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ardouglass

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💰 UI/UX engineer building design systems
🎓 ASU public interest tech grad student
🎵 least musically successful member of my high school band

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ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Stupid econ question:

So it looks like a lot of remaining inflation is rent. In that case, wouldn't you want to lower rates to increase home-building and home-ownership in order to reduce rent pricing?

ardouglass,
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@ZachWeinersmith the entire neighborhoods being built as rental properties is probably the primary challenge to this.

Meyerweb, to random
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I for one am strongly in favor of the efforts to arm teachers, as it should make future teacher contract negotiations go a LOT faster.

ardouglass,
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@Meyerweb okay but no gym teachers

aardrian, to accessibility
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“Level-Setting Heading Levels”
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/05/level-setting-heading-levels.html

TL;DR: Avoid setting heading levels greater than six (6). This applies whether using aria-level or the proposed headingstart HTML attribute. Use HTML <h#> elements whenever possible.

ardouglass,
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@aardrian the best advice I ever got from a technical writing teacher was that more than a few heading levels probably warranted splitting something into multiple documents instead.

Six feels arbitrary, but forcing people to rethink their information architecture might be a blessing in disguise.

ardouglass,
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@aardrian I do really like the idea of not worrying as much about heading levels when pulling in components and content. Maybe it’s an opportunity for some accessibility testing tools to warn about dangerously deep heading levels.

fribbledom, to random
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Discord
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Me
What?

Discord
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Me
Why are you beeping?

Discord
beep You have a notification!
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Me
What channel?
I'm on over 50 servers.

Discord:
beep You'll never find out!

Me
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU

Discord
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ardouglass,
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@fribbledom

> I’m on over 50 servers.

By choice?!

zachleat, (edited ) to opensource
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Had someone open two identical issues on GitHub. When I closed one of them as a duplicate, they replied “Thanks for nothing, Zach”

ardouglass,
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@zachleat rerelease 11ty under the “everyone but you” license.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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I'm always impressed the IRS makes you verify your identity before paying, as if there are rogue actors looking to pay other people's dues in the dead of night.

ardouglass,
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@ZachWeinersmith do your enemies taxes wrong to cause them a bureaucratic mess.

christianselig, to random
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The best part of a split keyboard is definitely usability when cats are being cats

ardouglass,
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@christianselig a trackpad in the middle is the ergonomic version of a thinkpad keyboard with a nipple mouse.

christianselig, to random
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Got my hands on Waterfield's bizarrely compact Vision Pro case and gonna do a blog review, any questions about it?

ardouglass,
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@christianselig can it do double duty as a lunch box? How well does the padding insulate in terms of keeping something cold for 4+ hours?

Meyerweb, to random
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This is probably my favorite “the event will be held here” map of all time and I’m not even being snarky when I say that.

ardouglass,
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@Meyerweb you’re telling me I flew to the wrong Europe? Heck.

zachleat, to random
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Going live with @mikeneu on the to talk Web Components, Front-end WebDev News and more!

Join us: https://www.twitch.tv/cloudcannoncms

ardouglass,
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@zachleat cancelled

Meyerweb, to random
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I’ve gotten back into crosswords after a few decades and one change that makes me rather cross (wordplay fully intended) is clues no longer indicate the number of words in the answer, let alone the letter count of the word(s) in the clue.

Maybe you didn’t grow up with crosswords that did that, but I did, and it was better that way. old_man_yells_at_cloud.jpg

ardouglass,
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@Meyerweb puzzmo does this, and also has a bunch of other neat word games too

ardouglass, to random
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@zachleat hey Zach, I'm doing a study on open source funding through Arizona State University's Public Interest Technology program. I was hoping you could take about 10 minutes to fill out our survey. If you do, you can help provide an understanding of what has worked and what hasn’t in the ecosystem.

https://opensource.study

ardouglass, to opensource
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Do you work in open source? Do you think it has a funding problem? If so, please take my 10 minute survey at https://opensource.study. By participating, you can help provide an understanding of what has worked and what hasn’t in the ecosystem.

This survey is part of a research project at ASU and is completely voluntary. If you have any questions about participation, please reach out to me here.

ardouglass,
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@larsmb I agree, but sometimes you design an academic survey and then it goes through several months of revisions with input from an ethics board that won’t give final approval until you remove things like a minor punctuation mistake. And then your only option is to release it to the wild and hope for the best.

ardouglass,
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@larsmb if you have any resources or things you’ve found helpful in the past regarding funding, I’m glad to check them out. I’m taking a mixed methods approach, so the survey is mostly to gather some hard data to compare with qualitative info and see how well that info is reflected in the numbers.

simevidas, to random
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New HTML attribute just dropped:

<textarea writingsuggestions>

https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/a187fec147a068feb7cfe2448329e61475261fa0

ardouglass,
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@simevidas if this doesn’t result in Clippy making a return in Edge, I’ll be a sad millennial.

zachleat, to random
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it’s been 637 days since an official react release and I personally believe that kate middleton is tiger teaming it right now so please stop bothering her, y’all

ardouglass,
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@zachleat brb, going to submit an “is this project dead?” GitHub issue.

cory, (edited ) to webdev
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Buttons! https://coryd.dev/about (scroll down)

ardouglass,
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@cory @zachleat I’ve been considering un-web 1.0ing my personal site at https://dou.glass after several years, but this makes me want to lean in harder instead.

_Davidsmith, to random
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Found a new use for ChatGPT: ancient code spelunking. I was working on the scale for my minute-by-minute rain graph and I remembered that I'd solved this in Check the Weather. Dug around in its ObjC source code and found the section responsible (which git tells me was written in April 2013).

It involved a complicated formula I didn't recognize or understand. So I asked ChatGPT what it meant and it did a surprisingly good job of giving me a starting point to now go and research again.

A response from Chat GPT it summarizes the formula as relating to radar reflectivity and using a logarithmic scale. Full Text: Me: does this formula look familiar "float dbz = 10 * log10(200

ardouglass,
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@_Davidsmith I’ve already heard “I don’t need to document my code now that we have LLMs” and it’s frustrating. Wouldn’t current you have been happier if past you had simply left a comment saying what the formula was and where you found it or how you came up with it?

glyph, to random
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oof. inbox zero is gonna be a challenge this morning

ardouglass,
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@glyph file for email bankruptcy and send the entire inbox to the archive.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Anyone know a way to record audio for a podcast on a chromebook running chromeOS?

ardouglass,
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@ZachWeinersmith there’s a web version of Audacity at https://wavacity.com that I think should work

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Poll: How do you wake up and beat the Monday morning blues?

ardouglass,
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@nixCraft nothing like dropping production first thing Monday morning to get the blood flowing.

Edent, to random
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Are there any games where you play the antagonist of an established game?

For example, is there version of Donkey Kong where you throw barrels at Mario?

ardouglass,
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@Edent a large chunk of The Last of Us: Part II is playing as the antagonist, and realizing everyone is morally grey.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Hey bakers, explain.

I'm a reasonably competent baker. I make brioches, babkas, other fancy stuff. I have never once had a recipe that gave a mass measure of flour for which I didn't have to up the flour 10-20% or more (occasionally MUCH more) to get the desired texture. I'm currently fixing a donut recipe that says it wants 600g flour, but comes out as glop without adding ~100-150g more. The writer says the dough should be tacky.

Am I crazy?

ardouglass,
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@ZachWeinersmith humidity levels in your flour storage maybe? I don’t think that would account for all of it though.

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