Firefox’s developer tools excel at finding and fixing accessibility problems quickly. For example, to find all contrast issues on a page fire up the accessibility inspector and scan the DOM tree. My favorite developer tools? You guessed it — Firefox.

What makes a text editor or software in general popular? In my opinion — distribution and marketing. Anyone can make working software given sufficient time, but marketing is where the actual magic happens. The tech and fashion industry are cousins.

ActivityPub

All roads lead toward the ad based revenue model, but sometimes I wonder what comes after that? The singularity?

Microsoft Edge is poised to become a very popular browser. Seems like there are more tech savvy users on Edge versus Chrome. Online, people talk a lot about Firefox, but spotting someone using that browser is like finding a unicorn.

The CSS flexible box layout (flexbox) is a great spec. The flex-direction property allows rearranging the position of children inside a flex container. This works in pretty much every browser — even defunct ones like Internet Explorer. Don’t work hard and write JavaScript, be lazy and write CSS.

Dictionaries or even Wikipedia will never tell you what words mean, just what people think they mean. Very very important distinction.

My entire country has been successfully lulled into the cryptocurrency brotherhood, but I still can’t help but be left utterly confused with the use of the term “Web3”. In my vocabulary, Web 3.0 refers explicitly to the Semantic Web.

In the future, historians will awe at the absolute might of western style marketing to hijack a term, redefine it in real–time, and ride the initial momentum to a totally different destination.

The peculiar thing about the nix ecosystem, is that the easiest way I’ve been able to convince someone to try nix is to first show nix-env. Then apply the idea of declarative package management. Not too long after that they’re on NixOS or using nix flakes, and have catapulted far past my own knowledge of nix.

Only recently did I discover that in the wider ecosystem, using nix-env is a big no-no — that’s sort of interesting.

“Interoperability” is probably a corporate buzzword. I sure hope I’m wrong on that one, but I’ve been seeing that word thrown around a lot recently.