@aardrian@toot.cafeFound a new example of a crappy carousel in the wild for a talk!
At first it seems fine, but it’s death by paper cuts.
• Horizontal scroll, offset from edge of viewport;
• clipped text;
• poor CSS `grid` use;
• scroll snap;
• `alt`-less images;
• `aria-label` on the links;
• and more!
Oh. It’s just Wix.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toComing up at #ARVO2026, May 6: Comparing tactile and auditory sensory substitution on visual cortex recruitment in the early and late blind https://eppro02.ativ.me/web/pag…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Archers of Loaf:
🎵 Web in Front
#ArchersofLoaf
https://archersofloaf.bandcamp.com/track/web-in-front-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/33cSQbSL7Hxg1xeYGkj9gt
@Techmeme@techhub.socialParallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journ…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online‼️ BlueSky-Bridging von @… beibehalten? ‼️
Seit > 2 Jahren bridge ich die Inhalte von Mastodon zu Bluesky mithilfe des Dienstes https://bsky.brid.gy.
Ich bin mir unsicher,…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@zachleat@zachleat.com
@_tillwe_@mastodon.socialMein Rabbit Hole der letzten Tage war ein kleines Layoutprojekt / Wühlen in meinem Blog. Texte aus den Jahren 2006 bis 2011 wieder zu lesen, ruft einiges an Erinnerungen wach - die Debatten um Web 2.0 und social media in der Politik, der sich abzeichnende Politikwechsel in Baden-Württemberg (und Stuttgart 21 ist immer noch nicht fertig gebaut), aber auch biografische Pfade, die ich nicht eingeschlagen habe.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI never thought I would get so excited for documents about replacing roads in the city next to the city I live in...
https://hdp-us-prod-app-wauwatosa-engage-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/8017/5398/474…
@cheryanne@aus.socialPublic holiday today but only in NSW/ACT and WA. Although I'm in Canberra I still had a few commitments. Managed to squeeze in a coffee walk with husband between web work and a zoom meeting. Now to watch a couple more episodes of The Pitt season 2 before bed.
#SuburbanLife #Canberra
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new "thinking capabilities", allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/916166/openai-chatg…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioQuick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
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@rettichschnidi@swiss.socialGefühl jedes Mal wenn ich ein Problem mit #Nextcloud habe, hatte es der @… einen Tick früher schon: ht…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html
saved 2020-08-11
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeFound: the 2009 announcement.
Official Google Blog: Relevance meets the real-time web
<https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html>
"… new partners that we're announcing today: Facebook, MySpace,…
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizzaDo you know what happens when you write C Qt code with web dev experience? Your mental model for memory management (which is non-existent because JS has GC), leads to memory leaks.
It's so bad I had to:
1. rewrite most of the init code for member variables in almost all widgets so the expectation of "WidgetA" from "child C" of MainWindow is available when "WidgetB" emits a signal.
2. currently debugging memory leak when MainWindow is clos…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alBluesky thanks you for giving them the benefit of the doubt. That was all they needed. You may now get fucked.
#iToldYouSo
@aardrian@toot.cafeAdded Steve’s “AI effluent never stops” at https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/04/23/ai-effluent-never-stops/ to my post “OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse” at
@hakona@im.alstadheim.noSome weird requests from there, what are they looking for. My hex-foo is not all there. Queries like (nginx log-line)
2a03:2880:f814:22:: - - [14/Mar/2026:01:15:36 0100] "GET /tags/\xE7\x9F\xB3\xE5\xA1\x9A\xE7\x91\xB6\xE5\xAD\xA3 HTTP/2.0" 200 36077 "-" "meta-externalagent/1.1 ( https://
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgNot my field at all, but a very interesting and potentially controversial one.
By sheer chance 2 contrasting podcasts on the "wood wide web" hypothesis crossed my @… this week...
Science Fictions: Episode 91: Entangled Life and the wood wide web
https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-91-entangled-life-and-the
The World, the Universe and Us: The Wood Wide Web: The Forest Discovery That Sparked a Backlash on @…
Media file: https://tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML1134826042.mp3?updated=1777040556
@grumpybozo@toad.social
@doktrock@toad.socialThe North Dakota State University Press publishes books on the "plains of North America ... and comparable regions of other continents."
