FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Don't. Ever. Publish. Stuff. That. ONLY. Supports. Dark. Mode.

I mean, I know a LOT of people love dark mode, and given the benefits that darkening interfaces provides... I get it.

But there are some people (like me) who may be visually impaired. Astigmatism, for example, can make reading text that is white on dark a real PITA. An effect known as "halation" occurs, where each letter behaves as if it were a flashlight, gaining its own halo of light and making all text read more blurry than normal.

No matter how good your glasses are, astigmatism still causes you to see a little blurry—it's something you get used to. But this damn effect makes all the text read as if you don't have your glasses on, or even worse, leading to much more tired eyes or even pain.

For everyone's sake, if you really care about accessibility, respect user preferences. If you want a dark interface by default, offer a light version if the user specifies it (in web design, this would be prefers-color-scheme: light). The same goes for light interfaces.

Me writing React: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

hi everyone! as some of you may know, i've had an old and relatively obscure MIDI module called the "Roland SC-7" for almost a year now, and i absolutely love it. so i was kinda sad that most of the sound demos of it on YouTube were so uninspiring…

so here's 40 minutes of songs that i think make it shine, so more people can understand why i'm obsessed with it. hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Pw1zv28YY

my great creative endeavour is to master composing jazz and trance and everything in between, and to discover every last trick to get the most out of this thing, and finally write the song the SC-7 truly deserves. that will take a long time. in the meantime, i can curate :)

If your tool depends on a backend service and sometimes that service returns a 503 error, just, please, retry. add backoff, add jitter, retry. Do not make it my problem. I am just going to push the button again anyway, so you are going to have to handle the request anyway. if you retry for me you can choose when that retry happens and you can avoid the part where I get really annoyed

local public library is temporarily closed because a protected bat colony was found in the building. unexpected consequence: my toddler now thinks “full of bats” is a common reason not to go somewhere, and has variously claimed his bed, bath, grandparents’ house, etc, are full of bats

the reason you can't make a better vacuum cleaner is that they have to suck by design

morning, fuckers

Masks keep you safe.

Vaccines work.

Never Again means Never Again, no matter who does it.

Global Warming is real.

Billionaires are an existential threat to society.

could i draw your attention to this delightful graffiti in norwich (originally from https://www.tumblr.com/notsowittywriter/657715642899857408/new-graffiti-in-norwich)

yoooo i finally found an Android camera app with no UI, which happens to be what i need to use my phone as a camera for live-streaming with scrcpy (my phone doesn't have a new enough Android version to use the direct camera mode) https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/k5vkhz/comment/geicenh/

Apple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*

People are returning Humane AI Pins faster than Humane can sell them, report says

Returned devices are currently e-waste that can't be reassigned, per The Verge.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/people-are-returning-humane-ai-pins-faster-than-humane-can-sell-them-report-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Signal was warranted again, and as always they gave the only data they could give: time of registration in Unix miliseconds, and time of last connection in Unix miliseconds.

yet another reminder that you can't give away data you don't have in the first place.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/