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ollicle

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Design with a web bent

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danielpunkass, to random
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I go to fix one bug and pretty soon I'm revamping an entire interface. It's the story of my life. This is what happens when indie developers don't have product managers telling them what to do. The agony and the ecstasy.

ollicle,
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@danielpunkass “Living the dream” and discovering the importance of being specific.

scottjehl, to random
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In watching talks this week about all that has recently landed or is on the way right now, I don't recall a time when useful features were standardizing and landing in browsers at anything near the speed we're seeing now. So many JS workarounds are being replaced with simple, often elegant declarative alternatives. Great to see

ollicle,
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@owa @slightlyoff @scottjehl It’s wonderful! 🎉 Thank-you for your part in it.
I wish this work had the same effect on Firefox funding.

brad_frost, to random
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YOU DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT PRIVILEGES TO ACCESS THIS KNOWLEDGE ITEM.

ollicle,
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@patrick_h_lauke @brad_frost sounds like one of the HTTP codes I never learnt

baldur, to random
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“WebKit Features in Safari 17.5”

starting-style looks like a prime candidate for progressive enhancement

(Which does highlight an issue I have with Baseline. A feature that works with progressive enhancement is usable well before it has full browser support.) https://webkit.org/blog/15383/webkit-features-in-safari-17-5/

ollicle,
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@baldur I am rather excited for this particular progressive enhancement. It helps me justify the many instances where I have simply not bothered adding animation because complexity.

glennf, to random
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It just struck me what Apple got wrong with its “crushing ad.”

They thought we would identify with the iPad, not the creative instruments and materials.

ollicle,
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@glennf it’s that simple.

The iPhone ad was nice and nerdy. Why not an iPad ad “it’s bigger on the inside” with:

  • Dr Who Tardis references.
  • Bag of holding D&D references.
tanepiper, to node
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Here's me trying to make sure we ship as secure as possible software, and there's someone who doesn't know how to use an npm ignore file to not ship their shitty docker files in their modules

ollicle,
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@tanepiper I would enjoy the irony if one configured this script with a dot file of its own.

.undot

ollicle,
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@tanepiper Fewer node_modules files can only be a good outcome!

sarajw, to random
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Wish it was possible to specify easing and duration on scroll-behavior

ollicle,
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@sarajw until you experience someone else’s scroll easing selection.

ollicle,
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@sarajw I had visions of my page bouncing into place 🫣

aardrian, to random
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Native keyboard scrollable areas are not coming to the next Chrome (again):
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40113891#comment63

The gag is that I keep updating this post by adding more question marks and confirming Safari appears to be doing nothing:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyboard-only-scrolling-areas.html#Update08

Sadly, tabindex / role / accName until both Chrome and Safari fix this.

ollicle,
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@patrick_h_lauke @aardrian infinite scroll

molly0xfff, to web
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Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

ollicle,
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@aral @molly0xfff I’m not remotely interested in the web past compared to what we can make with today’s web standards.

I have faith that community can help us bypass the AI rubble.

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

ollicle,
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@kornel @heydon In reassured by the idea that my f**** machine becomes more useful with every additional person that also uses a f**** machine. Everyone needs a f**** machine!

matthiasott, to random
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I sent an email! 🎉

ollicle,
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@matthiasott how did it find them?

Tallish_Tom, to accessibility
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Asking Mastadon.

Can anyone recommend good online resources to learn ? Really am asking for a friend, they would ideally like something structured like a course.

Thanks!

(Apologies for tagging individuals as well, I hope that isn't rude).
@angelikatyborska
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@baldur

ollicle,
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@cferdinandi @Tallish_Tom @angelikatyborska @5t3ph @baldur @SaraSoueidan I got a few chapters into this course today. I have not been disappointed!

Highlights of the first few hours include:

🔪 Sara’s enthusiam while slicing a precise line between semantics and accessibility
🐦 The accessibility tree diagram with feathery residents
🐓 The distant rooster providing a brief “VoiceOver”

I’m looking forward to digging deeper this week ☺️

cferdinandi, to random
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Listen... if your sentence starts with "The problem with Bluey is..." you've already fucking lost. Just shut your mouth and take the L.

