Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
hosting, mention of company
@ramonita To add a paid non-blog-specific option to the list: UrDN has been around forever. They're almost certainly a money laundering operation of some kind, or at least a front for something else, but they have been around for many years now and from what I know don't really do takedowns and have good support.
It's just a VPS so not suitable for those who just want a blog without setup, but there are probably some situations where they'd come in handy
Building better user interfaces, 10 minute edition
Here's some highly condensed pointers on building better user interfaces, in the form of a few rules of thumb:
1. Make things look like what they are. Buttons should look like buttons, checkboxes should look like checkboxes, and so on. Familiarity works.
2. Think about functionality in terms of 'tiers of need'. Make the most commonly needed features immediately visible at all times, hide less common features behind a predictable menu, really uncommon features in a *submenu*, and so on.
3. Present data in the form and context that someone is likely to want to see it, in the common case. This usually will not match the shape of your internal storage at all! Much of your UI work should be converting between these two representations.
4. Look at accessibility guidelines like the WCAG. This not only makes your UI more accessible for those using assistive tools, it also makes it more predictable for everyone else. Don't forget about contrast!
5. Make things immediate where possible, and avoid things jumping and changing too much. Loading indicators should only exist for fundamentally slow tasks, and as much as possible should be done/reflected locally without waiting for a server.
A lot goes into building good UIs, but these are the things that people most often get wrong. If you get these few things right, you are halfway there!
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Another cool thing, I have been working on is the redesign of the timelines. The different sections should now be better organized and easier to read.
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"What else do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how mesmerised we were as nature rebounded, how clean the air was in the absence of industrial scale human activity. We forget that carbon emissions fell at the sort of pace required to avoid cataclysmic climate change. We forget that no-strings cash payments saw child poverty in America plunge to record lows, that the UK slashed homelessness with schemes that found homes for people sleeping on the street.
We forget that there really was a sense of global solidarity, that the reflection demanded by a pandemic opened up spaces for us to consider truly radical and permanent change. Remember build back better? There really was a sense that the coronavirus, as we all knew it then, could be the catalyst for a better word.
It couldn't last because of capitalism. This isn't some glib statement, it is literally why such promises could never be fulfilled. Because such promises required redistribution and structural shifts to economies that billionaires don't want shifting."
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/five-years-on-a-covid-retrospective
Meta about new users on here I guess
@Shrigglepuss @CaribenxMarciaX Pretty much yeah (even though I realize that almost every problem is going to have like one of the same three blockers listed)
Meta about new users on here I guess
@Shrigglepuss @CaribenxMarciaX I do wonder if the size of the problem could be reduced by having some kind of "start here to find a summary of every discussion we've already had 10 times, and why this hasn't been solved yet" page (that explicitly calls out whose decisionmaking is blocking it too)
@freakazoid My phone is not a Pixel, no.
@Ninji 🤔 That just sounds like insurance with worse coverage
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It's been so long since I had my needs considered without ridicule (assuming they ever were) that I've entirely stopped considering them myself. I don't know what my needs even are at this point.
While walking my dog earlier I managed to come up with the following: be actively included (since everyone's subconscious tendency seems to be to exclude me) and have my participation be acknowledged. In short, I just want to feel like my presence is appreciated.
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My annual call for actually having a good fucking winter holiday
@zarel I haven't, but there's exactly the problem described in that thread: it's a non-deterministic failure and I can't just keep it running in safe mode forever.
(My phone is not a Pixel, it's an Oukitel, and it seems to be manufacturer-independent)
I am clearly not the only one with this problem: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/144103327/unable-to-answer-calls-when-phone-rings?hl=en
So I just caught my Android in the process of breaking; it went off, made no noise, "getting called" animation was showing on the screen, but swiping up did nothing, it just bounced back down and didn't pick up the call. Didn't matter how often I tried.
So yeah, it's definitely just the phone app that's fucked.
Hoe toegankelijk is... Danse Macabre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRU4IoaSDAM
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It's amazing how many services will go 🚨 we couldn't charge your debit card so you have to add a different one asap! 🚨
Or I could just put more money on that one and click a button to have you try again. If the button existed.
Or at least click a button to stop you whining until the actual expiry date comes and let me use the service I have actually already paid for in peace.
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I've done a/b tests a few times on different social networks, and no one can compete with yall's voraciousness for clam facts. It is remarkable. Keep up the great work being curious about the weird little wonders of our world! (:)
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There was a weird tension at the HEMA stationary department yesterday…
vague meta
We seriously need to get better at repairing harm, as a community.
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asking for instance to possibly move to 
I genuinely think I need to move instances oh my God.
What I want is a queer instance that speaks somewhat-mostly English or German, has a cool purple web skin (meemu-purple I love you), preferably runs glitch and has a high character limit, and doesn't take 20 minutes to upload an image without erroring out 5 times in the process. Also admin keeps up with fediblock stuff and hates threads
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Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
