Firehose

For as silly as I think it is, I think we should support people embracing accessibility technologies for the sake of AI agents by pointing them to the correct resources rather than pushing them away wholesale.

This is a chance to make a more accessible web, even if motivations are misguided.

By developing good, performant apps close to the web platform you save yourself a lot of time you’d otherwise waste on implementing skeletons and loading screens.

At the lights. We lock eyes. Him in orange car of yesteryear and me on unicycle. He revs. We turn attention to the road. Drag race.

The lights change. We go.

I gun it. He takes off slow. Gives me a brief chance.

He throws a hand out the window to wave farewell and speeds into the darkness.

I don’t trust the validity of academic papers not written in serifed type, and I certainly don’t trust certifications lacking blackletter.

Next time I write display: absolute, just kill me.

I always listen to Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music when coding so I can hear how computers think.

I saw this place when I was in Malaysia.

All I could think of were weblogs. It overwhelmed my thoughts and consumed my mind each time I saw it. I’m too far gone.

Cool blog, dude.

I’d like to thank my superannuation fund for sending me an email full of images which all have the alt text ‘alt_text’.

Fun fact: If you write proper semantic code and don’t abstract everything with bloated frameworks, you don’t have to spend as much time faffing around with ARIA.

Me quickly cycling through all the CSS display properties: ‘Surely one of these bails me out…’

Hey guys. I need a few billion dollars in funding to make a diamagnetism-based human levitation machine. Anyone interested in investing?

True horror is having to start a writing session with this incantation:

:setlocal spell spelllang=en_us

Revolt rebranded to Stoat today. Should be an interesting future for the platform. Lots of work to update stuff and move it all over.

https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat

If you’re wondering the implications for AutoMod: https://automod.vale.rocks/blog/revolt-is-stoat-now