Evan @darth_mall@vis.social

Surprising absolutely no one that knows me.

Anyone else bugged by people who only write in lists, bulleted or numbered?

@kristinHenry Didn't see anywhere to leave a note, but I just moved my donation from @scott's patreon to your GitHub sponsor thing.

Dear journalists, if you ask someone to respond to data that contradicts their position, and they respond with a personal anecdote that doesn't fit the data, that is not a rebuttal. Please stop treating anecdotes as valid counter arguments to data.

Does anyone know of any guides out there about running Android while protecting yourself from Google? Not necessarily a de-Googled ROM, because there's a few things that I'd probably need to get from the Play store and I haven't had a ton of luck getting hardware that is well-supported by the likes of /e/ and LineageOS.

#Android #surveillance

I think I came up with a decent masonry-ish layout using just CSS. It relies on having CSS variables set for each image's dimensions, but that can be accomplished server-side when you generate the HTML. Reasonably happy with this.

https://codepen.io/darthmall/details/PoZGLKN

#a11y question for all you experts out there, if you're inclined to give free advice:

If you have an image gallery, would you consider all of those images decorative and give them empty alt text, or would you describe each one in alt text for screen readers?

I'm inclined to give them all alt text, but I can see an argument for the gallery being purely decorative.

The problem with stars on GitHub is I've starred so many things I can't find anything.

Amazon’s reboot of The Tick is a way better show than HBO’s Watchmen.

@aardrian Do I remember that you had a post about a couple of businesses that lost or settled lawsuits for having inaccessible websites? I can't find it. I found the one on public accommodation during a pandemic, but I thought I remembered one about "a very expensive control" or something like that.

Why is it some people's first instinct to IM you to ask if they can schedule a meeting with you to ask for help. You're IM'ing me: ask for help. If it proves too difficult to help over IM, we'll figure that out pretty quickly and can schedule a call for a screenshare.

Wishing I'd gone with a static site generator instead of a database-backed CMS for this website at work. Kind of wondering if I could just power through it this weekend and switch it on everyone by Monday—but that's probably unrealistic.

Indie 102.3 is playing “Cherry Blossom Girl” by Air and it makes me happier than I would’ve guessed. I haven’t listened to this since college. Sometimes it’s the small things in life, I guess.