Dev Class software development and cloud reporter Joab Jackson writes about how ridiculously low the HTML and CSS correctness numbers are for the web's top 5,000 most-visited websites. This results in accessibility breaking down, among many other dismal outcomes.

Something needs to be done about this, and pronto. An accessible web is a www.

"Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore"

https://www.devclass.com/devops/2026/08/18/almost-nobody-pays-attention-to-web-standards-anymore/5288832

#webdev #html #css #w3c #standards #browsers #frontend #accessibility

What kind of app do you mostly use to interact with Mastodon?

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#poll #fediverse #mastodon #app #formfactor

Who are your favorite Fediverse celebrities from the following short list?

Dr. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets

Myrmepropagandist
@futurebird

Nonilex
@Nonilex

J A Westenberg
@Daojoan

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#celebrities #fediverse

Which one do you use the most, while not at work, but in your free personal time?

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#poll #computing #fediverse

Out of the following operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?

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#poll #os #computing #fediverse

Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the twenty-first century, yay or nay?

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#daylightsavingstime #dst #us #poll #autumn

"I'm a programmer with a Fediverse account. I spend *most* of my programming hours on this OS:"

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#poll #programming #operatingsystems

Friendly reminder: Mastodon polls are anonymous by design. That means the person who posted, nor anyone else gets to see who voted for what.

Followers, Fediversers, lend me your ears.

What's your civil status?

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#poll #demographics #civilstatus

N.b., @marado has augmented this poll with further options for those of us who are 41 or older.

You can augment your vote here.

https://ciberlandia.pt/@marado/115237272830171798

I'll include his poll's result as part of my summary once the polls end.

I'm a computer programmer with a Fediverse account, and I am this many years old.

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#programming #poll #demographics #fediverse #age

💻 Programmers:

What generation do you formally belong to?

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A .NET Core Web API of my authorship to access and manipulate project data using EF Core, and JWT on a PostgreSQL or SQL Server database.

https://github.com/rperez-rosario/XPM_Server

#programming #webapi #postgresql #sqlserver #ef #aspnetcore

An e-commerce web application of my authorship built using SQL Server, EF, ASP. NET Core MVC, C#, Javascript and an assortment of other libraries and web services.

https://github.com/rperez-rosario/XO

#programming #sqlserver #csharp #aspdotnetcore #javascript #ef