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Ever been told “We’ll do accessibility later”? Or worse, ignored entirely? I’ve been there too. A lot. So I created a talk called “How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility”. I turned it into a full article that you can now read on my blog: stephaniewalter.design/blog/how-to-...

“Write the HTML you want to see in the world” —Gandhi or something

ffs almost got a heart attack. Top 10 Google Search result for „Astro email“. It’s a Slack blogpost from 2018… Relieved that @astro.build has *not* been acquired by Slack / SalesForce.

Last week, I launched a new publication called The Dissident. It's an anti-fascist publication focused on the intersection of tech, privacy, and LGBTQ rights in the current authoritarian moment. Check it out! www.thedissident.news

Is someone from @resend.com active on Bluesky? Can I safely add a DMARC subdomain record for Resend when using the subdomain approach? e.g. mail.example.com and then DMARC for _dmarc.mail.example.com? Seems that I should be possible but I'd like to see it confirmed www.nslookup.io/learning/usi...

Another Svelte 5 success story: @xyflow.com's mighty interactive diagramming library Svelte Flow has been rewritten with runes and 1.0 is up and running! Post: xyflow.com/blog/svelte-... Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/c... Kudos to @moklick.bsky.social @peterkogo.bsky.social - it's really snappy!

new shenanigans unlocked on github.com: ⏳

Back from vacation. Back to coding. Finally digging into svelteplot.dev this week.

Very nuanced and insightful read about a React->Svelte migration story! Includes: - benefits of Svelte - how to approach the migration - how to render Svelte components in React and vice versa

Ok this is brilliant.

Microsoft is open sourcing Copilot for VS Code (Satya Nadella just announced this on BUILD) Just like the VS Code open sourcing, this is counter-intuitive on why: now MUCH easier for startups to create “improved clones” of Copilot BUT it makes VS Code more dominant: (cont’d)

Very good news...since svelte 5.31.0 you can now assign `$state` and `$derived` to the class properties within the constructor of class ```ts class Operator { constructor(operation, initial) { this.input = $state(initial); this.output = $derived(operation(this.input)); } } ``` 🚀🧡

Our @euobserver.com op-ed on Europol's increasingly brazen attempts to evade transparency and external scrutiny: euobserver.com/migration/ar... With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @giacomoza.bsky.social

We went from 6% women participation in the last State of JS survey to 15% women participation in the recent State of Devs survey! (results coming next month) Turns out creating a whole new survey with a different focus had way more impact than anything else I've ever tried to increase diversity.

🎉 TinyBase v6.1 🎉 1️⃣ Persist to Bun’s embedded SQLite DB. 2️⃣ Load just subsets of database tables into a Store. 3️⃣ DX: object args on sorting hooks & new auto persisting conveniences. Huge shoutout to Jakub Riedl for helping on this release. Much more coming! 🙏

Bookmarked (or rather hoarded with Svelte-based karakeep.app)

"It reads like how an economics student at MIT imagines R&D labs to be run if their only experience with such labs are from reading the top 1% of economics papers on innovation in research."

Studying geometry today.

Attention 🦋 Bluesky users 🙏: even if your domain is your handle - please add it as a 🔗 URL to your bio. 👏 The 👏 handle 👏 isn’t 👏 clickable 👏 And I’m not going to use workarounds or memorise your URL, then manually switch to a browser, open a new tab and enter it correctly. Please.

As X sucks and I’ll be returning to freelancing in a few months, it’s time to get more active here. I’ll be posting on design engineering /web development (esp. Svelte, Astro + stuff like Supabase), data viz & mapping, UX, tech management, self-hosting (think Coolify, Home Assistant) and some more.

German authorities deported a family stemming from Afghanistan (where they are members of a Sikh religious minority) to India, a country they have never been to. One of the boys was weeks away from graduating school here. www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft...

If you care about the testability of your CSS styles, you should upvote this proposal by @justinfagnani.com to the heavens. It would be a huge thing to solve IMO. 🎉 Repost for reach. 🙏 github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

It might sound a bit weird but I can only encourage devs who are reasoning about innovation, strategy - heck, not to mention Ops, Sprints, retros etc. - to read stuff like this. Please don’t @ me.

People of @astro.build, there’ll be a livestream hosted by @cfedev.bsky.social tonight looking at Astro Server Islands. h/t @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca cfe.dev/talkshows/2f...