Like imagine a literal physical model of a Turing machine where you can configure states and symbols by clicking buttons and then hit run to have a read head move back and forth over a paper-tape of successive divs. On this day this is posted the CSSchaton will begin
- they/she (他, sie)
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in reply to @mcc's post:
i am being nerd sniped oh no i dont have the skill level for this kind of nerd sniping right now
I have no idea what CSSchaton refers to but like to read it as a french word (chaton means "kitten" in french)
pretty sure here it's a combo of CSS and "eschaton," which refers to a hypothetical ideal world, but I think in this case is being used to refer to a game of the same name in the novel Infinite Jest, where it's a game played on a tennis court where the players represent countries, the court is a world map, and tennis balls are bombs; the game is supposed to just be about lobbing tennis balls at strategically important parts of the map, but it falls apart because the line between what the map is and what it represents becomes blurred. the music video for the song "Calamity Song" by the Decemberists is based on that portion of the novel.
tragically all the Really Good Stuff is either in wacky selectors, wacky @-blocks, or variables, and we can't use any of them :(
i wish we had 1 more primitive, somehow. like give us a single class name that makes something draggable with built-in javascript