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
Is it Bandcamp Friday? https://isitbandcampfriday.com/
Arecibo observatory collapse. Source: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/arecibo/
I did web development before CSS existed. So, yes: you don't have to use it, if you don't want to.
Maybe, I have just failed getting into the US elections 😜
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The Internet Archive have added a WebAssembly-based Flash emulator to their emulation suite, and are preserving 2000s-vintage Flash games, playable in a modern HTML5-capable browser:
http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/
Even with 25 years of web development experience, I can't tell what the difference is between shared hosting and serverless.
Deactivating a preloader, because perceived performance is better without it 😱
On Linux you can use Gnome Web (formerly known as Epiphany) to test Webkit. I use it as a replacement for testing Safari. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/
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RIP David. Je was een fijne vent. 😢
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RT @WordPress_NL
Overlijden David de Boer
https://nl.wordpress.org/2020/10/26/overlijden-david-de-boer/
https://twitter.com/WordPress_NL/status/1320667719973351424
Watched TWiT FLOSS Weekly and discovered the Olive video editor. I'll really have to try its node-based compositing. https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/601?autostart=false https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/
How to make "Contact Form 7" for WordPress more accessible https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2020/10/how-to-make-publishing-platforms-more-accessible-part-2/
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Platform.SH Deploy Friday starting in about half an hour. Join Gabriel Caruso and I along with Larry Garfield and Patrick Dawkins to talk about PHP and the upcoming 8.0 release.
No surprises in Matt vs. Matt (netlify vs. wordpress.com) discussion at the JAMStackConf.
Just discovered that the Joplin desktop app is huge: 685 MB. It is a note taking app. For comparison, LibreOffice is 767 MB and that is a whole suite of applications.
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It's pretty cool that #AVIF images can be created using pure #Rust implementation: https://github.com/kornelski/cavif-rs
There are already many #AV1 encoders and decoders to choose from. That looks healthier than VP8 and WebP, which (AFAIK) still have only one implementation after 10 years.
WordPress sites can be fast, but most are really slow compared to sites built with other systems https://www.sistrix.com/blog/core-web-vitals-wix-vs-wordpress-shopify-vs-shopware-whats-fastest/#CMS_Jimdo_the_fastest_Wix_even_slower_than_WordPress
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I’ve set up https://phpc.chat as a community chat resource; it’s powered by open source https://Rocket.Chat. I don’t want it to take the place of other community spaces, but you’re welcome to use it for anything related to the PHP programming language, if your project needs a home.
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Independent Web & Usability Engineer. Making web sites better, one step at a time.
Joined Feb 2018
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