@stuk

An English guy in California, doing tech stuff on the wonderful web platform. https://xitter.cf/t.co/dcDDKr8Ce3 https://xitter.cf/t.co/NyYpN7ot2W

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Joined February 2009
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People often hold up apps like Linear as paragons of software quality. In many ways it's great – fast, pretty design, slick animations, etc. But the definition of quality should also include accessibility. It's hard to hold up a UI as "high quality" with lots of basic issues.
Screenshot of Linear with the aXe DevTools chrome extension open, showing 13 issues.

ALT Screenshot of Linear with the aXe DevTools chrome extension open, showing 13 issues.

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Google is dead beyond comparison
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🧵 The historic NYT v. @OpenAI lawsuit filed this morning, as broken down by me, an IP and AI lawyer, general counsel, and longtime tech person and enthusiast. Tl;dr - It's the best case yet alleging that generative AI is copyright infringement. Thread. 👇
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React Aria Components has reached RC! 🚀 • Built-in form validation ↳ Native HTML constraints ↳ Custom validation functions ↳ Server validation – designed for React Server Actions • New Toolbar component • Improved Framer Motion support • Hover events • Simpler docs CSS
React Aria Components RC banner showing built-in form validation and new toolbar component. The form has email and password fields and a checkbox labeled "I agree to the terms of service". The email field is marked invalid with a message "An account with this email already exists" under it, and the checkbox is not checked with an error "You must agree to the terms of service. Sign up and Log in buttons are below the form. The toolbar component includes a group of buttons representing text formatting controls including bold, italic, underline, and left, center, right, and justified alignments, as well as a dropdown menu containing cut, copy, and paste actions. One of the buttons has a focus ring.

ALT React Aria Components RC banner showing built-in form validation and new toolbar component. The form has email and password fields and a checkbox labeled "I agree to the terms of service". The email field is marked invalid with a message "An account with this email already exists" under it, and the checkbox is not checked with an error "You must agree to the terms of service. Sign up and Log in buttons are below the form. The toolbar component includes a group of buttons representing text formatting controls including bold, italic, underline, and left, center, right, and justified alignments, as well as a dropdown menu containing cut, copy, and paste actions. One of the buttons has a focus ring.

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At Google it sometimes felt like all we ever talked about was problems related to version skew. And then I Google the term & there isn't even really a definition, let alone much documentation. So, I wrote a basic blog post with examples & how to handle it industrialempathy.com/posts/…

Version Skew

There is a phrase that is very frequently used at Google and other big tech companies. It’s a nice and short phrase. And the problem it...

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Someone figured out you could use Stable Diffusion (+ControlNet) to adapt QRs into images while still having them work reliably: reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion…
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We just shipped the first alpha of React Aria Components, a brand new unstyled component library built on top of the React Aria hooks! 🚀 It abstracts away glue code and provides a much simpler way to quickly build accessible components for your design. react-spectrum.adobe.com/rea…
A code example of a ComboBox component built with React Aria Components, including CSS, JSX, and a screenshot of the running example.

ALT A code example of a ComboBox component built with React Aria Components, including CSS, JSX, and a screenshot of the running example.

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A really interesting article on how AI/LLMs can be effectively used in education. It’s pretty clear that these tools are going to be a big part of life and work going forward, and learning how to use them effectively is important oneusefulthing.substack.com/…
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Say Hello to Ivory. Our Mastodon client for iOS available on the App Store! If you liked Tweetbot, you'll love Ivory and feel right at home. Go download it, try it free for 7 days, and experience it for yourself! apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-…
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experience it for yourself! apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-… tapbots.social/@ivory/109745… (2/2)
Ivory the Elephant celebrating the launch of Ivory for Mastodon.

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Quick peek at what this weekend did to some Sierra reservoirs-plus-snowwater storage numbers (thru yday). Getting some water into these reservoirs and lots of sloppy snow up there above them. (More will be posted at @CnapRisa later when more data shows up.)
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i feel like a lot of subway ads are about how miserable the experience of the subway is, that's the vibe you want in your twitter ads
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We promised we’d go driverless in 3 cities by the end of this year, and WE DID IT! @Cruise is now live in SF, Austin, and Phoenix. Folks, we are entering the golden years of AV expansion. More about this launch:
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This is just so specifically about the CEO’s plane and not a grander doxxing policy. Honestly he would’ve been better off just saying “you can’t talk about where my plane is anymore; that’s the policy”
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Perspectives.
Two photos of an underground trash can being emtied, with attribution. First photo: the underground trashcan as in the ground. The top of the trash can is attributed as frontend; the small surrounding area as backend, and a small lifting part as infra. Second photo: a truck lifting out the underground trashcan. The top, small part of the trashcan attributed as frontend, the bottom as backend, and the trash truck - taking up most of the photo - as infra.

ALT Two photos of an underground trash can being emtied, with attribution. First photo: the underground trashcan as in the ground. The top of the trash can is attributed as frontend; the small surrounding area as backend, and a small lifting part as infra. Second photo: a truck lifting out the underground trashcan. The top, small part of the trashcan attributed as frontend, the bottom as backend, and the trash truck - taking up most of the photo - as infra.

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This fucking guy
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POV: You're a Senior Data Engineer at Twitter. Elon asks what you've done this week. You've done nothing. Frantically, you open ChatGPT.
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