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2020
RT @BatleyFoodBank: ***LOCK DOWN UPDATE *** We are continuing to open as normal, providing food for people referred to us. We are open Monday to Friday, 1 till 3 pm. It’s looking, sadly, as if demand is increasing.original ↗
4 Nov 2020
Everyone in tech can relate to this, if you think back far enough. The trick is to never forget how being the person on the right feels. https://t.co/UpdFB5x10Woriginal ↗
3 Nov 2020
Hey @Tesco my wife says thank you for the free gladioli in our click-and-collect order this morning. Flowers make any day brighter, so thank you!original ↗
21 Oct 2020
I ordered some stuff from amazon the other day. It was so easy, almost mindless. Like a one-click drug. I’ve felt bad about it ever since, as their human rights and tax records is appalling. I don’t want to give that company my money any more.original ↗
18 Oct 2020
RT @WebDevLaw: Shout out to the MPs talking about fish in other people’s constituencies and not about the pissed-off techies in their own. https://t.co/eepwReFUreoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020
Alt text should be required by default. But until that day, this extension will have to do. https://t.co/nhvBa0st8Eoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2020
Yet automated content checking will Save The Children!!1!1!! ™ (paging @WebDevLaw) https://t.co/u5oUlNt8sHoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2020
Very disappointing lack of response from @Morrisons @MorrisonsNews after my wife emailed on the 24th September to complain about a whole crate of food missing from our delivery! This loyal Morrisons customer is not a happy shopper.original ↗
10 Oct 2020
RT @WebDevLaw: It would be amazing if there was a political party which actually understood tech – as neither a magic solution nor the root of all evil – and could harness the trust, and the support, and the votes, of the hundreds of aghast tech professionals in my @ this morning.original ↗
5 Oct 2020
RT @adactioLinks: Robin Rendle???Web Apps Are Not A Thing, Please Stop https://t.co/fyyHl1EkRioriginal ↗
3 Oct 2020
RT @WebDevLaw: Please please please please EVERYONE stop using non-standard characters in tweets. What you think is cute and clever typography is inaccessible to people who use screen readers, which read each letter out loud one at a time with the full ASCII code. https://t.co/iZzzVKRtRyoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2020
It’s been fantastic to see Hey! grow over the years, well done and thanks! https://t.co/0TLwjGyLKmoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2020
New blog post: “Mind the gap”: https://t.co/2pIHHFFO69 Don’t just pay attention to how #software components should work in isolation – look at the gaps between them. Agree how things should communicate early.original ↗
23 Sept 2020
23 Sept 2020
.@brucel Got myself a lovely looking Hawaiian pizza for my dinner last night after a long day at work, and only went and burnt it… :( Apparently the oven needed to be at Aloha temperature. (Hattip: Richard Padget)original ↗
22 Sept 2020
Fill your brain with oodles of techy goodness at this year’s huge Leeds Digital Festival. https://t.co/JtcwtDkEAvoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2020
RT @LeedsDigiFest: The Leeds Digital Festival 2020 kicks off tomorrow with over 290 events all over the UK and around the world. If you are taking part, make sure to post your experience on Social Media, tag us and us #LeedsDigi20 See you tomorrow! ? https://t.co/mOmAJmuHk6original ↗
20 Sept 2020
RT @gerrymcgovern: Great principles for a low impact website from @Organic_Basics : 1. Does not load any images before they are actively requested by the user. 2. Minimizes the power consumption on the users device.original ↗
16 Sept 2020
RT @mor10: You’re a designer / developer / tech worker and watching #TheSocialDilema on @Netflix has you questioning your role in perpetuating #SurveillanceCapitalism and other harmful practices. Now you’re asking yourself “What can I do to change things?” Good news: there are answers! 1/xoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2020
Hey @shanselman can you touch-type? Did you teach yourself? If so, when? I’m trying to convince my 14yo boy to learn it now before he ends up with the pain I sometimes get.original ↗
12 Sept 2020
This. I’ve met many devs who dislike PHP essentially because it’s easy. They *want* coding to be hard, to keep people out of the industry who they deem ‘not worthy’. “Modern” tool chains and frameworks do exactly this. https://t.co/PgNS7Q6KQyoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2020
