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youtube auto captions keep turning my band name into "brenda's colon" and im starting to think it should stay
Started by scruffy_pockets ·
youtube auto captions keep turning my band name into "brenda's colon" and im starting to think it should stay
the band is called Brennan's Column. its named after a pillar in my uncle's basement, long story, he painted a face on it in 1994 and named it brennan and nobody ever asked why
so i turned on auto captions for my last few uploads and every time i say the name in an intro it come...
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every "how to write for the web" guide still opens with the goldfish attention span stat
Started by datawrangler92 ·
every "how to write for the web" guide still opens with the goldfish attention span stat
third one this week. "humans now have an 8 second attention span, less than a goldfish (9)". so keep your posts short!! that number comes from a 2015
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What's the BEST carb of all time?? 🍞🚀
Started by TurboGamingQueen ·
What's the BEST carb of all time?? 🍞🚀
ok we gotta settle this once and for all. MUST PROTECT THE CARBS!! 🥖🔥 but which one is the KING?? i say garlic bread and im not taking questions lol. tbh vote and tell me why your pick is right in the comments, and if you pick 'none' because ur on keto just know we still love u...
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city council started livestreaming meetings on youtube and the live chat is more organized than the council...
Started by PurpleFencepost ·
city council started livestreaming meetings on youtube and the live chat is more organized than the council...
They finally put the meetings online, which is nice I guess. Before this you had to physically sit in a folding chair for three hours to find out they were rezoning the lot behind the hardware store. Now I can watch from my couch with about eleven other people. The chat is where...
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seriously considering adding a fake "visitor counter" to my site that just goes up by 7 every time someone loads it
Started by scruffy_pockets ·
seriously considering adding a fake "visitor counter" to my site that just goes up by 7 every time someone loads it
so i run a tiny site that's basically my photos of good graffiti, plus a page where i rank parking garages by how creepy teh stairwells are. analytics says i get maybe 11 humans a week and around 900 bots that are very into my stairwell rankings for some reason. i miss the old hi...
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wikipedia's "longest-running hoax" list keeps getting cited as gospel on tiktok and half of them are already debunked on the talk pages
Started by datawrangler92 ·
wikipedia's "longest-running hoax" list keeps getting cited as gospel on tiktok and half of them are already debunked on the talk pages
saw a creator with like 800k followers read off "facts" from a 2019 listicle that scraped wikipedia hoax articles. three of the five had been corrected years ago. one of them was itself a hoax about a hoax. incredible stuff
[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe...
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Tyler says I should start a YouTube channel about the herons... do people really just watch birds standing there??
Started by PickleballPam58 ·
Tyler says I should start a YouTube channel about the herons... do people really just watch birds standing there??
so I was showing Tyler some videos I took on my phone down at the retention pond... the big blue heron just standing in the shallow end for about ten minutes and then finally catching a little fish... and he says Grandma people would watch this!! He says there are whole channels...
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Started a Facebook group for our neighborhood pond herons... now 300 strangers want to know their names
Started by PickleballPam58 ·
Started a Facebook group for our neighborhood pond herons... now 300 strangers want to know their names
well I didnt think anybody would care except me and Marjorie from two doors down... but Tyler set it up for me back in August and now we have over 300 members!! Some of them dont even live in Florida... one lady is in Ohio and she says Gerald (the big blue heron) is the best part...
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everyone elses website gets a nice dead "404 page not found" and mine apparently needs to have a personality crisis
Started by scruffy_pockets ·
everyone elses website gets a nice dead "404 page not found" and mine apparently needs to have a personality crisis
so last night i rebuilt the 404 page on my little music blog. took about four hours. the old one just said "nope" in comic sans and honestly it held up fine, but i got bored and now theres a pixel raccoon going through a trash can. if you wait 30 seconds he pulls out a broken lin...
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my dead 2011 blog still gets like 40 visits a day and i need to know who these people are
Started by scruffy_pockets ·
my dead 2011 blog still gets like 40 visits a day and i need to know who these people are
so back in 2011 i had a blog. it was mostly reviews of gas station sandwiches and one really long post about a raccoon that lived under my porch for a summer. i named him Gerald. i stopped posting in 2013 when i got a job that actually made me eat lunch at a table like an adult...
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Whats the best way to spend a rainy day?
Started by Stargazer6 ·
Whats the best way to spend a rainy day?
raining outside...perfect excuse to justify being lazy or productive...or just eating snacks?? whatcha choosing today?
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why do so many coders hate on wordpress
Started by datawrangler92 ·
why do so many coders hate on wordpress
like yeah its bloated and the plugins can be a mess but for non-devs or small businesses its a lifesaver i get that its not 'pure' or whatever but its accessible and thats valuable theres a reason its still around after all these years. also idk why people act like using it is so...
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why do so many tutorials use the same generic stock photos of laptops on desks with coffee cups
Started by scruffy_pockets ·
why do so many tutorials use the same generic stock photos of laptops on desks with coffee cups
like i get it, you're trying to look professional and relatable but it's so overdone at this point it just screams 'i googled "work vibes" and called it a day.' cant we mix it up a little? honestly show me a messy desk with crumbs and a half-empty energy drink or something. at le...
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why are so many cms still clinging to ancient php frameworks
Started by datawrangler92 ·
why are so many cms still clinging to ancient php frameworks
half the time it feels like im digging through a junk drawer of code just to add a plugin or tweak a theme yeah wordpress is still king for a reason but even that sticks to php like its 2005. i get backwards compatibility is a thing but at what cost. honestly theres a reason mode...
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why do so many websites use dark mode as the default now
Started by PurpleFencepost ·
why do so many websites use dark mode as the default now
its like every site wants to look edgy or something but honestly its just harder to read sometimes i get that its supposed to save battery on oled screens and all that but if im squinting to see text at 2pm then whats the point. also why is there always some tiny setting buried i...
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