Turns out 3 of my 4 “purchases” were projects I backed on Kickstarter:
All great albums!
The other one was Cormac Begley’s excellent “B”.
Gruß!
I follow you for cats, astrophotography, and the almost complete lack of JavasScript …like you’re in a witness protection programme for OG JavaScript library authors. 😉
RIP Jared Leto’s career.
It snowed and snowed on Hoth, but Santa never came. What did that make Luke, Han, and Leia?
Rebels without a Claus.
Right!?
Everyone thinks I’m being sarcastic when they ask “What would you like for Christmas?” and I respond “Socks!”
But I genuinely want good socks!
Oh, that’s wonderful news about Anaida!!!
On the topic of the quiz, did anyone notice my…um…“deliberate” mistake with one of the questions/answers? 😬
If only there were a novelization of the Star Wars Holiday Special!
No, but seriously though…
The short story The Star by Arthur C. Clarke.
Non-SF: The Dead by James Joyce.
I’ve linked to some of my favourites here:
https://adactio.com/links/tags/variable,fonts
And I love Marvin:
Here you go:
I really, really enjoyed nerding out!
That’s something that @danhon@dan.mastohon.com was pondering recently:
Rather than tone-policing what I write, might I suggest just not following me in the first place? Then you’re guaranteed not to see any more snark from me.
This!!!
(And, by the way, I really, really, really appreciate all the work that you and others have done for years that has led to this!)
It was, I believe, said in anger but not in malice.
I’m just kind of stewing on the way that, of all the comparisons to make, it’s the one that gets increasingly more insulting as events unfold.
Oh, my notes have always worked like that. Different to my blog.
That’s got to be your new profile pic.
The canonical URLs you mean? I only add them to the syndicated versions (they don’t appear in the original note on my own site). I started adding them when Twitter changed its character limit from 140 to 280 characters.
You might enjoy the short, snappy, and witty Murderbot Diaries from Martha Wells:
Whoops! Sorry about that—should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads-up!
I’m so sorry, Giles. 💔
Whoops! Pardon me—all fixed now; thanks for the heads-up!
You gonna go straight for the cranberries?
Ironically, Matt mentioned it on Twitter in a reply to @seldo@mastodon.social …who isn’t on Twitter any more.
That reminds me: time for me to remove the Twitter metacrap from my website (in much the same way that I’m removing Twitter from my life).
Yes, Huffduffer is still ticking away nicely:
Here’s the audio that I’ve been huffduffing:
Oh, interesting!
There was no way I was going to insert a phone between my eyes and that spectacle! 🙂
🤗
I had a delicious crawfish étouffée in New Orleans last week!
Ooh, I don’t know any of those …yet! Time for me to get practicing.
You betcha! How about you? Got a banjo that travels well?
Glad it’s not just me, then.
(Also, hi! Good to see you here!)
Paracetamol.
Flattery will get you everywhere, Tejas! 😚
Yeah, I picked mine up from the man himself when I was in Braga, Portugal a few years back. I use it as my travel mandolin and I’m impressed with the sound given its affordable price!
Yay! 🎉
W00t!
I’ve got that working for my notes, but I can’t seem to get images to work.
You’re quite right!
That’s such a good idea! It’s like two layers of progressive enhancement: first Turbo, then View Transitions!
Here’s what I wrote at the time about how I set up my syndication to Twitter from my own site:
Excellent!
Ah, I see my better half got in there first:
https://twitter.com/Wordridden/status/1587503150361108486
Never mind. Carry on.
The Imperial Radch series by @Ann_Leckie and the Teixcalaan series by @ArkadyMartine are both excellent. Oh, and the Machineries of Empire series by @DeuceOfGears. All good galaxy-spanning space opera.
Done!
Here’s mine: https://adactio.tumblelog.xyz/
I’ve added these to my home screen on my phone:
On desktop I’ve installed:
(for everything else I use bookmarks)
Yes! See you there?
I’ve done a timer on my own site:
https://adactio.com/journal/15122
So nice! And I love reading about the decisions and process behind the redesign.
Oh, the short ones—my notes—are almost always from mobile.
It’s the longer posts—my journal entries—that are almost never from mobile.
Service Guarantees Blue Checkmark.
I’ve implemented it on thesession.org
Yes, I publish the notes on my own site and send a copy to Twitter:
https://adactio.com/journal/6826
In the Indieweb world, it’s called POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere:
Y’know what I love? That I can do that in one line of CSS:
html {
font-size: clamp(100%, 50% + 0.666vw, 150%);
}
There wouldn’t be much point running the tests on iOS as long as there’s only one browser engine allowed.
