heydon

heydon, 8 days ago to random

If having nipples doesn't stop anyone from calling themselves a man, why should having a penis stop anyone from calling themselves a woman? Both are vestiges of a sex and gender not identified with.

heydon, 9 days ago to random

We were going to use a sample of a hellfire preacher in one of our songs but then thought twice about copyright issues. Then I was volunteered to recreate the sermon myself. Here's a clip. "Enjoy".

heydon, 13 days ago to random

Labour continue to try and purge all their actual socialists.

heydon, 18 days ago to random

Honestly, I hope my website is used to train AI. Can't wait for a Google search assistant to tell someone JavaScript will cause them to bleed out of their bum.

heydon, 19 days ago to random

Incorrect.

heydon, 20 days ago to random

It doesn't matter what ARIA Authoring Practices says. If you implement patterns that suppress tab interaction in favour of binding arrow keys (for tabs, menus, etc) your users will be confused and blocked. They will also hate you. As I said in a recent talk:

There are two ways you can make websites less accessible with ARIA:

1. Using ARIA incorrectly
2. Using ARIA correctly

heydon, 27 days ago to random

I think Angular users may even be worse than React users, on the whole, for using the wrong markup for stuff. Looking at a page with background images on <div>s instead of, well, images and a form made out of <li> and <a> elements with button roles instead of checkboxes and radios. Oh and not even in a <form> element, just a <div>.

heydon, 29 days ago to random

I played organ live for Beast With A Gun at the weekend. This is our cover of 96 Tears.

(* I am not an organist)

heydon, 29 days ago to random

Just read on BBC News that the new version of ChatGPT can flirt. Who is that for? Who asked for that? Who's interested in being chatted up by an ephemeral cloud of stolen reddit posts? Told by a soulless megazord of pilfered landing pages that it wants to "smash your back doors in 🥵"?

And why is the BBC, of all institutions, letting me know this radically pathetic experience is becoming available?

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Currently obsessed with Mudhoney. Many may write them off as "grunge also-rans". Not only was the term 'grunge' coined to describe their sound, but it's not the overdriven DS-1 sound of their more famous peers. It's 60s style germanium fuzz. They were the first grunge band to break the UK, the band's singer, Mark Arm, packages and ships their records himself and--for my money--their post grunge era records are their best. Oh! And they have lyrics about shithead antivaxxers.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Does anyone have any experience with SVG filters but applied to <canvas>? Before I go down that rabbit hole, does using them with <canvas> improve performance at all, or should I expect the same jankiness?

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Libertarianism:

For the powerless, it means freedom from being subjected to power. For the powerful, it means the freedom to wield it.

https://mastodon.online/@jackmjenkins/112414754093310573

heydon, 1 month ago to random

sigh I have an American client who is having trouble, they say, being able to convert to £ (their end) for paying me. I have business bank account for my LTD that only accepts £ or €, apparently.

Anyone know of a way around this? A service either they or I could use? I would really prefer not to change bank accounts. Wish I'd know Starling was this limited at the outset.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Final (🤔) mod is to replace the 3 saddle ashtray rubbish with this gotoh thinger. Love it; probably my first ever perfectly intonated baritone.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

There's no such thing as a necessary cookie.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes" https://beige.party/

heydon, 1 month ago to random

The problem with accessibility testing is, sometimes, the site is too inaccessible to fully test. 😞

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Another bizarre pattern I keep seeing a lot of is having multiple skip links to different parts of the page. Total overkill. If you actually use headings, there's no real need.

heydon, 1 month ago to accessibility

Was just reminded that you can use no headings in a web page and automated tests will pass you for WCAG compliance.

You can't use the wrong heading structure if you use no headings at all! Automated tests can't tell where the structure needs to be broken up into sections because they would have to understand the nature of the content. #a11y

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Currently apoplectic that the Speech Recognition API hears “fuck” and outputs ['f***']. You puritanical Christian dickheads are at it again aren't you?

heydon, 1 month ago to random

"You're old"

"Well, given matter can neither be created or destroyed, we're actually the same age. The perpetual process of our being recycled is just a little out of sync."

"That's such a millennial thing to say"

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Me, a front-end developer: “This design is inaccessible, we need to do [x] to fix it. Users will thank us.”
Them: “We'll need to check with the design department.”
Me: “Look at me. I am the designer now.”

heydon, 1 month ago to random

IN SOVIET RUSSIA JAVA SCRIPTS YOU!

heydon, 1 month ago to random

This is art. Modem noises assigned to Google taking data from you. https://axbom.com/the-creepy-sound-of-online-trackers/

(HT @aral)

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Experimenting more with CSS tests. See https://heydonworks.com/article/testing-html-with-modern-css/

:has(h1):has(:is(h3,h4,h5,h6)):not(:has(h2)), :has(h2):has(:is(h4,h5,h6)):not(:has(h3)), :has(h3):has(:is(h5,h6)):not(:has(h4)), :has(h4):has(h6):not(:has(h5)) {
outline: var(--error-outline);
--error-skipped-heading-level: 'You have skipped a heading level. For example, a subsection within a section introduced by an h3 is currently introduced by an h5 or h6';
}