Notices by Large Heydon Collider (heydon@front-end.social), page 2

@aral Much needed, thank you, Aral

@aral Yeah, having one of those mornings too 👋

@aral Haha I just had the same thought. https://front-end.social/@heydon/111907431758199314

@aral (i.e. engulfed in flames)

The first sentence of this FrontendMasters ad made we howl like an injured bear. https://youtu.be/dWxcw2R0gZs?feature=shared

@ppatel People don't talk enough about how fucking shit CAPTCHA is. It doesn't even catch spam effectively. In my last contract I argued and argued to replace it with a honey pot. We did so and went from 100 plus spam emails a day to zero, and got rid of the accessibility barrier with it.

So... I don’t believe in binary gender roles or identities any more than I believe in God or fairies, or subscribe to them any more than I do—I don't know—some shit magazine like the Spectator. I see myself as “male” as much as I see myself as English: I just happen to have been placed there. It is not a source of pride, joy, comfort or anything really. It’s just an arbitrary designation. Is that a common thing among cis and straight men?

Found; no attribution. Perfection.

@easrng @aral Yeah but you don't!

A T-shirt for lovers of the three core web technologies. https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/not-you-tee/

I was not aware AccessiBe--on top of all its other crimes--tracked you without content. https://better.fyi/trackers/acsbapp.com/
(via @aral )

@aral Wow 😩. Also, I love "AccessiBS", not heard that one before.

What Are Accessibility Overlays? is now on youtube dot com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNM8FR3yzWg

"There’s a real dopamine rush from successfully converting a gnarly JS file into a TS one, even though I’ve achieved basically nothing in reality."

https://rachsmith.com/is-typescript-good/

It has always annoyed me that people assume I like any technology just because I like the web. "Oh so you're probably into cyberspace and blockchains and machine learning then". No I'm into information, it being free, and me being able to contribute to it. Most everything else is bullshit. Don't call me a fucking techie.

The web is not compatible with capitalism. The discomfort you feel every day using and building for the web is cognitive dissonance.

Wait what