Andreas

@taranetz.com

Every byte counts! Software Engineer & Tech Evangelist @Dynatrace andreas.taranetz.com

Al-generated slides are the new Comic Sans. A left-bordered accent on a needlessly numberes box is about as novel as a Studio Ghibli avatar. To me this reads as: The author didn't care about the packaging, so they probably didn't care about the content either.

A great article about why we shouldn't use the disabled attribute on input elements and what we could do instead to keep things accessible. Rethinking the "disabled norm": 7 patterns to use instead in your design system zeroheight.com/blog/rethink...

Rethinking the "disabled norm": 7 patterns to use instead in your design system - zeroheight

Chela Giraldo explains how disabled states harm accessibility and what to do instead to build clearer, more inclusive user interfaces.

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Spending tokens as a developer feels like spending mana as a mage in an RPG 🧙 If you have burnt through your pool this early in the month I would suggest you'll take a long rest 🔥⛺

It's not a bug, it's a redesign... Am I the only one around here who notices more and more bugs in everyday software? I know this one is a minor thing that I have cause countless times myself, but some days it feels like the internet is slowly falling appart.

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Big evolutions in hardware often come with new ways of input. This is **not** one of them, but the Surface Keyboard is still a really cool feature meta dropped in the public testing channel.

Meta cooked 🧑‍🍳 i just got their newest experimental feature for the quest called surface keyboard. It even works surprisingly well in travel mode on the train.

first person view of a meta quest 3 seeing a browser in the front with the user writing this very post and a virtual keyboard being tracked on the real table of the train below

My new favorite alias: alias gho="gh pr view >/dev/null 2>&1 && gh pr view -w || gh pr create --web" If there already is a PR for your current branch, open it in the browser, if not, open the create view. It even prompts you to push your branch to the remote in case you forgot.

Many software developers (myself included) dream of creating video games for a living. Sounds like a fantasy? Since video games are an art form, I guess what we really dream of is creating art all day. 👩‍🎨🖼️ Seems like a very human thing to me.

"... you have been put to work to make automation work. That's not how automation is supposed to work" - @edzitron.com We have started with prompt engineering. Now we are context engineering. Maybe we should just get better at actual engineering.

If you ever need to figure out what's going on in your system, check the /proc folder. Aivars Kalvāns walked us through the proc filesystem and showed us where to find everything from the arguments a process was started with to its open network connections. #CloudNativeDaysAustria

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