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By the way: now is the time to get your ticket for one of Europe’s finest conferences on art, design, creativity, the Web, and so much more. A genuinely fantastic experience every single time – inspiring, empowering, and with a lovely, inclusive community! ☺️
https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2025/tickets

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Working on my talk for @btconf (🙀😁) and can’t wait to see so many good friends again! 💚 Who of you will be in Düsseldorf in less than three weeks? 👋

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Serious question: what does a “Global Head of AI” do at an agency and why does it somehow feel like it is just a regular creative director with a cringey job title? 🥴

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Hear me out: a children’s book called “The Tariffalo” 🤔

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I’m currently working on a project where the devs obviously had no idea about how to implement responsive images correctly. It’s a wild mix of faulty media, srcset, sizes, and size(?) attributes on img and source tags that really feels like guesswork. (This is now a 10-year-old technology, btw…)

What's the best article (or video, @kevinpowell? 😁) about responsive images you know?

My favs:
@mdnhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Responsive_images

@eeepshttps://ericportis.com/posts/2014/srcset-sizes/

@grigs
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-images-101-definitions/

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Isn’t it astonishing that after all those decades of global trade, there still isn’t a safety mechanism in place that...

Isn’t it astonishing that after all those decades of global trade, there still isn’t a safety mechanism in place that protects the world economy – and our collective wealth – from the damaging effects of one country electing an erratic, ignorant idiot for president?

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@kevinpowell I fully (!) agree that it makes sense to name properties in a more familiar way, e.g. `item-wrap` instead of `item-cross` superceding `flex-wrap`. Tim Berners-Lee knew this as well when he created HTML: a lot of elements were already familiar to people using SGML. Make it as frictionless as possible for people to adopt new things, because, as @adactio would say, humans are allergic to change.

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Actually, I took that photo a few days ago. That’s how that tree looks today… 🤯🌸

Actually, I took that photo a few days ago. That’s how that tree looks today… 🤯🌸

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Gemini says I should ”replace ’dumb information recycling machine’ with more neutral terms: This avoids unnecessarily aggressive language and focuses on the functional aspects of the technology.”
😉