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spaceninja

@spaceninja@mastodon.cloud

Front-end architect & CSS specialist at https://mastodon.social/@cloudfour in sunny Portland, Oregon. Freelance dungeon master. UFO Nerd https://mastodon.social/@veryexcitingtime. Curator https://hachyderm.io/@fridayfrontend. He/him.

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spaceninja, to random
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@zachleat will y'all be putting up videos of individual talks, or just the one big video? I'd love to share several of the individual talks in @fridayfrontend

spaceninja, to CSS
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isn’t real, they have played us for absolute fools https://cssisntreal.com

spaceninja, to accessibility
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Write alt text like you’re talking to a friend: “There was this dog wearing safety glasses, surrounded by chemistry equipment, saying ‘I have no idea what I’m doing.’” https://cloudfour.com/thinks/write-alt-text-like-youre-talking-to-a-friend/

spaceninja, to random
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The sheer number of confusingly named and overlapping file system APIs can be enough to make you want to move to the country to raise goats. 🐐🐐🐐 But don't worry, friends, I've got your back! https://cloudfour.com/thinks/the-many-confusing-file-system-apis/

spaceninja, to random
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Recently I turned my personal site homepage into a D&D-style character sheet, and it makes me happy every time I see it. https://spaceninja.com

grigs, to random
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On a recent project, we created a digital welcome packet for a hospital as an alternative to the 40+ page paper packet they give every patient.

The digital version would cost less (no press run), could be updated in real time, would produce less waste, and would be available on phones for patients and their families.

But solely relying on a digital version won’t work because not every patient will have access to it or may be impaired in a way that prevents them from using their phone.

spaceninja,
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@aardrian @grigs Great question! We tested using the Adobe Acrobat accessibility checks. Adding the option didn't make things perfect, but the PDF we were replacing was, uh, not accessible, like, at all, so the bar was very low. We did see that toggling the Prince setting added tagging and alt text, etc, but for sure this is one of those spots where I'm sure someone with deep knowledge of PDF a11y could help us find further improvements. https://www.princexml.com/doc/prince-output/#pdfua

spaceninja, to random
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👨🏻‍💻 For a recent client project, we needed to figure out how to generate a nicely designed PDF version of a website. It's a fun process, involving an Eleventy site, some cool CSS, and a PDF generation API. Check it out! https://cloudfour.com/thinks/how-to-create-a-website-and-a-pdf-from-the-same-codebase/

spaceninja, to random
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Huge bummer that A Book Apart is shutting down. I loved their approach with small, targeted books and frequent releases. I learned a lot, and their books still hold a spot on my shelf. https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart

spaceninja, to random
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OMG OMG OMG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJMuhwVlca4

spaceninja, to webdev
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are having a moment, y'all! I believe we're living through a rare moment in front-end, an inflection point that we'll look back at in the future and say "that's when it changed!" https://cloudfour.com/thinks/html-web-components-are-having-a-moment/

spaceninja, to CSS
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Surprising Facts about New Selectors: I set out to learn a bit about how CSS nesting works, especially the new & selector, and I ended up on a deep dive into the :is() selector and its siblings. https://cloudfour.com/thinks/surprising-facts-about-new-css-selectors/

Meyerweb, to random
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Apropos of nothing whatsoever, the word “grok” has always grated on my nerves for no reason I can adequately articulate. Same with “tricksy”, while I’m at it. Just nails on a chalkboard.

So, what word do you wish some author had never forced into existence?

spaceninja,
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@Meyerweb Says the guy who regularly says "on the gripping hand." 😁

Joking aside, I get it. I always second-guess myself when I use "grok", questioning whether enough people know what it means, and whether I should have just said "thoroughly understand."

spaceninja, to random
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🪺 CSS Nesting is here! When should you use it? I'm sure it won't surprise anyone to learn I have opinions on the topic: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/when-to-nest-css/

spaceninja, to accessibility
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I've been playing a lot of Starfield lately, and while I love flying around exploring space, I don't love the accessibility problems with all the in-game computers! https://cloudfour.com/thinks/starfield-accessibility/

spaceninja, to random
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☁️ Surprising no one, I have opinions about Git, and I just put up a new video on the Cloud Four channel all about why I think you should be squashing your pull requests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvmm4BuvgPc

spaceninja, to webdev
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🍿 I made a video about how to handle responsive images the simple way! Making videos like this is a new thing I'm trying for Cloud Four — let me know what you think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtV_2zXtuiU

spaceninja,
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@nhoizey That's great feedback, thanks! I'll keep it in mind for upcoming videos. 😄

mia, to random
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'Hard' Sci Fi clearly exposes the need for more 'hard' genres: Hard romance, hard sitcom, hard dramatic comedy, hard biopic, etc.

spaceninja,
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@mia Mia.

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