I hate to say I’m desperate, but I haven’t had work in *months*. If anyone’s looking for a #freelance senior #wordpress #developer, please keep me in mind. I do full, custom theme builds, specialize in #accessibility and #semantic code, and am a great communicator about time estimates and budgets! My full portfolio is www.amberweinberg.com

If you don’t have any work, I would appreciate a boost 😊

#frontend #frontendDeveloper #development #WPJobs #needwork #hireme #hire #getfedihired

So a work colleague reached out. They asked how I keep up with the news. I told them about RSS. Because of course I did. And I showed them both NetNewsWire and @tg’s Current. They thought NNW was amazing tech.

But Current? They just got it. It made sense immediately as the best way to do RSS. I warned them it was paid, but entirely worth it, and their camera glitched as they hit “Buy”.

Amazing software, and amazing to see someone learn about RSS and immediately go for Current.

This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.

> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

Does your clock really need a full Box2D physics model. No. But is does make it a lot more fun.

This is my BadClock™.

It runs late when you don’t wind it. Hands fall off when you’re too rough and it forgets how DST works. So it may adjust your clock in the wrong direction. Or not. Who knows.

Just seen someone saying they support bans on trans healthcare for under 18s because “let kids be kids”.

By the time I hit puberty, I had KNOWN for a decade.

I also knew that telling anyone would be profoundly dangerous.

So I hid who I was and, am almost grateful that the neurodivergence gave the other kids something else to latch on to. They were so busy calling me a “mong” that they didn’t notice I was trans.

Because that might have got me murdered.

Or pushed me into a position where I felt I had no options other than the same end result.

So I hid it.

And I hid it really well.

And one of the things that happens when a 5 year old child is terrified of their parents, or their families, or the school bullies finding out who they really are is that they end up traumatised.

A 5 year old child. Traumatised and ashamed.

Ashamed because adults openly talked about them.

Or people like them.

And what they said was horrific. What they said made it very clear that they would regard their own kids as subhuman monsters if they ever found out.

So we hid. And an important part of ourselves died in childhood. A light that should have shone, went out.

I’ve tried my best to rekindle it.

I’ve managed somewhat but it will never be right. Not really. I’ve made peace with that.

“Let kids be kids”. Trans kids like me never got to be.

Because of people who say things like that.

🙂Update - thank you everyone that boosted this!
The call for testers is now closed.

Hi Folks,

I am looking for screen reader users to test a site taking approximately one hour. This is a paid gig - $50 via a gift card. Please ping me for more details.

Please boost for reach.

Thanks!

#a11y #accessibility #ScreenReader

TIL the difference between BSD grep and GNU grep. And that software expecting the second one can fail badly when offered the first one. Argh.

A (more) Modern CSS Reset by Andy Bell #smashingconf

https://piccalil.li/blog/a-more-modern-css-reset/

Does anyone have a handy article that says with some authority why you can't and shouldn't expect your disabled users to do your testing and accessibility educating for you or your developers?

Something along the lines of people who are discriminated against not having to be polite and teach you history and why they should not be discriminated against.

Otherwise I guess I'll be writing one...

#accessibility

Babes, I have a lovely kid as a mentee, who is learning to code and in need of a laptop.

Anyone got one, which they might be able to donate?

♥️

What's something about HTML and accessibility that you'd love to learn? I'm asking because I was asked to give a talk about HTML and a11y, and this would be a good opportunity to answer your questions.

Any Swedish birders and/or bird photographers here?

I’d like to follow you!

Ps. If you’re not but you know someone please let me know.

This is a stupidly long shot, is there anyone I know that lives in or near (enough to drop a letter to) Glossop SK13?

"This AI output is highly inaccurate."
"Nah, you're just prompting it wrong."
"How do I go about prompting it the right way?"
"You really need to know the subject you're asking about. Then you can help it avoid making mistakes."
"If I know the subject deeply myself, why am I asking an AI about it?"
"It helps to train the AI."

So I’ve decided to go POSSE, and I’m starting with moving my blog to a static site generator. Hopefully I’ll have some news soon.

Dear people who make websites,

Do you ever block your users from being able to paste into a text field?

Why?

Do you need this ability for a good reason? What’s that reason?

Or, as a user, would you like to see it go away? Perhaps you encounter sites that prevent you from pasting your super complex password from your password manager into a password field, and wonder why they can do so?

What might be the downside of removing support of disallowing pasting from the web?

For the City or Vienna I helped build a tool that takes a .doc and turns it into a website using a node script and @eleventy. Those sites are HTML-first, use web components, are themeable, and have search built-in.
Would an introduction of the tool make an interesting talk for the 11ty conference?

😍

https://codepen.io/matuzo/pen/wvNLxjV?editors=1100

A T-shirt for lovers of the three core web technologies. https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/not-you-tee/

I'll go through the download and pull out the bits I'm proudest of. Who knows, maybe I'll blog about it.