?John Hyphen? on Twitter: “not only is public transport free in Brussels, but they even have a bus called “Not The 48” which takes you to a mystery location if you’re feeling a bit down or you just don’t have anything to do that day something for ot How the ring got goodTolkien, for all […]
The UI Lexicon Project: defining commonly used UI terms in plain language | U.S. Department of LaborSomething to think about regarding vocabulary in general. […]
Accessibility guidelinesPearson doing a nice job with clarity of design and language for accessibility. h/t Joe A Give Me Anything That Sparks Joy in Your Soul and I Will Monetize It – McSweeney’s Internet TendencyBy the way, why aren’t you putting Amazon affiliate links in texts to your family, co-workers, and high school friend group? […]
Meet the first-ever accessibility engineer at The Washington Post | Nieman Journalism Lab I’ve often found myself wishing conversations in this area were more inclusive of people with a diversity of backgrounds and identities. It’s essential to think about accessibility not just in the context of disability but also in the context of other inequities […]
Automatisch – Open Source Zapier Alternativeopen source ifttt/zapier h/t grant potter Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowHere is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to […]
Eduardi Tsokolakyan (@eduwoes) • Instagram photos and videosa really crazy variety of art techniques and examples of non-standard creation Michael Tsai – Blog – Reading Twitter and Mastodon in NetNewsWireI’m also using NetNewsWire for Mastodon. As with Twitter, what I like compared with a lot of the clients is that it works well for reading […]
How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military | DazedKnown in esoteric meme circles as the psy-op girl, Haylujan, also known simply as Lujan, is a self-described “psychological operations specialist” for the US Army, whose online presence has led to countless memes speculating that she is a post-ironic psy-op meant to […]
The FCC can finally hammer predatory prison phone call companies, thanks to just-passed bill | TechCrunchA brand-new law (awaiting only the president’s signature) will let the Federal Communications Commission directly regulate rates in the notoriously predatory prison calling industry. Under the threat of having to provide a solid product for a reasonable price, companies may […]
Why the super rich are inevitableThis is the crux of the Yard-sale model. In a free market, one person ends up with all of the wealth – completely by chance. This is completely counterintuitive. If everyone wins half their games, everyone should end up approximately where they started, around $1,000. But it all starts to […]
Nutshell: make expandable, embeddable explanationsA variation on the secret crush website I loved from many years ago. Convert curl commands to codeConvert curl commands to Python, JavaScript, PHP, R, Go, C#, Ruby, Rust, Elixir, Java, MATLAB, Dart, CFML, Ansible URI or JSON John O’Nolan ???? on Twitter: “However, directly loading scripts from our CDN on […]