Ollie Taylor

@olliejt.com

A multidimensional designer with a 'healthy' obsession for type-safe code.

I've just found the best hack. Swear in your search request. It's a great way to bypass the AI summary and make your search history look like you're chronically pissed off at everything!

Throw a "fuck" or "fucking" into your search to bypass the AI Overview

How is it okay for shows to have cliffhangers before being renewed for another season? It’s becoming far too common for shows to be cancelled early.

It’s a wrap - I’ve never been good at paying attention to what I like in music or remembering the names of artists… So of you have any recommendations, I’m all ears!

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3 Features I wish the BlueSky app had: 🔎 Resume my feed from where I was... so I don't have to scroll to find where I last was. 🤫 Mute a users reposts (I know there are timelines, but some people... businesses are just egregious) 📌 Bookmark posts, or adding specific posts to custom lists.

It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle. We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal. It's time to #FreeJavaScript. deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.

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Don't you just love how you'll; unsubscribe from all notifications. unsubscribe from all marketing. ...and conveniently companies will have 'new topics' to opt you into... because you didn't opt out of those ones, right?

📢 App Version 1.93 is rolling out now (1/5) This release includes the thread composer, improved tooling for adding content warnings to your own posts, and other improvements and fixes. Open this thread for more details. 🧵

Bluesky 1.93. Improvements: You can now compose threads with multiple posts. Easier-to-understand tools for self-labeling posts (eg nsfw). You can now label your post with a "Graphic Media" label. Visual improvements to link cards, images, and other interfaces. Fixes: Fixed an issue which "squished" images. Fixes to video playback.

Hey web friends 👋 I’m Ollie, a serial lurker who loves to build tools with web tech. Most of my career has been freelancing, though I’ve spent 6 years as a product designer and engineer at startups while living in China 🇨🇳, Germany 🇩🇪, and the UK 🇬🇧.

I hear y'all dislike X, so please allow me to pile on: X or x is a lazy close button. Use × or &times; for a perfectly angled close button. Make sure to add a label for accessibility: <button aria-label="Close Account Info Modal Box">×</button> 11 years ago: wesbos.com/times-html-e...

use × HTML entity for close buttons rather than the letter X for a perfectly angled ×

I posted this simple tip to twitter and it was instantly popular with developers from all around the world. It's a small improvement that…

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We will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames. Bluesky will always be free to use — we believe that information and conversation should be easily accessible. (We won’t uprank paid accounts.)

Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.

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If you’re comfortable with a terminal, there’s a free utility that will import all your X/Twitter posts to Bluesky backdated to the original timestamp, using your archive export file instead of the Twitter API. Video support is in beta. github.com/marcomaroni-...

GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.

Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

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By the age of 30, you should have: - a Bluesky account - a favorite spoon - an account on Twitter that you can't quite bring yourself to delete but you know in your heart that the site will most likely get seized by an international agency at some point & get closed completely - back pain