Daniel Appelquist @torgo@mastodon.social
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Web developer advocacy & standards @ Samsung Internet. W3C TAG co-chair. MDN PAB member. UK Government Open Standards board member. Immigrant. Speaker. Web opener. MST3K fanboi. Anti-fascist.
Joined Nov 2016
Great. Someone is trying to hack into my (deactivated) Facebook account.
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Cycled into central London! 🚲 Farthest I’ve been from my home in 16 weeks!
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It's pretty startling how many magic money trees we're suddenly discovering. 🌳 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53324201
I am so excited to get a hair cut today!!! 💇🏻♂️ And yes, both the barber and I will be wearing masks. 😷
Woke up early for my 6am call only to realise after I'd already taken my shower that the call is set for 9pm. So it's gonna be one of those days.
Happy #4thofJuly to all my fellow US persons. I plan to celebrate by cooking a steak 🥩 and streaming #Hamilton.
Have switched on my heating. This is England.
Ewwww!!!!
Sure maybe you had a bad day, but did you begin to take out the trash only to find a nest of maggots festering in the hinge mechanism of your kitchen bin? 🤮
Turns out Alien was better than Aliens.
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US, Covid-19, racism -
In Montgomery, Alabama, between 85% and 90% of those very sick and dying from Covid-19 are African American. The city council met to decide whether to require people to wear masks. Doctors pleaded. A black resident who had lost *six* of his relatives to Covid-19 pleaded.
But the white members voted it down. To preserve the right "not to attach a cloth to their faces".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/27/coronavirus-cases-us-trump-politics-masks
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New "picture-in-picture" feature on https://whereby.com is très cool.
Listen Microsoft. All I wanted to do was *buy* software from you and install it. Why was that such an arduous process featuring so many dead-ends and redirections all trying to get me to buy a subscription (and a browser switch to Edge)? I mean, I get why, but… ew?
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Since some people are talking about the “death of the URL” … again … it felt like the right time to re-post something I wrote 2 years ag on the topic https://medium.com/@torgo/in-defense-of-the-url-adbec59c7cf4 including a link to research that seems to indicate people DO know what URLs are.
"What to Know About the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/tulsa-greenwood-massacre.html?smid=tw-share
Going live in half an hour for our @samsunginternet@twitter.com “office hours” with @Srushtika@twitter.com to talk about realtime web gaming with @phaser_@twitter.com and @ablyrealtime@twitter.com 👾! To join us, register here: https://www.meetup.com/Samsung-Internet-Meetup/events/271307577/
Pancake eating public: please take this opportunity to get some real maple syrup. 🥞
Hey web devs! 📢 Why not close out your week by joining me and special guest @Srushtika@twitter.com for our @samsunginternet@twitter.com office hours Friday, where the topic of the day will be web games! 👾 https://www.meetup.com/Samsung-Internet-Meetup/events/271307577/
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Web developer advocacy & standards @ Samsung Internet. W3C TAG co-chair. MDN PAB member. UK Government Open Standards board member. Immigrant. Speaker. Web opener. MST3K fanboi. Anti-fascist.
Joined Nov 2016
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