If you speak English as a second language please never apologize about how bad you think your English is. As someone who speaks only English, usually poorly, the idea of being able to speak another language is basically real life magic and I’m constantly in awe of you.

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato.

Norm Macdonald Shot Secret Final Netflix Stand-Up Special Before Passing hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news…

@Amy_Hupe @hankchizljaw Kill as many acronyms as possible. Acronyms nearly always make things easier for the writer, NOT for the reader.

Real talk, skateboarding is the only activity in my adult life with any meaningful class diversity. I get to make friends and engage with people of different class backgrounds. twitter.com/maxdubler/status/152…

Please don’t import SVGs as JSX. It’s the most expensive form of sprite sheet: costs a minimum of 3x more than other techniques, and hurts both runtime (rendering) performance and memory usage.

This bundle from a popular site is almost 50% SVG icons (250kb), and most are unused. t.co/G1IgOjTeIT

“Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs” is a cool post about blogs. The RSS-Tricks section is the most interesting. /via @ericwbailey brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/coo…

Help needed!

If anyone needs any WP related jobs doing (not development!) Like content creation shifting things around or mundane stuff you dont want to waste time on.

Drop me a DM. Looking for some gigs to keep afloat!

Pls RT if you know anyone it would be much appreciated!

In defense of Single Page Applications

(ht @josephruscio)

williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/…

As someone who spent several years helping build Twitter, I have some thoughts on what — if anything at all — Elon Musk means to the future of the service. It’s 3,555 heartfelt words, but you’ll sail right through it. 💙⛵️ mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/…

Y’all are welcome over at Glue.im/noah
#NewTwitter

happy birthday to @kingkool68, the first person i knew IRL to join twitter dot com

“The benefit of a donut chart over a pie chart is that if the hole is large enough you can fit an actually useful chart inside.” @amritxyz

I never ask this, but I’m asking now: Please retweet this.

Texas plans to kill Melissa Lucio in four days. Five jurors say evidence was withheld from them. A bipartisan majority of the Texas legislature favors clemency. Why are you waiting, @GovAbbott?

nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/meliss…

Introducing: Can I PHP?

caniphp.com/

A little Easter holiday project for those of you that work across multiple versions of PHP and can never remember what features are available where.

A few details…

I like this little touch of `transform: scale()`ing down the main content area once you’ve scrolled to the bottom to emphasize the footer area. t.co/OGr3bbbEyx

@chriscoyier Interesting! web.dev/change-password-url/#:~:…. – looks like a potential standard.

I love how Wordle can go from “Oh, this must be a word I’ve never heard before” to “Okay, I’m an idiot.”

👋 I was laid off last week, so would love to hear about any tips or opportunities. Thanks in advance!

Ok folks, you know what to do…
👉 Update Composer in all your environments ASAP.👈

Laravel Forge updates composer nightly, so it’s got you covered already.

blog.packagist.com/cve-2022-2482…