rem’s Twitter Archive

Popular Tweets

A list of popular tweets by retweets and favorites.

1. Create a file called “-rf ~” and leave it for your newly joined sysadmin to get rid of.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 753 Retweets ❤️ 299 Favorites 2014 Jan 9 Mood -1 🙁
2. Fellas, take some time to read through #WhenIWas hashtag. Don't comment or reply. Just read. ❤
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 605 Retweets ❤️ 896 Favorites 2016 Apr 19 Mood +3 🙂
3. I love the detail in the colour picker in ChromeDevTools. Contrast a11y information is 👍

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 407 Retweets ❤️ 1,076 Favorites 2017 Aug 17 Mood +5 🙂
4. ☝Just a reminder in this sea of webdev despair: Minimum requirements to build a website 👉 💻 Browser 📝 *Text* editor ⏰ Time 💪 Enthusiasm
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 352 Retweets ❤️ 608 Favorites 2016 Oct 6 Mood +4 🙂
5. Ooh, this is new in devtools. I ran a profile with JS enabled, and it put the timings directly into the source panel

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 308 Retweets ❤️ 475 Favorites 2016 Aug 3 Mood 0
6. Suspect this only helps me, but I wanted a webgui for transforming globs of text into JSON that I could feed into software. transform.isthe.link
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 245 Retweets ❤️ 1,366 Favorites 2019 Sep 1 Mood +1 🙂
7. Oh fuck yes. googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/mobile-friendly-web-pages-using-app.html /via slightlylate

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 239 Retweets ❤️ 181 Favorites 2015 Sep 2 Mood -3 🙁
8. Wait…wat. My .eu domains will be revoked… Well ain't that a kick in the nuts.

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 235 Retweets ❤️ 370 Favorites 2019 Feb 6 Mood -3 🙁
9. Company called me trying to sell SEO. I googled "seo" & told them since they weren't on the front page, they should focus on their own SEO
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 154 Retweets ❤️ 49 Favorites 2010 Feb 16 Mood 0
10. Go home JavaScript, you're drunk (again).

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 147 Retweets ❤️ 102 Favorites 2015 May 21 Mood -2 🙁
11. Dear designers: when you’re doing web mockups/design: DO NOT ALIGN BOXES. They’re never equal height in the wild. Let the content *flow*!
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 142 Retweets ❤️ 46 Favorites 2013 Jul 7 Mood +2 🙂
12. Easier dark mode development with devtools.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 131 Retweets ❤️ 552 Favorites 2019 Oct 22 Mood 0
13. We bash @IE but I think it’s worth remembering that IE introduced XHR, innerHTML and iframes. The crux of many a web app. Thank you IE.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 123 Retweets ❤️ 40 Favorites 2013 Dec 11 Mood +4 🙂
14. If you care about web dev, would you mind taking 30 seconds to fill this out goo.gl/forms/7Wh2zb2Qdj and RT & tell your colleagues. Thx! #PE
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 117 Retweets ❤️ 16 Favorites 2015 Jun 22 Mood +2 🙂
15. My particularly ranty response to "Hold off deploying HTML5 in sites" http://bit.ly/bBESW8 #getyourpitchforksready
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 117 Retweets ❤️ 51 Favorites 2010 Oct 7 Mood 0
16. Dear designers: I love you, but stop redesigning select boxes. Seriously. They're fine as they are. They need some love too. Thank you, – every developer.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 88 Retweets ❤️ 361 Favorites 2018 Sep 27 Mood +11 🙂
17. You know that console.log(<el>) in devtools lets you see the element. Did you know console.dir(<el>) lets you inspect the element DOM properties?

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 87 Retweets ❤️ 284 Favorites 2018 Jul 24 Mood 0
18. People who've never needed a safe space: *white men* People who moan when others have a safe space: *white men* Just let other people exist. Maybe, hopefully, one day we won't need safe spaces, but there's a fuck tonne of work that white men, myself included, need to do first.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 58 Retweets ❤️ 365 Favorites 2019 Jun 3 Mood -1 🙁
19. A thought keeps floating through my head on this vague discussion that "CSS is too complex" [for JavaScript developers]. If CSS threw exceptions and broke entirely, JS devs might not think it were so hard to grok. Though, silent erroring is key to resilience. /fistbumps HTML
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 57 Retweets ❤️ 317 Favorites 2019 Jan 8 Mood -4 🙁
20. Fun fact, I wrote nodemon 13 years ago today.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 55 Retweets ❤️ 1,306 Favorites 2023 Oct 3 Mood +4 🙂
21. Developers, please don't do this (and you too designers). Thanks, – Captain Complain.

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 37 Retweets ❤️ 516 Favorites 2022 Jul 20 Mood +1 🙂
22. I swear every time I hear sarah_edo talk about Vue, as myself a React developer, I'm immediately telling myself: next project is in Vue (such a good speaker)
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 18 Retweets ❤️ 327 Favorites 2019 May 3 Mood +1 🙂