@derekerb.com
💾 Programmer/developer 45+ yrs 👾 Full-Stack developer since the beginning of the web. 🤓 Geek, American in 🇫🇷 for 40+ yrs, Father, Cancer Survivor, Lover of wine🍷🍾, jazz 🎷& life 📚 Host of both of the Silent Book Clubs in Paris https://derekerb.com
Our sessions are 100% online for the moment and we have people joining in from all over the world. You are more than welcome.
The people signed up for the sessions are not confirmed and we rarely get even half that actually participate.
Happy New Year! 🥳
Bluesky cropped the link. Sorry.
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Thank you for clicking 😊 📚
And just when you get the hang of it you become a "senior" 😜
It was only a matter of time 😉 and that is one lucky bird!
Bluesky so desperately needs an edit function !
#BlueSky
This is entirely for me. It's both a celebration and a declaration.
20 years ago today I was diagnosed with tonsil cancer.
Surgeries, radiation therapy and chemotherapy and I am still here.
Certain treatment side effects are forever.
But. Again. I still hear.
Fuck Cancer!
#cancer #fuckcancer
20 years ago today!
Stage 3 tonsil cancer
Cunnilingus with an infected partner (apologies for TMI)
Vaccine could have prevented the cancer which handicapped me for life.
Treatment side effects: no saliva, damaged throat arteries, lung problems due to swallowing problems, ...,
Vaccines save lives!
As someone who loves ebooks, and for whom 90% of their reading is done digitally, this just had to be shared.
It's from 11 years ago and yet it is still oh so pertinent.
Enjoy the bookbook 😀
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#booksky #books #reading
I've been living in France for 40 years. At the beginning my mom was living in California. We would have conversations lasted less than 3 minutes and I would call after 22:30 at night.
Now? We have real-time video calls for as long as we want included in our Internet subscriptions.
Science-fiction!
Meet our newest book, “Accessible UX Research” — now available for pre-order. Michele A. Williams takes us for a deep dive into the real world of UX research, with a roadmap for including users with different abilities and needs.
↬ Get your copy: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...
Frightening.
But also very possible and possibly even probable.
😱
❤️
Congrats! 💕
I just realised that my birthday is the same as @iamclarkgregg.bsky.social and he is only 1 year ahead of me. One of us has amazing genes. The other one lives in Paris 🇫🇷
Thanks for the reply!
Can't wait to see everyone again.
🤗
Must always be followed by Too Drunk to F*ck. 😜
@css.cafe I have just bought my tickets (finally) for CSS Day 2025 and the workshop.
Are there any plans for CSS Cafe to do anything before or after the conference?
I want to block my hotel and travel to make sure I will attend.
Split - I need that "at a glance" feeling of clear separation
A world map illustrating the true size of countries. The United States, outlined in orange, is overlaid on Europe, showing its comparable size across multiple countries. France, outlined in pink, appears much smaller and is placed over the southeastern U.S. The map highlights distortions in the Mercator projection.
One of the most common criticisms of the Mercator map is that it exaggerates the size of countries nearer the poles while downplaying the size of those near the equator.
With this tool, you can play around and compare the actual size of countries: www.thetruesize.com/
I didn't know where to start on this thread. I've chosen here.
You meant to say "within the EU most countries forbid pharmaceutical advertising, as well as legal services advertising. But Poland, on the other hand, exceptionally does not"
French resident here...
I'd be glad to help 😃
Payment by credit card from France
ENGLISH SILENT BOOK CLUB PARIS
The summary of our 50th session, from 20th January 2025, is now available
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#silentbookclubparis #silentbookclub #bookclubs #instabooks #bookstagram #books #reading #booktok #booksky
And people in the audience applauded?
They tried exactly this about 90 years ago. They called it "Deutschland über alles".
We've been here before.
It didn't end well for the "purists"
ENGLISH SILENT BOOK CLUB PARIS
The summary of our 49th session, from 23rd December 2024, is now available
mailchi.mp/a07b027d76ab...
#silentbookclubparis
#silentbookclub
#bookclubs
#instabooks
#bookstagram
#books
#reading
#booktok
#booksky
ENGLISH SILENT BOOK CLUB PARIS
The summary of our 48th session, from 9th December 2024, is now available
mailchi.mp/b30519d27220...
#silentbookclubparis #silentbookclub #bookclubs #instabooks #bookstagram #books #reading #booktok #booksky
Le résumé de notre 48ème séance du 16 décembre 2024
Le Club de lecture silencieuse de Paris
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#clubsdelecturesilencieuse #clubsdelecture #lecture #livres #bookclubs #silentbookclubparis #clubdelecturesilienceuseparis #bookstagram #booktok
Le résumé de notre 47ème séance du 2 décembre 2024
Club de lecture silencieuse Paris
mailchi.mp/2ca49fdf5056...
#booksky
#livressky
#clubsdelecturesilencieuse
#clubsdelecture
#lecture
#livres
#bookclubs
#silentbookclubparis
#clubdelecturesilienceuseparis
#bookstagram
#booktok
Posting this story about how Ann Telnaes got censored not least bc it'll disseminate the image Jeff Bezos censored.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
The summary of the 45th session of The English Silent Book Club Paris, from 25th November 2024, is now available
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#silentbookclubparis #silentbookclub #bookclubs #instabooks #bookstagram #books #reading #booktok #booksky
Le club de lecture silencieuse Paris
Prochaine séance le 16 décembre, 2024 19:00 - 21:00
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