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sjoy.lol
Front end developer. Extremely online since 1998! HTML, CSS & a touch of JS. Into web accessibility and inclusivity in general. I'm a cis het elder millennial mum of 2, she/her. ♿✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 https://sarajoy.dev (see also @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy)
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no, i don’t want a summary i want to read the words from your bulging frontal lobe you typed carefully with your weary hands i want to know your context, what’s inside of you, illuminated further by your considered choice of adjectives i will never want a summary for you cannot be summarised

The last two "big" announcements from Silicon Valley: 1) Figma sites: inaccessible mess 2) Apple Liquid Glass: inaccessible mess I can't actually remember the last time Silicon Valley came up with something that was actually good.

"I’m labelled an HTML guru, a CSS pioneer. A JavaScript Rockstar. TypeScript wishes it was half as dependable as my code" I first wrote this satire in 2011, then updated one or two references when I published it last year. It amuses me how it seems to be evergreen

Adding a new ALT: A young man with brown skin wearing a surgical mask is popping a wheelie on his pedal bike, as he rides past two violently burning cars giving off lots of smoke.

@goodenough.us has letsjelly.com - covering emails, not office apps. I imagine it has no AI plans..?

Relevant to lots of fellow personal website building friends who have wished many times for HTML includes:

Happy Birthday TBL! @timbl.bsky.social

I think I've mostly fixed up RSS Joy again - after it's clearly been broken a little while! rs.sjoy.lol I've not coded it very robustly I suppose - it falls over if it takes too long for an RSS feed to respond, on build. Never mind! Please enjoy a nice list of lots of good web dev blog posts :)

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally

Have improved this page now with links to old talks, too :)

🖼️ My #CSSDay slides and all the links are up on talks.hiddedevries.nl/3do3c4/displ... humbled by all the friendly responses to this, it felt like there was real appetite for people to make their sites greener. I love to see it!

I'm embarrassed that my latest slides are inaccessible. What am I bloody giving talks about? ACCESSIBILITY 🤦 Please find my Whimsica11y slides here, two similar versions from State of the Browser and WeAreDevelopers Accessibility & AI Day - with links to accessible versions: slides.sarajoy.dev

It's a milestone issue of The Index. We've made it to #100 and we're going stronger than ever 🎉

Woof. Got through it, albeit with a bunch of connectivity issues every time I tried to show a video 🫣 I'll also take part in the panel after @gerireid.com's "Shift Left" talk :)

The ability to style grid and flex gaps is coming fast in a browser near you! Bubbling with ideas for what this will be useful for! Code: github.com/MicrosoftEdg...

People print websites, so I wrote an article over on @piccalil.li about how to make sure they don't feel the need to pull out all their hair while printing yours. Decimate a rainforest, spend a fortune on some new ink cartridges, unjam the mechanism, print off the article, and give it a read.

Practiced my talk again. Fits within the time slot still. Winner. See a few of you tomorrow, maybe - or rather, you will see me and/or my slides, anyway!

Tomorrow!

My friend @benjamindickson.bsky.social is an excellent comics writer and illustrator - I built his site a while ago, before my accessibility awareness had fully formed. I'm still proud of it: bendickson.co.uk Some changes are due because of a new book (Chamberlain), I'll add more Alt text then :)

Big news: I now have a shop on my website! If you would like to buy any of my books, you can now buy them from me directly!