Large Heydon Collider
@heydonworks.com
Doing things with web technologies and writing/talking about it. Author of Inclusive Components (https://book.inclusive-components.design/) and producer of Webbed Briefs (https://briefs.video/). Agender. (Avatar by Cole Henley)
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September 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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He shot himself. He was an extremist antisemite.
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
He shot himself. He was an extremist antisemite.
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They're literally called Blue.
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
They're literally called Blue.
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I'm trying to find out the employer of the person who wrote the "Hitler has only got one ball, the other, is in the Albert Hall" song so that I can demand that they be fired. It's a disgrace! Something something patriot something.
September 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'm trying to find out the employer of the person who wrote the "Hitler has only got one ball, the other, is in the Albert Hall" song so that I can demand that they be fired. It's a disgrace! Something something patriot something.
Thanks, Stu. Search shows they've ripped off 4 books by me, so added all those to the contact info. 🤞
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Thanks, Stu. Search shows they've ripped off 4 books by me, so added all those to the contact info. 🤞
Drove around the valleys of Iceland this year and was spectacular. Surprisingly hot; actually got a burned arm while driving. Less spectactular: accidentally taking a hire car nearly into a ravine.
September 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Drove around the valleys of Iceland this year and was spectacular. Surprisingly hot; actually got a burned arm while driving. Less spectactular: accidentally taking a hire car nearly into a ravine.
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You forgot the part where the average full-stack developer is deeply resentful that he got assigned to do front end that week.
August 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
You forgot the part where the average full-stack developer is deeply resentful that he got assigned to do front end that week.
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Hiring only full stack developers is a solution for a management problem (staffing flexibility) but at the cost of product team efficiency and user experience.
August 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hiring only full stack developers is a solution for a management problem (staffing flexibility) but at the cost of product team efficiency and user experience.
Very common problem in my experience, as a consultant.
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Very common problem in my experience, as a consultant.
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Developer with arms long enough to jam their fingers into cracks in the lower dam AND the upper dam.
August 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Developer with arms long enough to jam their fingers into cracks in the lower dam AND the upper dam.
(there are other technologies besides JavaScript)
August 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
(there are other technologies besides JavaScript)
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No human should have the power to put JavaScript in one place, let alone two.
August 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
No human should have the power to put JavaScript in one place, let alone two.
Well... no. Because nobody is asking front-end developers to do back-end work. The back-end is usurping the front-end, not the other way around.
August 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Well... no. Because nobody is asking front-end developers to do back-end work. The back-end is usurping the front-end, not the other way around.