Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky’s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures, have invested $1 million in the company’s small team, which is working to give users control over their algorithms and social media experiences.
I built one of those. Twitter's API isn't going to do you any favors. There is no publicly available API to get the replies to a tweet. So building out a full thread is hard. Then once you figure out how to use their internal API you'll quickly hit rate limits </3
It's actually accessible. take a look at this tweet and inspect the image. all the code is in the alt attribute. So they have thought of that. This will only be if you tweet it from their webapp though.
It would be cool if there was a way to copy paste the text easier.
>It would be cool if there was a way to copy paste the text easier.
Like, just using text? Maybe even send it through a syntax highlighter first?
I can't be the only one that was irked at Amazon for spending years making their product promo pages or prominent buttons as hard-coded images instead of text.
Horribly inaccessible, over the top, looks terrible on HiDPI devices, looks terrible on a non-Mac because it was clear that their designers were using OS X font rendering, so it looked totally inconsistent.
My favorite part is being on mobile and having to scroll left and right to see the image, or the image has been fit-to-scale is flatly impossibly too small to read.
I feel stodgy, but this entire effort is annoying. Just like the stupid GIFs on project READMEs that play too slow or too fast and have to be watched 50 times to grasp what's going on. Meanwhile asciinema exists and is superior in every way (seekable, pausable, text-selectable, etc).
Unfortunately the web platform has failed to provide a sensible way to embed HTML content, so images and videos are how people actually share things. You can take an image and save it to your device and share it to any social media service without doing anything special. You just can't get that experience with asciinema or any other sort of rich format. It's a real bummer.
The person with accessibility problems just told you that it is a potential accessibility issue. Perhaps we should ask them whether alt text will help, before telling them that it will.
tarboreus, what's your experience with alt text for this kind of thing?
In a related manner, I'd actually be curious to hear in general about other things we do/don't do that makes life more difficult for blind people on the web.
This is the exact situation alt text is designed for. If you use alt text properly and it still isn't handicap accessible, it's not your fault full stop.
If accessibility is the exact situation alt text is designed for, and it works for the most part, who is to blame for it not being accessible if not the person putting inaccessible text in there? Merely providing something is not equivalent to providing a good solution.
By my understanding (as a sighted person who has relatively zero experience using such features) alt text is for short pieces of text that might aid in communication of an image to a blind person. I have even less understanding on whether or not dumping a chunk of code in there would be at all useful, and I expect very few sighted persons would know better. Hence my complaint, and hence my question.
Yes, "alt" attribute is for short descriptions. From the w3.org site:
"The alt text should be the most concise description possible of the image’s purpose. If anything more than a short phrase or sentence is needed, it would be better to use one of the long description methods discussed in complex images."
The alternatives for long descriptions are the "longdesc" attribute, "figure" with "figcaption" tag or the "aria-describedby".
True, but I kind of get where their headspace is here. It feels like a weird jaunt to rely on alt tags for what is ultimately just simulacrum of what exists in the alt tags considering that-for the sake of accessibility-going with plain text to begin with probably makes a lot more sense.
If it has alt text, we can't ask for much more. But typically pictures on Twitter don't have alt text. I've perhaps encountered an image with alt text once. But I'm glad that at least there will be alt text if they use it in the web app.
In short, if the image has alt text, it's fine. But this seems likely to be used in ways that mean uploads without alt text.
As a 23 year old software engineer that recently chose to live in SD over SF I find this article kind of funny. It didn't make sense to me to choose a place where i might make more money, but have to spend it all to live. Life can be pretty cheap in SD. I live 20 minutes/15 miles from work, a commute that would take an hour in the bay. I also pay <$700 for the master bedroom in my house. I'm also a 10 min uber to any downtown spot I want. Not much overpriced food here either, and many options if you drive 15 minutes. You may not be working at Google or Apple down here, but that might not be the worst thing.
Haha I totally recognize myself here. I'm a french 25 years old software engineer who had opportunities in SF, NYC and SD. I chose to come in SD 2 years ago and I never regretted my choice! It feels like being in paradise compared to my hometown in france.
Fantastic weather all year, good beer, great food, tons of things to do,..
Rent are pricey but I wanted an nice place to live in a not crowded/safe place (Spectrum in Kearny Mesa) so me and my roommate pay 2300$/month for a 2bd/2bath appartement with gym, pools, ...
I'm 15 minutes away from my workplace in downtown and i love to be able to drive top-down every day (I like to drive).
Sure, I don't work for Google or Apple and don't make $150k+/yr (just 85k) but I don't care!
The lifestyle in SD is what I love and I don't think I'll move from here in the new few years.
Bonus point: I feel like i'm the only young french professinnal (software engineer or not) in the city so I enjoy how easy it is to pick up girl with my accent :D
I don't think people realize that you move to San Diego for the lifestyle, not the great working opportunities. The weather and activities are pretty amazing here.
