@yatil Thank you for your comments and accessibility advocacy!

@ambrwlsn Thank you so much! Your site ain’t too shabby either. I absolutely love your post on How to Approach a New Codebase. It looks like a proper handy resource I can see myself referencing.

I figured I’d weigh in with my thoughts regarding all the CSS carousel stuff after being indirectly prompted by @SaraSoueidan ‘s fantastic article and @db ‘s pseudo-element discussion.

https://vale.rocks/micros/20250524-1145

#WebDev #FrontEndDev #CSS

HTML. CSS. JavaScript.

Long ago, the three nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when The Frameworks attacked.

If you’re on Twitter/X, I think less of you.
If you’re on Substack, I think less of you.
If you’re on Facebook/Instagram, I think less of you.

To remain on them knowing the damage they are doing and facilitating is to comply with and endorse their actions, and I think less of you for it. There isn’t an excuse for staying.

@db The golden rule is pseudos for styling, not structure. Some people seem to have forgotten this.

A local developer has been found dead. Upon interviewing their friends and family, we discovered they’ve repeatedly been found typing to themselves in an empty IRC chat at odd hours of the morning regarding creating a “revolutionary new technology”. Police believe they were attempting to reinvent the literal wheel.

I always feel dirty talking about type. Serifs with lovely ball terminals. Soft shoulders. Attractive curves. Deep inktrap crotches. Beautiful eyes. Broad arms. Long, slender legs. Tittles.

(I mean, good typography is sexy – even ignoring the trade diction.)

#Typography #TypeDesign

@hejchristian You can always check out Revolt. We aren’t training an AI on your messages.

If you ask for help, and someone decides to help you, and they ask you clarifying questions so they can provide that help, don’t fight them!

Don’t question their questions and push back; they’re asking for a reason.

@SaraSoueidan As developers, our goal is to build something to be used. Part of this is ensuring it can be used by anyone and caters to everyone.

Accessibility isn’t a separate concept or goal. Making something more accessible for some people makes it better for all people, and that is our greater intent.

@beep @zachleat My website is built statically with WebOrigami. For my links section, I just lumped each link into one of three categories. Each category’s link list is stored in a YAML file, which is then dealt with and made presentable via a template.

I did think I was rather clever in generating an OPML file from the entries in the blog section.

https://vale.rocks/links

Remember when we used to talk about new technologies and say, “This is the worst it’ll ever be”?

I miss those days.

To avoid leaving heat stains on my wooden desk, I’ve been using my 3D printer as a coaster for my cups of tea.

An unplanned benefit is that the heated bed also works to keep them warm if I’m so inclined.

#3DPrinting #3DPrinter

@mdfranz Absolutely, but forking the content on GitHub is a tad bit pointless. If GitHub wipes the main version, chances are the forks go with it. If something happens to GitHub, then the forks are gone anyway. When a private repository is deleted, all its private forks are also deleted.

It just seems like a very poor form of ‘archival’.

A lot of people fork my projects on GitHub and then do nothing with them. I was curious as to why so many do this, so I’ve asked some of them, and they all say it is for the sake of archival.

I’m not quite sure how effective of a strategy that is…

#GitHub #Archival #Programming

It scares me how many people reply to no-reply email addresses. So many responses to sign-up confirmations and password resets with messages like ‘OK’ or ‘thank you’.

Do they think there is a human responding? Or do they just think it prudent to thank the automated machines? I’m perplexed.

#HelpDesk #Support #TechTales

@SaraSoueidan It is only one more. Just one. You know you want another domain. Just one more.

@_elena You’re welcome to use mine!

YOLO (You Only Live Once) is just as much justification not to do something as it is to do something, yet it is rarely treated as such.

Tangentially, you don’t hear YOLO as a phrase very often anymore. Maybe those YOLOers with gung-ho inclinations wiped themselves out and took the phrase with them?