lashkari | 1 year ago | on: Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
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lashkari | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is accessibility worth it?
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Salesforce or the creation of that example page. I just found it in a web search.
lashkari | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is accessibility worth it?
There are other ways that this can be accomplished with even fewer keystrokes, so I can't imagine a scenario where drag-and-drop interfaces would have to be avoided because they couldn't be made meaningfully accessible.
lashkari | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is accessibility worth it?
When accessibility is thought about and incorporated ahead of time, your overall user experience tends to be better. This is sometimes referred to as Universal Design.
I managed a project where we implemented a UI redesign for our existing enterprise SaaS software and we "went the extra mile" to not just make the experience accessible but to make that experience pleasant for our users with disabilities. In the end, some of the features -- especially around keyboard navigation -- that came out of that accessibility work were considered the best part of the redesign to our users.
lashkari | 4 years ago | on: Monkey Island PC-speaker music player
If you're wearing headphones or have your speakers turned up, be careful!
lashkari | 5 years ago | on: Amazon is filled with fake reviews and it’s getting harder to spot them
In most cases, a 3-star review will provide a pretty thorough assessment of the pros and cons, and it's generally easier to determine the authenticity of the review.
lashkari | 5 years ago | on: First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X
It'll be interesting to see what Apple actually ships in production hardware.
lashkari | 6 years ago | on: Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
lashkari | 6 years ago | on: NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
However, if we're playing poker and I learn your tell, it's in my best interest that you are naive to that fact. While not the best analogy, I would think that the same concept would apply to state actors.
lashkari | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?
lashkari | 7 years ago | on: I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
lashkari | 7 years ago | on: Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intelligence?
In my own anecdotal experience over the past couple years, this no hypothesis has been right about 90% of the time.
lashkari | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: A simple GUI app to make Linux touchpad gestures easier
lashkari | 7 years ago | on: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist
lashkari | 8 years ago | on: Gusto launches a free HR product for small businesses
lashkari | 8 years ago | on: CSS Grid for UI Layouts
Here's a great resource covering the hows and whys: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/11/26/should-i-try-...
And here's a simplified example I threw together recently to demonstrate it in action: https://codepen.io/shahab/pen/ypWmZG
Basically, you lose auto-placement, named grid areas, and simple grid gaps, so you have to manually place items in the specific row/column for IE. But, I've found that it's still easier than the alternative in many cases.
lashkari | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the books you wish your colleagues had read?
lashkari | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome
Alternatively, you can run Chrome headless with the remote debugging API (--remote-debugging-port=9222) and send a Page.printToPDF (https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Page/...) after some delay.
lashkari | 10 years ago | on: Signal Desktop beta now publicly available
Think Apple Messages blue versus green.
lashkari | 10 years ago | on: Another Dell root certificate discovered
I performed a wipe/reinstall (with media created directly from a Microsoft download) and Windows 10 never asked me for a key after reinstalling it, and it reports as being activated.
Seems like they've moved away from requiring an OEM key in addition to the SLIC BIOS signature.