brucelawson

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

I've been enjoying the Fallout TV series. I know nothing about the game or whatever it's based on (I don't play games) but I don't feel like I'm missing out. (Perhaps I am, but it doesn't feel frustrating.)

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

I'm writing a sad song about a girlfriend who left me when she discovered I only have 4 digits on my right foot. She was lack toes intolerant.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Happy Vaisakhi to all my chums who celebrate it! xxx

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Enjoy these two concentric circles

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

It's really exciting to see real CSS scoping and View Transitions coming to WebKIt https://webkit.org/blog/15260/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-192/

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Another day, another recruiter trying to fill a role "delivering a digital experience that is genuinely inclusive for all" that requires the employee to commute (presumably in rush hour) 3 days a week to an office (presumably noisy and open plan) and doubtless carrying any assistive tech they need with them.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

I heard that a teacher from my high school has died. She never taught me, but obvz I knew her and -unusually for snotty teen me- I liked her. Facebook is full of names I haven't heard for 40 years saying things like "Mrs H. was the only one that believed in me and told me I was a better person" and "I was one of the problem pupils, yet she showed me nothing but respect and compassion, I was quite destructive but she always appreciated what was going on for me, and I carried her kind words with me for many years". What a legacy.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

I picked up this swag at a React conference. I mentioned to the bloke on the PornTube booth that it's really bad for their brand to suggest that you'd need something else to occupy your hands, and he looked really crestfallen.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Farewell, Peter Higgs. Thanks for all the bosons, mate.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

I simultaneously wish I were better at Javascript (specifically: could think in a JS way), yet can't be arsed to learn it because it's fugly and someone will waterboard me with Typescript evangelism.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Excited to be here at CERN preparing to fire a blast of Higgs Tachyons into the solar eclipse in order to fulfill Revelations 6:94 and start the Rapture.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

My modest proposal: Failing water companies should go bankrupt, their investors lose everything, their boards and C-suites be fired, and the gov should buy them for £1 and run them as national utilities. Ditto the railways and privatised energy orgs that price-gouged us last 2 winters. Then every statue of Thatcher & her ideological allies should be melted down and turned into commemorative medals to celebrate the day we free ourselves of the stupidity that saw the nations' utilities and housing stock sold to profiteering wideboys.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Sometimes, if I’m fixing an unrelated bug I spot the opportunity to make a quick “drive-by” accessibility tweak that is quick and easy and will give a disproportionately big boost to the user experience for people with accessibility needs. Here are some of my top faves (number 3 will have you in tears!). https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/drive-by-accessibility-tweaks/

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

‘We stand together’: Bradford Muslim and Jewish leaders join forces for Ramadan event https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/04/we-stand-together-bradfords-muslim-and-jewish-leaders-join-forces-for-ramadan

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Is it safe, or even useful, to upgrade from Ventura to Sonoma yet?

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Making myself happy by stripping out loads of JS and replacing it with declarative markup and modern CSS, which will work in modern (evergreen) browsers, and Safari too.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Here's a good question: what are your fave quick wins when refactoring, or just tweaking while fixing an unrelated bug? I like it when legacy codebases decided to hang styles off classes, so I can change <div class=nav> into a <nav class=nav> and make it much better for assistive tech users with no other changes required. https://mastodon.social/@timking/112203115458940448

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Anyone got an example of an infographic that reformats responsively?

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Happy Easter! Ramadan kareem! Happy Feast of St Kylie and the Immaculate Surfboard! Happy whatever it is you're celebrating, or not. Just be happy and continue not striving to make anyone else miserable. xxxx

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Just got the shock of my life - i was crossing the road and a car with Egyptian number plates beeped their horn at me, and an occupant showed their naked arse to me through the window. Bloody toot and car moon!

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

I saw this in the sky. I researched it thoroughly, and a YouTube video (by MAGAnoVaxUSA88) proves it's flying 5G mast spreading chemtrails and shooting vaccines, owned by Soros, flying Jeffrey Epstein's assassin to Bill Gates' secret lair in the icewall at the edges of the earth.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Enjoy this photo of a ghost egg scared of her own tits.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Mastodon q: in the 'advanced' Tweetdeck-style view, where does my 'Federated timeline' come from? Most of the people in it I've never heard of, and while I have no moral objection to the nude images of attractive women that some of the posts carry, they are distracting and a bit shit when in a public place.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Years ago, on my last visit to the "United" States, a Yank colleague said "if you want to understand us, remember we were founded by the religious fundamentalists you threw out. We worship ancestors who were slave-owning immigrants that took the land through genocide. The 'American dream' teaches us that poverty is a lifestyle choice caused by laziness."

I think about this often.

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

I was getting grumpy about all the JS flimflam needed to make a hamburger menu button trigger a pop-up menu thing, and then remembered that @keithamus dreamed up declarative <button invoketarget=""> and now I'm grumpy it's not in all the browsers already (soon, for modern ones) https://buttondown.email/cascade/archive/018-i-love-invokers-and-you-should-too/