Tom Davies

Untangler of digital ratkings. he/him. #craftcms & JS fan; Senior CMS Developer @zaengle; Views my own - others available; leftie, remain, pretty nerdy

[Tom Davies @metadaptive]

Ok it’s been real and all, but fuck this for a place to be. See y’all on 💙🌌 maybe…

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

What’s going on with Elon Musk, and why is he doing this to Twitter?

I spent the last few months digging into it.

I found a pretty big clue.

[Katherine Shingler @drkshingler]

Anyone want two tickets for @redbreastedbird’s event at Bath kid lit festival afternoon? Any @writementor peeps maybe? My daughter has Covid so we can’t go 😭 Tix free to a good home 🙂

[Acyn @Acyn]

Omg wow this

[Matt Stauffer @mattstauffer]

Hey everyone! I have some great news. :)

The last few months at Tighten have been *incredible*, and it's led us to a position where we get to grow the team again!

We're hiring.... THREE programmers😳🎉

Job is live; applications due 5pm EDT Friday.
https://t.co/m6byuLnAIk

[James Nokise @JamesNokise]

I’m not quite sure how to explain what’s happened tonight, because it’s still happening - but here goes…

At 4:40pm I jumped on a train from London to Edinburgh..

It was comfy, it was quiet

In hindsight, too good to last…

[Tom Davies @metadaptive]

“I have seen this movie before, and I know how it ends.”

The best thing I read today…

[The Jared Wilcurt @TheJaredWilcurt]

Wrote up a historical perspective on the similarities between Bun and Yarn, two technologies with many parallels and the pain points I foresee happening in the near future. #Nodejs #Node #Bun #Bunjs #Yarn #npm #JavaScript #Frontend #WebDev #Sasquatch https://t.co/97qNECSSzh

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

"There's something a little bit special about paper."

I've got a few letters to show you...

@BBC @BBCCareers @BBCNews

[Tim Harford @TimHarford]

The art of making good misstakes...
https://t.co/Tc1pAihspS

[Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson]

I was in Mariupol in the summer of 2014 when Russian armored columns advanced to the city’s outskirts.

By Sept. 4, the concussions of approaching artillery and tank shots had grown so loud that they rattled downtown windows.

People on the streets threw around words like "Grozny," and "Stalingrad.”

Some people fled, but most stayed behind and braced for a full-on siege. Old men and boys joined crash-course military training programs; gray-haired grandmothers sewed ghillie suits for snipers; middle-aged men dug tank traps and trenches. Meanwhile, many of Mariupol’s citizens showed their readiness to resist in other, symbolic ways.

More than 1,000 civilians linked arms and formed a human chain at the city’s eastern limits on Aug. 31. Days later, while the booms of nearby combat cut through the summer air, thousands of civilians took to a downtown square and waved their blue and yellow flags and sang their nation’s anthem and declared their freedom was worth fighting for.

The war’s first cease-fire in September 2014 spared Mariupol.

That night, there was a rush of weddings around the city as couples followed through on ceremonies they’d put off for months due to the fighting.

The mood was like New Year’s times a million. There was this sense that we’d just been spared the worst kind of disaster. We were wrong, of course.

Over the intervening years, I often visited Mariupol and witnessed the city’s remarkable transformation into a vibrant, democratic success story.

Mariupol’s youth grew up within earshot of the front lines, which had frozen just a couple miles beyond the city limits. Yet, those young people, along with a generation of volunteers who transitioned from supporting combat missions to serving in local government, led sweeping changes in the city’s civil society.

They fought back against corruption and took action to improve their city, creating new opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship.

A local businessman founded a start-up hub. A local volunteer group held democracy classes, teaching residents — many of whom had grown up in the Soviet Union — how to demand accountability from their local government.

There were new restaurants, and coffee shops, and craft cocktail bars. A beautiful new pier in the Sea of Azov became a favorite place for families to gather, and for couples to go on dates.

Mariupol was proud to be Ukrainian, and its citizens had their eyes firmly set on a democratic future. After living with Russia’s war on their doorstep for years, they clearly understood what life under Russian rule would mean. And they wanted nothing of it.

Yet, that Mariupol is gone.

Russia annihilated the city and killed an untold number of its civilians in order to “liberate” them from the very future they’d chosen for themselves.

Mariupol’s tragic fate is what Ukrainians are fighting to prevent from happening nationwide.

(My photos below.)

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

"Officials have now privately acknowledged to tech firms that there is no current technology able to scan end-to-end encrypted messages that would not also undermine users’ privacy."

We're glad that at the eleventh hour, the government has conceded this.

https://t.co/mLM6shVqjN

[Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett]

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, IN TERMS OF POLICY, LET'S ACKNOWLEDGE ONE THING:

After years - especially after the bluster of the past 6 months - that there is acknowledgement from the government of the intractability of client-side scanning, is a HUGE WIN.

https://t.co/BrhVXrKBfs

[Tom Davies @metadaptive]

Awww man…

https://t.co/FvMhBpfubG

[Maye Musk @mayamuskl]

• Tories announce 5,000 new NHS Beds. They shut 22,000.

• Tories announce 19 new NHS Diagnostic Centres. They shut 140 Walk In Centres.

• Tories announce 15 yr NHS staffing plan. They are responsible for 100,000 + unfilled NHS jobs.

Support the doctors. It’s our fight.

[Luky - A$AP Luky @LukyVJ]

⚠️ Hello everyone 👋

We’re about to relocate to nearby London, and my partner needs to go first, she is looking for a sublet or anything that could help for one or two months ( but really anything would work )

If anyone has a good lead, please let me know 🙏❤️

Thanks a lot 🙌

[Zaengle @zaengle]

From @jesseschutt: implementing events and event listeners in your @laravelphp app

https://t.co/5L96zqFLns

[NASA @NASA]

July 2023 was the hottest month on record, according to our global temperature analysis. Overall, July was 0.43°F (0.24°C) warmer than any other July in @NASAEarth's record, and it's likely due to human activity. Details: https://t.co/2DTIfL8S1Q

[Tom Davies @metadaptive]

@roybarberuk @cole007 *prefers-reduced-motion obviously. Sorry, typing is hard!

[Tom Davies @metadaptive]

@roybarberuk @cole007 Sure, but as a user (not an author of a page), what if anything can you do to prevent JS animations running on pages that don’t respect prefers-reduce-motion? Idk of anything personally… least not that won’t result in a borked page most of the time

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

When it comes to CSS I always try to tell new devs to learn regular CSS first before trying to jump into a framework.

Frameworks are cool but if you don't understand what is happening it will be a big obstacle to your understanding and growth.