January 2021

@KevinLozandier Have a great day! 0x1F 🎂

12:12 PM, Jan 23rd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to KevinLozandier

@AdaRoseCannon @Vincent_Scheib @KevinPicchi Wow, that’s really cool. I stalked your GitHub, Kevin, but at the first glance couldn’t find it. Curious since I have built a similar WebHID “driver” for Nintendo Joy-Cons: blog.tomayac.com/2020/12/21/rel…. Is yo

12:37 AM, Jan 23rd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to AdaRoseCannon

@Justinwillis96 Did you check its site engagement score? Just curious…chromium.org/developers/des…sPweb.dev/periodic-backg…M6

Also: nice URL :-)

12:08 AM, Jan 23rd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to Justinwillis96

@DotProto Yeah, I saw that when scrolling up, but it was too late, the tweet was sent. Anyway, we agree on the topic, which is nice. ✌️

5:10 PM, Jan 22nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to DotProto

@myfonj @bramus It’s essentially density-independent pixels, which you might know from Android: developer.android.com/training/multi….

3:32 PM, Jan 22nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to myfonj

@bramus It’s a little more complex. Check out goo.gle/learning-from-… for some background. I also have a series of articles coming on the topic.

2:24 PM, Jan 22nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to bramus

@samthor Thanks. It’s too many around me for being either of those, though. Weird.

9:28 AM, Jan 22nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to samthor

@bramusweb.dev/prefers-reduce…

9:21 AM, Jan 22nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to bramus

@zachleat Really nice custom element (#UseThePlatform) and great use case. You might want to change the styling though, since on mobile (iOS at least) it’s indistinguishable from regular text (it works perfectly fine, it’s just not discoverable).

9:09 AM, Jan 22nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to zachleat

@DotProto Smart, but please do not put this in the extension docs. People don’t have to be destructuring experts to build extensions, and those who are will easily spot the potential for smartifying the code when reading the docs.

9:03 AM, Jan 22nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to DotProto

@samthor Do you have any idea what these /N[A-Z0-9]{4}/ devices are? I see plenty of those when I scan around at my place.

8:35 AM, Jan 22nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to samthor

@kennethrohde @yoavweiss @dhh @firefox @webkit @domenic @hober I realized that there wasn’t a @webkit bug asking for import maps support (<script type=”importmap”>), so I created one:
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…. Thanks for your consideration!

10:40 PM, Jan 21st, 2021 via Echofon in reply to kennethrohde

@rowan_m Increasing my initial and follow-up rating to now ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆. This is a lot of fun already. Would rate even higher if it supported device motion or Joy-Con motion signals. I hear there’s a cool library…

10:07 PM, Jan 20th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to rowan_m

@lmedini @dret An important question raised in a response to my initial tweet is how sites would be incentivized to adopt this. I see way too many dark patterns where the “customize” option is several hidden clicks away, and the “accept all” setti

11:33 AM, Jan 20th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to lmedini

@bramus Indeed. Just realized my early morning brain typed “expired” instead of “inspired”. Anyway you got it.

10:40 AM, Jan 20th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to bramus

@rowan_m Addendum: doesn’t load on my machine. Copied the URL http://localhost:8080 exactly, but no luck. This is a scam, or vaporware at best. Updated rating is ⭐️☆☆☆☆, and would be zero stars if I could.

9:45 AM, Jan 20th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to tomayac

@rowan_m I expected sparkles at the climax. Rating this experience ⭐️⭐️☆☆☆ so far.

9:41 AM, Jan 20th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to rowan_m

@bramus Wisdom of the ancients: xkcd.com/979/ #xkcd. It expired my StackOverflow username.

8:38 AM, Jan 20th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to bramus

@hdv @Una In the Bundesland of Hamburg, Germany (not all of the federal country yet), it’s a reality already: hamburg.de/kindertagesbet… (try …cyoafdy-www-hamburg-de.translate.goog/kindertagesbet…). We have three kids (born 2007–2012) and it’s made a real difference. With each kid, #Thankful

9:12 AM, Jan 19th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to hdv

@slightlylate @justinfagnani I _think_ what Alex is aiming at is: lit-html can be immediately used w/o tool chain: lit-html.polymer-project.org/guide/getting-… (which is great). When you come to LitElement and copy the example from lit-element.polymer-project.org/guide/start#in…, as a newbie you’rlit-element.polymer-project.org/guide/start#ad…

8:58 AM, Jan 19th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to slightlylate

@agektmr #TIL about the term “Stuttgart pitch” for A440: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pit…. I grew up close to Stuttgart.

