Notices by Large Heydon Collider (heydon@front-end.social)

Here is my unofficial guide to the HTML `<br>` element.

(I have now covered all of A and B 😅)

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-br-element/

@michelle Inkscape is actually pretty hot for most stuff these days, and I know you love you some SVG.

@NanoRaptor I did an art degree which, despite being primarily about making art, still had a writing component. Unlike most of my peers, I was a confident writer. One essay, I'm told, caused my lecturer a significant headache because he could not decide if it was A* material or F. He explained he had to compromise and give me a C. I never forgave him and will never go back into academia.

Lot of chat about AI today, especially in relation to Mozilla's continued shenanigans. Just a reminder that I have a video on the subject: https://briefs.video/videos/whats-the-deal-with-large-language-models/

Mozilla are the British Labour Party of Browser vendors.

@aral I have similar sentiments about fascists and centrists. Fascists have relinquished their humanity and can be considered wild, dangerous animals. Centrists are the people taking us on unconsented safari.

I'm on the West Coast (Wales) and the light is extraordinary.

I wish to also be permanently banned from Kubernetes (I've never used it, but I definitely never want to). https://fedi.rrr.sh/@pearl/113126152621767934

📼 What Is React.JS?

Finally, a new video on briefs.video.

https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/

*Looks at this headline*
*Looks at cybertruck*
*Looks at this headline again*
*Looks back at cybertruck*
*Looks at this headline a third time*
*Looks at several videos of cybertrucks breaking down, falling apart, and refusing to do even the basic things expected of it*
*Looks back at this headline*

🤔

@aral @laura Woah, what, A Book Apart RIP. Very proud to have done the foreword for Accessibility For Everyone. Glad it has a new home.

Lots of people reading this are missing the point. Yes, `className` is a standard Web API property. NO, I do not expect it to appear in place of `class` in what appears to be HTML. Not an issue if you're not reinventing HTML for "reasons".

React really gaslit a whole industry with this bullshit. Which makes sense given the biggest proponents are all evangelical Christians. https://phpc.social/@paulshryock/112779901355445011

@aral Absolutely, I've seen that too. It's willful misappropriation of terminology. "Virtue signalling" is used almost exclusively by fascism-adjacent asshats. "Having virtues is bad" is such a ridiculous stance. But the term originally meant to appeal to normative virtues within a group. Technically, fascists being all faschy in front of other fascists is virtue signalling.

Sorry, just interested in etymology. Thank you for speaking out about that stuff.

@aral I mean... concern trolling is a real and rather troubling thing, usually perpetrated by bigots. It's a far cry from speaking up about human rights! So it seems like these folks are talking bollocks on multiple levels.

@gvlx @aral In what world could a (legitimate!) concern or criticism be phrased positively? They are negative by definition. You just want to silence critics.

@xinit @gvlx @aral That would be literally saying different things. Try to phrase "the screen reader has been broken for 8 years" positively.

@katanova I have, my career is in making digital products accessible. Your tone policing and lack of self awareness aren't going to stop that.

@katanova @aral @soller @thestrangelet @lucasmz This is just a pretentious way of saying "shut up" and the motivations behind that "shut up" are clear.

*sigh* I have an American client who is having trouble, they say, being able to convert to £ (their end) for paying me. I have a business bank account for my LTD that only accepts £ or €, apparently.

Anyone know of a way around this? A service either they or I could use? I would *really* prefer not to change bank accounts but will accpt suggestions. Wish I'd known Starling was this limited at the outset.