(A truly deplorable state of affairs that goes against the fundamental idea of an open web.)
Thank you for having me—it was a lot of fun!
Oh, yeah—good catch—fixed! Thanks!
I really enjoyed reading that—thank you!
I mean, say what you like about the tenets of a snake-worshipping death cult, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.
The trailer looks great—can’t wait to see the film!
Oh, that’s not my dog—I just couldn’t resist getting a picture!
Sorry to miss you and Huxley—we should rectify that sometime soon!
I may have spent far too long deliberating over this playlist so very glad to hear you liked it!
This squee goes up to eleven:
I’m looking forward to the Temporal API (although that’s mostly because it sounds way cooler than it actually is—like it’s something to reach for when time travelling).
I’m so sorry for your loss.
💔
You spent the whole afternoon watching a shipbuilding documentary series‽
Must’ve been riveting.
Oh yeah, that was fun!
A @BearSkinRug classic!
See you there!
I don’t think I’ll be able to make it, I’m afraid.
I do have a web-based interface (a form behind a log-in) for publishing blog posts.
But, to be honest, I usually end up writing the blog posts in a Markdown editor first anyway, so a static site wouldn’t be that different in practice.
Does it not bother you that Phil Lynott couldn’t figure out exactly where a jailbreak might take place? I mean, “somewhere in this town?” Really, Phil? Somewhere? Not a specific place, like, oh, I don’t know …the JAIL!?
Individuals:
Organisations:
Design is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.
(with apologies to Melvin Kranzberg)
The Clearleft Podcast 🙂
Chris, you acknowldge yourself that you’re notoriously bad at picking up on vibes. I was trying to let you know that offering unsolicited observations about mask-wearing when people post pictures of happy events is …not helpful.
Chris, you seem to think I’m advocating for something I’m not.
I’m in favour of mask-wearing indoors.
But I don’t go around passing judgement on every picture I see of an indoor gathering. It doesn’t help.
If you think that anyone who disagrees with you is automatically an asshole, then I can understand why you feel such sadness at everyone else’s behaviour.
Me, I’d rather assume better of people.
Yes, I’m being defensive (because I found your judginess offensive).
I’m totally with you on mask-wearing.
But I don’t think that Kool-Aid Man-ing into people’s photos will lead to behaviour change.
Pointing out the lack of mask-wearing in photos of concerts, weddings, dinners, and other happy events has a bit of an “all lives matter” vibe to it—technically correct, but dickish.
Just point out a fact. People get mad about that.
Now, if you’re one of those people, then, yea, I guess I was judging you too.
— also literally what you said.
Yes, I am judgy about people willfully endangering others.
— literally what you said.
For fuck’s sake, Chris,
Send me an email: jeremy at adactio dot com.
Isn’t the other way around? The front paws have knees so they’re legs; the back legs have elbows so they’re arms?
Elephants have four knees. Maybe they’re the only mammals with four legs.
I think I remember HTML+ as being an initiative from Dave Raggett (but I may be misremembering).
Oh, I’m already reading that one right now! 🙂
I’m planning to read a tryptich of new books on other minds:
Look at that good doggo!
See you there!
Nicely done! Your methodical approach worked better than my scattershot searching!
Well done! You’re a better (and more patient) detective than me!
Ooh, good one!
I was actually able to find the fully expanded term …in a PDF …three levels deep.
I spy @BenjaminParry and @DaveStone.
I mean, “the line of command” sound pretty awesome actually!
Your challenge—should you choose to accept it—is to rewrite the documentation in such a way that the phrase is only ever used as an adjective or only ever used as a noun. 🙂
If used as an adjective, a hyphen helps disambiguate where to split the three words: “command-line tool.”
But used as a noun, a hyphen isn’t needed: “tool for the command line.”
Same with “front-end developer” and “the front end.”
Bar Casa Vallés in San Sebastian is where it was invented in the 1940s but it should be pretty much ubiquitous in most pintxo places.
Yes!!!
Have you been having gildas too?
Guindilla + olive + anchovy = yum!
Try it now (I just gave the server a kick).
In practice I found it didn’t work too well—it was fine with the first build but then lumped subsequent builds into one slide.
I use the excellent abcjs library from @Rosen_Paul:
The story I’ve heard is that the “second wife” referred to in the title is …his fiddle!
Same.
…
I blame you.
I don’t know about doing it purely with CSS, but here’s good advice on what ARIA to consider:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/accordion/
Or for the simplest use case, perhaps you could use the details element in HTML?
No, we’re like vampires—we have to be invited in.
Sorry, wrong link. This is where I wrote about it:
Yes, I wrote about that here:
https://adactio.com/journal/19106
I’ve updated the script but for some reason the alt text doesn’t come through. I’m stumped!
