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The descriptor “the bone has been removed and replaced with pancetta” needs to be used more often.

Not sure if anyone’s said this before but CSS Grid is p good.

Something I love about this original Hamilton performance is seeing LMM looking around after the first verse, realise the room is into it and visibly relax. It’s a really sweet, human moment.

This was a vague post about the White House, nine years and a day ago. Spoiler: I didn’t end up doing a Heights tune. The rest is literally history. pic.twitter.com/sSJW9ljMev

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) April 25, 2018

Listening to a Twenty Thousand Hertz episode on noise pollution. If you’re a remote worker, it turns out it’s worth sending the boss noise canceling headphones before jumping on Zoom to ask for a pay rise.

Oh wow, it feels weird to nest @ rules in vanilla CSS, ie: @suports ( cool-new-feature ) { @media ( wide-enough ) { /* ... */ } } .

Week one of learning a new codebase.

After spending two hours on the phone, I may know WHO will be billing me for American health care. I don’t know how much, an account number, when I can expect a bill, if they’ll call me back, whether they know where to send it or if they can send it by email. That would be easy.

Does iOS Firefox add an icon to the home screen every time I refresh each site or only the first time?

I think the best way to wait for a DNS change to propagate is with a glass of wine in hand. 🍷

Sometimes I am a little #386.