Adam @adam@librem.one
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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Joined Apr 2019
@ManjaroARM Bah! It broke WiFi on my @PINE64 Pinebook Pro. :(
@haeckerfelix It's almost like arguing with a flat-earther. :D Ha!
@amerika Yeah, I wish I could find an article I did predicting the smartphone app boom, but it's nowhere on the web archive and I never saved it offline. :-\
I guess I have to republish historical articles that get lost to buyouts. https://bookofadamz.com/why-are-we-still-using-instant-messaging-apps-at-all/ #email #whatsapp
@gugus2000@framapiaf.org @thunderbird The nice thing about email is that anyone can make a different interface for the clients. What I did was write an article describing a chat style interface and 5 years later there are about a half dozen clients like that.
@thunderbird@mastodon.onlineThat being said, the "..." icon already has a proper and recognizable name in many languages. It's called an ellipsis. The ellipsis normally indicates an omission of words in normal language so it makes a lot of sense to use at the end of a toolbar or menu to indicate an omission of extra commands that couldn't fit. This is much more sensible than making up unintelligible icons like the hamburger button.
#UXDesign
@thunderbird Describing a button as "Meatball" is an insult to the designers' inability to create a button that accurately describes its function. If you can't create a user interface who's buttons are easy to understand then that interface is not easy to understand and therefore not intuitive. #UXdesign
@atomicpoet Sounds kind of like Briar.
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Not going to lie, Twitter killing off free API access hits me in the feels. I remember with great affection the flood of creativity that happened after we opened up the API, and it's sad to see that unceremoniously strangled.
I'm relieved that we've got better alternatives, though. While this is perhaps the final straw for many bots on Twitter, it's been a long time coming and the API has long been hobbled compared to the early days. Open protocols or bust. ✊
@chris Do either of you have middle names? :D
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@alexstandiford What?! I think we need a tutorial web link about this. #Curious
@chriscoyier Haha! Awesome! :D
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You can now add up to four social account links to your GitHub profile which render with a sprinkling of formatting support for our most popular platforms. Yes, the resulting links links will satisfy Mastodon verification requirements when rendered.
To get started, visit your profile and click the "Edit profile" button in the sidebar.
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@dcrocker Signal isn't truly private. It requires phone numbers that your carrier controls and centralized servers that the owners can modify whenever they want.. and they did do that by adding closed-source content scanners: https://pocketnow.com/like-whatsapp-signal-just-jumped-the-shark-and-stops-caring-so-much-about-privacy/
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If you are still using Twitter, do not -- DO NOT -- use direct messages for anything you consider sensitive in any way. This goes triple for the journalists who insist on pouring their work into a site whose sociopath CEO has utter contempt for the press.
https://www.platformer.news/p/another-whistleblower-comes-for-twitter
Ok, making web development servers with Bitnami VM images is so easy! https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress/virtual-machine
@andresmh Do you want to hear from people who said yes to those questions or no?
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Did you know Algorithm as we use it today in Artificial Intelligence and in computer science was invented in Persia 1000 years ago?
The term "algorithm" is derived from the algorism, the technique of performing arithmetic developed by the Persian mathematician and astronomer al-Khwārizmī. Algorizmi so his name became algorithm by time, from al-Khwarizmi to àAlgorizmi and later to algorithm.
When is there going to be another #IndieWeb NYC meetup?
- Contact & Web
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- Tech Reviews & Editorials
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
DMs don't work, so don't bother.
Joined Apr 2019
