brucelawson

brucelawson, 2 days ago to random

My son went to a really lovely school for kids with learning difficulties. They cut the school day by 30 mins (so 2.5 hours a week) because they couldn't afford to pay for teaching assistants. Fuck these Tories.

brucelawson, 2 days ago to random

I had filed Sunak as fundamentally decent, but occasionally mouthfarting nonsense to appease the brexitty loons. I didn't expect full fat fascism. Fuck this gang. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo

brucelawson, 14 days ago to random

My neighbour's offer of discounted yodelling lessons is so popular, he's had to put up a sign saying "please form an orderly orderly orderly queue".

brucelawson, 8 days ago to random

CSS :has - the God Selector https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/css-has-the-god-selector/ and a big hat-tip to https://toot.wales/@Lukew who helped me to see God (selector).

brucelawson, 22 days ago to random

More happy tales from the privatised utility industry showing the efficiency of the private sector in competition and customer satisfaction. https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/06/bills-you-dont-owe-menacing-debt-collectors-the-terrifying-world-of-energy-company-customers

brucelawson, 27 days ago to random

It's the 60th birthday of the greatest programming language ever: BASIC https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/programming-the-liberal-arts/

brucelawson, 8 hours ago to random

Tomorrow marks the 11th anniversary of the release of React, so I've prepared this video celebrating it. Enjoy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(JavaScript_library)

A never-ending loading spinner

brucelawson, 21 days ago to random

It's not just computers that are crap rubbish technology. Look at this daft toaster from Tesco that is too small too accommodate standard Tesco own brand bread. I might stick a React sticker on it.

Some toast. Except 25% of it, which is disappointingly slightly warmed but still white bread.

brucelawson, 20 days ago to random

At the weekend I took the kids to the zoo. There were no pandas. No lions. No tigers. No giraffes. No elephants. No crocodiles. Just a tiny little dog in a cage. It was a Shih Tzu.

brucelawson, 20 days ago to random

Why are my live regions not working? https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/05/01/why-are-my-live-regions-not-working/ by Pattypoo @patrick_h_lauke

brucelawson, 14 days ago to random

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead

brucelawson, 13 days ago to random

"A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models." https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

brucelawson, 7 days ago to random

brucelawson, 7 days ago to random

I was up at 5am, finishing writing the final chapter of my new book about poltergeists. I'm confident it will fly off the shelves.

brucelawson, 6 days ago to random

WHAT?! Vennells has been shown a doc that she saw in 2011 which says Fujitsu staff have unrestricted access to the Oracle database. She now says she didn't realise that it meant that the system wasn't 100% secure from remote transactions not done by the subpostmasters. FFS. She wasn't fit to run a fucking village post office let alone the whole operation.

brucelawson, 15 days ago to random

Is it the App store's careful curation of fart apps, or its careful curation of sanction-busting Russian bank apps that you most appreciate? https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/12/how-russian-banks-use-trojan-horse-apps-to-stay-in-apples-app-store

brucelawson, 5 days ago to random

In UK (where I am) Facebook is going to start using my data to train its AI. I apparently "have the right" to object. And if my objection is honoured, they won't use my data any more. Honest!

brucelawson, 5 days ago to random

An introduction to the European Accessibility Act (EAA) https://www.deque.com/blog/european-accessibility-act-eaa-intro/

brucelawson, 4 days ago to random

I wrote a little blogpost for @owa on the UK passing the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill and what it means: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-passes-dmcc/

brucelawson, 11 hours ago to random

Now the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act has finally passed, and the UK monopoly regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority has new powers to smack piss-taking Big Tech, they are consulting on its draft guidance for the digital markets competition regime. Have your say (unless you're Big Tech, in which case, retain 7000 lawyers to argue about the process until the sun goes nova) https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-digital-markets-competition-regime-guidance

brucelawson, 12 days ago to random

Doubtless Apple will spin the innovation of deleted photos randomly returning from the dead with today's date as being for your comfort and security, as usual. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/15/ios-17-5-bug-deleted-photos-reappear/

brucelawson, 6 days ago to random

In-App Browsers: in Monday's live JavaScript Jabber podcast, I mentioned the briefing that we (@owa) wrote for the EU commission. It's linked from here https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/. what's your experience of IABs? Anything to add to our document?

brucelawson, 19 days ago to random

Was there ever a proposal to add the ability to "light dismiss" an open <details> element with esc (like HTML popover & <dialog>) or did I make it up in one of my perviest dreams?

brucelawson, 18 days ago to random

brb, emailing "You shouldn't need to know all the specifics of web accessibility, Susan. The Agency, however, should. When I had a central heating boiler installed, I didn't say to the gas engineer "I assume this conforms to BS8871, BS 2328 and the Don't Blow Up The Neighbourhood Directive 1993", because I trust that they would know the rules and adhere to them.

Sadly, web agencies don't have the equivalent of CORGI registration."

brucelawson, 19 days ago to random

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