Walter Ebert @walterebert@mastodon.social

Just used federation between 2 Nextcloud instances. Nice feature to easily share files.

Bitbucket is removing Mercurial support. Guess I have to decide which repositories I should migrate or delete.

I have developed websites for over 20 years. I am still surprised people do not know that providing usability is a far bigger challenge than writing clean code. Basic accessibility is still an issue.

An Intro To Screen Reader Testing for Sighted Developers https://uncaughtreferenceerror.com/a-crash-course-to-screenreaders-for-sighted-developers/

Learing about Prisma and GraphQL

The default browser font size of 16 pixels seems small these days. In the past 12 pixels was quite normal for websites. Or maybe I'm just getting old 🙃

Bad HTML markup as a selling point for AMP 🤔

Learning all things CSS today #CSSConf

Microsoft Accessibility Insights is a really nice testing tool https://accessibilityinsights.io/

Replaced LastPass with Bitwarden after reading https://timnash.co.uk/bye-bye-keepass-hello-bitwarden/.

And migrating passwords is easy.

Did a session at DrupalCamp Munich about the WordPress community. Including that Automattic + wordpress.com != wordpress.org.

Discovered that my bank is on Mastodon @glsbank

Gracefully ignoring old browsers https://walterebert.com/blog/gracefully-ignoring-old-browsers/

The privilege of free time in Open Source https://dri.es/the-privilege-of-free-time-in-open-source

Microsoft already implemented native lazyloading for images in 2013 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2013/12/04/getting-to-the-content-you-want-faster-in-ie11/

Good that I did a search before implementing it myself. Because PHP has a function for (almost) everything. This time "count_chars". https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.count-chars.php

Discovered that string type hints don't work in PHP5.4. Enterprise development e.a. 😞