Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This truck was in the parking lot of the Silicon Valley office park where I work. The bumper is designed to kill on contact. Most of us bike to work. This is street legal and we’ve got mayors freaking out over 50 lb scooters.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It's outrageous trucks have been allowed to increase in height to the point their hoods are at the roof level of other vehicles. There's only so much engineers can do to make streets safe. Deaths due to these trucks are on lawmakers who allow the #CarLobby to dictate regulations.
Woman killed after driving into path of pickup truck while leaving Clark Co. school, deputies say bit.ly/3bTg4h0
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump's acting DNI didn't tell the government about his foreign lobbying work, potentially violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. As a result, @NatlSecCnslrs opined, "he should not have a clearance." Great scoop by @iarnsdorf propublica.org/article/trump…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There are outbreaks. There are epidemics. Then, there are pandemics. Coronavirus is almost there. wapo.st/2Pe2sDy @ByLenaSun @thewanreport @joelachenbach @Min_Joo_Kim_
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And it's worth thinking about given the popularity of frameworks with a programming model where the developer maps application state to a virtual DOM tree, and the framework then rectifies that virtual DOM into a minimal set of modifications to the real DOM.
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This is important for various ways that browsers adapt pages to devices or to the needs or preferences of users, from screen readers, to scroll anchoring, to ad blocking.
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In other words, it's important that the browser can recognize that a section of the page, or a heading, or a paragraph, is the same section/heading/paragraph that it was a minute ago, even as the page is dynamically changing.
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Briefly, what I argue in it as that while we talk often about semantic markup, there's another piece that's probably even more important that we think about less, which is persistent object identity in the DOM.
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I just posted a new blog post (it's been a while): Semantic markup, browsers, and identity in the DOM
dbaron.org/log/20200221-dom-…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In the immediate run up to the U.S. presidential election and on Election Day, the homepage of YouTube is set to advertise just one candidate: Donald Trump.
great scoop @mhbergen @joshuabrustein bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: House Intelligence briefing on election threats and Russia's continuned favoring of Trump's election led to the Oval Office confrontation between Trump and Maguire. nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/po…
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Did anybody else get signed out of *all* of their slack tabs over the last few minutes?
(Also, for logging back in to 2 of 5 of them, I got "too many login failures" on the first try, and then the same login/password worked on the next try... which required doing a CAPTCHA.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
CALIFORNIA: If you do not register to vote or re-register by MIDNIGHT, you will have to do so in-person at your county elections office, vote center, or polling place.
Don't miss the chance to take advantage of easy online voter reg at RegisterToVote.ca.gov #VoteCalifornia
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The link to that forecast is forecast.weather.gov/MapClic…
Is anyone/anything able to check the accuracy of forecasts for locations like that?
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In this screenshot, Slack tabs 1 and 3 have DMs or at-here/at-channel notifications. Slack tab 5 has other unread messages. Tabs 2 and 4 have nothing unread.
I'd like to be able to set channels so they don't switch the tab from the state of tabs 2 and 4 to the state of tab 5.
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Also:
- water needs of plants vary a lot by season/light anyway. Quantity per watering you can tell by when the water runs through, frequency you just have to figure out somehow (!).
- picking up a pot to see how heavy it is is a great way to judge overall hydration
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The potted hydrangea is more sensitive and probably wouldn't survive longer trips that I used to do, at least in summer.
And I move some plants away from sunny spots into shadier ones if I'm away a long time. (But philodendron & drysena in shady spots anyway.)
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This applies to my two drysenas & multiple philodendrons. (Assuming I have the right names! Google image search.)
The snake plant and christmas cactus can probably last a good bit longer.
The bromeliads are similar to the first group but leaves can brown at the ends.
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Longer than that (by a week, anyway) and the plants are still alive but I have to cut a bunch of dead leaves off of them and clean them up a bit when I'm back.
Some of them also take a *lot* of extra water when I return (e.g., soak up the normal weekly amount 3 days in a row).
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