A dreadful dinner, I know, but I was feeling lazy…
Month: February 2019
👓 Do We Still Need Braille? | shades of short shady
It’s a question that’s been debated more and more as the years go by. Each January is Braille literacy month, and each year I hear arguments advocating its decline. Each time, I shake my head and ask myself again how people can be so?...
A panoply of different modalities should always be available! Of course we still need Braille.
👓 Added underlines to links in toots by aardrian · Pull Request #9898 · tootsuite/mastodon
Link text color is #f1ebff, surrounding text is #ffffff. They have a contrast ratio of 1.2:1. Not only is hard to see links that are so close in color to the text, they also require a pointing devi...
An insane thread to be sure. Some useful information about accessibility here, though one will need to look past a lot of fud.
👓 Adrian Roselli on Twitter: “I just wanted underlines on links on Mastodon, not to write a damn thesis. At least clients *want* your advice. https://t.co/7GLtTUqfjx””
Adrian Roselli (Twitter)“I just wanted underlines on links on Mastodon, not to write a damn thesis. At least clients *want* your advice. https://t.co/7GLtTUqfjx”
Did something go sideways with your site at https://www.arush.io/? Something feels off and it appears most of your content has disappeared?!
Reply to IndieWebifying my Blog by Ken Bauer
Ken Bauer (blog.kenbauer.me)The “First Post” on this blog was back in 2013 but I’ve had a presence on the web since the 1990s. My first page would have been one that I had as a graduate student at the University of Washington (1993-1995). In fact one of the early (and extremely popular) web search engi...
Ken, congratulations on IndieWebifying and welcome to the club! It’s nice to see another educator tinkering around in the IndieWeb space which I often think of as very similar to the Domain of One’s Own space, but with another useful layer of helpful technology on top.
If you haven’t come across it, there is a wiki page for IndieWeb for Education with some documentation about some of our experimentation and help for others. Feel free to add yourself to the examples and add to the page to help out the community.
Let us know if we can be of any help.
📺 Capsicum Bullet Journal App Review | YouTube
Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss Capsicum, a new subscription app by Illuminated Bits. It's a bullet journal with digital washy tape and cool fonts, plus a way to visually track good habits, keep your Google or Apple calendar, make to-do lists, keep a gratitude journal, a diary, or more. A great tool for living your best (or your worst) life.
Somewhat entertaining review. I wish they’d talked about data import/export a bit. Entertaining that the app has some of the physical attributes that people put into their physical versions. Sadly no mention here of productivity porn however.
Bookmarked to watch on February 8, 2019 at 12:25PM
👓 Say 'no' to Hopkins' private police | Baltimore Sun
Johns Hopkins’ claim that it will create a model police force for the country is nearly impossible in practice. It is clear that the police force will only answer to a small class of administrators and not to community members, residents and lawmakers, as any proper police force should.
Given Ron Daniel’s past statements about partnering with the city to make things better for everyone, he obviously needs to have a better stance on why they need to do something like this. What’s in it for Hopkins? Why are they doing it?
I’m very troubled after reading this article because it doesn’t sound like the Hopkins I typically know.
👓 New Year, New Website | Medium
The motivations and struggles behind redesigning my own website
Sure the cobbler’s kids may not have shoes and the plumber’s pipes are always leaky, but when you’re presenting your web development work online, it seems painfully disingenuous to host your content on social silos like Dribble and Medium. What kind of message does that send to clients?! Should they do the same?
I’m glad she’s managing to make some effort to have her own site with a game plan for moving things over.
👓 Paid contributing to Drupal | realize.be
swentel (realize.be)Doing maintenance on Display Suite today, thanks to @dropsolid ! One day a month does make an impact, so let's talk to see if I can get more days :) #drupal
This is awesome news. I wish there were more companies who did this sort of thing.
👓 Cycl’Assist/Cygnal 0.4 is out! | Phyks’ blog
Cycl’Assist aims to be a webapp to ease tracking and reporting issues with bike infrastructures while riding your bike (any danger on the way such as holes in the ground, cars parked like sh*t, road work, etc). You can think of it as Waze for bikes :) Version 0 …
