brucelawson

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, 2 months ago to random

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

brucelawson, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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/

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

What with collapsing bridges and ISIS and Gaza and Ukraine, I worried you might have missed this important story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68656787

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

Who's got a really good example of a form with accessible validation & error messages? I want to show a colleague how to assess forms with a screen reader and examples of good are much harder to find than examples of crap.

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

EU opens DMA investigations of Apple, Meta, Google https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/eu-opens-dma-investigations/ I wote a thing, with videos of Apple's total evasion and what seemed to me to be disdain bordering on contempt for the developers who had assembled for their DMA compliance workshop at EU last week.

mattwilcox, 2 months ago to random

CSS People... am I making it up, or have I seen a thing recently with modern techniques that allow you to make animatable background gradients of a sort where you have heavily blurred blobs wandering around, that's actually performant and not a banded mess?

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

EU opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689 "Today, the Commission has opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into Alphabet's rules on steering in Google Play and self-preferencing on Google Search, Apple's rules on steering in the App Store and the choice screen for Safari and Meta's “pay or consent model”.

The Commission suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA."

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

It would have been my grandad's 100th birthday today. He was highly decorated in the War. My grandma always says it was all the tinsel and bunting on his helmet that got him killed on the first day.

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

Apple’s new Core Technology Fee is a Core Technology Fleece https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/apples-new-core-technology-fee-is-a-core-technology-fleece/

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

Inclusive Sans is a text font designed for accessibility and readability https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

Nike replaces Three Lions on England kit with three pink flamingos.
https://newsthump.com/2024/03/22/nike-replaces-three-lions-on-england-kit-with-three-pink-flamingos/ < You couldn't make it up!

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

UNITED STATES v. APPLE, INC, filed today https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68362334/1/united-states-v-apple-inc/

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

I'm listening to Google's DMA compliance workshop. A clear swipe at Apple from them: we don't see it as security versus compliance; it's about complying while keeping the user secure.

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

Oh blimey

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

Happy Vernal Equinox to all those who vern. I'm just back from stonehenge where we daubed each other's nude bodies and engaged in a night-long, sweaty ancient fertility rite full of grunting and pain, called "npm install"

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

I'm at an EU workshop for Apple to discuss and justify its DMA compliance plans. They've been forced into 3 huge u-turns by EU (killing PWAs, removing Epic Games' developer licenses, sideloading) so I'm interested to see their demeanour. Will it be humility, or the usual 'fuck you, we're Apple'? There are people from EU companies that Apple blithely planned to bankrupt by sneakily removing PWAs here. And regulators have human feelings too; no-one like "fuck you". I'll be here all day (try the baguettes!)