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Gnome Chompski
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just setting up my twttr v.3
Baseball is primarily becoming popular again because it doesn’t give people CTE.
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Finally deleted all my old tweets on my main Twitter/X profile. I’ll be experimenting with Bluesky and Mastodon, but I think I’m fully done using the bird app.

End of an era. I made a lot of cool connections there.
June 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Hot take: I'm finally reading "On the Shortness of Life" and I have to say, Seneca's writing style is either poorly translated or just bad at times.

Also, if anyone has the original Latin text, what is "willy nilly" translated from?
March 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Wow, nice gains. Ill-gotten?
July 3, 2023 at 12:54 PM
On proactively naming elements within Cypress '.within()' blocks

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On proactively naming elements within Cypress '.within()' blocks
Anytime you use .within() in a Cypress test, you have the option to name the element variable that...
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December 26, 2024 at 8:25 AM
I Mars Volta pilled my therapist today.
December 18, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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my trembling hand aims the gun at the Turkish ice cream guy. He winks and I realize I'm pointing an ice cream at him. He is already emptying my gun- each bullet a tiny ice cream cone
December 13, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Americans like to brag about guns and trucks but nobody has the fucking BALLS in this country to just name their kid “Cheese” and see what happens.
December 14, 2024 at 5:22 AM
New blog post. An interaction between `.skip` and `after()` blocks in Cypress.

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Interaction between .skip() and .after() in Cypress
I believe this is an issue that should be treated as a Cypress bug, but it has an easy-enough...
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July 25, 2024 at 7:14 PM
New blog post: Three reasons to remove old LinkedIn connections.

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Three reasons to remove old LinkedIn connections
Background When I first joined LinkedIn, I was eager to add new connections and sent out...
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July 25, 2024 at 3:49 AM
New blog post about how I implement drag-and-drop in Cypress tests. dev.to/samelawrence...
How I implement drag-and-drop in my Cypress tests
Drag and drop interactions can be one of the more challenging things to get right in Cypress tests....
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March 26, 2024 at 4:26 AM