"Bluesky, a Twitter-like application, is hosted on the AT Protocol and collects data from a user's "personal data server" (PDS). Most of Bluesky's 13 million users are currently hosted on servers owned by Bluesky (the company), but the idea is that over time many people will opt to host their content on either their own personal PDS, or a PDS owned by another organization (similar to how web hosting works)."
"I don't think we should expect the complete end of disability rights in our country. My strategy for the next four years is to keep my expectations low while also expecting that, by 2028, our country won't go as low as a lot of people fear it could go."
"While alt text is a crucial tool for making the web more accessible, it's essential to consider the broader context in which users engage with content. Alt text for redundant images is most helpful when the page text directly references the image or when it enables users to complete tasks more efficiently."
"just as an icon that is paired with some text can provide a visual hook only and should be hidden from assistive technology, a user avatar or photo is sometimes only for sighted users."
"Colleagues who knew him only as a software engineer in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where he worked on the Mars Exploration Rovers, occasionally stumbled upon news of his prior adventures by accident."
"Are there other ways to measure the value of your design system? Of course. These are only a small handful of the possible ways, and they hark back to what I was saying earlier--the important thing is to figure out what the business sees as success."
"One important note: if you use role="presentation" along with a filled-in alt attribute, screen readers will ignore the alt text. So be careful not to mix your signals!"
"This shouldn't be so hard to answer; indeed, it should be easy for us, in the field--for valid HTML output is the quality characteristic easiest to measure, and easiest to shine with."
Gossamerシリーズに関する映像作品といえば『Gossamer Albatross: Flight of Imagination』が有名で、私はDuPont社から送っていただいたVHSテープを今でも大切に保管していますが、まさか2024年にもなって同様の作品が封切られるとは、驚きです。果たして日本国内の劇場で同作品を見ることができるのか、ないしオンライン視聴できるようになるのかは不明ですが、やっぱり見てみたいですね。
"So, with regards to testability, which is something that obviously interest groups, having testable implementations, it's not something that we have to be as strict upon, we still want to make sure our work is as rigorous and testable as possible."
"Finally one guarded piece of good news is that most websites are ever so slightly smaller than in 2022. We're not sure why this is the case, and in many ways celebrating it feels a bit like celebrating the incremental process we also see on climate when we know it's nowhere near what is necessary."
"More than just a visual signal that Starship had reached space on its suborbital trajectory, the banana was also a stand-in for gaining the government's approval to begin launching more purposeful payloads on future Starship flights."
"Years after The WaSP declared victory, and browser stagnation had begun to set in, I felt that same thrill vicariously when Eric Meyer, Tantek Çelik, and Matt Mullenweg invented XFN (XHTML Friends Network), inverting the standards creation pyramid so that great ideas were empowered to bubble up from small groups to the wider community, Open Source style, rather than always coming from the top (W3C) down."
"web browsers are now experimenting with two HTML attributes -- technically, they're called "invoker commands" -- that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes -- command and commandfor -- come with some new events that we can listen for."