@mikesusz social feed.

@sarajw sara soueidan has you covered for NVDA https://sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-environment-setup/

@hbuchel when i first signed up for Mastodon my only friend was Tom.

@film_girl there’s a “WaMulians” facebook group where former employees share pics of this stuff as we find it. they also printed baseball-style cards of employees!

@film_girl (former Wamu.com-er here) they did all sorts of stuff like this. i wish i had saved some of the collectibles. it was fun while it lasted!

@zachleat needed to start with E and end with -ent

@zachleat if only sites, in addition to Progressive Enhancement, would also demonstrate Progressive Encroachment: make sure the website is still usable (read: people can still give you money) even if your advertising and tracking scripts do not load (blocked via ad blockers, breaking your fragile javascript loaders, halting all JS on your website)

@irafcummings my new flashlight is really useful but it feels dirty like i’m now associated with some sort of “tactical” “edc” group. i did not sign up for the newsletter.

Bruce Springsteen + Legalize It =

we are all building digital sandcastles.

https://mefi.social/@rodneylives/110037095145461925

this is how to get to my backyard now.

this much snow fell before i cleaned the truck off at 11am.

Variable is possibly undefined?

YOU’RE possibly undefined!

The whole dang SYSTEM is possibly undefined!

@eric you can really extend it to them for killing RSS in general. they got everyone dependent on Reader (even 3rd party apps), then killed off Reader. Almost like it was a strategy to eliminate any means for users to discover content without Google being able to track and monetize it

we all lost an hour of sleep.

this is Vinnie. full name, Sir Vincent Tuppence.

was that really only one week? happy friday y’all.

write code

type errors

fix type errors

not working

write more code

more errors

…

git restore .

…

(go outside and play with dogs)

write code

code works

write code

code works

commit code.

~ fin ~

hi i am a professional software person with 27 years of experience.

dog sat in my chair. there was plenty of room on the couch with the boys. dog did not expect this. (dog is 69lb/31kg)

@stubbornella oh wow sounds like you had a terrible ride with this. when it finally got to me, my biggest problem in recovery was endurance. sounds like you’re on the mend, and you have the support to do it in a measured and safe way. good luck, i hope it keeps improving for you.

@ds i check in there occasionally to see if anyone else i knew over there has created accounts here. every time i do, i see stuff in my timeline that i do not miss.

I really need to create an alternate face ID appearance with me yawning

@beep like srsly why

@beep were it our kitten, it would be because they like to put their paws in the water bowl before drinking

today i fixed padding issues in HTML emails, then i picked up dog poop with a shovel and a bucket. guess which one i will look back on and regard more fondly.

@Meyerweb i’ve gotten to the point where i laugh at myself when this happens. sneeze and my abs go zing! - hilarious. rolling over in bed, ow! super funny. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@chriscoyier oh this is cool. i’ve fooled with the apache options for directory listings but have not dabbled in the nginx configs for the same. thanks! (also, mine https://sqd.co/_/ )

@irafcummings but the beauty of mastadon is, the ecosystem is wide open for an instance to offer you features like a customizable, transparent algorithmic timeline. and charge some $ for it if it’s useful. and you can choose to use that instance/feature or not.

one of my goals for 2023 is to have a website live on every domain name i own.

(so watch this space for a firesale on domain names in december)

@jeffbyrnes for me, yes. but for the user who doesn’t have their dev tools open, they click the button and nothing happens.

today i upgraded a server through 3 Ubuntu LTS releases

@hbuchel "Where did you learn TypeScript?" "Lint University."

so if you qualify for free shipping, you can't use Apple Pay on this site. brilliant.

if i wrote a book about the history of materials used to fill cat boxes, would it be considered litterature?

it’s been a heck of a week, but my friday friends are here to ensure that i take a nap on the couch.

snowstorm day means i burned 500 calories shoveling the driveway then took a nap on the couch with the dogs.

@estelle that’s very cool. on IRC that’s how we used to correct ourselves if we typo’d, but the s/ would just remain to be user-parsed

Oh look I'm logged into Mastodon from my browser and I don't have to worry about this site having creepy tracking scripts and following me around the web.

i took long enough to finally upgrade my site to the release version of astro 1.0, that astro 2.0 is already out. so rebuilding in that. hope to get it published before 3.0 arrives.

@sarajw oh wow i could eat a full stack right now. so hungry.

we think wookies are cool and all, but it’s not like we’re

@kitt oh, you’ve met my
kids?

@kitt what’s even better is when i get “fatal: a branch named ‘list’ already exists” 😂

@sarajw yeah… 27 years later and i still get that feeling. a lot of it for me, is around having approached this industry from the design side, and focusing on the UI/UX layer at the DOM, and generally feeling like i’ve had the rug pulled out from under me as CompSci has taken over. I’ve scrambled to up my javascript (and now typescript!) skills to remain relevant. it’s exhausting.

git branch list
…
*sigh*
git branch
git branch -d list

@sarajw thank you for sharing these moments. i know we all feel them and sometimes i know i get really unkind with myself about it. good for me and others (especially new folks) to hear we’re not alone

the fish tank cabinet. my wife wants to set up a large tank again. a bit ago i picked up a free 8’ tall plywood kitchen cabinet (it was broken on a job site and i fixed it up) i cut it down to size and reinforced it with an inner frame of 1x4 and more plywood. topped with 3/4” plywood that i will be applying tile to this week.

this was a heck of a weekend. while taking a victory lap for making huge progress on my fish tank cabinet project, i went downstairs to find water all over my basement floor — my boiler was leaking.

@film_girl we didn’t disturb-e-ya

@fox @beep i stole the idea from the dog breeding world https://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/breeds/cocker-spaniel-a-s-c-o-b

@beep @fox using AMBOC (Any Modern Browser Other than Chrome) roots out a lot of them, and using an ad blocker finds the rest who don’t hedge against their click tracking ad scripts being blocked