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brucelawson

@brucelawson@vivaldi.net

Web standards a11y lovegod/ consultant FOR RENT. Musician. Woke atheist libtard, least spiritual person in the universe. Multiple Sclerosis owner. Pun lover. Hootie Tootie Disco Cutie. Birmingham, UK. He/ him. Personal views. RT≠+1. https://www.brucelawson.co.uk

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andy, to random

We’re in Rhodes and have been evacuated due to the wildfires.

We’re safe in a hotel which has been turned into a temporary refuge.

By all accounts, 30,000+ tourists and locals have been displaced in the last 24 hours and let me tell you, it’s been fucken scary.

We went from our hotel being turned into a refuge to jumping on the back of a dump truck in the middle of the night, to walking for hours in pitch black to finally getting picked up by a coach to take us to where we are now.

The view from near our hotel this morning. Thick plumes of smoke over an otherwise perfect sunny day
A poorly lit photo of the wildfires as seen from outside our hotel room, just before evacuation. The fire was around 1.5km from us as the time and was completely out of control
A shot early in the evening which I told my partner “it might just be a sunset”. Turns out it’s massive fucken flames

brucelawson,
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@andy Not according to this completely genuine Daily Mail front page

brucelawson,
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@andy Did all displaced British Brexit-voters self-declare so the Greek authorities could scold them and accommodate them in a prison hulk? IT's what they would want.

jaffathecake, to random
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Today's my first day as an engineer at Shopify 😀

Getting the band back together with @surma and @developit, and looking forward to meeting lots of new folks.

brucelawson,
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@jaffathecake Best of luck, Jank. You might want to bookmark this to glance at in the loos while you're training. https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp @surma @developit

matt, to cycling
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I'm thinking of getting an electric and a seat for the back for my 2.5 year old daughter to sit in - and this 250E looks very appealing.

https://rawbike.no/product/rawbike-250-e/

But what do the of the fediverse think? Especially people who cycle with their kids on the bike. What's the verdict on this ?

brucelawson,
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@matt I hear that unicycles are especially good.

brucelawson,
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@matt very wise. @ruari

ppk, to random
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Oh wow, Safari even refuses to keyboard-focus on links that have a tabindex. I did not expect that.

brucelawson,
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@tink @ppk This fucks me up every time.

liztai, (edited ) to animals
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Should I give the new cat the proper, lady-like name of Amber, or should I choose chaos by calling her Apricat? 👀

UPDATE: Based on the comments, I say choosing chaos is a wise decision!

brucelawson,
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@liztai What about a proper aristocat name like Lady Dafne de Montford-Plumleigh, or similar?

brucelawson, to random
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Never trust someone who refers to their pets as "fur babies".

brucelawson,
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@sophie I use "acolyte"

brucelawson, to random
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ARRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH

brucelawson,
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@mattwilcox Thanks DOCTOR MUSIC ;-)

brucelawson, to random
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Because I'm often asked to settle arguments, here's my indisputably correct list of the ten best albums ever https://brucelawson.co.uk/2023/indisputably-correct-10-best-albums-ever/

brucelawson,
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@jake4480 yeah, but this list is indisputably correct - it's in the title.

brucelawson, to random
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Remote Work to Wipe Out $800 Billion From Office Values, McKinsey Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-12/working-from-home-office-landlords-risk-800-billion-in-losses-mckinsey-says - thoughts and prayers for the landlords who turned our city centres into deserts/

brucelawson,
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@Crell Oh, I completely agree. I'm merely expressing zero sadness for those who turned our cities into deserts by erecting the horrendous places in the first place.

sil, to random
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Just seen about the wildfires on some Greek islands. Hopefully anyone I know who lives there or is there right now is ok.

brucelawson,
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@sil That nice @andy is safe

brucelawson, to random
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Japan's final report into mobile ecosystems is in. "Mandatory use of WebKit impedes fair and equitable competition between Safari and third-party browsers … Hindering the development of web apps …adversely affecting the
competitive environment in entire mobile ecosystem." https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/digitalmarket/pdf_e/documents_230616.pdf

brucelawson,
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The Japanese regulator proposes an end to the : "Platform operators that provide OS of a certain size or larger shall be prohibited from requiring app developers to use OS providers’ own browser engines" (p 26) https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/digitalmarket/pdf_e/documents_230616.pdf

brucelawson,
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"Mandatory use of WebKit impedes fair and equitable competition between Safari and third-party browsers … the opportunity to select other browsers with excellent
security, etc. is deprived. Users lose the choice of browsers that use browser engines other than WebKit, and are exposed to security risks." (p 26)

