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robinwhittleton

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Front-end at IKEA (focusing on design systems, accessibility), ex GOV.UK. Opinions my own (or at least not IKEA’s). 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 #designSystems #accessibility #standardEbooks

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robinwhittleton, to random
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Most of my spare brain power is currently going to wondering how my attempt at the is going to go on Sunday. Trying to enjoy the run-up nerves, as there won’t be another first attempt at a marathon.

zachleat, to random
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inside me is two woffs that I desperately wish was one variable woff

robinwhittleton,
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@zachleat I looked into this for the day job, but there’s no value unless you specifically want to use the variability.

robinwhittleton,
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@zachleat maybe we’ve heavily optimised our files already, but I was seeing more KB with a variable font. Partially this was down to an unknown-to-me semibold in Noto Sans variable. But even after stripping that out, the axes added enough that it wasn’t worth it.

Where we did see a big benefit from variable fonts was (ironically) not in the font itself, but in halving the size of the CJK font chunk CSS.

gutenberg_org, (edited ) to random
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Service outage April 9 via @gbnewby

Due to an unplanned outage at our hosting facility, search functions and book download pages have been unavailable since the afternoon of April 9. We hope to have services restored by the morning of April 10 (Eastern Daylight Time). It may take a little time after that for the latest new books to be processed.

Thanks for your comprehension!

robinwhittleton,
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@gutenberg_org hope all of the PG staff aren’t too stressed. It’ll be fixed when it’s fixed ❤️

ben, to random
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Made the mistake of writing a jokey post about Tesla FSD, someone posted it to Hacker News, getting a few private messages, rethinking my life

robinwhittleton,
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@ben ah nuts, genuinely sorry :/ In retrospect I should have guessed that it would have turned into a flamewar. Today’s lesson…

robinwhittleton, to random
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Reworked the IKEA SVG logo today to fix some jankiness in Chromium in fractional scaling environments, and saved 110 bytes in the process. A good Friday ☺️

robin, to random
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If you're still using Chrome in 2024, the only question is why?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/technology/google-chrome-browser-data.html

robinwhittleton,
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@robin some big Chrome ad campaigns going on in Sweden at least. Guess they’re getting worried.

robinwhittleton,
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@robin I’d assumed it was getting iPhone users to switch in advance of a Blink release. I can’t find the videos now, but there’s one about “fake homepages” and a couple on built-in translate being useful when you’re on holiday.

hdv, to random
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I have a child that doesn't like pizza. I also received a sourdough starter from a friend last week that I'm preparing some experiments with.

Will I change their mind?

robinwhittleton,
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@sarajw @hdv good thing you left Sweden then, given the prevalance of chips on pizza.

robinwhittleton,
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@sarajw my local pizzeria has a “King Kung” which apparently comprises tomato sauce, cheese, kebab meat, chilis, chips and garlic sauce.

Still sounds better than fish finger pizza 🤢

robinwhittleton,
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@sarajw @hdv the true Swedish pizza experience.

robinwhittleton,
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@sarajw @hdv this has turned into a quality Friday afternoon Slack thread at work too. Was just reminded about Stellan’s kiwi pizza https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/stellans-pizza-blev-en-snackis-i-hela-varlden/

baldur, (edited ) to random
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Not going to comment on the US vs Apple lawsuit, but I will say this: a big corporation doesn’t get into lawsuits and regulatory trouble with several countries on several continents without severe misbehaviour. Nobody sues a multi-billion dollar multinational just for fun. Apple earned this

robinwhittleton,
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@baldur six orders of magnitude out 😅

robinwhittleton,
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@baldur multi-trillion at this point ($2.6T+ today). It’s insane.

robinwhittleton, to random
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Starting to feel like there’s something wrong with me as a developer, when I see my colleague’s happy faces whenever AI or LLMs are mentioned. At best it’s a little interesting and at worst a ridiculous waste of resources for a negative value.

robinwhittleton,
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@Jbasoo I don’t use Copilot personally, but the biggest value seems to be as an “unblocker” rather than as a constant aid. At least nonsense is a starting point I guess.

robinwhittleton, to random
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This is impossible with current CSS right? Couplets where on each line the initial part is width-matched for the entire verse, but the second part can overflow into a new linebox. Closest I’ve got is display: table which gets us width matching, but of course that doesn’t allow for overflow.

robinwhittleton,
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@sarajw yep, each line is a span separated by a br, and contains two spans. I could change that if necessary.

I did play around with subgrid a bit but didn’t get anywhere promising. Will give it another go though later.

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How did humanity exist for hundreds of thousands of years, yet it seems our cultural memory only really goes back about 3500 years?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240307-the-160-year-mystery-of-the-stone-age-venus-figurines

robinwhittleton,
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@tanepiper Australian Aboriginal memory seems to go back further, e.g. an oral tradition that contains records of one of the last volcanos to erupt in mainland Australia 30k years ago: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-26/study-dates-victorian-volcano-that-buried-a-human-made-axe/11991290

hdv, to random
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Hm, in this latest newsletter, Jakob Nielsen suggests generative AI can “replace” accessibility. this idea is wrong on various levels https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/accessibility-generative-ui

(grumpy me notes this also contains an infographic without alt; something something about getting basics right before making grander statements)

robinwhittleton,
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@hdv what Nielsen is not considering (or has conveniently swept under the rug) is that to engage with a tuned AI that generates a design, a user would have to expose their needs and consequently their disability status to the company in question. It’s a complete non-starter from a privacy point of view in any sane regulatory system.

tanepiper, to random
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Was actually shocked today when we went to the cash and carry to get in months supplies. Actually looked at Pesto. 99% are made with Cashew nut and not pine nuts - yet still sold as pesto. It's like when you see dog food "with chicken" then read the ingredients and it's mostly wheat and egg.

robinwhittleton,
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@tanepiper also a lot of sunflower oil and potato flakes. Always check the ingredients.

erikKroes, to random
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Did a Sonoma upgrade.

Good news, I think my webcam now consistently works in Teams!

Sad news, my emoji-picker-thingy is now glitched and won't work in FireFox? (imagine a emoji with a sad face here)

robinwhittleton,
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@erikKroes bug in Firefox. It’s sort of fixed in Nightly but it’s still being worked on.

voxpelli, to random
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The monetization of the software security business is getting out of hand.

Security issues gets invented or made up to satisfy budgets and growth or fame and bug bounties.

This reminds me of the more valid, but for most devs rarely relevant, ReDoS security issues that feels
like it makes up 2/3 of all npm security reports nowadays, causing such alert fatigue that pretty much all issues are shrugged away as being “theoretical DoS” rather than “may get hacked” https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111963196675992402

robinwhittleton,
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@voxpelli only ⅔rds? I wonder if the current swing back towards better tooling and managed languages will cause less payouts overall, further splitting the industry into chancers and senior experts.

tink, to random
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Is anyone else on the front-end.social instance getting spammed wildly? I've gone from none to perhaps 30 a day in the last few days. Trying to report them but trying to keep up is a losing battle.

robinwhittleton,
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@tink no. I’ve been vaguely bemused at the current reporting of a spam tsunami as I haven’t seen a single one.

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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For anyone who needs this, BLÅHAJ is pronounced blaw-high.

Editing to add that you can hear it by clicking on the little speaker icon: https://translate.google.com/?sl=sv&tl=en&text=bl%C3%A5haj&op=translate

robinwhittleton,
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@sarajw the latest is dialectal puns. We’ve got an exercise range called DAJLIEN, apparently Småländskt for “dagligen”, which I guess makes sense.

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