We* just held our Press Party, celebrating recent releases - check them out! Order from the web site
*I'm on the advisory board
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ndsupress.org/books/
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaFound this terrible picture of my computers circa 2000 (shot on a 640x480 Vivitar digicam). The janky-ass PC is a dual PPro Linux box. The other one is an SGI Indigo² Solid Impact.
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI find myself in want of an affordable way of doing regular cybersecurity scans. Anyone have anything good or bad to say about https://barrion.io/?
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialWo gibt's die geringsten Einkommen in D?
(Spoiler: Spritpreis spielt keine Rolle)
3 von 5 im Ruhrgebiet beim Ranking der niedrigsten realen Einkommen:
2. Gelsenkirchen
3. Duisburg
5. Herne
23.000€ und weniger pro Jahr.
Basis ist eine Datenauswertung des IW Köln zu regionalen Preisen in kreisfreien Städten, Kreisen sowie Stadt- und Landkreisen in Deutschland, die mit Einkommensdaten des Statistischen Bundesamtes verknüpft wurden (aus 2023).
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMy web site (blog) has been around since 1997, and every now and then some company gets in touch and wants to have me add a link to their site or whatever and I always offer this:
Send me your product (to keep) and I will review it and write at least one blog post about it, with links to your site. There's a good chance I will write multiple blog posts about it, and each will link to your site.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOne last example:
The first LLM code example that really made my eyes pop was early after the release of GPT, when somebody got it to combine Breakout with Conway’s Game of Life (a truly delightful idea). It worked!
Funny thing: the Breakout code and the Life code had a •completely• different style and flavor. Red flag. In about 15 minutes of web searching, I was able to find one of the projects (can’t remember if it was the Breakout or the Life half) which it had copied wholesale, with just a few variable renames. And the other half? It was in Python, but it used dictionaries where it really should have used objects — tons of `thing["prop"]` where it should have said `thing.prop`, and lots of other un-Pythonic stuff besides. It was a machine translate of code from another language, very likely Javascript.
The entire thing was a plagiarized Breakout and a plagiarized Game of Life, one transpiled, and all stuck together in a single run loop. To be fair, figuring out how to (1) run both halves of the logic from a single loop and (2) count the Life cells as Breakout bricks is work I'd cheer on from a second-semester intro CS student! It's not, however, quite what's being sold by these companies.
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@exil_inselette@norden.socialHeute habe ich einen 2. Versuch mit #Fontcrafter von @… gemacht. Diesmal ist das Ergebnis schon ziemlich gut! Nur das ß (Esszett) vermisse ich noch schmerzlich.
Und echte DE-Anführungszeichen („66/99“) wären mehr als ein netter Zusatz.
Trotzdem…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaOpenAI Codex ha analizzato la sicurezza di 1,2 milioni di commit e ha trovato 10.561 problemi di elevata gravitŠ
Venerdì OpenAI ha iniziato a distribuire Codex Security , un agente di sicurezza basato sull'intelligenza artificiale (IA) progettato per individuare, convalidare e proporre soluzioni per le vulnerabilitŠ.
La funzionalitŠ è disponibile in anteprima per i clienti ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business ed Edu tramite il sito web Codex, con utilizzo gratuito per il mese su…
@kidehen@mastodon.socialDogfooding was one of RDF’s biggest challenges prior to the arrival of LLMs as powerful general-purpose clients. Why? Because transforming and presenting RDF specifications in RDF form was difficult. Today, that problem is gone. Here’s an example of the new RDF 1.2 primer, deployed as a knowledge graph that uses Linked Data principles to manifest a Semantic Web.
#RDF
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic appears to have removed access to Claude Code from its $20/month Pro plan; Anthropic says it is "running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups" (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThere's a new piece explaining "The Slow Collapse of #MkDocs": "How personality clashes, an absent founder, and a controversial redesign fractured one of Python's most popular projects."
#httpx?
Well, turns out no, not at all. It looks like encode has already crumbled and became immensely toxic.
httpx is not allowing bug reports anymore, apparently because of "absurdly skewed gender representation", whatever that means.
#OpenSource.
#FreeSoftware #Python
@seeingwithsound@mas.to @kidehen@mastodon.socialImportant post about the Semantic Web vision, history, and reincarnation in the age of AI.
I have a raw chat with Robert Scoble about the journey.
Links:
[1] https://youtu.be/4OQEXG5JukU?si=Y_xn5tuVv7f0vZm2 -- YouTube edition
[2]
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (Max Zeff/@zeffmax)
https://x.com/zeffmax/status/2051824497242833234
