Looking at my browser tabs, I can't believe that we collectively have still not standardized on page title vs site title formats in 2024. I've seen SITE - PAGE, PAGE / SITE, PAGE | SITE, SITE: PAGE, PAGE etc. I'd prefer it if we had a sitetitle tag in head and let the browser figure it out. #technology #html
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Content vs crap.
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Use an expression to select an array value in PHP. It's handy for quick output logic. Update: it's a bit too clever, perhaps, versus using the tenary operator.
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Why do web-browsers not have a dedicated "Back to top" button? #technology
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Finally updated my #WordPress Blocks In Plain English page with the WordPress 6.3 change in naming from Reusable Blocks to Synced Patterns. #technology
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What would it take to make writing vanilla JavaScript more pleasant? After reviewing the code for my blogging engine Lamb I concluded:
Most of the code adding interactivity to personal websites comes down to running code after the page has loaded; niceties to query the DOM and hook into events. There's probably more but this is a start. The result is shorthand.js. Hint: it's not dissimilar to jQuery, but you can fully learn it in 5 minutes.
Which simplifies code to:
onLoaded(() => { const forms = $$('form.form-delete') forms?.forEach($form => $form.on('submit', ev => { cancel(ev) let confirmed = confirm(`Really delete status ${ev.target.dataset.id}?`) if (!confirmed) return ev.target.submit() })) })This is just a prototype and will evolve.
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If you're using the Anytype (current version at the time of writing: 0.37.3) AppImage and made a .desktop file to launch it, here are a few tweaks that integrate it into your system better.
You may want to use a program like Desktopius to edit the .desktop file.
Prevent two dock icons
If you see one item for the AppImage and one for the application window in the Dock, add
StartupWMClass=anytypeand these will be combined. This value is the result of runningxprop WM_CLASSand clicking on the Anytype main window.Fix the icon
If you see the generic icon, extract the icon to a path and update
Icon=/path/to/anytype.png(replacing the path to the directory where you will extract the icon).To extract the icon from the AppImage do the following:
$ cd /tmp $ mkdir anytype && cd anytype $ /path/to/Anytype.AppImage --appimage-extract .... $ cp squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/anytype.png /path/to/anytype.png -
I experimented with _hyperscript to replace the little JS enhancements on the Lamb microblog over the weekend. After a day I had all the scripts replaced with clearer code in about half the lines of the previous JavaScript. It sounds like a success, however I rolled it all back. This is because _hyperscript requires a 100KB library, whereas the 3KB JavaScript it replaces does not. As Lamb is a minimal blogging system, that's the vast majority of the pagesize. #technology
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Ashley Belanger writes for Ars Technica Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal with Google as default search:
Statista reported that Google's advertising revenue was $224 billion in 2022, and based on that, Engadget estimated that Apple likely gets paid in the tens of billions of dollars for Google's default Safari placements.
Meanwhile Slack, Discord and others continue not to benefit from an Electron commit that wasn't properly reviewed setting Search with Google as the default #technology #privacy
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On personal goals
Today, I've realised my overarching goal as a software engineer: create digital experiences that help improve mental health for the people using them.
Unwittingly I myself have trended towards community software where capitalism, media manipulation and corporate influence is minimised (open-source, privacy first, self-hosting), and writing software with these values in mind.
In my experience, capitalism and corporate software distort the incentives of software for the financial benefit of it's backers. Media manipulation uses information overload and content agendas to influence the news cycle and change the common values we live by. This ultimately is more important to them than the wellbeing of the person experiencing the artifact, but not to me.
How have I been unwittingly trying to create positive user experiences:
- Having ownership over your content through blogging software that does not demand your attention.
- Creating a safe space for content consumption of trusted resources.
- Reducing friction in everyday tasks also benefits mental health and reduces frustration.
- Having peace of mind working on technologies that avoid complexity,
- Building foundational projects to help understand how to think about replacement products that contain these values.
- Helping people make time for oneself.