Who wants to come round for a very specific and limited fancy dress party? All welcome. Location: Barnard Castle Theme: Eye testsoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2020
RT @WebDevLaw: They are also offering a webinar on Thursday for content creators who manage online communities. Please do spread the word. https://t.co/36wDdvmCigoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2020
RT @HollieAnneB: Hey @LEGO_Group- you do realise your Lego wheelchair doesn’t fit through the standard Lego door, right? Even the Lego world isn’t accessible for wheelchair users ? I’m so disappointed by this. #accessibility #Lego #Disability https://t.co/lRUiuBVsUAoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2020
Good thoughts from Dave. His conclusion is “we don’t know – yet”. My concern is by the time we find out what we lose when there’s no browser diversity, it will be too late. Frog, pot, water, heat. https://t.co/R0iwRX2RV3original ↗
5 Sept 2020
30 Aug 2020
This is excellent: a practical method to be mindful of who/hows you are perceived. Works for devs, too! https://t.co/rM7jd9hvhMoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2020
#BreakTechStereotypes 1. Never coded as a kid (I was a music geek) 2. Got a music degree (in jazz. Really.) 3. Started repairing PCs as I needed a stable income 4. Am rubbish at maths, but I know a large % of my success is down to luckoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2020
RT @feather: When I hear people say “People with disabilities don’t use our web site” Most often I tell them “that’s likely because people with disabilities can’t use your web site.”original ↗
24 Aug 2020
Psst @brucel “I have a condition called ‘Emphasisma'” “Don’t you mean ‘Emphysema’?” “No. I absolutely, definitely, utterly, completely, undoubtedly, decidedly, unequivocally, unquestionably mean ‘Emphasisma'”original ↗
23 Aug 2020
This is excellent. “Model government on tech start-ups!” they cry, because of course tech start-ups have proven to be so great at large-scale transparency, governance, and contributing to society in general… https://t.co/WbEDM01LJmoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2020
Everywhere you look there is escalating division, dismantling of ‘democracy’, blatant corruption. It’s exhausting.original ↗
16 Aug 2020
RT @hbuchel: The industry is swimming in React devs that aren’t great at all at writing semantic and accessible HTML; if you’re looking for something to stand out from the crowd… ?original ↗
11 Aug 2020
Web developers can now put their money towards the features they want. Exciting stuff. https://t.co/2oZEb8bqUSoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2020
RT @CarineMarzin: Great post. As Heather explains most web developers have had no training on #privacy Most have had no training on #accessibility either. People get to code without understanding how their code will impact people’s human rights. Perfect storm https://t.co/Lg6Kal3IYdoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2020
6 Jul 2020
The further I go in my career, the more true this becomes. Also a lie: Being a doctor is about stethoscopes. Carpentry is about chisels. Music is about the instrument. https://t.co/YNI2SSPR2Moriginal ↗
4 Jul 2020
RT @WebDevLaw: New post: If you are a full time privacy professional in law or academia, you need to understand that one of your fundamental beliefs about online privacy is wrong. Includes nominative determinism free of charge. https://t.co/76fwFHY7tioriginal ↗
4 Jul 2020
29 Jun 2020
RT @MiriSuzanne: The central goal of CSS was to give us “authors” INPUT without giving us any CONTROL. The original proposal refers to CSS as “HINTS & SUGGESTIONS” which the user & browser are allowed to override or ignore. HTML is similar. That’s a political stance, & remains controversial.original ↗
22 Jun 2020
RT @heydonworks: I could write a whole book about the folly that is single page applications.original ↗
22 Jun 2020
RT @slightlylate: Folks ask which framework to pick and my answer is always the same: have a performance budget and management support to block launches on bad perf. Next, default to processing on the server or at build time. Lastly, and only if you must, adopt lightweight client-side tools. https://t.co/3Far8MSPgboriginal ↗
20 Jun 2020
