Noah Liebman @noleli@mastodon.social

Every once in a while I use my work laptop as a laptop and oh my god the touchbar is the worst

I’m worried that the success of covid vaccines reinforces the idea that science will magically fix climate change https://noahliebman.net/2021/05/there-is-no-vaccine-for-climate-change/

Something I didn’t fully appreciate about the vaccines is the use of bacteria in nano-manufacturing at scale 🤯 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine.html

Updated paper!

Got some clearly targeted ads on Reddit yesterday, and I’m not sure how. I saw the ads on my phone, but they were based on browsing behavior on my computer. I use tab containers on the computer and private browsing on the phone, so it’s not cookies. Best guess is based on IP from my VPN, which does not instill confidence.

Missed most of the #AppleEvent, but…why are they making iMacs with 8 GB RAM? 16 GB should be minimum in 2021.

It’s a terrible time to try to buy a house because prices are going bonkers.

It’s a great time to try to buy a house because NO HANDSHAKES EVER.

I think of good front-end/UI developers as artisans rather than construction workers. Both are given direction from an architect (UX), but construction workers execute someone else’s plan, while artisans help bring a vision to life through craft, creativity, and collaboration.

Been eyeing Lingon for years. Finally bought it for one very specific reason. https://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/

I don’t know how it’s going, but this is how it started for me

Screencasts are a great way to communicate with colleagues because as you record your question you’ll figure out the answer #rubberDuck #debugging

Here’s a single-div, 100% CSS VU meter.

Just <div></div>, no Javascript. https://codepen.io/noleli/pen/zYNvEwJ

Encoding your own parachute message is almost like going to Mars https://nole.li/EncodeMightyThings

How do you choose a license for an OSS project? I want something that limits commercial use. @Greg

Ooh, Safari tech preview has support for flex gap. Once this is out on iOS it’s gonna be actually usable!

Pretty sure the new Firefox “Total Cookie Protection” makes the Temporary Containers extension obsolete for most use cases https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/ https://twitter.com/firefox/status/1364246441711996933

Winter 2021: at least the SAD light makes me look better on video

I’m not saying I was a part of a team that landed a rover or Mars or anything, but those are Shure AD2 microphones, and someone had to coordinate their frequencies, and they may have used the software I work on to do it #lameDegreesOfSeparation https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1363929492138254340