Note archive: November, 2020

Yes! Prioritisation is what makes a good design principle useful (instead of fuzzy and toothless).

https://adactio.com/journal/16811

The sky is clear, the sun’s going down, and the International Space Station will pass overhead at 5:13pm travelling from west-southwest to east-northeast.

Look to the skies!

Congratulations!

Reading Blindsight by Peter Watts.

The Maid Behind The Bar and Miss Monaghan:

https://thesession.org/tunes/64 https://thesession.org/tunes/471

Merrily Kissed The Quaker and Tripping Up The Stairs:

https://thesession.org/tunes/70 https://thesession.org/tunes/111

Lovely tune, Calliope House …or maybe that should be Calliope Greenhouse.

https://thesession.org/tunes/15

Is your dad on TheSession.org? There’s a discussion over there about this:

https://thesession.org/discussions/45578

It’s a lovely everyone-elsie!

Kiitos paljon, Viljami!

Grazie mille, Andrea!

Oh, wow—thank you so much, Sara! This means a lot to me!

Pouring one out for Arecibo.

Thanks, Ben—I’ll look into that!

That was definitely a super-spreader event.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/albums/72157594382982224

Watched Contact this afternoon.

Now I’m watching the livestream of Crew-1 getting prepped for launch and I can’t help looking for Jake Busey on the gantry.

Yes, he is very right. I am agreeing with him.

Welcome to my hill. Isn’t the view something? I plan to die here, you know.

https://twitter.com/philgyford/status/1327588008682459137

Allow me to present my bona fides…

https://adactio.com/notes/toast

Can’t shake the feeling that somewhere out there, a client has signed a contract to get their website redesigned by Clearleft Total Landscaping.

Oh, I’m hoping I lose my long bet!

First Biden beat Trump in the US election. Then Cork beat Kerry in Gaelic Football. Now there’s a promising-looking candidate for a COVID-19 vaccine.

brb. Going to buy a lottery ticket.

I hadn’t planned to. But I think any differences should be relatively minor.

Oh, that’s fantastic news—a Japanese translation would be wonderful!

I found my original Markdown manuscript files and added them:

https://github.com/adactio/resilientwebdesign/tree/main/markdown

But the HTML will be more up to date.

Yub nub!

It’s the other way around. I post my notes and replies on my website. A copy gets sent to Twitter (along with a link to the canonical URL).

It’s the same with photos: I syndicate them to Flickr. And blog posts: I syndicate them to Medium.

Restraint.

Right …except my blog post wasn’t about modal dialogs specifically. It was about all kinds of progressive disclosure.

e.g. A link that pops open a log-in form not in a modal dialog.

Thank you, Julie!

Playing The Wren’s Nest (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/119

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-A4aKIpIMs

That was badly phrased on my part. I wasn’t trying to say that all keyboard users are a subset of screen reader users, but that screen reader users are often keyboard users.