heydon

djsundog, 2 months ago to random

it is simply time for the world to admit that capitalism is a failed experiment that results in massive systemic oppression and inequity and banish its practice.

heydon, 1 year ago to random

Every Layout spotted in Sapporo, Japan!

heydon, 11 months ago to random

You can now get my “Capitalism is stealing...” design as a tote, so you can take it shopping and have people point and go “THEY SAY THEY ARE AGAINST CAPITALISM BUT HERE THEY ARE BUYING GOODS, MAKING THEM LITERALLY A CAPITALIST” https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/capitalism-tote/

heydon, 11 months ago to random

heydon, 1 year ago to random

I've made my briefs.video Vimeo public for Webbed Briefs now, so you can like/share/save etc to your heart's content. Following is a thread of those videos.

heydon, 1 year ago to random

Some people: "A native app is more my thing, please create one of these"
Other people: "Why not just make the website work well on small screens?"
Company: "We have listened and have put some functionality in a native app and kept some just for web, so you have to use both, often at the same time"

heydon, 1 year ago to random

📼 Choose Your Loading Indicator

This Webbed Brief is dedicated to #CSSDay and to @mia (who included a Webbed Brief clip in her talk!)

https://briefs.video/videos/choose-your-loading-indicator/

heydon, 11 months ago to random

Have Musk and Zuckerberg considered having that cage fight inside a submarine? Surrounded by orcas?

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, 11 months ago to random

If you think "AI" "art" is as good as art generated directly by a human, you don't get art. The humanity is the whole point.

heydon, 11 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, 1 month ago to random

Just read on BBC News that the new version of ChatGPT can flirt. Who is that for? Who asked for that? Who's interested in being chatted up by an ephemeral cloud of stolen reddit posts? Told by a soulless megazord of pilfered landing pages that it wants to "smash your back doors in 🥵"?

And why is the BBC, of all institutions, letting me know this radically pathetic experience is becoming available?

heydon, 2 months ago to random

What if we started a political party called "Woke". Liberals and conservatives alike would shit themselves inside out. And while it would get attention as a "joke", the party itself could use that supposed novelty platform to be earnestly pro-LGBT/anti genocide/apartheid/and anti-capitalist?

heydon, 2 months 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

Next time you see an image or read some text generated by AI, think about what that AI has seen. Because it is, more or less, everything on the web. And that includes a lot of things that shouldn't be there. Things we aren't supposed to be sharing or seeing and which most of us don't. The image you are looking at, or the text you are reading, is always, and inevitably, informed by illegal images of children. Somewhere, in those mutant pixels in front of your eyes, is child porn.

heydon, 22 days ago to random

It doesn't matter what ARIA Authoring Practices says. If you implement patterns that suppress tab interaction in favour of binding arrow keys (for tabs, menus, etc) your users will be confused and blocked. They will also hate you. As I said in a recent talk:

There are two ways you can make websites less accessible with ARIA:

1. Using ARIA incorrectly
2. Using ARIA correctly

heydon, 1 month ago to random

"You're old"

"Well, given matter can neither be created or destroyed, we're actually the same age. The perpetual process of our being recycled is just a little out of sync."

"That's such a millennial thing to say"

heydon, 1 month ago to random

There's no such thing as a necessary cookie.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Libertarianism:

For the powerless, it means freedom from being subjected to power. For the powerful, it means the freedom to wield it.

https://mastodon.online/@jackmjenkins/112414754093310573

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Does anyone have any experience with SVG filters but applied to <canvas>? Before I go down that rabbit hole, does using them with <canvas> improve performance at all, or should I expect the same jankiness?

heydon, 1 month ago to random

I played organ live for Beast With A Gun at the weekend. This is our cover of 96 Tears.

(* I am not an organist)

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.