Evil Jim O’Donnell

Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

Another cool approach for this is using sqlite and http RANGE requests to make queries phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/ho...

Interesting senior astronomy role going here @oxfordphysics.bsky.social for a two-year senior research post leading the growing Breakthrough Listen SETI effort. Happy to chat to anyone interested: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 🔭 👽

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is highland capybara a thing?

this halloween, remember to check your kids' candy for poison

Just published a book. Think it's good. People say it is. But really need to sell more copies. Please grab one. Cheap! davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...

WCAG 3 could be a game changer, where conformance becomes the floor, not the ceiling. @tink.uk explains why in "WCAG3: a different future for accessibility" tetralogical.com/blog/2026/10... #WCAG #Accessibility

Like many artists, I am struggling with AI. My reaction to this has been to create an entirely human made product for other humans to make! You can buy a little paper house. It arrives in a bright envelope with a bit of art and silliness. More here: www.lucycorrina.co.uk/shopproducts...

Honestly I think that people looking back 100 years from now will think about pre-AI computing the same way we think about valve computers or punch cards, or the kids think about non-networked computers - a quirky precursor to the "real thing". I very much did not think that a year ago.

Israel’s ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon and Gaza has reached a scale unseen since the Nakba. The history of Israel’s offensives shows how depopulation is soon followed by annexation.

I’m speaking at Viewport next year!! Get your early bird tickets 🎉

Reform plan to bring back imperial measurements to help boost US trade, not realising that US imperial measurements are different from UK ones. So dense a black hole is empty space by comparison.

woah, CSS tricks no longer owned by DigitalOcean css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

This is just delightful. addy.zone/snail-racing

Daily bunny no.3483 sees something in the road

This week’s newsletter is about friendships ending. Read it, and then maybe reach out to someone you haven’t reached out to in a while. Or walk away from someone who has you doing all the work. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

It is remarkably poor taste for Oriel College to host this. Remarkably poor taste. Yuck.

This week, scientific publisher Taylor & Francis concluded an investigation which cleared Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, of plagiarism. The Guardian hasn't commented.

I am reminded of when `display: contents` claimed full support even though using it on structural or interactive elements broke them in *every* browser. Lola’s work needs your support.

This isn’t an impossible task though! Lots of improvements have been made to WPT over the last few years which make some of this work much easier. Next Wednesday I’m hosting a session about this, it’s hybrid to come if you can! Let’s figure this out together ✨ github.com/w3c/tpac2026...

Thanks for all your answers to the BCD poll! Of 153 respondents, here's what "full support" means: ▪️ 9.15%: only that the feature is available in the browser ▪️ 88.89%: the feature is available and works according to spec What does this mean? It’s a thread! 👇🏾 github.com/lolaslab/acd...

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Me too, I wish the media stopped treating his accusers like they were acting in good faith. They didn’t care if the accusations were true or not, they just to drive black people out of academia.

Daily bunny no.3482 seeks the Ancient Wisdom

Hey devs! Feeling happy you don't use PHP? Updated node already? Are you bored you've missed all the excitement? TAILSCALE HAS YOUR BACK *based on our current assessment, we're not recommending that everyone disable Tailscale SSH*

🌊 The avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands London: R.H. Porter, 1893-1900. [Source]

oh COME ON can we not at least have a weekend off broccoli2shell.com

Nice thread of #histsci, shame about white supremacist Elon Musk still being a fellow.

WCAG 3 is coming. But accessibility work can't wait. Shawn Henry and Kevin White discuss what's next, and what matters now. www.youtube.com/watc... #Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #WCAG #WCAG3 #InclusiveDesign #A11y #W3C #UX #ID24

Reform UK demands free speech for its chosen white supremacist while attacking & threatening to sue Channel 4, ITV, Guardian, Times for daring expose Reform UK racism, corruption, misogyny, hypocrisy ...

Ingmar Bergman's "Seventh Seal". What a movie.

Trip down memory lane: Mikey Ilagan challenged tech events in 2018. Eight years later, why are accessibility basics still treated as extras? Read Mikey's article from the #24Accessibility archives: www.24a11y.com/2018/accessi... #A11y #InclusiveDesign #TechEvents #DigitalAccessibility #24A11y

New @zooniverse.bsky.social paper out: a study of neurodiversity in online citizen science led by the amazing Alisa Apreleva and a host of volunteers. Wonderful stuff: theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10....

Yeah, @aptshadow.bsky.social saw where *that* led…