Notices by alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)

CSS Naked Day 2025 - Eric Meyer:
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/04/09/css-naked-day-2025/

@lanodan Wow, I'm surprised how straightforward that code is!

My upcoming threads:

On my Ink&Switch schedule (relating their writeups chronologically to my hardware-communicator hypothetical)... Tomorrow: schema versioning "Cambrian", next: exchanging crypto keys "BackChannel", then: richtext "PeriText", later: drawing dynamic models "CrossCut".

On my Linux From Scratch schedule.... Next couple days: Finish Groff (getting close), to be followed up with GRUB.

Between which I'll finish studying LibShumate, followed up with emulators for game consoles!

Talking of which... What's your favourite NES/Famicom emulator?

Which one should I study?

If I don't get an answer, I'll study the one @Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux recently promoted...

I recall reading Ian Hixie (major WHATWG editor) expressing a loss of faith in the web's vision & pushing to move everything into WebASM.

I haven't lost that faith but... Yes, please!

I don't like the web as an app platform, let alone The cross-platform platform. I like the web as a library, as The library!
A split could do it some good... Not that I can bring myself to care about the app-web...

The candid naivety of geeks - Ploum:
https://ploum.net/2025-03-28-geeks-naivety.html

I take it he doesn't us geeks, I don't see too much of this in my circles.

@irrlicht @wolf480pl @lanodan Btw: I'm aware of a fair few solid efforts like mine for when you don't demand JS support.

My perception is that things get exponentially harder with even higher expectations for compatibility when you do implement JS. I wish client-side scripting never became a part of the web!

Yet there's disagreement over whether these efforts count.

I've offered to speak on my hardware-browser hypothetical at Limits2025, it seemed like the sort of thing they were asking for. But we'll see if its accepted, I'll attend regardless!

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/

Btw I needed to give this hypothetical a proper noun to apply (I've been using pronouns to avoid the need to name it, & to emphasize that its not real), so guess which one I picked?

@smallcircles Hint: I've got a naming convention...

Du désir profond de se faire arnaquer - Ploum:
https://ploum.net/2025-03-21-se-faire-arnaquer.html (written in French)

@lanodan Haven't bothered, I've got it working well.

But that's besides the point: I suspect the size limits I face with speech-dispatcher are in the wrapper, not the speech synthesizers. That can easily happen, if you're allocating fixed-size buffers.

@lanodan Not necessarily. I find I have to embed eSpeak as a library, since the commandline version has a terrible scanner. Which'll split the text up wherever, without any care.
If I pass eSpeak the entire string directly I don't face any limits.

I think speech-dispatcher has a similar situation.

@lanodan You know: I've tried speech-dispatcher, but I found it extremely constraining. I can barely feed any SSML to it!

Haven't gotten around to trying Spiel...

"But in my case I found meaning in life through creativity. And through knowledge. And learning. I love these things! Its super fun for me. To learn stuff. To read about stuff. To see things. To create art. To see other peoples' art. To take part in playing games made by people. Who care about the things they make. That's mean so much to me.
"And I think for the 1st time I've been worried that this is about to be taken away from me."
Freya Holmér
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY

Resonates with me!

Love newsletters? You’re gonna love RSS - Andy Bell:
https://andy-bell.co.uk/love-newsletters-youre-gonna-love-rss

While I consider it bad taste to promote my work when Mozilla's having yet another controversy, my advice is being requested. So here goes...

If you want better choices for browsers, do all you can to ensure all pages you work on are still legible when JavaScript's disabled or unsupported!
Stop the prevalent over-engineering of the web! Create more resilient pages!

And if you want to take on a not-*that*-complex project...

@djm62 And I like building my own browsers too...

Though having fallen in love with a language which doesn't have good text-rendering APIs available slows down the work...

@wolf480pl @jalefkowit Personally I think we need a more radical answer!

We need a better web where we don't up begging Mozilla (or whoever takes their place) to stop stepping on those rakes!

@wolf480pl My advice: Don't keep up!

Webdevs should learn to cope with pages not looking the same everywhere, they've got powerful tools to deal with it!

How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop - Luke "Unterminated":
https://www.unterminated.com/random-fun/how-to-copy-a-file-from-a-30-year-old-laptop