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Dave Rupert
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Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.
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The A11y Project is at risk of going over our 1TB bandwidth limit on @netlify.com and being automatically charged $55/100gb in bonus bandwidth to keep it online.

I think we all know the cause and it's depressing. I've asked Netlify to just let the site go down when the limit is hit.
A bandwidth usage chart going back to july starting at 1 gb for July, then a sudden hill approaching 18gb/day in August then going back down to 1 to 3 gb/day until late september which has steep sudden increase to 55gb/day
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The new Austin logo should have just been a map of the freeways that surround the city.
A google map of the city of Austin where the freeways that surround the city (Mopac, 71, and 183) are drawn over in red forming an "A" shape.
September 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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👋 Good morning. Made some updates to my `` component on my "The Weave" post to provide better fallbacks for browsers that don't support `attr()` functions and `anchor()`. Attached are screenshots of Edge and Firefox.

Here's the post again: daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
A transcript broken up into list-items with a metro map-style git-graph visualization connecting all the list-items with branches that fork and merge as the topics change. A transcript broken up into list-items with a single-track metro map-style border that indents and changes color as the topic changes.
August 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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📝 Git diagramming "The Weave" - We all know that Trump has "the best words", so I chased a wild hare and tried my hand at visualizing a short Trump speech using git-graphs.

daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...
A transcript of a short Trump speech with a git graph diagram of connected "metro map" style lines where commits are represented by "stops" on the train line. branching paths are represented by news lines in different colors.
August 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I love it when unlicensed IP seeps out of the image generator.
An off-brand ET holding a vape.
August 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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🌱 lol, I tie-dyed my website.

little bit of pain to get it to work with my color hue-rotator and light/dark mode... but i made it work.
My website with a tie-dyed background based on the accent color. the background is a splotchy purple with some green tones.
July 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Speed built a doll bed this afternoon. For whatever reason that was the big priority today 😆
A 7”x4”x3” doll bed made of wood. Daughter is cutting a piece of fabric in the background as a blanket.
July 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A sea wolf chillin on a log pondering the ocean behind him
July 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Was filling out a work form on a portal and –I don't mean to distrub anyone too much (especially over the weekend)– but the 8 and the 3 were upside down.
A text input labelled "Amount" with "$80.32" written inside, but the eight has a larger circle on the top than the bottom and the three character has a larger curve on the top as well. Subtle but disorienting.
June 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Dear Lort, what hath i wrought into this world. i am beocme death, destroyer of typography.
May 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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who wore it better
The RGM-79 GM mech robot from the animated series gundam
May 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Syd Mead's Turn-A Gundam design is one of my favorites.
A very geometic mech design with curved legs a triangular gun and an almond shaped shied.
March 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I hacked Bluesky's codebase and will now EXPOSE their algorithm.
it's a javascript function that says function algorithmicFeed() { return getjerrysPosts() + getAllOtherPosts() }
March 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I'm trying but I keep getting this message.
A modal that says Are you sure? this post is a banger. would be a shame if the world had to miss out on it. and two call to actions. a primary "nah, jerry's right" button in red. and a "never give up" cancel button.
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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i got a new eyboard and i'm really excited about it. it's alled the glove 80 and it's gong t o take some getting used to but i love these weird ergonomic eyboards c
picture of my new split ergo keyboard on my desk with my trackpack, analog todo system, and coffee cup
December 2, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Beep beep
Me standing next to my blueish gray jeep and an American flag in the background lol
December 1, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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TIL that CSS has eggs.
Screenshot of a file folder named css-egg-1 and contains a folder of images and a file named Overview.bs
November 26, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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A simple lil’ card-based solitaire game.
A two-bit style game. At the top is a scoreboard of hears, shovels, and diamond. Below that is a big “Escape” button, and below that is a heading with the text level 8 and a grid of 8 cards flipped over. Beneath the cards is a shop where you can purchase 2x power ups for diamond and hearts or a one-half damage reduction for a shovel.
November 23, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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I'm at the corporate mothership this week. My wonderful coworkers made printed out my avatar and pinned it in the conference room so I'm present in every meeting.
My default avatar thumbtacked up on a wall with a speech bubble that says "I'm here with opinions"
November 12, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Every once in a while a graph of server logs will map to your general anxiety levels.
A graph of server logs that starts with nothing then on May 10th jumps to 150K messages every 40 minutes and is now only at 66K messages every 40 minutes
May 17, 2023 at 4:51 PM