October 9th, 2016

It takes a special kind of binary brain to misinterpret a message like “use JavaScript well” as “don’t use JavaScript.”

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Nolan Lawson

Yeah these subtleties quickly get lost on Twitter. I should just write the damned blog post already. :)

Nolan Lawson

Ah, okay! :) Hard to tell; gotten a looooot of subtweets lately, lol.

pete_otaqui

I’m not so sure. Lots of people need some kind of dogma / all-pervading mission. Anything nuanced then seen as heresy.

Matthijs Brouwer

indeed, “well” is relative and “don’t” is absolute. Seriously wondering if folks misinterpreting also prefer pixels over ems.

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