Stuart Homfray
@jackplug.bsky.social
Central Europe-dwelling Brit, frontend 🐒 Loving kids, wife, football and curry (order subject to change)
Me, an accessibility designer losing his chill: If you do that, no one using assistive tech will be able to use this Dev: Okay but is it really a problem if it isn't accessible? Me: We need to make sure that everyone can access this Dev: What do you mean everyone?? Me:
a man in a suit is crying and says `` everyone '' .
Alt: A man maniacally shouting "EVERYONE!", enunciating and drawing out every ear-piercing syllable. Clip from the film The Professional.
media.tenor.com
The boast of Farage was being a populist, appealing directly to the people But Reform UK policies of scrapping our NHS lower minimum wage more privatisation, tax cuts for superrich are universally unpopular And so is the corruption which surrounds Farage ... meme via Politics UK
“Everything worth protecting will eventually need protection” Well said. Eric Ries, Incorruptible.
What happened to the fight for the Internet? dustycloud.org/blog/what-ha... As the internet has become centralized, it's felt less like ours. But it can be ours, if we fight for it. And the fight has never been more critical or dire.
What happened to the fight for the Internet? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
dustycloud.org
New Blog Post: “Do Websites Need to Function Exactly the Same on Every Platform?” www.bram.us/2026/06/21/d... (Betteridge’s Law of Headlines applies)
Do Websites Need to Function Exactly the Same on Every Platform?
While we’ve accepted that websites don't need to look the same everywhere, we seem to be stuck on a new hurdle: the idea that websites need to function the same everywhere.
bram.us
On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”
The company that used the books I co-wrote to train its model without permission is weeping that China "brazenly" and "illicitly" extracted its Claude AI model's capabilities. I'm sending snorts and stares. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
The firm alleged that Alibaba used fraudulent accounts to access data from its Claude AI model.
bbc.co.uk
This. Is. SUCH a Thing Of Beauty... *tells self to try to avoid spending 3 hours here*
Large Heydon Collider@heydonworks.com · last mo.Now has a proper public URL: codepen.io/heydon/pen/R...
leave it to the captains of technology who have made every tech worker's lives a living hell to be so sloppy that they embedded their names right into the javascript instead of encrypting them and storing them in a database
maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo agoSCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
And if that kid is English, this is even better! 😂
Olaf Falafel@ofalafel.bsky.social · 2mo agoForget Cruyff, Gullit and Van Basten this is the best ever moment in Dutch football.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin
Err, yeah... I woke up feeling fine, then I saw the stuff about entities living in houses made of themselves... Back to bed, I think...
Added to my post about the Atlass browser also contributing to the decline of web accessibility: adrianroselli.com/2025/10/open... (anchor)
OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
OpenAI has announced it’s launched a new browser, Atlas, with ChatGPT built in. For those familiar with ARIA, OpenAI outlines what to expect (I left the code as I found it, other than removing the tar...
adrianroselli.com
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Go take the State of CSS 2026 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
State of CSS 2026
Take the State of CSS survey
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Ryan Reynolds' Facepalm: Hopeless Andrew Paxton Moment
ALT: Ryan Reynolds' Facepalm: Hopeless Andrew Paxton Moment
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Jake Archibald@jakearchibald.com · 2mo agoWatch out! Chrome has a huge bug with <input type="number"> which causes values to change unexpectedly. It's fixed in Chrome 150, but that won't land until the end of June.
Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
The news isn’t getting preserved in the Wayback Machine anymore because major media outlets are blocking it.
savethearchive.com
denodell.com/blog/browser... We (the front-end monkeys) have to stop this from being necessary. I know we all want to use the 'latest and greatest' stuff to impress clients, but come on...
Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
denodell.com
#tinyCSStip I like shorthands, I find them immensely useful. But it doesn't always make sense to drop it all in the shorthand and having repetitions. Yeah, you can store that `.2s` in a #CSS variable. But is it really worth it if you're not even using it elsewhere in addition to not being dynamic?
So... that was quite a break from social media (it was just feeling like Too Much). Let's give it another go...
Don't think there is a sufficiently face-palming facepalm emoji to cover this... IT GETS WORSE: UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 alecmuffett.com/article/134925
IT GETS WORSE: UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
This is deranged, each nation’s boomers and reactionaries attempting to outdo the others: “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” … th…
alecmuffett.com
