Cordless Telephone concept, Takenobu Igarashi (1989)
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🏭 Design Engineer + Accessibility @figma.com 🎨 building @terrazzo.app + openapi-ts.dev 🚀 co-creator @astro.build 🛜 pow.rs
I've looked for something like this to reference every time I've used the inclusive design graphics from Microsoft before. So glad this exists now! 🙌🏻 ✨ "a lot is going on right now" is precisely why we want more posts like this #a11y
Anna E. Cook@annaecook.com · 6mo agoSo I know a lot is going on right now, but I do want to share this: I’m excited to share the launch of the new Microsoft Inclusive Design website 💙 This project is my love letter to the community and practice that’s shaped my work for nearly a decade. inclusive.microsoft.design 1/
Mont Ventoux. A private commission from 6 years ago this week. Watercolour.
there’s never been a better time to switch to Progressive Web Apps on your phone, from Apple’s out-of-control fees, to removing public safety apps like ICEBlock, to apps accessing more of your data than you realize. odds are that “native” app is just a webview anyway 😉 www.pcmag.com/explainers/h...
Turn Websites Into Apps: How to Use Progessive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs, can turn app-like websites into website-like apps. Browsers are beefing up support for these useful hybrid apps, and we show you how to install and use them.
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Alex Pretti is a hero. He was putting his body between these lawless ICE thugs and a woman to make sure she wasn't getting hurt. He was a VA ICU nurse, an American, and one of the best of us. May his memory be a blessing.
Rolldown 1.0 RC is here 🎉 🔒 Stable API: No breaking changes planned before 1.0 ⚡ 10-30x faster than Rollup while staying compatible 🧩 Multiple chunking algorithm improvements 📦 3,400+ commits since beta: 749 features, 682 fixes, 109 perf optimizations
huh. guess the metaverse didn’t have legs after all
Futurism@futurism.com · 7mo agoThe division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.
According to my extensive research, 100% of people who follow this starter pack see more beautiful art and experience more daily joy. bsky.app/starter-pack...
"Learn Accessibility" is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics. web.dev/learn/access...
Learn Accessibility | web.dev
An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.
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i think the next bullshit tech bubble will be the one. going all in on the next piece of shit thing
“the Robots Exclusion Protocol has always been permissive. It believes, as Koster did 30 years ago, that most robots are good and are made by good people, and thus allows them by default.” (with the subtext here being, of course, OpenAI et al are not) www.theverge.com/24067997/rob...
The rise and fall of robots.txt
As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
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If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.
Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · 8mo agoY’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
No text duplication letter peel effect! No images other than CSS gradients. Using #SVG filter magic 🪄✨ - see it live on @codepen.io codepen.io/thebabydino/... Doesn't work for you? Check Pen description/ comments.
A mass shooting at my alma mater Brown University hit hard, proving no community is safe from senseless violence in a land with more guns than people Trump added insult to injury by claiming there is "nothing you can do." We can do a lot about guns My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...
Mass shooting at Brown U.: When gun heartbreak comes home | Will Bunch
A mass shooting at my alma mater is a gutting reminder that no one is safe until we tackle America's gun crisis.
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the line is actually "no JESUS for us meeses," an oblique reference to the fact that, as muppets are unable to take communion, they are forbidden from entering the kingdom of god
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 8mo agoMarco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Happy Baseline newly available day for CSS @scope now that it's in Firefox 146!
www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo... I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people. #morrowind #thomasthetankengine
the universe may be dying. entropy will probably win. but I exist at the same point in space time as cool ranch doritos. I wonder what other snacks I’ll get to eat