Matt Watson

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Some things I learned about web accessibility at MagnoliaJS: storyware.co/reflecting-on-…

Big day for those of us who never got around to changing the clocks in November

Nice! wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-desk…

My summary of Avatar 2: soulless animation, one-dimensional characters, childish writing, and a frankly bizarre and fetishistic obsession with giving blue aliens traits of actual Native groups. letterboxd.com/jedpressgrove/…

When I converted to Catholicism in 2009-10, I read Benedict XVI's book Jesus of Nazareth, probably the 1st full-length book I read by a Catholic. That book in particular and his papacy in general meant a lot to me then and still does today. He'll always be my favorite pope. RIP

NYT article from Byram. nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/…

The @Apple Music app on macOS doesn’t respect the system setting to always show scrollbars so, you know, I can’t scroll.

@voiceofD The next day, yes, but they didn't retroactively apply the policy to the NYPost and their tweets until two weeks later. That's a long time in the news cycle. They also flagged it with a warning for even longer, if I remember correctly. nypost.com/2020/10/30/twi…

If this is what Elon's "Hunter Biden Twitter suppression" news is about, it was a bad decision by Twitter that led to a better policy literally the next day. But I'm guessing we're in for something much stupider.

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

I started upgrading a personal project to PHP 8 last night, and it seems like I'm having to slap on an isset check every other line. github.com/mateowatson/ti…

JavaScript's Date object's getMonth method giving 0-11 instead of 1-12 gets me every time.

I just posted my side project, because it rocks: 🤘 Holy Rosary Online (via @mysideprojectr1) mysideproject.rocks/p/62a921152ad7…

Had this song stuck in my head all day. youtu.be/QGZ6jigic_I

@voiceofD @DavidAFrench Oh, I didn't realize HB 1557 and Stop Woke were two separate bills, and I thought Disney actually violated one rather than simply comment. Fair enough, but in my defense, I never thought the free speech angle to defend, eg, Chick-fil-a was ideal, just easiest legal option.

@mateowatson @DavidAFrench Not what any of this is about. Disney criticized an unrelated piece of legislation; the state retaliated. That's punishing political speech.

Since conservatives succeeded in pushing for corporations to have First Amendment rights, have they created a lane for Disney to sue them over a law specifically passed to punish one company for criticizing the government?

@voiceofD @DavidAFrench But it seems to me no one argues that racial discrimination counts as free speech, and the right is claiming that corporations' woke requirements/job trainings are themselves racial discrimination an therefore not free speech (which I tend to agree with).

In which @DavidAFrench rebuts the ringing chorus on the right that it's acceptable for the government to punish speech through revoking "privileges" (not rights!) by reminding them how recently they (correctly) argued the exact opposite: newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail…

I really hate this dark pattern of using primary button styles to confuse users into doing what you want them to do. In this example, Yes and No get flipped in a confirmation dialog.

@Add_A_Straw Yeah, I agree that Putin has gone too far and it's not NATO's fault, but I'm getting post-9/11 pro-war vibes all over again. I hope I'm wrong.

@Add_A_Straw I'm not sure what all he said, but I'm definitely uneasy about American politicians inching closer to war with Russia over Ukraine. I still remember when my Republican friends said I was unpatriotic for not supporting the Iraq/Afghanistan war, but this will end even worse.