Added a color theme picker to my site recently, using a progressive enhancement strategy.

If you're interested, I wrote an article on how I approached it:
darins.page/articles/progressi…

#ux #frontend #development #html #css #javascript #userexperience #webdev

Progressively-enhanced dark mode - Darin Senneff

Recently, I added a dark mode setting to my website. Dark mode is a color theme feature that’s pretty common these days. Letting users adjust the color of…

^{Darin Senneff}

Made a Mastodon pull request.

In v4, there is an issue on servers that don't have elasticsearch: when a user types @ in the compose box and starts to type a name, the results they get are ordered by a popularity ranking algorithm. This is fine if you were only searching accounts you don't follow, but to me it makes more sense to FIRST return matches for accounts you DO follow as a suggestion, and then return popular accounts that you don't follow

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…

Fix account search not returning followed accounts first by dariusk · Pull Request #22956 · mastodon/mastodon

This makes it so that (when elasticsearch is disabled) when a user types @foo in the compose box, they are first going to get accounts they follow ordered by the usual ranking algorithm, and then s...

^GitHub

I published my research on Matrix's read receipts & how they impact notifications while putting together the MSCs for threads. Not sure if it is useful to others, but was encouraged to put it somewhere!

patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/01…

Figured out what was wrong with my implementation of Emmanuel Bourg's #kotlin #bootstrap chain (github.com/ebourg/kotlin-boots…), so now I managed to mirror the same chain, but *completely bootstrapped* (all prebuilt jars are removed from sources).

So I have a kotlin from June 2015: framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-and…

still a long way to go :D

#guix #bootstrappablebuilds

android/packages/kotlin.scm · master · Julien Lepiller / guix-android · GitLab

Experimental Guix packages for Android development (to build apps and the system itself)

^GitLab

One of my favorite little touches in @ivory … When you refresh, Ivory KEEPS YOUR PLACE and shows you how many posts loaded in above where you are now in the timeline. As you scroll up that badge decrements.

I can't emphasize how relaxing it is to see a bounded value to how far I'm going to scroll before I'm "caught up."

It's the single best thing to happen to my social media feed in years.

So good

Considering I made this one on my own and it has 0% interesting artwork/thumbnail, I *think* I have the most watched video on youtube about this particular topic. Not bad for a blind guy.

How-to: Format Your SSD as #APFS on #Mac youtu.be/ZiFnhVU3aos

How-to: Format Your SSD as APFS on Mac

In this video, I'll show you how to format your SSD as APFS on a Mac.This is useful for storing your sample libraries, and so long as you don't want to use t...

^YouTube

Thread of computer science topics explained with my cats:

Starting with number bases

Every man “in tech” over 35 should probably revisit this once a year or so, to remember the ugly costs of the way we collectively changed the world. For that matter, everybody else might want to read it to reflect on how to avoid those mistakes.

(It’s hard to write a content warning more precise than “every bad thing from 2000-2015” but it is A Lot so be warned.)

dancingsausage.net/2017/11/30/…

I have mixed feelings about this.

Apple quietly launches a catalog of #books narrated by #AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the #audiobook market.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#Bookstodon

Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash

^{Leyland Cecco (The Guardian)}

“Many browsers and anti-spyware applications are designed to reject and delete third-party cookies. Adobe ensures that cookies can always we [sic] set even if third-party cookies are blocked.”

That feeling when you admit you’re spyware.

#Adobe #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #adtech #spyware #SiliconValley #BigTech via @GossiTheDog

A black man wrongfully jailed for a week in Louisiana after face recognition error, report says. Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight or the mole on his face.

#blackmastodon #facialrecognition

peopleofcolorintech.com/articl…

Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana

A Georgia man spent almost a week in jail after Louisiana police wrongly identified him as a fugitive using facial recognition software.

^{Samara Linton (POCIT. Telling the stories and thoughts of people of color in tech.)}

PSA: We're aware of an issue affecting #Thunderbird users using #IMAP to connect to certain #Microsoft account servers (for example: outlook.office365.com).

These users are receiving an error message that says "User is authenticated but not connected."

We believe this is caused by Microsoft running certain services with broken #IPv6 functionality.

WORKAROUND: Disable IPv6 networking in Thunderbird's advanced config.

MORE INFO: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ou…

I’m not going to use bloody bugzilla, so if anyone from Mozilla sees this, your enterprise flow for adding certificate authorities (CAs) to Firefox on Linux fails on Fedora Silverblue.

Since Fedora Silverblue is seen as the possible future of Fedora/Red Hat, you folks might want to talk to the Fedora folks about it and come up with a solution.

github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

#mozilla #firefox #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #bug #tls #ssl #redHat #linux #enterprise #certificates

Cannot add certificate authorities to Firefox using enterprise policy · Issue #397 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker

In Firefox version 64+, you can add your custom certificate authorities to Firefox using an enterprise policy file and by copying your certificates to /usr/lib/mozilla/certificates or /usr64/lib/mo...

^GitHub

It’s not going to be the DPC’s week.

Their suggestion of appropriate fine to levy on Meta for bundling a legal basis for user tracking and profiling into their terms and conditions was rejected as being approximately 10 times too mild by their peers across the EU.

washingtonpost.com/politics/ir…

nytimes.com/2023/01/04/technol…

Meta Fined $414 Million After Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under EU Law

The decision is one of the most consequential issued under the E.U.’s landmark data-protection law and creates a new business headwind for the social media giant.

^{Adam Satariano (The New York Times)}

This actually isn’t surprising at all, but it still needs to said over & over — the biggest barrier to more urban biking in cities is the fear of cars.

“A study confirms that if we are serious about getting people on bikes, they need a safe place to ride.”

Via @lloydalter #TreeHugger #bikes #cities #urbanism #cars #BikeLanes
treehugger.com/fear-of-cars-bi…

I can finally share the results of my work last year! Earthstar is a small and resilient distributed storage protocol designed with a strong focus on simplicity and versatility, with the social realities of peer-to-peer computing kept in mind. v10 adds:

📎 Attachments. Sync pictures, music, gigabyte-sized videos, or whatever kind of data you want.
🔏 Read-only shares. Share your data publicly while restricting write-access to a limited group.
🧠 Efficient sync. Fast sync - even when your data sets are very large.

Home-cooked social spaces. A community library of ePubs. Resilient, private data archives. Or just a blog!

Explainers, tutorials, specs, and documentation at earthstar-project.org

Pokémon GO app not accessible for visually-impaired users, N.J. man says in lawsuit

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=…

Pokémon GO app not accessible for visually-impaired users, N.J. man says in lawsuit

A Hudson County man says in court papers that Niantic, which created the popular Pokémon GO game, is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

^{Anthony G. Attrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (nj)}