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dabric

2 years ago

slightly hot take: when it comes to site buttons, hotlinking > not hotlinking. the site owner can update the button, bandwidth feels negligible for a 5kb button (at least in my case), and a broken image feels fine as its likely just gonna be a dead link anyway.

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dabric

3 years ago

another accessibility thing that for some reason bugs me the most: PLEASE dont use jusitified text. at times it makes those really awkward to read lines where the spacing between words is excessively long

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dabric

3 years ago

earnaesiguaetnaruogcaentrscicalgntuonteaurtnagtnrautnlulgnadhaentusnigead

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dabric

3 years ago

svelte 5 seems interesting. also i feel like i blinked and now svelte 5 is coming out. weve been at svelte 3 for the longest (:

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dabric updated their site.

3 years ago

posts

post/weird-backdrop-filter

post/unblocking-youtube

post/thumbnail-declutterer

post/this-website-old

post/the-f-word

post/robot-game

post/rainbot

post/r-neocitiessites

post/permanent-discord-invite

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dabric

3 years ago

ever since taking that break from typing i just havent been on my pc as much lately. lol

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dabric kallistero

3 years ago

your interactive sticker is a neat concept (i think i might make one), but do you have a non-js alternative?

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kallistero 3 years ago

Soon 👻

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kallistero 3 years ago

It is done!

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dabric

3 years ago

thinking about accessibility on my site cuz i wanna join accessible net...i dont think im the worst, but i def have some areas for improvement. some tricky things include toggling gifs on my links page, a light mode, and redoing the homepage to not be entirely 3d.

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pinkvampyr 3 years ago

i took a look and the gifs look ok to me! i don't think i saw any rapid bright flashing, so a gif toggle would be a nice bonus but not a requirement. :> would love to have you on there when you're done though!

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dabric accessiblenet

3 years ago

btw for the alt text section, i dont think `alt="null"` works for purely decorative images. trying it in firefox with narrator, and it announces it literally as "null" instead of ignoring it.

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jasm1nii 3 years ago

yeah, for purely decorative images, alt="" (without any content between the quotation marks) is sufficient

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pinkvampyr 3 years ago

I read something by someone with low vision saying that an empty alt tag made them think the person had just forgotten to leave an alt tag, while a null tag let them know it was something unimportant :0

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pinkvampyr 3 years ago

https://veroniiiica.com/how-to-write-alt-text-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

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jasm1nii 3 years ago

alt="" *is* the null attribute? leaving it blank would mean not tacking on the alt attribute in the first place.

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jasm1nii 3 years ago

i think this post was written for people posting on social media platforms that provide an alt text field (in other words, sites that aren't handcoded) - that's where writing "null" would make sense.

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pinkvampyr 3 years ago

fixed!

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pinkvampyr 3 years ago

for the record that source was recommended to me, so I apologize if it turned out not to be what most people use!

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dabric

3 years ago

the fact that i figured out how to make a custom thumbnail on neocities so my homepage shows up correctly is more showing that my homepage shouldnt just be an entire 3d scene

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pinkvampyr 3 years ago

wait how do you do it :000

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dabric 3 years ago

pinkvampyr its kinda hacky, but you detect the user agent for headless chrome and just overlay an image. heres my script if you want it: https://dabric.neocities.org/custom-banner.js

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pinkvampyr 3 years ago

tysm!!!

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dabric

3 years ago

idea: something like rss but you embed it in your html so its easy to manage

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lime360 3 years ago

html journal exists for that purpose

dabric

3 years ago

tbh my website is bloated but idk what to do about it

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kallistero 3 years ago

Just use the library so much that it's worth having there to begin with! Svelte is there so you don't reinvent the wheel, so make it a supercar!

dabric 3 years ago

kallistero very true, but thats also ironically the issue. i just have a lot of code that i wrote lol. maybe im just overthinking tho, but also like 165kb transferred of html, css, and js...

kallistero 3 years ago

That's smaller than a background image! If my page is being slow, it's because I let users just stuff one of my pages with lots of JavaScript effects. The devil's how much it takes to RUN the code as much as it's in how much it takes to load it. In F12, there's a "Memory" tab where you can see the JS heap size, and there's also a "Performance" tab where you can take a snapshot of where the page is putting resources.

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dabric

3 years ago

learning yet another keyboard layout

dabric

3 years ago

prob just me but i remember my neocities feed being more active

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dabric

3 years ago

never really got the point of entrance pages, like why not just have the page linked be your homepage? genuine question btw

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trish 3 years ago

i actually think it's trying to imitate something like the cover of a book that you open to see what's inside

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pinkvampyr 3 years ago

I like having a spot where I can give people a heads up about the content of the website :>

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encounters-ltd 3 years ago

i like it! it's like a drumroll

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dabric 3 years ago

encounters-ltd thats a good one

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dabric

3 years ago

when exporting your neocities analytics to .csv, it comes with a curious bandwidth coloumn. after some testing its indeed in bytes, but now im wondering why neocities doesnt afaik show your monthly bandwidth usage in a nice spot considering its a limit you have to look out for?

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dabric 3 years ago

this also gives a bit of insight into how hits and views work. yesterday i had 1003 hits and 333 visits, but my bandwidth usage was only 10mb. thats only enough for ~10 people to view my website's homepage with javascript on. thus, my view count must be getting inflated by someone hotlinking something on my website (i assume its navlink)

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dabric

3 years ago

gonna take a ~2 week break from typing cuz of wrist pain. so to mostly eliminate the bus factor, thats why i'm not gonna be putting out site updates. see ya

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dabric

3 years ago

feeling burnt out. UGHHH I HATE IT. but i also want to learn monorepos (they seem cool) and finally get a proper ui library going along with that where its not components scattered across scss and svelte files...

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dabric updated their site.

3 years ago

posts

post/weird-backdrop-filter

post/unblocking-youtube

post/thumbnail-declutterer

post/this-website-old

post/the-f-word

post/robot-game

post/rainbot

post/r-neocitiessites

post/permanent-discord-invite

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dabric

3 years ago

huh, my commits page (https://dabric.neocities.org/commits/) is broken on firefox.

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dabric 3 years ago

so `new Date('2023-07-15 23:40 GMT-0400')` is valid in chrome and node.js, but not in firefox. this causes firefox to incorrectly request my api for commits since 1970-01-01. sveltekit didnt prerender that because it didnt crawl and find 1970-01-01 as it uses node.js, so firefox gets a 404. bam

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