New episodes of Airquotes the Podcast Airquotes from the May 2022 #RemoteHack are up!
UX Design, UI Design & Front-end Development. Technically a cyborg.
Hamburger Footer: Reaching the Bottom of Infinite Scroll
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10 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About HTTP
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More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web
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How classic Sierra game graphics worked (and an attempt to upscale them)
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That little Sega CD add-on is the cutest thing ever.
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I love everything about this. 😍
Electronic Catan LCD Tiles: A collection of hexagon tiles that magnetically snap together to create a Settlers of Catan board of any shape or size. Each tile features a large round LCD and a custom magnetic pogo connector on each edge. Linking up a bunch of tiles creates a position-aware partial mesh network.
I make web stuff all day every day. This is refreshing! 👏
Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?
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📣 A new blog post: Using a Raspberry Pi to Host a local Visual Studio Code Server
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@omgmog good use of a Pi. Not used my Pi for a while, but I remember getting a significant speed boost by booting off an external SSD. Might help with the build times?
, May 27 2022 via indieweb.social
@corenominal That's not a bad suggestion! I should be able to half the times switching to an SSD over USB https://
I'll give it a go 😀
, May 27 2022 via indieweb.social
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The forgotten benefits of “low tech” user interfaces https://
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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).
The Nightmare Of Getting DOOM Running On A Serious Business Machine ...
"Using alt text properly" (2013)
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"When should alt text be blank?" (2012)
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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"
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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!
Portal64: A demake of portal for the Nintendo 64
These are some great a11y tips, and great explanations/examples too!
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@omgmog lol what a coincidence, I just finished reading both articles! One of the points in the focus paragraph made me realize I have to move my hidden rel="me" links: they are present when pressing Tab, but they don't have focus in the page and it's confusing...
, May 17 2022 via indieweb.social
@m2m You should be alright if you set aria-hidden=true on those elements: https://
, May 17 2022 via indieweb.social
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Tomb Raider Reflection Effect: How it works
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://
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@omgmog I remember power toys back in the XP days! Gonna check it out.
, May 09 2022 via indieweb.social
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"Building like it's 1984: Scrollbars in web applications" https://
Great use of CSS variables to set inheritable aspect ratio styles!
"Building a combined CSS-aspect-ratio-grid" https://
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://
⌚ Lots of information about 7 segment displays, and some alternative designs
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Q1K3 – An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript
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Also I've made some more tweaks to my blog recently, such as:
- Improved Lighthouse score to 100 across the board
- Improved OG data
- Removed all tracking (Google Fonts, Twitter, etc.) with the exception of the Cloudflare beacon
- Added reading time and Webmention counts to the top of posts
- Probably more stuff 🤷
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