Matt Wilcox

Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time.

I’ve been building websites for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go.

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2024-09-10 09:52:00

W is such a low-effort hack of a letter.
"double u"?
You're a letter and you have a word in you?
And also "the wrong letter"? That's a v my dude. That's a double v. You're a double V.
Who approved this?

2024-09-05 11:20:50

"Alexa, is Puerto Rico ahead or behind my time?"
I can't help you.
"Alexa, is Puerto Rico ahead or behind GMT?"
Puerto Rico is 4hrs ahead of EST.
I really don't know why these audio devices haven't caught on!

2024-08-28 16:30:05

Grace Hopper slayed. Seriously, those two videos should be watched by anyone in computing - or, frankly, management.
Wisdom and clarity that cuts like a knife, and 40yrs later, proven out.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/aug/26/with-a-little-help-from-the-national-archives-nsa-finally-releases-grace-hopper-lecture-watch-it-here/

2024-08-28 15:26:36

How times change.
Used to be if you wanted to search for how to do a thing in just JS you couldn't find anything because all results were jQuery.
Then it was because all results are React.
Now it's made-up code generated by an AI, powered by tossing a childs-weight of CO2 into the atmosphere - that also doesn't work.
Truly, the progress we make is astounding.

2024-08-25 21:47:27

I use OSX and have, exclusively, for over a decade.
I run iPhones and have, exclusively, since the 3G.
And yet I also find "Native" apps are a black mark and I always prefer platform agnostic apps.
I don't *prefer* Apple design sensibilities. I think a lot of them, frankly, are shit and getting shitter.
I *loath* the lock-in, always have, and do so more and more as I find Apple more and more repulsive as a company. Despite loving their hardware.
Just an observation.

2024-08-12 19:36:15

Do Americans realise how absolutely insane the very concept of “purging a voter registration list” is? You have to *register to vote*? What are you even talking about?
Are you a citizen? Then you should automatically get a vote. There isn’t anything to administer. You live there. The government serves you; not you it. Voting isn’t supposed to be a privilege, or reward.
The obvious abuse vector that any system other than “all citizens vote” becomes is astounding.

2024-08-02 09:46:57

There are _no good use cases_ for AI summarisation if you care about having a correct summary.
It can't be trusted to summarise correctly because a fundamental property of LLMs is _they do not understand anything_. They just parrot likely next words, but that "likely" is not based only on the content it's "summarising".
I have _no_ interest in any of this tech in my OS, or apps. It's a trojan horse for lies, built on theft, training us to trust and not think.
https://mastodon.macstories.net/@johnvoorhees/112887004822171579

2024-07-29 13:53:33

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@npub1xed…yg9w Hahaahahahaaaaaaa!
*wipes tear away*
hahahahaaaaaahaaha
*doubles over*
hahahugh ugh aaa aaaaa
Good one! Good one!

2024-07-27 21:53:24

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@npub1r4h…u0jf Think of it this way. Little magnet good; find your lost paper clips!
MRI scanner magnet bad; launches paper clip through your body and out the other side.

2024-07-11 14:01:07

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@npub1zyl…t54n WTF. That's a glitch in the Matrix or something.

2024-07-06 14:06:49

AI scraping is not fair use. Regardless of whether it spits out content verbatim. Fair use is aimed at legitamising *singular instances*. An article. A report. A video.
AI uses your work in perpetuity. It can profit off it forever. It’s part of the model. A model that would have *no value* without its training material.
That’s not fair use.

2024-07-03 12:57:17

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@npub1gf2…u0nm How do you make an on the record complaint about that?

2024-07-02 12:36:46

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@npub1r4h…u0jf Nothing else centres it because you can't define your own CSS to apply?

2024-06-25 19:31:52

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@npub1zyl…t54n My own similar survey was the same, really. https://mstdn.social/@mattwilcox/112509343856276121 (68% mainly use an app, 701 respondants)

2024-06-21 19:54:57

`West provoked Ukraine war`, Nigel Farage
He’s not just a right wing tit, responsible in part for the destruction of the UK. He’s clearly got Putin’s hand so far up his ass that his feet don’t reach the floor.
I wish news outlets would stop covering this absolute shit-stain of a man. But of course the news outlets lap it up.

2024-05-30 07:03:06

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@npub1r4h…u0jf This is why I say that empathy is the number one thing to teach.
It’s a mental frame. It’s learnable. And it’s applicable everywhere.

2024-05-29 16:25:48

JS Land:
You're using THAT library? That came out a month ago, christ no-one's used that for at least two weeks. The new hotness is NodulatePP, just drop your current stuff and `npm nodulate`, you'll need to install ripgrep and ballz0.0.3 first. Ship that project now!
CSS Land:
https://front-end.social/@mxbck/112509035144722246

2024-05-24 19:46:57

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@npub1xed…yg9w An awful lot of heads of tech companies clearly never attended initial secondary school IT class 101:
Garbage In, Garbage Out.

2024-05-20 18:51:16

Here are the top three things to teach everyone (including yourself).
1. Empathy.
2. The scientific method of thinking.
3. Knowing when you’re not qualified to have an opinion, and who is.
Those, in that order, before any other topic.
1. Will guide everyone to positive action and avoid dehumanising behaviour.
2. Will guide you *how to learn* and how to identify bad conclusions. It will help you understand the world and avoid being made a dupe.
3. Will stop your ignorance from hurting others.