Alex Chan

@alexwlchan

I write code for , and sometimes I write other things too · Secretly three ferrets doing complicated magic · Genderfluid, they/them

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2009.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    1. srp 2019.

    Hey Twitter, I wrote you all a blog post about the amazing system that is ✨braille✨ Braille is a tactile writing system that helps visually impaired people to read and write. I’ve always thought it’s cool, and I hope these facts will convince you too.

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  2. prije 7 sati

    Also, there are videos on YouTube of these otters taking out caimans and fending off jaguars. If I took one of these for a walk, I wouldn’t have any trouble with the local swans, right?

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  3. prije 7 sati

    TIL: there’s a species of giant otter that can grow to be more than 5’6″ in length, aka longer than some humans are tall. Apparently they’re extremely social and chatty too. 😍 I’m not saying I have a thing for mustelids, but oh boy do these look cute.

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    On archiving and preserving digital art

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  5. prije 10 sati

    LRT: I’ll fill in the consultation because it’s better than not, but reading the proposal, it’s hard not to be bitter that legal recognition of anything but binary genders has been kicked into the long grass. 😕

    Text. “The Scottish Government has decided not to extend legal gender recognition at this stage to non-binary people. […] The Scottish Government is setting up a working group on non-binary people.”
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    🚨REMINDER: The deadline for the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform consultation is 17th March 2020 ✅ ANYONE in the UK can respond (not just Scotland) 👀 UK Parliament will likely be looking at responses re GRA reform! ➡️ MAKE SURE YOU RESPOND & HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD! ⬅️

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    prije 12 sati

    Once I went to an art gallery opening which was also attended by a Tory Councillor who said "travellers should be culled" and I filled his suit jacket pockets with dip. We should all be filling shitty politicians pockets with dip. Either literally or metaphorically. Your choice.

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  8. prije 12 sati

    And a nice touch I’m especially pleased with is that I can provide a custom description of the book cover, to give more informative alt text. ✨ Not just “cover of $book”, but “cover of , with a blue shape and a green field and whatever else is there”.

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    And if you’d like to spend 866 of your kilobytes reading some of my book reviews, you can now do so at the new and improved 📚 (Static site created with Python, served with nginx. Source code: 🐍)

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  10. prije 12 sati

    Today’s little victory: I’ve been finishing up my new books site, and discovered the page weight was on the large side. 4MB to serve HTML, CSS, and ~100 book covers. 4MB!!! A few thumbnails later, and it’s down to 866KB on 2x screens, or just 396KB on 1x screens. ✨

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    prije 14 sati

    we all know this tragic way of new tingler MY ASS IS HAUNTED BY THE HANDSOME GHOST OF MY UNSAVED DATA AFTER A COMPUTER CRASH please use as reminder to back up your things buds

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    prije 16 sati

    Absolutely this. A train loo door lock now needs 37 words of instructions because the damned things are so weird. And often nowhere near the actual door they relate to

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    prije 17 sati

    After having their US Visas rejected, these two gamedevs are not able to attend GDC on the scholarships that they won. Instead, they made a game about repairing the broken Visa application process. Maybe it's time for GDC elsewhere than the US.

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    because your learning never happens in a vacuum, does it? you have to hurt someone first, then learn that hurting people is bad (a lesson you somehow missed on your first day of kindergarten), then feel bad, reflect on your behaviour, grow from the experience.

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    I'm so tired of being people's fucking learning experience, a pit stop on their personal growth journey, someone they'll look back on ten years from now and vaguely regret hurting because now they know better. why does YOUR learning come at MY expense?

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    [tw sexual harassment, rape culture] I...went through a thing recently that I can't talk about, at least not yet, but it gave me cause to reflect on some things. the things were: I have been sexually harassed in literally every professional environment in which I've ever been.

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    PS If you do any sort of creative digital work, take plenty of screenshots. I can skim through a folder full of PNG images and look at my old work, grimace at past mistakes, see how much I’ve improved. It’s much harder to run old projects, start long-abandoned code, and so on.

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    Last screenshot tonight: * Make it easier to see which books I read which year, and jump around the list * 5-star books have a subtle visual cue so they stand out * Floral hearts to divide up sections, because why not? Plus some polish and improvements to the “add book” script.

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    This is what a review looks like. Some HTML, a smidge of CSS, and a medium size image of the book cover. Not even any JavaScript! When I sorted out my blog and made it easier to post stuff, I started writing more posts. I’m hoping the same happens for book reviews. 🤞

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    Seven easy tricks for becoming a more productive software engineer: - write tests - read a book - spend time with your loved ones - take a vacation - go outside - eat healthy - sleep

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