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@nikitonsky@mastodon.online Modern AI 'design tooling' seems to favour rollover states for things that have no actions.
Got an analogy for that?
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06My name is Ian Parr, I am a web developer & UX designer. I have adopted a cat (prev. pony, owl). Co-org #FrontEndSheff / #frontendnorth
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@jessie Don't have any of the essential requirements but might just post them 12kg of cat food with my phone number taped to it.
Oh good lord… #Sheffield braces itself once again for the key event in our cultural calendar.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@devolute/116240677422104893
Never forgot what #SYPN took away from us. They were this close to implementing iconic branding but decided to drop the ball by resorting to huge - barely readable - letters. Bit of a mess. I wonder which sadist pushed for the change? #Sheffield
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Digging the look of the new buses for #Sheffield / #SouthYorkshire - yes “People’s Network” is a bit 'Continuity Corbyn' & yes it's 🇳🇱 Dutch AF (we've done this before, *cough* Tramlines branding) - nothing wrong with that.
Who knows, it might hint at better cyclist vibes? #YorkshireYorkshireYorkshire 🚌 #SYMCA
/via https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/16/mayor-unveils-peoples-network-transport-plan-south-yorkshire
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Cynic on me suggests they're replacing this slop music with their own slop music to just avoid having to pay anyone else.
A delightfully presented dive into the state of those common patterns for which we've developed JS libraries and can now be entirely replaced by modern #CSS : https://blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-css-expansion
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@Kroc@oldbytes.space Does this mean I can make modal image popovers display using this technique? This feels like a really good way to do this.
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@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com @jonhicks@mastodon.social Simple buttons without horrible drop-shadowed outlines. Be still my beating heart.
I love @alifeee@mastodon.social 's #Sheffield events bot (@events) - it's genuinely how I find stuff to do with the kids in town.
Leveraging #ActivityBot and some selector-heavy scraping. #FrontEndSheff
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@liw It's fantastic that you have both the insight/wisdom of lived experience _and_ are in a secure enough position not to worry.
But the job market doesn't necessarily share your attitude and so those who have neither of these things are entirely justified in their concern.
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@sellathechemist@mastodon.social I had to google "proscenium" as I'm an uncultured swine. But that just goes to show that this event touches and unites both the highborn and the plebs.
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@sellathechemist@mastodon.social With the up most respect, I think trying to apply labels to this sort of art is reductive.
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@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family It's not about 'harder' or 'easier' or 'my fingers are starting to hurt'… it's about putting your baseball cap on back to front, lighting up a big cigar and surfing your way down the internet / MS Excel 97 superhighway.
This article from @mdn@mastodon.social is fascinating. Especially:
> Really, MDN isn't a particularly complex site […] The vast majority of content on an MDN documentation page is HTML and CSS: we don't need a complex app powering the majority of the site. We essentially have islands of interactivity, which could easily all be implemented as web components.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-front-end-deep-dive/
Shocked as you are! The #LostDecade of Front End strikes again.
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@sstendahl This sounds great - and sorry to be such a crushing bore - but isn't splitting this between devices a huge security advantage?
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@ploum@mamot.fr They figured out if they could skip the "Extend" bit from "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' then they could get to where they wanted quicker.
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@benofbrown I read several articles on this and not one mentioned who was actually responsible. It's a fucking hard life being a designer sometimes. I wish I'd seen this, so I could have gone and asked them face to face: https://www.southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk/news/article/south-yorkshire-peoples-network
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@katiefenn Yeah there are loads of people who fall between the gaps on both things. Such lack of nuance is probably a display of Twitter-brain-rot. Glad to be on Team Useless.
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@kevinrenskers Respect. I've been cynical since I realised large corporations don't ever have 'souls' and their primary objective is to make money, almost always at the expense of absolutely everything else and I think it's terribly naive to think anything else.
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@kevinrenskers @kevinashworth Do you think you'd change your mind if he realises it was once again profitable to pretend to care about social issues?
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@brandon@masto.craftcms.com @brandon@masto.craftcms.com I just lost the gig that I had in mind for this, but v. pleased this improvement has arrived so quickly and will have this 'in my back pocket' for next time.
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I eventually discovered that this is purportedly by a known local Hollandophile.
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@bob_lightly@cupoftea.social Yeah, did you see the original design? I don't agree that it's obvious based on how it's a struggle to actually read the letters.
My favourite use of an LLM for good (this week): Helping to protect the mental health of the interns at the NY Times (who'd otherwise probably be responsible for transcribing this crap): https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-the-new-york-times-uses-a-custom-ai-tool-to-track-the-manosphere/
CKEditor (and by extension, #CraftCMS) just got a huge 'glow-up' when it comes to tables: they can turn into quite fiddly things, but this change should fix most of the struggles I (well, my content editors) had with them in this CMS.
I know. Boring old tables! - but here's the thing: In this age of #GEO presenting tabular data concisely can be a huge #SEO advantage and there are many cases where it's the right choice in terms of reader comprehension too.
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/14911#issuecomment-4250485445
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@hejsna@ruby.social Awfully sorry, but you know why everyone keeps building with it. CV-lead development.
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@vampiress@eigenmagic.net I'm not a game developer, but there are some strong parallels with this in web design/dev land.
Recognise the strengths and the weaknesses.
I know no one really cares about this (2 similar tickets closed due to lack of interest), but I think it's a shame that #ZedEditor has made it to v1 (congrats btw) and dark themes are still a bit broken on MacOS: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5049
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@jpm@aus.social Floating buttons like this in web design history have always been "uh, let's bodge this into place". Evidence of a lack of consideration and an unwillingness to make functionality 'core' long term.
See: 'Like' buttons pinned to the side of the viewport. Cookie policy interactions floating over primary content.
This #WordPress takedown is savage: https://marcindudek.dev/blog/wordpress-manifesto/
Completely reasonable points, unfortunately. Except I will say on the 'Community' point, that is a little unfair - when I was part of this community many parts of it were very welcoming.
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@alex_p_roe@mastodon.world This event transcends politics. It's about love, both amphibian and otherwise.
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@jkn@mastodon.online Which parts of this have been determined to be false, i.e. hallucinations?
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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social Conspiracy theory take: MS kept IE such a crap browser for so long to damage the web and thus keep a better grip on Windows apps as a platform. Apple are now doing the same.
Good of them to land it somewhere they don't care about in case they had an accident. More benefits of the #SpecialRelationship
@MAKS23@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116392102689937458
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@rachelandrew@front-end.social I'm exactly where you are. I guess most people are too. Social media always amplifies the extremities of both sides of an argument.
Also, great comparison. Didn't they used to say that spreadsheets would mean an end to accountants?
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@smed@mastodon.social I think 'performance' is underselling such an important moment in the global zeitgeist.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca It is good and you should believe me as I've had 10 years working at Trust Me Brah industries.
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