Sometimes, I wish "software engineer" actually *was* a regulated profession, so we could revoke the licence of anyone who builds a website with links that are not actually links and do not open in a new tab when you Ctrl-Click on them.

Why yes, I'm a 10× developer! I tried to fix this bug ten times before I realized I was checking the outcome on the production website not the development server. Of course I'm a 10× developer! I wrote 10 times as much code today as I committed, after debugging, deleting, & then squashing my […]

FYI if you use Firefox & have gone through settings & config to disable all their new AI/ machine learning / chatbot features, do it again. I've been turning off every "AI" features setting & about:config flag I can find, but still I just got a pop up asking if it wanted me to generate "key […]

It's pretty impressive branding that when I see someone's bio that says "working at {missing-glyph replacement character, a box with a hex code inside}," I know exactly which company they work for: the only one that includes their logo in the system emoji picker with no warning that it is a […]

Introducing... The 256 Byte* Website! *(per file) Last week @tantek.com posted a little puzzle for the 256th day of the year: > build an entire website where each resource fits into at most 8-bits worth of bytes […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Any suggestions for the simplest way to publish a tiny little multipage example website? It is: very tiny, completely static, no custom domain required (I just want a my-site.example.com type of domain), and I do not expect to ever update it beyond this week, but it would be nice if the link […]

While you weren't looking (or at least, while I wasn't looking), the CSS Working Group standardized the `zoom` property, which you (I) probably only knew about as a weird old Internet Explorer hack. Mike Pennisi of Bocoup gives the overview of why that finally happened 25 years after the […]

#protip: Don't eat corn-on-the-cob while sitting in front of a computer screen. More than a week later & I'm still trying to get all the starchy juice spray off.

New, from me: At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved in maintaining the projects was phished. The […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

We're looking for a journalist with development chops (or a developer with journalism chops) to join our news apps team and build new web-based interactive stories, databases, and experiences. It's a remote role; candidates must be eligible to work in the US […]

Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-might-be-secretly-scanning-your-phones-camera-roll-how-to-check-and-turn-it-off/ "Some Facebook users have noticed new settings that let Meta analyze and retain your phone's […]

And now thanks to @chaosexanima I can show you how the retractation works: - you get a notification when someone quotes you - on their post, you have a new menu to remove their quote of your post - you confirm, and your quote is removed and shown as having been […] [Original post on oisaur.com]

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it. Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]

TIL: Google Gemini is _significantly_ better at reading the kinds of colourful graphs you see on server monitoring dashboards than are any of the other leading #ai models from #openai and #meta. Why yes, I do, in fact, resent that I had to learn this. Because #opensource tools don't make data […]

Well, don't I feel special. Just got the "Verify your Mastodon Account" spam. But by the time I filled out the spam report, one of our wonderful @mods must have already nuked the account. … and the Mastodon report-a-post Web UI just gives a totally unhelpful 404 error when you press "submit" […]

This is a wonderful example of the difference between an image caption (contextual information of benefit to everyone, whether they can see the image or not) and the image alternative text (clear description of what is actually visible in the image), from @sundogplanets : (also, double-decker […]

For people who use the frequent-website shortcuts feature of the #Firefox new tab page: If you want to pin a new link to that list, and it hasn't shown up yet — especially if you have previously "dismissed" a no-longer-valid link to the same web domain […] [Original post on front-end.social]

It’s here! Nearly 900 pages of guidance on how to build web pages, to which I contributed a little over 100 pages: Learning Web Design, 6th Edition. https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/learning-web-design-6th-edition-is-out/

Especially if you are a cis guy and you notice this, or any underpaid co-worker, speak up and advocate for a raise or a review. I did this in a previous job and it was successful. Making sure others are well compensated is a whole different level of job satisfaction […]

A very legitimate well-done to Canada for being one of the least suckered into AI garbage in the world! https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/canada-ranks-among-least-ai-literate-countries-in-the-world-study/ "“We’re not seeing that literacy that we would like to see when we compare […]

Boss: wow this web portal is really fast, light and responsive Me: of course it was 100% developed on Train WiFi it had to be light 😂

At #cssday I heard from someone on the Chrome team that it is possible that they will look into #css linked parameters. For example, for passing them into #svg. Do you need this too? Are you tired of bundles with hundreds of inlined SVG icons as jsx? Write about your use cases! Either here, or […]

It’s so exciting that the whole world now gets to experience instance admins repeatedly subtweeting each other on their respective shitty social media sites

When we released post editing for #mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the […]

Welp, in case we needed even more things to worry about, apparently in 3 days we're going to stress-test Starlink's current orbital configuration with a severe geomagnetic storm. After running simulations of Starlink's orbital configuration, I am honestly quite worried about how this is going to […]

I dunno, man - if you're going to do a tarrif on Apple, at least have the poetic justice to make it 30%

Looks like #mstdnca has gone into read-only mode. Can't post, can't even star someone else's post (both give generic 500 errors). The local live feed has a last post at 5:47AM Alberta time, nearly 3 hours ago. Nothing on https://status.mstdn.ca/ so I'm pinging @chad#mstdncafrom here 👋🏻

My brain is in a very "oooh, shiny" state today. Keeps going off on tangents & down rabbit holes based on posts I read. Someone shares a "beautiful minisite" from a type foundry launching their sensible new sans serif body typeface, and within seconds my […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Just had a session with an app team who've developed with Flutter. On Windows they have a pretty basic landing screen: a language selector button, two columns of text, an input field and a submit button, and a link. We spent 30 minutes just breaking down all the ways it is unusable with NVDA […]

Hot take: the "I" in "AI" actually *is* "intelligence". Not intelligence in the sense of carrying out reasoning processes enabling a being to meet its survival and welfare needs. Intelligence in the CIA/nation-state "intelligence" gathering sense: amassing and organizing information about […]

Happy #internationalworkersday! ✊ #mayday #labor #workers #workingclass #workersrights #workersolidarity

I really hope this remains good news long term: GSAP (Greensock Animation Platform, the top-tier JavaScript library for animating CSS & SVG graphics) & all its official plug-ins are now free to use, including for commercial users, thanks to their acquisition by Webflow […]