heydon

heydon, 1 year ago to random

A lot of people still saying Mastodon's UX is a barrier to entry and that, if you somehow managed to sign up to an instance and are here, saying it is an easy process is biased/exclusionary/privileged/blinkered.

Well, speaking as someone with interface blindness and low executive functioning, who shouts at parking meters, microwaves, and 98% of the web: I'm calling bullshit.

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, 1 year ago to random

What's your favorite RSS reader in 2023?

heydon, 1 year ago to random

My first gig in over a decade last night. I'm on the left playing baritone guitar and twiddling knobs.

Dimly lit men sandwiched between PA speakers in a basement.

heydon, 1 year ago to random

#FakeBookTitleFriday is my new favorite fedi-thing

heydon, 1 year ago to random

heydon, 1 year ago to random

I understand Bluesky is privately owned? (so I'm not sure how "decentralized" applies) but how does it make money?

heydon, 1 year ago to random

Tories are handing out leaflets in Norwich saying you don't need to bring voter ID to the polls. Outright lie.

Actually had a Tory "campaigner" come to my door the other day. I told him to fuck off. The audacity to come to my house with your bullshit.

keithjgrant, 1 year ago to programming

Why is @scope different than Shadow DOM? There are a number of similarities, but a couple things make @scope different:

• it's more lightweight, so it's easy to sprinkle onto the page where Shadow DOM would be overkill
• it allows for multiple scopes to overlap and provides control over styles when they do
• it offers fine-grained control over which styles do or do not reach from an outer scope into an inner one

#css #webdev #ScopedCSS

https://keithjgrant.com/posts/2023/04/scoped-css-is-back/

SteveFaulkner, 1 year ago to accessibility

The inclusive design principles by @tink @iheni @heydon and @IanPouncey are back after a bit of a lie down

“These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. It's about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really.”

Available in 5 languages

#usability #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

https://inclusivedesignprinciples.org/

heydon, 1 year ago to random

I don't get why people keep falling for the "this venture capital kickstarted social media site will be different and inclusive" thing. And a massive side-eye at the folks go "pfff this looks like some bullshit" then boast about how they got an invite.

aardrian, 1 year ago to random

Smuggled an almond knot (made with cardamom dough) home from Fabrique on Friday and it was tasty with the last of my coffee beans. Saturday I bought new beans and a fresh banana creme pie and both were a let-down. Beans tasted metallic, pie was more a mousse (no banana slices).

A thick slice of pie comprised of a tall layer of fluffy yellow topped with a taller layer of fluffy white, dusted in coconut shavings; in the foreground is a small glass mug holding a cappuccino with a tall white foam.

heydon, 1 year ago to random

Here is a short video I am calling "The Evolution Of Web Advertising"

A diagram of a website layout is increasingly filled with adverts. First the adverts are small and unassuming. Then they become larger and more aggressive. Two companies (one trying to sell you a dick growing remedy and the other an offer of growing your kneecaps) compete over the space, acting more and more aggressively, trying to obscure and obliterate each other, until the underlying web page is no longer visible.