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joelanman | 1 month ago | on: An Update on Heroku

joelanman | 4 months ago | on: Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

The regulation is only concerned with cookies that are not required to provide the service. It makes no differentiation between first party and third party - if you use cookies for anything optional (like analytics) you need consent. So you can have third party non-cookie analytics for example without a banner.

joelanman | 4 months ago | on: Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

(I worked on this pattern) Our guidance is to accept both names and numbers in the back end so people can enter either. In our testing, text inputs (with a numeric keyboard on mobile) is better than selects. Some people struggle with using selects, we don't see those issues in text inputs. That guidance maybe be about people not knowing the order of the inputs (DD MM YY, MM DD YY) but our pattern is clearly labeled for each input so we don't get that issue.

We did continue our testing which resulted in the pattern in the design system which is linked.

joelanman | 4 months ago | on: Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

For dates people know (say date of birth) just use text inputs

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/date-input/

joelanman | 7 months ago | on: Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

might work out the opposite - 'ah I can do better than that, one more try'

joelanman | 7 months ago | on: Show HN: Aha Domain Search

ai tab Generate button is disabled for me, regardless of input

joelanman | 9 months ago | on: Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)

it's true, but these are more fragile than simply having clear link text, especially over time as a site is maintained

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

> if you run the code and get an error you know there's a problem.

well, sometimes - other times it'll be wrong with no error, or insecure, or inaccessible, and so on

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: WP Engine Tracker

Note the downloadable csv of sites that presumably didn't consent to this

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: HTML Form Validation is underused

exactly. Silently refusing input is an anti-pattern

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

'transparent' in what sense?

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carrotpop....

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: WordPress Accessibility Team Meetings Suspended

This is a long running pattern for Matt:

"To Matt Mullenweg I want to say: please take better care of your community, because WordPress is nothing without it. Cherish the people who dedicate their (own) time and who work very hard to make WordPress the best it can be. Don’t ignore or make fun of them, but talk to them, guide them, inform them. Don’t be disconnected from the community, be part of it."

https://rianrietveld.com/2018/10/i-have-resigned-the-wordpre...

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key

More info on our pattern here:

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/exit-a-page-qu...

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective

I was referring to real podcasts

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective

a few real harms:

- massively inefficient use of energy, water and other resources at a time we really need to address climate crisis

- ai 'slop' with myriad mistakes and biases performing a mass DDOS on people trying to learn things and know what's true

- moving resources away from actually producing factual and original content

joelanman | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?