lilo @lilo@mastodon.technology

#CSS Tip:

If you're searching for info about CSS, add "mdn" to your search (works for duckduck go, google, maybe other stuff?) to get the Mozilla Developer Network which is really really good documentation compared to some stuff out there.

A game where your attention to details earns you a lot of coins. WARNING: Once you see the difference between the images, you won't be able to unseen... https://cantunsee.space/

Now, we have a way to detect if a user has set system-level preferences to use a light or dark colour theme.

The Dark Web Rises:

https://charlesrt.uk/blog/the-dark-web-rises/

dat://charlesrt.uk/blog/the-dark-web-rises/

Without the safety guarantees of a statically typed language, JavaScript developers can only hope and pray that their code is safe from bugs and demons. That's why one of the primary terminal commands they run is `nodemon index.js`

WHOA! MIND BLOWN! AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! I never knew this simple little #JavaScript trick: "Javascript automatically creates variables for each HTML elements with an id."
https://www.lesscake.com/code-golf-javascript

RT @ivomagi@twitter.com
This is your 1500ms latency in real life situations -

I’d tell you a Fibonacci joke, but it’s probably as bad as the last two you’ve heard combined.

Reality Winner battles an eating disorder behind bars https://theintercept.com/2018/11/24/reality-winner-prison-eating-disorder/

As the first post says, the problem is really with developer workflows, which are all about "productivity," how quickly you can "get started," rarely about security.

If you want to write a successful OSS project, make it dead-easy to get started. I'm in a rush! No time to vet! My boss isn't paying me to audit OSS projects, he's paying me to use them.

Best things I've read on today's npm brouhaha:

- https://medium.com/@jsoverson/exploiting-developer-infrastructure-is-insanely-easy-9849937e81d4
- https://gist.github.com/dominictarr/9fd9c1024c94592bc7268d36b8d83b3a

I can't count the number of times I've handed over control of an npm package I owned to some random person on the internet. It used to be considered a best practice, a solution to OSS maintainer burnout. Ah well.

OK from now on programmers don't get to name things

More than 60% of Facebook users are entirely unaware of any algorithmic curation on Facebook at all #UKIGF18 [PDF] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csandvig/research/Eslami_Algorithms_CHI15.pdf

"A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders" by David Swallow https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2018/08/a-web-of-anxiety-accessibility-for-people-with-anxiety-and-panic-disorders-part-1/

This is interesting. It hadn't occurred to me that "dark patterns" could be an accessibility problem for people with anxiety disorders.