Someone on the Facebook recovery effort has explained that a routine BGP update went wrong, which in turn locked out those with remote access who could reverse the mistake. Those who do have physical access do not have authorization on the servers. Catch-22.

And it looks like its not just me…

whatsmydns.net/#A/facebook.com

dns.google.com/query?name=facebo…

So facebook.com is failing to resolve for me… weird.

Retweet if you believe Election Day should be a federal holiday.

“perhaps if more developers dared to go framework-free (when appropriate!) discussions around best practices would be more productive.” – @elisehein
#webdev #javascript
elisehe.in/2021/08/22/using-the-…

Raise your hand if you love watching TV with your sister!

#CadenApollo #VeraAddison

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The 6 year old has discovered the Barbie Girl song by Aqua and she is into it! Hard.

I contributed to closed source today!

A website where all external links open in a new tab is like a TV that can only switch channels as picture-in-picture

Open PDF to copy text…

– Highlight text
– Control + C
– Pop up that the PDF is locked from copying
– You can enter a password to unlock it

Uploads PDF to Google Drive…

Can successfully copy and paste

You probably don’t need to use `height` very often in CSS

Cancelling performance.now() 2021 was the right decision, except financially.

I’m looking for donations and/or new jobs. Has QuirksMode.org ever helped you? Need a CSS coach? Or a technical documentation writer? Let me know.

RT = sweet

quirksmode.org/blog/archives/202…

Minting NFTs.

#ZadieAlyssa

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Are you a WordPress developer that writes code, as part of developing client sites? Are you annoyed with the complications of modern WordPress development or anything else?

Would you be open to talking about that for thirty minutes or so?

DM me or email [email protected]

tag yourself.

Product-led growth.

It’s just a fucking free trial. Calm it down.

Big shout out to the junior devs learning to code. You’re doing better than you think, just remember how far you’ve come! 😊

Fact: you could easily develop a multi-million-dollar web business right now, in 2021, using PHP, MySQL, custom CSS, and a small amount of Vanilla JS. Just like you could in 2006. Users don’t care about your tech stack – they care about the service your website performs.

Doing a spicy @syntaxfm where we talk about how many the modern web dev trends, frameworks and ideas are things PHP has had for years.

* Logic/Templating mix
* URL based routing
* request scope
* Server rendered
* large standard lib

Any more?