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August 21, 2023

“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

It is when you start to not be fully able that

Through all of it, I’ve found myself noticing “accessibility” helpers more than ever before: that railing on the stairs, that ramp off to the side of the building, that elevator tucked away in the back.

1 in 5 people currently have a disability. 100% of people will have some form of disability in their lifetime.

Comparing Y2K action against Climate Inaction

TL;DR;

Capitalism was aware of the Y2K bug and took action even if it costs millions.

This is because my colleagues and my friends and I had been engaged in a multi-billion dollar, multi-year, multi-million person, quasi-coordinated project to fix the problem.

There are two obstacles to climate change to follow the same path though:

Responsibility for climate change is sparse and does not benefit an actor in particular if one makes some effort.

Capitalism's secondary tenet, short-termism, doesn't permit it to respond to non-specific risks, even if they're real, because that would require committing wealth to an effort from which 1-year or 5-year returns can't be measured in terms of greater wealth.

I'm OK; The Bull Is Dead | Computerworld
  1. Punch line
  2. Current status
  3. Next steps
  4. Explanation

"Dad, I'm OK; the bull is dead."
"The car is damaged but operable."
"He then explained about the location of the accident and informed me that a person nearby had called the police and that he (Raj) had taken a few pictures of the accident scene. You don't need to rush. I'll explain when I see you."

In journalism, this is known as the inverted pyramid style

Archiving URLs · Gwern.net

How to archive URLs and their content. It is a mine of tricks or information.

90 Seconds to Emotional Resilience
  1. Identify an emotional reaction
  2. Label the emotion
  3. Allow the feeling to come and go without judging or trying to change it

According to Harvard brain scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, ninety seconds is all it takes to identify an emotion and allow it to dissipate while you simply notice it.

UPLOAD : archipel éducatif du numérique

J'aime l'acronyme Université Populaire Libre Ouverte Autonome Décentralisé

Qui serait contre ces idées?

Gibiris, by Éibhear Ó hAnluain
The ideal viewport doesn’t exist

There are hundreds of touch point sizes.

This isn't a problem if you build in a fluid, flexible manner. That is illustrated in this diagram. If however, you tend to build with very specific breakpoints and hard values for typography, sizing and spacing, you might find that even with the best intentions, you’re not providing the optimal user experience.

A viewport is the window size of the browser, not the screen size.

The main point we’re trying to get across is that you simply do not know how users are going to visit your website or web app. Instead of making design decisions on strict, limited breakpoints, keep in mind the sheer amount of fragmentation there is in viewports.

New Year, New Terminal: Alias Your Directories the Unix Way | Ben Myers

Using aliases are powerful to navigate in the terminal.

The author shares ad function to add... aliases on the fly

YDD manifesto | YOLO-driven development - not for the faint of heart

LOL

How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole) – charity.wtf

When a relationship has very little trust, you tend to interpret everything someone says in the worst possible light, or you may hear hostility, contempt, or dismissiveness where none exists

The way trust gets rebuilt is by ✨small, positive interactions✨

  1. Acknowledge it is hard beforehand:
  2. or check in afterwards
  3. Speak tentatively: “From my perspective, it looks like these results might be missing some data… do you see the same thing?” opens the door for a friendly conversation
  4. Try to sound friendly
  5. Take a breath
  6. When you are in a state where you are assuming the worst of someone and reading hostile intent into their words or actions, try to check yourself on those assumptions.
  7. Engineer positive interactions, even if you have to invent them: 5 positive interactions for every one negative interaction
  8. Remember the handicaps, and value the effort.
19 licences méconnues et inhabituelles - Warrior du Dimanche

More realistic:

The Scarcest Thing in the World - by Ted Gioia

Communities need trust, and it is more relevant with social media

Api perso: Fetchit, le bon chienchien du oueb... - Warrior du Dimanche
Why your blog still needs RSS — Paolo Amoroso's Journal

You completely give up control of your traffic to search engines and social platforms. Along with email newsletters, RSS is among the few options remaining to bloggers for establishing a direct communication channel and relationship with readers. With no gatekeepers.

The two arguments against do not stand:

  • ads can be enforced by providing a snippet of the post. The reader then needs to navigate to the blog post URL
  • web scraping is not that much harder on a blog too