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Austrian nerd doing silly {programming/math} things {on/in} my {computer/head}. Int{-ernet 🌐/ -egers 🔢/ -ergalactic, planetary 🤖}. 👨🏻‍🎓 @TUGraz/@UniGraz

Austria
Joined October 2018
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the people in the YouTube comments totally got the point of this project... 😶
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i'm late to this but CSS Minecraft (by @Benjamin_Aster) is the coolest CSS hack i've ever seen and it's not close. what a feat. there's no javascript on this page!!
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Ok now *that's* a nice star history graph... star-history.com/#BenjaminAs…
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benjaminaster.com/css-minecr… by @Benjamin_Aster is incredible! An editable Minecraft-style world, entirely in CSS and HTML, not a single line of JS My notes on how it works here. It uses radio boxes for state and paused animations for controlling the viewport simonwillison.net/2025/May/2…
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Invisible JavaScript, an online tool to generate invisible payloads by @Benjamin_Aster, inspired by @aemkei's INVISIBLE.js benjaminaster.com/invisible-…
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Another day, another example for why app stores shouldn’t exist. If people could install apps from the web, judges / authoritarian regimes would need to shut down the internet entirely and that wouldn’t be as easy to do.
Wait so the Brazilian judge tried to force Apple and Google to ban VPNs entirely??? This is really bad
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Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love
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web standards be like
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Replying to @memecrashes
This is still an insufficient condition! Here's how you could generate a finite shape with positive area where no circle with radius ε > 0 is fully contained in the shape: 🧵
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Replying to @Benjamin_Aster
'the other side of the aisle' as in the minority of people who aren't aware of the accessibility considerations or just don't give a shit. this is, fundamentally, an argument against progress in any form. disappointing
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Replying to @cloud11665
Ok, I might have gone a bit too far with this... (this is the CEO of GitHub)
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Replying to @shadcn
Ok, so... I just made an npm package out of this! Introducing: consoledotonly, a tiny JavaScript library that gives you access to console.only(), a function that ignores all other console logs and logs this one only! npmjs.com/package/consoledot…
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Ok, I think I just found a loophole in Google's access control of Gemini 🙃 Left: Gemini on gemini.google.com Right: Gemini in the @Firebase console
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Replying to @theo @t3dotgg
I cannot - publish a Chrome extension - use Gemini - watch YouTube videos that Google considers not family friendly because Google doesn't believe me I'm 18. I'd have to send them my passport for them to approve me. Literally 1984.
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What Apple is doing is wrong. Developers who are able to fight it should. Otherwise they’ll get away with it forever and developers will be reduced to Apple servants in the smoldering wreckage of the free world of computing.
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Replying to @PatrickJS @phry
supporting .cjs is like supporting IE
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She's a 10 but she's √-100 so she's complex and imaginary.
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lol