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Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥

being an academic means not publishing a blog post for over three years because the python script you custom wrote to convert google documents to static HTML pages broke and you haven't fixed it yet. but, you still keep writing the posts!

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@jbigham don't waste your time. Just post a link to the gdoc. Or cut-and-paste it into a thread.

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@andresmh i think you didn't read the first part about "being an academic means"

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@jbigham @andresmh ha i stopped even using css when i re-did my website, it's a lot easier to update now: https://pg.ucsd.edu/

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@pg @andresmh oh wow you’re legit senior faculty now!

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@pg @jbigham you're too young to have that kind of website 😀

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@jbigham @andresmh i know! i just need to not have updated my site in 5 years to really qualify, or put a Last updated: December 1997 tag

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@andresmh @pg no, we’re all just old now, haha

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@jbigham @andresmh i think having any website == old, the youngins just link to their notion or figma

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@pg @andresmh some day my website is going to be a webcam pointed at an overhead projector screen

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@pg @jbigham @andresmh i thought you were contractually obligated to have an under construction gif “above the fold” if you adopted that aesthetic
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@nsfmc @andresmh @jbigham ohhh if you find me a good one i'll put it on!

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