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TIL Raku is the next Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)

@souldessin to be clear, it wasn't the :hover selector that broke. It was the webdev tool "make it hovered" that worked in FireFox but not the same in Chrome

A handy thread to help break the div habit. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1501506685155696640.html

Handy. I need to remember these.
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RT @swapnakpanda
🏙 Should we use Semantic HTML?

✘ <div> ➜ <header> ✓
✘ <div> ➜ <nav> ✓
✘ <div> ➜ <section> ✓
✘ <div> ➜ <article> ✓
✘ <div> ➜ <aside> ✓
✘ <div> ➜ <main> ✓
✘ <div> ➜ <summary> ✓
✘ <div> ➜ <footer> ✓

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https://twitter.com/swapnakpanda/status/1501506685155696640

I usually do my CSS (WordPress) webdev in FireFox, but check it in chrome sometimes. I just found that some CSS selectors work in FireFox but fail in Chrome, and the same for adding ":hover" attribute. Anyone else seen Chrome playing by different CSS rules than others?

I just experienced #emacs rectangle-mark-mode for the first time, though I've been using rectangles for a long time. This allows me to make a rectangle easily even when neither first nor the last line are the longest. Nice!

Now trying to figure out: how do I change my mouse sensitivity from the command line? #linux

PHP 7 created breaking changes from PHP 5. This is where having a disconnect between our server admin (with good security concerns) and our client's [lack of] developers on a 6+ year old webapp really bites.

These Superscripts are gonna kill me. I wish they showed up in the copy-paste...

Current project: getting these to render in raw HTML (actually transpiled from Hiccup which is much nicer)

When things are just failing to work, but with no error -- and they've been working fine for years. No recent system updates, either. ARGH!

But then, in a rather un-linux moment, rebooting the machine seems to have cleared the problem.

Is js null truthy in Clojurescript? Not only do I not know the answer, I don't even know how to write it. I thought it might be js/null, but no dice. Anyone?

something every web dev should read. I wish I'd read it long ago: the precise arithmetic of CSS selectors. https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-4/#specificity-rules

@tennoseremel@mstdn.io awesome! There can I learn more about those preference numbers for selectors? I have never seen it given numeric precision before.

@glidedon@noagendasocial.com yikes! But agree or not, at least the gov't claims duty to support needs. No such promise with incidentally functional business features.