Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 43

How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict - alice @ Igalia: https://alice.pages.igalia.com/blog/how-shadow-dom-and-accessibility-are-in-conflict/

I don't believe shadow DOMs are relevant to me...

Design can be free - Scott Jenson: https://jenson.org/free/

An update on Robust Client-Side JavaScript - Molily: https://molily.de/update-on-robust-javascript/

A Practical Guide to fzf: Shell integration - The Valuable Dev: https://thevaluable.dev/fzf-shell-integration/

Chrome’s Headless mode gets an upgrade: introducing --headless=new - Mathias Bynens & Peter Kvitek @ Chrome: https://developer.chrome.com/articles/new-headless/

I have headless mode striving to be bug-compatible with my other work. I call it "Amphiarao"!

Understanding the x86's Decimal Adjust after Addition (DAA) instruction - Ken Shirriff: http://www.righto.com/2023/01/understanding-x86s-decimal-adjust-after.html

I saw something equivalent inside GNU CoreUtils where to produce an incrementing sequence of decimal numbers they don't bother converting to binary & back!

A submodule loads contained SVG fonts.

Another loads, frees, & configures colour-palettes.
And another loads, frees, & binary-searches kerning tables.

1.1/1.1 for today. This is looking more achievable to finish tomorrow...

SFNT is a font-container format from Apple, originally designed to wrap TrueType fonts.

FreeType's subsystem for it contains a file with 3 functions that dereferences metrics data from the file, 1 of which might (depending on build flags) send some through a configured Font Variation's callbacks.

Similarly another file has a couple routines to lookup & free "bdf" properties from the fontfile.

Another file consults lookuptables both in the font & hardcoded to determine glyph names.

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@h3artbl33d Urghh I was in the process of moving everything over to Gandi. ☹️

Reading through the replies here it's:

- people suggesting alternatives
- people responding to those suggestions with "no you can't trust them because XYZ"

Even one suggestion of runing your own registrar, followed promptly by "actually it's a miserable pain don't bother" (paraphrase).

So what is one to do?

Learn Eleventy From Scratch could really do with an update - Andy Bell: https://andy-bell.co.uk/learn-eleventy-from-scratch-could-really-do-with-an-update/

Question for @jorge and other container/immutable distro users:

I get that #Toolbx and #Distrobox are the ways to add CLI apps to your immutable system, and Flatpak is for GUI apps.

What I want to do is have a kind of GUI toolbox -- a containerized desktop that doesn't affect any of my system or user files.

I'm using GNOME Boxes, but it's not robust enough -- it tends to crash if you change virtual desktops.

Any ideas on the best way to run a container with a desktop?

Alternatives to build tools - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/alternatives-to-build-tools/

I wonder if this would be one of the rare instances where a Tesla turbine actually makes sense, given the high density of supercritical CO2 and its ability to work with abrasive fluids. The centrifugal forces and blade alignment could help with the separation process, acting as a cyclone separator and turbine in one. That would certainly be handy. You would probably need a positive pressure stream of clean gas near the bearings to prevent particulates.

I've drafted some slides for my upcoming LibrePlanet talk, formatting as basic HTML which I'll hopefully be able to run out of the browserengine I'll be discussing. It'll basically be a repeat of my SeaGL talk, but referring to Haphaestus rather than Rhapsode.

I think I can get something rudimentary working in time that I can demo...

The web is a really unfriendly place when you use a browser that blocks cookies and JavaScript, and do it from behind a VPN

Almost every article I try and read wants me to prove I'm a human in order to read it. Find the chimneys, click the crosswalks, hold this button, solve this math problem

I'm not trying to leave a comment, I'm just trying to read an html document

I can't imagine how hard it is for someone who uses a screen reader

The web is supposed to be simple, how did we mess it up?

@emmah You might appreciate "The (extremely) loud minority" by Andy Bell: https://andy-bell.co.uk/the-extremely-loud-minority/

As much money, breath, & pressure goes into these conventions, they really only represent 5% of the web tops!

I'm laughing my nearly 30 years of web development ass off at the title of this.

https://www.sitepen.com/blog/intro-to-html-first-frontend-frameworks

Public transport isn't supposed to make money. It's not even supposed to break even. It's supposed to lose money and to be financed and extended from general taxes because it gives back way more than mere money.

And all the politicians know this because they keep building and maintaining streets for free

Ugh! Percentages again!

As I'm writing unittests for my grid layout, those are pointing out that I need to rethink how I'm handling percentages...

I'll refactor tomorrow, first though I've got a talk to plan!

@mekkaokereke You'd get *plenty* of quibbles from me over the Columbus myth. But as a geographer I personally take exception (even if I know there's more serious issues) over the notion that he sought to prove the earth was round when it was commonly believed it was flat. Embolden flat earthers why don't you!

Throughout written history it has always been widely accepted the earth was round. Columbus thought it was smaller than was previously & correctly calculated.