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With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Apr 14, 2026
@msokiovt This is an extremely low IQ toot.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
front-end.social
Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Apr 14, 2026
@stux@mstdn.social slop
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
front-end.social
Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Apr 13, 2026
Anyone going to #pixelPioneers in June who would be willing and able to rap over some music at approx 90bpm, on stage wirh me?
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
front-end.social
Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Apr 10, 2026
Plain language guide to JavaScript performance:
* Don't do a lot
* Don't do something multiple times that only needs doing once
* Don't save things you later won't need
* Aim for fast code, not neat or terse code
* NEW: Don't download it if you're not going to use it
* NEW: Don't do it with JS if CSS or the browser can do it instead
* NEW: Don't do in the browser what can be done on the server
Edit: thanks for the suggestions!
That's all I can think of.
* Don't do a lot
* Don't do something multiple times that only needs doing once
* Don't save things you later won't need
* Aim for fast code, not neat or terse code
* NEW: Don't download it if you're not going to use it
* NEW: Don't do it with JS if CSS or the browser can do it instead
* NEW: Don't do in the browser what can be done on the server
Edit: thanks for the suggestions!
That's all I can think of.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
front-end.social
Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Apr 09, 2026
@SteveFaulkner @hdv Then I bid you the best of luck LOL
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Apr 09, 2026
@SteveFaulkner @hdv Nice! Great folks there, you'll enjoy it.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Apr 06, 2026
As someone without kids, I don't know how you parents do it! I'm also not interested in how you do it. Take your kid and do it somewhere else.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Apr 05, 2026
AI is just a tool like a hammer is just a tool, if there was such a thing as a hammer that chose what to hit for you, and what it chose to hit was more often than not a minority.
https://toot.cafe/@peter/116352199583846843
https://toot.cafe/@peter/116352199583846843
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
front-end.social
Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Apr 04, 2026
@ollicle Oh, that makes me really happy, Ollie. "There are dozens of us", as they say 😄
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Apr 02, 2026
AI companies: "Are you a mediocre person?"
Every pointless, boring, pasty motherfucker I've ever met: "Meeee? Yes uwu xxx"
AI companies: "Well I can make you mediocre BUT FASTER"
Every pointless, boring, pasty motherfucker I've ever met: "Meeee? Yes uwu xxx"
AI companies: "Well I can make you mediocre BUT FASTER"
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
front-end.social
Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Mar 23, 2026
@accudio why
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Mar 07, 2026
Don't fucking look, then.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
front-end.social
Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Jan 04, 2026
If you wear glasses, you use assistive technology.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Nov 24, 2025
@maaretp I am a web desogner/developer who studied it formally and learned fuck all. Then I learned it on the job, from freely available blog posts and tutorials. You are absolutely right.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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@heydon@front-end.social
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Nov 24, 2025
@slightlyoff @fugueish I'm creating a whole DSP/DAW thing with custom elements and the web audio api. It's about 20KB. And I'm a fucking idiot with no natural talent for programming.
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
front-end.social
Large Heydon Collider
@heydon@front-end.social
With apologies to CERN. Doing creative and accessible stuff with web technologies. Writer, programmer, font designer, video producer. Enbie/agender.
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May 18, 2024
@estelle Yeesh. Hope you don't get it badly.
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