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darekkay

@darekkay@fosstodon.org

Senior front-end engineer @IBM ❖ Accessibility advocate ❖ Minimalist

I love building awesome things and sharing what I know with others ❤️

#fedi22 #frontend #webdev #developer #accessibility #a11y #javascript #typescript #react #git

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cory, to random
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I’m thinking my next project may be storing and using my own TV/movie watching data.

darekkay,
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@cory Here's my media library (only movies and board games so far, more planned): https://media.darekkay.com/

I maintain my ratings and my watchlist via IMDb. IMDb doesn't have an API, but you can get CSV files with a logged-in cookie. I get the metadata via OMDbAPI and mdblist. Hope this is helpful 🙂

cory, to tech
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📝: A retrospective on a year without streaming music https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/a-retrospective-on-a-year-without-streaming-music/

darekkay,
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@cory Great post(s). I have a similar setup with Plex(amp). I've been using muspy.com to track new album releases for the bands I follow, but "Rate Your Music" also looks interesting.

AltTextHealthCheck, to random
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Results from tracking 25,806 images across 1,571 instances from the mastodon.social federated timeline.

Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 33 images (2x the average).

darekkay,
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@Mehrad @fosstodon @AltTextHealthCheck I'm sure @kev can raise the awareness with a little blog post and move fosstodon up the list. Unfortunately, Kev misses the alt description in most of his images, excluding blind and visually-impaired readers (I don't want to public shame, just raise awareness and motivate people to invest the time).

kev, (edited ) to random
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I've been trying Kagi Search for the last couple of weeks; my trial has now ended and I've decided to subscribe. Here's why...

https://kevquirk.com/my-thoughts-on-kagi-search

darekkay,
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@kev Apart from the advertised benefits (better results, privacy, ...), I feel like the AI part is worth mentioning. And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't buy into the AI hype. I've been using Kagi's Summarizer and FastGPT to supplement my search, and despite the usual hit&miss with LLMs, I see it as a plus overall. Next month, the AI Assistant is planned to become available for "Professional" users as well, further increasing the value I get from my subscription.

nhoizey, to photography French
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I created a new page in my photography site to show some statistics about the settings used to shoot the photos I share there: apertures, focal lengths, ISOs, shutter speeds.

<https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/statistics/>

Do you think any other statistics could be interesting?

This is of course using @eleventy 's collections and filters, based on photo data stored in Markdown files.

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/notes/2023/11/02/1/

darekkay,
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@nhoizey @ffoodd Thanks for this piece of information! I was looking some time ago for such a solution and had to come up with my own ( example: https://darekkay.com/report/ ). I'll consider switching to Chaarts :)

darekkay,
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@chsmc @nhoizey I use a similar approach, as described in my post: https://darekkay.com/blog/photography-website/#metadata-update

You might also like this approach: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/data-custom/#feed-exif-image-data-into-the-data-cascade

darekkay,
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@nhoizey Great addition! I was expecting a different image for the 1/30000 shutter speed 😄

Depending on whether you ever use a flash, this could be another useful category.

darekkay,
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@nhoizey @ffoodd Unfortunately, Chaarts doesn't render any charts on mobile (I've checked your page and the official examples on Chrome and Firefox) :(

darekkay, to photography
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✒️ I've published a technical write-up about my photography website. It turned out to be my second longest blog post 😯

https://darekkay.com/blog/photography-website/

darekkay,
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@nhoizey Bien sûr, I had to highlight your site! It's so polished - with the map, categories, tags, gear links, gallery hover animation, etc. One can see the amount of work you have put into it 🙂

erikKroes, to random
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🔎 What smol (personal?) Design Systems do you know?

  1. They're extremely interesting
  2. I don't want to overdo mine (maybe a little)

🙏🏿

darekkay,
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@erikKroes "Design system" is maybe too much to say (I call it a "style guide"), but here's mine: https://darekkay.com/style-guide/style-guide.html

It's open-source: https://github.com/darekkay/darekkay-styles/

darekkay, to 11ty
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🌈 Did you know the dev server in @eleventy 2.0 supports middleware? Here's how I use it to test the loading behavior of my images: https://darekkay.com/blog/eleventy-delay-middleware/

erikKroes, to random
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Adventures into the fediverse!

I'm trying out Pixelfed. Not sure why that requires another account. Or how that works. But for now, I've made @erikKroes to try things.

darekkay,
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@erikKroes @erikKroes You don't really need a separate account. You can post photos on Mastodon and everyone can follow you from Pixelfed (and vice-versa). In practice, I like the separation: Mastodon for regular posts and Pixelfed for photos, similar to their commercial counterparts.

darekkay,
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@erikKroes @erikKroes I guess that's how federation works. I can't login with my Mastodon account from Fosstodon.org instance on your Mastodon.social instance, yet we can communicate with eachother.

matthiasott, to random
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Thinking about the redesign of my website a bit. How about only people who are logged in into my site get to see the content? 🤔 And I’m also thinking about adding full-screen, sound-on video ads to my blog’s feed. To attract advertisers, you know.

darekkay,
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@matthiasott Can I pay money to get a checkmark next to my username and have my blog comments prioritized?

yatil, to random
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Oh no, what happened to contrast-ratio.com?

Any good contrast calculator pages around that don’t load a load of images and also concentrate on WCAG 2 contrast?

darekkay,
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@yatil I've created my own tool some time ago (open-source, so you can fork and customize it): https://darekkay.com/dev/color-tools.html

darekkay, to Blog
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💡 Did you know you can style your feed and provide some additional information about what RSS is at the same time? If not, check out my latest post: https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-styling/

darekkay,
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@jake4480 Thank you! 🙂

darekkay,
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@sarajw I'm glad my post was helpful 🙂

darekkay,
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@sarajw @astro I'm an @eleventy user and I can write my own RSS and sitemap templates. I don't use the official plugins; my sitemap is 10 lines of code. Not sure if Astro supports a similar concept.

yatil, to random
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Double checking my work with an automated tool, and ran into this “best practice” rule of axe. Took 20 minutes to research that this rule does not exist in ARIA at all.

It’s distracting and takes time away from actual barriers if we have minor nuances in tools like this. Especially if some take them as gospel.

https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.1/landmark-complementary-is-top-level?application=RuleDescription

darekkay,
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@yatil The whole purpose of an "aside" is to include optional content as part of another section, e.g. a callout quote within an article. This axe rule doesn't make any sense.

kev, to random
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    darekkay,
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    @kev I think my blog ticks most of the boxes. My post frequency varies from year to year, I plan to get it up again this year.
    https://darekkay.com/atom.xml

    You can also check my blog roll, maybe there's something that is not yet on your list:
    https://darekkay.com/personal-blogs/

    erikKroes, to random
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    I miss looking at images, so I'm rebooting my Flickr account.

    Anybody I should be following? Tips? Landscape photography, art, lego, , anything!

    darekkay,
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    @erikKroes On a 6€ Hetzner VPS (along with all my other websites and projects) 😀 The website itself is built with Eleventy. I've been working on a technical write-up blog post, but it rests with all my other drafts...

    darekkay,
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    @erikKroes Finally finished! https://darekkay.com/blog/photography-website/

    darekkay,
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    @erikKroes Thanks! I use draw.io / diagrams.net to create my charts. I've created a template with common colors, fonts and styles: https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/blob/master/apps/draw.io.json

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