Note archive: June, 2021

Reading On Writing by Stephen King.

That was discussed, but the problem there is that the web app manifest is fetched asynchronously and you kinda need that colour to kick in at the same time the page is rendered.

Same! I’ll probably write a blog post about this question too.

And thanks for the great talk (as always)!

Here’s what I’ve written to guardian.readers@theguardian.com:

https://adactio.com/journal/18246

I had so much fun today hosting @UXLondon’s #UXfest interviewing @Fiorine, @CheersFelicia, @Wakuu, and @JonBell — it felt like each conversation could’ve continued for hours!

Here’s one:

https://clearleft.com/about/jobs/midweight-design-engineer

Wow! My brother not only won the race, but he set a new record!

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”:

https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/d3ekbm/octavia-butler

It’s the lovely Marvin Visions:

https://www.readvisions.com/marvin

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):

https://live.opentracking.co.uk/spine21sum/

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.

Today during @UXLondon’s #UXfest I had the pleasure of interviewing @FrankYoo, @IDwithheld, and @CattSmall—it was soooo great! The time just flew by!

Perhaps the Doherty threshold (<400ms) applies here?

https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold/

When I give talks about progressive web apps, my one-slide TL/DR is:

HTTPS + service worker + web app manifest = progressive web app

https://adactio.com/journal/13884

I’ll be talking about sci-fi with @sniffles here at 7pm UK time—you should join us!

https://beyondtellerrand.com/stay-curious/sci-fi

Agreed! I wrote about how I found the whole process to be beautiful:

https://adactio.com/journal/17943

Reading My Rock’n’Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn.

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.

Right‽ @TheUniverse has such a great writing style!

Ooo, thank you for sharing that, Johanna!

Multiple sites across the web are down right now because “The Cloud” is in fact just spicy shared hosting.

Now at @UXLondon’s #UXfest it’s time for live Q&A with @KrysHiggins recorded last week.

https://twitter.com/adactio/status/1397842996490641416

It’s just like Mr. Show’s pre-taped call-in show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVbLJvYP8s

One of the biggest paradoxes of doing consisently good work is that it starts to make you think that good work is what makes you a good person.

— @DesigningInward, blowing my mind at #UXfest.

Now I really want to rearrange those letters.

Thank you! I’d much prefer to be compared to @RobynHitchcock than the usual comparison I get …Julian Assange.