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✦ I write code for your entertainment ⮕ Head of Developer Education at @nordcraft.com ⦿ Manchester, UK ▨ Enter the weird wide web hole: whitep4nth3r.com/newsletter

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red aka tomputer BRONSON aka .json bourne @ahumanfuture.co · 32m

you actually can’t be a celebrity if you’ve ever used the command line. they don’t let you. i won’t let you. we are not celebrating computer degeneracy in 2025. you’re not famous you just did npm install. you’re a fucken computer peasant get some class consciousness.

⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 1h

software engineers are not celebrities

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 38m

the state of everything

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 1h

you’re doing great at girldadding

⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 1h

andreas

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it’s deployed on vercel

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 1h

software engineers are not celebrities

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 1d

scott follows instructions well

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 1d

couldn't get @strange.website's WDC talk out my head. had to build a new home. i am once again asking you to not judge me for redesigning my site scott.is

A screenshot of a web page. on the left is content that reads "Scott is trying his best. Once again my personal site became a professional site and now I am making it a personal site again. Also it was hosted on Vercel, and absolutely fuck that.

Until then, you can take a look at Mindful Design or hit me up on Bluesky."

On the right is an ASCII portrait of me.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 1d

I've been enjoying the submissions to the #BadUXWorldCup so here's my quick and dirty first shot. Colour is a number, date is a number - so just use your browser's built-in colour picker to find your matching date. I picked this blue Monday. Easy!
rowan.fyi/made/color-d...

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 1d

🥰🥰🥹🥹

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 1d

@whitep4nth3r.com I REALLY like what you did there. In "An Introduction to the World Wide Web for Very Senior Programmers", Salma told us the story of the future of the internet, told from the past, about the present. Dammit, I was so deep in your story I only remembered to take a photo at the end!

Salma Alam-Naylor presenting at Bristol's Web Dev Conf. The slide shown is the final one showing Salma's various web links and project pages, gloriously rendered in the classic Netscape browser in Times New Roman, reminiscent of the early 90's web.

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 1d

So happy you enjoyed it Michael! It was great to meet you and I really enjoyed your talk.

⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 2d

Hey @webdevconf.com! Are you curious about what this new JavaScript can do in the initial release from last week??

Here’s a demo of a personalised greeting every time the user’s mouse ball moves!

html2.toddle.site/test

A test page to show dynamic interactivity with JavaScript

Marvel at the possibilities of dynamic interactivity using JavaScript on the World Wide Web!

html2.toddle.site

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 2d

And you Geri! Thank you!

⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 2d

shout out to @robbowen.digital @ahumanfuture.co @bell.bz @darn.es @strange.website @bryn.codes and @orangetronic.bsky.social

⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 2d

Internet Friends gather at #webdevconf

8 humans from around the world assemble in a 2 by 4 grid in Bristol against a backdrop of trees by the water. They are smiling with accomplishment at the gathering. They embody all that is good about the world and life itself. Their love is pure and their faces cannot hide it.

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 2d

You've seen your fair share of bad date pickers.

Well, now it's your turn to create something even worse!

Unlike those other bad ones out there that just frustrate users, you might win a trophy for your efforts if you enter it into the #BadUXWorldCup where I'll be one of the judges 😊

badux.lol

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 2d

seconded 🫡

Scott Riley @scott.is · 2d

Thanks for having me @webdevconf.com. What a glorious lil day. Always lush to be reminded there's still lovely folks in this hellscape of an industry.

⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 2d

dark times described articulately by @baldurbjarnason.com

The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

www.baldurbjarnason.com

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 2d

thank yooooou!!

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I am also on my way!

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hi hiiii

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Nordcraft @nordcraft.com · 2d

📣 Attention internet 📣

The final Judge of the #BadUXWorldCup is

@kevinpowell.co

Kevin has spent the last decade teaching you all how to build great accessible websites with good UX.

Now forget all that and build a horrible date picker!

Submit your entry at:

badux.lol

Bad UX World Cup Judges

David Prentell, Cassidy Williams and Devin Powell

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svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 3d

New day, new horrible contributions to the Bad UX World Cup! 😃

Join the fun, submit your worst date picker here: badux.lol

The best/worst date pickers will to through to the final in late October! 🙌

#baduxworldcup

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 2d

a banger morning at @webdevconf.com so far

@strange.website spitting truth bars right here

Henry on stage with a slide that says social media apps are a fucken prison

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