Brighton friends! We are visiting your fine city for a few days! Give a shout if you’d like some brunch or coffee! Also, any new food recommendations? It’s been a little while.

I’m ruefully grateful for one facet of the US electoral system, in this buffer between vote and inauguration there is room to feel the worst things. The most unhelpful, angry, violent, seething, raging impulses can have a moment. An emotional free hit before we figure out what to actually do instead.

@kpk I hope he at least showed some respect by using his novelty oversized stationary.

Imagining completing this part of the US naturalization form and having Donald Trump deliver the “welcome to America” video.

Need a bit of bash scripting help.

I have a script, that invokes a call to `docker compose run` to run a secondary task in a container. That task within the container then asks for input. But… as soon as I hit <enter> to answer that prompt… the whole script exits.

My bash/docker-fu is weak on what exactly is going on in how input capture is managed between the different execution contexts. Anyone know can I invoke docker from inside a script and have it hold onto input for its duration?

@bigzaphod Every few years, I try figure out a way to find mine. I go searching around Web Archives of 20 year old message boards to see if I can find it in a signature or abandoned profile.

It’s taken a surprisingly long time, but after being cut off from Twitter’s API in July last year, and removed from the App Store, the weekly analytics finally hit zero. 🥂

Does anyone have recommendations for groups doing web accessibility testing audits?

WebAIM have been a fixture in the field my whole professional life so first instinct is to check into their services, but interested in any other recommendations we should evaluate. Thanks!

Deeply satisfying to roll from my front door to sitting on the plane at SFO in less than 45 minutes. Except for the peripheral anxiety that had anything gone awry I’d have missed the flight altogether.

Quickly making a Japanese whisky highball for the Japanese Grand Prix.

@migurski Live view of me coding right now.

Converting a codebase from shitty CSS-in-JS to nice tidy CSS modules with an unending series of project-wide find-and-replace regular expressions, and cackling wildly through each one.

@nileane I finally unsubscribed a while ago but can’t resist hate-reading from time to time. The phrase “brainworms” is getting pretty overused, but his recent “App store let a payment scam slip through review / Why would the EU do this?” effort was quite something.

Question for the AI assistant power users out there.

I have a webapp filled with bloaty CSS-in-JS styles (cleanly organized into sidecar files, at least). We're migrating to CSS Modules. I have a reasonably functional Copilot Chat prompt that can rewrite the JS file into pure CSS quite nicely.

But doing it manually file by file is a huge pain. Is there a way to batch apply a prompt over many files in a workspace? Either with Copilot or any similar tool?

Instagram's speech recognition tool here elevating @mosseri to Elon-levels of advertiser hostility.

@danjac He can sneer all he likes, he's really just Kevin McSomeoneElsesComputer.

@danhon “Oura Ring™ lets me track _my_ power even while others are losing theirs. With free 2 day delivery, even to The Shire”

@timbray @gruber As ever with AI, if you squint it’s a neat trick, but the description is really just wrong: The man is not “dressed as a reindeer”, he’s wearing novelty antlers, but otherwise definitely dressed like a human. It also didn’t describe the credit for the source of the image.

This tech may be useful in a client, where a user could activate it to describe any image, but with context that it’s an approximation. Here, the misleading description was made authoritative by the author.

@bigzaphod I’ve rewatched it multiple times and every time forget just how integral the stones are to it until I’m in it. It’s a glaring off balance element given how beautifully subtle and mysterious so much of the rest of the show is; really wonderfully alien elements, a real sense of massive timescale, comfortable to let things sit unknown, and the tremendous ensemble cast. I love SGU very much and regularly lament its demise.

Being back in Europe I see more cookie notices than in California. Spotify absolutely smashing it: “We Care About Your Privacy”, straight into “our 776 partners”. Almost as funny as their royalty payments.