Dave Rupert

Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.

These toots will self-destruct after three months.

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-20

@zachleat I love the list of active and decomissioned tools ❤️

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-20

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules 6-3 that I can't shoot myself in my own dick because I said "it's an emergency"

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-20

@marcel A brush! Beautiful. Thank you for putting the time into it. A highlight of my day and I love the project.

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-20

@marcel how do you color these? are you using those watercolor markers?

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-19

LinkedIn: Social Media for Business
FB: Non-Biz LinkedIn
Twitter: Nazi LinkedIn
TikTok: Dopamine Addict LinkedIn
Instagram: LinkedIn for Ads
Bsky: Weirdo LinkedIn

Mastodon: Great Social Media
RSS: Best Social Media

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-19

@zachleat @sstephenson HTML... invents `<img>`, `<button>`, and `<input>`, gets told it's just for documents. smdh.

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-19

@sstephenson @zachleat This is perfect, but I wanted to riff....

A big square gray button with big bevel borders that says "HTML" in a blue underlined hyperlink style and the text Just for Documents in purple visited link style below.
Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-17

@khalidabuhakmeh @zachleat kawaii => cute
kowai => frightening

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-17
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Richard MacManusricmac
2026-02-17

A personal update, which I just posted to LinkedIn but I'd like to note here too. After nearly six years at The New Stack, my role has come to an end as part of a broader round of redundancies. I’m now exploring ideas at the intersection of AI and web systems, particularly how AI is reshaping the architecture and future of the open web (including, of course, the fediverse). I welcome thoughtful conversations.

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-17

@angelikatyborska @Jbasoo @db In all seriousness, I am –like many others– under a work mandate to use AI. In my role I get to see some really neat ideas come to life but I also see plenty of trash. I see empowerment, but also unconsidered use. It's a lot of cognitive work to maintain intellectual honesty when my family's well-being depends on me going full "AI native" booster... I expect my grand thesis on AI will be complete right around the time the bubble burts.

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-17

@angelikatyborska @Jbasoo @db 😬😬😬 whew, the good news here is that this is all covered under my Terms of Service. daverupert.com/tos

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-16

@mattwilcox @ppk Two howlers enter, one mom picks up the phone.

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-16

@mia Are you tellin' me a nearly 30 year old markup language slowly evolved over time? That's craaaaaaaaaazy.

What's next? A Constitution that can be amended? Pssssssssssh.

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-16

Not many young people know this but every 3 months or so your computer mouse would lay an egg which you put in warm water to hatch a new mouse.

mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116

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Marcelmarcel
2026-02-16

I drew a comic about self-efficacy and building things. It might also be about AI.

It's too many pictures for this post, though.

All panels here: instagram.com/p/DU071Xrjdu5/?i

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-16

@benbrown GATATATATATATAK GATATATATATATAK

Dave Rupert boosted:
2026-02-16

hi i'm looking for someone to build a website! this is a paid project.

this is for a school for girls in rural Uttar Pradesh. the site's primary function is to bring in donations (from a primarily American audience) to cover the costs of housing and tuition. it needs to look very professional. it won't need to have anything dynamic aside from donation payment processing.

if you are interested *and* have examples of past website work, especially for nonprofits, please reach out

Dave Rupertdavatron5000
2026-02-15

@snugug I’ll have to check it out. Would love to read about your experience. Can’t say I love skills (per the post), but they do seem like the best tool available right now to nudge the output towards something I want.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst