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This is so cool! Spiders can fly using electricity! 🕷️ Did you know that for 200 years we've known that spiders can fly but haven't really understood how they did that and we finally worked it out and the answer is "they ride the earth's magnetic fields at will"??? Nature...

Does it bother anyone else that @apple’s product pages are showing cost after trade-in and battery improvement rather than than total cost/battery life? #darkpatterns

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I love all the phase of this song. So many great riffs. play.google.com/music/m/Tpnmiy…

Proud to have been able to speak with @lukeherrington alongside @nicknisi on the @TalkScript podcast about Luke’s @JSConfUS talk! The episode is up now. The conversations continue in the second episode of our 6-part series from @JSConfUS 2019! The #TalkScript team is joined by @laras126, @AdamGieseDev and @lukeherrington for some...

10 is the version number you jump to when you give up on your naming scheme. #Android10 #iPhoneX #Windows10

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@chiccychiccy @AmericanAir @united So I learned from this experience you have to specifically request to board early to get overhead space. Don’t get me started about boarding groups…

@chiccychiccy @AmericanAir @united I will say they are better than United. But it is disappointing that airlines keep adding unnecessary constraints to customers to save a few bucks.

Not the first time this has happened and the gate attendant was not interested in helping us. As we left we could hear her complaining about other customers.

Even though we communicated we needed to skip baggage claim @AmericanAir forced us to check our carry-on bags…got on the plane and there was plenty of overhead room. 😡

One of my favorite parts of @Team_eBird is learning about different bird migrations. Here you can see the times when these birds pass through New York.

git checkout becoming git switch & git restore. This makes so much more sense. 👍👍 git checkout has too many responsibilities. It's used for both switching branches, and for restoring individual files to a previous state.So in git 2.23, it's being split into two distinct commands:git switch & git restoreA...

Things were better in 2005. Just ask @TalkScript @JSConfUS and @pottedmeat 🧐😉🧐 React, TypeScript, and Prettier are some of the best things that happened in frontend development in recent years. I cannot imagine going back.— Marius Schulz (@mariusschulz) August 16, 2019

Interesting idea to expose the focus functionality of browsers. Let’s make Browser Focus work for us… Spread the word about the Focus Traversal API Proposal!https://t.co/wqkVUU1PsY#FocusTraversalAPI #JavaScript #Web #JSConfUS— R. I. (@areinet) August 12, 2019

It was cool to see a working prototype of a dynamic braille device. Glad to people working on making technology more accessible. github.com/braillejs twitter.com/sammenza/statu…

I’m excited to join some of my @sitepen coworkers at @JSConfUS 2019!