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Custom Element Naming
In My approach to HTML web components Jeremy Keith goes into a naming convention for both web components and their attributes.
While I don’t have any opinions on attribute naming, I do have a strong opinion on element names, and that’s if you decide to namespace your elements it should be done using a post-fix and not a pre-fix.
As an example, all the elements we’ve build in Skia Infra are post-fixed with -sk:
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Excalidraw in VS Code
Excalidraw is available as a VS Code plug-in.
The fantastic part of this is:
The source of the drawing can be embedded directly in a PNG or SVG image. Just create a new .excalidraw.png or excalidraw.png file.
So yeah, expect a lot more drawings in my blog posts.
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Popper's Paradox of Tolerance and Section 3 of the 14 Amendment
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is a fix for Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance encoded in law.
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Bunk Bed
In this episode of “Woodworking with Joe”, I build a bunkbed. We needed a full size bunkbed that was also long enough to span two twin beds. After looking around online we couldn’t find anything that was both fit our dimensions and also be rugged enough for under $1,500, so I designed and built this one for around $400.
I first designed out the bed in SketchUp:
Here is an STL model if you would prefer that.
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Everyone Was on Twitter
Gentle reader, you have been directed to this page because you recently said, without sarcasm:
“Everyone was on Twitter.”
This phrase is utter nonsense, as a quick bit of math will show. The population of the world is 8 billion people, a threshhold it just recently crossed. The number of people on Twitter is up for debate, but we’ll be generous and presume 250 million people, or 0.25 billion people.
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