8:39 AM, Jan 19th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to agektmr

@simevidas @GDSTeam They’re all in one repo, github.com/alphagov/govuk…, and by following the steps at frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/installing-wit… I was able to get things running. But yes, quite some tree shaking is required if you only need select components. I wonder if @snowpackjs@FredKSchott

8:30 AM, Jan 19th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to simevidas

@rick_viscomi @ChromeUXReport @HTTPArchive Congratulations, Rick! Have the best of all times and enjoy the extended family! 🍼

8:13 AM, Jan 19th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to rick_viscomi

@wesbos @syntaxfm ☝️ This is super important! In case where you’re wondering what “base font size in their browser’s settings” (from above) is about, see the screenshot in the quoted tweet. Please never set an absolute font size unless you fultwitter.com/tomayac/status…

5:49 PM, Jan 18th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to wesbos

@mathias @bramus Jean-“Mathias” Pfaff. youtu.be/NDf0p4MgFmw

2:33 PM, Jan 18th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to mathias

@mathias Impressed by your German! Maybe try the webmaster contact form instead: rki.de/SiteGlobals/Fo….

2:31 PM, Jan 18th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to mathias

@dret @lmedini There is indeed a proposal for such an API. See the quoted tweet for details and some discussion. twitter.com/tomayac/status…

12:33 PM, Jan 18th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to dret

@mhartington Might be a memory issue. Works fine on my iPhone 11 Pro Max test device. </privilege>

8:13 AM, Jan 18th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to mhartington

@simevidas @argyleink to take a look.

8:04 AM, Jan 18th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to simevidas

@tunetheweb @scottjehl @HenriHelvetica @simevidas @jensimmons It certainly doesn’t hurt, even today. And for the foreseeable future, you need a backup plan anyway until all browsers you care about support it. I can’t wait for it to land everywhere. Th

11:01 PM, Jan 16th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to tunetheweb

@tunetheweb @scottjehl @HenriHelvetica @simevidas @jensimmons Correct. The ultimate plan is to add it, as outlined here: github.com/WICG/intrinsic…:

The UA-stylesheets of all browsers will add this code:

img, video {
aspect-ratio: attr(width) / attr(h

10:55 PM, Jan 16th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to tunetheweb

@scottjehl @HenriHelvetica @simevidas @jensimmons The difference to images is that you need to explicitly set the rule for videos or iframes, whereas the user-agent stylesheet now does it for you for images.

8:06 PM, Jan 16th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to tomayac

@scottjehl @HenriHelvetica @simevidas @jensimmons I’d say yes, put it. The new aspect ratio calculation can use it. See Example 2 of drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-4/#….

8:04 PM, Jan 16th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to scottjehl

@simevidas You might need both:

Alt: A rolled up cat sleeping on a chair.
Caption: Taking a nap.

1:59 PM, Jan 16th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to simevidas

@andreban @samthor Yeah, seems like an end-of-life Android device’s System WebView (apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc…). Maybe someone embeds your app and ships it (for $) on the Play Store. Good luck combing through play.google.com/store/search?q….

1:57 PM, Jan 16th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to andreban

@RReverser IRC. E-Mail.

1:40 PM, Jan 16th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to RReverser

@_developit @kristoferbaxter I pretty regularly move myself into a state where it’s easier to copy my changes into a temporary directory, delete the whole project, and start off with a freshly cloned copy where I paste in my stuff in a new branch. 🙈

1:17 PM, Jan 16th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to _developit

@kennethrohde Wow, that’s brilliant. ⌚️+🖱 This got to be the new cassette + pencil meme.

12:27 PM, Jan 15th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to kennethrohde

@samthor 😱 Wait, are you building Excalidraw in a `WKWebView`? We just deprecated the Electron version: web.dev/deprecating-ex….
Or are you working on improving the Web app when running in a Safari tab on iOS?

