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Nov 9, 2021 11 tweets 5 min read
You’ve never heard of Dan or Bob.

But you should have.

They built a company, VisiCalc, that led to Apple first big success and changed computers forever.

Here’s their story. The year is 1976

And Dan Bricklin is walking into class at Harvard Business School

He sees a dozen chalkboards connected by one massive matrix of rows and columns. With a calculator, you could change one cell and ripple thru all the connected cells.

This made Dan think:
Nov 9, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Five CSS shortcuts

1/ List properties, made simpler: 2/ The background property, made easier:
Sep 29, 2021 23 tweets 17 min read
THREAD: Every website builder in history: Oct 29, 1991

@timberners_lee publishes a document outlining the first 18 HTML tags.

Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. The godfather.
Sep 29, 2021 11 tweets 5 min read
Big congrats to @Nutlope who joined @vercel as a Dev Advocate today!

He was raised in Africa, built a 6-figure remote business (while in high school!) and he's only 23.

We should celebrate amazing developers like him more.

Here's his story.

Thread.🧵 Back in 2013, Hassan was playing Team Fortress 2.

He noticed gamers spending $100s on virtual cosmetics.

Wanting his character to look fly, he started trading $.05 skins for $.10 skins (with folks who had duplicates of them).

After a few months, he had a few hundred $$.