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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Time zones are hard, especially when they change. Or, don't change when they were previously expected to. Got an email from Google today: "[Action Advised] Review Google Calendar events scheduled after Nov 1, 2026" (Context: half of Canada is switching to "permanent daylight" time.) They'll […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…

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Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Back in the 1980s Tudor Griffiths taught Computer Science in the local school. Two maxims he repeated almost every class have stuck with me for decades. "A computer is exactly as smart as the person telling it what to do" and "A computer can and will make mistakes, and it'll do it a million […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026

The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

If any web accessibility professionals need a real-world example of how not to do "responsive" web design, and specifically an example of a website breaking browser zoom by using viewport units for font size, may I present […] [Original post on front-end.social]

View of the article body text in a full-screen window, at my browser's default 110% zoom level. It has a very small font and long line lengths, with 4 paragraphs of text taking up 2/3 the width of the screen, plus a sidebar linking to other articles. This is the same view I get at any more zoomed-out levels, too.

The same window with the browser zoom bumped up a single step to 120%. The effective text font size is more than 3 times the size, half a paragraph filling the whole screen. This is the same text size you get at any higher magnification levels, too.

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@megmac @bobjonkman I see you already have an answer for this specific question, but in the future if you're looking for authoritative sources for timezone/DST policy changes, the first place I always look is the tzdb¹ mailing list² ³. The tzdb project does produce code, but fundamentally it is […]

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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 16/09/2026

RE: dragonscave.space/@KaraLG84/1172793… This is why you write text alternatives yourself. Saying “AI will do it” makes blind people reliant on gatekeepers. Imagine if in the US models would think of ICE Agents as “sensitive content”. This tech is not neutral even as it […]

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

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I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

RE: floss.social/@igalia/11720799298125… Before adding a suggestion, remember to check: - Interop 2026 focus area descriptions: github.com/web-platform-tests/inter… - Proposals already submitted for 2027 (upvote & comment if you agree) […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Talking to my colleagues about students using "AI" generated output sometimes feels like this... John: Why don't we use DDT to improve crop yields on farms anymore? Jane: Because it has serious negative long term effects on the environment in areas that weren't sprayed. John: I didn't ask […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Filing away for future needs: LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown import/export. whatsnew.libreoffice.org/26.2 (Haven't tested it yet, so I don't know how it handles things like images & tables & such. Or frontmatter metadata. But if someone sends you a Word document and you need […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I have discovered that there is something worse than sharing digital posters (e.g. on Instagram or webpages) with a QR code instead of an actual link or URL for people to find out more. What's worse is to use a genAI tool to make the poster, and get […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Something that looks closer to a standard QR code, with square recognition patterns in 3 corners, but the small circle in the fourth corner isn't quite right and the pixel grid is all smudged & uneven.

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@jaffathecake/11709… People with *opinions* about #CSS: If you set a line-height on text that would cause the glyphs to overlap in block text, and you also use `text-box-trim` to trim the block down to exactly fit the text-box, should the browser "trim" […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@csstricks/11708284… An in-depth article on JS focus handling & modal popovers. Written with personality & detail so read it, but key points: > Focus has to leave a region before that region becomes hidden or inert. Browsers will patch the worst error, but […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Has #MailChimp added a new feature where they automatically re-send email newsletters if the recipient hasn't opened them within a few days? I've been getting duplicate emails from a few different sources & it makes it even less likely that I'll actually go through my "to skim eventually" […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@webstandards_dev/1… This article by @leaverou not only proposes a new best practice for this particular UI feature (a light/dark mode toggle for websites), it also sets out a nice example of how to approach UX decisions. By *complicating* the […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Bill Oliver, a member of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party, delivered a speech in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick: "Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters" he said then, without pausing, Oliver continued: "Here's a more natural […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An stout older white man, Bill Oliver, in a dark suit with a yellow tie in a paneled room that seems to be one of the hallowed halls of the Canadian legislator. He's looking down reading his speech.

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Piccalilli @piccalilli.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

@Wilto of JavaScript for Everyone fame here breaking down the secret third option for JavaScript comments.

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DW Innovation @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

This is a big one. “(...) standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (...) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

On a Mastodon server? Go to your profile on the website, click that "Edit Profile" banner, then click the camera icons (labelled "Replace Image") over your banner and profile images. You'll now get a pop-up menu with the option to add alt text.

