@robb omg. Can I get just the websites stickers? Puleeeez?

@matthiasott

Caring is truly the thing.

I don't care about politics, I care about people.
I don't care about accessibility, I care about people.
I don't care about equality, I care about people.
I don't care about authenticity, I care about people.

Because I care about people, I want to do right by them, and these other things stem from that.

I can't not care.

"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it."

https://omfg.town/@dansinker/114560247015152692 by @dansinker

@AlexWolfe awesome! Doing a good job

I saw this talk at my first (and last) React conference - and while to me it seemed like just coming to the accessibility problems from the React angle instead of web platform angle should be just as, uh, accessible to any front end developer - what Anuradha presented here was much more understandable to some of my colleagues, than resources I'd already been pointing them to:

https://gitnation.com/contents/making-interactions-accessible-to-all-users

@matuzo

@matuzo /me takes a bow

“A <div> is not a <button>, but a <Button> is often a <div>.”

- @sarajw

@timsev @matuzo not sure that "the other way around" - feel like we're making the same point 😅

I came into web development a couple of years ago, end of 2022, after retraining myself away from electronics side of things. I have messed with web stuff since 1999 as a teen, but very unseriously.

Jumping forward 20 years was quite the challenge, lol. So much abstraction away from what I knew. React is bonkers. Am stuck with it, but at least I do know how to drill down through it.

@matuzo I've had this experience coming into the industry too. It took me a while to dig down through all the components before I found where the element that lands in the DOM was declared.

Once someone in the company or in an external library builds a component that does the thing they want, it gets reused over and over and is even built upon to adapt it - without double checking what thing is actually popping out in the end.

A <div> is not a <button>, but a <Button> is often a <div>.

@jedda I haven't noticed it much here, but then I only instantly follow back if I already know and have an interest in someone - whether they follow me or not.

Otherwise I wait for a first interaction and if it's a good one then I'll be like 'cool' and hit the button

@jedda yeah I mean that's weird for sure! But I don't see the same clout chasing behaviour here in the same way.

I still dislike an Italian developer with the creepy grin for this behaviour on pre-2022 twitter

Fuck these antipatterns. I always instinctively press the green button.

@jedda oh no lol do they?

Although it may be a bit of the idea that you follow like crazy because otherwise you have no feed, then prune later if you need to. That's a common pattern.

@praetor oh wow. I mean yes they were super annoying for everyone but Oof yep that's the last thing you want to be faced with when just trying to browse the web.

@snugug noooooooo

Hoping you get a mild one and swift recovery 🤞

The reason it's considered (by many) acceptable to churn/sling/vibe code using AI is largely due to how we frame development in respect to design. We consider design thinking as both innately human and a non-technical code-free occupation. We think of developers as machines who only encode design.

If developers get replaced by AI, it's only because we dehumanised them already. And the development itself *will* get worse. Because the best developers actually think deeply about their work.

@torgo the best advertising is just a reminder that something good exists

@praetor oh thank you! And yeah gods as someone who is largely neurotypical, I find booking the high-ticket things we have to do online super duper stressful - can't imagine what it's like with actual anxiety and PTSD. Oof.

@skinnylatte @vfrmedia ah that sounds great. Yeah I guess I'd be trying to see where the holes in the tubes turn up, and try to work out what's causing it - but just ditching the lot and starting again is probably a lot less hassle!