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by darekkay 8y ago
I've started blogging on firstlast.com (using my online alias), but by now I've turned it into my de-facto online portfolio. Most of what I publish goes to firstlast.com/project or project.firstlast.com. I don't think th
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by darekkay 8y ago
> I'm not that interesting; I don't have anything to show off; and inevitably it'll either become a chore or go out of date. The main goal of my blog was not to be interesting or show off (even though I do include my side
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by darekkay 8y ago
> I think the main thing you should have in mind when you make a personal website is to not have any expectations. Nobody cares, nobody will read your words, etc - until they do, until you're suddenly discovered, and people go back
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by darekkay 8y ago
> The accessibility audits are not comprehensive. A site can get a perfect score of 100 on accessibility and still be miserably inaccessible. I fully agree. However, it's different the other way: a site with a score under 100 is for
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by darekkay 8y ago
As an accessibility advocate, I always highly appreciate accessibility-first libraries. Thank you :) I agree with Nadya. Wrong or false labels do in fact cause more harm than good. I understand that you want to provide sane default, but I w
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by darekkay 8y ago
> 1. They were mostly aimed at scrapbooking, emphasizing visual over just displaying the data. > 2. All required an account with the app and the app-controlled your data. If the app goes away in the future, so do your bookmarks. I kno
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by darekkay 8y ago
Axess Lab (a company specialized on accessibility) also blogged about this "feature" [1]. This reminds me of providing a "m.example.com" website just for mobile phones. Finally people noticed that making websites respons
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by darekkay 8y ago
Another reason to switch to one of the alternatives [1]. [1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
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by darekkay 8y ago
What I'm missing from the post is the difference between links and buttons and why it's important. When a screen reader user hears "link", he/she expects to be forwarded to another page (or anchor). A button on the
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by darekkay 8y ago
I first thought this is something like Buku [1] to manage browser bookmarks. Maybe you should make it somehow prominent that this is about folder bookmarks. I'm using the git bash and bash aliases to achieve the same result, but I
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by darekkay 8y ago
I'm using a mix of browser bookmarks (everything that I'm using daily + a bookmark "inbox" folder) and StaticMarks [1], a tool I have written to manage all my long-term bookmarks. I store the bookmarks in yaml files with
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by darekkay 8y ago
Not all of the 50 million people use Linux, so they should be covered with the previous fonts. But i'm curious - if some character cannot be displayed, will the browser try the next (or fallback) one automatically? I've been using
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by darekkay 8y ago
I always highly welcome accessibility topics. The conclusion sums up the problem quite well: "The ideas and solutions we’ve discussed are never going to replace the need for real humans to write standards for accessibility, to do manua
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by darekkay 8y ago
That's why many define a "default font stack" - basically a default for each device: font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "He
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by darekkay 8y ago
You've got many, many possibilities to go with [1]. But I agree, nothing beats Wordpress in terms of simplicity. BTW, Commento can be self-hosted. [1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
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by darekkay 8y ago
Great too see yet another Disqus alternative. However, I agree with justinjc - I am missing a demo and pricing information. I've blogged about different ways to include comments on a static site [1]. I'm happy to include your serv
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by darekkay 8y ago
Congratulations for switching to Commento :) Shameless plug: I've blogged about other alternatives to Disqus here [1]. [1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
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by darekkay 8y ago
I've recently evaluated the accessibility of over 21 web UI frameworks [1]. The overall results were quite poor, so I'm really excited about a new accessibility-first framework. You're concentrating on the semantics and scree
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by darekkay 8y ago
While there is a lot of useful information included, it's quite comprehensive for a cheatsheet. I tend to point others to the one from Moritz Giessmann instead [0]. [0] - https://moritzgiessmann.de/accessibility-cheatsh
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by darekkay 8y ago
(2009) is missing in the title
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The state of accessible web UI frameworks(darekkay.com)
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by darekkay 8y ago
For automated testing, try pa11y[0] or Lighthouse (intergrated in Chrome, using web.dev or as a standalone NPM package - (it uses axe-core under the hood)). Tools will only get you so far, though. To make your site fully accessible, you wil
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by darekkay 8y ago
I've summarized many ways to include comments on a static site in my blog post [1]. It's great to see how many alternatives are around. [1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
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by darekkay 8y ago
That's my current setup: OneNote for all general notes (I've tried Markdown + VuePress for some time, but I've switched back). Two public repositories for config files [1] and best practices [2]. Pocket for articles to read o
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by darekkay 8y ago
I like it, it reminds me of Papaly[1], another board-based bookmarking tool. It was an inspiration for StaticMarks[2], my own tool for managing bookmarks. My main suggestion would be to offer a notes/description field to make bookmarks
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by darekkay 8y ago
> First, toilet paper is taxed at the same rates pads and tampons are. In Germany they aren't. Tampons are "luxury articles" here, which was questioned a lot in the past, yet nothing happened.
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by darekkay 8y ago
> Which is better? A BMI of 40+ or a BMI of 25 and taking a daily stimulant? That's a false dilemma. You would have to be certain that "A BMI of 25 without taking a daily stimulant" cannot be achieved. Otherwise, that&#x
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by darekkay 8y ago
I think you understand the statement as "officially coding", but the author's point is probably "it is official that I have been coding for 25 years". Thus the confusion. He says nothing about the quality or conseq
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by darekkay 8y ago
Oh, it must be Tuesday. I've just updated my blog post[0] with some password best practices and it's amazing how little has changed in the last 4 years. [0] https://darekkay.com/blog/another-password-leak-oh
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by darekkay 8y ago
I agree with the author - many developers learn git (or version control in general) along the way, even though it's a fundamental skill needed for almost every project out there. This leads to insecurities, inefficencies and wasted tim

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