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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
❯ 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.
With his track record for massive layoffs following absurd hiring sprees, I’m beginning to suspect that Jack Dorsey is a shitty business man.
Sorry, human. I meant shitty human.
Please, for the sake of folks using screen readers:
Add decent alt text to your images. You don’t need an elaborate description, but something as minimal as “dog” isn’t kind.
Don’t overdo the emojis. These have alt text associated with them, but it gets tiresome to hear (rather than see) a string of them. Some are worse than others; hearing “red heart” repeatedly isn’t as bad as hearing “smiling face with smiling eyes.” Emojis at the end of a post are the best, as they are easier to skip over.
Don’t use emoticons at all; a screen reader can’t make any sense of them.
Remember that ascii art is largely inaccesssible, too. Listen to how sign bunny and some others are heard: https://adrianroselli.com/2021/10/blaming-screen-readers-red-flag.html#Handle
Don’t use unicode mathematical symbols in your display name or posts to create bold, italic or script letters. Think of the poor person hearing something like this: “Mathematical symbol italicized s, Mathematical symbol italicized c”, etc. (Alternatively, the characters may not be read at all.)
Jeri Dansky