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Jess Budd
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Software engineer | Frontend dev | Web accessibility nerd | Lover of lego
Really enjoyed @joshwcomeau.com sharing his mental framework for deciding when a feature's browser support is "good enough" to use in production.

Given the incredibly fast pace of new CSS baseline features these days, this is helpful 🙂

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/browser-support/
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support • Josh W. Comeau
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line? In this blog post, I’ll share the framework I use for deciding whether or not to use a modern CSS feature
www.joshwcomeau.com
November 27, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Can't wait for #DDDPerth tomorrow! It's the 10th anniversary, my 7th time attending and first time speaking🥳

Excited to be sharing some of my favourite new CSS features with everyone!
November 15, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Reposted by Jess Budd
YES! "Placeholders are not labels" - @jessbudd.bsky.social Web Directions #Code24
June 20, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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1000% "Accessibility is usability on steroids" - @jessbudd.bsky.social
June 20, 2024 at 2:10 AM
I got to use the new `text-wrap: pretty` CSS today.

Where have you been all my life 😍😍😍
April 30, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Center all the things!

CSS align-content property can now be used outside of flex and grid. Huzzah!
web.dev/blog/align-c...
April 18, 2024 at 10:53 PM
#a11y friends! Anyone know a work around for a bug with @typeform where radio button labels in a radio group are announced as "Object Object" in screen readers?

Implementation is an embedded iframe.
April 10, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Excited to share I'll be speaking at Web Directions Code on making single page applications accessible - and good news, it's easier than you think!

Hope to see you there!

webdirections.org/code/
Web Directions Code
a massive conference for the whole digital team–product, design, developers, content: everyone! In Sydney October 26 and 27
webdirections.org
April 3, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Love that the city of Kyoto has live streams of tourist hotspots to gauge the crowd level intensity before you visit!

Whipped up a site to view them all together on one page for easy checking back at different times of day 😁

kyotocrowdcams.netlify.app
Kyoto Crowd Cams (Live)
One page that includes all the tourist live stream crowd cameras in Kyoto. Know the best time to visit to beat the crowds!
kyotocrowdcams.netlify.app
March 14, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Today I learned: Most browsers ignore autoplay being turned on for a video embed if the sound is not muted. Nice!
March 11, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Learning about front-end testing with GitHub actions this morning with @amyskapers.dev 🙌

#ndcSydney
February 14, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Looking forward to speaking at #ndcSydney tomorrow!

If you're around, come join us in room 3 at 11.40am to learn how you can make your single page apps more accessible and inclusive.

ndcsydney.com/agenda/makin...
February 14, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Putting aside all the serious concerns and considerations around AI image generation for a moment, these compilations are my favourite and I love them so much 😂

Behold espresso dad www.instagram.com/reel/C0ttPyv...
February 14, 2024 at 6:46 AM
"Clean as you code, refactor first"

Step 1, write tests if there aren't any.

@philna.sh on Conquering complexity: refactoring JavaScript projects at #ndcsydney
February 14, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Awesome talk on advanced html for performance and accessibility from @mandymichael.bsky.social 🙌

#ndcSydney
February 13, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Love “Thoughtful opinions, calmly suggested” as an alternative to “Strong opinions, loosely held”.

Great keynote by davidwhitney.bsky.social kicking off #ndcSydney ❤️
February 13, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Just landed in Sydney for #NDC ✈️

Looking forward to seeing everyone!
February 13, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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Doing a "yes and." We know that AI models are easily prone to bias based on the data they are trained on.

How could we possibly expect products to be inclusive, accessible, and equitable if we're doing fake research with fake people built with biased data?
AI has already been used to run scams, rip off artists, destroy search engines, and drown publishers under an avalanche of shit.

Now AI boosters found a new use case: replacing research with a robot that pretends to be a user, so devs can just code the thing it asks for.

This is colossally stupid.
No, AI user research is not “better than nothing.” It’s much worse.
Synthetic insights are not research. They are the fastest path to destroy the margins on your product.
spavel.medium.com
February 7, 2024 at 8:54 PM