@devinlane.com
🧑💻 Software engineer / web dev 🎸 Songwriter / producer / guitarist: https://gentlereturn.bandcamp.com/ 🐈 olive 🐈⬛ nathan 🌱 Big on plants 🗣️ Language nerd: fluent in Spanish... 🫂 Long covid justice, treatment, research 🌁 Based in SF, CA
terminal GUI showing a different/wrong node version than the terminal output of `node -v`
the correct node version is displayed in the terminal GUI
in case you're a nerd and dislike that your @ohmyposh.dev theme shows the wrong Node version after you update, `oh-my-posh cache clear` might just save you 🫡
the `aria-expanded` attribute indicates if the control (accordion button in this case) is expanded or collapsed, and whether or not the controlled elements (the accordion children) are displayed or hidden
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
some really good insights on accessibility with accordions here: www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg...
accessibility: accordions
In an accordion you can pass an `aria-expanded` attribute to the button controlling the opening/closing of accordion children. You can connect this to the same state controlling the display of the accordion children, for example:
`aria-expanded={isActive}`
MDN example showing the <del> tag with strike through
TIL about the HTML <del> tag: indicating something that has been deleted from a document, which will render with strike through by default
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
nice, let's do accountability buddy checkins!
QR code for frontend mentor design challenge
decided to do one of those @frontendmentor.io challenges--i'm doing so much full stack / state mangement work, i was wanting to just look at a design and built it
qr-component-dlane.netlify.app
So now my "mutual referrer" form is safe 🎉
lightninglessons.com/classes/writ...
Bots thwarted. Only after they sent about 120 emails in my name 🤦♀️
I used `position: absolute; left: -9999px; opacity: 0;`. I didn't use `display: none` in case a bot was set up to detect this. I called this input field "phone" just to keep it believable.
On my server I said "if we get a submission to the phone field, throw it away"
I finally decided to add a "honeypot".
This is an input field in the form that you hide, and expect that no human user would fill in. A bot automatically fills this in and then you can safely throw away that submission.
I tried deprecating HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0, the idea being maybe an old or poorly written bot is using these older protocols.
this didn't work
I tried appending a # hash to the form's action URL, the idea being that if the bot was old or poorly written it would submit the wrong URL (and a browser just throws this away)
this didn't work
What do to? Akismet seems cool but was there a simpler solution?
Went through this site: www.ctrl.blog/entry/detect...
List of a bunch of gibberish names and random emails
No, you did not go viral, you got bots 😅.
Email stating that this user is 80% of the way to their daily quota of 200 emails
A few days later I got an email from Resend (who I'm using to send emails) that I was almost hitting the max allowed emails in a day. Strange...that's gotta be a lot of users. Did I go viral 🤩
The features works like this: submit your name and email, and your friend's name and email. That hits my backend, creates one promo code for each user, and sends each user an email with their promo code.
A form for a course website that says refer your friends and has a spot for one person's name and email and another person's name and email
I built a nice little referral form on my website for a course I'm running: refer a friend and you both get 15% off.
"If you build it they will come" refers to bots and the form on your website
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
and if it's a type error from older types, Restart TypeScript Server could be needed
sometimes you write a whole bug report for an API but realize if you just update the package all your troubles go away 🤦♀️
I’m in this workshop with Ab and Devin. Hands down the most comprehensive groundwork for the mechanics and foundation of music I’ve had. I’m excited to do the exercises. And they both are just lovely, awesome humans. I want them to keep doing this! If interested, they have three more sessions.
Thanks @lilgreybirb.bsky.social!
what are the preferred dimensions / aspect ratio for videos on bluesky?
Browsing around it seems like both 16:9 (horizontal) and 9:16 (vertical) are out there, with a trend towards the vertical videos
signups: lightninglessons.com/classes/writ...
Our upcoming songwriting workshop is meant to give you the tools to break down songs you love into concepts that you can take and use in your own songs
let me know if you have any questions
video link: www.youtube.com/shorts/qWQpQ...
This class is for all levels, beginners to advanced. It's best if you know how to play a few chords on your instrument.
We're running it 12-1pm PT on Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Nov. 13, and Nov. 20, but also sending out recordings after each class for you to work through at your own pace.
