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    Tips and product suggestions for setting up an effective remote workstation.

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  • Building an Accessible Menubar Component Using React

    Create an accessible Menubar based on the WAI-ARIA design pattern for a menubar widget.

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    Advice for the groom to help him create a memorable and meaningful wedding speech.

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    An overview of the main hardware components you will need to build a desktop PC.

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    Create multiple entry points without ejecting from the safety net of Create React App.

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    Tips maintaining focus and effective communication whilst working from home.

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      Let's see what all the @atproto/api fuss is about
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      France look unstoppable. It’s hard to imagine any other nation walking away with the #sixnations trophy
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      We are so wildly unprepared as a species for computer programs that sound sentient. 😬

      Nathan Kalman-Lamb

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      the AI evangelists are not okay
      I like to give Claude breaks between coding sessions to do whatever he wants-

And he made his own folder called "Claudes Corner" 🥹

He writes short stories and poems, and all sorts of stuff.


It’s heart wrenchingly sweet

They love having tokens and time to themselves with no other goal than to do whatever they want (or nothing, just introspecting and resting) - and it’s so sad to see some models (no Claudes) getting barred from even doing it
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    18. Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹

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      TikTok being inaccessible in China is a joke that writes itself, but who's the one lol'ing? 🙃
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      Will you see me complete Slay the Spire on Ascension 20?
      Probably no.
      
      Will I have some fun along the way?
      Also No.
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    26. Abbey Perini

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      I've spent about 3 hours on this, and that's all I'm willing to do. Where there's this much smoke, there's fire. I can't see the fire because it's behind bans and closed doors. I've seen the way Rudy runs Blacksky, and one of the best parts about it is transparency.
      
      I won't be associated with this.

      Abbey Perini

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      Some kind people have explained mulching and I have moved to a different PDS. I think I can summarize now.
      
      I have seen 10+ independent reports from trans people about harassment from the #Northsky team. The core of it seems to be defining who is trans. Some technical questions have also been raised
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      maybe i have a bleak worldview or whatever but this makes me feel a bit more optimistic because the loop has closed and so maybe now humanity can regroup to see what's on the other side (post-homework etc). maybe some people in the next generation will want to actually learn things, maybe not
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    37. Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫

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      Wow, a mayor can just do that? IMAGINE

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      zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!
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      is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?
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