I missed this when Heather first shared it. You should not make my mistake; this is vital reading for anyone involved in the making of software. #development #software #webdev https://t.co/Ko2hKUtWeuoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2020
Last week I did a talk: “Building Resilient Websites”. If you’re involved in making websites please take a look, slides and video are available here: https://t.co/Ly3u7YBmJO Quotes and data from @slightlylate , @adactio, @AaronGustafson, @tkadlec, @NNgroup and many moreoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020
RT @ItsEmaly: Hot take: We don’t need anymore inaccessible apps / products. If you’re not gonna design with accessibility and inclusivity in mind, then why design at all?original ↗
18 Jun 2020
The Almanac is consistently a treasure trove of facts featuring the very best thinkers and doers of the web. Maybe @csswizardry wants to tackle performance? Put some Yorkshire in it. https://t.co/iJJerD5jAYoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2020
RT @SaraSoueidan: I’m old-fashioned. I like my CSS seperated from my HTML; my HTML seperated from my JS; my JS separated from my CSS. I like my JS layer only added when I need it, usually progressively. CSS added progressively on top of semantic markup. I don’t fight the C in CSS, I embrace it.original ↗
17 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020
Is this a chance to get some of the great #linux #audio apps running on #windows? https://t.co/NMwzDEXi1ooriginal ↗
16 Jun 2020
RT @craigaloewen: If you’re interested on running Linux GUI apps directly on Windows with WSL, we’d love your input! Please fill out this survey and let us know what Linux GUI apps you’d want to use. It will help shape the priorities for the team as we build this feature! https://t.co/3JFVM8W5yyoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2020
Hey @Beth_AskHer can you answer this for my good buddy Chris? Thanks :0) https://t.co/Mj8YXWpBd1original ↗
16 Jun 2020
RT @sstephenson: If you think that sounds like the web of 25 years ago, you’re right! Except the HEY front-end stack progressively enhances the “classic web” to work like the “2020 web,” with all the fidelity you’d expect from a well-built SPA.original ↗
16 Jun 2020
Thanks to @Fruition_IT for asking me to give a talk on “Building Resilient Websites”. I managed to include Shakespeare, Bob the Builder and Milli Vanilli. Video here: https://t.co/DtXV90bCth Quotes from @adactio, @AaronGustafson, @brucel, @codepo8, @tkadlec and moreoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2020
RT @BretDevereaux: Statues are back in the news; I suppose I ought say something about statues, because I’m a historian and people keep saying that statues are about ‘remembering history.’ Folks, statues are not about remembrance, they are about commemoration; not teaching, but moralizing. 1/22original ↗
14 Jun 2020
RT @brucel: Here’s my 5500 word article for beginners on writing good semantic HTML, using a Cheeky Girls fan site to walk through the thought process. https://t.co/N51goSp0VForiginal ↗
11 Jun 2020
RT @LareneLg: Today, my dad cried over the phone, he wanted one week where he could use his computer without my help. He’s blind. Each inaccessible webpage tells him, “you aren’t welcome in this world.” If you don’t know whether your website or app is accessible: it’s not. Start learning.original ↗
11 Jun 2020
For the morning crowd: I’m giving a talk on building resilient #websites this Thursday, 1PM BST. Tickets and info here: https://t.co/wsvtqmvAQL #web #development #ProgressiveEnhancementoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2020
RT @katie_fenn: Yesterday, I and many Monzo colleagues found out our jobs are at risk of redundancy. That includes much of the incredibly talented web team. If you know of any JS, full-stack, React, or front-end positions, please pass them on to us. Remote / North of England for me! RTs ?original ↗
5 Jun 2020
I’m giving a talk next week on building resilient websites. Here’s the definition I’m using: The ability for a site to encounter imperfect conditions, yet not fail the user. I’ll be quoting these people a LOT @adactio @AaronGustafson @philhawksworth @codepo8 @tkadlecoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2020
RT @martinfowler: “We’re going through history, right now, and Facebook is on the wrong side of it. No one wants that on their resume” we developers cannot evade responsibility for the outcomes of the code we write. https://t.co/P7FkhPHvqJoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2020