9:15 AM, Jan 15th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to samthor

@aardrian @scottohara Why this is not the default is beyond me, and why browser vendors (a11yproject.com/posts/2017-12-…) reflected it even more.
From old @Apple Human Interface Guidelines: “When using the mouse is undesirable, difficult, or impossible, users ctableless.github.io/exemplos/pdf/g…

9:10 AM, Jan 15th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to aardrian

@zachleat @yoavweiss Since `prefers-reduced-data` is really new, you first want to be sure the browser even has an idea what it is, because, turns out, there is a gotcha: blog.tomayac.com/2019/09/16/not….

12:44 AM, Jan 15th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to zachleat

@_zouhir All the best for whatever comes next!

12:30 AM, Jan 15th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to _zouhir

@littledan Woohoo, congratulations and enhorabuena or enhorabona, whichever you prefer. Both count!

9:46 PM, Jan 14th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to littledan

@NicoloRibaudo @laurieontech I so want this. Completely wasn’t aware of dedent and simply clicked through for the funny name. It would be so useful to have this in the core language. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

8:49 PM, Jan 14th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to NicoloRibaudo

@_developit I’ve been on it since the first beta. There were a lot of issues with kernel extensions that have been fixed with the final version. I’m now still on the latest betas after stable, and performance has been realllly bad. The design is nice.

8:44 PM, Jan 14th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to _developit

@edsu It’s indeed interesting that they didn’t just block new tweets (as they’d have done for regular users), but that they suspended the whole account. Regarding your questions: I guess we’ll find out beginning on January 20, 2021 on the newly estrumplibrary.gov

9:11 PM, Jan 13th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to edsu

@edsu An official archive is coming: twitter.com/tomayac/status….

9:03 AM, Jan 13th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to edsu

@DotProto @mhartington Yes, it’s spilling over to the Web. See bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/iss… for how the browser could solve this.

11:16 PM, Jan 12th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to DotProto

@mhartington See bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/iss…. Fingers crossed.

11:06 PM, Jan 12th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to mhartington

@mhartington Android icons need to be PNG. The browser or WebAPK service should, IMHO, totally take care of the conversion from SVG, though.

10:44 PM, Jan 12th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to mhartington

@sympap Also see this thread: twitter.com/tomayac/status….

2:40 PM, Jan 12th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to sympap

@chrisdavidmills For folks following this from the comfort of their couches at home: github.com/mdn/yari/issue….

12:15 PM, Jan 12th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to tomayac

@chrisdavidmills Thanks, will do!

12:03 PM, Jan 12th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to chrisdavidmills

@samthor @MozDevNet This would certainly be an option. I’m also thinking something something Web IDL, but am not sure to what extent (if at all) it’s being used for creating @MozDevNet article (stubs). I’m hoping for a secret link in MDN I can click

11:15 AM, Jan 12th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to samthor

@_developit @wesbos Next I got a Samsung Yepp YP-E64 (amazon.com/Samsung-YP-E64…) that—as a flash device, had no issues with vibration—but with only 64MB forced me to down-encode my proud 128 kbps music collection, which I did for a few selected tracks,

8:24 AM, Jan 11th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to tomayac

@_developit @wesbos 🎧 I thought I was living in the future when I bought the Freecom Beatman: a Mini CD player capable of playing MP3 CDs 💿 8:18 AM, Jan 11th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to _developit

@ricmac @mahemoff All my tweets get auto-archived at tomayac.com/tweets/ through Tweet Nest (github.com/graulund/tweet…). It’s a bit outdated and unmaintained, but has done a decent job so far. I think there are some forks that patch some of the bugs.

11:47 AM, Jan 10th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to ricmac

@lmatteis That’s true. Unfortunately the Library of Congress has abandoned its Twitter archive project: npr.org/sections/thetw…. Not sure whether there’s anything official or will be.

8:49 PM, Jan 9th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to lmatteis

@JorgeCasar @passle_ @mxbck When I read about it, I asked for technical details, but haven’t heard back so far. Any updates now, @devoorhoede?

twitter.com/tomayac/status…

7:36 PM, Jan 9th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to JorgeCasar

@Lipis @fireship_dev @excalidraw This would probably work, but maybe with the phone as a secondary input device that controls a desktop instance of Excalidraw.

