People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Made it down to Houndstooth for Cafe Bedouins for the first time in months, maybe all year. Austin is getting a serious rain tonight, but it let up a little for the drive.
I should stop writing this blog post complaining about people who complain about U2. Lots of real work to do.
“If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.” — @notch on leaving Mojang
Fixed the RSS feeds. Turns out they were returning valid RSS but with an HTTP 404 header. After fighting with mod_rewrite, I ended up hacking the fix into WordPress.
Still thinking about yesterday’s iPhone 6 and Apple Watch event. Daniel and I recorded our first thoughts on a special episode of Core Intuition yesterday.
Federico Viticci has the exclusive on Transmit coming to iOS:
"Considering the old limitations of iOS for inter-app communication and file management, using the Transmit extension feels like a major breakthrough and exactly the kind of experience that the app was meant to be on an iPhone and iPad."
While traveling this summer, I used Panic’s Prompt to download and rename files on the Core Intuition web server. It’s going to be great to also have Transmit’s UI in my pocket.
Learning curve with Ember.js is a little greater than I thought at first. Not sure I’m doing everything “correctly”, but getting the hang of it. Very cool framework.
I have written a book about web application accessibility using WAI-ARIA for Smashing Magazine — the first of its kind. This popular page hosts all of the examples from the book and more.
<div>s inside inline elements, inaccessible buttons, badly nested sections or other errors, you'll see some ugly, pink errors written in nobody's favourite font: Comic Sans.
I use Paragrabbr a lot. It's a lorem ipsum generator I wrote in AngularJS which includes special punctuation — like em dashes — and phrasing elements like <a>, <strong> and even <kbd>. Helps you get your type design detail right.
Auticons is an icon font and CSS set that harnesses the awesome power of attribute selectors. It places resolution independent icons before or after any hyperlink with an href that matches a certain, expected pattern. In other words, it's an automatic icon font.
The name Squib comes from "Square" and "Slab". Squib supports a total of 165 characters, including all the basic punctuation characters and common Western European accents. It also has an eszett!