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When writing alt text for an image of text, it's not enough to just write "screen shot of text from article." Sighted users get to know what is in that screen shot, so why don't blind users deserve the same? The alt text should include all the actual text in the image.

@foone would the `??` operator help here?

const foo = bar.baz ?? whateverDefaultVal

it's like a condensed check for `undefined`

Me drinking a double espresso in the afternoon: Hahaha yes! Yeah!!

Me being completely incapable of falling asleep at night: Well this sucks. What the fuck.

Would folks be into using a minimal markdown based site publishing platform with basic color scheme customization? Thinking of making it easy to pull CC licensed gifs in the text editor with a live preview of the theme.

What I thought was my CPU fan going crazy was just low volume techno. 🤪

BTW for bluesky folks, I can't reply to your posts unless you follow @ap.brid.gy and bridge to the fediverse!

The QR codes it prints are too small to store a full URL. Maybe I can find a model which can print larger sizes. Probs gonna try some clothes this weekend

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Finally unpacked the handheld printer thing I got and OMG it literally prints on everything and is super easy to use.

@ellyxir sadly I don't have an umberella that can control pressure and ambiant humidity yet. Maybe they have some on ali express :P

I wonder if a pressure controlled bunker would help with the effects of rain on my joints 🤪

@munin I'd be okay with it if the stakes were low and the output was good enough. Pretty sure I got an LLM assisted PR before which was on par for bare minimal contribs I've accepted by humans in the past.

The hardest problem in computer science is figuring out why the event loop is being held open by a server handle you already called "close" on 🤪

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