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Daniel Schildt @autiomaa.org · 14h

Back in 2018 it still was possible to add those via "legacy" Firefox feature, but even that was already painfully difficult for most humans. `about:support` overrides and custom files were a mess.

"User styles aren't applied to sites until you restart Firefox."
davidwalsh.name/firefox-user...

How to Add a User Stylesheet in Firefox

The amazing Firefox web browser allows users to create and include a user stylesheet into each page to allow the user to modify every single web page.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Not only will AI grading be the end of teaching because of the labor dynamics Marc covers, but it kicks off a process of what I call "self-alienation" where the teachers gradually remove themselves from the essential human experiences of their own work.

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 19h

Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 18h

Anyway, today is World Migratory Bird Day, so I invite you to spend a minute contemplating those extraordinary journeys, perhaps by looking at the European Migration Atlas. migrationatlas.org

Bird Migration Atlas

This online Migration Atlas covers the huge geographical area represented by two continents, encompassing the flyways between Eurasia and Africa. Movements in time and space of 300 bird species are ma...

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4d

OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...

Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.

A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one

Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...

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Daniel Schildt @autiomaa.org · 21h

What I liked most in that article is how it focuses on helping people to learn the new syntax and features, without blaming people for not already knowing it. Big difference compared to a lot of social media posts that aren't as useful for learning.

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 4d

Are you the type of dev who just copies and pastes hex codes?

If so, I've written an article over at @piccalil.li just for you!

I take a look at some of the new CSS colour features that are most useful for those who don't really care about colours.

piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...

A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one

Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...

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firefoxdevtools.bsky.social @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social · 2d

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 1d

awesome little #a11y bookmarklet from @lloydi.com

a11y-tools.com/bookmarklets...

(check out the other ones they have on that page, it's a right ol' treasure trove)

Screenshot of a UI design tool showing component states for a 'New Post' button. The interface displays a dark-themed modal window titled 'Component states' with a close button (X) in the top right. The modal shows five different interactive states: Default, Hover, Focus, Active, and Disabled. Each state displays a blue button with a pencil icon and 'New Post' text. The first four states (Default, Hover, Focus, Active) include warning indicators showing 'Low contrast: 2.39:1' with triangle warning icons. Each row has a trash icon button on the right. Below the states is a section titled 'ARIA attributes found' listing two attributes: aria-label: 'Compose new post' and aria-pressed: 'false'. The interface appears to be from an accessibility or design system testing tool.

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Daniel Schildt @autiomaa.org · 1d

Oh, then I might change it at some point. 😳
Thanks for the recommendation.

It is just that I feel the pain of going backwards to early 2010s (or even before), as this set of workshops has parts/leftovers from a few decades ago. (Visual look is my own, it was a lot worse before.) 😞

Daniel Schildt @autiomaa.org · 1d

And before you ask: yes, those are seriously outdated assignments for a school course. Most confusing task had a requirement for making sure that older than IE9 could still run a script. (And no, not going to support IE.) 😞

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Daniel Schildt @autiomaa.org · 1d

Oh cool, a new HTML element.

"It’s been available across browsers since ⁨October 2018⁩."
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Problem is that element is made for forms, while I have to output various types of things to the output wrapper. It might not fit to the intended use cases.

Long list of different kinds of JavaScript-related workshops.

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Daniel Schildt @autiomaa.org · 1d

“Oh no!”

I made a JavaScript tutorial about how to make a button to print out “oh no!”

How to make a bad bad bad button?

HTML code follows:

<button onclick="showOhNo()">“oh no!”</button>
<section class="exerciseOutput" id="js-exerciseOutput">output</section>

JavaScript code follows:

// Select output element
const output = document.querySelector("#js-exerciseOutput");

function showOhNo() {
const textOhNo = "oh no! ";
// Display it!
output.append(textOhNo);
}

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Craig wanders (mostly) around Norway @any-port-ina-storm.bsky.social · 2d

Cow on the beach.

Isle of Tiree, Scotland.

#scape #landscape #nature #Bluesky #Scotland #cows #clouds #coast #seascape #islandlife #three #EastCoastKin

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Henna Marika 💫 @hennamarika.bsky.social · 1d

Kaikki paletin värit näkösällä - just tänään.

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Chuck Shotton @chuck.kilroy.tech · Jul 28

Slop Generators, indeed. A lot of words to tell you one thing. If your job or work product disallows accessing or using proprietary information, using a LLM is a bad idea. Things like clean room implementations, reverse engineering, etc. will become liable. asahilinux.org/docs/project...

Generative AI Policy - Asahi Linux Documentation

None

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 4d

Folks who want to see JPEG-XL supported in more browsers, what is it about the format that attracts you to its use on the web?

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