Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

It's time for another "Good Idea, Bad Idea"

Good idea:
Being excited at 9pm because you won a ticket for a good & delicious free coffee.

Bad idea:
Being excited at 3am because you cashed it in right away & drank the free coffee.

@natalie@masto.ninja Is the serial terminal a DEC, Wang, or other glass teletype? If no, it still counts. If yes, it's cyberpunk af.

New av made by a cute generator. I'm not a fan of circle avatars, so I post-edited mine. (redraft, now with 100% more picture) http://charat.me/profile/create/

@embr@queer.af 'base-spotting.

@maple The neighboring outlet is making the same face I'm making.

Good to know I'm not imagining the unusually huge temperature swing, & maybe good to know I've got at least another 3 days of it I have to endure. I'm about halfway between those dots at the bottom that say "Datil" and "Socorro." ❄️

@zac I remember just wasting time in my college's NeXT computer lab watching InnerSpace savers.

I spent the last few hours playing with some color tools that together let me choose page link colors both complementing the text & background /and/ conforming to the WCAGs by the W3C Web #Accessibility Initiative. #a11y

Color Calculator: https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/

Color Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

ColorHexa (which has a colorblindness simulator): https://www.colorhexa.com/

@Phorm They forget where Doom got his doctorate.

Can it please not go from a decent Autumn to a Winter storm that rains a fine icy mist? I really don't like my windshield suddenly icing over mid-commute despite wipers going full.

@tahajin Oh wow, yeah. :/

And your design doesn't rely on JavaScript for content, presentation, or navigation? That alone puts you in the first class of awesome! :3