7559 #steps today
7559 #steps today
If you traverse google street view in the opposite direction the camera was going, you're going back in time
#taproot / #webactions design #principle: easy things should be easy, remove friction so hard things are no harder than they need to be.
16256 #steps today
#exeterweb conversation summaries:
Doing acceptance #testing in a different language to your application is philosophically a good idea.
When syndicating data, the quality can be used to determine the canonical version even if the separate versions don't link to each other (example: photographer takes RAWs, gives TIFF to client, RAW is proof of provenance) #POSSE
Not drinking tea and not having cream on cream teas reduces the day to day hassle, stress and confusion of living in Devon by approximately 90%.
RobMMcCarthy both! Really looking forward to your talk — but expect heckling if you mention schema.org ;)
Checked into Localeyes, Ashburton for the two-yearly eye excercise session. First time I’m having to pay for it (not being in school is scary)
14273 #steps today
#watching Insect Dissection. Amazing stuff, but I wish they'd stop using “insect” and “bug” interchangeably.
Jack Way Cmd + F5, Ctrl + alt + a and see what it says :)
archiveteam do you have archives of personal sites killed by Wanadoo/Orange at mysite.freeserve.com?
And the compliment of that #universallaw: the simpler the text-publishing service, the more interesting uses it’s users will put it to, provided it paves their cow paths (e.g. Twitter with RTs, #hashtags and @-replies).
Give users constraints and simplicity, see what they do, then solidify that functionality — or, from an #indieweb point of view, give yourself constraints, then pave your solitary cowpaths.
New #universallaw:
It doesn’t matter what the original intention of the service was, if it allows people to publish text on the web, it will be used as a chat room, a blog and an advertising outlet.
@willnorris aw crap, an order of magnitude out! Thanks for the heads up :)
10460 #steps today
This article makes me even more excited about going to #iceland /via Robin Andrews
cgcardona I find duckduckgo.com’s coder-friendly features (like !mdn, stackoverflow answers inserted above search results, urlencode {text} and the like) to be super-useful — I occasionally fall back to google, but not often :)
Getting to grips with voiceover on the mac for #accessibility testing. Initial observation is that datetimes are horrible — perhaps providing a relative datetime in the title attribute would be better?
Really Google? em
to embolden search terms in results listings? #html
Cool to see Steven Downes has picked up on some #indieweb writings and has been POSSEing for ages. And I now have my own author URL on his site! That is a fascinating approach.