‘It Felt Like a Funeral’ — William Shatner on his feelings when he was on that Blue OrIgin space flight: […B]eauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever …
Snooker Hong Kong Masters 2022
Awesome Hong Kong Masters final between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Marco Fu. Ronnie getting into a commanding lead before the mid-session interval and then struggleing a little to get over the line. No super-high breaks, but Ronnie’s 114 clearance basically without black and pink in the final frame was …
Ordered something at an online pharmacy a week ago. In the meantime, I got three promotional emails to buy more, but haven’t gotten my order yet. What gives?
I’m really looking forward to the next episode of Doctor Who! October 23! New trailer today:
Trying to mention @roblen@microblog.at on his Mastodon instance. Will it work?
I hope to take part! A bunch of people have signed up for next week’s Day in the Life photo challenge, but it would be great to see even more folks from the Micro.blog community participate. You just post one photo wherever you are on October 13th. We might do a book, so fill out this form too. 📷 …
I got my soldered.com Inkplate 6 Color today and have been trying to set it up. Looks like there is much more to it than I anticipated and the Arduino IDE software reliably makes my Mac unstable‽ Next try tomorrow!
Aaron Gustafson has a call for mentorship on his blog. He’s one of the people where you can really learn what good web development is.
It’s German Reunification Day, a public holiday. 🚴🏻♂️ I went for a bike ride and because I live near the border of two states (both in western Germany), I crossed the border six times! A fun adventure! Full video of the tour at Relive: www.relive.cc/view/vQvx…
Modern TV cable management sucks! I guess I need a diagram and optimize cable routes. Such a first world problem!
Kinda weird day. Did some home stuff including hanging the two letterpress prints from Cameron Moll over the dining table and receiving the last IKEA shipment for a while to finish up some of the rooms after the move last year. My office is next but that’s not urgent.
Accessibility has an intersectionality problem. We must do better. 🦾
🚴 Since taking up e-cycling, I have seen a lot of nice places in this area. One example is this church that I rudely visited just as they started their Sunday service. I guess cyclists and church goers are the only ones awake on Sunday mornings 😂
👋 Hi! Long time no see.
A court in Germany has ruled against the use of dark patterns in tracking consent banners: www.jdsupra.com/legalnews… (via)
Handling a winter storm
Some words of advice I just shared to my colleagues in Austin who have a winter storm they don’t have the infrastructure to deal with, including power outages. Please stay safe. Stay inside. Turn your phones off in case you need it in an emergency and there is no power. Get lots of blankets and …
Working with US colleagues from Europe: They: “Oh, I woke up and many todos are already done, how delightful.” Me: “Oh, I woke up, and it looks like a chill day… Oh no, 17 tasks in my inbox.” I don’t really mind it, but it is an interesting dynamic.
About to prepare a 4 hour accessibility crash course for the #cos20 students. Anyone had a great online learning experience, excercises or something like that, that you enjoyed in the past? I really want to make it engaging and always search for good new ways to do it. 😃
TIL: ⨉ is the n-ary times operator (and will be announced like that by screen readers) — what I actually wanted to use was the times glyph: × Watch your unicodes, people! (And I would have never found it if I did not use a screen reader to test.)
A client asked yesterday about how to label a TinyMCE text field so that it meets WACG 2.0/2.1. I have created a Codepen that shows how to do it with a simple init callback function.
Utterly failed to dooomscroll this morning. Guess I need to change my routines now. Thanks Oba…—Biden!
Calculated how long we’re self-isolating, just out of curiousity, and we have not left the house for anything but essentials (groceries, very rare walk) for 291 days.
In good tradition of forgetting anniversaries, @ScreenOrigami and I forgot that we founded outline 10 years ago! 😂 Happy us! 🎉
Me: “Please add empty alt attributes to the remaining images that are decorative.” They: “Here, we added descriptions to all images.” That’s… not what… sigh
Why do people keep putting <button> elements inside of <a> elements? Such an easy to find and subsequently avoid error. 😭