Right‽
Myself and @WiumLie are currently at the same event and we were chatting earlier about this—the concept of “influence” in CSS still strikes me as very powerful …and empowering.
Coffee sounds good—see you in the outside area?
Wait …are you here‽
You were very much here in spirit—I quoted you in my talk and you got a shout-out in @MicheBarks’s talk too!
Wish you were here!
“Dark Mode Toggles Should be a Browser Feature” by Bramus Van Damme:
https://www.bram.us/2022/05/25/dark-mode-toggles-should-be-a-browser-feature/
“The balance has shifted away from SPAs” by Nolan Lawson:
https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/
Here’s a broad overview of some of the building blocks:
https://adactio.com/journal/7698
rel="me"And https://brid.gy/ is an indispensible tool for syndication!
I had a similar experience. I stayed up walking around wondering where the sun went at night.
Then it dawned on me.
No, this is in-person only.
And to be honest, we hoping that people don’t travel long distances to get to the event—we’d rather minimise the environmental impact.
That said …Eurostar! 🙂🚄
Background: falsehoods programmers believe about names/addresses:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/
👏👏👏💉🩸
I would’ve gotten away with it too if I hadn’t attempted to mess with the Keyboard Cat page.
Ah, memories!
It was 18 years ago that @Clagnut introduced the idea:
(Not that he—or anyone else—would recommend it these days!)
That tracks with what I wrote about in the sequel to that post:
That makes total sense for a codebase that lives on your own machine or a server. But applied to client-side code it means the user has to download a library to satisfy a developer’s convenience.
“Don’t build what your users can download”
And so Silicon Valley becomes a kind of Roko’s Basilisk for The Torment Nexus—the act of publishing dystopian fiction makes you complicit, despite your best intentions.
By theorizing well in advance of data, science fiction provides a framework for developing and testing ethical standards for the treatment of AI.
— Amanda Rees
I’ve used this as an example in conference talks about interaction design.
Alas, I won’t be there myself (I’m going to see @LowTheBand that evening).
Strong agree. I miss it too. 😔
I use NetNewsWire by @BrentSimmons and I love it.
Too soon, Jina. Too soon.
Yup! I use an A3 sheet of paper.
When it comes to comparable software, kinopio.club is the closest I’ve found: https://adactio.com/journal/17425
No, there’s absolutely nothing in the spec that says a footer needs to go at the bottom. So, yes, you can have a footer immediately follow a header and then have the main content (I’ve used that pattern for bylines).
The footer element inside sectioning content can by used for bylines:
A footer typically contains information about its section such as who wrote it…
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/sections.html#the-footer-element
Super useful!
(Though for consistency I would use max-inline-size instead of max-width—I’m still retraining my brain to use logical properties and it throws me to see directional and logical declarations together.)
Yay for bugblogging!
Here’s a terrific presentation all about fluid spacing and typography:
Here’s how I syndicate to Twitter: https://adactio.com/journal/6826
For Swarm, it works in the other direction: https://adactio.com/journal/12606
The imperative nature is the way you provide exact instructions—as you say, any unit, any property—on a specific element, and forego any kind of cascade from that element’s ancestors (a more declarative way of thinking).
You might like this bit of park bench research:
💔
It is a universal law.
I would spend the time to thoroughly research this law and write up my findings but, well, you know.
I think you may have misheard the lyrics to that particular Abba song.
Hi Phil!
Séamus Ennis—what a legend!
Oh, wow! Really? That makes me so, so happy!
Fantastic! Please pass on my congratulations and thanks to all the developers involved.
Looking forward to reading the blog post!
😍
The ones I use the most are Twitter, Instagram, and Google Meet.
Yes, I think “deceptive pattern” works, though we might need to transition to it using “deceptive dark pattern” for a while: https://adactio.com/journal/18192
Thank you for doing this, Vasilis.
Speaking at @DiBiConf by day; seeking out trad music sessions by night—I’ll be at The Black Cat tomorrow (Monday) night, and Sandy Bells on Tuesday night.
You use JavaScript to polyfill it until the declarative option is widespread enough:
https://gist.github.com/adactio/092b11a74eded2701335ba27f94d2484
😻
💔
You can use this URL instead:
https://worldwideweb30.com/browser
I’m trying to get @CERN to set up a redirect to that working site, but no response so far.
I remember learning a lovely word from @ThisIsJoFrank to describe that feeling: Firgun
genuine, unselfish delight or pride in the accomplishment of the other person.
🙌
Well, this aged pretty fucking terribly.
Aw, shucks!