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@tigt/1168648134383… If you are also having problems with broken website log-in pages when using a Chromium-based web browser with Linux on an old device (Ana was using Vivaldi on Lubuntu, not sure if the bug is specific to that combo), the issue seems to be an […]

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dr.-ing. ⁡jaseg @jaseg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

I dont like the term “digital sovereignty” because of the pronounced nationalist and authoritarian connotations that it carries, regardless of what the actual intentions of its particular users are. I propose that as hackers, we reframe the core concept (independence of US-centric cloud […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/1167399… This quote: > Users can’t see the code, so UI is the only way for them to judge the quality of the app. If UI looks good, that means developers had time to polish it, which means that they probably spent a comparable amount of time to […]

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Meg @megmac.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

I saw something a while ago on here that was a static web hosting coop kinda thing. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I would have thought I'd have bookmarked it but apparently not.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

phishing training really doesn’t spend enough time on “how to structure your mass corporate communications in such a way that your employees won’t conclude that you communicate exactly like scammers and still expect a reply so they’d better assume scammy emails are legitimate”

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

RE: front-end.social/@css/1166519289952… I love these graph connector demos that @css is creating, using anchor positioning & other modern CSS tricks. But I'd still like to see a more intentional effort to specify this type of connector graphical element (for flow charts […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@JakeOrlowitz/11664… If you're a regular donor to Wikipedia / the Wikimedia Foundation, maybe email them to let them know you support unionization & that if forced to choose between using your money to support the organization and using it to support […]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Seen today in a post, “photos attached, no alt text because the photos are basically all text” Umm… “basically all text” seems like the easiest thing to represent as… uh, *text* #AltTextFail #AltText

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

I haven't read either site in ages but I can confidently say that you can stop reading both Tomshardware and Neowin. If they're willing to put out this kind of slop with blatant mistakes in it you can assume the rest of their reporting is also slop, and will likely be either misleading […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Reading up on the latest dystopia on Google's Ads & Commerce blog. The gray text on white background is too fine for me to read easily. No problem, Ctrl-+ to zoom in. The text gets smaller. Did I hit the wrong key? I try again, checking the zoom % in the browser bar. Nope, not my mistake — […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

This "1996 Class Reunion" Blog Post from the Internet Archive's Wayback team is cute: blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebra… But... Am I overthinking their "Cutest Couple: W3C & CSS" choice? "One builds the structure, the […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

RE: front-end.social/@castastrophe/1166… Since I've boosted some criticism of the Google "Modern Web Guidance" LLM skill package, I should boost a more positive announcement. (Note that I haven't watched the video myself.) And I'd like to point out that this is an […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@jyasskin/116615385285… On Google's new "Modern Web Guidance" installable "skill" prompt for its Gemini genAI model:

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

For any Canadian Fedizens wondering why things got quiet, #mstdnca is down. Not a power outage (or at least not a neighbourhood wide one), and also not the usual time-out server overload issues; it's not replying at all. So it's probably down until after day-job hours are over […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

RE: social.coop/@shauna/116579531478924… Me, at the job interview: hey can you settle a bet I have with my mastodon followers about whether your job portal was vibe coded or is just classic human incompetence

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Someone shares a poster image online with a QR code but no link. What to do? Hmmm... Windows has been stuffing all sorts of extra AI features into their software, maybe one of their photo editors will have a QR code reader? I take a screenshot & open it in Snipping Tool. Nothing there specific […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

RE: www.threads.com/@hankgreen/post/DXS… This is a great story-telling data visualization structure, presenting one chart at a time, then inviting you to hit a button to dig deeper. (Unfortunately, no alt-text descriptions on the actual SVG charts, but the main body text does […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/1164047… It doesn't count as phishing if the phish just jump into your basket. (Unfortunately, the people writing this code aren't the ones whose personal information is being thrown out into the internet.)

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

Interesting approach to a cookie banner, and so easy to implement for the devs: Tell people that they can always block cookies from their browser settings. I think this *could* be GDPR compliant if they don't share any of their own analytic data with […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Website dialog box, with heading: The NFB is committed to respecting your privacy

Text continues:
We use cookies to ensure that our site works efficiently, as well as for advertising purposes.
If you do not wish to have your information used in this way, [text highlighted by me] you can modify your browser settings before continuing your visit.

Two buttons: I Understand (emphasized), Learn More.

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

RE: follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/1163… It's always disappointing when a "progressive" organization turns out to be the same top-down capitalist squeeze when it comes to negotiating with their employees...

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

I have long since ranted about the lack of tech literacy, and how that’s intentional. I just came across two different generations that have literally been trained to be afraid of links.. younger than me, GenZ and older, GenX and so we broke down a link. The different parts of a URL, how to read […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

* Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile * people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend * now open source knockoff in python and rust What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a […]

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@keithamus/11632841… It's hard to tell what's real or a joke, these days. I'm a bit embarrassed at how much fake new-CSS I fell for (I got 38/80). www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs/?r=… #CSSorBS

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