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isleyaardvark commented on GitHub no longer uses Toasts   primer.style/accessibilit... · Posted by u/samsolomon
kurisufag · 13 days ago
it's a link. if your browser doesn't have some visual cue that a load is occuring (for me it's a favicon indicator and a visual loading bar) you're having a client issue.

>How does this make the accessibility problem any better?

it's not a UX decision to load slowly on poor uplinks (fwiw it's near-instant on my machine). obviously nobody would /choose/ to do that.

toasts, though, are a definitely conscious UX choice.

isleyaardvark · 12 days ago
The :active pseudoclass has been used to change the appearance of links since the beginning. (Probably in part because loading links was considerably slower back then.) Not giving links an :active style is a bizarre oversight.
isleyaardvark commented on What the heck is going on at Apple?   cnn.com/2025/12/06/tech/a... · Posted by u/methuselah_in
internet2000 · 14 days ago
1, 8 and 9 leaving is expected. They failed at their jobs.

3 and 4 literally don't matter.

5, 6 and 7 probably left / are going to leave because they got news they wouldn't get the CEO role once Cook retires.

2 is the big surprise that raises the most eyebrows.

Seems it's mostly succession drama with a side of failure @ AI.

isleyaardvark · 14 days ago
And 7 left January 1st, so I don’t know if I would include them in talks of an exodus.
isleyaardvark commented on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'   9to5mac.com/2025/11/14/ti... · Posted by u/achow
gyomu · a month ago
How many people can name the chairman of the board at Apple today off the top of their head (Arthur Levinson)? And how much does Arthur Levinson steer the broader direction of the company? That's just not what the role is about.

Steve was so effective precisely because he was able to get deeply involved in the day to day details in ways no other CEO has (whether on product matters, or personnel matters). That's not what you do as chairman of the board.

isleyaardvark · a month ago
Steve Jobs would not have been defined by or limited by his title.
isleyaardvark commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia   cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
mjd · a month ago
You're right, 5111 is more pertinent here.

5111(a)(1) says “shall mint and issue coins” but qualifies it explicitly with “in amounts the Secretary decides are necessary to meet the needs of the United States”. This is a clear delegation of authority.

If you don't think zero pennies is a permissible amount, what about one penny? Two? What minimum number are you arguing for here, and what's your justification for it?

If Congress had wanted to set a minimum number, they could have done so.

Reading it as ”shall mint” is wrong, I think. “Shall” qualifies the whole clause “mint in amounts the Secretary decides (etc.)”.

Understood that way, 5111 makes it unlawful to mint any pennies if the Secretary decides that none are necessary.

isleyaardvark · a month ago
If Congress had wanted to get rid of the penny, they would have done so, since they specifically have the power to “coin money” under Article 1, Section 8.

In fact they have introduced a bill to do just that, that has not passed yet, which means they have not done that.

isleyaardvark commented on Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states   nextgov.com/digital-gover... · Posted by u/jhatax
Amezarak · 2 months ago
You don't have to pay.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

As for "having most of your tax information", they don't. They know your reported income. You see that on your W2s/1099s/etc. What they don't know is whether or not you had a kid this year, or whether you lost a kid this year, whether you got married or divorced, if your spouse is claiming the kids this year or not, the number or amount of your charitable contributions, whether you have deductible mileage expenses, or a million other things.

isleyaardvark · 2 months ago
Do these other countries described above know whether you had a kid or got divorced?
isleyaardvark commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race   nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard
ben_w · 2 months ago
I don't like Trump, and I rank his emission of word-shaped noises somewhere between picking random items from autocomplete suggestions, and my pre-ChatGPT experiments with GPT-3 models.

Charisma is a different axis to all of that.

A lot of people, for reasons I cannot even empathise with, demonstrably like him. One could even describe their response as "idolising" him. (Where does one draw the line between "a cult of personality" and "apotheosis" anyway?)

isleyaardvark · 2 months ago
His success is built on racism. As effective as they can be, people don't generally describe the person who whips up a violent mob as charismatic.
isleyaardvark commented on </> Htmx – The Fetch()ening   htmx.org/essays/the-fetch... · Posted by u/leephillips
ranger_danger · 2 months ago
One of the actual responses was "Htmx isn’t designed to work with JSON APIs at all. It needs HTML back from the server."

It sounds like they are referring to hx-swap and not arbitrary javascript callbacks though, and in that case, I don't see why calling JSON.parse() inside htmx (when the content-type is json) is that big of a deal.

isleyaardvark · 2 months ago
It's a pretty core part of their design philosophy, possible the core.

https://htmx.org/essays/rest-explained/

isleyaardvark commented on Just use a button   gomakethings.com/just-use... · Posted by u/moebrowne
culi · 2 months ago
are css resets not in vogue any more? I still use them for all my side projects. As well as a normalize.css[0] that smooths over any additional browser inconsistencies. The original Meyer reset is definitely overkill, but there are a couple newer more minimal ones out there[2][3]

[0] https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/

[1] https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

[2] https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/custom-css-reset/

[3] https://piccalil.li/blog/a-more-modern-css-reset/

isleyaardvark · 2 months ago
Less so now that the `all: unset` property is getting better support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/unset

isleyaardvark commented on Just use a button   gomakethings.com/just-use... · Posted by u/moebrowne
827a · 2 months ago
> This element does not announce itself as an interactive element to screen reader users.

Is this actually true nowadays? Given that advice like this is often parrotted by people who don't actually use screen-reading software, I sometimes wonder if this is a situation where we've just been saying this and repeating this advice; meanwhile, screen readers have obviously become sophisticated enough to recognize that a div with an onclick handler on it is probably, you know, clickable and interactive.

isleyaardvark · 2 months ago
Screen readers have and continue to lag in implementing standards designed specifically for accessibility, so I would say they are obviously not sophisticated enough.

(One example: https://heydonworks.com/article/aria-controls-is-poop)

isleyaardvark commented on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division   bbc.com/news/articles/c1m... · Posted by u/mosura
Sharlin · 2 months ago
Or one of my favorites, "was hit by a car". While true in the strict physical sense, that’s like reporting that someone was "shot by a gun".
isleyaardvark · 2 months ago
"killed by an officer's duty weapon" or "died in an officer-involved shooting" are the ways police departments tend to put it.

u/isleyaardvark

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