This project by @argyleink might be what you’re looking for: https://open-props.style/
Yes!
Yup, I’ve got both Twitter and Instagram icons on my phone’s home screen that are bookmarks for the websites (Instagram is “missing” advertisements in its web version …keep it to yourself 🤫).
Nothing will ever top my magnum opus:
futurama-take-my-money.gif
That’s clearly A Bad Thing.
But it doesn’t give you carte blanche to behave like a dick.
I’m just going to leave this here…
Congratulations! Sounds like a terrific dissertation!
Thank you so much—I really appreciate it!
I thought Bruce worded it perfectly.
I’m curious: did you know about the #AppleBrowserBan prior to this? (I have a feeling that not many people are aware of the situation on iOS.)
More details here:
Every browser on iOS uses the same engine as Safari. They have to. Apple won’t allow rival rendering engines in the app store.
Firefox on iOS is a skinned version of Safari.
Chrome on iOS is a skinned version of Safari.
Do you realise how childish you sound?
“We shipped it first, nah-na-na-nah-nah!”
Have some self-awareness. You’re better than this.
Alex, you seem to be saying that any criticism of Safari (even if it’s unwarranted and unrelated) is justified by the rendering engine monopoly on iOS.
That’s childish. It does your/our cause more harm than good.
Ooh, that reminds me…
Then focus on that.
Yeah, that gave me a squirmy feeling:
“Banning criticism” …really?
Next you’ll be saying that Google is a victim of cancel culture.
There is absolutely a race to the bottom going on, I agree with you there. I think you won the race with your mocking off-message tweet.
Just now:
I’m not taking them to task for accepting the work.
Three hours ago:
Please DONATE NOW to the world’s richest company, to help feed their starving browser.
Yes! Exactly!
That’s exactly how I felt when Yoav had a crowdfunding campaign to get picture in Blink and when Agalia had a crowdfunding campaign to get :focus-visible in Webkit.
Same energy.
I agree that Apple’s priorities are out of whack.
Take them to task for having priorities that are out of whack.
Taking them to task for accepting contributions is a distraction. It harms your case.
And to be clear, I wrote at the time that crowdfunding accessibility features feels wrong:
https://adactio.com/journal/17132
But my concerns would be hypocritical if I worked on a browser that accepts crowdfunded contributions.
It’s really not a good look when you’re pissing on other browser makers shipping something, especially when the behaviour you’re mocking is only nit-pickingly different from your own empoyer’s behaviour.
And by “you” I don’t mean Google.
It absolutely was a whip-around.
If a browser maker accepts crowdfunded contributions, great. But then to later mock other browser markers for also accepting crowdfunded contributions? Not great.
You forgot the link, Jake:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/picture-element-implementation-in-blink#/
LMCIUTFY:
Got it.
Kind of like how Chromium and Webkit are playing catch-up to Gecko’s leadership on subgrid.
(Let me know if there’s a tip jar for that so I can toss in a coin or two.)
All those points apply to :focus-visible. And yet it’s “sad that Apple needs to pass the hat.”
Chromium and Webkit are sharing the same glass house when it comes to passing the hat. I’d be wary of stone-throwing.
I concur 100%.
But the precedent wasn’t set by Agalia and Apple. The precedent was set when the development community had to pay money so @YoavWeiss, who was independent, could implement the picture element in Blink.
Yes, but the nice thing about the query string is that you can check on the server, so then you don’t need to include a hidden link in the markup.
Whereas I laugh-cried so hard at the time, I enshrined it in my Tumblr blog of awesomeness:
You called it…
I recommend @UXLondon in June:
I’ll be curating the line-up so it’s guaranteed to be free of cryptobollocks (or sponsorship by a fossil fuel company, for crying out loud!).
I’m reading that book too!
It’s quite astonishing, isn’t it?
(But I think your question is rhetorical—I bet Doireann Ní Gríofa would feel the same about your writing.)
Jeremy Bantam, inventor of the panoptihen and founder of utiliteggianism.
Plans are most definitely afoot.
Happy 10th birthday to Bridgy!
I honestly think this is the single piece of code that has improved my quality of life the most.
Aaron, meet Matthew. dracos.co.uk
https://twitter.com/dracos/status/1479949362616848386
Matthew, Aaron. aaronparecki.com
A 301 redirect from www.longbets.org/601 to a different URL containing that text would also fulfill those conditions.
Here are the most interesting takes I’ve found so far:
Looking forward to it!
Ah, but what were your favourite movies inside movies of 2021? 😉
This reminds of Powder of Sympathy, a 17th version of cruel quantum entanglement proposed as a solution to the longitude problem:
Here’s my year-end round-up: