robinwhittleton

sarajw, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

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

voxpelli, 3 months ago to random

Ran into an offended tourist today – offended that the coffee shop didn’t accept his lump of money

The cash free society here in Sweden is a shock to many foreigners

It’s rare to find a place that accepts cash here nowadays

tanepiper, 3 months ago to random

Google is so useless now - here is 5 emails from Google themselves, some relatively useful, that are just straight to Spam.

If I hadn't looked, I'd have never caught them.

aardrian, 3 months ago to random

Let’s remember #AudioEye is a bully:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/04/my-cease-desist-from-audioeye.html

Its #overlay (still) does not work:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/audioeye-will-get-you-sued.html

It SLAPPs critics (I am not the only one):
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/05/audioeye-is-suing-me.html

…and in the end harms users and #accessibility industry as a whole:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audioeye-has-dropped-its-suit-against-me.html

Throwing investor money at a clear PR ploy is not a fix (didn’t help #accessiBe). If anything, it highlights the scam.

Reputation washing works both ways. I feel bad for its new CAO who likely had good intentions.

joelanman, 4 months ago to random

What would you pick for an Olivia Colman film double bill?

joelanman, 4 months ago to random

a (sad) update on the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit/issues/2389

robinwhittleton, 4 months ago to random

The house blew a phase fuse at some point last night; consequently the interior temperature is currently reading 10.9°c 🥶

chriscoyier, 4 months ago to random

Is there any particular way of building websites that you're nostolgic for?

hdv, 5 months ago to random

If you had a magic wand and could make one piece of technology disappear and nobody would ever know it had existed, what would it be?

robinwhittleton, 5 months ago to random

I kinda love that our site has the ability to use augmented reality to try a CR2032 “in your home” (presumably to see if it matches the other furniture) https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/plattboj-lithium-battery-80291156/

sil, 5 months ago to random

Useful tip for explaining zero-based indexing of arrays to non-technical British English speakers, should you need to do so: it is how building floor numbering works, so it’s what you see on the buttons in a lift. G for ground, 1 for the next floor up, then 2, etc.

sarajw, 5 months ago to random

Um. How on earth did I get 1.5k followers?

Who are you all? Maybe some of you would like to follow each other? I'm really not one of the more interesting people here 😅

Permission to introduce yourself and talk nonsense in this thread has been granted:

sarajw, 5 months ago to random

I'm on a nostalgia trip, I think I've found my first smartphone, it was a T-Mobile SDA (maybe a rebranded HTC hurricane):

https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/reviews/68305-t-mobile-sda-smartphone-mobile-phone/

(I already had a PDA by then, which I mostly read pirated eBooks on)

I remember bouncing around between smartphones and 'communicators' like Nokia E71. I even had a BlackBerry for a while.

I also once had a 'phablet' (a Samsung Note Ii) which people laughed at me for - it was too big for a phone apparently - it had a 5.3" screen, hahah, sooo biiig!

joelanman, 5 months ago to webdev

Any recommendations for an email API provider? SendGrid, MailGun, other?
#webdev

sarajw, 6 months ago to random

I feel like all users have become accustomed to a certain level of jank and frustration - and we just... Go with it in the end.

And we even forget how frustrating we find stuff, because we grow so used to our workarounds:

https://social.coop/@scottjenson/111108789598812477

Not the point @scottjenson is making here, but it also drives me crazy how it's just not at all native to an Android smart phone (same in iOS maybe?) to just edit a simple text file. You have to download mystery apps to just view or edit *.txt files.

sarajw, 6 months ago to random

If there was a name for a Frontend Developer who sits ideally in front-of-the-front-end while also advising Design with regards Accessibility concerns, maybe UX here and there, and the feasibility of actually implementing the design ideas in code...

What would that role be called?

I get that Design Systems and the people who build them sit in this space. But still, what is that role called? And what if I'm not actively the one in charge of the design system?

joelanman, 6 months ago to random

Just wondering - whats the public toilet situation like in other countries? Because in the UK it's really really bad. There basically aren't any these days - your best bet is a pub and they always say 'for customers only'. I think it's really bad and excludes people who rely on having toilets available.

joelanman, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to CSS

couldnt the css flexbox options have had simpler naming? horizontal and vertical align instead of justify-content and align-items? And why flex-start and flex-end instead of just start and end as values?
#css

update - it's because some languages are written vertically, thanks @yatil

robinwhittleton, 6 months ago to random

As I’ve moved servers it’s probably time for a new #introduction!

Built my first couple of sites in the 90s, but I fell into front-end development as a career in 2003, just in time to make the choice to only bother to properly learn CSS and not table layout. And I honestly haven’t looked back.

My focus is always user-first tech-second, but that seems to be a valuable skill in the industry and I haven’t heard any complaints 😊

voxpelli, 6 months ago to random

Experienced a scary thing on Facebook today:

For a course I’m studying we have a Facebook group with a chat for all of the course participants.

Today one of the other members wanted to share a good move suggestion with the rest of us. She shared it, we got notifications, we saw it, then it got promptly removed.

In places one could see a message saying it was removed due to breaking “community guidelines”, but me as an admin of the group got no notification about it at all.

Scary 🥶