Gotta say I’ve been feeling pretty underutilized at work lately. I spend a lot of my day just looking for stuff to do, meanwhile I only get assigned tickets that are dead simple (“hey this field is broken”) or an urgent change (“management needs this feature done yesterday”).
I guess it's good they can count on me in a pinch, but I'd like to be more generally useful. I try to make it clear, without being annoying, that I have space for new tasks but do I need to do more?
SvelteKit “Form actions” is the single most underrated feature. I use it to power 95% of the mutation happens to my projects, I no longer needs that much JSON API endpoints. It's dead simple as it leverages the native web form to send data, you can easily extend it using use:enhance or your own customized handler to provide a better UX.
Last week I broke the screen on my phone and have been using an old broken Pixel 3a in the interim. A significant portion of the keyboard does not respond to taps, so I can't even log into Google (as the login screen is portrait-only), so no play store, and it's been an interesting experiment to carry on my day without apps.
First thought: people absolutely SUCK at building fast websites. Mastodon, Fastmail, Discord, Messenger (duh). Hot garbage.
Oooof. Google reCAPTCHA, enshittification incoming.
"Starting April 1, 2024, we will be expanding existing features and providing additional pricing options for Google reCAPTCHA product tiers.
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Renaming of the reCAPTCHA no-cost product to reCAPTCHA Lite, providing protection for up to 10,000 instead of 1 million assessments per month."
Did you find a way to address the issues presented while keeping #IconFonts?
Basically:
When our friends with #Dyslexia overrides your fonts, font icons turn into black boxes since the font they're using doesn't have support for those Unicode code blocks.
When screenreaders, or voice assistance, reads a site with icon fonts, they read the icon fonts really weird.
For No.2, a site with properly marked aria labels, or marked as hidden for assistive tech, is the solution I can think of.
However, for No.1, I can't think of a way since once the browser forces the user font, all fonts on the site will rely on the user's custom font.
The only other way I can think of is to provide an option to switch the site's font right from the website, so they don't have to override the site's font.
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I'm generally okay with a lot of Theo's takes, but this video made me really upset as soon as he started defending Electron. And then what he said about Linux... God. And at one point he even made a comment about a native iOS app in Swift not being better than a react native app?!?!
SwiftUI is one of the best development experiences I have ever had. And now that I've switched to Android dev, I feel similarly about Jetpack Compose. I get that it's hard to maintain multiple native apps, but a large company like Discord does not have an excuse.
I don't really have a formulated response to this video, I'm just frustrated by it.
#Webdev, what's your favorite method of doing a Masonry-style layout? i.e. Multi-column posts in row-sequence like Pinterest or some Tumblr/Wordpress themes.
Introducing :has() Tabs! A CSS-only tab solution using the new :has() selector and :target.
Is this the best, most accessible way to create tabs? No. (Use ARIA pretty please.) Is it a solid no-JavaScript fallback that you can layer JS and ARIA on top of? I think so!
Any devs have a clue if the 'new' headless Chrome has nefarious implications when it runs the same base code as regular chrome? I understand that it's less buggy if they can focus on one set of code, but are there privacy/tracking issues with it?
I can’t overstate how much I hate #CSS. Extremely humbling trying to do anything resembling good, “modern”, responsive #webdesign. Been working on some heavier under-the-hood changes to my #githubpages-based #jekyll#staticwebsite and wow my eyes and soul hurt.
A related question, anyone ever implement full-body text search on a static site / Jekyll site before? I’ve been looking into maybe lunr.js…
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