Had a fun and long interview with Welcome To the Jungle for their video series about my career, advice for other people not having a normal CS background and what drives me:
🔗welcometothejungle.com/fr/articles/bt
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The robots are coming and we need to make a great example for them. Principal Program Manager for Browser Tools at Microsoft. Presenter, JavaScript lover.
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Vienna is full of gorgeous old shop signs.
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Webinar, December 1 at 12pm ET: Using JAWS Inspect and JAWS Connect for Testing
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as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days
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Remember when we rolled down hills in tyres as children? Those were the Goodyears.
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The mid-term election in the states kind of remind me of the Joker's two ferries experiment in The Dark Night rises...
Let's hope by the end of the week we still have at least one democratic superpower.
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The accessibility gang is one of the most notorious of central Vienna.
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🧠🇩🇪 Pro tip: bei DM gibt's tolle Brillenputztücher
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Reminder that if you want to get the full size images embedded in a .docx file, you can just rename it to .zip, unpack it with a tool that supports zip and you get a folder with all assets and the doc as an XML file.
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Who let the .docx out?
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I just emailed people - like an animal and not one of those cool social media folk.
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This looks really interesting. Using NLP to cut through incomprehensible documents like job descriptions.
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StimuWrite is a companion writing app for people who are neurodivergent, addicted to social media notifications, or would benefit from extra stimulation and feedback when they draft and take notes.
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How Chinese citizens use puns to get past internet censors
restofworld.org/2022/china-soc
Using homophone substitution. It's like cockney rhyming slang for the social media age. Fascinating. via
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Links, 2, 3, 4: Accessibility
christianheilmann.com/2022/11/08/lin
A few of the accessibility related things I read lately and tweeted about - who knows what'll happen, so I start link posts on my blog again.
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So, yeah, Stable Diffusion painting me in the style of Gustav Klimt is… something.
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Introducing Lazy, a capture tool for knowledge.
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A few more photorealistic samples from the new Lexica model.
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I wrote the 4th one after a year, stop gaslighting me 😭
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Reminder: Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom is a prequel to Raiders of the lost ark.
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Design system return of investment calculator. In case you need to convince people that reusable components are a good thing.
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The first European surgeon to successfully deliver a baby using a c section was James Barry, who lived his whole life as a man although he was born a woman.
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i've been writing a quick checklist for engineers to check the accessibility of their work before it lands in my in-tray (or Stinky's in-tray). They have to sign a Solemn Pledge.
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🧠 They were weaving precariously in and out of traffic so I shouted at them to get a loom.
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. has hit the nail on the head here.
Microsoft got rid of the notion of evaluating developers based on KLOCs (thousand of lines of code) decades ago.
It penalizes coders who solve problems creatively/efficiently/both using fewer lines of code than their counterparts.
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Soon * we will have:
(200px <= width <= 500px)
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(min-width: 200px) and (max-width: 500px)
* once Safari supports it (tracked here: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i)
In detail here by
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Writing the FM is not fun when people don't RT.
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Discord has entered the "overlapping modals" stage of PM hiring
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I really wonder why CSS columns aren't used more. Sure, flex and grid gives you more options, but the browser support is amazing and it is dead simple to grasp.
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
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color picker is just a 1x1 screenshot tool
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Hydra is live code-able video synth and coding environment that runs directly in the browser. It is free and open-source and made for beginners and experts alike.
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Avatar AI
Create your own AI-generated avatars
Upload 20 pictures, get creepy soulless airbrush paintings.
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Happy “let’s circle back after the holidays!” season to all who celebrate
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And in international tech news:
Sources: Elon Musk fired over 90% of Twitter's 200+ staff in India over the weekend, including ~70% of the product and engineering teams (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
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What if Edvard Munch tried to paint a dog with long ears and he just wasn't very good at it?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream
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It's easy to poke fun at the UK government at times, but I am continually impressed with their digital and online work .
"Building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement" is a great example that they really care about users.
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