@mikehall314.bsky.social
Web developer and Doctor Who fan (not in that order). Science, reason, and critical thinking. Skeptical of the Placebo Effect. Director of Merseyside Skeptics. Co-host of Skeptics with a K. Director of The Skeptic. Director of QED. Autistic. /H(?:e|im)/ui
Masterplan!
RFKjr and his Tin Foil Hat Army are NOT “skeptics”. Skeptics go by the evidence. Same as there’s no such things as “climate change skeptics”.
The word you’re looking for is DENIERS.
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I'm speaking at Web Day Out on Thursday in Brighton. The line-up looks great, and tickets are still available webdayout.com
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My first talk in a couple of years 😬. It's currently running at 40 minutes but the slot is 30, so I have work to do…
Want to learn about the very latest advances in #HTML, #CSS, and #JavaScript APIs? Browsers are capable of so much nowadays...
There's just 2 more days left to buy a ticket.
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Me, a nerd, watching Game of Thrones.
Jon: Who are you?
Aemon: My father was Maekar the first of his name. My brother Aegon reigned after him, when I had refused the throne, and his son was Aerys… whom they called the Mad King.
Jon: You’re Aemon Targaryen!
Me: Nah that’s Genial Harry Grout mate.
Papers Please is just spot the difference but designed by an ethics professor, right?
Just about recovered from the great time that was #SotB26. If anyone else fancies having me come deliver my talk, I’m very open to the idea.
I used to be able to sniff the UA for Samsung, but Chrome on Samsung currently reports itself as Chrome for Linux (not even Android). Presumably because of UA reduction.
UA Hints doesn’t give me anything which says Samsung. Model string is empty.
What on earth I can do?!
Okay software folks.
With inputmode=numeric, Samsung devices pop a decimal pad with a negative sign. Other browsers pop a number pad without a decimal.
With inputmode=decimal, other browsers pop a pad with a decimal and a negative sign. Samsung pops a number pad without a negative.
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The lady beside me on the train just ordered a hot chocolate. "Extra hot please!". What the fuck does that mean?! A mug of hot steam??
Just published v0.1 of Cushion, a CouchDB-style API on top of DenoKV. Features optimistic concurrency, materialised views, namespaces, and cursor-based pagination. Inspired by @couchdb.bsky.social and built with love in @deno.land
I have picked up many new software web people followers today thanks to #SotB.
With due apologies to you all for the Doctor Who and skepticism content to come.
Great, great talk by @zachleat.com at #SotB26: „It’s 10PM - do you know where your JavaScript is?“
Very entertaining, very thought provoking and a trip through Web UX history with a very critical point. (Didn’t expect to see MM_swapImage today.)
2026.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/zach...
#SotB
#SotB26 #SotB Client side rendering is still the default in React. And honestly so many engineers view anything other as a hassle.
#SotB26 #SotB my first ever web job, we did a static build of a job board every morning from an MS Access database. It took 2 hours every day.
#SotB26 #SotB Zach really speed-running the history of web performance and I’m loving it.
#SotB26 #SotB “Network dependencies can fail.”
#SotB26 #SotB Consider how your progressive enhancements load and test at each level! Yes!
#SotB26 #SotB MM_swapImage(). Wow. That is a blast from the, etc.
#SotB26 #SotB “Be inspired by something which isn’t WCAG”
#SotB26 #SotB Special Effect are awesome! I did some fundraising for them about 6-7 years ago. Happy times.
#SotB26 #SotB Video games seem to be really putting the web to shame on accessibility
#SotB26 #SotB “You can go your entire career without ever talking to a disabled person”.
#SotB26 #SotB I’ve worked with designers in the past who refuse even WCAG AA because they didn’t know how to make it pretty and accessible. And so accessible is what they dropped.
#SotB26 #SotB I wish I were posting more about Chad’s talk but I am absolutely rapt!
#SotB26 #SotB Just had a push notification from the Trainline reminding me that I’m going home tomorrow. NOT NOW TRAINLINE. You’re being a downer!
#SotB26 #SotB “Be kind to yourself” is such a succinct way of summarising it. Such a fantastic talk.
#SotB26 #SotB “I made this mistake that, if I talk all the time, or I engage all the time, then maybe I’ll be seen.”
#SotB26 #SotB “Uncertainty is what drains us”. Again relating hard to this. Great insights from Fiona Safari!
