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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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    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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      Stretching off before the #EtapeCaledonia tomorrow morning. 
      
      85 miles. Sub-5 target. Let’s go!
      A pint of Guinness on a pub table sat alongside a river
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      I need more imaginative bingo squares for this time we're in. This is a good one.

      The Tennessee Holler

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      This is amazing  - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽
      
      Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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      Calling everything "load-bearing" is the "gremlins" of Anthropic's models.
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      Didn’t quite make the sub-5 target, but picked up plenty of PBs along the way! 🥇
      Etape Caledonia 2026
Distance: 136.72km
Time: 5h 24m
Elevation: 1431m

      Andrew James

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      Stretching off before the #EtapeCaledonia tomorrow morning. 
      
      85 miles. Sub-5 target. Let’s go!
      A pint of Guinness on a pub table sat alongside a river
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      The @pdx.atproto.camp team is cooking up something very cool for @cascadiajs.com and I'm getting VERY excited about it 👀
      
      If you aren't attending yet, you should! The vibes and connections are wonderful and it's a great spot to meet other technologists in the PNW 😎
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      My unpopular opinion is that Markdown is 75% just because writing <p> tags sucks and 25% for lists and that’s it, nothing else is better or annoying enough to want a whole processing language for.
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      on this MSP to Texas flight I am wearing a whistle and everyone else is wearing a cowboy hat
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      uhh i think opus 4.7 is just worse than 4.6. is that possible
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