Siilwyn @Siilwyn@mastodon.social

I should start hyping up http://kdl.dev again. I still think it can go places

“But can I get this album in lossless FLAC?”

–me before uploading the album to a server where it will be streamed over the Internet to my phone and then over Bluetooth to my wireless earbuds.

During an #accessibility review for a client I simulated blindness when using a screen reader. It gave me a vastly different perspective. I wrote something about it with two videos to demonstrate the differences.

https://www.voorhoede.nl/en/blog/simulate-blindness-when-testing-a11y/

In summary, https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/02/11/theres-no-good-replacement-for-simple/

I wrote a blog post:
"How I built a browser extension in 2021 (using modern tools and libraries)"

check it out here:
https://siegelfabian.de/posts/2020/02/how-i-built-a-browser-extension-in-2021/

Finally watched Knives Out. It was so good!! Highly recommended as a fun and thrilling murder mystery.

To me, motivation is a big riddle. Why can I code hours on end at home but not at the office? What brings joy and what does not? Why is it that if I do a thing for money – for any extrinsic reward, probably! – I feel less intrinsically motivated? I heard that this effect can be shown in children. I still wonder about the reason, though. In the work place, I think part of it is that in capitalism, the things you enjoy so much you'll do for free, so paid work is often joyless. See alienation. 1/

Firefox is re­mov­ing sup­port for PWAs in v85. While con­flicted, here are my thoughts.: https://rusingh.com/articles/2021/01/30/mozilla-pwas-chrome-mobile/

Mini-hack of the day:

Removed the Google Analytics script from my blog in favor of sendBeacon()-based custom code by @philwalton@twitter.com (thank you!).

It’s smaller, it’s anonymous (I don’t track users anymore) and I can collect core web vital scores.

https://github.com/surma/surma.dev/pull/17/files

The solar flare just hit, all your digital lifetime's work is gone.