thanks.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Surface Pattern Design & Illustration by Manchester based designer Gail Myerscough. Contemporary design meets mid century style. Contact for art licensing, commissions & collaboration enquiries.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Closing the conference Eriol Fox, a designer deeply steeped in open source. They are talking about

Sustaining designers: Design in humanitarian and human rights technologies.

bit.ly/erioldoesdesign-monkigrasas

Find the slides linked on:

erioldoesdesign.bsky.social hachyderm.io/@ernoldoesdesign
March 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Kicking off day two at #monkigras with @iamstan.elmo.sh. he is very proud of modern South Africa.
March 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
When AI gives up, who' you going to call.... the human. Design for failure. @jedi.be #monkigras
March 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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TIL you can designate a github successor in case you die #monkigras docs.github.com/en/account-a...
Maintaining ownership continuity of your personal account's repositories - GitHub Docs
You can invite someone to manage your user owned repositories if you are not able to.
docs.github.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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It’s a fun day at #monkigras even if we are getting to think about how we leave our digital legacy.
March 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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If you're in the San Francisco area and need a little escape, come to the SF Java User Group tonight. @starbuxman.joshlong.com and myself will take you back in time and talk about 10+ years of Spring Boot. It should be a really fun talk!

www.meetup.com/sfjava/event...
Building Scalable Systems and Services with Spring Boot, Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
**In person only event at the Elastic San Francisco office -- registration required to access the building and see the address. Registration cut off is the morning of the e
www.meetup.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
TIL about pointer compression in V8 🤯
January 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Spring gRPC version 0.3.0 available now: spring.io/blog/2025/01...
Spring gRPC 0.3.0 released
Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.
spring.io
January 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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it's a thing that we spend an awful lot of our days looking at
What is a website? Is it a sort of book? A tool? A place where you do something? I don’t like the aesthetic you propose for everything, I find it annoying for tools and books, but that’s of course my personal preference.
December 14, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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This is unhinged, I love it.
Damn, knew someone would beat me to it!
December 31, 2024 at 11:59 AM
TIL github discussions has polls 😍
December 31, 2024 at 5:22 PM
👍
December 31, 2024 at 5:20 PM
If you’re in your early 20s, help someone today. You will be repaid in kindness.
December 31, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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designers: (have the skills to make beautiful buttons absolutely smothered in clear affordances)

also designers: let's make boring buttons with totally ambiguous states for like... 10 years?
December 30, 2024 at 7:12 PM
TIL
TIL there's a device that stops the plane from tipping on to its tail as the passengers in the front unload, and if you don't have that, you have to deplane in the most annoying way possible (back row first)
December 31, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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for the potato fears not death
December 31, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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deno.land Deno @deno.land · Dec 20
Pssst. You know, @tinyclouds.org doesn't ask for much. It would only take 300 pals to make his holiday wish come true.

github.com/denoland/deno
December 20, 2024 at 12:29 PM
morning 🌍
December 17, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Looking forward to it
December 17, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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Things escalate quickly in Essex.
December 13, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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if hosting providers can’t agree on how to handle trailing slashes it doesn’t bode well for WinterCG and JavaScript server runtime variability
December 11, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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"Free background-image remover in the browser!" ⚡️

Excited to announce bg.addy.ie, a free little app that removes backgrounds from images directly in your browser! Privacy-friendly. Uses Transformers.js, RMBG-1.4 & MODNet.
December 8, 2024 at 8:25 PM