Tom Walker / is on Nostr

Web designer/developer. Socialist. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Part of the great #TwitterMigration of 2022.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #php #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

Last Notes

2024-07-29 18:26:45

#css
This is nowhere on Stack Overflow (that I can see) so I'll put it here.
This is how to stop your page from scrolling horizontally without resorting to JS nonsense.
html, body {
max-width: 100%;
overflow-x: hidden;
position: relative; /* this is the one everyone misses out! */
}
The problem is that you have some position: absolute element poking out. position: relative at root level forces a 'container'.

2024-07-23 09:52:23

Try it yourself sometime!
(Note: this is a screenshot of Tiktok taken from birdsite, apply caution etc)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/835/175/859/539/595/original/0349e55e704e8735.jpg

2024-07-22 17:44:38

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@npub15xh…hlr4 a functionally infinite number

2024-07-21 18:19:59

I wonder if we'll get an apology from the people who have spent weeks running around claiming that it is logistically impossible for Biden to withdraw

2024-07-21 06:23:21

The #Swedish language is determined to make you think about how many things are onions:
Lök = onion
Vitlök (white onion) = garlic
Grässlök (grass onion) = chives
Purjolök = leek
#svenska

2024-07-20 09:53:10

Mastodon is the world's biggest community of people who deeply love computers and also think that the world would probably be better off without computers

2024-07-19 17:38:06

Next level "turn it off and on again":
"Microsoft issued guidance saying that some customers had seen success by rebooting their PCs as many as 15 times."

2024-07-19 09:49:10

You know...
You know it's Crowdstrike.
I know it's Crowdstrike.
But it's not *bad* for people to call it a "Microsoft outage" or blame it on Windows.
So let's just... quietly not correct people?
Just this once.

2024-07-19 09:24:04

Imagine if some well-resourced actor were *trying* to bring down millions of computers.
Doesn't seem like they would need to try very hard.

2024-07-19 08:48:16

Turns out basing the majority of the world's IT infrastructure on a Jenga tower of garbage catches up with you eventually

2024-07-18 19:36:40

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@npub1c35…9pmh SEO? I've only ever seen this in forms concerned with SEO, eg. length of an item title for a shop

2024-07-15 16:13:45

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use node.js." Now they have 2GB of problems.

2024-06-09 21:40:56

One line of code cost them $10k. ChatGPT wrote that line.
LLMs introduce subtle but potentially disastrous bugs that *you will not catch* from casual testing or skim-reading.
https://asim.bearblog.dev/how-a-single-chatgpt-mistake-cost-us-10000/

2024-06-09 20:02:06

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies...
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/588/439/162/135/534/original/b460eae0ec9cae9a.jpg

2024-05-29 07:22:43

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@npub19lt…qfjk To be fair the only people whose emails I ever see hit this have absolutely out of control nested tables

2024-05-25 05:12:54

Long story short, don't trust AI with your dog.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/499/996/977/228/879/original/816c628c9ece1c92.jpg

2023-12-19 21:24:47

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@npub1c35…9pmh Interesting - I hadn't considered before that we can move elements on the z-axis but have no way to set a z-thickness for them

2023-12-19 21:07:52

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@npub1c35…9pmh I wonder if you could roughly replicate this using a transform rotate/skew on the page and then translateZ forward on every div