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Chris Ferdinandi is a web developer with ADHD, helping people build the web better.
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Signal your virtues
Virtual signalling is often used as an insult, but it’s good to signal your virtues, actually. A few months back, I read a story on Bluesky from a hispanic woman who’s immigrant mother got lost in the city. Her phone ran of battery, she didn’t speak much English, and she had no…
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The SpeechRecognition API
There’s an older deaf gentleman in my town who’s very friendly, and likes to communicate with rudimentary hand gestures, but I have a hard time understand what he’s trying to say. I’d love to learn American Sign Language (ASL) at some point (shoutout King Ron), but until then, I…
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Documentation-Driven Development
Last week, I needed to make some pretty major updates to a web component in a design system I use for clients. I’m a big fan of TDD, but I wasn’t mentally in a place to write my tests first. I decided the easiest thing to do was document how the new component would work… before…
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Life on Foot
We recently moved from a rural suburb in Massachusetts to a small coastal village in Rhode Island. It’s been transformative, and I wish I’d done it sooner! Trickle-Down Effects Unlike a city, a village has homes with yards. Unlike a suburb, a village has businesses and parks…
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The Village
About 14 years ago, we moved out into the rural suburbs. I loved the quiet, the abundant wildlife, and our proximity to farms. I didn’t realize just how often doing anything at all would require a car. The Sprawl Absolutely nothing was walkable. We lived at the very top of a…
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We live in a world where...
I saw this on Mastodon today (saved the image, lost the source), and it just brought me so much joy! Did you know that we live in a world where octopuses dream, otters have a favorite shell that they carry with them all their lives, cows have best friends, and bees have…
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No human is illegal
I just ordered a bunch of leftist patches to put on my backpack, because virtue signaling is good, actually. One patch I kept seeing over and over again is… No human is illegal on stolen land. I get it. It’s supposed to point out the hypocrisy of complaining about illegal…