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During my talk on restoring lost work in git at TechBash, I got some great questions about resolving conflicts. As a result, I realized people find current changes vs incoming changes very confusing. I am people.

Bought a ton of BBQ in TX. Brought some of it home to GA. Immediately put mustard BBQ sauce on it.

CSS-Tricks has a new owner! Yes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that. https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

📢 I need 160 more web developers to answer 1 important question. How do you interpret the "Fully Supported" label on MDN support tables? Let me know in the survey below and tell your web developer friends to answer too 🙏🏾 github.com/lolaslab/acd...

Free online talk announcement: next week, I'll speak at @a11ytalks.com about accessibility pushback, and how to tackle them! Wed, October 28, 12pm ET Register: a11ytalks.com/posts/2026-oct #A11yTalks #Accessibility

TLS PHP Linux And on and on and on it goes... www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-Ne...

If you run GitLab, you've handled some bad vulns recently, so what's one more? Perfect 10 patched today. ifin.network/t/cve-2... #ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence #IFIN

There are five critical security announcements for five different software projects on the front page of Hacker News: PHP, Railway, LiteLLM, Gitlab and eMudhra. That has to be a record.

If you make HTTPS requests or have other TLS clients and care about MITM attacks, you need to update today. If you run Go: go get go@1.27.3 If you run Homebrew: brew update brew install ca-certificates If you run Linux, maybe stay off the internet for now.

DeMars and I chatted about how we got into speaking, our hobbies outside of tech, and community 💙 www.youtube.com/live/Plbfq-p...

💥 Today's stream kicks off at 11 AM EST with @abbeyperini.dev. Don't miss out! 🎃 linkedin.com/company/tuxc... 🎃 twitch.tv/tuxcare 🎃 facebook.com/TuxCare/ 🎃 youtube.com/@TuxCare/str... #DeveloperCommunity

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

"When idealism runs out, spite will keep you going until your wellspring of idealism can refill itself" is one of those things people don't appreciate enough, IMO

“Why I Resist Generative “AI” – Esther Weidauer” https://estherweidauer.com/articles/why-resist-generative-ai.html > No technology fully vanishes again once it has been developed. That doesn’t mean though that it remains widely adopted, nor that it’s even a net good.

Ok the corn palace is far more impressive than I thought it was when the Nebraskans told me about it.

It’s an unpalatable truth, but Meta, TikTok, and hopefully it goes without saying, X, aren’t sustainable to rely on for political amplification, cultural promotion/marketing or community organizing. It’s long past time for new platforms/means and to move on.

I am kinda blown away that folks are talking up these stunts so much as opposed to all the rather excellent opensource alternatives that are quickly growing to match or exceed their paid competition, just as those paid options move more to SaaS models, like Krita, GIMP, Blender, Godot, Kdenlive, etc

3 years ago, if you had asked me to read a piece of fan fiction I wrote while demoing complex git topics based on audience questions, not a script, I probably would have punched you. But today I did just that, and did it really well. I'm extremely proud of myself.

Finally: AI usage. Referencing people wanting more accessible sites over apps, a lot of LLM work seems to be geared toward both addressing the bad alternative descriptions we write, and helping to traverse barriers and friction. Still thinking through this one, but glad it was collected and shared.

And speaking of LLMs and the magical thinking that AI will "solve" accessibility: The people just want more accessible websites, not some hypothetical savior super app. webaim.org/projects/scr...

People use screen readers on their phone, another thing I wish more people knew. WebAIM's comment on the correlation between proficiency and mobile OS is also worth noting. Cheap phones run Android, and disabled people are more likely to live in poverty. webaim.org/projects/scr...

Browsing with JavaScript enabled remains an overwhelming majority. I'm including it here so you can tell a supposed accessibility "expert" that they can pound sand if they parrot the antiquated myth that it needs to work without JavaScript to be accessible. webaim.org/projects/scr...

If you're on a desktop or laptop, it's going to be Windows. This is incredibly important in that JAWS and NVDA have different modes of operation compared to VoiceOver. Most people only test on macOS out of convenience, but it is not reflective of majority experience. webaim.org/projects/scr...

I'm glad they capture disability types. It's a great reminder that screen reader use is not exclusively for fully blind individuals, and also not exclusively for vision-related disabilities. I wish more people knew this. webaim.org/projects/scr...

People who insist it is a superpower are disregarding the very real distress it causes us. Unless you are wealthy and buffered enough to not *need* to function day to day, it can be debilitating and incredibly stressful. Does it also give us unique perspectives and connections? Yes, AND

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

Dressmaker is a masterpiece.

opentranscripts.org/transcript/p... Will cap this thread off with a link to Allison Parrish's talk on the ways that birth of the "Hacker" mythos directly fucked with Margaret Hamilton's efforts to model weather systems at MIT.

The history of software is one of feminising and devaluing women's labour as nerdy, clerical, following specifications and requirements determined by men, and then valorising a presumed male hacker figure who disrupts and manfully disregards the needs of those relying on custodial maintenance work.

Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/

Unfortunately, no matter what's on the meme, I can only ever choose precision air riflery 😅

Not shockingly, I have been playing the viral Dressmaker game. I was shocked to find a description of hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome in a video game article. hEDS tea lovers unite! This game is literally made for us!