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Max Glenister

📅 Tomorrow it's from 9:30 AM BST

🫂 Join in from wherever you are! 👉http://remotehack.space

📢 There might be new periodic Airquotes The Podcast Airquotes recordings: https://remotehack.space/live/

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📣 A new blog post: Using a Raspberry Pi to Host a local Visual Studio Code Server

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/raspberry-pi-local-dev-vscode-remote/

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The forgotten benefits of “low tech” user interfaces https://uxdesign.cc/the-forgotten-benefits-of-low-tech-user-interfaces-57fdbb6ac83

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Man, 90s appliance UIs were a ride!

About the Dual MN 8010, the remarkable retro stereo set you've never heard of, that has a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckiZf9X8GrY

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The Nightmare Of Getting DOOM Running On A Serious Business Machine ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzhCGSE7KKw

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Well this DALL-E 2 is insane! Going to have to be even more critical/sceptical when consuming content...

"My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test"

https://www.mattbell.us/my-fake-dall-e-2-vacation-photos-passed-the-turing-test/

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This is a great build log for converting a garage to a habitable workshop space.

Feeling bad that I've not done anything close to this with my garage yet!

https://michd.me/blog/diy-garage-to-workshop-conversion/

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Portal64: A demake of portal for the Nintendo 64

https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64

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These are some great a11y tips, and great explanations/examples too!

https://hidde.blog/common-a11y-issues/ https://hidde.blog/more-common-a11y-issues/

See also: https://www.a11yproject.com/checklist/

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Tomb Raider Reflection Effect: How it works

https://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=226585

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This really is a thing of beauty! https://fabiensanglard.net/d2r/index.html

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I've still got a couple of unused branded notebooks from conferencing 5 years ago! Saying that, I'm always happy to receive free stationary...

https://codesubmit.io/blog/do-developers-want-swag/

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Some notes/thoughts in response to https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/ordering-css-delcarations/

Sorting your CSS property declarations is fine, and tools such as StyleLint [1] have plugins [2] to make adhering to this goal a lot easier. If you're already pre-processing (or post-processing) then it should be easy to add StyleLint to your workflow.

In my opinion, Sass mixin includes should come after the other CSS properties in a declaration block. If you're overriding the styles in a mixin, your mixin could probably do with some more parameters, or the use of the content block [3].

Vendor prefixed properties should come before the unprefixed property (-moz-foo, -webkit-foo, foo), grouped together (-moz-foo, -moz-bar, -moz-baz, -webkit-foo, -webkit-bar, -webkit-baz, foo, bar, bar). Keep the prefixed/unprefixed properties together to reduce the cognitive load for whoever comes back to this codebase later. The unprefixed property should always come last because that will be applied if the browser supports it (even if the prefixed syntax was already applied) [4].

Alternatively, you could use Autoprefixer [5] and never have to write out all of the prefixed properties ever again 🤷

Anyway, tooling helps. Modern browsers are smart. You'll rarely hit any of the fun things we used to have to deal with when IE was a dominant browser. You shouldn't need to spend too much time thinking about cosmetic changes to your code. Besides the CSS cascade [6] (declaration order, specificity, etc.) everything else is irrelevant.

[1] https://stylelint.io [2] https://github.com/hudochenkov/stylelint-order/blob/master/rules/properties-alphabetical-order/READM... [3] https://sass-lang.com/documentation/at-rules/mixin#passing-arguments-to-content-blocks [4] https://css-tricks.com/ordering-css3-properties/ [5] https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer [6] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Cascade

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I've been using a couple of these tools for a while now with Windows 10. Great to see such a detailed overview of the whole suite!

PowerToys - 11 awesome features Microsoft won’t add to Windows: https://www.fourth-wall.co.uk/post/powertoys-11-awesome-features-microsoft-won-t-add-to-windows

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"Building like it's 1984: Scrollbars in web applications" https://height.app/blog/scrollbars-in-web-applications

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Great use of CSS variables to set inheritable aspect ratio styles!

"Building a combined CSS-aspect-ratio-grid" https://9elements.com/blog/combined-aspect-ratio-grid/

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Giving this a go, as I'm already using Hyper-V with some guest OS' on this machine I had to fiddle with the Virtualbox settings to get the installer going, but it seems to be working‼

"Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS" https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox

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⌚ Lots of information about 7 segment displays, and some alternative designs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA

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Q1K3 – An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript

Play it: https://phoboslab.org/q1k3/ Making of: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of

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📣 I was complaining about not handling DOM Text nodes when using :only-child yesterday, today I've solved the problem with a bit of , some questionable DOM traversial, and a short blog post https://blog.omgmog.net/post/a-bit-of-a-bodge-to-make-massive-emoji/

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Starting a bunch of these sounds at once beats white noise, hands down!

http://savethesounds.info

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Replied to a post on jon.bo :

Other social networking options are available!

15-20 years ago I'd have said forums were the best social network, I spent countless hours on forums such as Neowin/Hydrogen Audio sharing and discussing Windows XP customisation, Foobar2000 configs and making a lot of friends off of that niche interest. I still keep in touch with one or two of them today.

Beyond that, Twitter just became another touch point for these early forum connections (and then eventually the predominant touch point). It was always nice to rediscover old acquaintances.

Blog engagement has always been secondary for me, but I guess that's due to using Twitter as the main sharing/discussion point rather than hosting comments.

Offline, local Meetup groups, and then Slack/Discord discussions relating to those groups, have been a great way to grow ones network of friends.

I'm finding that moving to Webmentions/ Indieweb/ Fediverse/ Mastodon and hosting my own social feed as i do on social.omgmog.net seems to have more of a community buzz.

https://jon.bo/posts/making-friends-online/