Raindrop.io Bookmarks 04/01/2023

2023年4月1日 著

• One In Two New Npm Packages Is SEO Spam Right Now

  "More than half of all new packages that are currently (29 Mar 2023) being submitted to npm are SEO spam. That is - empty packages, with just a single README file that contains links to various malicious websites."

• With or without the JS framework \m/ S.Bistrović

  "Every developer should strive to ship as little code as possible and avoid shipping entire frameworks for a simple website. The JS ecosystem's diversity is excellent, but developers should consider building websites without JS frameworks."

• How eBay Made Its New Accessibility Tool -- And Made It Available to All

  "A major consideration for us at eBay is making tools like this available to all. eBay takes open source very seriously, consistently contributing our work back to the community, and Include has been made with that in mind. It's available to all, on Figma, which is a free service. And the code itself is open-source, available on Github for all to use."

• CSS Masking - Ahmad Shadeed

  "I thought about trying CSS masks for a UI treat called Round out corners. The idea is that we want to round out the sides of an element in a way that blend with the border-radius the element has."

• Neither artificial, nor intelligent | hidde.blog

  "Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools based on them (like ChatGPT) are all some in tech talk about today. I struggle with the optimism I see from businesses, the haphazard deployment of these systems and the seemingly ever-expanding boundaries of what we are prepared to call "artificially intelligent"."

• Software accessibility for users with Dyslexia | by Eva Katharina Wolf | Mar, 2023 | UX Collective

  "Have you ever heard of Bionic Reading? This is a technique -- created by Renato Casuut, a Swiss developer -- where certain characters of words are highlighted. With these highlights, the eyes are guided through fixation points. This actually makes reading easier and faster -- especially if you are distracted or neurodivergent."