3:37 PM, Jan 8th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to Lipis

@spacegangster @ChromiumDev @excalidraw Thanks for asking. They still love us because the app is designed to work well with notch devices (webkit.org/blog/7929/desi…) and for the advanced features we use a progressive enhancement approach: blog.excalidraw.com/browser-native…

11:44 AM, Jan 8th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to spacegangster

@theurbenlife @WebCreators Noticed that on smaller viewports the headings flow in two lines, with the second line reaching into the main text.

8:27 AM, Jan 8th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to theurbenlife

@excalidraw @Hicksyfern The Catalan flag emoji isn’t properly supported/defined yet, but the underlying issue still is that languages aren’t countries. We have discussed this before. I have corrected the translation, though: Catalan is català.

12:49 AM, Jan 6th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to excalidraw

@jarethgk @justinfagnani @JoubranJad @samthor For completeness sake: here’s also @dandclark1’s HTML Modules proposal: github.com/MicrosoftEdge/….

12:27 AM, Jan 6th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to jarethgk

@Hicksyfern @excalidraw Laura (my wife who actually is Catalan) raised her eyebrows. A few of her eyebrows…emojipedia.org/flag-for-catal…9W

12:15 AM, Jan 6th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to Hicksyfern

@Hicksyfern @excalidraw My wife and I just finished Catalan. ✅

11:05 PM, Jan 5th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to Hicksyfern

@JoubranJad The world is waiting for CSS module scripts, proposed by @justinfagnani: github.com/WICG/webcompon…:

`import styles from ‘./styles.css’;`

10:20 PM, Jan 5th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to JoubranJad

@jordaust @justinfagnani @slightlylate Caveat: I haven’t actually tried it, just read the documentation. If you play with this, please let us know how it goes. Thanks in advance!

8:43 AM, Jan 5th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to jordaust

@jordaust @justinfagnani @slightlylate According to the docs: yes. See source.chromium.org/chromium/chrom… and search for “WebHID” for example. It’s behind `enableBlinkFeatures` in github.com/electron/elect….

8:36 AM, Jan 5th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to jordaust

@justinfagnani @slightlylate To use them, developers need to be on an Electron version based on the desired Chromium build and set the `experimentalFeatures` flag in the `webPreferences` object: github.com/electron/elect….

`mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({

8:10 AM, Jan 5th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to justinfagnani

@julieletierce @apassant My deepest condolences, Julie. You both have been so strong, and I hoped you could win this. All the blogging you both have done was such an inspiration to draw hope from and put one’s own worries into relation. Wishing you powe

4:20 PM, Jan 4th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to julieletierce

@gendor This should work on Android if you sign up via developer.chrome.com/origintrials/#…. If it doesn’t, please comment on the bug from your original tweet.

1:37 PM, Jan 4th, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to gendor

@jaffathecake Wait, this is such a cliché German thing to say. May I ask, you actually secretly do like sparkling water, don’t you? I personally can’t stand most small talk (especially when it comes from strangers in the context you describe); and I

12:51 AM, Jan 4th, 2021 via Echofon in reply to jaffathecake

@daviddalbusco If you want to (privately or publicly) share the link, I could take a look. It’s the kind of things we should bring to WebKit’s attention.

10:03 PM, Jan 3rd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to daviddalbusco

@daviddalbusco Clipboard?

12:21 PM, Jan 3rd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to daviddalbusco

@DotProto @mhartington For Twitter specifically the Web Share Target API is missing. Requested in bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…. For some other features, see bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?bu….

1:14 AM, Jan 3rd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to DotProto

@rauchg @slightlylate @wongmjane @addyosmani @SimmerVigor @m1guelpf @shuding_ @luis_fades @CharlieCroom @ptraughber So yeah, anything that can be fixed at the source is welcome (e.g., scroll- and interaction-based lazy-loading)! Enjoy the rest of your vac

1:10 AM, Jan 3rd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to tomayac

@rauchg @slightlylate @wongmjane @addyosmani @SimmerVigor @m1guelpf @shuding_ @luis_fades @CharlieCroom @ptraughber Absolutely—it’s fine to roll one’s own embeds, which is great, but the onus then is on the embedder to keep their embeds inline w/ th

1:07 AM, Jan 3rd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to rauchg

@slightlylate @wongmjane @addyosmani @SimmerVigor @rauchg @m1guelpf @shuding_ @luis_fades @CharlieCroom @ptraughber It’s truly not a matter of technical feasibility, but using something like this might put news orgs (who need to care) at risk of violatideveloper.twitter.com/en/developer-t…

