Novamatic @nomadimdad@dads.cool

So when is someone going to write an actual open source search engine complete with its own crawler and not just a skin on top of some corporate engine

(from a 2019 conspiracy thread on Twitter)

"Well, what would happen if we destroyed the universe? Would we know? Maybe CERN accidentally created a black hole that sucked us in without us even noticing"

Yes, it's called The World Wide Web.

Non-parents are like: When I have kids, I'll simply get enough sleep.

(Why's in another post, maybe later). We have self-motivated 4th/6th graders. We have ideas on what/where/how to supplement various topics. What we don't have yet is a firm choice on some platform to build on. For 6th grade, Edgenuity has some decent content, but an awful interface. We're looking at Khan Academy for both, but recs would be greatly appreciated.

also the address bar only showing the domain is happening. once you go to edit it the rest shows up, but this is hiding good information that i use to orient myself. it's frustrating being belittled by a browser that assumes it's too much for me.

@nomadimdad From the managerial sciences and publicity and propaganda science/studies: “design” expresses an improvement to product's function. “layout” only deals with aesthetics. Sometimes a change of color can be design choice (e.g.: to help #ColorBlind) . Other hint: some #CSS attributes accept “CurrentColor” so that you don't need to specify color twice. Also watch for form control dimensions in tiny screens. #W3C #WCAG publications may help.

@nomadimdad Please also teach #HTML element's roles and #ARIA accessibility. Besides, there are modern elements such as Template, Dialog and Details/Summary which, together with #CSS, deserve attention due to potential to replace some #JavaScript . For example, you can collapse/expand stuff watching states of form controls. Also foster Input File's “multiple” attribute and other existing input types to represent data in machine readable and standardized way instead of Input type Text.

Our world is chock full of examples why capitalism cannot be sustained. From climate change, to the pandemic, to the much more basic problems like food insecurity, a world designed so that an elite few can appease their greed is ill equipped to deal with any of the serious problems we face. Only a world which doesn’t demand that everything be profitable can do that.

Internet 1993 vs Internet 2015

Simple question from the kid made me search online: "Who invented French Toast?"

As it turns out, probably the Romans with the oldest known recipe from the 4th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_toast

bad idea serving the opposite of the the end user every step of the way: function implementation hiding
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-function-implementation-hiding

i'm a radical anarchist programmer & this code imperialism should be smashed