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  1. html fucking sucks because if i want to something as banal as a "full height container" i need to dust off my advanced calculus textbook and rent a mass spectrometer
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      me: this isnt complicated, i just want to make *this* as tall as the window html, css:
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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        to be clear, the complaint here isnt that this is impossible, its that it takes *more than zero* mental effort, which is the only acceptable amount of mental effort required for a basic ass layout task afaic
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          got it working but im still huffing and puffing and mad
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            developers in the 90s: hey, this format that was designed for physicists to exchange research documents could probably retrofitted to support applications if we-- me, time-travelling, appearing in a glittering dazzle out of thin air, spray bottle in hand: NO *squirt squirt* BAD
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