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simevidas

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I’m interested in HTML, CSS, and making the web less annoying. My name is pronounced ˈshe-meh.

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Political billboards for the EU election in Germany.

Notice how with blurred vision, the magenta word is harder to read than the white words.

This political party is probably not getting their message across to some people due to the poor accessibility of their billboards.

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twitter.com is gone (it redirects to x.com now)

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A response to @cferdinandi 's recent post(s) on JavaScript and Web Components:
https://dev.to/maxart2501/javascript-is-not-the-problem-k4e

I know he didn't explain his position in details, so a 1800-word article sounds a little unfair, but I think dry and sharp statements need adequate context and analysis.

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@MaxArt2501 @cferdinandi We need to talk more about the acceptable amount of JS during page load. So many websites load 5+ MB of JS which is unacceptable. As long as this problem persists, people with low-end phones will have a poor experience on the web.

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PMS - Post Migraine Serenity

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Retro (video game developer) “speaks milliseconds” because they actually have to convince people to purchase their games. Few people are going to spend their money on a poorly optimized game.

I guess if all the popular websites were paid, their performance would be great as well. In other words, websites are so slow because they’re free.

(image source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tbKJSJltiE)

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Are there issues or surprises you've run into when using container queries in practice? Let us know, and we'll try to cover them in the @OddBird Winging It live stream tomorrow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2DLDQYup0

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@mia @OddBird

> Extremely annoying #CSS gotcha: container query units seem to be relative to the content-box dimensions. And there doesn't seem to be any way to make them relative to the border-box dimensions... which is what I need to solve other problems caused by container queries. 😭

https://twitter.com/anatudor/status/1789308238791422043

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@mia @OddBird @anatudor These are all the replies

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This is part of the reason why I’ve lost my enthusiasm for the web platform. The modern web is annoying. Most popular websites are too slow and too difficult to use, and their developers don’t pay attention to this problem. It’s hard to get excited about a cool new web platform feature when so many websites don’t even get the absolute basics right. The entire industry is dysfunctional.

edit: Sorry if this sounds negative. I’m not angry. I’m just not excited anymore.

(https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1croz8u/in_many_ways_old_internet_had_better_ux/)

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On a related note:

I just watched the original Jurassic Park yesterday (for the first time in a long time). I am in some kind of shock. I have a hard time accepting the reality that that film is so much better than modern blockbusters. In that film, every single camera angle and movement is deliberate. Every scene is a work of art. Every line of dialog contributes to the whole in a meaningful way. Everything connects perfectly. It’s like if God made a film to show us how it’s done.

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The article is hidden by default because the website uses a JavaScript-based animation to fade in the text. Hm.

(https://kettanaito.com/blog/why-patching-globals-is-harmful)

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I just realized that VR headsets could maybe be used for stress relief by simulating a nature walk, and suddenly I’m much more interested in this technology. Spending time in nature is healthy. Maybe VR can at least partly achieve these benefits.

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How do we still not have a red star emoji?

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High-contrast themes in Edge Canary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAoDluJp6dI

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I did a whole bunch of articles about how web speech works, and the underlying speech subsystem - it's tricky because most text doesn't have any real semantic 'hints' and speech subsystems vary, so you can get "4x4=16" and "I drove a 4x4" sounding like 4-X-4 or "4 times 4" or "4 by 4" - kind of like with different human readers, maybe.

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@bkardell Sounds like web speech needs AI 😁

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@simevidas

I just read this article and it made me remember a conversation we had a while ago: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/13/infosec_in_brief/

Money Quote:
> Spanish cops handed the recovery address to Apple, which was reportedly able to identify the individual associated with the account.

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@dekkia

> asked Apple for information about this second email address, and got the name, the home address and the telephone number (https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/tsunami-democratic-xuxo-rondinaire-mossos/)

So Apple gave them everything. That person probably didn’t use Apple’s Hide my Email service for that address, but even if they did, the question is if it would have made a difference. I guess not. That service hides your identity from other companies, but not from Apple, obviously.

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I’m increasingly turning on reader mode in my browser not to remove distractions (ads, etc.) but to improve the typography. For example, I have a hard time concentrating on the text if the lines are too long (full viewport width).

(https://marcus.io/blog/best-intention-barriers-aria)

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I didn’t expect it to respond to my Interstellar joke

(https://rachsmith.com/snack/)

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AMP page on sky.com without JavaScript

(https://news.sky.com/story/amp/russia-victory-day-parade-vladimir-putin-warns-combat-forces-always-ready-13132022)

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MacOS Safari: I’m unable to switch off “Settings > Privacy > Require password to view locked tabs”: If, e.g., I go to another settings “tab” and come back, the checkmark is always there again.

Does anyone else have this issue?

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@rauschma Does it open a Touch ID/password dialog when you uncheck it?

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In 2017 I bought a Nintendo Switch, and one year later a MacBook Pro. I still use both devices today.

The charging cable that came with the Switch still works without flaw, seven years later. I can use it to charge the MacBook as well.

The charging cable that came with the MacBook turned yellow (on the ends) and stopped working reliably a while ago. I replaced the MacBook’s battery and bought a new cable (from Apple), and now this new cable is starting to have to the same issue.

simevidas,
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@pl I wish macOS allowed me to limit power output to 60W to preserve the charging cable. I don’t need fast charging.

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Mozilla is testing bounce tracking protection in @FirefoxNightly

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1895222

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The adaptive flash on iPad Pro uses AI to remove shadows when taking photos of documents to scan them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdhx5ijGN8&t=531s

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Leading conspiracy theories in my area:

  1. a secret group of powerful people control world events
  2. big pharma companies spread diseases to increase drug sales
  3. every person who owns a computer that is connected to the internet is being tracked and monitored
simevidas,
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@alvaromontoro Not sure if you mean 1 or 3 😂

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💡 CSS Tip!

To target the html element, you either use "html {}" or ":root {}" but thanks to CSS nesting you can simply use "& {}"

When used alone, the nesting selector will match the root element!

A one-character selector 🤯

⚠️ It has a lower specificity than html and :root

Online Version: https://css-tip.com/root-selector/

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@css A specificity lower than html? So zero, right? The same specificity as :where().

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