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sarajw

@sarajw@front-end.social

Fresh front-end dev and techy generalist, mum of 2, euro-mongrel (๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช), lapsed swing dancer & DJ, erstwhile tall ship and dingy sailor, crocheter, lefty.

Work with :react:, but โค๏ธ vanilla :html5: :css3: :javascript: (particularly โœจCSSโœจ ๐Ÿฅฐ)

Cis het - she/her, supporting :BLM: :a11y: ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

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santiago, (edited ) to retrocomputing
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Did anyone build a search engine including only websites without any JavaScript ? (Not a proxy that strips JS โ€” rendering the site unuseable โ€” sites that donโ€™t contain any as is).

That would be wonderful for #retrocomputing .

#HumanLinks #smolweb

sarajw,
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@jake4480 @santiago don't forget 1kb club! https://1kb.club/

sarajw, to random
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You're a new web hobbyist, wanting to code accessibly. You don't run Windows (for NVDA or trial JAWS), only have access to VoiceOver (different to other screen readers, less used).

You can follow a11y rules that you have read about, you can run lighthouse or open the accessibility tree in devtools.

Would it help to have an online web page checker which outputs in text what would otherwise be spoken by a screen reader in a "read all" mode?

The SRs have a sort of reading and other mode, right?

sarajw, to random
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๐Ÿฅฐ

sarajw, to random
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I feel the need to introduce people to @mk.

The website: https://melonking.net
The forum: https://forum.melonland.net
The mission: https://melonking.net/melon?z=/thoughts/lets-make

Enjoy!

davew, to random
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I wonder if reporters know that Wikipedia hallucinates too?? And since they so often consider Wikipedia authoritative, that means reporters and their publications hallucinate as well.

sarajw,
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@davew honest question - what similar (reference or encyclopaedia) sources would you consider more authoritative?

matthiasott, (edited ) to random
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Had an amazing morning at the in-person @css__cafe meetup with great talks and demos by @rachelnabors, @utilitybend, and Lucas Bonomi. Now Iโ€™m on the train home from . So much to think and write about! ๐Ÿค—

sarajw,
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@matthiasott oh noooooo

sarajw,
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@matthiasott oh my gosh. Are you having to take all regional trains? Can you get your IC/ICE ticket cost back?

sarajw,
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@matthiasott but if you don't actually get to use an intercity/express train at all... Or did you?

sarajw,
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@matthiasott a 43m transfer ๐Ÿ˜ด

Poor you, what a ride!

sarajw, to random
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My home from is of course going to end up delayed. Might be stuck in Osnabrรผck for a while! Anyone else?

sarajw,
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@janl hello train friend ๐Ÿ‘‹

sarajw,
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Train conductor lady just approved my change of plans - might only be home half an hour late or so in the end, could be much worse ๐Ÿ™

sarajw,
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Woohoo, hopefully I'm on the last train of the day! Along with a raucous hen party hahah, at least they're down the other end of the carriage...

sarajw,
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Home sweet home ๐Ÿฅฐ

jon, to random
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Stunning trip. And Mostar has a brutalist station. Needs a bit of upkeep, but quite a building!

River in the valley
Running beside the river
Mostar station

sarajw,
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@jon gosh, beautiful! A much nicer journey than my trains from Amsterdam to Hamburg today ๐Ÿ˜…

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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From years of being bored, unsatisfied, or struggling in various jobs and industries, I finally feel like I have come home.

I'm so happy to join an industry with such brilliant, interesting, and gloriously nerdy people - I mean this in the best possible way!

I have attended both Beyond Tellerrand Dรผsseldorf and CSS Day 2024 and, wow. Huge thank yous to the organisers, speakers, and to the many warm and funny fellow attendees I had the joy to socialise with.

This is my church.

#BTConf #CSSDay

sarajw,
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Just a note on my enthusiasm and apparent social butterfly-ness - I'm loving it, but also I feel like an impostor!

I made my own websites as a teen and then tried to do other things with my life, while here and there tinkering with web stuff at a low hobby level.

I came "back" into the industry in 2022 after a couple of years of training myself up, to pivot into it.

I'm still quite new, and there is so much I don't know! I thank the twitter exodus & Mastodon for helping me find my people ๐Ÿ’–

sarajw,
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It's quite odd chatting with people who talk to me about stuff that has happened in the last 20 years of web development, which given my apparent age, I should probably know about - but nope, such a n00b.

From 1999 with bare html with all the styling integrated into it, into nascent CSS, to one later job where I made a sorely needed database plus the UI to manipulate it with MySQL, php, etc...

I then skipped at least a decade - maybe 2 - of change and progress and popped back up in 2020/2021!

sarajw,
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I was lost, tbh. Why do I need the command line now? Where should I point FileZilla? Who are you calling a "git"? Wtf is npm? Where's "web design" gone? UX? What do front end developers do? Is that what I want?

The twitter dev community helped me so much! Answering my questions and encouraging me to keep pushing. I found excellent articles and ideas to help me move forward.

If there's anything I miss from twitter now, it's all the other beginners. People who maybe I could help up after me. ๐Ÿชœ

sarajw,
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@Tijn lol, yes I nearly wrote "progress"

sarajw,
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All these people I'd come to admire on twitter started heading over to Mastodon. I started using the account I'd set up there when Musk brought his kitchen sink in, and everyone was so follow-back-happy then!

It felt like cheating, totally short-circuiting the huge hustle and consistent engagement effort required in twitter to even get seen never mind replied to or followed back.

So people know me. I turn up to this flagship CSS event for the first time and mingle HARD. I'm so grateful ๐Ÿงก

sarajw,
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Finally - some people lament the end of the old web, the tinkering, the creativity - it really is still there, you know.

Every now and then I get an email from someone wanting to join https://cs.sjoy.lol and while many are familiar from my Mastodon dev circle, others are not, and they are a delight.

They maybe come from Neocities, or Melon Land, they're learning from HTML up, not React down.

It's all still there. Just a lot more mainstream internet has been added since the before times.

sarajw,
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@mxbck yes! And then you do meet, and it's true! ๐Ÿ’–

sarajw,
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@jake4480 right! It's such a great community - or at least this part of it is :) ๐Ÿ’–

sarajw,
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@starshaped ๐Ÿฅฐ thank you and it's been great to meet you (meeting online friends counts just as much to me)!

sarajw,
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Bunch of wonderful web based lunacy here: https://front-end.social/@sarajw/112582627321175072

zachleat, (edited ) to random
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curious what percentage of yโ€™all:

sarajw,
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@zachleat I was also anti-case until they got suuuper slippery. One slid off the sofa, and fell flat face down (not even corner first) onto a wooden floor (not even concrete!) and the screen shattered.

I just don't trust the strength of the screens any more. I had several Moto G phones that had rubberised backs and could be juggled without worry, survived loads of falls.

I also wish I just didn't drop them in the first place, but eh ๐Ÿคท

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