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codelikeawolf commented on No ARIA is better than bad ARIA   w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/pract... · Posted by u/robin_reala
codelikeawolf · 7 days ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time trying to gain a11y expertise and learn best practices, this messaging drives me a little bonkers. There is so much inaccessible content on the web. The official ARIA guide tells you "you're better off doing nothing". All of the example patterns in the ARIA Practices Guide (APG) tell you the code isn't for production use [1]. They provide an explanation which points back to..."you're better off doing nothing".

When I need to add a toolbar to my app, and I want it to be accessible. I look at the APG, the APG has a toolbar example with markup, CSS, and JS, but apparently I'm not supposed to use it. I've been at this for years and it's incredibly frustrating. I usually use the APG code in production anyways. It's probably not catastrophically wrong, but it always makes me feel like I'm screwing something up. The alternative is to use a bunch of divs, spans, and buttons because not all of the patterns have semantic HTML equivalents.

[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/grid/examples/layou...

codelikeawolf commented on Autism's confusing cousins   psychiatrymargins.com/p/a... · Posted by u/Anon84
WA · 10 days ago
Autism diagnosis has targeted screening questionnaires. So what kind of general purpose screening do you mean?
codelikeawolf · 10 days ago
I'm getting a full neuro-psych screening next month because my therapist suspects I may have OCD. It's a 4-6 hour series of tests/interviews (and probably other stuff, I'll find out). I'm guessing that's what they're referring to?
codelikeawolf commented on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?   reason.com/2025/12/04/why... · Posted by u/delichon
codelikeawolf · 12 days ago
> Most of these students are claiming mental health conditions and learning disabilities, like anxiety, depression, and ADHD.

Well, considering * gestures broadly at everything *, I'm sure more than 38% of students are struggling with near-debilitating anxiety and depression. The future doesn't look very bright right now. I can't imagine what being in college must feel like. I've been doing this job for like 20 years and I feel incredibly uncertain about my future most days.

codelikeawolf commented on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)   javascript.tm/letter... · Posted by u/pavelai
falcor84 · 12 days ago
But everyone already calls it JS. I think the transition would have been so much easier if the official name started with "J".
codelikeawolf · 12 days ago
JuicyScript
codelikeawolf commented on Programming peaked   functional.computer/blog/... · Posted by u/Antibabelic
gary_0 · 12 days ago
> Funnily enough, everything ran at about the same speed as it does now.

Actually, where I was sitting on a decent PC with broadband Internet at the time, everything was much, much faster. I remember seeing a video on here where someone actually booted up a computer from the 2000's and showed how snappy everything was, including Visual Studio, but when I search YouTube for it, it ignores most of my keywords and returns a bunch of "how to speed up your computer" spam. And I can't find it in my bookmarks. Oh well.

codelikeawolf · 12 days ago
> I remember seeing a video on here where someone actually booted up a computer from the 2000's and showed how snappy everything was...

Was this what you were referring to?: https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html

codelikeawolf commented on Electron vs. Tauri   dolthub.com/blog/2025-11-... · Posted by u/birdculture
lone-cloud · 18 days ago
- "Electron comes with a few rather significant drawbacks" Not going to mention them at all though? - what possible reason could one have to use Next with Electron? Not everything needs to be in Next and there's no reason for SSR + Node.js API server (primary advantages of Next vs React) when the client and server are on the same machine. The author's solution is to wrap this with another dubious framework (Nextron looks abandoned and hasn't been updated for over 10 months btw) to force them to somehow work together. Like why? - the idea behind Tauri to leverage the user's system's webview may sound like free real estate, but as many Cordova devs have previously found out, it's incredibly risky when you have no control of your own runtime. Desktop webviews are not a uniform layer. Ex. Webrtc is not supported on Linux webviews.
codelikeawolf · 17 days ago
Yeah, it makes zero sense to use a SSR framework for an Electron app. Just use React, Vue, or Svelte directly. It's one of the few use cases where a SPA makes sense, since the bundle is being served locally.
codelikeawolf commented on After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline   iwriteaboutcode.blogspot.... · Posted by u/birdculture
afavour · 20 days ago
Memories of waiting for months to get access to a MS SQL database and ending up putting an Access database on a network share for multiple user access instead. A horrible, horrible hack solution. But it worked!
codelikeawolf · 20 days ago
> A horrible, horrible hack solution. But it worked!

I ended up building an Access app at an enterprise-y company I used to work at because it would have taken years for IT to build it. The app did something super specific and kept needing super specific additional features, and there wasn't anything on the market that met our needs. The Access UI talked to another Access database on a shared network drive. I just found out that it's still being used heavily by several people every day, 17 years later. You pretty much nailed it, Access is hacky, but it works!

Edit: grammar

codelikeawolf commented on The kind of company I want to be a part of   dvsj.in/my-company... · Posted by u/ctxc
shermantanktop · a month ago
This is the brown m&m theory. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-did-van-hale...

A trivial, superficial fact is assumed to be indicative of a much more substantial concern. For Van Halen, the candy dish indicated adherence to contract terms; here, pluralization indicates the integrity and values of an entire company.

It’s a cute idea that suggests an easy way to understand something complex. But there’s no free lunch. If you want a free lunch, you’re asking to be taken for a ride.

codelikeawolf · a month ago
My sister has worked as the operations manager for a large concert venue for several years and she has some great stories about contract riders. She regularly needs clarification on whether she needs to provide what preposterous thing they ask for. I think Lady Gaga asked for a goat, which ended up being in there to verify she read the whole thing, so no goat procurement was necessary. However, Sharon Osbourne (i.e., Ozzy's wife) didn't want to see walls. My sister needed to have production hang up curtains everywhere in the dressing room. Some of these people have become completely detached from reality.

As a result of this, over the course of her career, my sister has accumulated the weirdest contact list I could imagine. If I needed a bouncy house, chainsaw juggler, Russian interpreter, and a blimp, she could probably set that up in 30 minutes without ever needing to search online.

codelikeawolf commented on Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work   markusstrasser.org/creati... · Posted by u/eatitraw
65 · a month ago
The abstract is some of the worst writing I've read in a while. Trying to sound so very smart while being incapable of getting your point across. This whole article reeks of pretentiousness.
codelikeawolf · a month ago
Yeah, it came off as complete nonsense. If someone were talking to me like this in person, I'd probably start suspecting they were doing it to distract me while their friend was outside stealing my hubcaps.
codelikeawolf commented on     · Posted by u/certifiedloud
codelikeawolf · 3 months ago
I'll admit that I got distracted by lead agent's super rad name. I'd like to think someone at the Secret Service said "we need to bring in McCool" as soon as they discovered the potential threat.

u/codelikeawolf

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