happy pride month!

Snake-in-the-Box Problem xkcd.com/3125/

everyday i use vscode is a day i am reminded how emacs remains infinitely better

So. I got bored the other day so I wrote a shortcut for iOS that grabs text from images and reads it aloud for you. Open the image, tap Share, scroll down to Speak Image Text. That's how to invoke it. Caveat: Apple OCR can sometimes be shitty and confusing. Sorry.

Reposting a link to my article about my color blindness. My color blindness, not yours. Most articles about how to produce figures that work for colorblind people are written by people with normal vision who don't know what it's like. commandcenter.blogspot.com/2020/09/colo...

Color blindness

Color blindness is an inaccurate term. Most color-blind people can see color, they just don't see the same colors as everyone else. There ha...

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going to walk up to someone, punch them in the face, and then go "now is the time for peace!" and see how it works out

Do not cram alt text with keywords just to improve search engine optimization. This will hinder alt text’s true purpose: improving accessibility. Focus on describing the photo's content. Search engine optimization should not be the goal for writing good alt text.

Oh Teams, my sweet summer child.

Happy Spring! Every month, our members Jay and James host Webweaving Workshops- and the next one upcoming is THIS SATURDAY! RSVP, find the link, and get more information on our forum post here: tinyurl.com/nhfw8325

Webweaving Workshop 6: ITS ON A SATURDAY THIS TIME

Hi all, hope you’re doing well! I am happy to announce our SIXTH Webweaving Workshop, once again hosted by myself and @capjamesg ! Due to some scheduling shenanigans, we’re going to have to move this ...

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AI is like a mirror. If we are offended by what we see, it is because we are offensive (from Mastering AI by Jeremy Kahn)

Astro.build is pretty awesome, only that it's bit of an overkill to have to use an entire bundling and build system for a simple personal site.

Astro

Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.

astro.build

last post of the year! home.hedy.dev/posts/defaul...

Default Apps 2024

Software I appreciate. Or, long lists of apps I would include if I had a /uses page.

home.hedy.dev

The speed improvement in Ghostty is pretty impressive, but there are still a few things I miss from Kitty: - Recognizing "cut-off" links -- a huge thing in IRC clients! - Automatically wrapping pasted text in quotes at the prompt - Automatically sanitizing pasted text from escape codes

Ghostty looks like the Windows Terminal for MacOS as the default terminal app

Re: @baty.net's post on "Emacs from scratch" smol.hedy.dev/re-baty-emac... wrote a bit about my own experience when starting my emacs config

The #W3C ARIA in HTML specification has been updated: www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/ These are the authoring rules for using #ARIA when #HTML is the host language.

new post! home.hedy.dev/posts/the-jo...

The joy of feed readers and alternative ways to consume content

Experiencing the internet through different lenses: feed readers, textual browsers, the Gemini protocol, and more.

home.hedy.dev

1 more thing on alt text for tonight. I have had at least a dozen people who have asked me what alt text is/why it's important Many folks simply don't know. Most seem happy to include it when they understand While it's important to vigorously encourage people to use it, be inclusive to them too

if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People. Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way. And it’s free for all. 🚀 htmlforpeople.com

HTML for People

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.

htmlforpeople.com

Good writeup from @css-tricks.com on the situation with "Masonry"† and whether it belongs as part of grid or its own `display` type. It's largely neck-and-neck and won't move unless some minds on either side change. css-tricks.com/csswg-minute... † Still a bad name.

Well this is grim

2024 CSS Unwrapped most used: color most misspelled: appearence most just pray it works: word-break most warm vibes: @container get out of jail free: subgrid easiest to forget to use: inset low key gold: min() lusting after: random()

bring back the personal site! tilde.team is a shared computer and everyone gets their own webpage this is mine and it's artisanally handcrafted: tilde.team/~ben/ i have a blog too i guess benharri.org

ben@tilde.team

my tilde page

tilde.team

gita “the formalist” jackson@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 2y ago

the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...

Some bsky.el progress for today, it now has rudimentary support for reply threads. (org-indent-mode might not be good for this)

I hate how much the tech industry (which is actually finance) has made me hate technology. I was a little girl who hung out at Radio Shack. I went to college where BASIC was invented and "artificial intelligence" was coined. And all these fuckheads care about is making money.

anyone wanna try a "slow social media" experiment, called izzzzi? nnnnnnnn.co/izzzzi.html let me know if you've signed up! I'm "hedy" on there.

i want to see more websites! so i made a custom feed bsky.app/profile/ribo...

#AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6 Just finished day 6 with Fennel & #Emacs. A little disappointed the naive solution is feasible. well, if it works, it works. I need to figure out how to prevent `M-x shell-command` from freezing Emacs...

Shout outs to xahlee for amazing #emacs content like this one: xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/... It’s making me stop being lazy and actual commit to learning some elisp, instead of copy-pasting and then trying whatever works like a mad man