heydon

heydon, 1 month ago to random

What's a good/cheap host with easy/automatic https cert setup for static sites? Netlify but without the surprise charges?

heydon, 2 months ago to random

Do people in accessibility who vaunt "inclusive AI" realise they are just doing PR?

Like, I honestly don't care if there's one or two specific uses of AI that might help someone vulnerable in some small way. You can use the barrel of a gun to prize open a drain cover and save a kitten.

The history of AI will be the history of an irresponsible tech obliterating accountability & eventually meaning itself. That won't be good for anyone. Stop using disabled people to will that into reality.

heydon, 1 year ago to random

If you're going to a web conference in 2023 and you want people to do between 1 and 2 double takes looking at your T-shirt, you’re welcome! https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/be-gay-tee/

heydon, 10 months ago to random

Please, liberals. Stop the thinkpieces on why Mastodon is bad. I get it, you prefer the for-profit social media where you already have clout and where "progressiveness" is telling people off for writing "folks" instead of "folx" instead of a genuinely different model for web-based interaction.

heydon, 11 months ago to random

Okay... so why is my low specificity * margin overridding my higher specificity :root margin? Am I losing my mind? As you can see, no cascade layers are involved.

heydon, 3 months ago to random

The first sentence of this FrontendMasters ad made we howl like an injured bear. https://youtu.be/dWxcw2R0gZs?feature=shared

heydon, 6 months ago to random

Gov.uk website: "we have signed you out for your security"

Me: clicks sign in link

Me: not prompted with re-entry of password, just takes me in automatically

Great, thanks so much, I feel really secure and not at all like my time is being wasted.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

I would like to join @ellyloel 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.

heydon, 10 months ago to random

Who likes <div>s?

Here is a T-shirt.

https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/divs/

heydon, 1 year ago to accessibility

If you have an active RSS feed about #frontend, #designSystems #generativeArt, #UX, #accessibility, or really anything to do with the web, please drop it here and I'll repost it.

heydon, 2 months ago to random

📝 What Is A Single-page Application?

🌀

https://heydonworks.com/article/what-is-a-single-page-application/

heydon, 1 year ago to random

What's your favorite RSS reader in 2023?

heydon, 7 months ago to accessibility

New WCAG just dropped!

Particularly interested in the "focus appearance" SC that mandates a 2px+ focus outline/style. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#focus-appearance #a11y

heydon, 3 months ago to random

📝 What Is Utility-First CSS?

https://heydonworks.com/article/what-is-utility-first-css/

(this was going to be a video, but it got pretty long, plus I think there's a small chance this could appear high in organic search if shared enough)

heydon, 4 months ago to random

Smart move by the Tories. They know all the tosspots munching chips in Spain will vote for them.

heydon, 6 months ago to random

"only masculanity and devolop"

heydon, 10 months ago to random

For conferences, I typically write a new talk each time. This means I have multiple talks I have only given once but would be happy to again. Let me know if you are interested in me speaking at your conference with:

• The one where I talk about how capitalism is completely destroying the web (which certain civil servants were not allowed to see)
• The one where I talk about the time I forced everyone to switch off JavaScript to view my website (in which I may confuse JavaScript with Covid)

heydon, 10 months ago to CSS

I've taken to using down arrows in my #CSS code comments because it makes it explicit which line I'm talking about. Anybody do anything similar?

.skip-link {
/* ↓ move the link off the page */
transform: translateY(-100%);
}

heydon, 10 months ago to random

Earnest thanks to everyone who has bought something from https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/collection/new in the last few days. It's making a difference to me both mentally and fiscally, during a weird time.

heydon, 5 months ago to random

The best tech-related / tech-adjacent community is the web one. Frontend and web standards. It's so not even close it's a joke. Imagine there being a Beyond Tellerrand or like a @mia of, like, fintech or AI or something. Pffff.

heydon, 4 months ago to random

So... I don’t believe in binary gender roles or identities any more than I believe in God or fairies, or subscribe to them any more than I do—I don't know—some shit magazine like the Spectator. I see myself as “male” as much as I see myself as English: I just happen to have been placed there. It is not a source of pride, joy, comfort or anything really. It’s just an arbitrary designation. Is that a common thing among cis and straight men?

heydon, 1 year ago to random

A lot of "centralization is good actually" and "federation is inherently discriminatory to <group I don't belong to but am speaking for>" around here at the moment

How much of this is FUD generated by Bluesky, Twitter and others? I'll wager a lot.

heydon, 19 days ago to random

Another bizarre pattern I keep seeing a lot of is having multiple skip links to different parts of the page. Total overkill. If you actually use headings, there's no real need.

heydon, 2 months ago to random

I am 42 today. Which also marks 20 years since I left university and started making web type things.

heydon, 21 days ago to random

Currently apoplectic that the Speech Recognition API hears “fuck” and outputs ['f***']. You puritanical Christian dickheads are at it again aren't you?