ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@social.cleverlibre.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
Accessibility. Accessibility. Accessibility. Matters. Always spec the alt text image description so that users who use accessibility devices know what it's about.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Images_in_HTML#alternative_text
Latest reactions, thoughts, musings on the #UFoI - United Federation of Instances. Yes it is relevant, potentially affects all of us, and is kind of like being present at the birth of a star...
No, Fediblock Isn’t Better Than The UFOI https://paper.wf/casey-magazine/no-fediblock-isnt-better-than-the-ufoi
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This is your monthly reminder that your instance admin is probably a volunteer paying for this out of his pocket. If you can, make a donation to your Mastodon instance today (we're stronger together)
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Watch why Sweden clears cycle and walk ways before roads
For gender equality
And because ‘Three times as many people are injured while walking in icy conditions in Sweden than while driving. And the cost of those injuries far exceeds the cost of snow clearance.’
#IceIsAFeministIssue
@ianRobinson ah video. Great resource-hogger. I do video on my MBP but not for work, which is coding so only small files there. Getting a new MBP M1. Really looking forward to that.
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This is the kinda thing that gets me real excited!
Heard this through Joss Bland-Hawthorn, this article discusses the need to set up a Lunar timescale.
Time, at the moment, is connected to Earth's clocks - even for spacecraft out in far reaches of the Solar System.
Eventually, we are going to need a timescale that works across the whole Solar System universally.
Steps are being considered for the lunar timescale ...
BUT .... IMHO, we need to think bigger ... (see next toot)
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non-tech person: I don't trust that tech.
tech user: it's fine, I don't even think about it
tech professional: I absolutely don't trust that tech.
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@ianRobinson I I’m sure if you already have an M1 you wouldn’t be in much of a rush to upgrade.
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Photos from The Aurora Chasers somewhere in the Fairbanks, #Alaska area last night.
#NorthernLights
@AlisonFisk what did the Romans ever give us, eh? 🤣
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The Roman Aqueduct in Segovia, Spain. An ancient feat of civil engineering, built without mortar almost 2,000 years ago, and in use until the 20th century.
📷: my own.
Ok so it’s my lunchtime. In true work-from-home spirit I’m in for a quick forty winks. Mrs L and I have a conversation about my upcoming flights for work. The phone pings. Then this. #crossDeviceTracking gets me every time, it really does. You can’t prove it, but it’s mighty fishy sometimes.
You know, I’m just putting this out there to those of you on #Irish Mastodon ☘️, the Dunnes pizzas are incredible. And we are using the home delivery device now: it’s so easy. Here, Cujo has his eye on the last piece. He just ain’t getting it.
@ianRobinson the MBP M1s are available now from third parties at fairly hefty discounts since this week’s upgrade to M2 only chips (pro and max)
Also road testing timely Christmas pressie from the Missus: steel toe cap no fuss deep treaded workman’s wellies and super thick socks. So I’m triple socking it today and I’m toasty warm 😊
Ah to get out the HOUSE! Here in Donegal we have bad road conditions on high ground, more to come this week apparently. We live halfway up a mountain so this affects us! Plus work is busy, two higher level courses this week: advanced JS Web Development and React. Only in the jump seat for React, not training it myself this run as it overlapped with my other one, but here’s the qoto bit: pair programming, equal ownership of code to learn from each other.
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
