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Seems like people don't like this comment, but I chuckled. Nice one.

The en-dash is for ranges. https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html

OP here, yeah I get that! I think the only technical input I had was my prompts for fixing bugs. I'm a web developer, so I have some familiarity with the life cycle of mouse events…

Related: This is a nice write-up of how to write reactive jQuery. It's presented as an alternative to jQuery spaghetti code, in the context of being in a legacy codebase where you …

See also this lovely typeface revival. https://lineto.com/typefaces/valentine

https://blakewatson.com/

Probably not too useful for many in this audience, but I wrote a web book for *absolute beginners* learning HTML. It's very much in the same spirit as the OP's post. https://htmlfo…

Yes, this was the one I was thinking of!

TL;DR - The ability of computers to "understand" natural language and intent has staggering implications for accessibility.

I recently hit a 10-year milestone of being employed after many years of trying and failing to get a job.

I can’t get enough of anything that helps me wrap my mind around the scale of objects and distances in the universe. I recently discovered Epic Spaceman on YouTube, who makes incre…

I think https://spaceengine.org/ fills part of your request. I haven't played it but I've watched videos about it and it looks like you can jump anywhere around the observable univ…

I went with "Get started already" :)

Yeah the implication that I guess I didn't make well enough is that it's for anybody who wants to learn it. It’s attainable without needing highly specialized or intensive training…

No I think I will probably keep it focused on HTML. I think my "CSS basics" chapter is as far as I want to go with styling. But I would love to see other folks publish easy-to-unde…

Yeah, I think you're right about that. I'm not sure whether I want to write something of an appendix myself and link to it, or find something else on the web and link to that.

OP here. Yeah, I was a bit worried about this, and even though I kind of mentioned it in the introduction, I think it deserves more attention. I'm not sure if I want to write somet…