Walter Ebert @walterebert@mastodon.social
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Independent Web & Usability Engineer. Making web sites better, one step at a time.
Joined Feb 2018
53% of autoplaying videos have an audio track. Autoplay only works if videos are muted, so a lot of bandwidth is waisted. https://dougsillars.com/2019/09/16/state-of-the-web-video-playback-metrics/
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Google Fonts vs. self-hosted fonts by Peter Müller #fronteers
If a full-stack developer does not know CSS, is the job title correct?
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We have now a PeerTube account, maintained by @bjoern. For now we will concentrate on conference videos. http://conf.tube/accounts/nextcloud/ #PeerTube #Nextcloud
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Using CSS for rel=sponsored links https://walterebert.com/blog/using-css-for-relsponsored-links/
Customise application fonts in Manjaro Xfce on 4k monitors https://walterebert.com/blog/customise-application-fonts-in-manjaro-xfce-on-4k-monitors/
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EU turns from American public clouds to Nextcloud private clouds https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-turns-from-american-public-clouds-to-nextcloud-private-clouds/
Self-invoking functions in PHP https://walterebert.com/blog/self-invoking-functions-in-php/
Pretty handy site for looking up Unicode character ranges https://unicode-table.com/
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I'd like to write a thread about some of the performance tricks in #Pinafore, just for those who might be interested.
Websites that use reCAPTCHA will lose any respect
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.
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I may or may not be having fun for the Luxembourgish WordPress community #wapuu #WordPress #wip
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It was a busy end of the week, I didn't have time for the weekly links this week, but you can check the slides from my talk at CSSCamp Barcelona on perceived performance
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/mind-over-matter-optimize-performance-without-code-csscamp-2019/
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/
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Independent Web & Usability Engineer. Making web sites better, one step at a time.
Joined Feb 2018
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