Olex Ponomarenko 🇺🇦

Olex Ponomarenko 🇺🇦

@olex.co

design engineer, music nerd, hobby collector. portland, maine. originally from ukraine https://olex.co

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I blogged about my picks for the Interop 2027 project: www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/interop... inspired by @vale.rocks @pawelgrzybek.com @tylersticka.com @ohhelloana.blog and others who have blogged about their rankings.

sarasoueidan.comMy top picks for Interop 2027— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
Sara Soueidan@sarasoueidan.com

Going through the Interop list of features interop-rank.fxdx.dev and selecting and ranking the ones I want to see across browsers in 2027. I chose 15 features. At the top of my list are #HTML #a11y features `focusgroup`, ariaNotify(), `headingoffset` and `headingreset`.

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I think one question one should ask oneself before launching a feature like "generate fake satellite imagery" is "does this have any legitimate use-cases?" Everybody who approved this stupid feature should be fired. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

npr.orgGoogle pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the skyJournalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

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Replying to @monteiro.bsky.social

If you’re gonna fire all of us to sit around and circle jerk a slop machine at least lower the rent and give us UBI so the kids can start bands and get painting studios, you sad fucks.

Thomas Piketty@thomaspiketty.bsky.social

What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]

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Daniel Dylan Wray on the record's making, impact and legacy, plus the complicated legacy of IDM via interviews with artists featured on the album, other key players, journalists... An Oral History Of Warp’s Artificial Intelligence: #ThePortal - Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/dE5VR2y

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To mark the somber forty year anniversary since the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the Kyiv Independent presents five books that illuminate the lived experiences of those affected, the enduring aftermath, and how Russia’s full-scale war has reignited global concern over nuclear disaster.

kyivindependent.comOn the 40 year anniversary, here are 5 books to better understand Chornobyl nuclear disasterOn April 26, 1986, the explosion at Reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant forever changed the lives of millions in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Although Communist authorities initially ...

Is there anything more Eastern European than cutting a cucumber lengthwise in midair with a paring knife, pouring a pinch of salt on one half, and rubbing the halves together?

The chasm between "my engineer says they can build a useful browser plugin in one shot" and threatening Salesforce / JIRA / Slack contracts because "AI will just build custom software that we'll use" is like 5 grand canyons wide.

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“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comExclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparationStaff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

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Announcing The CSS Selection! 📰 www.projectwallace.com/the-css-sele... 📚 100,000 websites ⏱️ 100+ metrics 🔖 7 chapters The biggest deep-dive ever into real-world use of CSS across the globe. Dive in and find out some hidden gems. Also, see how much of 'the new CSS' is actually used!

projectwallace.comThe CSS Selection - 2026 Edition - Project WallaceThe CSS Selection shows real-world CSS usage from over 100,000 websites and looks at the most important metrics.

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Introducing CSS Grid Lanes. The WebKit team announced the next major step in web layouts: long-awaited native masonry-style layouts are now available in Safari TP 234. It uses the new item-tolerance CSS property and leverages full CSS grid power. #css #layout webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

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We’re building Roundabout, an app and website for neighbors to connect. As we build, we’re grounded in research about what people actually want, and we’re working hard to deliver that. But what DO people actually want? newpublic.substack.com/p/introducin...

newpublic.substack.com👋 Introducing Roundabout: built for neighbors, with neighborsNew_ Public’s app for local communities enters closed beta in five pilot communities

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Offset Marketplace is a new project in collaboration with @tega.bsky.social. We calculate the carbon savings of industrial sabotage, package these savings into carbon credits, and sell them as certificates. Profits are then donated back to the activists responsible for the actions. offset.labr.io

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🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

kenklippenstein.comTrump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

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seeing this while reading Fort Bragg Cartel.. jesus

John Knefel@johnknefel.bsky.social

Bannon guest on Antifa terrorist designation: "Unleash the Joint Terrorism Task Forces that are already there. The framework is already there [...] It was built for Al Qaeda and foreign terrorists -- just turn it inwards on these guys, on Antifa [...] Take down the colleges, the college professors"