Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/19
I wish Wordle would be more accessible, but alas after all this time it still isn’t.
Luckily there is [Wayback/Archive] wa11y.co: Wordle Accessibility
At the end of your Wordle game, click “Share” to copy your result then paste it below to generate descriptive text.
It is open source on GitHub at [Wayback/Archive] cariad/wa11y.co: Makes Wordle results accessible. (most of it is written in JavaScript)
I first bumped into it via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12
This sparked some great responses [Wayback/Archive] Iris Classon on Twitter: “What’s the least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website? Basic stuff, not length of stay, color of underwear or body count.”, for instance:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/29
With the ever changing Google Developer UI it is sometimes hard to track where things moved or what functionality is available.
I needed the “Network” tab to preserve the connections even after a redirect and this is indeed possible as per [Wayback/Archive] firebug – Google Developer Tools “Network” Tab clears after redirect – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Rodrigo Graça for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Snuffleupagus for answering):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/20
Great for converting tab separated data (for instance when copied from Excel) into HTML:
[Wayback/Archive] Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/15
So I was on a medical site trying to copy my prescriptions trying to copy them:
Before copying After copying
In this case, the element that failed to copy was this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/14
As an alt-text advocate, I appreciate [Wayback/Archive] Thomas 🔭✨: “The same people who say it’s t…” – Hachyderm.io
The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images.
#inclusion #a11y #accessibility
In case you missed it, this is indeed a thing: Prompt engineer – Wikipedia.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/06
In a game of Walls and Ladders (similar to Arms Race), the Ladders usually win, see the references at the end of the post.
The actual “game” in this case is more and more sites trying to build walls prevent pasting credential related information like user IDs (often e-mail addresses) or passwords often citing “more safety” or “less security risks”, and users get taller ladders wanting to do just that because of their own security concerns:
[Wayback/Archive] Stef 🎈 on Twitter: “Dear mobile/web-apps, please never never disable copy and paste “due to security reasons”. -everybody with a password manager.”
The walls will always loose so it is better to invest the money for the walls into other security measures.
Given that most of the risks are web-sites getting that information exfiltrated, I wish they put more energy into bolting down that side of the security risk side than the hampering legitimate users entering that information in the first place.
Since so many of these sites have leaked my information in the past, any email address I use for activating an account is like 50 characters long. Something I am not going to type once (because of typing mistakes) and definitely not twice (to confirm I did not make typing mistakes).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/31
A while after writing notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS, b0rk (Julia Evans) posted about her DNS zine which got a reply about her DNS lookup tool. Below is part of that thread.
The reason I post is that – unlike the Google DNS ToolBox – you can bookmark her DNS tool link including the actual search part, which makes it far easier to do systems administration.
Examples:
example.org – all recordsexample.org – SOAwiert.me – all recordswiert.me – SOAThere is a trace tool too:
tracetrace – example.orgtrace – wiert.meThe thread:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/27
I like the featured snipped [WayBack] css color names – Google Search
It points to [WayBack] Quackit: CSS Color Codes which has the below nice table (a few duplicates could be stripped, but the ordering and layout is great!)
Since then, I also found these very interesting pages on web colors that are also useful in any software development environment:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/19
Sometimes one bumps into a Google Chrome extension that is both useful from a practical perspective as insightful on learning from how it is done.
This is one: [Wayback/Archive] iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome: Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
It supports many sites (including more than a dozen Dutch ones) for which it is not easy to justify creating separate accounts for them (just the risk of them leaked into Have I been Pwned? is large, despite GDPR) and staying logged on for each of them. I have dozens of listings of my email addresses at haveibeenpwned.com, so I am a lot more careful making accounts than in the past despite assigning unique email addresses for each account (which is part of the burden).
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