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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This seems like it belongs in a stock photo collection for mobility-related articles...
(Taken Wednesday evening at the side of Palo Alto city hall.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
TurboTax tried to cheat people into paying for free services – and now they’re getting out of the game. This is the moment for the IRS to create a return-free option and its own tax prep service. I’ve got a bill for that, but the IRS can do it right now. propublica.org/article/turbo…
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A reminder about who was lobbying to get IRS enforcement out of this package: the thugs who think the law doesn't apply to them washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Something I had to do in the devtools console yesterday:
/* temp0 was the result of choosing "Use in Console" on a <input> in a datepicker's month header */
let i = /* number of months since I was born*/
function f() { temp0. click(); while (--i != 0) setTimeout(f, 0) }
f()
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I am old enough to remember when childhood diseases - now controlled by vaccines - terrorized families, wreaking pain and heartbreak. This is lunacy. tennessean.com/story/news/he…
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A piece I've been working on for months is out today in @TheAtlantic, and I hope you'll read it.
It's about EMS clinicians and the many ways they're undervalued—despite our deep, deep need for them during the pandemic and as the climate crisis progresses.
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Black families who've passed down land since a generation after slavery are now losing it to worsening natural disasters.
The government won't help them rebuild unless they can produce a formal deed. But deeds were hard to come by in the Jim Crow South. washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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DEATH VALLEY UPDATE 🌡️
High temp at Death Valley today = 130F.
⚠️ If this says anything about how hot SAT-SUN will be, HEED THESE WARNINGS. Do not put yourself, nor first responders in danger this weekend!
This observed high temp is considered preliminary & not yet validated.
Here's a look at the latest forecast high-temperature probabilities for @DeathValleyNPS! Death Valley likely won’t be reaching its world record temperature of 134°F this weekend, but has about a 1 in 4 chance of reaching 130°F both Saturday and Sunday.
#CAwx
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Eventually the public health people are going to have to stop tweeting vague stuff like this and start tweeting about mandatory shots
A lot of talk today about whether the 159 million fully vaccinated folks need a third shot
You know what would really help?
Ensuring the 25M who have 1 shot get their 2nd
And
Ensuring the 100M eligible who have zero shots get their first
That would help keep everyone safe
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Reason it hasn't shipped is that support for compositor animations of more than one transform property at a time haven't been implemented yet. There's a plan to work on that in the next few months and then hopefully get the independent transform properties on a path to ship.
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The rush of opinions at the end of the term can make it look as if today's Supreme Court is relatively even-handed: a few hard-right victories, a few compromises, a few flips—all in all, a "surprising" term.
This is an illusion. Don't fall for it.
slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
While the questions raised by broad participation in networked society are thorny and complex, one question actually has a very simple and factual answer: "How should we connect our homes to the internet?" The answer: "Fiber."
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I suspect most American tourists never get to parts of Paris like that (maps.app.goo.gl/jrzecXhJWNMF… ), although they're more likely to see transit and buildings that look like that in other cities like Berlin...
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
LA's draft housing element just dropped. It's an exemplar, a huge deal not only for LA but for cities across California.
LA is the first city to realistically assess development potential under current zoning, and the results are stunning. 1/18
planning.lacity.org/plans-po…
City Planning and @HCIDLA have just released a draft plan titled “The Plan to House LA” that aims to accommodate nearly 500,000 housing units over the next eight years, with over 200,000 of those units reserved for lower-income residents.
Read more at bit.ly/3dzEWgs
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I realized I've been a member of the @csswg for more than half of my life (as of sometime late last year).
One of the results of getting involved with something when young, and staying involved...
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"It’s not good to be breaking records from the busiest season on record!" says @DrJeffMasters on Tropical Storm Elsa's becoming a named storm. Read more @CC_Yale @bhensonweather #weather yaleclimateconnections.org/2…
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