Darryl H. Thomas

@darrylhthomas
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AX dev at the fruit company. Formerly Twitter a11yteam, TEDTalks, and others. Former iOhYesPodcast contributor. Likes sailing, climbing, kayaking, and camping. ASA, ABYC, NMEA member.
LocationMartinez, CA
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U.S. gets a new sunscreen ingredient after 27 years—here’s how it works — Scientific American

Dermatologists and skincare aficionados are excited for the U.S. to finally get a new, more protective sunscreen filter after more than 20 years of regulatory roadblocks. Here’s how bemotrizinol works The U.S. is finally getting a new, better sunscreen ingredient. Today the Food and Drug Administration added bemotrizinol, an effective chemical filter that’s been used in sunscreens made in Asia and Europe for decades, to its list of permitted active ingredients in over-the-counter sunscreens.

Stylized unicode text is decorative noise to a screen reader. Characters like 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 aren't styled text to AT, they're gibberish pulled from entirely different Unicode blocks. Every dev and designer using these in usernames, bios, or UI copy is creating a real barrier, and the fix is literally just: don't.
#accessibility #screenreaders #a11y

https://inputoutput.dev/accessibility-issues-with-stylized-unicode-characters/

Accessibility issues with stylized unicode characters

Stylized unicode characters cause accessibility issues and have a strong association with spam and scams.

When did we stop using question marks
Show me on the doll where the April fools day jokes touched you.

You were so close, Claude:

"For a proper ‘mac-assed mac app,’ we should use Apple's HelpBook system — an .help bundle that integrates with Help Viewer. This gives us the standard Help menu, searchable content, and context-sensitive anchors.”

My friend Kristin has been working on this book for a long time, and I’m really excited to see the Kickstarter launch. This has been such a labor of love for her, and she and her partner have created a great book for kids.

If you have kids or know anyone with kids, please consider backing her project. Our future generations will benefit from a little more appreciation of culture!

Share widely, please!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/littleoaknut/lines-in-art?ref=1a2e3q

Lines in Art: Where Kids Discover Real Masterpieces

A beautifully illustrated book helping kids slow down, look closely, and fall in love with art, featuring Picasso, Van Gogh & more.

Kickstarter
I feel like we are starting to go off the rails when an LLM tells me, “That’s a fair challenge, and I want to give you an honest answer rather than a defensive one,” when I ask if it really performed the thorough audit it had claimed to perform….and it hadn’t.
I’m unable to release any of it due to my company’s policies, but my latest hobby is using Claude code to port/update abandoned open source amateur-radio-related apps that would otherwise be too tedious to tackle so that they aren’t lost to an Intelpocalypse. Folks who aren’t bound by their employer’s policies should consider doing the same. (Not just for amateur radio, of course.)

❯ If you truncate the filename during the `strcpy`, aren't you introducing the possibility of setting `infile` to a path that doesn't exist, or worse, exists but is not the intended file? I think it would be better to check the `inputFilename` and fail if the length exceeds the buffer size.

⏺ Good point. Silent truncation is dangerous — better to fail fast and clearly.

LLMs are getting really good at spotting long-lived security issues in already heavily scrutinized codebases.

To maintain balance, LLMs are getting really good at introducing them too.