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by pickpuck 4y ago
Ahh this is so exciting to see so much happening in this space all of a sudden! My quest to get a personal instance running has been a long slog for me personally. I had been working on an ActivityPub server in Node.js/TypeScript for a
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Show HN: Create Groups for Mastodon(chirp.social)
2 points by pickpuck 4y ago|3 comments
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by pickpuck 4y ago
Here's a list of developer tools that might be helpful: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-activitypub-develo...
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by pickpuck 4y ago
> including unproductive meetings That would certainly tip the scale.
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by pickpuck 4y ago
I think this demonstrates that: 1) the hit area of native checkboxes should be larger, and 2) fieldsets with checkboxes should come with a native "Toggle All" button
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CSS Toggles Explainer and Proposal(css.oddbird.net)
2 points by pickpuck 4y ago|0 comments
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by pickpuck 5y ago
> They should be making their website’s code more accessible to legacy devices. If there's an iota more work involved, the analysts have no reason not to defer to analytics. Anything less than ~1% gets dropped. So there goes your ES
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by pickpuck 5y ago
Yes! Here it is: https://dnnlv5ifs.blob.core.windows.net/portals/2/DB/Images/...
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by pickpuck 5y ago
I would recommend getting comfortable using the built-in screen readers on your own devices (VoiceOver, Narrator, etc). Lots of people use those same tools. You'll probably just want to mute the screen reader and use the developer opti
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by pickpuck 5y ago
The form/valid one is very interesting but I'm not sure I completely follow, especially the last example. Would you be able to post a Codepen?
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by pickpuck 6y ago
These are mostly front-end issues. Software is often judged based on these UI/UX nuances, but the complexity of building a competent front-end system remains an undervalued part of the process. The front-end team is usually (1) brought
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by pickpuck 6y ago
The article has done the analysis and links to the closest Pantone color "Overcast" and on that page it lists C4C0AA as the hex color. https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/14-0105-TPG But you're right --
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by pickpuck 6y ago
I wonder how difficult it would be to show the evolution of US jurisprudence via court ruling precedents.
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by pickpuck 6y ago
If the only thing being removed were <div> tags, which don't have structural or semantic meaning, it would probably be just as easy to parse for screen readers and robots. Two problems I see: 1. Where you have a heading you may w
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by pickpuck 6y ago
> What do we do about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBcz_bGcHgk After watching this video from Google, I think the future is web components + AOM[1]. This makes sense to me because: 1) Most web developers are alr
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by pickpuck 6y ago
> > The buttons are clickable divs, not actual HTML buttons > It'd certainly be nice if everything just automagically worked about accessible UI but we're not there yet OP's suggestion is that the author should have
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by pickpuck 6y ago
https://youtu.be/t5X2PxtvMsU
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by pickpuck 6y ago
I think what you might be getting at is that having a minority of people with mental disabilities increases the overall diversity of thought within our species, which can sometimes prove beneficial. However, any given mental disability may
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by pickpuck 6y ago
Nice you can add a <style> tag to your profile! Please consider making the default colors/fonts CSS variables in the :root so that they can be easily overridden for profile page styling.
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Why Browser Security UI Isn't Specified(infrequently.org)
2 points by pickpuck 6y ago|0 comments
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by pickpuck 6y ago
The point of the “trending” page wasn’t that it always showed you React. It showed you tiny repositories that had exploded in popularity that day.
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by pickpuck 6y ago
My understanding, based mostly on what I’ve seen on Twitter: 911 call -> Dispatch unarmed City employee, typically a social worker, who specializes in the relevant situation, population or neighborhood. Goal is to assist the individuals
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by pickpuck 7y ago
I was thinking because it is one of the inks in CMYK for printing.
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by pickpuck 7y ago
They are basically paying you a tiny bit to use Edge and Bing with their rewards program. You get points, which can be converted to Microsoft Gift Cards and some other stuff.
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I Built a Dark Mode PWA Without JavaScript Libraries in 24 Hours(dev.to)
1 points by pickpuck 7y ago|0 comments
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When to Use CSS Grid and When to Use Flexbox for Multiline Layout(dev.to)
2 points by pickpuck 7y ago|0 comments
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by pickpuck 7y ago
Killer features: * It shows the top comment (It's a bad habit of mine - just reading the comments - so maybe I'll be more likely to click the story instead of the comments) * Dark mode! Or light mode! Depending on your system sett
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Show HN: Dark Mode Hacker News Reader That Shows Top Comment(hn-pwa-1.firebaseapp.com)
3 points by pickpuck 7y ago|2 comments
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by pickpuck 8y ago
Based on the data from modern hunter-gatherer populations, it is estimated that at 15, life expectancy was an additional 39 years (total 54), with a 0.60 probability of reaching 15. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_
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by pickpuck 8y ago
The idea is that distorting images, logos, or text end up with bad proportions, which the original designer did not intend. Scaling an image of a human wider does not create the illusion of being fat.

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