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sarajw

@sarajw@front-end.social

Fresh front-end dev and techy generalist, mum of 2, euro-mongrel (🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇸🇪), lapsed swing dancer & DJ, erstwhile tall ship and dingy sailor, crocheter, lefty.

Work with :react:, but ❤️ vanilla :html5: :css3: :javascript: (particularly ✨CSS✨ 🥰)

Cis het - she/her, supporting :BLM: :a11y: 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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bendaubney, to random
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Today’s post for :

The joy of rediscovering brilliant bits of the web, and the sadness of the 404.

https://bendaubney.blog/2024/05/08/nobody-needs-a.html

sarajw,
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@bendaubney I find myself torn in two different directions on this.

In real life I suppose if we really loved a specific edition of a magazine, we'd buy and keep it. Depending on how much it meant to us, we'd throw it away later, or not.

Online we've been spoiled with so much glorious stuff at our fingertips - we can't print and keep it all. I guess we could download and archive interesting web pages (the Internet Archive is doing that for us, too).

But... I like that the internet is alive.

sarajw,
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@bendaubney Some bits grow, some die back, some get pruned.

All this data needs somewhere to live, it costs electricity to keep things online - do we really need to have everything online all at once?

People get overjoyed when they find old newspapers in attics from a century or more ago. At some point we'll maybe do the same digitally, finding interesting stuff on old media or hard drives.

belldotbz, to random
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This is a rather interesting read https://kevquirk.com/mastodon-is-ddosing-me

Hat tip to @hdv for the link

sarajw,
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@janl @belldotbz Assume I'm a noob and never had to deal with this personally. What's the 25 year old solution?

sarajw,
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@janl @belldotbz OK, thank you! I guess even if I am getting smashed by mastodon, I don't know about it because in my case Netlify is handling it all.

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

sarajw,
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@ollicle hah. Yes. True, probably best that the default easy one is straightforward... There are some really squooshy JS-powered scrolling things out there which aren't so pleasant.

sarajw,
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@ollicle ahahahah yes that's less cool

elazar, to random
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Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data. https://interviewing.io/blog/are-recruiters-better-than-a-coin-flip-at-judging-resumes?utm_source=tldrwebdev

sarajw,
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@elazar Ahhh. Interesting.

First reason for rejecting a resume, "missing skill". Fine.

Second reason, "Unclear what they worked on". So that really speaks to detailing specific things in the resume.

Third reason, "No top firm" - blah. Silly reason.

sarajw,
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@elazar Now I'm reading the rest of the article - even more interesting!

> we suspected that recruiters, regardless of what they say publicly, primarily hunt for name brands on your resume. Therefore, highlighting your skills or acquiring new skills is unlikely to make a big difference in your outcomes.

Ooof

sarajw,
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@elazar It all tracks with my experience. I never got one hit from applying via LinkedIn. I'd only get further when emailing an application.

sarajw, to random
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If there's a sort-of-selection widget, that's a grid of options - and upon activating one it acts like a button and opens a new modal flow - what is that? What is it called? Is it an existing thing?

Currently you have to tab through all the buttons in this grid to get through it and out the other side. So I think it needs roving tabindex.

I also think it should probably be navigable in two dimensions with arrow keys, like you'd expect in a calendar date picker.

sarajw,
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@cwilcox808 🫣 I really should have found that myself.

Thank you so much!

For my own reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Roles/Grid_Role

NanoRaptor, to random
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This photo of an apple two-button two-handed mouse is banned in twenty three countries.

sarajw,
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@NanoRaptor it's a pushmi-pullyu mouse

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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Shared with me by a colleague - oof.

https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

Feels like those creepy Black Mirror stories are coming ever closer.

sarajw,
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@andycarolan Yeah. Like the last sentence where the local library plays a part again. I hope people start rediscovering local services :)

andycarolan, to random
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So, I've finally moved from Three UK to EE. The service from Three used to be amazing, but for whatever reason, in the past 1-2 years, it's been bad... At least in my area.

sarajw,
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@sinky @andycarolan @maique EE came out of a T-Mobile and Orange merger, right? You'd think that between them, the signal should be good :)

I was on T mobile for years in the UK, probably could still connect with my old number if i want to. Back in the day some old internet contact gave me one of their Friends & Family discounts, winner...

baldur, to random
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I keep thinking that I should put a /now page on my website, except an honest one would just be a bunch of Beaker gifs 😅

Beaker runs with a chainsaw
Beaker is frantic as Kermit watches on
Beaker vibrates with anxiety

sarajw,
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@baldur yep just to echo other respondents - do it!

sarajw, to random
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Oooohkay. There's a thing in Germany called Kinderturnen. It's like baby gymnastics, I suppose. Often like an obstacle course.

Anyway, one boy is chasing another using a rope like a whip. The younger, smaller boy is crying out. I give chase and get the bigger boy to stop whipping him.

He's like "it's my brother?" and I'm like "so? Doing that hurts!" then, their father tells me again that they're brothers, and it's up to him to deal with them, not me. I'm like, ok.

1/2

sarajw,
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@eivind we were pretty ok by the end, I think. I'm fairly sure it was the same dad I was sat nearby, at the open afternoon at my eldest's new school - so it's for the best we're not at loggerheads.

belldotbz, to random
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I need more respondents on this form if you could? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc97QgOnDCeU_SyIO2odV0PE7A0wiWCdb32uGd2pGy16JVoKw/viewform

The question is should we change the name of https://piccalil.li?

It's currently split right down the middle…

Thanks pals!

sarajw,
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@belldotbz I can see why you're asking. Good reasons to change and not change.

Honestly, I miss hankchizljaw (can't remember how you spelt it)!

Once a decision is made to change though, you get to go through the not fun process of finding a new name. I can see why avoiding that would be good!

sarajw,
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@belldotbz Yeah I bet. I think you'll only want to change if you find something that makes you go yes!

chrisdavidmills, to random
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I've finally managed to get relative CSS colors documentation published on MDN. This was a complex beast to tackle, and I'm proud to see it out! Get started at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_colors/Relative_colors; also see the color function pages to find out what relative colors look like in each.

sarajw, (edited )
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@chrisdavidmills I'm afraid at the last minute it's going to come out of my talk because I think I may have found a bug!

Seems like doing say hsl(from Canvas 30 s l); doesn't follow how Canvas (a system color) flips between near-white to near-black when color-scheme changes from light to dark.

Interesting though!

sarajw,
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@chrisdavidmills Oh don't feel bad about that! Yes I need to work out where to put that issue and how to search that it's not already there...

sarajw,
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Hey @bramus I often get lost in how best to report issues such as this one - should it go through the in-Chrome feedback dialog or a repo or..?

@chrisdavidmills

sarajw,
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@bramus fantastic, thank you!

@chrisdavidmills

sarajw,
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@chrisdavidmills Bramus helped me out :)

Just changed the example I wrote two replies up as of course the lightness won't change when I set the lightness - but still having that trouble anyway.

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