Bluey is the perfect TV show.

ollicle,
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@nicod @cferdinandi Bluey is a kids cartoon set in Queensland made here in Australia. It looks superficially like many other kids shows you may have seen. The characters are a family of cute talking animals that dance in the opening credits.

From that point it diverges from your (understandably low) expectations of a children’s television production.

The stories and characters are delightfully real. The best and only fanciful element of the show is the overwhelmingly great parenting in it.

csilverman, to random
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Curious to see how people interpret this pattern. Is the switch on or off?

(I would have done a poll, but apparently you can't have an image and a poll in the same post.)

ollicle,
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@csilverman Who needs a boxed undead cat – when you can replace a simple checkbox with one of these.

aardrian, to random
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I don’t know which companies need to hear this, but it’s ok, you don’t have to hold a event.

Maybe just share all the other ones or recommend one to check out. Let your employees attend one.

You don’t have to follow the CSUNATC model of 40 competing events.

ollicle,
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@aardrian A minute of silence to commemorate the world’s missing alt works best if you spring it on everyone in the stand-up.

elly, to random
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Okay, so we got align-content in block layouts. Hear me out, what about gap in block layouts too? 👉🏻👈🏻🥺 I think that’d be pretty neat.

ollicle,
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@elly I like this! It feels disjointed at times switching between child margins and gap depending on the display.

janl, (edited ) to random German
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Who called it “chiropractor” and not “neckromancer”?

ollicle,
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@bastianallgeier @janl cracking joke!

aardrian, to random
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So that was swell.

The clouds suddenly broke, the moon slid into place, and it was as if someone flipped off the lights so a fire-rimmed eye could stare into me.

Also, have not researched to confirm what it was yet, but I saw a coronal lump of some sort with the naked eye. I was hoping for a CME or solar flare, but I’ll take it

ollicle,
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@aardrian the clouds make for a more interesting photo I reckon.

newcrafts, to random French
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Introducing the Small Web, where you own and control your space online. Join Aral Balkan in a live coding demo using Kitten, a Small Web server empowering everyday folks to craft their own corner of the internet. Let's reclaim the web for people, not profits!
Watch: https://buff.ly/497SHNg and join us at the Conference!

ollicle,
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@aral I watched your streaming HTML demo. Hearty applause for making it a completely functional counter demonstration 👏

Kitten looks like a magical brew! I look forward to watching the fuller introduction.

ollicle, to random
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Family discussion about the down sides associated the affliction of Main Character Syndrome*. Self assigned plot armour is a major one. Think young men driving.

*MCS is a term the kid learned from a friend at primary school to describe overly self involved people. Useful!

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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"Stone dropping by Conomyrma bicolor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): A new technique of interference" DOI:10.1007/s00040-022-00876-2

Ants are not often thrilled to have ants as neighbors. They express distaste by locating their garbage pile on the nest entrance of unwanted ants next door.

(Jordan Dean has recorded Camponotus sp. in Australia doing this, and it seems Dorymyrmex do it too.)

This behavior is called "stone dropping" or "soil dropping" in the lit. (Rather than "trolling")

ollicle,
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@futurebird Chanced upon these unusally busy Titan Pony ants in the park today. Preparing for the forecast rain this afternoon, I thought.

Then I noticed a single ant of another species (Sugar ant maybe?) dropping a selected piece of stick and rubble back into their hole before quickly dashing away to get another.

How chill are those Ponies about the work it is making for them.

video/mp4

ollicle,
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@futurebird I know! The quick scamper after the delivery is particularly funny.

Of all the jobs and responsibilities an ant could choose to put energy into. This is how she chose to spend her afternoon.

Imagining it as an allocated duty is only funnier.

ollicle,
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@futurebird this is the only share at this point. You are welcome to upload.

The original is slightly longer. If you can wait a few hours I can upload it somewhere at lunchtime.

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