Lisa Riemers

@LisaRiemers
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Today we're waiting for an IKEA delivery that, according to their email, will be a 10x10x10 cm box weighing 14 kg.

So density-wise that has to contain berkelium, californium, protactinium, tantalum, uranium, gold, tungsten, plutonium, neptunium, rhenium, platinum, iridium, or osmium.

We're of course hoping for platinum, and really not for plutonium, because the critical mass is 11 kg...

The best software tester I’ve ever known once said to me, “Whenever I start at a new place, I find out which teams hate each other. Where their systems interface with each other is the first place I look for bugs — because they’re not talking to each other.”

Software projects stand and fall on the relationships between the humans who create them. (A corollary to Conway’s Law.)

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Ah now this is a great piece in Ars Technica about my Galactic Compass app! 12K likes and 6 million views on my post over on X so far…

I talked to then about the story behind the app, and my old practice of visualising the galaxy

It ends on a delightfully cosmic note 💫

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/new-app-always-points-to-the-supermassive-black-hole-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy/

New app always points to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy

iPhone compass app made with AI assistance locates the heart of the Milky Way.

Ars Technica
I'm having a conversation with a designer about icons. Making a screenreader read "camera" or "microphone" when an icon is shown is trivial with aria-label. But screenreader users are massively outnumbered by sighted users who might be confused by the meaning of a tiny image/ icon. The mighty Paul Annett explains more:
if we’d just done as we were told on New Year’s Eve 1999 and turned off all our computers we wouldn’t be in this mess

This morning PayPal moved all UK customers over from PayPal (Europe) to PayPal UK Ltd.

In doing so, it seems that all Direct Debit mandates and Debit Card's need to be reconfirmed due to the transfer.

So if you use PayPal and you find payments failing, then that's likely the cause.

I had it cause some Patreon payments fail this morning & took a while to figure out it was PayPal's fault

#payPal #brexit #patreon

Screen reader friendly CMS, anyone? Last I checked, Craft CMS was the only one who seemed to take it seriously but it was a while ago!

#accessibility #a11y

This Halloween give your boss a fright, join a Union. #IWW
Behind the Aldi in Airdrie there's an Italian cafe called Bacchialdi's.
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