Fediverse folks:

Using cutesy extended font tricks like ₜₕᵢₛ basically triggers a denial of service attack on folks who use screen readers.

Instead of saying "this" it says "Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small T Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small H Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small I Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small S"

Let's be cool the folks who have to use screen readers to participate in our community and don't do that.

What’s this image, you ask?

I took @coatless’s Quarto WebR demo Qmd.

Rendered it to standalone HTML.

Changed where it loads WebR from and pointed the init to local-to-app `/`.

Stuck it in the macOS (for lack of a better term) “WebR Shell” app.

Had it default to the new “webr-demo.html” page.

And. It. Works.

Soon, you’ll be able to create full-on macOS, iOS, iPadOS local WebR apps *just from Quarto docs* (this was the reason I’ve been working on this).

James is amazing.

I strongly suspect that #AI is currently at the point self-driving cars reached around five years ago. After a huge amount of investment and some rapid (and impressive) advances, it seemed to many like full self-driving was within reach. But that didn’t happen.

Instead, the problem turned out to be much more difficult than anticipated, and progress slowed as we learned more about the weaknesses and drawbacks of existing systems. I have no doubt that progress towards #AGI will be much the same.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23651976/ai-money-investment-vc-hype