Replying to a tweet from @adactio
Wow! My brother not only won the race, but he set a new record!
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5965Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
Reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
On the occassion of Octavia Butler’s birthday, I find myself reading her classic essay “The Lost Races of Science Fiction”:
Taking Safari Technology Preview for a spin to see some sweet coloured tab bars in action.
Saturday, June 19th, 2021
Replying to a tweet from @g16n
It’s the lovely Marvin Visions:
From the comfort of my sofa, I’m tracking my brother as he runs the 268 mile route of the Summer Spine 2021 up the Pennine Way (his number is 654):
Friday, June 18th, 2021
Replying to a tweet from @wormmmoon
Try aria-label (or aria-labelledby if there’s an ID you can point to).
As I understand it, an aria-label (or aria-labelledby) value gives an item an “accessible name” in much the same way an alt attribute does on images.
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
Today during @UXLondon’s #UXfest I had the pleasure of interviewing @FrankYoo, @IDwithheld, and @CattSmall—it was soooo great! The time just flew by!
Wearing today’s #UXfest shirt.
Replying to a tweet from @kirabug
Perhaps the Doherty threshold (<400ms) applies here?
Here are my slides from last night’s @staycurio_us talk on Sci-Fi & Me:
https://speaking.adactio.com/bzUFGH/sci-fi-me
And here’s the associated book list:
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/sci-fi-me
(And a transcript is in the works)
Replying to a tweet from @pamelafox
When I give talks about progressive web apps, my one-slide TL/DR is:
HTTPS + service worker + web app manifest = progressive web app
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
I’ll be talking about sci-fi with @sniffles here at 7pm UK time—you should join us!
Happy Valentina’s Day and Bloomsday!
👩🏻🚀 📖
Replying to a tweet from @type__error
Agreed! I wrote about how I found the whole process to be beautiful:
When thesession.org met theirishmandolin.com
Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
Reading My Rock’n’Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn.
Monday, June 14th, 2021
Here’s how to use the new :has selector in @TailwindCSS. This also shows how you can use older pseudo-classes like :nth-child and :nth-of-type in Tailwind (and it applies to using the adjacent sibling selector too):
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You can’t.
Look at this fantastic shot of Jupiter and the Galilean moons taken by @AstroBrighton’s Ivana Peranic at 3am this morning: Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Calisto all lined up like a string of pearls!
Replying to a tweet from @rem
Right‽ @TheUniverse has such a great writing style!