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It's my birthday 🎉

It's my birthday, so the site is throwing balloons — and there's a shortcut if you don't want to wait a year to see them.

  • Engineering

Today I turn one year older, so naturally the only sane response was to ship myself a present: balloons. 🎈 They float up from the bottom of the screen, wobble a bit like they've had a drink, and then disappear — much like birthdays themselves.

They only show up on my actual birthday, so for the other 364 days a year the site is a perfectly normal, balloon-free zone. A very seasonal feature with a very short season.

See for yourself.

Here's a quick demo: