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sarajw, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

T shirt twinsies! @paul @heydon #CSSday

sarajw, 6 days ago to random

Hey @heydon, @matthiasott has a request! #cssday

heydon, 9 days ago to random

We were going to use a sample of a hellfire preacher in one of our songs but then thought twice about copyright issues. Then I was volunteered to recreate the sermon myself. Here's a clip. "Enjoy".

heydon, 8 days ago to random

If having nipples doesn't stop anyone from calling themselves a man, why should having a penis stop anyone from calling themselves a woman? Both are vestiges of a sex and gender not identified with.

heydon, 13 days ago to random

Labour continue to try and purge all their actual socialists.

heydon, 18 days ago to random

Honestly, I hope my website is used to train AI. Can't wait for a Google search assistant to tell someone JavaScript will cause them to bleed out of their bum.

rem, 19 days ago to random

Anyone know of/recommend a Firefox extension that zap all your storage for the current origin? The ones I've found nuke all data, which isn't what I want.

I thought FF had the same thing as Chrome's "Clear site data" (from devtools->application), but I can't find it.

heydon, 19 days ago to random

Incorrect.

heydon, 20 days ago to random

It doesn't matter what ARIA Authoring Practices says. If you implement patterns that suppress tab interaction in favour of binding arrow keys (for tabs, menus, etc) your users will be confused and blocked. They will also hate you. As I said in a recent talk:

There are two ways you can make websites less accessible with ARIA:

1. Using ARIA incorrectly
2. Using ARIA correctly

ben, 1 month ago to accessibility

There was an interesting #accessibility question in the #11tyConf chat I wanted to surface.

Say your site styles are responding to the prefers-contrast: less media query. Must they still conform to the relevant 4.5:1 and 3:1 contrast ratios when the media query is active?

heydon, 27 days ago to random

I think Angular users may even be worse than React users, on the whole, for using the wrong markup for stuff. Looking at a page with background images on <div>s instead of, well, images and a form made out of <li> and <a> elements with button roles instead of checkboxes and radios. Oh and not even in a <form> element, just a <div>.

heydon, 29 days ago to random

Just read on BBC News that the new version of ChatGPT can flirt. Who is that for? Who asked for that? Who's interested in being chatted up by an ephemeral cloud of stolen reddit posts? Told by a soulless megazord of pilfered landing pages that it wants to "smash your back doors in 🥵"?

And why is the BBC, of all institutions, letting me know this radically pathetic experience is becoming available?

heydon, 29 days ago to random

I played organ live for Beast With A Gun at the weekend. This is our cover of 96 Tears.

(* I am not an organist)

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Currently obsessed with Mudhoney. Many may write them off as "grunge also-rans". Not only was the term 'grunge' coined to describe their sound, but it's not the overdriven DS-1 sound of their more famous peers. It's 60s style germanium fuzz. They were the first grunge band to break the UK, the band's singer, Mark Arm, packages and ships their records himself and--for my money--their post grunge era records are their best. Oh! And they have lyrics about shithead antivaxxers.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Does anyone have any experience with SVG filters but applied to <canvas>? Before I go down that rabbit hole, does using them with <canvas> improve performance at all, or should I expect the same jankiness?

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Libertarianism:

For the powerless, it means freedom from being subjected to power. For the powerful, it means the freedom to wield it.

https://mastodon.online/@jackmjenkins/112414754093310573

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Me, a front-end developer: “This design is inaccessible, we need to do [x] to fix it. Users will thank us.”
Them: “We'll need to check with the design department.”
Me: “Look at me. I am the designer now.”

heydon, 1 month ago to random

There's no such thing as a necessary cookie.

heydon, 1 month ago to random

Final (🤔) mod is to replace the 3 saddle ashtray rubbish with this gotoh thinger. Love it; probably my first ever perfectly intonated baritone.