Thomas Michael Semmler

Hi hello yes, I am a Developer focused on #a11y, HTML & CSS. Very queer, radical faerie 🏳️‍🌈. Musician and systemic psychosocial counsellor.

Follow me for *copious* amounts of complaining, especially about JavaScript bros, „husbands and fathers“, and the webs industrialization.

I am a strong enthusiast for the Web Platform, and what it stands for: openness, accessibility, empowerment, de-marginalisation.

I sometimes blog on my website.

Website: https://helloyes.dev
SVG Patterns: https://patterns.helloyes.dev

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2024-09-13 11:30:43

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also it is yet another Next.js site that looks.. just like every other Next.js site

2024-08-24 08:48:10

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I get what you’re saying but I think it’s commendable to say that. As a counselor I am educated in lots of psychological and psychiatric topics. But I am only an expert for helpful conversation, not interpreting the DSM or the ICD.
What I’m trying to say is that I don’t see anything wrong with defining a boundary like this. Especially in this specific space, the adhd space, where there are lots and lots and lots of people actively attempting to exploit people.

2024-08-22 08:45:50

Heyo runners, I am looking for ideas / advice. After my latest lactate diagnostic, I was advised to go all in on polarised training. One of my three running days is usually an interval training, in which I ran at higher intensity for up to 700 meters. Instead, I'm supposed to go all out for 30 seconds.
So now I do 8x for :30, with a "rest" at regular intensity for 01:00 in between each interval. I've been doing that for a month now and I wonder how to progress correctly.
#running

2024-08-10 07:15:27

Im on a regional train to a hike and the English com goes „on demand stop. Please press the requesht stop button if you wish to get off“
I don’t even know where to start. With the requesht? The get off?
#austria #english

2024-08-09 16:23:30

The Taylor swift concert may have been cancelled but my Grindr is still on fire from all the „visiting“ in vienna
#gay

2024-08-09 14:01:35

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I have and I really dislike it. I'm keeping watch of it but I'm afraid this has some more years to go before it becomes usable. It is without a doubt the best alternative to come, but it's also still really awful. I don't wanna expand on why, but let's just say I spent an hour attempting to do simple things and just wasn't able to.

2024-08-09 13:45:45

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that's it. That part.

2024-08-09 13:42:39

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working as intended, I'm sure you are aware

2024-08-09 13:18:28

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This feels much less like software intended to make UI with and more like old-day photoshop or fireworks. I hate Figma with a passion. It's an evil company and it will not hesitate even a second when it sees an opportunity to extract business value. But it really does better understand how designers think about UI than #sketch. I am really disappointed right now and I honestly regret my purchase.
But I just don't want to pay for a subscription anymore, I just can't.

2024-08-09 13:15:37

I've bought a sketch license and I must say this product has not aged well.
I still cannot group things and just add a background to the group.
I cannot tell an element to expand to its full available constraint width.
I cannot add paddings to groups.
Alignment sometimes just... doesn't work.
Resizing a group is so unbelievably weird. If you have a group and you resize it, it makes it bigger and moves its origin point along as it resizes. Meaning it will slowly _move_ away from its position

2024-08-09 09:19:00

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new pseudoselector dropped

2024-08-08 18:17:59

I can’t believe #umbrellaacademy just casually starts with Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally in the intro

2024-08-07 18:55:29

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omg I am so excited to see you here

2024-08-05 11:24:38

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love this article you shared. This is UX working as intended. We used to call it usability, where we indeed prioritised how usable something was. But when it was rebranded to "user experience", it was sold to companies as to what benefits it could have to companies to focus on usability. Thus user experience is now measured by how it benefits companies, not how usable something is.
UX nowadays means User Exploitation.

2024-08-05 08:44:32

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these are not concerns for the way that most companies do design systems & component libraries. Components and design systems are not done to ensure better quality, they exist to sell the promise of scalability.
The premise is that you can define once and delivery everywhere from a single point of origin and a streamlined pipeline. That is what constitutes a properly working design system. Nowhere is quality or accessibility a marker of success or failure in this promise.

2024-08-05 08:01:14

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and you can even see this narrative in the language that design ops (etc.) uses. Design System components are consumed.

2024-08-05 07:59:43

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these primitives are often still packaged so that a relationship between the code and the developers can be established, that makes them "consume" the provided code. Developers must be downgraded to consumers because they mustn't be able to make certain decisions.
Not because they are unable, but because they are workers who must execute a managers will primarily.

2024-08-04 19:48:20

Note to myself: yes you will regret subway

2024-08-04 17:55:37

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but then again I am also severely disillusioned with this industry and have become very cynical.

2024-08-04 17:54:50

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I usually find a company is behind such somewhat illogically emergent behavior. When people cannot provide actual reasons, it often means that they’ve adopted it from some tech influencer, usually working for a company capitalizing on whatever business case this artificially creates

2024-08-01 13:41:20

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This topic endlessly fascinates me, because in my opinion, I don't see any reason for repeating myself, when I have the power to avoid it. So I prefer concatenation. But I also heavily rely on BEM and my inner speech that reasons about these things is not "Here I am selecting 'my class thing'", instead it goes "Here I am selecting 'thing' of 'my class'". Does that make sense?
"thing" is an element of "my-class". Concatenation more congruently documents this relationship, imho.

