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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
@jonathanhogg I also had to look this up (apart from k8s since my brother works on calico, and it actually sounds vaguely like the actual word). So yeah, and as a system architect - no developers should not be using this shorthand in API's - developers should learn to f&^king spell and express themselves clearly in code/docs/etc or have their work QA'd by people who can 🙂
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
A8y! I c8y a3e!
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@lpbkdotnet @jtruk Wikipedia believes that i18n was coined in the 70s and is DEC's fault. Since humans read word-at-a-time by shape, I consider them all to be instances of "I am too lazy to type and therefore you will have to work harder to read"
@jonathanhogg @lpbkdotnet @jtruk But it helps sometimes: try to go a interoperability meeting and you'll see why saying "i14y" is much more pratical.
Whatever the case, in my texts I always put an abbreviation with the expanded term right in the beginning. If it's seldom used, I only write the expanded form.
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@CatherineFlick @jonathanhogg me too! I’m glad I’m not the only one
@themediumkahuna Oh, does it not? Even knowing it references accessibility, I still assumed it was to be read as "ally."
I hereby declare its use even dumber than I thought.
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
"But it looks like ally, it's great"
Fuck you Jean-Eude. People should not do gatekeeping for something that important.
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@themediumkahuna Oh, does it not? Even knowing it references accessibility, I still assumed it was to be read as "ally."
I hereby declare its use even dumber than I thought.
@CatherineFlick @jonathanhogg@themediumkahuna
'xsablt' would even make more sense...
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
@jonathanhogg someone wrote a brilliant post about that:
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
@jonathanhogg never once have I heard "a11y," and I've been doing this nonsense for a long time. I venture that anyone who uses it in a serious way and expects others to understand is a pretentious wanker trying to convince themselves that they're intelligent.
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
@jonathanhogg at the very minimum, you'd want to do this before publishing:
sed -e 's/a11y/accessibility/g' mydocument
Yes, i will explain this if anyone doesn't speak
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
Final note on this: I’m not gonna name and shame the thing I was reading, but maybe if you want to convince me how great an idea is for accessibility on the web, you could try using proper words that I can actually read
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Final note on this: I’m not gonna name and shame the thing I was reading, but maybe if you want to convince me how great an idea is for accessibility on the web, you could try using proper words that I can actually read
@jonathanhogg love to be able to read stuff and understand it on the first go without needing to look up information.
No wonder agentic coding is so popular...
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- It sucks to have a significant portion of the folks I look up to in tech absolutely trashing folks who're using AI. I understand that sentiment, I was trash-talking AI and its users until a few months ago (and I am still repulsed by AI prose, imagery, and video...it's nauseating). But, most of those folks don't have to worry about health insurance or retirement...they were millionaires in their 30s by being in the right at the right time with the right skills. I wasn't in the right place.
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- I'm pretty sure the option to say "no" is rapidly fleeing for everyone making a living in tech. It's too powerful a tool for a tech-related business to opt out of...they'll be killed by companies that spend the $100/month on Claude or whatever.
- And, I mean, it's not all bad. Part of my "OK, let me give this an honest try" experiments led to me knocking out a half dozen projects on my todo list. Some of it was finishing projects over a weekend that I'd been tinkering with for months.
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- It's difficult for me to say I "like" it. It smooths out the creativity of what I've always thought of as at least partly an art. Even while I can see my productivity skyrocket when using it.
- It is even more difficult for me to say, "no, I won't use it". I spent the first 25 years of my tech career living on sub-poverty wages trying to make a living in Open Source software and my own businesses. I am aging without notable savings. I need health insurance and a good salary to catch up.
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Speaking of AI. We're in a tight spot. "We", as in, tech workers, I mean.
A bunch of things are true and they all pull in different directions.
- It works. I'm not really willing to entertain the argument that it doesn't, anymore, after having built several large and small projects with it. For coding, it is a lever that can provide a dramatic productivity increase. I'm comfortable saying 3x+, overall. Maximalists are saying 10x or 100x. Even if it's only 3x, that's industry shaking.
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This video is amazing...so amazing, I am skeptical. This is unbelievable dexterity for a robot. There have been huge leaps in the past couple decades, true, but this feels like it's too far, and out of nowhere.
But, there's another technology where China is kicking ass: Generative AI video, especially motion capture/application.
I assume there must be human witnesses, so it seems like word would get out at some point if it were fake, maybe I'm just overly skeptical.
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Inconsiderate AI scrapers, I assume.
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@sebzuen snac is a small Fediverse server - I self-host a server as a small playground for myself, it is fun :-)
