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Matthias Ott ●

Figma (Sites) creating inaccessible, non-semantic div soup? I’m not surprised at all. That’s basically the main point of the talk I just gave at #btconf. Figma is for painting beautiful pictures of websites. Not for making websites. We make websites with semantic HTML, declarative CSS, JavaScript for the things only JavaScript can do, and a bit of ARIA. That’s how this medium works. That’s the material.

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Also, what a quote:

“We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Heading home after three days full of countless interesting and fun conversations with wonderful humans, meeting old and making new friends at @btconf. My head is bursting with ideas and creative energy from all of this. A truly special event in every regard! Thank you everyone! 💚🙏🤗 #btconf

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Working on my talk for @btconf (🙀😁) and can’t wait to see so many good friends again! 💚 Who of you will be in Düsseldorf in less than three weeks? 👋

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Serious question: what does a “Global Head of AI” do at an agency and why does it somehow feel like it is just a regular creative director with a cringey job title? 🥴

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Hear me out: a children’s book called “The Tariffalo” 🤔

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I’m currently working on a project where the devs obviously had no idea about how to implement responsive images correctly. It’s a wild mix of faulty media, srcset, sizes, and size(?) attributes on img and source tags that really feels like guesswork. (This is now a 10-year-old technology, btw…)

What's the best article (or video, @kevinpowell? 😁) about responsive images you know?

My favs:
@mdn – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Responsive_images

@eeeps – https://ericportis.com/posts/2014/srcset-sizes/

@grigs –
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-images-101-definitions/

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Isn’t it astonishing that after all those decades of global trade, there still isn’t a safety mechanism in place that...

Isn’t it astonishing that after all those decades of global trade, there still isn’t a safety mechanism in place that protects the world economy – and our collective wealth – from the damaging effects of one country electing an erratic, ignorant idiot for president?

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@kevinpowell I fully (!) agree that it makes sense to name properties in a more familiar way, e.g. `item-wrap` instead of `item-cross` superceding `flex-wrap`. Tim Berners-Lee knew this as well when he created HTML: a lot of elements were already familiar to people using SGML. Make it as frictionless as possible for people to adopt new things, because, as @adactio would say, humans are allergic to change.

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Actually, I took that photo a few days ago. That’s how that tree looks today… 🤯🌸

Actually, I took that photo a few days ago. That’s how that tree looks today… 🤯🌸