Not just a lurker!
Putting these here doesn't prove anything about my actions, but at least it might annoy some of the people I want to annoy: Black Lives Matter; trans, women's, and disabled rights are human rights; abortion is healthcare; love is love; indigenous people are still here as are the treaties made with them; end the war on drugs and mass incarceration; no human is illegal; stop genocide in Gaza
My opinions are my own, not those of my employer.
Proud member of AWU-CWA.
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[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point.
i heard there was a secret ooze
that turned four reptiles into dudes
but you don't really care for turtles do ya
they battle crime throughout the night
as splinter taught them how to fight
and from the sewers came a cowabunga
cowabunga, cowabunga
cowabunga, cowa-buuu-ngaaa ~🎵
Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.
Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.
This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
This is what I came up with; I think of it as "0-lisp". In LISP a "2-LISP" is a LISP where functions and variables live in different namespaces, and in a "1-LISP" they live in one namespace. Projecting backward, in my 0-LISP, the distinction itself disappears totally; functions are lists and *any list can be executed*. I wanted to know what this changed. Here's what I found:
It helps very little, and makes certain important things a huge pain. Oops! Still, it was very educational to learn this.
State of CSS 2025 is now open: https://stateofcss.com/
Browser vendors use the results of 'State of' surveys to help prioritize the features to work on.
If you care about CSS, please take some time to answer it, and help shape the future of the language
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
Ink and Switch wrote a nice blogpost recently talking about "Malleable Software" https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
It resonated with me a lot. The idea of building software that has an on-ramp that keeps on-ramping, guiding a user to not only become an expert, but to make the software their own, really resonated with me.
It's felt for a long time that Gnome has gone in the opposite direction. Trying to make something easy and clean, but end users aren't part of that journey.
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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I read Ender's Game around that age, though not fantasy. Um...ALL of Pratchett's stuff is pretty easy for kiddos to appreciate, IMHO, but...let's see...oh!
I started reading Roger Zelazny's the Chronicles of Amber at that age. There are 10 full books. There are some references to sexuality but nothing explicit, and it is just...AMAZING. Dune level world building. Fantastic, deep characters with logical motivations for the heinous shit they do.
Amber was a formative series for me, probably beyond even...oh! Another GREAT series, the Dragonriders of Pern.
Anyway, Amber has swashbuckling, treachery, honor, reevenge, redemption, 70s style pulp campiness, meddling in the abstract machinations of slightly Lovecraftian gods, just...
Like, I think EVERYONE should read it.
Edit: check with parents though, it is an adult series with lots of grownup themes, violence, etc. Like if John Carter of Mars was duplo blocks with smut, then Amber is a Lego technic set with the occasional non-graphic bang occuring
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