2024-08-01 09:31:06

I am a bit at the end of my rope here. In an #svg element I have another nested svg element. This nested svg element contains a text-element. I am attempting to calculate whether the <text> exceeds its direct parent <svg>, as its contents are changing with user input.
But the problem is that with the growing <text> element, the direct <svg> parent is also growing, regardless of viewbox or width/height or overflow attributes.
But I need it to not grow. What do I do?
#svg #javascript #webdev

2024-08-01 07:29:46

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see in my case, I am getting old, but in your case it may be a sign of stress? 🤣

2024-08-01 07:10:51

There is at least one blogger in my RSS feed who keeps titling their posts with these super pretentious titles that look like they were generated with an AI. They always go like "{concepts} are {thing}". or "{noun}".
After rolling my eyes for over a year at this I finally decided to just unfollow.

2024-08-01 07:06:08

I can't believe it's August already.

2024-07-31 13:15:38

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oh that is fascinating, you may find this also interesting @npub1dgj…m5xf
Thank you for the share! My brain could never come up with stuff like this

2024-07-31 12:59:46

I am facing a somewhat new challenge, which is that I am attempting to calculate a font-sizes with javascript, that will make sure that a user-provided text will always fit a box.
As in, if I just type a single character, it is supposed to be as large as possible and if I type a lot, it is supposed to be as small as necessary to still fit the whole text.
Haven't done something like this before tbh.
#webdev #javascript #css

2024-07-31 07:36:46

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I am not sure if this is a brand-specific issue. It seems more to do with the fact that this is an NTFS SSD, which I just always forget it s a world of pain on MacOS

2024-07-31 07:17:44

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This is really bringing the windows experience to Mac OS. I already had to restart my system 5 times and I can still not use this stupid external SSD

2024-07-31 06:57:14

I bought an external SSD to store some business files and I am losing my shit. Why do I have to install 4 pieces of software, one of which will force me to access the kernel settings just to use a fucking external hard drive?
These products should come with a warning label: Forces you to sacrifice a rare rainbow elven child before use.
What is even happening

2024-07-30 13:04:33

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Besides the point, but there is little "balance" involved in 40 hours already.

2024-07-30 07:41:18

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I am not even surprised about this haha

2024-07-29 07:29:31

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same, I have a dedicated Spotify playlist that I put on when I need a good cry

2024-07-26 12:44:35

Voll geil wenn man im RJ133 sitzt und keine Wahl hat, irgendwelchen Defaults dabei zuzuhören wie offenbar nix anderes in ihrem Leben relevant ist außer "scheut de Freindin gaut aus", "kemma länga saufn", "dei freindin is a fette sau", "ba warum muass'n i de Teorrie wissn?", "a wos glabstn' wie vül dea vadient? Zwa drei oder hotta schon viere? Boa fia nix olta"
Mittem im Gang, mit der Bierdosen in der Hand - liebevoll nennen sich die alle mit dem Spitznamen "Drecksau".

2024-07-26 07:33:05

Finally got to listening to Charli xcx's brat and it really is super fucking fantastic
I am quickly becoming a stan
#gay #music #charli_xcx #brat

2024-07-24 14:07:10

good headline https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/22/24203924/slack-iphone-ipad-ios-ipados-widgets

2024-07-23 17:16:51

It’s difficult to describe how I feel that those beautiful organic raspberries and blueberries I bought today are in fact very not-soft and very sour and even more so flavorless

2024-07-22 16:29:41

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I hope it was just a plain black rect

2024-07-20 07:46:57

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you really are amazing!

2024-07-11 11:27:45

This is the validation that a year of zone 2 training worked.
Obviously this is incomparable to what other recreational runners are capable of, but to me it’s about progress. Over the last year, I suspected to have accumulated lots of tiny improvements that weren’t always experienceable, but here I can see then progress.
Green line was last year, red this year. First image is heart rate per pace, second is lactate per pace
#running #fitness
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2024-07-10 12:57:56

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a Genki Dama!

2024-07-10 12:56:46

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or, today in don’t buy shoes that require software 😅 but obviously you are right.

2024-07-01 07:21:10

hm.. not liking it. https://www.figma.com/blog/behind-our-redesign-ui3/

2024-07-01 07:06:17

Evil. https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24188391/microsoft-ai-suleyman-social-contract-freeware

2024-06-25 09:36:57

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what I really want it something like a checklist, something like: "here's why your position: sticky; may not work" or "the necessary conditions for position sticky to work"
I think it has something to do with scrollability of a container mostly. Not sure though.

2024-06-25 09:35:44

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I really don't. I actually wouldn't have been surprised if I had found an article deep-diving into this issue by you :D Seems like something you'd do!
The truth is I read a few articles that I find, get frustrated because they contain no necessary information. Then I go to MDN and I also don't find what I look for.
I eventually just have to shuffle around the markup until it just works 🥺

2024-06-25 09:25:21

I really wished position: sticky; was a bit more predictable. Every time I use it I have to deep-dive into the weird esoteric circumstances that it must meet for it to work.