Bruce Lawson's personal site

A statement from our CEO and Founder, Bruc.

“Look, I”m fed up at people complaining about Facebruce allegedly “facilitating” genocide. Since we began, we’ve always been about connecting people�initially some nerds to chicks we rated as hot, but now it’s about connecting everybody. We’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony.

Unfortunately, not everyone wants to sing in perfect harmony. Some people, we are shocked to learn, aren’t actually very nice people. How were we at Facebruce to know what would happen when our algorithms repeatedly recommended members of The Hutu Machete Enthusiasts Club also join the Death To Tutsi Cockroaches group?

We’re not in the content policing business. There’s simply too much of it. And anyway, we’re just a platform. We already have thousands of servers running 24/7 to weed out pictures of nipples (women’s nipples, to be precise) so your Auntie Martha doesn’t clutch her pearls, because offending people in high ARPU markets leads to a drop in engagement.

So there was literally no way for us to know that the Death To Tutsi Cockroaches group was not simply a pest control company. I even went so far as to attempt to verify this, by walking around the HQ trying to find an African person to ask whether cockroaches are a problem, but there was no-one matching that description in the boardroom.

Facebruce is about building communities. We are very active in the GraphQHell community and the Reactionary community. In fact, only last week, we offered free afterhours use of a meeting room in our fifty storey gold-plated HQ to host a meeting of GraphQHell Engineers Against Killing Rohingyas, and even sponsored $100 of pizza for attendees. This shows that we’re taking real action and putting real resources into counteracting Hate Speech on the Facebruce platform.

So that’s cleared up then. Be sure to press “Like!” to demonstrate engagement.”

Next on Timeline: Why Covid is a hoax – evidence from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!

• Link o’ the Week: The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021 – Big Al’s update on devices, networks, browsers, and the new baseline scenario for web performance. A must-read.
• Improving React Native Accessibility – “Since May, Facebook has spent that time thoughtfully reviewing and documenting accessibility gaps within React Native. So far the gap analysis has surfaced 90 issues, all of which have been translated to Github issues. Overall, we found that React Native APIs provide strong support for accessibility. However, we also found many core components do not yet fully utilize platform accessibility APIs and support is missing for some platform specific features.”
• The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters
• Accessible forms – ‘A range of HTML form components and how they are interpreted by screen readers”. Also, don’t rely on <legend> with Voiceover.
• RadioShack Sued for Alleged ADA Website Accessibility Violation – “Specifically, website issues included input fields with inaccessible labels and unlabeled buttons”. The actual suit (PDF) also mentions “no skip to content link. Keyboard focus order is not working sequentially.”
• Clipchamp’s video editor PWA installs see a 97% monthly growth – How PWAs, WebAssembly, and Chrome OS are helping a web-based video editor deliver better performance and a more engaging experience to 12M users.
• Website accessibility complaints process: your questions answered – “We answer some frequently asked questions about the web accessibility complaints process for public sector bodies.”
• Good news about display: contents and Chrome – Rachel Andrew reports that the nasty accessibility bug is fixed. (Still there in Safari, though.)
• Launching the Facebook Map “Neighborhoods, parks, and social places are emphasized over “traditional�� features like road networks �� Our base map design with pale colors and no icons allows overlaid social layers that use more saturated colors to come to the foreground.”
• Bundling for the Web
• New Mobile Native Foundation to Foster Development Collaboration – “Linux Foundation hosts effort to improve processes and technologies for large-scale mobile Android and iOS applications; Lyft makes initial contributions”
• Introducing the Framework Laptop – “the Framework Laptop, a thin, lightweight, high-performance 13.5�� notebook that can be upgraded, customized, and repaired in ways that no other notebook can. We’re here to prove that designing products to last doesn’t require sacrificing performance, quality, or style.”
• The Kilobyte’s Gambit “Can you beat 1024 bytes of JavaScript?” Combines an incredibly tiny (1.2K) chess engine with pixel art imagining The Queen’s Gambit as an MS-DOS game
• The UX on this small child is terrible – “Not only am I VP of Reproduction for this household, but I’ve also been the end-user of this Small Child for over three years now. I’m going to give it to you straight. The user experience is terrible.”