12:55 AM, Jan 3rd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to slightlylate

@wongmjane @addyosmani @SimmerVigor @rauchg @m1guelpf @shuding_ @luis_fades @CharlieCroom @ptraughber I know it’s all about engagement, but there should be a way to _passively_ embed a tweet purely for its content (like a news site embedding at_realDona

12:42 AM, Jan 3rd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to wongmjane

@DotProto Well-made PWAs like Twitter.com work reasonably well, but really lack push notifications. Others like Excalidraw.com could do with better Fugu API support (e.g. clipboard, files), but are workable, too. No direct install sup

12:38 AM, Jan 3rd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to DotProto

@simevidas @stefanjudis Oh, interesting! That’s an actually valid use case for the good old `xml:base` attribute: w3.org/TR/xmlbase/#sy…. Using full URLs would be gzipped/brotli’ed away, but are a pain to author. Not sure if this was ever discussed i@jaffathecake

10:18 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to simevidas

@JarSyr @tavelli Not claiming it was impossible. I simply didn’t care personally and there were enough other things to learn. 😃

7:20 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to JarSyr

@BarryNorton Ah, makes sense now, thanks. Yeah, glory days indeed!

1:20 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to BarryNorton

@BarryNorton Not sure I get the reference. 🤔

1:17 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to BarryNorton

@DasSurma @jaffathecake @rmavuluri It’s pretty bad for TTFB from most locations of the world, though.
🇩🇪 ✅
🗺 ❌

12:58 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to tomayac

@DasSurma @jaffathecake @rmavuluri That’s how I roll. Serverless is a hoax anyway… 😂
It’s just a small virtual server, but it’s mineionos.com/cloud/cloud-se…z1.

12:48 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to DasSurma

@voxpelli @Vincent_Scheib Should go live in about 15min. github.com/tomayac/blogcc…

12:42 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to voxpelli

@voxpelli @Vincent_Scheib I will add a paragraph to clarify this point. Thanks for bringing it up!

12:34 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to voxpelli

@mrdoob @onlinedeadline @jaffathecake Really, really looking forward to it! 🤩

12:13 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to mrdoob

@jabranr SelfHTML is a German site that provides at the time (mid-90ies) brilliant documentation (it even has a Wikipedia page: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfhtml). It’s still around today as a Wiki, but I haven’t looked at it in a long time. @MozDevNet is my cu

12:03 PM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Twitter Web App in reply to jabranr

@jaffathecake @rmavuluri My setup is based on Eleventy, which I chose having seen how great it works for v8.dev. Here’s a write up of my stack: blog.tomayac.com/2019/09/29/the…. I use mod_pagespeed on the server: blog.tomayac.com/2020/01/24/bro…. Source github.com/tomayac/blogcc…

11:59 AM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to jaffathecake

@onlinedeadline @jaffathecake The lag probably comes from the (poor person’s) way my visualization works: CSS properties that affect the transformation of the virtual gamepads. I’m not a 3D programmer. @mrdoob _might_ have a truly stunning demo coming

11:52 AM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to onlinedeadline

@devsnek @jaffathecake Via the Gamepad API, yes, but the gyroscope and accelerometer data isn’t exposed by this API at the moment, hence the need for WebHID. The (current) Gamepad API actually doesn’t have a concept of orientation yet.

11:50 AM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to devsnek

@voxpelli @Vincent_Scheib The Gamepad API does give you info about the connected gamepads. You rather do it the other way round: in WebHID (and all other browser hardware APIs actually [apart maybe from Bluetooth scanning]), you filter for only the devicegithub.com/tomayac/joy-co…

11:48 AM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to voxpelli

@tavelli I certainly wasn’t “hating on it”, all I said was that I disregarded it for me personally since I couldn’t “view source” on its products on third-party websites.

11:43 AM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to tavelli

@voxpelli @Vincent_Scheib In the concrete case of the Joy-Cons: they work with the Gamepad API, but the accelerometer and the gyroscope data isn’t exposed. Actually, the (current) Gamepad API doesn’t even have a concept of orientation data yet.

11:41 AM, Jan 2nd, 2021 via Echofon in reply to voxpelli