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mattwilcox

@mattwilcox@mstdn.social

Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. I build websites the "traditional" way.

I’ve been building websites for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go.

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cferdinandi, to random
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Should I make coding videos on YouTube?

mattwilcox,
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@christian @cferdinandi I would say, if the video content types are stuff like “how to xyz” - please timestamp and also show a to the point working version of the finished thing first, and then go into detail about the why of the code after.

What kills me with so many tech tutorial videos is how horrifically slow they are to get to the point, or to find the one bit you want to review having seen it before.

I’d watch, but I’m dubious on most code videos, tbh.

mattwilcox,
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@cferdinandi Good questions to ask.

It's not that I don't like both short and long video's too. On all manner of topics. I'll watch 2min things and I'll watch 4hr things (Hi, Jenny Nicholson) - but when it comes to teaching something I want to do my patience rapidly runs out.

These were the last "good tutorial" ones I saw, but even those were a bit frustraiting later on.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsz00TDipIffreIaUNk64KxTIkQaGguqn

@christian

mattwilcox,
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@cferdinandi I think, essentially, video is good for an introduciton and high level overview of the whats and whys. But much less good for getting at details. @christian

sarajw, to random
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Current favourite game, writing silly messages to someone during remote meetings and trying to break their poker face

mattwilcox,
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@sarajw This game is always the most fun game

cferdinandi, to random
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Lasted 3 hours

https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi/112554405432756211

mattwilcox,
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@cferdinandi Heh, been using it for hte last few months (mostly) happily. What's not to your liking?

mattwilcox, to random
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Hayfever has come for me this week, and with a vengence.

Stop jizzing in the air you bastard plants. I want to breath, and not sneeze out a lung or scratch my eyes out.

mattwilcox, to random
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Good. The world needs a revolution of compassionate liberal leadership.

Those leaders though also need to remember that their position needs actively defending and the right actively suppressing. “The only thing a tolerant world can not tolerate is intolerance”. It’s old and true. You have to fight for liberal power. It does not survive by its principles alone. Just as tolerance does not survive if you try to tolerate the intolerant.

Enforce a social contract. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112552974467448755

heydon, to random
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We were going to use a sample of a hellfire preacher in one of our songs but then thought twice about copyright issues. Then I was volunteered to recreate the sermon myself. Here's a clip. "Enjoy".

mattwilcox,
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@Richr choooooooooOOOOONNN! @heydon

mattwilcox, to random
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Just a tip to UI designers; the tab that has higher contrast is the one in the foreground.

So don't design an "active tab" that has less contrast than the "inacitve tab". It's especially obviously wrong when there are only two tabs.

mattwilcox,
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@fabian The tab and its text.

mattwilcox, to random
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A 16yr old bug I reported for WebKit just got closed.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21502

mattwilcox, to random
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Almost all the ads I see on YouTube’s “pretending to be a video” slots are low quality rubbish, but I find it surprising how many are also using the religious angle to ply the grift.

It’s never surprising that the anti-sex ones are always some “tidy, respectable” white guy.

I tried reporting this one but essentially it doesn’t fit any of the categories Google feel are valid complaints.

A screenshot of the ad-reporting workflow telling us this is an advert from the United States by a guy called Joshua.
A screenshot of the reporting options, none of which fit why I find it objectionable.

mattwilcox,
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Josh my dude, you cant prove that souls are real, but we can prove that sex workers are. Guess which one we can prove you’re causing harm to with this bullshit behaviour?

Go have a wank and then work on your personality (I suggest you start with empathy, then scientific method). You’ll feel better when you stop judging others as a response to how you feel judged yourself. Good luck!

mattwilcox, (edited )
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@sarajw I did, but I somehow doubt Google will see it that way :/ none of the following options fit. Tried anyway.

mattwilcox,
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@cferdinandi No, thankfully. That sounds dreadful.

mattwilcox,
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@cferdinandi I will never understand how educated people can also buy into religion.

I mean, you do you (as long as you're not pushing anything onto anyone else), but... it just feels like an oxymoron to me.

mattwilcox, (edited )
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@cferdinandi It's not even that, it's the "Ok, taking your premise, why is your one right but any of these thousands of other religions wrong? Oh, you have a reason? Using the same mental tooling, come at that again from the perspective of any other religion. Show me an example of any religion that arose indepenedently in different places. No? Exactly. It stands up to no level of scrutiny beyond "because someone said so sometime, and this is the one I grew up with".

mattwilcox,
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@Tijn @sarajw @cferdinandi It’s almost as though the entire thing is a means of centralising wealth and power to a handful of educated and privileged white men by exploiting the fears of the less well educated.

Almost as though.

Coincidence, I’m sure. No historical evidence for that, I’m sure.

mattwilcox,
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@sarajw @Tijn @cferdinandi The whole lot is based off the same source material. It’s just the degree of exploitation that’s in question. In any honest religion, the more well educated should be the first to see the holes in the doctrine, and the first to divest themselves of the obvious wrongs. Oddly, they don’t. Can’t imagine why. Anyway, there a donation box on the way out, and the vicar is meeting with the town council later so chop-chop!

mattwilcox, to random
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I will go to bed early tonight. I will even go to sleep instead of read or browse the YouTube / twitch.

I will.

I will.

starts sweating

mattwilcox,
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I did, in fact, manage this.

I slept like absolute crap, woke up almost every hour, and now feel worse than when I went to bed.

sigh

mattwilcox,
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@sarajw Urgh, my sympathies! Hopefully the day ahead won’t be too demanding (for either of us!)

mattwilcox, to random
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One of these pictures is the way it is because of poorly written regulations influencing what’s most profitable for an industry sector to build.

Can you guess which it is? https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112535649882421445

mattwilcox, to random
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Sure wish the legislation in GDPR had said "Legitimate User Interests" and not "Legitimate Interests", because what's a legit interest for the business sure isn't a legit interest for the user of the service.

And, again, louder for the tech-bro's and guys at the back: "consent" can not be assumed, or else it is not consent.

walpolea, to random
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I've written up some details on an interesting css trick to allow containers to take on a custom top and bottom shape using composed image-masks and a few clever calculations.

https://www.andrewwalpole.com/blog/custom-top-and-bottom-css-container-masks/

mattwilcox,
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@walpolea I figured it must be a rounding issue as I couldn't see anything wrong with the code - and rounding has historically been a PITA with things like this.

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