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Sophie Koonin
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
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This website is for humans
I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen
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Building a website like it's 1999
I'm on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s. So I've recreated some of that old web magic, in modern HTML, CSS and JS.
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Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.
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Stop generating, start thinking
Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element
A very frustrating brownie recipe illustrates why a semantic element may actally NOT be the right tool for the job.