Justin Myers @myersjustinc@mastodon.cloud

Reminder to be gentle with yourself and to treat yourself like a human being with needs and feelings; You don't solely exist to create.

Creation is a byproduct of being the wonderful you that you are.

The 2019 Data Visualization Community Survey is out! If you're a data viz person please fill it out!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-AxWH8Um9AeRn_RSESVqX0FSWVfYwtWxBGd6g_exSDY2mxQ/viewform

There are a lot of excellent tips and well-thought-out explanations in this article on trans-inclusive web design, information architecture, etc. https://alistapart.com/article/trans-inclusive-design/

Not only that, but "RTFM" is itself a form of gatekeeping. Not everyone *has* the time or focus to spend figuring out a piece of software, because they're spending their time and focus on ensuring they have their more immediate needs like "food" and "shelter" met. This includes everyone from the perpetually-stressed working class to people with attention disorders.

By saying "RTFM" you're saying "fuck you, got mine" to those people.

My friend @sandro (who also was the W3C staff member on the Social Working Group as it turns out) has put together a chart about "ways to harm people online" (whether you agree all are harms, most are, and all are claimed as such) that I think is really useful: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZQDWwh3J6c_RAVlIAPAKI6eRB4HI7HlrBwAJrP8btkQ/edit

What's interesting is that most of these are about harm caused by *distributing* information.

#StackOverflow survey 2019: women are way more likely than men to complain about people being "condescending", "assholes" and "rude". They are also way more likely to be thankful.
Let's really work on that toxic culture, fellow men.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2019#community-_-developers-perspectives-by-gender

dismantle the idea that programming is for smart people™️ and that they deserve more money than others. tear down their haughty towers until silicon valley is a wasteland of shattered ivory

Microsoft is shutting down its ebook store, and deleting all its customers' libraries:

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

The only reason they can do this is DRM, which means you never really own anything you've paid for.

Physical books are the most obvious alternative, but there are also DRM-free ebook shops. @libreture has a good selection here:

https://www.libreture.com/bookshops

You can find more book-related alternatives here:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-amazon-and-goodreads

(via @yogthos )

#eBooks #Books #Bookshops #Bookstores

The tools that we have shape the way we interact with the world.

The old adage about problems and hammers is true.

So what tools are you using? What things do you want to do, but lack the tools for?

You know what’s awesome? Essentially everyone with a computer has access to literally unbreakable encryption if they choose to learn how to use it. That’s an underrated accomplishment.

Fediverse, hearken unto me. I have a mighty need, and only you can help.

I require articles about things millennials have killed or are killing. As many as you can bring me. Major things or insignificant. Cold takes or hot. Moderately or extremely stupid. Personal or statistical. Everything you've got, as long as you can provide a link to the source.

I wish to admire our handiwork, and the angst it has inspired. I crave this as one lost in the desert craves drink.

Boosts welcome.

Hi. This is a friendly request to cw your US politics posts because some of us either don't or can't read them right now. It'd be helpful to be able to filter them out.

You are all so kind, and so beautiful, my friends, and my prayer for you is that you stay close with each other and know who your friends are.

I wrote a thing about why I believe the best and most useful decentralized applications are going to be the ones that utilize multiple protocols. I imagine a world where ActivityPub, Dat, and Secure ScuttleButt are all seen as tools in a toolbox rather than as ecosystems, and what kind of amazing software we could build with them outside of the central/corporate paradigm.

https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/

I’m angry that the industry collectively decided that authoring HTML is not the domain of Everyday People anymore.

even if you cannot purr, try emitting some purr-type energies into the world 💕

Do you speak #arabic, #persian, #hebrew, #urdu, or any right-to-left language? Librsvg needs help to find test cases for those languages, and people who can tell us what the correct behavior is. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/issues/439

Boosts appreciated!

anyway lemme just say rn that interoperability is more important than ~decentralization~ and p2p is useless if you have to install 100 different p2p apps just to communicate with everybody

“Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS by Rachel Andrew” https://adactio.com/journal/14888

> “CSS tries to avoid data loss. That’s why the “CSS is awesome” text overflows the box. You don’t want the text to vanish”

> “Many of things Rachel has shown—grid, exclusions, regions—were implemented by Microsoft. With Edge moving to a Chromium rendering engine, we must make sure that we maintain diversity of thought in the standards process”