congypsy.com until recently had a single validation error (XHTML 1.0 strict), and I can’t stand for that sort of thing on a site I work on. The source was the “Latest updates on Twitter” section; I was using Twitter’s pregenerated code bits with just a little modification, and their script expects the <ul> it uses to have a particular ID. The problem came in when I had two of them on a page; obviously, you can’t have two objects with the same ID on one page! But to my surprise, everything worked as expected in Firefox, so I left it alone for a while. (Fail)

So then I realized I could just download the script from the Twitter site, modify it slightly, and free myself from the horror of invalid XHTML. UnFail.

As promised, I’m weighing in on another burning issue of 10 years ago:

I recently overheard the utterance “@thomblake No one has any good reason to like \s indent. Either you like \t, or you don’t care. It’s not life-and-death, but \t is clear win” (via isaacschlueter on Twitter). I assented, as I really only started using space-indent because it’s a best practice at my workplace. But on reflection, I really do have good reasons for space-indent, based on the way that I use indentation in code.

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