Christopher DeLuca

I tried to put a meeting on the team calendar for a “Slack Huddle”, but due to a typo, I actually sent a “Slap Huddle”. You play the cards you’re dealt.

I learned a new word an hour ago, but I already forgot it. Mind sharp as a 🎈.

I had a visitor this morning. 🐱

Taking gruvbox for a spin today for the first time in years. I’m digging it.

Discovered that I am more blue than 65% of the population with the help of Is My Blue Your Blue?.

For you, turquoise is green.

Sick burn.

🎵 Music Tango Mango—Can Look, I’m leading off with this because I did listen to classic high brow 70s German experimental rock band Can’s classic experimental rock album Tango Mango, … Read more

Showed a double feature of Godzilla Minus One and Godzilla: Final Wars on the roof the other day. We had 25 people up there! Roofzilla lives. 🍿

A heartwarming internet story that’s been making the rounds.

A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database?

A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of some brilliant teens.

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes | eieio.games

Feminist Friday just wrapped up. Sad that’s it’s over, but what an incredible run.

leading-trim is dope, y’all. Can’t wait for it to ship.

Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting by Ethan Wang.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io on the once and future web.

Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it’s become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we loved about the old web while incorporating the wonderful things that have emerged since, developing even better things as we go forward, and leaving behind some things from the early web days we all too often forget when we put on our rose-colored glasses.

The whole article is well worth a read, both for the insights into web history, the plagues of the present, and the call to action to craft our digital future. Oh, and for the farming analogies.

I have no gray hairs. They are either their original dark brown, or snow white.

I couldn’t find a browsable list of valid Drupal core values for #type fields in render arrays. I just wanted to know what was possible in one place. Andy Blum’s Drupal Smart … Read more

Finished reading: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke 📚

Hot take: the <dl> element is underused.

I’ve seen 50 First Dates but not Buffy The Vampire Slayer. This message brought to you by “Random Movie Neuron Firings” 🍿

Started reading: Cinemaps by Andrew DeGraff 📚

I picked up two sequels to books I don’t have the previous parts to, along with a novel starring Norby the Robot, whom I can only assume is a well known, beloved character. 📚🤖

Over the weekend I picked up a new plant. Put some live trees next to my dead trees.

Follow up on how data in software: data can’t tell you everything about your product decisions.

My roommate had an extra ticket so last night I got to see Jeff Rosenstock at the Warsaw. Really fun show. 🎵

Imagine a world where “bio break” meant, “I’ll be 5 minutes late to the meeting, I need to write my biography.”

Yes, August is almost over, but I haven’t collected my thoughts on July yet, so take my hand and travel back in time to the distant lands of about a month ago. Most of the stuff I see is old … Read more

First pants day of the year. Feels like I’m no longer wearing a swamp. 👖

TIL that the CSS relative color spec says that currentColor is supported, but no browser supports it. Sad times.