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It would be nice if there was an option in Mastodon’s web-app to turn off displaying alt text as a popup when mousing over an image. Some alt test descriptions are quite comprehensive, and while I’m browsing the feed, my mouse cursor lands naturally in the centre of an image if the post has one. I start looking at the image and then the popup appears and blocks a significant part of the it.
I’m perfectly fine with having the popup show up by default, but having the option to turn it off would be nice. An even better option would be to position the alt text below the image, so that it appears without obscuring the image at all. That would also be welcomed.
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Day 21: fall
This shed hasn’t fallen down yet, but it’s in a bit of a precarious state. #mbsept
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Day 20: disruption
Going to take this opportunity to say that I like the design of our road works signs. They have a standard frame from which you can swap out the sign panels based on what you need to convey. Beautiful modularity. #mbsept
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🎵 Pippin, the New Broadway Cast Recording, by Stephen Schwartz.
One of the defining memories of my life was in Year 10, playing the viola in the pit orchestra of our high-school production of Pippin. Good times.
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One of a handfull of albums I use to play constantly on the record player when I was a kid.
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I was designing something for work a couple of months back. I got a little fancy and added a domain-specific language to the first draft, thinking that it could be useful for handling some special case requirements from the business that we haven’t considered for. I pulled it out in a later revision, thinking to myself “nah, you’re not going to need that anytime soon.”
Well, some changes came through from the business today, and now I wish I kept in that DSL. It hasn’t even been a week. 😛
P.S. I tend to add DLSs into every single project I build so don’t take this post as justification to add a scripting language to your next project just because “it could be useful”. 😉
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About Mocks In Unit Tests (Again)
How can one gain confidence that what they’re testing works if one is using mocks? I’m grappling with this now as I go through making changes in one of the services I’m working on. So much of the logic requires rework, which means the tests will need to change. And yes, the tests use mocks, meaning that the changes are significant. But do they have to be? We’re effectively mocking things that can easily run as part of the test. Continue reading →
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Getting to the point in the photo blogging challenge where I’m saying to myself: “have I posted this photo before?” One of the candidates I had for today, the answer is actually yes. Fortunately I do have an alternative.
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Day 17: intense
Didn’t time this photo well. There’s usually an intense game of soccer on this pitch most Saturdays. The Sunday crowds are a little more serene. #mbsept
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Spent some time today building a site for my Go utility packages. A feature I’ve decided to add is a Go template playground, where you can test out Go templates in the browser. Not something I’ll use everyday but I’ve occasionally wished for something like this before. Could be useful.
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Still waiting for the dream to be able to write code on an iPad. There are some good native apps out there for checking out Git repos and editing files with syntax highlighting, but I never use them because there’s nothing in the OS that integrates them all. You’re left with switching between them to do something in your workflow, which is disorientating as each one will take up the whole screen and throw away your context. I suppose there might be Shortcuts — I haven’t explored what it’s capable of — but what I really want is a shell.
The closest that worked for me is a Code Server web-app running in a chromeless browser. It works for me mainly because there is a shell. If the editor doesn’t support a feature, I can use a command to do what I need. I don’t have to switch between apps either: I can see what I’m doing and the files I’m doing it to. I can also build and run them code I’m writing. Fancy that!
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Day 16: oof!
I can’t understand people that stay up until midnight most nights. It’s only 9:00 and I’m already exhausted. #mbsept
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Day 15: red
Red mailboxes means the post will go faster. 😉 #mbsept
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Day 14: statue #mbsept
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Enjoying coffee and breakfast after a really early start and several weeks of hard work, with the satisfaction that the work is now done. Good feeling. 😌
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Day 12: panic
There have been a fair few stressors in my life recently, both at work and personally. And although they haven’t got to the level of panic, they have been a little overwhelming. It’s hard to believe it in the moment, but I guess they will eventually pass in time. #mbsept
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Day 11: retrospect
This photo taken eight years to the day: part of a Roman wall in Exeter, UK. #mbsept
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Day 10: cycle
Bicycles at the station. Really need to get on my bike and buy one for myself. #mbsept
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I’m no fashion expert, but I’m guessing that if you were to stand on the corner holding this sign, you’re going to stop traffic. #dadjoke
