⚠️ DO NOT USE FLASHING IMAGES OR FLASHING EMOJI. Flashing lights can cause seizures and physical danger to people with photosensitive epilepsy. There's more info about this in relation to Mastodon and the wider Fediverse at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/dont-use-flashing-images-or-emoji

There's more info on the condition itself at:

➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy

This is why so many TV series and films contain warnings at the start if they feature flashing images or flashing lighting.

#FediTips #Safety

Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title ‘jumping ship slowly’ about leaving Windows (XP was awful, it was mind boggling to me that Vista managed to make people nostalgic for XP). My advice remains the same:

Don’t try switching OS first. The OS is the most easily replaceable bit in the stack. Switch applications first. Most ‘Linux’ apps are cross platform. They’ll run on Windows, and the few that don’t will run in WSL2. You can switch out apps one at a time, and take the time to get comfortable with the alternatives.

Once you’re comfortable not using any Windows-only apps, changing the OS but using all of the same applications is very easy to do. Changing OS and application stack at the same time is an enormous obstacle.

I believe this is also why a lot of corporate and government Linux migrations fail: they try to change everything at the same time and that’s too steep a learning curve.

Bonjour à tous, #JeChercheUnJob de software engineer à Paris.

J'ai plus de 5 ans d'expérience, j'ai travaillé dans des PME en tant que full stack et en tant que devops engineer.

Je suis particulièrement intéressé par des problématiques d'architecture logicielle et de plateforme (faciliter l'intégration, le déploiement et le run pour les développeurs).

Technos principales : Python, JavaScript, React, Go, Bash, PostgreSQL, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

Si ça vous intéresse, mon CV est disponible : https://ewd.app/cv.pdf

Repartages appréciés !

Re: flat web design.

Buttons that don’t look like buttons.

I blew someone’s mind today. She’s about my age, competent at her job, but not much into technology.

She complained that she always needs to scroll past the weeks in her web-based calendar.

I pressed the current date shown in the top-left corner above her appointments, which pulled up a big date overview by month.

She was so excited, asked me how I did that.

Mind you, the date was shown as simple black letters on a white background, with only a black, downwards-pointing chevron a bit to the right. It hardly suggested interactivity, especially to those not knowledgeable about web design.

I often think that flat design was a mistake, and today’s situation was a good example of bad user experience (UX) stemming from non-intuitive controls.

#UX #WebDesign #WebDev #accessibility

« Inaccessibilité du site des impôts : un collectif d’associations du handicap visuel engage une action contre la DGFiP »

À quelques jours de la date limite de déclaration des revenus, les associations membres du Collectif Français du Handicap Visuel (CFHV) annoncent le lancement d’une action de groupe contre la Direction générale des Finances publiques (DGFiP), en raison de l’inaccessibilité persistante de ses services numériques via le portail « impôts.gouv.fr ».

Et alors là, vraiment, les ministères, la DGFIP et l'Arcom sont au top (non) :

Malgré de nombreux signalements, courriers et démarches engagés depuis plusieurs années auprès de la DGFiP et des ministères concernés, aucune réponse satisfaisante n’a été apportée. Certaines corrections ont même été explicitement exclues du calendrier de mise en conformité. L’Arcom, également interpellée au regard de sa mission de contrôle et de sanction en matière d’accessibilité numérique, refuse d’user de ses pouvoirs pour exiger de l’État qu’il se conforme à la loi.

#accessibilité #a11y #RGAA

i wrote a rust microkernel with a federation userspace layer where clusters of trusted machines quietly lend each other idle resources inspired by gift economics.

lend your spare capacity, earn the right to borrow. machines find each other automatically on the same network, bond by consent and shared keys, stay fully independent.

a solar machine lends freely at noon and pulls back at dusk. computation drifts toward wherever the cleanest cheapest energy is.