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by graypegg 3y ago
That’s a good point, it’s the absolute numbers that give a bad impression. I think the main thing tainting my feeling about the whole situation is TikTok/Reels/Shorts content. Feels like the sort of video I like just can’t exist
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by graypegg 3y ago
Tom Scott’s work stands out as some of the best examples of how interesting and valuable web content can be. In a sea of short derivative junk-food content, he made things that i honestly learned from, without demanding more than 10 minutes
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by graypegg 3y ago
Past commit messages have 2 uses to me. - Blame view, where I usually want to know the ticket number so I can track down a story which has the business rules the dev was implementing. - Bisect, where I want to know if this works or not with
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Previewing the new HEY Calendar [video](youtube.com)
7 points by graypegg 3y ago|0 comments
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by graypegg 3y ago
I’m not 100% sure if AskHN is for asking about job postings. You might also not get much traction with out including any info about your location. (The country you work from is very important)
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by graypegg 3y ago
He’s really snarky in the replies too, telling Simon Willison “your takes are usually better. Do better next time please. :)” [0] So that’s a window into this guy’s personality. [0] https://x.com/dan_jeffries1/status&#x
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by graypegg 3y ago
Read that as “Lichen: the sea’s build system” and was expecting a comparison of lichen (a kind of moss) to makefiles. I think my brain is still in holiday mode haha
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by graypegg 3y ago
Adrenaline is good for gaming!… I bet? If you have it going 3600rpm for 60hz uh… θ axis refresh rate (?), you have a pretty tough monitor. Now I’m wondering if you could mount it to 2 really fast linear actuators perpendicularly attached ea
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by graypegg 3y ago
The cropped screenshot they show with a TikTok logo gives a false impression of what these prompts look like. It very much looks like a native prompt. https://www.reddit.com/r/Tiktokhelp/comments/186ipwb/
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by graypegg 3y ago
+1 for Samsung laundry machines being unreliable. I was in an apartment for 3 years and went thru 2 washing machines due to a “unrepairable” circuit fault on the first one, and a drum leaking perpetually on the second one. The model of the
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by graypegg 3y ago
I don't think you should be seemingly in the negatives for this comment. :( It's a totally valid question, and the whole industry has introduced so many new words, acronyms and private definitions. It feels unfair to punish someon
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by graypegg 3y ago
Microsoft really wants to take on that liability? I'm all for nuclear power, but this is a weird choice that I assume has some insane legal team maneuvering behind it. "Powering data centres" seems like a weak reason.
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by graypegg 3y ago
I think that’s the hardest part of running a news site with a permanently positive bent: if you stop or even slow down, you leave a really deep emotional impact. I totally respect the idea, but I would have so much trouble with that pressur
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by graypegg 3y ago
There's no good common category beyond just "sound media" for music and podcasts I think. They play together on radio obviously, but there's something weird to me about them sharing the same app. The sorting, filtering,
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by graypegg 3y ago
I think this is a normal ruby pattern though. A ? prefix is just a best-practice habit to indicate a method returns a real TrueClass or FalseClass instance. You’re always running Ruby statements in some scope, so there’s always an object yo
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by graypegg 3y ago
One nitpick: I have been subjected to a pitch about some form of that prioritization quadrant a million times over. I actually find people pitching me on some graphic to prioritize all my life viscerally annoying. It feels like I’m being ta
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by graypegg 3y ago
I think I have a few "most favourite" technologies that all max out some principle or idea that I like. The author here really hits on exactly why Ruby is my favourite "get things done" language. Rust, Typescript, and Cr
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by graypegg 3y ago
Just curious, what's your opinion on YARD comments for typing? I have a little more experience with that, than I do Sorbet (or RBS as well) and I found it to be at least tolerable. Though something like your `-> Integer` would be am
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by graypegg 3y ago
That is a fair point, maybe I'm thinking to concretely about it. Was imagining getting a kill-a-watt power meter, and making sure my OS + browser + a website is drawing less than 1W from the wall. What you're saying as a more all-
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by graypegg 3y ago
YES. I think it's this unique form of after thought, where people imagine accessibility as a "score" that you can "increase". The web developer lowest-common-denominator cares about it, but only at this weird surfac
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by graypegg 3y ago
OH yeah, thank you for saying that. Gemini was a short 1 month obsession of mine. I just hit this brick wall of "... oh... this is it?". I do think HTML is a fun standard though. There's so much "big business productizat
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by graypegg 3y ago
Noted! I sadly don't have much experience with the options for windows / linux flavours, but I'm sure something like NVDA [0] could be useful for you to test these things! The idea would be to learn the tool first, (feel at l
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by graypegg 3y ago
Voice Over is insanely easy to work with, I recommend it to everyone I work with. I would say it takes maybe 20minutes to get a hang of the basic shortcuts and navigation modes. I've been thinking about making a "VO for Web Devs&q
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by graypegg 3y ago
In case you're maybe interested, I wrote up a little thing about how I think of accessible interfaces and designing for them: https://graypegg.com/2023/11/25/the-private-definition-of-ac... Edit: decided
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The Private Definition of Accessible(graypegg.com)
10 points by graypegg 3y ago|1 comments
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by graypegg 3y ago
role="presentation" will remove it from the a11y tree! Easy fix. Most browsers will notice the characters in the element are not human readable and make some tweaks to make "heartheartheartheartheartheartheartheart" less
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by graypegg 3y ago
I'm a bit conflicted, there's some really good points mixed in with some odd-ball hurdles that I don't think anyone benefits from jumping over. > Cheap to maintain: Most webpages should work indefinitely without falling ov
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by graypegg 3y ago
My browser (Chrome 120) does correctly intuit that the header is not a landmark, so it at least won't be included in the landmark rotor. (In VO) Still though, it would be ideal to remove that from a11y tree since it's totally usel
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by graypegg 3y ago
Was during the Harper government era, like another commenter said, there was basically constant on-going scandals at the time. Big populist decisions like breaking up Make A Wish Canada Ltd (or at least putting some pressure on them) was a
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by graypegg 3y ago
Gross Domestic Wish Production down 42% from their 2011 peak. Many sectors that were ancillary to the wish industry (Make A Wish foundation included) had to move onto manufacturing Hopes, Dreams, and Aspirations, which sadly even as a combi

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