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2024-09-03 11:09:52

What are your favorite (free) monospace fonts?

2024-04-27 09:54:49

Me, a *front-end developer*: “This design is inaccessible, we need to do [x] to fix it. Users will thank us.”
Them: “We'll need to check with the design department.”
Me: “Look at me. I am the designer now.”

2024-04-20 10:32:55

That feeling when you wake up and realise how much you have to do yesterday

2024-04-08 11:13:53

📝 Testing HTML With Modern CSS https://heydonworks.com/article/testing-html-with-modern-css/
(The last time I addressed this topic was circa 2016. It's amazing what you can write selectors for these days. Plus we have custom properties!)

2024-04-08 07:44:26

"Rosin listened to the screen reader, a tool to help him go through an online list of upcoming events at the club. However, he was confused when the audio described a toilet as it went through the schedule. He discovered later that the image of bullet points used for the list had prompted the mistake.
He told the club, which had installed AI-driven software on its website that automatically creates image descriptions for screen readers, about the slip."
https://archive.is/MRhll

2024-04-03 19:30:08

I would like to join @npub13ld…0vrr in willing the term "web designer" back into existence. Personally, I hate how "frontend developer" became a thing and suddenly someone else was responsible for design. "You can code? You're a developer, put the typography and the colors down!" People can do more than one thing sometimes. Not always.

2024-03-18 13:03:30

Gonna stick this on 90% of my Github... https://mastodon.social/@maelle/112116447689198295

2023-12-31 03:18:19

If you are unhappy with using Firefox OR Chrome, there is a perfectly also-problematic-as-hell browser owned by a homophobe, crypto-twat, and Covid denier right there waiting. You're welcome.

2023-12-22 23:36:05

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@npub1xed…yg9w Also, there should be some distinction between no dependency web components and dependency web components.
Using Lit? We are not the same!

2023-10-07 10:23:05

Announcements about AI breakthroughs are weird. It's like "We just put a bigger bomb under your car and you're going to love it"

2023-09-22 23:48:36

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@npub1xed…yg9w Glad things are looking up, old bean!

2023-08-08 18:17:19

Anyone know of a good VPN for use in mainland China?