Every web developer has their “but what if I made my own CMS for this project?” phase at least once

@QuinnyPig Can you make cookie consent banners go away?

@bradparbs What about four stars and a horse?

twitter.com/marykuris/status/542…

At long last an ancient relic from a bygone era has been unearthed. Walking up to the strange object he noticed faint marks scribbled across the back in a thick black ink. They looked like letters. NAPSTER MIX ’99. What could it mean? twitter.com/JamesMGeary/status/1…

@mattcampux “Did anyone just hear a loud bang? I think they were gunshots…”

Then the problem became “How do I find which pages/posts are using a given Call to Action”? So I built a little metabox to show that info.

@thomasfuchs well did you click yes?

@dan_abramov What is ‘this’ all about?

@elyktrix What are you going to grow there?

Or how terrible Twitter’s scheduled tweet date picker is?

(Why does it default to 5 days from the future?!?!)

And how terrible the Twitter schedule tweet date picker is…

(why does it default to 5 days in the future?)

Do you ever just sit and think about how awesome the Google Calendar date picker is and how much thought went into making it work the way it does?

Me after thinking about this for 30 minutes:
wHaT eVeN iS tImE?

Me after thinking about this for 15 minutes:
But wait what timezone are we talking about? What if the user is in a different timezone than the site?

@crutchcorn Have you even seen my code?

“That’s dumb. Why is it built that way?”

@mattcampux Do you think McKinsey would agree?

Me serving dinner: So what do you think?
Wife: It looks like a TV dinner.
Me: Wow! A meal worthy of being on TV? I’m honored.
Wife: The only TV show this meal will be on is Worst Cooks in America.

You know how an API will just send JSON text? It is possible to use the same technology to send plain HTML text. Dynamically!

No need to sluggishly flop the DOM around like a fish out of water. t.co/2bQ3u9sIy5

Me talking about my own stuff: You see design is all about the details. Notice all these subtle niceties I’ve included that really elevate the entire experience…

Me when other people are talking about their stuff: Yea but who cares? No one will notice that.