It’s been a little while since I gave a full presentation, so I’m very pleased I’ll be able to talk about making websites less flaky: https://t.co/wsvtqmvAQL #webdev #performance #ProgressiveEnhancementoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2020
1 Jun 2020
RT @WebDevLaw: I’m probably going to get in trouble for this, but it’s not the book it was when I started writing it, and neither are we. So I want to share a draft excerpt from my upcoming book on what you need to know about developing for privacy in the pandemic. https://t.co/Cs10SW73xgoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
I have a new #lockdown #hobby making laptop stands out of #LEGO. Here’s the first one: https://t.co/CbpRrjMLiE And the second: https://t.co/FZD0PoyGHGoriginal ↗
31 May 2020
31 May 2020
RT @soniagupta504: If you cannot unequivocally say #BlackLivesMatter then you are part of the problem. No hemming and hawing. None of that all lives garbage. No. #BlackLivesMatter. Full stop. #BlackLivesMatter.original ↗
31 May 2020
RT @Beth_AskHer: Hey UK based software testers wot I know on twitter – please do me a favour and take my 2 min anonymous survey on the impact of coronavirus:- https://t.co/HpQUThwBQKoriginal ↗
30 May 2020
I believe @davewalker (though not David Walker) had a hand in the Beard Theology book. A strong credibility play, for sure. https://t.co/gWSysRURghoriginal ↗
30 May 2020
My neighbour is having a party. Loads of guests. I asked why they aren’t following the rules, but he said it’s “exceptional circumstances” so he doesn’t have to. Anyway, he invited me in and it’s free booze, so yeah.original ↗
25 May 2020
This is what @WebDevLaw has warned us about for years. Start treating privacy seriously. BBC News – Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR https://t.co/P7alVdK3vIoriginal ↗
24 May 2020
That’ll do pig, that’ll do. Cheers @csswizardry #WebPerformance #SiteSpeed https://t.co/1I69dfT2zIoriginal ↗
24 May 2020
Read this excellent primer on site speed and it kicked me into gear getting a few niggles on my site sorted. Nice one Harry. People: hire him – he’s from Yorkshire, and is reet nice and knowledgeable and stuff. https://t.co/suF81f5t7ioriginal ↗
24 May 2020
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day: https://t.co/3mV7mPC0Ux Folks, make your systems accessible. It’s not even hard and there are loads of resources out there to help you. #GAAD #GAAD2020 #a11yoriginal ↗
21 May 2020
20 May 2020
RT @malchata: The frameworks you buy into and layer on top of the platform are hard to peel off once they’re in place. It only gets harder to remove them as your app matures and those frameworks become fossilized into your architecture. This is why I favor skepticism of them over enthusiasm.original ↗
18 May 2020
And apologies to my family for barely mentioning them. Of course they are more important to me than music. Most days.original ↗
16 May 2020
It seems I have a penchant for bands who no longer exist. Also for speaking without thinking first. Apologies to punk fans, I meant to say “like” the punk era. Sigh.original ↗
16 May 2020
Thanks to Dave for a very enjoyable chat, and indulging me with tales of musical memories. I do have to point out that the Eden Burning band isn’t the one linked to here, but the one which @peccadilloman was a member. https://t.co/Pr8CKbS8Eyoriginal ↗
16 May 2020
RT @WebDevLaw: Check the Parliamentary digital team here putting more thought into the a11y of the virtual annunciator (which is a geek toy for parly nerds) than No 10 put into its entire covid communications strategy with its stupid font tweets. A11y isn’t hard, folks. https://t.co/3rNMEltHryoriginal ↗
15 May 2020
Yo @philhawksworth I’m giving a talk about building resilient websites and – of course – am going to talk about JAMstack. I’ll tell you what I don’t like: that “JavaScript” comes first, whereas “markup” is more important. Were other names considered? Ta.original ↗
14 May 2020
RT @brucel: Web developers who hate HTML and CSS are definitely in the wrong business. https://t.co/r6ukStDE6yoriginal ↗
12 May 2020
I expect @solobasssteve will agree with this, albeit in a quieter, less sweaty manner https://t.co/qTx3TIudz4original ↗
12 May 2020
I couldn’t agree with this more. The choice of technology – especially for the web – should be driven by what’s best for the user, not what’s fashionable. https://t.co/f5y3e9KlProriginal ↗
11 May 2020
11 May 2020
Why is it so hard for many organisations to make information accessible? Especially information as crucial as this. We should all do better. https://t.co/FxjddBWenporiginal ↗
8 May 2020