Accessibility, usability, design systems, performance and progressive enhancement.
I was listening to an episode of Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin where he's talking to Peter Thiel, and they touch upon Google's old slogan, "Don't be evil", and Peter Thiel says that it made sense for them to retire that, as it was an "impossible standard" to live up to and therefore it's a "dangerous slogan".
Excuse me? How the f**k is it impossible to not be evil? And how is that a dangerous slogan? Imagine saying shit like that with a straight face.
@Sinistar7510 I know I want to go!
“My Request to Google on #Accessibility”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html
I’m asking this massive company to stop releasing features & products & ideas that are obvious barriers.
And I want them to stop expecting free labor from the community.
It’s tiring, frustrating, and disrespectful.
@ppk Did this last week — I had to write IBAN as well as the name and address of recipient AND I was called up by the bank so that they could check that it wasn't part of a money laundering scheme or some other criminal behaviour.
@hschne Do you have to define the `--color-bg` in a specific format for this to work?
Just tried to add it in a codepen but it doesn't seem to do anything. (Also, I might be missing something completely obvious).
@patrick_h_lauke Another great song he was on...
@patrick_h_lauke Classic track. Love the way he says "Lucky Luke".
I guess death is preferable to having to spend time with JD Vance.
@matuzo I used to have a slide that only said “uX” to highlight that too many designers spend too much time on the experience and too little time on the users.
@shadeed9 Question regarding RTL styling on inputs: why should some input fields have LTR styling and others not?
@brad_frost ```
display: masonry;
```
@robinwhittleton Q: Do you know if IKEA is looking to backfill your role? .. asking for a Copenhagen-based friend who delves in Design Systems and Accessibility... and who might be me.
@SteveFaulkner @siblingpastry Yeah, me neither.
@siblingpastry @SteveFaulkner Genuinely curious here: why is it not ok to pick a character that is another race than yourself in a computer game? Is it equivalent to "blackfacing"?
@erikKroes From an audit and theoretical viewpoint, yes. From a practical viewpoint, no. The asterisk is as universally known as the hamburger menu — and has been a design pattern for the last 25 years or so — so I think 99.99% of all users realise what it represents.
I would prefer the label to be suffixed with "(required)", but it's a hill I am not willing to die on.
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Skriv til mig.
Do you remember (if you're as old as I am) the days when it was a possibility that HTML, CSS and JavaScript might become obsolete and Flash and ActionScript would be the future? I do, and I remember fighting it tooth and nail. Then! At some point the light shone through and there was a sense of real hope of a victory for web standards.
I'm currently feeling the same kind of hope again, except this time it's not Flash (good riddance) but React and its counterparts that are fading into oblivion.
Anyways, I’m rambling and it’s all because I’ve read two great blog posts this week, and I think you should too:
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React (https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiquated-react) by @collinsworth
If not React, then what (https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/) by @slightlyoff
Oh, by the way, Happy Blue Beanie Day — maybe those two blog posts can help do what @zeldman and his peers did in the original fight for web standards.