Updated my workshop Mac mini to #Tahoe and wow. Either I’m getting old or this is really bad UI design. (…or both 😁) I’m not talking about the weird alignment of elements and rounded corners that are all over the place, although that’s surprising to see as well. More the hard to read text on semi-transparent, blurry elements that also lack contrast. This really trips me up as someone with regular migraines with auras. I constantly feel like a migraine is about to start … 😕
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A promise you adjust when circumstances change isn’t exactly a promise, right? 🤔
And some important additional context – thanks for the reminder, Heather 🙏 (and the pointer, @bastianallgeier): https://bsky.app/profile/heather-buchel.com/post/3mfoofq3w722y
“Our main story tonight concerns Twitter, or as it’s being called since Elon Misk purchased it a few years ago: Twitter.”
John Oliver is a treasure.
(And I hope you’re not active on that shit site anymore. 😉😉)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI
… and of course, the background of the OG image is AI-generated – I just had to make an exception for this post. 😉
✍️ New post: Continvoucly Morged Value
Couldn't get out of my head what happened to @nvie’s diagram – and so I wrote down a few premature thoughts about what happens when we mistake the (AI) artifact for the work …
Winning, supreme.
Goosebumps. 👏🏴
#CFCVFB (But still … 🤍♥️😉)
Yes it does. 🤪
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)"
“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”
@nvie on how Microsoft continvoucly morged his diagram:
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
Cut off a significant portion of my ring finger‘s tip with a potato peeler today. Can’t recommend. 😂 TIL that an Adrenaline compress will staunch a wound – and that’s what cutmen in boxing use as well.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@btconf/116046594209942432
I still remember being in the audience back then. James is an amazing guy! Looking forward to seeing him on stage again! 😁 (Make sure you’re there, too. 😉 Also check out his book, Feck Perfuction – so good.)
Performance-wise, Safari on iOS apparently doesn’t seem to like the over-engineered CSS custom property calculations for fluid type and all the other stuff in my little style mixer. 🙈
But hey, my personal site is my playground, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My site just was under heavy load from Singapore again LOL. 🤣 Temporarily blocked the whole country via ipset now so that the site is available again …
Dark Visitors is now Known Agents.
A very interesting name change … 🤔
https://knownagents.com/
Adobe Re-Animate 😁
I just sprayed contact cleaner into the door switch and … it worked! 🤯🥳
HEEELP, @davatron5000 !!
“The tumble dryer simply doesn’t recognize anymore that the door is closed. Changing the door contact only takes a few minutes,“ they said … 😂
“Actually, ChatGPT says …”
Is LLMsplaining a thing?
(🤫 And there might be a discount code for Web Day Out hidden in that podcast episode … )
Going to events is good, actually. 😊 So don’t wait until the last minute – get your tickets now for
Web Day Out Brighton, 12 March 2026
https://webdayout.com
and
beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf, 27–28 April 2026
https://beyondtellerrand.com
“All the designers listen to the developer talks and all the developers listen to the designer talks. And that’s where you discover you have an interest in something you didn’t think you had an interest in.”
@adactio in a lovely conversation with @marcthiele about the magic of @btconf and the joy and challenge of running community events:
That also means that I have about a year to open my final diploma project one last time and record a proper video of all the interactions in the prototype – because I will never be able to open it again after that. The beauty of proprietary file formats. Hm.
“Please note that access to your Animate files and project data will end on 1 March 2027. To ensure a smooth transition, we encourage you to export your Animate FLA and XFL files to other formats such as SWF, SVG and MP4 files before this date.”
R.I.P., #Flash. 🪦