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Angelos Chaidas
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Dad. Gamer. (Solo) board gamer. (Lots of) Sci-fi and fantasy books. (Thoroughly enjoys) Working with web technologies since 1998. (Loves) JavaScript, React, HTML and CSS.
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sarasmiles-5280.bsky.social
They're really having fun with it on tiktok.
November 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
chaidas.gr
Being given the change to rewrite legacy smelly code (which I wrote 8 years ago) to the newest / latest standards with no (strict) time pressure is SUCH a dopamine hit 💪🤩
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
chaidas.gr
Poignant and precise. Longform comics by @theoatmeal.bsky.social are always amazing but this one really hit the spot for me.

Styrofoam indeed!!! theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
chaidas.gr
Tchaikovsky’s work is a guilt-free instabuy-and-don’t-even-think-about-it thing for me.
aptshadow.bsky.social Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · Oct 4
One of my own narrations, If people want to give it a try.
uitlander.co.uk Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · Oct 4
The audiobook of @aptshadow.bsky.social's Spiderlight is current on sale at Audible.

www.audible.co.uk/pd/Spiderlig...
October 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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robin-j-brooks.bsky.social
There's an unhealthy silence in the EU on the role that Greek ship owners played in helping Putin build his shadow fleet and the flood of transshipments going to Russia from all across the EU. I'm deeply grateful to @marcbrost.bsky.social at Germany's FOCUS Magazin for letting me write about this...
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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csswizardry.com
🤯 I have been a developer for 17 years. I only learned this YESTERDAY.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=81JU...
Better DevTools Workflows With //# sourceURL
YouTube video by Harry Roberts
www.youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading
A happy book says: I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you! A smiling drink says: And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read! A gleeful phone adds: Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!! Hours later... The drink and book lie untouched. The phone is out of view but a bubble reads: Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll The book says “I hate that guy.”
August 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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insidestory.gr
Οι απάτες με δόλωμα ένα επώνυμο και ευρέως αναγνωρίσιμο πρόσωπο, δεν είναι καινούριες. Έχουν κάνει την εμφάνιση τους και στη χώρα μας, εδώ και χρόνια. Αυτή τη φορά χτύπησαν την πόρτα του @telloglou2024.bsky.social κ του #insidestory_gr

Της @etriantafillou.bsky.social
insidestory.gr/article/o-ta...
O Τάσος Τέλλογλου δεν έχει κάποιο φοβερό μυστικό που θέλει να μοιραστεί μαζί μας
Οι απάτες με δόλωμα ένα επώνυμο και ευρέως αναγνωρίσιμο πρόσωπο, που προτρέπουν τον κόσμο να επενδύσει τα χρήματά του κάπου, δεν είναι καινούριες. Έχουν κάνει την εμφάνιση τους και στη χώρα μας, εδώ κ...
insidestory.gr
August 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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theatlantic.com
In Sudan, the post-American world has already arrived, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social reports. A brutal civil war has left a vacuum—and no international organizations, no diplomats, and certainly no Americans are coming to fill it.
This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like
In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.
bit.ly
August 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Αφιερωμένο στο Ελληνικό Μπαμιο-Bluesky-Verse: τοπική ποικιλία Πάρου, 10 πόντους αηδία…

(Obligatory cc @jimandrakakis.net για προώθηση στους λοιπούς ιδιαίτερους ανθρώπους που έχουν την ικανότητα να το τρώνε αυτό)
Photo of the most disgusting legume in Greek cuisine: Greek Okra, Paros variety.
July 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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simonwillison.net
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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stevemetz.bsky.social
As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.
May 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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vatniksoup.bsky.social
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a Cypriot politician and social media personality, Fidias Panayiotou. He’s best known for his clickbait YouTube stunts and for voting against aid to Ukraine and the return of abducted Ukrainian children from Russia.

1/20
May 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
chaidas.gr
As someone whose surname is "Χάϊδας", I wish every person working with the web would read these slides by @stephaniewalter.bsky.social

stephaniewalter.design/blog/hello-m...
Hello my name is St�phanie - a talk on "special characters", inclusive design and user experience
Encoding, database decisions about formats and characters support influence the user experience for people with names that contain special characters, on the web and beyond.
stephaniewalter.design
May 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
chaidas.gr
Oh yes.

As a 2nd year uni student (back in 1997) I did go “whooa!” when my “Professor of Computer Based Training” uttered the phrase about Java applets 😊
May 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
chaidas.gr
Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LoTR)

(Yes, seriously. Yes I know it's Waterworld. Yes I do like it that much. Yes, I am serious I'm not taking the piss, honestly... No I cannot explain it leave me alone).
two people are standing on a boat in the ocean .
ALT: two people are standing on a boat in the ocean .
media.tenor.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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frontenddogma.com
Tailwind’s “@ apply” Feature Is Better Than It Sounds, by @zellwk.bsky.social (@csstricks@mastodon.social):

https://css-tricks.com/tailwinds-apply-feature-is-better-than-it-sounds/

#tailwind #sass #mixins #comparisons
Tailwind’s “@ apply” Feature Is Better Than It Sounds
css-tricks.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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jeva.bsky.social
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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greecejs.bsky.social
🎉 @kentcdodds.com is joining us on Apr 9 at ImpactHub
📷He’ll talk about the future of user interaction, live-code a “Jarvis-like” assistant, and join us for a live AMA hosted by
@chaidas.gr
🍻 As always BeerJS & live stream!
Sponsored by: @YodeckSignage
More details: 👉https://2ly.link/261y4
April 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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tokyosexwhale.bsky.social
Monday
March 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
A woman sits in a chair holding her phone. She looks distraught and is saying "Don't leave! I can change!". Her book (with arms legs and an indignant face, holding a small suitcase) says "You had your chance, Carol! I'm going to sit on the front wall and wait for a more appreciative reader to come along."
March 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
This is performative nonsense of “hardcore” tech nincompoops. They could put people in nearby hotels or Airbnbs for a lot less. It’s all cosplaying intense workaholism for the cheap seats and all for PR. Sleeping bags at work is simply dumb www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
IKEA beds? Dressers? Inside the ‘exceedingly odd’ DOGE office setup
Details of the arrangements at GSA offer a window into the lifestyle of DOGE workers.
www.politico.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
I stand with Ukraine

Proud to live in a country (the Netherlands) that unconditionally supports Ukraine.

Europe needs to re-arm, to support Ukraine and defend itself and democracy.

Ukraine is the one defending Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine should be part of the EU.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
March 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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warp.dev
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February 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM