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Ashur Cabrera 🌞

@ashur@front-end.social
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Front-end developer • Old-school nerd, building things for the web since the mid-90s

652 Followers
396 Following
50 Posts
Joined November 05, 2022
Home:
https://ashur.cab/rera
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https://multiline.co/mment
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https://social.lol/@ashur
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 2mo ago
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@andybaio@xoxo.zone watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended: from an aisle seat one row back, on Andy’s phone, without audio
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 6mo ago

I had no idea how often I mindlessly press `Command-P` to invoke Firefox’s non-existent command palette, until we got a new printer 🥴

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago

🚲 Bike season is in full swing — we caught the Springwater Corridor* to Sellwood for a post-lunch birthday ride, and spotted this beauty

*A very belated first time! It was lovely!

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 4mo ago
Replying to
🌟 @platypus@glammr.us’s excellent post ”My Coworkers Don't Want AI. They Want Macros” is a perfect real-world example, through the lens of library management tooling https://ruthtillman.com/post/macros-not-ai/
My Coworkers Don't Want AI. They Want Macros | Ruth Kitchin Tillman
Ruth Kitchin Tillman

My Coworkers Don't Want AI. They Want Macros | Ruth Kitchin Tillman

An exploration of how we are using macros in our current system, contrasted with what we're getting pitched by vendors. We want to: enter consistent data, avoid typos, improve system design, add conditional logic, and generally save the user repetitive, mindless work. Right now, that seems to require macros.

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago

Best bathroom code in #PDX — `8647`

front-end.social

Front-End Social

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 6mo ago
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See @blag@typo.social’s article from 2022 about the change (subscribers-only — hint, hint! 😉) https://bl.ag/rotulos-of-cuauhtemoc-the-whitewashing-of-vernacular-signs-in-mexico-city/
The Whitewashing of Vernacular Signs in Mexico City
BLAG Magazine: Adventures in Sign Painting

The Whitewashing of Vernacular Signs in Mexico City

The food stalls in Cuauhtémoc are having their hand-painted signs erased by order of the mayor.

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 8mo ago

The not-so-new-anymore `@import` #JSDoc tag support that landed in TypeScript 5.5 makes it much, much nicer to import type definitions ✨

```
/** @import {Page, Post} from "../types.js" */

/**
* Build permalinks for pages and posts
* @param {Page | Post} entry
* @return {string}
*/
```

Great for keeping JSDoc blocks tidy, and especially nice when the same type is used multiple times throughout a single script.

https://multiline.co/mment/2024/02/importing-jsdoc-type-definitions/#typescript-5.5-or-newer

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 4mo ago
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☝🏼 I think about this question a lot these days as I watch problems — with better, faster, more accurate, cheaper, and less wasteful solutions *that already exist* — being eagerly fed into LLMs As in, “What have you tried [before settling for a plausible sounding answer (presented with the veneer of utmost confidence!) that in all likelihood is complete hogwash]?”
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago

Little Miss Muffet, of Mandalore: “This is the whey”

#starwars

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago

sure why not give write access and a sound system to the greatest red team ever invented: high schoolers

https://www.arlnow.com/2026/04/30/washington-liberty-to-use-ai-to-help-pronounce-students-names-at-graduation/

(via @jgarber@social.lol)

arlnow.com
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@xoxo This turned out beautifully, and it does a tremendous job capturing the essence of everything XOXO was over the years 💛
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@lynnandtonic@front-end.social she’s perfect 😋💛
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 7mo ago
Boosted by @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe
name a more iconic trio ❤️
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 6mo ago
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@cabel Every single time.
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 4mo ago
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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social wow, that looks really beautiful! 🤩
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 4mo ago
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@tylersticka@social.lol it’s so beautiful — and my goodness, they really captured so many elements of Portland!
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 7mo ago
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@lynnandtonic@front-end.social This is so cool!! Looks amazing, and the posters, photos, and videos you’re collecting make such a fun collection to explore 🌟
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@Meyerweb this is super, super cool 💜
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe shoot yeah, that’s a great point — I suppose a yearly Developer Account bill alone might start to outweigh the cost savings of micromanaging my windows 😂 you’re right, I might need to investigate an actual monitor that gives me a local reading (and maybe learn something new in the process, like a good computer nerd! ☺️)
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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🧑🏽‍💻 macOS devs — Juuust out of curiosity, if anyone is in the app commission game, what might a menu-bar app with this functionality run a fella? 👀
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe I haven’t successfully gotten Nova’s debugger attached to a Node process yet — hoping someone on here has some tips! 🤞🏼
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 17mo ago

anticipating a huge mess after the big race? call my newest junk removal company, Kentucky Debris

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@mattrambles@t00t.cloud Love these! 🌟
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 8mo ago
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(There are no wrong answers! ☺️)
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 6mo ago
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@blag@typo.social So cool to see Alina did a workshop with Bryan Yonki, who now lives here in Portland — I took a two-day class with him a couple years back and came away *very* humbled 😅 https://front-end.social/@ashur/112771633905756466
front-end.social

Slasher Calavera 🔪💀: "Took a brush lettering class recently, and got my…" - Front-End Social

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 7mo ago
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@cabel@social.panic.com “tear” [points to water welling up in eyes out of frustration] “tear”
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 8mo ago
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@dansinker@omfg.town Gift card purchased! Thanks for continuing to hype the goblins and for sharing the non-Amazon alternative ✌️
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 8mo ago
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@lynfox@aus.social I love love love a project rooted in learning something new, but something with personal meaning is extra special 🥰
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 8mo ago
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@amxmln@mastodon.design Very, very cool! I’m definitely taken with (and haven’t given up on the idea of) a Git-based CMS 👀 @mattrbld@indieapps.space looks super nice! 🙌
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 8mo ago
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@conlan@mastodon.social Oh, great question! Nothing special, just the built-in syntax highlighter. (To be honest, it never occurred to me to look into what might be available!)
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 10mo ago
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe happy belated birthday, Rob! ☺️
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 13mo ago
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@michelle 🫸😍🫷
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 13mo ago
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@stublag@xoxo.zone you have so many talents, it’s truly incredible! the site looks amazing, just like the work it features — rooting for you in your new adventure! 🙌
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 16mo ago
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@gairdeachas this is literally what I want (and all I want) in a smart home 🥹
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@drwhitt@mastodon.social @CARROT@mastodon.social ohhh, that’s so dang close! 😱 “Mundane Weather” as a notification category would be right up my alley 🤞☺️🤞
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 8mo ago
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@ioflow@sea.wavelight.ws I dig it! Especially using rsync, which seems to be a more common approach than I realized 💫 Thanks for sharing! ☺️
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 10mo ago
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe oh dang, I didn’t realize Jeff Williams retired — might be a rare mid-year chance to fire up the ol’ Average Apple Executive machine!
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 4mo ago
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@marcamos@front-end.social Congrats! 🎊
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@caleb@pub.calebhearth.com @davatron5000@mastodon.social first please steal this, the more the merrier! ☺️

I went to add microformats to my post template yesterday, only to find I had already sprinkled h-entry and u-in-reply-to without remembering. I missed the h-cite part, so thanks for the tip! 🙏

might need to revisit that again, and then maybe blog about this little pattern...?

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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 6mo ago
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@kayserifserif@sunny.garden this freaking bug 😭
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@andymcmillan@xoxo.zone oooh lovely! 🤩 I’ve excised just about every smart appliance we had over the years, but this is a really clever way to get exactly what I’m looking for! 🥲
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 8mo ago
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@glass@typo.social Boy howdy, do I love a good drop-a-folder to spin up a new site — I haven’t had a chance to play with Cloudflare, but Netlify has something similar and it brings back a lot of the fun parts of just using FTP 🥹 (Why did we get rid of that again…?) I was purposefully obtuse in my post (maybe too much so), but give me a holler if any details would be helpful as you start digging in!
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe Interesting!! 🤔 I’d need to think of how or where I could position it while still being connected
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 7mo ago
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@lene@front-end.social This is great! 💫
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Ashur Cabrera 🌞 @ashur@front-end.social
· 5mo ago
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@Anneke@front-end.social ohh interesting — I completely forgot about Shortcuts! this seems like it might do the trick with what I already have on hand 🎉
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