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sarajw, to random
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I'm so happyyyyyyyyy!!!

A profile photo of the cargo e-bike taken in front of a wide part of Hamburg's canals or maybe the north of the Außenalster. It's a long tail, big wheel at the front, chunky basket, two seats on the back behind the saddle with a foot rest, padding and guard rails.

ericmikkelsen,
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@sarajw I have the exact midwestern anxiety about my ebike, but I think of it more as a very cheap car, than an expensive bike, and that helps me feel less "oh well, la deee dahhh"

zachleat, to random
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A front-end web developer just starting out—in order to feel most aligned with the industry and apply for the best jobs—will most likely start in a tool-chain that is not aligned with web standards.

In some cases these tools are actively hostile to web standards.

How do we begin to dig ourselves out of this mess?

ericmikkelsen,
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@zachleat I feel like tool chains exist to handle components in some way. So we need tools that let us build components without deviating as far away fro web standards. So obviously, you've done some of the work with 11ty and WebC to try to fix this.

5t3ph, to webdev
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📝 New post:
"A Call for Consensus on Semantics"

Partly a rant, minorly educational, mostly a call for help.

https://thinkdobecreate.com/articles/a-call-for-consensus-on-html-semantics/

ericmikkelsen,
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@mia @5t3ph This is kinda funny, because tables of contents are basically built into screen readers. So it's a matter of giving sighted users access to features that unsighted users have already

heydon, to random
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Does your Masto app italicise this? Or maybe it's your instance that does it? I'm not sure where the sporadic markdown parsing comes from.

ericmikkelsen,
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@heydon I'm in elk and seeing the underscores

zachleat, to random
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sweating profusely

I have advocated for myself

still sweating

…when do the good feelings about it start

ericmikkelsen,
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@zachleat About who? you? I've started that already, have you not been receiving them? Can you refresh your soul cache? We've been sending good vibes everyday since (checks notes) the first time we used 11ty 3 years ago.

5t3ph, to random
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Pomodoro for parents is "allowing" your kids to have an hour of screen time so that you can get something done and/or a nap.

ericmikkelsen,
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@5t3ph my first read of this was "allow your kids to have sour cream time" which, sure, sour cream is delicious

chriscoyier, to random
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Cannonball is such a badass song: https://chriscoyier.net/2023/09/20/cannonball-is-such-a-badass-song/

ericmikkelsen,
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@chriscoyier my only musical ability is doing the first 8 seconds of that song acapella. Thwah ka ta ka, ta ka ta, buh dum dum dum dum .... etc....

ericmikkelsen, to random
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Just launched https://colors.fyi, it's a list of all the colors that are WCAG AA compliant with black and white.

Made with love with @eleventy.

jensimmons, to random
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Do you use SVG to create favicons for your websites or web apps?

Got links to big sites that use SVG favicons? Reply with examples!

ericmikkelsen,
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@jensimmons my mp3 player radio house uses them. https://radio-house.app/

matthiasott, to random
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If you could pick the brains of the smartest people in the web industry on the topic of building and maintaining your own personal website and publishing your work online – what would you ask them?

Repost=😻

ericmikkelsen,
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@matthiasott "How. Dare. You." And maybe "who do you think you are", and finally "what gives you the right"

mia, to CSS
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What would you want to understand better about - about how it works, or why it works the way it does?

(This is research for a thing)

ericmikkelsen,
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@mia css perspective, and the weird stuff around css parallax

jensimmons, (edited ) to random
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If you write CSS.... how do you feel about position and all of absolute positioning??

ericmikkelsen,
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@mia @jensimmons This is what I would of have picked if it were an option

danirabbit, to random
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There is no sustainable altruism under capitalism.

ericmikkelsen,
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@danirabbit I'm always the accessibility guy where ever I work, and the number of times, I had to advocate for something that was only for people with disabilities is pretty low. Most things that I do for people with disabilities, just makes everything better for everyone.

But also you make operating systems, and I make websites so it totally makes sense that we've had different experiences.

5t3ph, to CSS
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What are some things you've built-in to your mindset or starters to "get around" limitations or quirks of #CSS?

ericmikkelsen,
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@5t3ph asking designers if we can do these things as inline-block or flexbox wrap so I don't have to use media queries for changing the number of items in a row

zachleat, to random
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A new blog post with some important news about the future of Eleventy @eleventy

https://www.zachleat.com/web/eleventy-side-project/

Appreciate y’all ❤️

ericmikkelsen,
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@zachleat @eleventy This is a bummer, you've made such a great big thing. I've benefitted so much from you getting to work on it for this year, so thank's a million.

danirabbit, to random
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One of the most frustrating and discouraging parts of working on open source software is you get a bunch of people saying, “X is the most important thing to work on. You only work on Y, you never listen to your users”. So you focus on X and you work really hard and you make meaningful progress on making X better and you release it and a bunch of people go “Z is the most important thing to work on. You only ever do X. You never listen to your users”. And you do this forever

ericmikkelsen,
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@danirabbit it's been a minute since I've used elementary, and this might be a side tangent, but y'all have made something crazy beautiful and usable. Thank you so much for all that work. You're amazing.

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