Month: December 2017

Via Andreas Geisler

Via Andreas Geisler

The worst thing about this is that we all know it’s true. Men + power = sexual opportunity. Many men will take the advantage of this safe in the knowledge that there will be no consequences that they can’t handle.

The only novelty here is the network effect of so many women coming forward at once. For the first time in history, some of these guys* are being outed and called to account.

This is actually—despite the deep ugliness of what is being exposed here—what progress looks like.

* currently it’s only the ones that the media care about but we can hope that the net will continue to widen.

Originally shared by John Wehrle

So it turns out that Hoffman is a pedophile, rapist, and all around creep.

WTF

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/five-dustin-hoffman-accusers-tell-harrowing-stories-sexually-predatory-behavior-1055544

Axel Rauschmayer is running an excellent series of blog posts introducing and exploring in some depth features of…

Axel Rauschmayer is running an excellent series of blog posts introducing and exploring in some depth features of the ReasonML programming language. http://2ality.com/archive.html?tag=reasonml

Reason is a new language created by Facebook which uses a C-like syntax similar to JavaScript but is implemented in OCaml under the hood. OCaml is a robust and mature functional programming language which is over twenty years old.

Reason compiles to JavaScript, web assembly and native.

The latest installment of this series is a pretty deep dive into how functions are defined in Reason. http://2ality.com/2017/12/functions-reasonml.html

Rauschmayer is well known in the developer community for writing in-depth books explaining the various syntax nuances of JavaScript. You can read his books for free at his website.

http://2ality.com/2017/12/functions-reasonml.html

DATE: SAN FRANCISCO, 2017

DATE: SAN FRANCISCO, 2017

Last month, the robot approached Taylor while she walked her dog near the SPCA campus. Her dog started lunging and barking, she said, and Taylor yelled for the robot to stop. It finally came to a halt about 10 feet away, she said.

The encounter struck Taylor as an “unbelievable” coincidence since she had been working with pedestrian advocacy group Walk San Francisco in asking the city to limit sidewalk delivery robots…

Having humans replace the robot’s 24/7 shift would be “cost prohibitive,” though, Scarlett said. The robot costs about $6 per hour to rent, she said. The minimum wage in San Francisco is $14 per hour…

“In five years we will look back on this and think, ‘We used to take selfies with these because they were so new,’” Scarlett said.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/12/08/security-robot-homeless-spca-mission-san-francisco.html

One of the best parts of working on large corporate and government websites is that these sites must comply with…

One of the best parts of working on large corporate and government websites is that these sites must comply with accessibility guidelines. Failing to do so exposes that website to the possibility of a law suit if it can be proven that the site is discriminating against people with disabilities for no reasonable reason.

Accessibility (a11y) compliance can seem onerous to web developers who generally learn things on the job and are often unaware of these requirements. It’s a fact however that accessible web sites are simply good web sites ie. sites in which the developer:

treats HTML tags the way they were intended to be used

respects the idea of user focus and the possibility of keyboard navigation

doesn’t use JavaScript to subvert the basic operation of the browser

respects the URL

doesn’t break the browser back button.

Being forced to think about these things not only makes websites usable by a wider range of people, it actually make websites more useful for everyone.

The hard parts of accessibility are in overcoming developer ignorance and in flagging problems. For that there are a number of automated tools and developer widgets. I believe that all developers of web sites, no matter how small, should learn to use these tools.

https://css-tricks.com/accessibility-testing-tools/