heydon

heydon, 5 months ago to random

Well that's the best visual metaphor for "AI" I've seen.

heydon, 5 months ago to random

Another win for AI.

heydon, 7 months ago to random

A T-shirt for lovers of the three core web technologies. https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/not-you-tee/

heydon, 3 months ago to random

As threatened, I've started making hypermasculine* clothing designs (*with unexpected slogans).

https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/collection/new

Masculine looking T-shirt with flames and guns and the text "singular they has been in use for approximately 600 years"

heydon, 11 months ago to random

IT'S WORKING, EVERYONE! KEEP GOING!

heydon, 6 months ago to random

Found; no attribution. Perfection.

heydon, 7 months ago to random

Lots of videos on youtube about how "AI is dangerous" and they all seem to focus on the "it will become sentient and overthrow us" silliness. It's dangerous because it isn't intelligent. It spews out crappy, fake information which will crowd out real information and rot all our brains. It's automated stupefaction.

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, 2 months ago to random

📝 What Is A Single-page Application?

🌀

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

heydon, 9 months ago to random

I've been meaning to write an article about how toggle buttons tend to be extremely difficult to interpret. Fortunately, this in-depth piece already exists: https://axesslab.com/toggles-suck/

heydon, 1 year ago to random

https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/you-would-not/

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Stolen because it had no alt text

heydon, 9 months ago to random

First time I've said "The dinosaurs were blasted into orbit when the meteor struck, meaning they technically won the space race" as a motivational metaphor in an important client presentation.

heydon, 7 months ago to accessibility

📼 New video!

"What are accessibility overlays?"

https://briefs.video/videos/what-are-accessibility-overlays/ #a11y

heydon, 1 month ago to random

"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

heydon, 10 months ago to random

📢 Every Layout version 3.1.7.14 (we lost count) is now available!

We have two words for you: CONTAINER and QUERIES

This update is free to all existing subscribers so please promote far and wide, then we might actually earn some beer tokens 😬

https://every-layout.dev/#checkout

heydon, 11 months ago to random

You may be wondering “What is Web 3.0?”

Let me explain, in this brief* video.

https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-web-3.0/

(* It’s brief because there isn't very much to say.)

heydon, 6 months ago to random

📼 What's The Deal With Large Language Models?

The latest video from briefs.video and my most ambitious to date.

https://briefs.video/videos/whats-the-deal-with-large-language-models/

heydon, 1 month ago to random

The problem with AI generated information is it's frequently inaccurate.

heydon, 9 months ago to random

Your web application's waterfall.

Some people dressed as horses stumbling over jumps in slow motion on a dangerously hot day.

heydon, 6 months ago to CSS

The #CSS 80-20 (Pareto) rule:

The first 20% of your CSS should be responsible for 80% of your styling.

heydon, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

I was not aware AccessiBe--on top of all its other crimes--tracked you without consent. https://better.fyi/trackers/acsbapp.com/
(via @aral )

heydon, 6 months ago to random

Last Friday I released a short video titled "What's The Deal With Large Language Models?"

Here it is again, if you missed it: https://briefs.video/videos/whats-the-deal-with-large-language-models/

And it's also now on Youtube, if you partake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rchEbQNMepw

ppatel, 3 months ago to random

If there's anything that makes you feel inadequate is trying to deal with inaccessible CAPTCHA page again and again followed by stupid bureaucracy.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Most of the time, I get hired to fix things as a consultant developer that would not be broken if they had been designed more thoughtfully in the first place. Sound familiar? But here's the thing: I'm not a developer. I studied art and design at university, including how to design websites. But they didn't teach me how to code, even though that's most of the work. So, in early employment, I had to ""steal company time"" to learn how to do that and be better at my job, as a designer.