SteveFaulkner, to instagramreality
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😍 love me some @heydon

I am leaving

https://briefs.video/videos/i-am-leaving/

brucelawson,
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@SteveFaulkner I loved his French accent so much I ejaculated out my own spleen and am scraping it off my ceiling as we speak. Thanks, fellas! @heydon

mattwilcox, to random
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Oh, also, the weekend was my first time seeing furries out in the real world.

On a mountain.

I don’t understand the appeal; but I respect the added difficulty of topping a mountain whilst also wearing a full face mask and tail.

brucelawson,
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@mattwilcox Maybe they were actual Yetis?

brucelawson, to random
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Jane Austen, Tailwind and modern full-stack development https://brucelawson.co.uk/2023/jane-austen-tailwind-and-modern-full-stack-development/

brucelawson,
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@gotofritz Is that from Northanger Abbey?

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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congratulations to the amazon email team, who manage to send HTML emails that don't (correctly) set their foreground/background colours... leading to an unreadable email when mail client is in dark mode. hint: if you define background:var(--body-bg)... it helps if those custom properties are also defined somewhere in the email's markup...

brucelawson,
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@patrick_h_lauke Patrick Lauke, ever wonder if your subtweet review of Amazon's coding practices are getting noticed?

ppatel, to apple
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threatens to remove and from the UK rather than weaken security under a proposed security bill amendment, dubbed a “snooper's charter”

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081

brucelawson,
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@ppatel Such a noble stance is perhaps a teensy-weensy bit compromised by their rolling on their back in China https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/17/apple-security-compromises-china-icloud/

brucelawson, to random
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Sadly, few FullStack devs read classic literature, or they'd know that "Tailwind" was a 19th century euphemism for "a fart". Eg, in Jane Austen: "Miss Bennett, shall we take a turn around the garden? The air in this ballroom has become somewhat rancid". "My apologies, Captain Cadbastard; when you whirled me round in the last Cotillion, I confess a small Tailwind eked out from beneath my 17th petticoat". (Pride and Prejudice, chapter 7)

brucelawson,
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Pride and Prejudice is all about the mindset of anachronistic developers who think that the only language they know is the only one that counts (the 'pride') and also that "CSS isn't really a language" (prejudice). See the famous opening: "“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a dev not in possession of a basic knowledge of the foundational languages of the Web, must be in want of a framework and cumbersome
build process.”

brucelawson, to random
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Welcome to another day in late-stage capitalism, when millionaires train computers to paint pictures and write poetry, while human beings do back-breaking work for them at minimum wage, and Billionaires tell the slaves to blame immigrants for their misfortune. Have a great day!

brucelawson, to random
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I wonder how many really good job candidates get lost to automatic sifting, which is trained on ‘traditional’ CVs and so inherently biased. It’s the modern-day acceptable revamp of the dreaded “culture fit’. (I'm not moaning; as a middle-aged white cis straight male, I get rejected because of my own glaring failings.)

brucelawson, to random
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Accessibility widgets are not reducing lawsuits. "The number of lawsuits against companies using accessibility widgets increased slightly in 2023. We found 414 suits this year, compared to 336 in the first half of 2022 and 316 in the first half of 2021. This trend suggests that accessibility widgets may not provide sufficient protection against litigation." https://blog.usablenet.com/web-and-app-ada-lawsuits-6-trends-so-far-in-2023

brucelawson, to random
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The Japanese digital competition regulator proposes an end to the : "Platform operators that provide OS of a certain size or larger shall be prohibited from requiring app developers to use OS providers’ own browser engines" https://brucelawson.co.uk/2023/japans-report-on-mobile-ecosystems-is-published/

brucelawson, to random
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Indie coffee chain Grind doubled sales after Laurence Fox boycotted it for pulling its advertising from GB News. "Grind said it has donated £1,432 - twice the amount it spent with GB news - to the WWF Climate Crisis Fund in Mr Fox's name." https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23660820.coffee-chain-doubles-sales-laurence-fox-boycotts/

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