Bruce Lawson's personal site

• View Transitions API, snarling cats, a new era at Shopify, and cake jokes – The 18th (!) episode of The F-word podcast sees Vadim and me ruthlessly interrogating Jank Architect
• Vivaldi, Mozilla raise alarms over Google’s proposed ‘DRM for the Web’ – “What happens if Gmail decides only Chrome users can access it?”
• Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion by Adrian Roselli, who notes “I am of the opinion that accordions mostly slow users down. They require extra interaction just to get to additional content, often because some product owner thought the page was “too cluttered” after they jammed all their words into it (or assume users are incapable of scanning). Essentially accordions are lazy carousels for organizations that lack brevity”.
• Block ChatGPT from stealing your content
• Adding a `robots.txt` file to an Eleventy site
• Catching up on the weird world of LLMs – splendid article by Simon Willison full of information (unlike the vast majority of AI articles)
• How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide – a sane get-started guide; similarly excellent, less tech
• Chat, j’ai pété – “La toute nouvelle version de ChatGPT avec effets sonores !!”
• The problem with disabling paste and what to do instead – Adam Silver says “Don’t disable paste in forms, you colossal thundertwat!” (I paraphrase).
• The Future of Native HTML Templating and Data Binding
• AudioEye versus Adrian Roselli: The SLAPP Heard Around the World
• Code for everyone – Find & Fix Accessibility Issues in React
• CycleTracker – Estelle Weyl’s intro-level tutorial walks thru all the steps of building a basic progressive web app, or PWA. We will be using web technologies — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — to build a period tracking web app called “CycleTracker”.
• Become an accessibility champion by using simple mockup annotations
• Mystery iPhone 15 chip could spell bad news for USB-C charging speeds – What was that about malicious compliance?
• Web Install API – this proposed API by Microsoft allows a web site to install a web app. This functionality allows the creation of web based catalogs that can install PWAs directly from the web and into multiple platforms.
• SCHADENFREUDE CORNER: Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment

I begin my new (and hopefully, last) job, at an organisation not funded by Capitalist Conjurers, devoted to helping the most vulnerable people in society: children. I’ll be working Monday – Thursday, with Friday for other projects. I’m pretty sure it’s not a secret who I’m working for, but I forgot to check with my boss and he’s on his hols. My job title is boring but I’m calling myself “Lord of Accessibility” at Barnardos, and have bought myself a crown.