It's taken me this long to finally dig into the history of progressive enhancement

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-inclusive-web-of-progressive-enhancement/

💡 I wish that we have `text-wrap-ratio` instead of the `pretty` value.

Learn more in recent interactive article: https://ishadeed.com/article/balancing-text-css/#an-idea-text-wrap-ratio

“Ultimately, even as HTML has become the province of professionals, it cannot be gatekept. This is what makes so many programmers so anxious about the web, and sometimes pathetically desperate to maintain the all-too-real walls they’ve erected between software engineers and web developers. But people who write HTML know that hierarchies were made to be blown up. All it takes is a tag that doesn’t close where you’d expect it to.”

–@tim, in https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/

For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. Here are some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow: https://www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/

For feed readers,  I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.

#RSS #IndependentMedia #blogging

I don't necessarily disagree that phones might be harmful for kids' development.

I just don't know if they're nearly as harmful as say, repeated covid infections, a collapsing biosphere, a justifiably bleak vision of their future, or even a prevalent lack of agency, independence, and spaces for socialisation.

I'd focus on those first. Then phones.

Repeat after me: generative AI does not and cannot ever represent disabled people. A great article by Ashle Emboyer, who explains why solutions who pretend to do that are dehumanizing the lived experiences of disabled people by replacing authentic stories with synthetic, generative AI outputs.

Please, read the full article: https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-dehumanize-accessibility-with-ai
https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-dehumanize-accessibility-with-ai